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Benedikt Josef Neuroth
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DOI:10.17265/1548-6605/2023.03.001
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Institute for Digital Technologies, Leipzig, Germany
ABSTRACT
The United Nations’ Resolution 3384 (XXX) is a keystone of the discussion on how innovations in science and technology may affect human rights. The resolution was adopted by the General Assembly at its 2400th Plenary Meeting on 10 November 1975 acknowledging both the chances and risks of scientific and technological advancements for the international community. Originally introduced by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the document’s genesis gives an example of how human rights diplomacy worked during the Cold War. While the USSR put a strong focus on social and economic rights, the United States emphasized civil and political rights, introducing the protection of privacy to the document. Drawing on the UN Charter, human rights declarations and covenants, the resolution sets forth the possible impact of science and technology on societies and individuals in nine preambular and nine operative paragraphs. These paragraphs reflect both concerns for societies and groups as well as for the individual, such as warfare with advanced weapons respectively human rights violations with technological means, and they call on the states to protect the wellbeing of the people. Legally non-binding, the Declaration nevertheless contains intentions that are still relevant today. For instance, data privacy became an issue of global scale, however, subjected to few international standards, as the controversy between the United States and China about the application “TikTok” demonstrates.
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United Nations, human rights, science and technology, data privacy, 1970s
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