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  • From the article:

    Key findings

    • In both democratic and authoritarian contexts, technologies are being deployed in ways that erode, and in some cases effectively dismantle, human rights.
    • Technology use risks facilitating or amplifying repressive practices and systems, and becoming an instrument of authoritarian governance.
    • Surveillance technologies are being expanded and entrenched with the purpose of exerting control over entire populations and/or specific groups of people such as journalists and human rights defenders.
    • The authoritarian use of technology is ultimately having a ‘chilling effect’.
    • Some technologies are disproportionately intrusive by design and should not be used.
    • Technologies’ use is often incompatible with the rule of law, lack redress and raise mass impunity risks.
    • A lack of transparency facilitates the authoritarian use of technologies.