Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee regarding Brazil's compliance with ICCPR

In June 2023, we made a submission for the 138th Session of the Human Rights Committee that took place between 26 June 2023 and 28 July 2023 in relation to Brazil’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) before the adoption of the List of issues prior to reporting (LoIPR).

Amongst others, we recommended the UN Human Rights Committee call on Brazil to:

1. Adhere to its international and national human rights standards to uphold the right to privacy and the rights of the child pertaining to EdTech;
2. Ban the use of facial recognition technology (FRT) in educational settings given its disproportionality, security risks, inaccuracies and discriminatory biases and illegality of processing of children’s biometric data;
3. Ban the profiling and targeting of children for advertising purposes using classroom EdTech platforms;

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