Holding Corporations Responsible for Data-driven Human Rights Violations

Dr André Dao was interviewed on his research on holding corporations to account for data-driven human rights violations.

In this Research Group on Private Actor Responsibility at the University of Cambridge post-meeting interview, André discusses Facebook’s responsibility for genocide in Myanmar; the public-private dynamic of human rights violations; the way in which “responsible big data” as part of the business and human rights due diligence results in “organised irresponsibility”; what corporate responsibility debates in the Global North could learn from approaches and experiences from the Global South; and what might be considered some of the most pressing challenges for the responsibility of big data companies and the direction of future research. Dr André Dao is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Laureate Program in Global Corporations and International Law at the Melbourne Law School. He is the author of 'Human rights for the data society: Big Tech, the UN and the datafication of rights' (CUP, forthcoming), and 'Anam' (Picador, 2023). This video is part of an ongoing collection from the Cambridge Research Group on Private Actor Responsibility. For more information see: https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/researchfaculty-centres-networks-and-groups/cambridge-research-group-private-actor-responsibility