MANAGEMENT & USE
Building occupants, users, and workers all face human rights risks.
Tenants, passengers, customers, and maintenance workers alike can be vulnerable to exploitation. In addition, with the growing role of technology – in security and maintenance of individual buildings, as well as throughout the fabric of urban environments – governments and companies must address privacy and data protection.
Click the overarching and stage-specific principles below to review the guiding questions across this stage. These questions will help you to identify the main human rights risks and opportunities and develop a tailored action plan.
Technology is harnessed in a way that safeguards digital rights including privacy and freedom of expression
Guiding questions
Does the use of technology within the project ensure privacy and adequate data protection, including digital confidentiality, security, dignity and anonymity?
Are measures in place to ensure that the use of technology and data collection does not perpetuate a digital divide , and does not discriminate against any individual or group?
Have risks of technology impeding freedom of expression been managed, and opportunities for it to expand freedom of expression identified and implemented? This includes steps to ensure that access to the internet is not shut down during times of unrest.
Have risks been managed and opportunities identified to ensure that greater integration of technology helps to reduce rather than deepen existing inequalities (along economic, racial, gender, ability, and other lines)?
Are the processes by which technology is harnessed and data collected, stored and used transparent and accountable for all stakeholders, including local communities?
