Tag: Business & Human Rights

In a U.N. meeting on protecting future generations in the digital era, Steele urged global stakeholders to cease exploitative data collection, renew the commitment to bring everyone meaningfully online, and stop internet shutdowns and unlawful censorship.

Unilateral decrees by the Trump Administration banning transactions between U.S. persons and businesses and the firms running WeChat and TikTok would deprive millions of people of information and communication tools during a global pandemic, restrict human rights groups from reaching at-risk communities, and suppress free expression just before the U.S. election.

Sandvine withdrawing its product support in Belarus after abuses have already occurred is a necessary but deeply insufficient gesture from a company whose investors have a long track record of failing to protect human rights.

South Korea’s network infrastructure may be state of the art, but the country’s “pay to play” regime for delivering traffic is an unprecedented threat to the free and open internet.

The signatories of this letter would like to voice their concern regarding the dangerous developments in
South Korean telecom regulations that run contrary to the principle of Net Neutrality.