With computing technology becoming integrated with every aspect of our
lives, many issues are simultaneously human rights issues and
technical issues.
Thus, how are organizations concerned with human rights and social
justice engaging with technological authorship and policy-making?
Mallory Knodel, presently
Chief Technology Officer
for the Center for Democracy and Technology,
explains her work as a Public Interest Technologist.
Mallory is also heavily engaged in a wide number of technical
standards-making organizations, and explains not only how technical
standards are of interest to human rights organizations, but how
the origin in work to define human rights overlaps with the emergence
of standards-making efforts.Links:Center for Democracy and TechnologyThe Human Rights Protocol Considerations Research Group (of which Mallory is co-chair)A whole bunch of mentioned standards-making organizations:
W3C, IETF,
IRTF, IEEE,
ITU, ICANN,
ISOEngineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880[http://manu.sporny.org/2016/rebalancing/](Rebalancing How the Web is Built) by Manu SpornyThe slew of Google-related stuff, both good and bad:Google's attempt to control which browsers are permitted to use their servicesControvercy around Google's AMP technologyGoogle Is Testing End-to-End Encryption in Android Messages3d party tracking cookiesGovernmental battles over root DNS splitRussia blocking TLS 1.3IETF RFC 8890: The Internet is for End Users