6 Human Rights Impacts of the Lantern Program In this section we assess the potential human rights impacts associated with the Lantern Program and use the criteria described in the Methodology section to prioritize salient human rights issues. 6.1 Impacted Human Rights Below we list eight categories of human rights that may be impacted. Some of these categories have multiple human rights grouped together. Child Safety and Protection (Articles 19, 34, 36 Convention on the Rights of the Child): The Lantern Program seeks to promote the enjoyment of children’s right to protection from sexual abuse and exploitation by establishing effective procedures to identify, prevent, and mitigate threats to children’s safety on digital platforms. • Civil, Social, Cultural Rights and Freedoms of Children (Articles 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 24, 26 27, 28, 31, Convention on the Rights of the Child) : While the main purpose of the Lantern Program is to protect children against online sexual exploitation and abuse, there is a risk that the collection, use, and sharing of information in the Lantern Program, as well as actions taken by participants based on signals, may adversely impact the ability of children to enjoy their civil rights and freedoms, such as access to information, privacy, freedom of expression, freedom of thought, or participation in cultural life. • Privacy (Article 12, Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Article 17, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights): Signals shared in the Lantern database may include personally identi昀椀able information about users such as email addresses or account names. The program may be associated with risks to privacy if participants use or share data in ways that result in arbitrary interference with users’ privacy, family, home, or correspondence. • Freedom of Expression (Article 19, Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Article 19, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights): Although the Lantern Program has been set up to target content or speech related to child sexual exploitation or abuse, there is a risk that legitimate or non-violative content may be erroneously removed due to overbroad moderation by participants, and/or that users are wrongfully denied access to online platforms where they can exercise their right to free expression and to access information. 26 Note that these are the rights of children speci昀椀cally listed in the Convention of the Rights of the Child. However, children are also considered rightsholders under the International Bill of Human Rights, so all of the other rights listed in this section would apply to children as well as adults. BSR TECH COALITION HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT ASSESSMENT 31