Human rights in the technology we chose to standardize
Contributor(s)
Sofía Celi, Mallory Knodel
Session
Surveillance and Systems of Marginalization
Abstract
In this talk we will be looking at standarization processes of privacy that use cryptography and how they take into account human rights in designing and developing them. We will speak from the Human Rights Protocol Considerations (HRPC) research group perspective about the challenges and opportunities at the IETF and IRTF to integrate a holistic human rights approach to standarization. In particular we will cover why privacy and security are needed in standards; how they interact with which data we choose to protect or not; which voices are present and which are not in standarization level; whether the issues that marginalized groups face are present in standarization; and how standards that implement cryptography, including end-to-end encryption, impacts user privacy.