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1 day agoFrom the article:
Key findings
- In both democratic and authoritarian contexts, technologies are being deployed in ways that erode, and in some cases effectively dismantle, human rights.
- Technology use risks facilitating or amplifying repressive practices and systems, and becoming an instrument of authoritarian governance.
- Surveillance technologies are being expanded and entrenched with the purpose of exerting control over entire populations and/or specific groups of people such as journalists and human rights defenders.
- The authoritarian use of technology is ultimately having a ‘chilling effect’.
- Some technologies are disproportionately intrusive by design and should not be used.
- Technologies’ use is often incompatible with the rule of law, lack redress and raise mass impunity risks.
- A lack of transparency facilitates the authoritarian use of technologies.

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