Tomorrow, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights will present his annual report to the UN General Assembly in New York on digital technology, social protection and human rights. On the same day, Privacy International will be launching its own series on surveillance in the provision of social services.
The Special Rapporteur warns that specific areas need to be addressed to „avoid stumbling zombie-like into a digital welfare dystopia“ and that „values such as dignity, choice, self-respect, autonomy, self-determination, privacy, and a range of other factors are all traded off“ supposedly in the name of efficiency, budget-saving, flexibility and fraud detection.