Critical look at the Human Rights Protocol Considerations effort in the IRTF; argues that you can’t embed human rights in technology without considering the specific context of use.
@chadkoh a remarkably nihilist conclusion! Do I understand the authors correctly that they believe it is impossible to predict what effect protocol design decisions will have on the world, therefore … we shouldn’t try? Or, it would even be harmful if we tried?
I am going to call on @mnot here since this is actually his link. I posted it when I set up the lemmy, but could not change attribution. Its on my reading list tho!
Also see https://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2010/Workshops/REARCH/ReArch_papers/10-Brown.pdf from Ian Brown
@npdoty@techpolicy.social I see this more as a useful lens to help focus attention on where human rights considerations are most impactful / relevant. Some standards are more strongly associated with a particular context – e.g., cookies.
