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UNESCO defends infoethics as the fundamental priority of putting technology in the service of human rights. Humans should take advantage of technology, not technology of humans. Respect for fundamental rights and freedoms is essential. It is not only privacy and data protection that are at stake and the discussion on security forms only a (temporary) part of the wider debate on how to live in tomorrow’s information society. The promotion of a public domain for people having access to a diversity of information is essential within the development of emerging technologies. Respect for human dignity and equality and the freedom of thought, conscience and religion as well as the freedom to express, move, associate and assemble are only some of the rights and freedoms that are essentially at stake, where such activities suppose the increasing intervention of ICT and converging technologies provided and controlled by third parties.