Impacts Related to Government Involvement Governments and law enforcement agencies may attempt to gain direct or indirect access to the Lantern database, or in昀氀uence participants’ use of the Lantern Program in ways that adversely impact users’ rights. Potential Adverse Impacts / Risks • The Tech Coalition may receive pressure from governments and law enforcement agencies to provide access to the Lantern database in ways that contradict its guidelines and adversely affect users’ rights to privacy and bodily security. • Participants of the Lantern Program may, as a result of participation, receive an increased amount of requests from governments or law enforcement agencies to store or share user data in ways that are not necessary nor proportionate for the purposes of addressing OCSEA and that adversely impact users’ right to privacy, freedom of expression, and bodily security. • Participants may receive and comply with overbroad government demands for access to signals in the Lantern database, thereby adversely impacting the rights of users to freedom of expression and bodily security. • If they get access to data or signals shared in the Lantern database, governments or law enforcement agencies may subsequently use this information to identify, track, or monitor individuals in a manner that adversely impacts their rights to privacy or bodily security, or take punitive steps such as deprivation of liberty against users for conduct that is not legally prohibited. • Governments or law enforcement agencies may in昀氀uence participants in ways that lead to scope creep or biases in the identi昀椀cation or de昀椀nition of signals indicating OCSEA, which may result in unnecessary or biased signals being shared in the Lantern database. BSR TECH COALITION HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT ASSESSMENT 37
