Human rights impacts prioritized using these concepts are referred to as salient human rights issues. BSR used the following criteria to assess scope, scale, remediability, and likelihood. In all cases these criteria are necessarily directional and reliant on professional judgment, rather than precise calculations, and the factors in昀氀uencing our analysis is shown in Section 6 (Human Rights Impacts). Salience Levels Scope Smallest Small Medium Large Largest How many Smallest range Limited/smaller Majority of users Larger majority Signi昀椀cant and/or people could be of users and/or range of users and/or persons of users and/or all users and/or a affected by the persons affected and/or persons affected persons affected signi昀椀cant popu- harm? affected lation of quali昀椀ed range of persons affected Scale Least Serious Moderately Serious Very Serious Most Serious How serious Unlikely to cause Serious Likely to result in May result in Certain to result would the bodily harm / Could result in direct bodily harm death or irre- in death or irre- impacts be for psychological indirect bodily / lasting psycho- versible loss of versible loss of the impacted damage / change harm / psycho- logical damage / physical or mental physical or mental stakeholder? to standard of logical damage / major change of capacities / signif- capacities / signif- living / livelihood moderate change standard of living icant disruption in icant disruption in to standard of / livelihood standard of living standard of living living / livelihood / livelihood / livelihood Remediability / Remediable Likely Possibly Rarely Not Irreversibility Remedy will Remediable Remediable Remediable Remediable Will a remedy return the Remedy is likely Remedy may Remedies can Remedies will restore the impacted to return the help return rarely return not return impacted stakeholder impacted stake- the impacted the impacted the impacted stakeholder to the same holder to the stakeholder stakeholder stakeholder to the same or equivalent same or equiv- to the same to the same to the same or equivalent position alent position or equivalent or equivalent or equivalent position before before the harm position before condition before condition before the harm? occurred the harm harm occurred harm occurred occurred Likelihood of Minor Some Good High Certain Occurrence Likelihood Likelihood Likelihood Likelihood Currently What is the Although a risk, it There is some It’s more probable There is a high occurring or likelihood of the is highly unlikely minor risk that than not that likelihood that certain to occur risk occurring? that impacts may the impacts may the impacts may the impacts may occur occur occur occur BSR TECH COALITION HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT ASSESSMENT 15