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Are Internet Protocols the New Human Rights Protocols? Understanding ‘RFC 8280 – Research into Human Rights Protocol Considerations’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2019

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B.A., Toronto; M.Phil, Oxon; J.D., Yale. Counsel, Foley Hoag LLP; Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School; Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University.

References

1 Anupam Chander and Vivek Krishnamurthy, ‘The Myth of Platform Neutrality’ (2018) 2 Georgetown Law Technology Review 400.

2 N ten Over and C Cath, ‘RFC 8280 – Research into Human Rights Protocol Considerations’ (October 2017), https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8280 (accessed 9 November 2018).

3 T Berners-Lee et al, ‘RFC 1945 – Hypertext Transfer Protocol – HTTP/1.0’ (May 1996), https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945 (accessed 9 November 2018).

4 Jonathan Postrel, ‘RFC 821 – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol’ (August 1982), https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc821.html (accessed 9 November 2018).

5 ‘RFC 791 – Internet Protocol: DARPA Internet Program Protocol Specification’ (September 1981), https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc791 (accessed 9 November 2018).

6 Internet Research Task Force, ‘IRTF Research Groups’, https://irtf.org/groups (accessed 7 October 2018).

7 Ibid.

8 Internet Research Task Force, ‘Human Rights Protocol Considerations’, https://datatracker.ietf.org/rg/hrpc/about/ (accessed 7 October 2018).

9 This traditional mindset is explored in Langdon Winter, The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986).

10 Raja Chatila et al, ‘IEEE Global Initiative Aims to Advance Ethical Design of AI and Autonomous Systems’, IEEE Spectrum (29 March 2017), https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/ieee-global-initiative-ethical-design-ai-and-autonomous-systems (accessed 5 October 2018).

11 These documents are available at https://ethicsinaction.ieee.org (accessed 9 November 2018).

12 Ryan Gallagher, ‘Senior Google Scientist Resigns over “Forfeiture of our Values” in China’, The Intercept (13 September 2018), https://theintercept.com/2018/09/13/google-china-search-engine-employee-resigns/ (accessed 6 October 2018).

13 Sheera Frenkel, ‘Microsoft Employees Protest Work with ICE, as Tech Industry Mobilizes Over Immigration’, New York Times (19 June 2018), https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/technology/tech-companies-immigration-border.html (accessed 5 October 2018).

14 ten Over and Cath, note 2, at 15–21.

15 Ibid, 21–40.

16 Ibid, 26–27.

17 Ibid, 27–30.

18 Ibid, 14.

19 Ibid, 42.

20 Ibid, 41–42.

21 Ibid, 47.

22 Ibid.

23 These documents are available at https://datatracker.ietf.org/rg/hrpc/documents/ (accessed 9 November 2018).