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Human Rights for the Data Society: Big Tech, the UN and the Datafication of Rights

Name: Human Rights for the Data Society: Big Tech, the UN and the Datafication of Rights
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009866446
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Author: Andre Dao
ISBN: 9781009866446

By Andre Dao

Coming Soon Cambridge University Press Available December 2026

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ISBN-13: 9781009866446
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: December 2026
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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In the 2010s, the United Nations embarked on a series of projects to embrace and respond to digital data technologies as part of its human rights agenda. Human rights for the Data Society argues that these efforts produced a world in which the biggest technology corporations and their data technologies are widely accepted as indispensable to the international human rights project: the data society. The UN did this through a series of technical projects that produce 'datafied' forms of human rights, whereby core concepts and practices of rights are understood by reference to or performed through digital data technologies, and where the human of human rights recedes into the data. Thus, when human rights practitioners – at the UN and beyond – use datafied forms of human rights, they play a significant role in making the data society possible. By the same token, they also play a significant role in foreclosing alternative possibilities – of worlds in which human rights and digital data technologies might be imagined differently.

Introduction: human rights for the data society

1. Assessing human needs with machine learning: the UN global pulse and the radio content analysis tool

2. Sharing information about human needs: the UN global pulse and the global data access framework

3. Monitoring human rights with data dashboards: the Office for the high commissioner for human rights and rights view

4. Holding corporations responsible for data-driven human rights violations: the human rights impact assessment of Facebook in Myanmar

Conclusion: recovering the future

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