Technology and human rights
Discover how rights-centred design principles protect human rights in technology development, deployment and use across digital platforms and services.
Summary
Too often the technology industry adopts a 'move fast and break things' ethos, pursuing innovation with reckless abandon. Human rights are often overlooked in this race when designing and deploying new and emerging technologies.
The Commission is interested in several key technologies:
- Neurotechnology
- Artificial intelligence
- Extended reality and metaverse technologies
- Facial recognition technology.
These technologies pose an increased risk to fundamental human rights - if they are not developed with appropriate guardrails during design and deployment.
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