Human Rights Council on the Right to Privacy 
 
   OISTE.ORG to Address Virtually the 46(th) Session of the United Nations 
Human Rights Council on the Right to Privacy 
 
   March 3(rd) 2021 at 3 PM CET 
 
 
 
   Privacy is as a basic, fundamental human right 
 
   Geneva, February 24, 2021 -- The OISTE Foundation, a non-governmental 
organization, in special consultative status with the Economic and 
Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC), will lead a virtual panel 
on the human right to privacy during the 46(th) Session of the Human 
Rights Council. 
 
   Zoom Registration at: 
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https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HXWDJD60SnWsYKdPaFHTJg 
 
   Privacy is as a basic, fundamental human right. It is also an endangered 
right. New digital technologies track and scrutinize us all at this age 
of surveillance capitalism (Zuboff, 2018). The digital economy considers 
every click, search or like as an asset to be monetized. Our lives, 
reflected in cyberspace, are plundered for behavioral data for the sake 
of a system that converts our freedom into profit. We are quietly being 
domesticated into accepting as normal that decision rights vanish before 
we even know that there is a decision to make. 
 
   A new awareness infused by a human-rights based approach that consider 
each individual "netizen" as a dignified moral being, worth of respect, 
is required. Otherwise, our connectivity will continue to offer a 
perverse amalgam of empowerment inextricably layered with diminishment. 
 
 
 
 
Date & Time         Mar 3(rd) 
                     03:00 pm CET 
Title               OISTE Foundation Webinar; The Human Right to Privacy 
                     in 
                     the Age of Surveillance Capitalism 
Special Keynote by  -- Pierre Maudet, Conseiller d'Etat, State of Geneva, 
Moderated by:       -- Carlos Creus Moreira, Secretary General of OISTE 
Speakers            -- Navi Pillay, Former UN High Commissioner for Human 
                     Rights, OHCHR 
                     -- Hans-Christian Boos, CEO, Arago 
                     -- Sébastien Fanti, Swiss lawyer, Notary, and 
                     Data Protection Commissioner 
                     of the Swiss Canton of Valais 
                     -- Estelle Massé, Senior Policy Analyst and Global 
                     Data Protection Lead -- 
                     Access Now 
                     -- Alana Tart, Senior digital, technology and privacy 
                     lawyer -- PMI 
                     -- Steve Crown, Vice President and Deputy General 
                     Counsel, Human Rights -- 
                     Microsoft 
 
 
   For these reasons, the Foundation OISTE, -- building upon the various 
resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly and the Human Rights 
Council touching on the protection and promotion of the right to privacy 
in the digital age -- has set up a panel to address, inter alia, the 
following issues: 
 
 
   -- Identifying and clarifying principles, standards and best practices 
      regarding the promotion and protection of the human right to privacy 
 
   -- Reinforcing the principles of non-arbitrariness, lawfulness, legality, 
      necessity and proportionality in communications surveillance by the 
      State. 
 
   -- Ensuring that profiling, automated decision-making and machine-learning 
      technologies do proceed in accordance to agreed safeguards and do not 
      affect the enjoyment of human rights 
 
   -- Introducing a gender perspective and ensuring that there exists effective 
      domestic oversight and remedies for the violation of the human right 
      to privacy 
 
   -- Addressing the issue of personal data management: often individuals do 
      not provide their free, explicit and informed consent to the re-use, sale 
      or multiple re-sales of their personal data 
 
   -- Addressing the issue of human rights impacts of artificial intelligence, 
      with a particular focus on examples of discrimination and bias 
 
 
   The OISTE Foundation signed The International Principles on the 
Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance right after 
they were launched at the 24th session of the UN Human Rights Council in 
Geneva 
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in 2013. OISTE invites other organizations to join: 
https://necessaryandproportionate.org/ 
 
   About OISTE FOUNDATION 
 
   Founded in Switzerland in 1998, OISTE was created with the objectives of 
promoting the use and adoption of international standards to secure 
electronic transactions, expand the use of digital certification and 
ensure the interoperability of certification authorities' e-transaction 
systems. The OISTE Foundation is a not for profit organization based in 
Geneva, Switzerland, regulated by article 80 et seq. of the Swiss Civil 
Code. OISTE is an organization in special consultative status with the 
Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC) and belongs 
to the Not-for-Profit constituency (NPOC) of the ICANN. 
 
   Contact OISTE FOUNDATION 
 
   Nicolas Ducor 
 
   nducor@oiste.org

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