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Human Rights/Ethics and Security Research

Human Rights/Ethics and Security Research. Tom Sorell University of Birmingham. Human Rights. Limit the powers of states in relation to individuals Coercion; detention; intrusion Limit the discretion of states in identifying threats (threat to life vs way of life)

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Human Rights/Ethics and Security Research

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  1. Human Rights/Ethics and Security Research Tom Sorell University of Birmingham

  2. Human Rights • Limit the powers of states in relation to individuals • Coercion; detention; intrusion • Limit the discretion of states in identifying threats (threat to life vs way of life) • Limit the discretion of states in adopting means to prevent/counter threats • Threshold for declaring and maintaining emergency • Use of security technology

  3. Detection Technology • Any technology that helps to identify terrorists, on-going or imminent terrorist activity, or their weapons • CCTV • Metal and explosive scanners • Tapping and Bugging devices • Internet monitoring equipment • Data-mining using profiling algorithms

  4. Human Rights risks of detection technologies • Tapping and bugging devices, internet monitoring: • Rights to privacy • Free association • Freedom of religion • Freedom of expression • Data-mining and profiling • discrimination

  5. Ethics vs HRs • Wider than H-Rs (lying) • Deeper: explains why violations of rights and other things are wrong • Questions HR doctrines of indissolubility and interdependence of rights • Questions content of rights formulations • Combination of HRs and ethics desirable

  6. Ethics and Detection Technologies • What kind of violation of privacy? • Detection in public places • Zones of privacy: body vs home • Ethics answers the question why privacy matters • Ethics addresses the question whether privacy matters as much as the prevention of injury

  7. Ethics plus HRs • Sample questions: what is an emergency? • Is privacy a fundamental right? • When is it permissible to let numbers count • How much inconvenience is justified by a low risk of a serious attack • How far is the right to life in tension or not with the right to privacy

  8. Incorporating Ethics and HRs • Specialized ethics and H-R research • Expert consultants on technology projects • Interactions between tech and ethics/HR projects • Empirical security ethics • The need for ethics and HR advice over the life-time of projects • The possible conflict between public opinion and ethics

  9. Incorporating Ethics and HRs • The need for clarity • Public opinion and actual uses, powers of detection technologies • The possible conflict between public opinion and ethics/HRs • Citizen jury methodologies

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