RightsCon 2021 Conference

Fenwick is proud to sponsor RightsCon 2021, the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age. The 10th annual conference will take place virtually on June 7-11, with a lineup of more than 500 panels and participatory sessions.

While RightsCon has a strong international civil-society focus, it addresses many issues and challenges that our clients face, including issues that may give rise to liability and litigation. A number of important technology and online services companies also sponsor the conference.

The sessions cover a wide variety of digital rights issues related to the following topics:

• Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Algorithm
• Civil Society Resistance and Resilience
• Content Control and Censorship
• Cyber Norms, Accountability, and Practice
• Democracy, Elections, and Political Participation
• Digital Security for Individuals and Communities
• Freedom of the Media
• Futures, Fictions, and Creativity
• Human Rights-Centered Design
• Interne Access, Education, and Inclusion
• Internet Shutdowns and Network Disruptions
• Justice, Documentation, and Investigation
• New Models for Business and Labor
• Next Frontier Technologies
• Online Hate and Violent Extremism
• Organizational Growth, Impact, and Resources
• Peacebuilding and Digital Humanitarianism
• Privacy and Surveillance
• Trade, Innovation, and Intellectual Property

More information is available here.