Some technology companies have created guidelines to help software companies to preserve human rights. Here’s what you propose
It’s called TechUK and the British group that has sided in defense of the rights of those who use digital computer programs. A necessity that is increasingly present in view of the recent events on the digital privacy abuses recounted by Datagate. For this TechUK has spread best practices to allow companions to make smart choices about their products, not only in terms of profit but also the protection of user activity. The guidelines examine factors such as the legal landscape and the demands of individual governments made the big hi-tech industry, explaining how companies should not feel alone in the fight against the windmills but also put up any alliance to fight a common enemy.
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At the launch of the initiative, for now localized in the UK, Lucy Purdon, project manager of the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB ) said: “While technologies for information security can help protect large networks and network, some products can achieve the objectives of governments spy, tracing the activities of subjects uncomfortable as activists, journalists and local opponents. Not even so rare that monitoring software are directed to build cluster defaults to detect, for example, sexual orientation, religious beliefs or social groups to which they belong. ” Based on the guiding principles on business and human rights of the European Union, Purdon has invited all the software companies in the world to deny the development of spy programs, both to help private agencies governi.Il document signed by participants in TekUK is available at this address and, hopefully, can be the subject of inspiration for other countries.
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