TY - JOUR
T1 - Covid-19, international human rights law and the state-corporate complex
AU - Ford, Jolyon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This article engages with some questions at the nexus of COVID-19 public health responses, civil-political rights under international human rights law, and the responsible governance of data-driven technologies. In July 2020, several United Nations Special Rapporteurs attending the online RightsCon conference on ‘Human Rights in the Digital Age’ observed that the COVID-19 pandemic was driving a growing reliance by states on technologies of all sorts (for example, mobile-enabled COVID contact-tracing app technologies).1 The rapporteurs variously noted how this was resulting in dramatically increased unlawful surveillance, quelling of dissent, and the closing of civic space and collective action online and offline. Their view was that these ‘patterns of abuse’ were being ‘accelerated under the exigencies of the global pandemic.’2
AB - This article engages with some questions at the nexus of COVID-19 public health responses, civil-political rights under international human rights law, and the responsible governance of data-driven technologies. In July 2020, several United Nations Special Rapporteurs attending the online RightsCon conference on ‘Human Rights in the Digital Age’ observed that the COVID-19 pandemic was driving a growing reliance by states on technologies of all sorts (for example, mobile-enabled COVID contact-tracing app technologies).1 The rapporteurs variously noted how this was resulting in dramatically increased unlawful surveillance, quelling of dissent, and the closing of civic space and collective action online and offline. Their view was that these ‘patterns of abuse’ were being ‘accelerated under the exigencies of the global pandemic.’2
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U2 - 10.1163/26660229-03901014
DO - 10.1163/26660229-03901014
M3 - Article
SN - 0084-7658
VL - 39
SP - 195
EP - 213
JO - Australian Year Book of International Law
JF - Australian Year Book of International Law
IS - 1
ER -