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(c)
Adopt best practice privacy and data protection standards for all individuals,
regardless of gender, to enable them to control their personal information, in particular in
relation to sex and gender;
(d)
Implement the following in the design, construction and operation of products
and all services, including profiling and digital welfare services:
(i)
Gender-equality and privacy protection principles;
(ii)
Privacy risk management and governance mechanisms, such as privacy by
design/default approaches and gender impact analyses;
(e)
Minimize and restrict data processing relating to gender and ensure that data
collected, derived or inferred on gender are in accordance with international human rights
law and are stored;
(f)
Provide easy access to data profiles and monitor for gender bias through, for
example, algorithmic auditing;
(g)
Introduce provisions to enable individuals, regardless of their gender, to
remove personal information;
(h)
Establish guidelines on the development of artificial intelligence,
incorporating gender, the right to privacy and principles of data protection;
(i)
Engage more women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex
persons in the design, development and regulation of digital technologies to develop privacyenhancing technologies and reduce risks of gender-based infringements of privacy;
(j)
Take all legal, administrative and other measures necessary to fully respect and
recognize individuals’ self-defined gender identity, and update privacy statements and
redesign tools, systems and processes accordingly;
(k)
Utilize strong encryption technologies to ensure the privacy of
communications and resist requests for user data that do not comply with international human
rights standards of lawfulness, proportionality and necessity;
(l)
Adopt strong policies, procedures and complaint mechanisms for reporting and
requesting the removal of harmful content from social media and disseminate such policies
and procedures prominently in local languages;
(m) Provide training, in particular for front-line staff, on privacy, gender and
measures taken to end infringements of privacy within business operations;
(n)
Educate users on digital security and technological assistance, such as support
services, information applications, design choices, terms of service and tools for reporting
violations;
(o)
Report complaints of online violence, by type and number of cases by country,
and lawful actions to protect the right to freedom of expression that were taken to respond to
incidents of online harassment based on gender;
(p)
Support research into digital technologies and the experiences of women and
the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community on the extent, causes and
effects of infringements of privacy and the harms arising, and on the effectiveness of
measures to prevent, eradicate, prosecute and provide reparation for such harm.
46.
Business enterprises should:
(a)
Implement the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the
accompanying guidance on gender to respect the human rights of all persons affected by their
practices;
(b)
Exercise human rights due diligence to identify, prevent, mitigate and address
violations of the rights to privacy and non-discrimination based on gender, including through:
(i)
Human rights impact assessments that incorporate the rights to privacy and
gender non-discrimination, when developing or modifying their products and
services, and include consultation with civil society organizations and other experts
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