[liberationtech] Surveillance capitalism violates human rights

[Yosem Companys]

Facebook and Google's omnipresent surveillance of billions of people poses a
systemic threat to human rights, Amnesty International warned in a new
report as it called for a radical transformation of the tech giants' core
business model.

"Surveillance Giants" lays out how the surveillance-based business model of
Facebook and Google is inherently incompatible with the right to privacy and
poses a systemic threat to a range of other rights including freedom of
opinion and expression, freedom of thought, and the right to equality and
non-discrimination.

...

This extraction and analysis of people's personal data on such an
unprecedented scale is incompatible with every element of the right to
privacy, including the freedom from intrusion into our private lives, the
right to control information about ourselves, and the right to a space in
which we can freely express our identities.

...

Governments must urgently take action to overhaul the surveillance-based
business model and protect us from corporate human rights abuses, including
through the enforcement of robust data protection laws and effective
regulation of Big Tech in line with human rights law.

As a first step, governments must enact laws to ensure companies including
Google and Facebook are prevented from making access to their service
conditional on individuals "consenting" to the collection, processing or
sharing of their personal data for marketing or advertising. Companies
including Google and Facebook also have a responsibility to respect human
rights wherever and however they operate.

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Facebook and Google disputed the findings. The companies' responses are
included in the report.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/11/google-facebook-surveillance-privacy/

https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/POL3014042019ENGLISH.PDF
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