The technology can make an important contribution to the defense of human rights, defended today the secretary-general of Amnesty International, but warned that the lack of privacy can be the difference between life and death.
For Salil Shetty, there is no question of choosing between human rights and technology as “the technology can be used in favour of human rights”, but recalled that the governments of some countries are using technological means to control the freedom or even the lives of citizens.
the head of The international organization speaking at a session in the framework of the technology conference, the Web Summit, which runs until Thursday, in Lisbon, in which he debated with Robert Scoble, a blogger, north-american, if “the benefits of technology are worth the sacrifice of privacy.”
Robert Scoble is an advocate of advances in technology and appeared on stage with an innovative equipment, glasses technology, with a set of functions, while Salil Shetty is more cautious and refers to the definition of rules and laws for the use of the means which may invade the privacy of people.
To justify your position, Salil Shetty pointed to the examples of what is happening in Turkey where “journalists are in jail because of their online exposure”, or the use of drones in Pakistan, a military attack, did not prevent the death of civilians.
the consequence of The invasion of privacy “can be the difference between life and death,” he pointed out.
Salil Shetty has pointed out that technology has led to the greater knowledge of what human rights are, leading people to demand that they are respected, and their own businesses and organizations are more alert to this issue.
on the other hand, the new technologies are a help to their own Amnesty International for disclosure of their campaigns and to obtain help on the part of citizens around the world.
Robert Scoble summarizes his position by saying that “the technology has advantages and disadvantages, and people accept the disadvantages to take advantage of”.
Among the hundreds of people who watched the debate, this opinion seems to dominate here, when the moderator Kurt Wagner asked who was willing to dispense with their privacy in the name of the technology, were more the arms lift by the not.
The Web Summit is a global conference on technology, innovation and entrepreneurship that brings together some 53 thousand participants from 166 countries, including 15 thousand companies, seven thousand executive officers and 700 investors.
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