The online seminar "Cyber Justice and Building a Community of Shared Destiny: The Dangers of US Cyber Surveillance and Cyber Hegemony for the Common Good of the World", was held under the 47th session of the UN Human Rights Council on July 9, 2021. At the seminar, scholars and experts discussed the international cooperation in dealing with issues relating to the cyber surveillance and cyber hegemony by the US.

Zhi Zhenfeng, a research fellow at the Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, pointed out that the digital age has brought many new challenges to international human rights protection. For example, countries of cyber hegemony have carried out global large-scale cyber surveillance that violates citizens' privacy and personal dignity and used artificial intelligence to manipulate online public opinion and infringe upon people's right of autonomous and free access to information.

Anthony Carty, a professor at the Law School of Beijing Institute of Technology, said that the National Security Agency of the United States arbitrarily monitors people who they think are hostile to the United States or pose a so-called threat to the national security of the United States on a global scale, which is a serious violation of human rights, especially personal privacy.

The side event was hosted by China Society for Human Rights Studies and organized by the Center for Science, Technology and Human Rights of Beijing Institute of Technology.