UN Shared Rohingya Data Without Informed Consent

Publication language
English
Date published
15 Jun 2021
Type
Articles
Keywords
Data ethics, Data protection / Responsible data management
Organisations
Human Rights Watch

The United Nations refugee agency improperly collected and shared personal information from ethnic Rohingya refugees with Bangladesh, which shared it with Myanmar to verify people for possible repatriation, Human Rights Watch said today. The agency did not conduct a full data impact assessment, as its policies require, and in some cases failed to obtain refugees’ informed consent to share their data with Myanmar, the country they had fled.

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