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Privacy International's submitted its input to the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty ahead of the presentation of his thematic report to the UN Human Rights Council titled "Social protection: a reality check".
PI's submission highlights the impact of digitalisation, automation and intrusive data collection on access to social protection.
By Mathieu Stern from Unsplash
On 17 December 2021, we made a submission contributing to the UNSR on extreme poverty and human rights' forthcoming report which will be presented to the UN Human Rights Council. The report will be titled "Social protection: a reality check" and aims to highlight the obstacles that individuals and households face when seeking to access social protection.
We highlighted the systemic problems emerging from the increased digitalisation, automation and intrusive data collection in the “digital welfare state”.
Our submission focuses on how the implementation of the “digital welfare state” has negatively impacted access to social protection in three fundamental ways: