BackPursuant to Human Rights Council Resolution 42/15 adopted on 26 September 2019 (A/HRC/RES/42/15), the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights will organise an expert seminar to discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) affects the enjoyment of the right to privacy and to articulate the safeguards necessary to promote and protect the right to privacy in the digital age.
The expert seminar will take place on 27 - 28 May 2020. It is expected to be made up of four sessions of around 90 minutes each and be conducted over two half days. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and to ensure the broadest participation the seminar will be held online.
The seminar will focus on the impacts of AI on the enjoyment of the right to privacy. It will give stakeholders an important opportunity to analyse the key role that privacy plays in safeguarding other human rights affected by AI. It will also seek to articulate safeguards and processes that States, businesses and international organisations are required to put in place to promote and protect the right to privacy in the digital age.
The concept note, provisional agenda and other relevant documentation are available on the OHCHR website.
Please regularly consult this webpage, as more information, including on the modalities of on-line participations and the technical details on which on-line platform will be used and how to join the seminar will be posted on this webpage.
In order to allow a broad range of perspectives and issues to be considered at the seminar, OHCHR encourages the submission of written contributions. For further details, please contact: privacy-seminar@ohchr.org.
Source: Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
