What does the future of civil society advocacy look like, given the prevalence of these digital technologies and their impact on the work that civil society is currently doing?

But I think the point of @CCS here is that the direct physical security (or right of possession) makes a big difference: we can do encryption, set passwords, do data minimization, and all these “cyber-measures” (that are somehow immaterial), but at the end of the day what matters is who can enter your home, under what conditions and whether you can protect yourself?

It somehow draws my mind to the only Human Rights Consideration incorporated in an IETF RFC to date: RFC 8492 - Secure Password Ciphersuites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)

And also to a different topic that is still insufficiently discussed in human rights communities, in particular, namely the State of Exception (masterfully, in my view, covered by Giorgio Agamben in his homonymous book of 2005).

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