Matthew Daniels is Chair of Law and Human Rights and Founder of the Center for Human Rights and International Affairs at IWP. Full bio
Digital Doublespeak on Privacy
“Privacy Policy” is one of the great oxymorons of the Digital Age. The term also speaks volumes about how the current corporate paradigm of data collection hides behind digital doublespeak.
Read More ›Trump and Torture
A lot of attention has been focused on President-Elect Donald Trump’s past statements endorsing the use of torture.
Read More ›Winning the War of Ideas Online
The Iraqi effort to retake Mosul from ISIS is proceeding apace with not insignificant help from the United States. But the effort to defeat ISIS globally will be much more complicated and difficult. As with any war, fighting enemy troops through direct violent engagement is a brutal and bloody affair. Such confrontations may be necessary to win battles,…
Read More ›Data Overdosing And National Insecurity
Yahoo was forced last week to stop concealing the largest data breach in American history. In one sense, the disclosure was no shock since Pew Research reports that 91% of Americans realize they have lost control of critical personal data to corporations. But the Yahoo breach does reveal something more sinister.
Read More ›Greater respect for privacy deters leaks of personal information
The cause of recent massive personal information leakage involving card companies in Korea is not only in a poor risk management system. Korea needs to look at the deeper source of this long-standing problem of information leakage which continues to resurface.
Read More ›Soft Power: The Vaccine Against Oppression
Ebola is not the only virus threatening humanity. For nearly a decade, a spreading global contagion of oppression has caused setbacks in human rights of which ISIL is only the latest symptom.
Read More ›Guide to Human Rights in the Republic of Korea
Human Rights Resource Guide – Republic of Korea 2014 is a comprehensive resource guide which categorizes major human rights issues of Korea according to ten selected Articles of Universal Declaration of Human Rights and contains extensive resources regarding each human rights issue in order to assist those who are interested in human rights as a…
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