1 files changed, 111 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/updates/2020/pandemie-menschenrechte.en.md b/updates/2020/pandemie-menschenrechte.en.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1660971d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/updates/2020/pandemie-menschenrechte.en.md
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+title: Joint civil society statement: States use of digital surveillance technologies to fight pandemic must respect human rights
+date: 2020-04-03 00:01:03 
+updated: 2020-04-03 00:01:03 
+author: 46halbe
+tags: update, pressemitteilung
+The COVID-19 pandemic is a global public health emergency that requires a coordinated and large-scale response by governments worldwide. However, States’ efforts to contain the virus must not be used as a cover to usher in a new era of greatly expanded systems of invasive digital surveillance.
+<!-- TEASER_END -->
+We, the undersigned organizations, urge governments to show leadership
+in tackling the pandemic in a way that ensures that the use of digital
+technologies to track and monitor individuals and populations is carried
+out strictly in line with human rights.
+Technology can and should play an important role during this effort to
+save lives, such as to spread public health messages and increase access
+to health care. However, an increase in non-consensual state digital
+surveillance powers, such as obtaining access to mobile phone location
+data, threatens privacy, freedom of expression and freedom of
+association, in ways that could violate rights and degrade trust in
+public authorities – undermining the effectiveness of any public health
+response. Such measures also pose a risk of discrimination and may
+disproportionately harm already marginalized communities.
+These are extraordinary times, but human rights law still applies.
+Indeed, the human rights framework is designed to ensure that different
+rights can be carefully balanced to protect individuals and wider
+societies. States cannot simply disregard rights such as privacy and
+freedom of expression in the name of tackling a public health crisis. On
+the contrary, protecting human rights also promotes public health. Now
+more than ever, governments must rigorously ensure that any restrictions
+to these rights is in line with long-established human rights
+safeguards.
+This crisis offers an opportunity to demonstrate our shared humanity. We
+can make extraordinary efforts to fight this pandemic that are
+consistent with human rights standards and the rule of law. The
+decisions that governments make now to confront the pandemic will shape
+what the world looks like in the future.
+We call on all governments not to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic with
+increased digital surveillance unless the following conditions are met:
+1.  Surveillance measures adopted to address the pandemic must be
+    lawful, necessary and proportionate. They must be provided for by
+    law and must be justified by legitimate public health objectives, as
+    determined by the appropriate public health authorities, and be
+    proportionate to those needs. Governments must be transparent about
+    the measures they are taking so that they can be scrutinized and if
+    appropriate later modified, retracted, or overturned. We cannot
+    allow the COVID-19 pandemic to serve as an excuse for indiscriminate
+    mass surveillance.
+2.  If governments expand monitoring and surveillance powers then such
+    powers must be time-bound, and only continue for as long as
+    necessary to address the current pandemic. We cannot allow the
+    COVID-19 pandemic to serve as an excuse for indefinite surveillance.
+3.  States must ensure that increased collection, retention, and
+    aggregation of personal data, including health data, is only used
+    for the purposes of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Data
+    collected, retained, and aggregated to respond to the pandemic must
+    be limited in scope, time-bound in relation to the pandemic and must
+    not be used for commercial or any other purposes. We cannot allow
+    the COVID-19 pandemic to serve as an excuse to gut individual’s
+    right to privacy.
+4.  Governments must take every effort to protect people’s data,
+    including ensuring sufficient security of any personal data
+    collected and of any devices, applications, networks, or services
+    involved in collection, transmission, processing, and storage. Any
+    claims that data is anonymous must be based on evidence and
+    supported with sufficient information regarding how it has been
+    anonymized. We cannot allow attempts to respond to this pandemic to
+    be used as justification for compromising people’s digital safety.
+5.  Any use of digital surveillance technologies in responding to
+    COVID-19, including big data and artificial intelligence systems,
+    must address the risk that these tools will facilitate
+    discrimination and other rights abuses against racial minorities,
+    people living in poverty, and other marginalized populations, whose
+    needs and lived realities may be obscured or misrepresented in large
+    datasets. We cannot allow the COVID-19 pandemic to further increase
+    the gap in the enjoyment of human rights between different groups in
+    society.
+6.  If governments enter into data sharing agreements with other public
+    or private sector entities, they must be based on law, and the
+    existence of these agreements and information necessary to assess
+    their impact on privacy and human rights must be publicly disclosed
+    – in writing, with sunset clauses, public oversight and other
+    safeguards by default. Businesses involved in efforts by governments
+    to tackle COVID-19 must undertake due diligence to ensure they
+    respect human rights, and ensure any intervention is firewalled from
+    other business and commercial interests. We cannot allow the
+    COVID-19 pandemic to serve as an excuse for keeping people in the
+    dark about what information their governments are gathering and
+    sharing with third parties.
+7.  Any response must incorporate accountability protections and
+    safeguards against abuse. Increased surveillance efforts related to
+    COVID-19 should not fall under the domain of security or
+    intelligence agencies and must be subject to effective oversight by
+    appropriate independent bodies. Further, individuals must be given
+    the opportunity to know about and challenge any COVID-19 related
+    measures to collect, aggregate, and retain, and use data.
+    Individuals who have been subjected to surveillance must have access
+    to effective remedies.
+8.  COVID-19 related responses that include data collection efforts
+    should include means for free, active, and meaningful participation
+    of relevant stakeholders, in particular experts in the public health
+    sector and the most marginalized population groups.
+[All
+Signatories](https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/04/02/joint-civil-society-statement-states-use-digital-surveillance-technologies-fight)
+of this joint statement.

diff --git a/updates/2020/pandemie-menschenrechte.en.md b/updates/2020/pandemie-menschenrechte.en.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1660971d --- /dev/null +++ b/updates/2020/pandemie-menschenrechte.en.md
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
	1	title: Joint civil society statement: States use of digital surveillance technologies to fight pandemic must respect human rights
	2	date: 2020-04-03 00:01:03
	3	updated: 2020-04-03 00:01:03
	4	author: 46halbe
	5	tags: update, pressemitteilung
	6
	7	The COVID-19 pandemic is a global public health emergency that requires a coordinated and large-scale response by governments worldwide. However, States’ efforts to contain the virus must not be used as a cover to usher in a new era of greatly expanded systems of invasive digital surveillance.
	8
	9	<!-- TEASER_END -->
	10
	11	We, the undersigned organizations, urge governments to show leadership
	12	in tackling the pandemic in a way that ensures that the use of digital
	13	technologies to track and monitor individuals and populations is carried
	14	out strictly in line with human rights.
	15
	16	Technology can and should play an important role during this effort to
	17	save lives, such as to spread public health messages and increase access
	18	to health care. However, an increase in non-consensual state digital
	19	surveillance powers, such as obtaining access to mobile phone location
	20	data, threatens privacy, freedom of expression and freedom of
	21	association, in ways that could violate rights and degrade trust in
	22	public authorities – undermining the effectiveness of any public health
	23	response. Such measures also pose a risk of discrimination and may
	24	disproportionately harm already marginalized communities.
	25
	26	These are extraordinary times, but human rights law still applies.
	27	Indeed, the human rights framework is designed to ensure that different
	28	rights can be carefully balanced to protect individuals and wider
	29	societies. States cannot simply disregard rights such as privacy and
	30	freedom of expression in the name of tackling a public health crisis. On
	31	the contrary, protecting human rights also promotes public health. Now
	32	more than ever, governments must rigorously ensure that any restrictions
	33	to these rights is in line with long-established human rights
	34	safeguards.
	35
	36	This crisis offers an opportunity to demonstrate our shared humanity. We
	37	can make extraordinary efforts to fight this pandemic that are
	38	consistent with human rights standards and the rule of law. The
	39	decisions that governments make now to confront the pandemic will shape
	40	what the world looks like in the future.
	41
	42	We call on all governments not to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic with
	43	increased digital surveillance unless the following conditions are met:
	44
	45	1. Surveillance measures adopted to address the pandemic must be
	46	lawful, necessary and proportionate. They must be provided for by
	47	law and must be justified by legitimate public health objectives, as
	48	determined by the appropriate public health authorities, and be
	49	proportionate to those needs. Governments must be transparent about
	50	the measures they are taking so that they can be scrutinized and if
	51	appropriate later modified, retracted, or overturned. We cannot
	52	allow the COVID-19 pandemic to serve as an excuse for indiscriminate
	53	mass surveillance.
	54	2. If governments expand monitoring and surveillance powers then such
	55	powers must be time-bound, and only continue for as long as
	56	necessary to address the current pandemic. We cannot allow the
	57	COVID-19 pandemic to serve as an excuse for indefinite surveillance.
	58	3. States must ensure that increased collection, retention, and
	59	aggregation of personal data, including health data, is only used
	60	for the purposes of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Data
	61	collected, retained, and aggregated to respond to the pandemic must
	62	be limited in scope, time-bound in relation to the pandemic and must
	63	not be used for commercial or any other purposes. We cannot allow
	64	the COVID-19 pandemic to serve as an excuse to gut individual’s
	65	right to privacy.
	66	4. Governments must take every effort to protect people’s data,
	67	including ensuring sufficient security of any personal data
	68	collected and of any devices, applications, networks, or services
	69	involved in collection, transmission, processing, and storage. Any
	70	claims that data is anonymous must be based on evidence and
	71	supported with sufficient information regarding how it has been
	72	anonymized. We cannot allow attempts to respond to this pandemic to
	73	be used as justification for compromising people’s digital safety.
	74	5. Any use of digital surveillance technologies in responding to
	75	COVID-19, including big data and artificial intelligence systems,
	76	must address the risk that these tools will facilitate
	77	discrimination and other rights abuses against racial minorities,
	78	people living in poverty, and other marginalized populations, whose
	79	needs and lived realities may be obscured or misrepresented in large
	80	datasets. We cannot allow the COVID-19 pandemic to further increase
	81	the gap in the enjoyment of human rights between different groups in
	82	society.
	83	6. If governments enter into data sharing agreements with other public
	84	or private sector entities, they must be based on law, and the
	85	existence of these agreements and information necessary to assess
	86	their impact on privacy and human rights must be publicly disclosed
	87	– in writing, with sunset clauses, public oversight and other
	88	safeguards by default. Businesses involved in efforts by governments
	89	to tackle COVID-19 must undertake due diligence to ensure they
	90	respect human rights, and ensure any intervention is firewalled from
	91	other business and commercial interests. We cannot allow the
	92	COVID-19 pandemic to serve as an excuse for keeping people in the
	93	dark about what information their governments are gathering and
	94	sharing with third parties.
	95	7. Any response must incorporate accountability protections and
	96	safeguards against abuse. Increased surveillance efforts related to
	97	COVID-19 should not fall under the domain of security or
	98	intelligence agencies and must be subject to effective oversight by
	99	appropriate independent bodies. Further, individuals must be given
	100	the opportunity to know about and challenge any COVID-19 related
	101	measures to collect, aggregate, and retain, and use data.
	102	Individuals who have been subjected to surveillance must have access
	103	to effective remedies.
	104	8. COVID-19 related responses that include data collection efforts
	105	should include means for free, active, and meaningful participation
	106	of relevant stakeholders, in particular experts in the public health
	107	sector and the most marginalized population groups.
	108
	109	[All
	110	Signatories](https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/04/02/joint-civil-society-statement-states-use-digital-surveillance-technologies-fight)
	111	of this joint statement.