Human rights and new technologies: the contribution of the inter-american system

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https://doi.org/10.48143/rdai.33.piovesan%20

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Emerging Technologies, Human Rights, Regulation, Inter-American System, Digital Constitutionalism

Abstract

In the face of a hyper-connected society driven by new technologies such as the internet, artificial intelligence, and neurotechnology, the article aims to assess the impact of new technologies on human rights and the impact of human rights on new technologies. It also discusses how the Inter-American system can contribute to the protection of human rights in this technological context, highlighting its principles of victim centrality, prevention, and precaution as central duties of the State, as well as the need for international cooperation among States. In this way, the article warns of the growing power of transnational technology corporations, whose global operations challenge traditional legal structures, presenting digital constitutionalism with the challenge of protecting rights and limiting these emerging powers.

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Flávia Piovesan, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), Sao Paulo

Procuradora do Estado de São Paulo. Professora doutora em Direito Constitucional e Direitos Humanos da PUC-SP; Professora dos Programas de Graduação e Pós Graduação da PUC-SP; visiting fellow do Human Rights Program da Harvard Law School (1995 e 2000); visiting fellow do Centre for Brazilian Studies da University of Oxford (2005); visiting fellow do Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg – 2007; 2008; 2015-2024); Humboldt Foundation Georg Forster Research Fellow no Max Planck Institute (Heidelberg – 2009-2014); e Lemman visiting scholar do David Rockefeller Center for Latin America Studies da Harvard University (2018). Foi membro da UN High Level Task force for the implementatiton of the right to development e do OAS Working Group para o monitoramento do Protocolo de San Salvador em matéria de direitos econômicos, sociais e culturais. Foi membro da Comissão Interamericana de Direitos Humanos (2018 a 2021) e ex Vice-presidente da Comissão Interamericana (2020-2021).  Em 2022 recebeu o Georg Forster Humboldt Research Award. É Coordenadora Científica da Unidade de Monitoramento e Fiscalização das Decisões da Corte Interamericana no Conselho Nacional de Justiça (UMF/CNJ). https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9441-8376. E-mail: fpiovesan@hotmail.com

Luiz Eduardo Camargo Outeiro Hernandes, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), Sao Paulo

Doutor em Direito pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (São Paulo –SP, Brasil). Pesquisador do Grupo de Pesquisa Hermenêutica e Justiça Constitucional: STF da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo – PUC/SP. Pesquisador do Centro Internacional de Direitos Humanos de São Paulo. Visiting Scholar no Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg, 2023). Visiting Researcher convidado no Research Department International Law and Dispute Resolution do Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law (2023). Procurador da República. Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law Scholarship (Hamburgo, 2024).  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0987-7821. E-mail: luizhernandes@mpf.mp.br.

Mariela Morales Antoniazzi, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law

Pesquisadora sênior no Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg). Graduada em Direito pela Universidade Católica Andrés Bello, com Mestrado na Universidade de Heidelberg e Doutorado na Universidade de Frankfurt. É Professora visitante em diversas Universidades da América Latina e Vice-Presidente da seção alemã do Instituto Ibero-Americano de Direito Constitucional. É Coordenadora do projeto Ius Constitutionale Commune na América Latina (ICCAL) no Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg). E-mail: morales@mpil.de. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6425-2573

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2025-04-01

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PIOVESAN, Flávia; HERNANDES, Luiz Eduardo Camargo Outeiro; ANTONIAZZI, Mariela Morales. Human rights and new technologies: the contribution of the inter-american system. Journal of Public Law and Infrastructure | RDAI, São Paulo: Thomson Reuters | Livraria RT, v. 9, n. 33, p. 157–182, 2025. DOI: 10.48143/rdai.33.piovesan . Disponível em: https://rdai.com.br/index.php/rdai/article/view/799. Acesso em: 14 dec. 2025.

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Vol. 9 No. 33 (2025): Abr./Jun.

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