Data Protection In Humanitarian Action Responding To Crises In A Data-Driven World

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. |Data Protection in Humanitarian Action Responding to Crises in a Data-Driven World