Deploying OSINT in armed conflict settings: law, ethics, and the need for a new theory of harm

December 5, 2023 16 mins read Analysis / Cybersecurity and data protection in humanitarian action / Human Costs of Cyber / IHL / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action Ed Millett

The deployment of open-source intelligence, or OSINT – information gathered from publicly available data sources ...

8 rules for “civilian hackers” during war, and 4 obligations for states to restrain them

October 4, 2023 12 mins read Analysis / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Tilman Rodenhäuser & Mauro Vignati

As digital technology is changing how militaries conduct war, a worrying trend has emerged in which a growing number of civilians become involved in ...

Towards common understandings: the application of established IHL principles to cyber operations

March 7, 2023 9 mins read Analysis / Avoiding civilian harm during military cyber operations / Human Costs of Cyber / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Kubo Mačák & Tilman Rodenhäuser

Cyber operations have become a reality of today’s armed conflicts, and their use is likely ...

Identifying protected missions in the digital domain

September 23, 2021 8 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Antonio De Simone, Brian Haberman & Erin Hahn

Digital technologies and the always-on communications that underpin the internet have transformed our world in ...

Even ‘cyber wars’ have limits. But what if they didn’t?

March 9, 2021 11 mins read Analysis / Human Costs of Cyber / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Tilman Rodenhäuser & Kubo Mačák

Cyber operations have become a reality of today’s armed conflicts, and their use is likely ...