1 - Minority and Indigenous Trends 2020 - Focus on technology

From the occupation of the Americas to the enslavement of millions of Africans and the abuses of colonial rule, technology has regularly been implicated in the control and exploitation of marginalized communities. [...] In China, the internet is not a negative impact that surveillance and reflection of reality but of the propaganda the mass collection of personal data of the ruling Communist Party, and all the can have on human rights. [...] In their responses to the tragedy of In 2019, the UN Special Rapporteur Covid-19 throughout early 2020, many on freedom of expression, David Kaye, governments have seized on digital presented a report on surveillance surveillance technologies as part of 15 HRC, Surveillance and Human Rights: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and exp. [...] While the dangers of again, the risk analysis and design of hate speech and misinformation are new tools must be conducted with very real, contributing to the continued the full consent and participation of exclusion of many communities minority and indigenous stakeholders. [...] Online activism and This chapter outlines some of the ways social media campaigns that technologies are being used and adapted to support the realization of The use of the internet and social media greater rights for marginalized minorities platforms has been one of the defining and indigenous peoples.