This book is the product of a collaboration between the data protection offices of the ICRC and UNHCR, alongside the Global Privacy Assembly, to reflect on a decade of progress in data protection in humanitarian contexts. Through practitioner perspectives, empirical research, and conceptual reflections, it examines how data protection underpins trust, accountability, and respect for affected populations, serving as a crucial enabler for ethical and effective humanitarian action in the digital age.
The volume explores critical topics including digital transformation, operational complexities such as those linked to data breaches and data sharing, regulatory developments and international cooperation, legal frameworks and capacity-building. At the same time, it looks ahead, addressing the challenges and opportunities posed by emerging technologies and considering how the humanitarian sector may anticipate and prepare for them.
This book is intended for policymakers, practitioners, authorities, academics, and other experts working in data protection, international organisations, and humanitarian action and adjacent fields. It offers a compass to help navigate complex operational and legal challenges in an increasingly digital and data-driven landscape. By positioning data protection as a foundational element of humanitarian action, the book provides timely, forward-looking insights into the sector’s preparedness for technological and regulatory change, with the aim of helping those most in need.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license.
Through practitioner perspectives, empirical research, and conceptual reflections, this book examines how data protection underpins trust, accountability, and respect for affected populations, serving as a crucial enabler for ethical and effective humanitarian action in the digital age.
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In our changing world, knowledge production is key to understanding where we stand in the digital age. This timely publication makes a valuable contribution by placing data protection at the center, as an enabler of rights and a vital tool to strengthen humanitarian action.
Beatriz de Anchorena, Chair of the Committee of Convention 108 and Head of the AAIP, the Data Protection Authority in Argentina.
A timely and thoughtful reflection on a decade of progress in data protection across the humanitarian sector, and a vital guide as we navigate our increasingly data-driven world.
Carmen Casado, DPO and Director of the Global Privacy Office, UN World Food Programme.
Data protection has become a crucial topic in the humanitarian space. This new book examining the interface between data protection regulatory frameworks and humanitarian action will be mandatory reading for anyone working in either field.
Christopher Kuner (Dr), University of Copenhagen and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Brussels.
This timely publication captures a decade of critical reflection on data protection as a cornerstone of principled and effective humanitarian action. Bridging theory and practice, it reaffirms our collective commitment to dignity, trust, and accountability in a digital age and equips us to face emerging challenges with integrity.
Lucie Laplante, Under Secretary General for Legal, Governance and Accountability, ad interim, IFRC.
Foreword (Wojciech Wiewiórowski). Introduction: Data Protection in
Humanitarian Action: Responding to Crises in a Data-Driven World (Ana
Beduschi, Massimo Marelli and Aaron Martin) Section 1: Setting the Scene
1.
The Contribution of Data Protection to Humanitarian Action: 10 Years of Data
Protection in Humanitarian Action (Massimo Marelli) Section 2: Humanitarian
Action in the Digital Age Section 2.1 An Evolving Humanitarian Space
2. From
Disconnected to Connected: How 10 Years of Increasing Connectivity for
Crisis-Affected Communities Has Increased the Importance of Personal Data
Protection (Betty (Jia Li) Wang and John Warnes)
3. The Challenges of
Building RedSafe, a Secure Digital Humanitarian Platform: An Unsafe Journey?
(Romain Bircher)
4. The Logic of Biometrics and Organisational Accountability
(Quito Tsui) Section 2.2 Understanding the Digital Transformation of the
Humanitarian Space through Data Protection
5. Digital Transformation and the
Humanitarian-Development Transition: The Role of Digital Public
Infrastructure and Data Protection (Emrys Schoemaker and Aaron Martin)
6.
Data Protection and Independence in an Age of Hyperconnectivity (Martin
Searle)
7. Data Protection as a Foundational Pillar and Key Enabler of
Trusted Digital Transformation (Charlotte Lindsey Curtet) Section 3: Data
Protection at the Crossroads Section 3.1 Evolution of Data Protection and
Humanitarian Action in International Law and Diplomacy
8. Data Protection
Regulation and International Humanitarian Organisations: Revisiting the
Origins, Nature and Significance of the UN Guidelines on Personal Data
Regulation (1990) (David Erdos)
9. Legal Tensions: Insights from UN-EU
Correspondence on EU Data Protection Law and the Role of Privileges and
Immunities in Enhancing Personal Data Protection (Christina Vasala Kokkinaki)
10. The Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Individuals with
Regard to the Processing of Personal Data (Convention 108+) and International
Organisations (Jean-Philippe Walter and Sophie Kwasny)
11. Data Protection,
Humanitarian Action, and Global Regulatory Cooperation: The Role of the
Global Privacy Assembly (Catherine Lennman and Florence Dubosc) Section 3.2
Data Protection Law in Humanitarian Practice
12. Data Protection in the
Framework of Restoring Family Links Humanitarian Activities: Code of Conduct
and Resolutions (Emily Knox)
13. By the Book, Beyond, and Backwards? Ethical
Considerations on the 2022 Data Breach Affecting the Family Links Network of
the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (Natalie Klein-Kelly)
14. Growing
Data Protection Maturity in Humanitarian Action: Changes in the Understanding
of Key Concepts (Dogu Han Buyukyagcioglu)
15. Data Sharing Between
Humanitarian Organisations and Donors: Accountability, Transparency, and Data
Protection in Principled Humanitarian Action (Larissa Fast, Stuart Campo and
Gilles Cerutti) Section 4: Regional and Local Perspectives on Data Protection
16. Withdraw Your Data: How Data Protection Legislation Can Reshape
Humanitarian Action (Timothy Charlton and Cassie Jiun Seo)
17. Context
Matters: Towards a Framework for Understanding Perceptions of Data Protection
in Humanitarian Aid (Timothy Charlton, Julia Feigen, and Silvia Pelucchi)
18.
Data Protection and the Asia-Pacific Region: Zooming into Humanitarian Action
(Hiroshi Miyashita) Section 5: Building Capacity and Addressing Challenges
Ahead
19. Teaching Data Protection as Trust-Building (Cosimo Monda and
Cristina Teleki)
20. Data Protection in the Times of Artificial Intelligence:
Towards a Digital Humanism (Wojciech Wiewiórowski (with contributions from
Olivier Matter and Michèle Dubrocard)
Ana Beduschi is a Full Professor of Law with a Personal Chair at the University of Exeter. Her research and teaching focus on international human rights law, technology (including big data and artificial intelligence), data protection, and international migration and refugee law.
Massimo Marelli is the Head of the Data Protection Office at the International Committee of the Red Cross. He is also a member of the Advisory Board and a Fellow at the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity at the University of Maastricht, where he co-leads the Humanitarian Action Programme.
Aaron Martin is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Data Science at the University of Virginia, United States. His research interests include data governance in development and humanitarian contexts, critical infrastructure protection, surveillance, and biometrics.
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