(MIS)USE OF SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGIES AS EMERGENCY MEASURES: GLOBAL LESSONS FROM THE COVID PANDEMIC

Описание: CPDP 2023 - DAY 2
AREA 42 MIDI - SESSION 4 (14:15)

Organised by International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations
(INCLO) (CH)
Moderator: Karolina Iwańska, European Center for Not-for-Profit
Law (ECNL) (NL)
Speakers: Martin Mavenjina, Transitional Justice at the Kenya
Human Rights Commission (KE); Bastien Le Querrec, La Quadrature
du Net (FR); Rosamunde van Brakel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE);
David Reichel, EU Fundamental Rights Agency (EU)

More than half the world’s countries, including EU Member States, have
enacted emergency measures in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. A
significant aspect of governments’ emergency responses has been a rapid and unprecedented scaling up of their use of technologies to enable
widespread digital contact tracing and surveillance. Three years after the
start of the pandemic, now is the time to take stock. This panel seeks to
understand what actually occurred after the surveillance measures were
first introduced, beyond the initial wave of media coverage. Speakers
from civil society, EU agencies and academia will reflect on the efficacy
and proportionality of pandemic-related surveillance measures and their
impact on human rights globally. We will also determine what lessons
have been learned so that governments, civic actors and companies are
better prepared for future health or other emergencies.
• What were the impacts of pandemic-related surveillance measures
on human rights and civil society globally?
• How can emergency measures be abused by governments and companies?
• What happened to the many surveillance measures adopted during
the pandemic?
• What lessons can we draw for future health or other emergencies?