India, July 8 -- As digital technologies rapidly reshape every aspect of society, the UN's top human rights official has called for human rights to be placed at the centre of this transformation.

Digital technologies have the potential to drive progress and strengthen rights, including connecting people, improving access to health and education, and much more.

But the pace of their evolution also poses serious risks, warned Volker Turk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - from restrictions on free expression and privacy violations to discrimination and growing threats to our shared sense of truth and reality.

"It is precisely in the face of massive change, that we need more human rights, not less," he said on Monday, addressing a h...