Facebook and Google's omnipresent surveillance of billions of people poses a systemic threat to human rights, Amnesty International warned in a new report as it called for a radical transformation of the tech giants' core business model.
"Surveillance Giants" lays out how the surveillance-based business model of Facebook and Google is inherently incompatible with the right to privacy and poses a systemic threat to a range of other rights including freedom of opinion and expression, freedom of thought, and the right to equality and non-discrimination. ... This extraction and analysis of people's personal data on such an unprecedented scale is incompatible with every element of the right to privacy, including the freedom from intrusion into our private lives, the right to control information about ourselves, and the right to a space in which we can freely express our identities. ... Governments must urgently take action to overhaul the surveillance-based business model and protect us from corporate human rights abuses, including through the enforcement of robust data protection laws and effective regulation of Big Tech in line with human rights law. As a first step, governments must enact laws to ensure companies including Google and Facebook are prevented from making access to their service conditional on individuals "consenting" to the collection, processing or sharing of their personal data for marketing or advertising. Companies including Google and Facebook also have a responsibility to respect human rights wherever and however they operate. ... Facebook and Google disputed the findings. The companies' responses are included in the report. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/11/google-facebook-surveillance-privacy/ https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/POL3014042019ENGLISH.PDF
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