The use of AI systems can impact a range of human rights, with certain issues consistently emerging across contexts. These include risks for: non-discrimination and equality; personal data protection ...

This lack of transparency can undermine accountability in the delivery of social services, especially when individuals are denied benefits or services based on AI decisions. If a person is ...

This part examines the impact of AI systems in key areas of public governance, focusing on its implications for human rights. Drawing on the ECHR and the ESC, and other international instruments where ...

This sector includes activities relating to border control, conditions and modalities of entrance to and removal from the territory of the State, including issuance of visas or other kind of travel ...

Activities within the lifecycle of AI systems must comply with the following principles: Human dignity and individual autonomy, Transparency and oversight, Accountability and ...

Relevant global and regional governance frameworks include the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). The UNGPs provide for a set of principles that states and businesses ought to ...

In addition, there is concern that “digital-by-design” social services and over-relying on AI would lead to the erosion of social workers’ skills, thus undermining the quality of service, especially ...

The use of AI systems for educational purposes may lead to the processing of personal data of, for example, children, university students, persons with disabilities, persons in vocational training, ...

This sector involves police, intelligence and assimilated services, including such issues as identification of individuals for law enforcement purposes, crime prevention, crime in ...

Courts and authorities involved in the administration of justice handle and retain personal data, including sensitive data whose misuse could lead to data and privacy breaches and discrimination.[1] ...

At the time of writing, 160 AI-integrated systems have been documented as being used or piloted within justice systems across Europe and other participating countries to the European Cyberjustice ...

The application of AI system in law enforcement and public security also raises concerns about algorithmic bias leading to discrimination. For example, it has been shown in several cases that bias is ...