RightsCon Silicon Valley 2016

New technologies had great potential for the developing world. However, the problem lies with systematic failure to critically contemplate the potential ill effects of deploying technologies in development and humanitarian initiatives and in turn to consider the legal and safeguards required in order to ensure the rights of individuals living in the developing world. Present Management Information System are gathering and storing extensive amounts of personal data in what are often insecure or high­risk environment for human rights defenders. Most of developing countries including India, Pakistan, Malaysia where government often used to manage information of citizens to provide developmental schemes or administer those schemes. On another hand, Facebook’s real name registration system is dictating people how to register their accounts and set­up their user profiles. The potential use of mobile phones in developing countries to collect or generate data, and the subsequent analysis of such data, has the potential to assist in development and humanitarian initiatives in multiple ways. But in an age of widespread communications surveillance by both State and non­State actors, using mobile networks to transmit sensitive data is inherently risky.