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05 May 2015: Threats and opportunities of ICT and Big Data to human rights

Professor Pete Fussey is centrally involved in developing the successful proposal ESRC Large Grant Human Rights and Information Technology in the Era of Big Data (c. £5m) led by the Human Rights Centre.

The project will comprehensively map and analyse, from a rights-perspective, the threats and opportunities presented by ICT and Big Data:

• Examine how fundamental human rights’ concepts and approaches need to be adapted to meet new technological and analytical developments
• Work to develop good practice guidelines on technology, Big Data and human rights as well as propose model regulatory responses from a rights-based perspective.

Professor Fussey will co-lead the overall management workpackage and lead one of the three empirical workpackages. The latter will involve leading research projects on the role of "big data"-oriented surveillance practices in the US, UK, Brazil, India and Germany during the post-Snowden era.