Identifying Protected Missions in the Digital Domain

ICRC Humanitarian Law and Policy Blog · Sep 23, 2021 · 10m

Digital technologies and the always-on communications that underpin the internet have transformed our world in many positive ways, but have also enabled behaviors contrary to the public interest and even threatened the continued stability of the internet. The transformation has been technology-driven but carried out in a larger commercial, social, and legal environment that shapes how the technologies are developed and used. As part of that effort, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has partnered with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to investigate technical…