The list of 22 cyber security human rights

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1 Cybersecurity | American Civil Liberties Union

  • Author: aclu.org
  • Published: 12/11/2021
  • Review: 4.88 (667 vote)
  • Summary: Unfortunately, some are calling for sweeping new laws to exempt companies from existing privacy laws in the name of cybersecurity. They want “cyber-threat” 
  • Source: https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/internet-privacy/cybersecurity

2 [PDF] Human Rights and Cybersecurity Due Diligence: A Comparative Study

  • Author: repository.law.umich.edu
  • Published: 06/02/2022
  • Review: 4.71 (477 vote)
  • Summary: cybersecurity, see Scott J. Shackelford, Toward Cyber Peace: Managing Cyber Attacks through. Polycentric Governance, 62 AM. U. L. REV. 1273 (2013). 35
  • Source: https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D1191%26context%3Dmjlr

3 Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Infringes Human Rights?

  • Author: legalserviceindia.com
  • Published: 09/12/2021
  • Review: 4.5 (459 vote)
  • Summary: Cyber crime violates human rights such as right to privacy, right to secrecy, right to free from any kind of blackmailing and torture. Hackers usually lock 
  • Source: https://www.legalserviceindia.com/legal/article-4724-cyber-security-and-cyber-crime-infringes-human-rights-.html

4 Cybersecurity and Privacy Must Both Be Fundamental Rights

  • Author: cyberpeaceinstitute.org
  • Published: 01/02/2022
  • Review: 4.34 (438 vote)
  • Summary: · In 2016, the UN Human Rights Council urged all States to secure the Internet to protect human rights “…so that [the Internet] can continue to be 
  • Source: https://cyberpeaceinstitute.org/news/cybersecurity-and-privacy-must-both-be-fundamental-rights

5 Why Cybersecurity Needs to Be Considered as an Absolute Human

  • Author: futurism.com
  • Published: 05/07/2022
  • Review: 4.19 (489 vote)
  • Summary: Internet access will become more widely recognized as a human right – and following in its wake may well be cybersecurity. As people use online services more in 
  • Source: https://futurism.com/why-cybersecurity-needs-to-be-considered-as-an-absolute-human-right

6 Securing the Human in the Era of Cyberphobia Introduction – JSTOR

  • Author: jstor.org
  • Published: 10/09/2021
  • Review: 3.9 (441 vote)
  • Summary: cyberspace that successfully addresses human rights norms. Keywords: Cybersecurity, National Security, Human Rights, Cyberphobia, Cyber Governance
  • Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26487503

7 Recommendations for human rights based approaches to

  • Author: freeandsecure.online
  • Published: 06/13/2022
  • Review: 3.69 (513 vote)
  • Summary: Cybersecurity-related laws, policies and practices should reflect the key role of encryption and anonymity in enabling the exercise of human rights, especially 
  • Source: https://freeandsecure.online/recommendations/

8 Digital Security Resources | Front Line Defenders

  • Author: frontlinedefenders.org
  • Published: 09/06/2021
  • Review: 3.55 (206 vote)
  • Summary: The Kit offers a set of self-diagnostic tools for human rights defenders, bloggers, activists and journalists facing attacks themselves, as well as providing 
  • Source: https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/digital-security-resources

9 Analysis: the Myanmar junta’s Cybersecurity Law would be a

  • Author: accessnow.org
  • Published: 06/07/2022
  • Review: 3.35 (413 vote)
  • Summary: · Analysis: the Myanmar junta’s Cybersecurity Law would be a disaster for human rights … As the one year anniversary of the military’s illegal 
  • Source: https://www.accessnow.org/analysis-myanmar-cybersecurity-law/

10 Human Rights Defenders in Cyberspace: A Litmus Test for

  • Author: globalpolicyjournal.com
  • Published: 01/16/2022
  • Review: 3.16 (429 vote)
  • Summary: · Compromised accounts, device confiscation, censorship, surveillance, excessive monitoring – these are some of the threats in cyberspace with 
  • Source: https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/11/05/2021/human-rights-defenders-cyberspace-litmus-test-cybersecurity

11 Cybersecurity and Human Rights – The Council of Europe

  • Author: coe.int
  • Published: 09/16/2021
  • Review: 2.94 (111 vote)
  • Summary: · Objectives How cybersecurity policies and their application can protect rights and fundamental freedoms; · Expected outcomes. Identify key 
  • Source: https://www.coe.int/en/web/cybercrime/cybersecurity-and-human-rights

12 Binary Threat: How Governments’ Cyber Laws and Practice

  • Author: pomeps.org
  • Published: 02/25/2022
  • Review: 2.81 (117 vote)
  • Summary: Nevertheless, despite evident power imbalances, human rights activists have adapted. The practice of adopting and sharing operational security protocols, as 
  • Source: https://pomeps.org/binary-threat-how-governments-cyber-laws-and-practice-undermine-human-rights-in-the-mena-region

13 Reconceptualising Cyber Security: Safeguarding Human Rights in

  • Author: igi-global.com
  • Published: 04/18/2022
  • Review: 2.61 (50 vote)
  • Summary: From a human-centric perspective such rights should be understood as a critical part of cyber security. Human rights protections need to be effectively 
  • Source: https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/reconceptualising-cyber-security/203495

14 Security and Human Rights Challenges of Cyber Due Diligence

  • Author: harvardilj.org
  • Published: 11/13/2021
  • Review: 2.54 (135 vote)
  • Summary: notes states’ obligation to ensure that the territory or cyber infrastructure under their control is not used for cyber operations that affect the rights of, 
  • Source: https://harvardilj.org/2020/06/security-and-human-rights-challenges-of-cyber-due-diligence/

15 It’s Time to Treat Cybersecurity as a Human Rights Issue

  • Author: hrw.org
  • Published: 05/21/2022
  • Review: 2.39 (91 vote)
  • Summary: · Internet shutdowns deny people access to critical information, the ability to express themselves, work, learn, and access social services
  • Source: https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/26/its-time-treat-cybersecurity-human-rights-issue

16 Cybersecurity – Homeland Security

  • Author: dhs.gov
  • Published: 11/29/2021
  • Review: 2.46 (159 vote)
  • Summary: Our daily life, economic vitality, and national security depend on a stable, safe, and resilient cyberspace
  • Source: https://www.dhs.gov/topics/cybersecurity

17 Government Policy for the Internet Must Be Rights-Based and User

  • Author: un.org
  • Published: 05/08/2022
  • Review: 2.25 (75 vote)
  • Summary: Governments across the globe are using the focus on data and national security to push misguided efforts to localize data3 and advance cybersecurity or 
  • Source: https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/government-policy-internet-must-be-rights-based-and-user-centred

18 Cyber Security and Individual Rights, Striking the Right Balance

  • Author: researchgate.net
  • Published: 06/05/2022
  • Review: 2.13 (110 vote)
  • Summary: · flourishing of said societies as well as on the well-being of their citizens. … concepts of balance and trade-off of cyber security measures and 
  • Source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258239844_Cyber_Security_and_Individual_Rights_Striking_the_Right_Balance

19 Cyberattacks and international human rights law (Chapter 10)

  • Author: cambridge.org
  • Published: 09/05/2021
  • Review: 2.06 (180 vote)
  • Summary: Cyberattacks generating the cybersecurity crisis are not the main human rights focus. Those attacks seem secondary to the worry that governments will use the 
  • Source: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/weapons-under-international-human-rights-law/cyberattacks-and-international-human-rights-law/EDE38B616894AF2759B854EFC69E39D4

20 APC policy explainer: A human rights-based approach to cybersecurity

  • Author: apc.org
  • Published: 02/06/2022
  • Review: 1.92 (91 vote)
  • Summary: · A human rights-based approach to cybersecurity means putting people at the centre and ensuring that there is trust and security in networks 
  • Source: https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/apc-policy-explainer-human-rights-based-approach-cybersecurity

21 Amnesty Tech | Amnesty International – Amnesty International

  • Author: amnesty.org
  • Published: 10/29/2021
  • Review: 1.85 (128 vote)
  • Summary: The Lab also builds tools and services to help protect human rights defenders from cyber-attacks, and conducts technical training with the wider support 
  • Source: https://www.amnesty.org/en/tech/

22 Cybersecurity and Human Rights – Public Knowledge

  • Author: publicknowledge.org
  • Published: 08/12/2021
  • Review: 1.87 (85 vote)
  • Summary: Cybersecurity laws and policies have a direct impact on human rights, particularly the right to privacy, freedom of expression, and the free flow of information
  • Source: https://publicknowledge.org/cybersecurity-and-human-rights/