3. Information and Communication Technology and Human Rights A. Human Rights Status 2022 In today's intelligent information society, anyone can easily create, use, process, store, search, and deliver information, and these information are connected beyond space and time through various networks. Furthermore, we are entering an era where machines can learn, analyze, and process information on their own, show insights similar to or far beyond humans, or create new values, beyond the form of information processing in which humans directly intervene, design, and control. The development of information and communication technology has brought various benefits and conveniences to people, and improvement of rights and equality. However, on the other hand, as technology develops and the information society advances, information itself begins to act as an important element of domination or power, not just a data or knowledge, and as a result, problems such as mass accumulation and utilization of information, control, and widening gaps have emerged. An example is a new human rights agenda related to information, such as the government, public institutions, and companies’ mass collection of personal information, misuse and leakage, monitoring with information and communication technology, and gaps in information access and utilization. The basic rights of individuals related to the processing and distribution of information can be classified as ‘Information and Communication Technology and Human Rights.’ As seen above, information and communication technology and human rights are fundamental rights newly emerging in the information society, but there are cases where they can be subsumed by the existing basic rights related to information. They are fundamental rights directly or indirectly related to informational activities, such as freedom of speech and publication, freedom of academic and artistic freedom, personal rights, confidentiality and freedom of privacy, and freedom of communication. On the other hand, there are areas of informational and communication technology and human rights that cannot be sufficiently covered by these traditional fundamental rights alone, such as the right to know, the right to 283