Amnesty International accuses large Internet companies such as Google and Facebook of threatening human rights with their business model.

In the current report “Surveillance Giants” , Amnesty International warns that the business model of Facebook and Google is focused on surveillance and is therefore incompatible with the right to privacy. Annemarie Schlack, Managing Director of Amnesty International Austria, expresses her concerns:

“Billions of people have no choice but to use this public space on the terms dictated by Facebook and Google.”

Amnesty International also sees the rights to freedom of expression and thought as well as the right to equality and non-discrimination as being massively threatened.

“Google and Facebook dominate our modern everyday lives,” said Kumi Naidoo, international secretary general of Amnesty International, in a press release. “They are seizing power over the digital world in unprecedented ways by collecting and monetizing the personal data of billions of people.”

Amnesty International calls for radical change.

Apple , Amazon and Microsoft also have a great influence in certain areas, but Google and Facebook the platforms that people and users can no longer imagine everyday life and human exchange without.

In order to protect basic human values ​​- dignity, self-determination and privacy - a radical change in the way the tech giants work must happen. Amnesty International calls on governments to take measures to change the surveillance-based business model and protect users from human rights abuses. Human rights must be brought to the fore on the internet.

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Amnesty International itself writes:

A New Internet: Governments must take urgent action to transform the surveillance-based business model and protect us from human rights abuses by corporations. This requires, among other things, the enforcement of solid data protection laws and effective and human rights-compliant regulation of large technology companies.

Governments must therefore first pass laws that prohibit companies like Google and Facebook from making access to their services conditional on consent to collect, process and share personal data for marketing or advertising purposes. Companies like Google and Facebook also have a duty to respect human rights, regardless of their location or operating model.

«Facebook and Google cannot tell us what our digital world should look like. These companies have chosen a particular surveillance-based business model that compromises privacy, freedom of expression and other human rights. The technology on which the Internet is built is not incompatible with our rights - but the business model chosen by Facebook and Google is," emphasizes Kumi Naidoo. “We now urgently need to reclaim this important public space for everyone and not just for a handful of companies in Silicon Valley that are accountable to no one.”

Facebook and Google dispute the findings of the Amnesty report. The companies' reactions are included in the “Surveillance Giants” report .

Source: Amnesty International

 


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