Governments Should Respect Rights in COVID-19 Surveillance

(Washington, DC) – Governments’ use of digital surveillance technologies to fight the COVID-19 pandemic should respect human rights, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Access Now, Privacy International, and 103 other organizations said in a joint statement today. The groups urged governments to show leadership in tackling the pandemic by respecting human rights when using digital technologies to track and monitor people. “COVID-19 is an unprecedented health crisis, but governments must not use the virus as cover to introduce invasive or pervasive digital surveillance,” said Deborah Brown,…

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