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PADM 5855. International Human Rights
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12.
The Internet
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15, 17 April 2024
This session of the seminar will discuss the human rights issues connected
to the development, expansion and use of the Internet, including Internet
governance, net neutrality, privacy and similar issues. This is one of the most
emerging issues for human rights, which tests how agreements reached long
before digital technology can be interpreted in the 21st Century.
Questions
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- Why is the Internet
different from other forms of communication covered by the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights?
- Where are Internet
issues being negotiated?
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Lectures
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Required
readings
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- Brookings Institution,
"The
internet as a human right," Techtank,
7 November 2016.
- Human Rights Council, 32/13. The promotion, protection
and enjoyment of human rightson the Internet,
1 July 2016.
- United Nations
Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD),Submissions
from entities in the United Nations system and elsewhere on their
efforts in 2017 to implement the outcome of the WSIS, Submission
by Association for Progressive Communications, 22 December 2017
- Patricia A. Vargas
Leon, excerpts from "Addressing the Ultimate Form of Cybersecurity Control"
A Multiple Case Study for the ‘Internet Kill Switch’, PhD
dissertation, Syracuse University, 2019 (in the course Canvas).
- Human Rights Council, Action
on Resolution on the Right to Privacy in the Digital Age, March 2018
- A.G. Sulzberger,
"How
The Times Thinks About Privacy," New York Times, 10 April 2019.
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Recommended
readings
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Discussion
questions
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- What are the main
issues of the Internet as far as human rights are concerned?
- Can human rights
institutions help protect the Internet from States?
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Recording
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- Recordings of 15 and 17
April will be in the course Canvas.
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2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 John R. Mathiason. All Rights
Reserved.
Revised: March 16, 2024 .
