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Much has been written about ethical and human‐centred Information Systems (IS) design, most recently regarding the deleterious outcomes and negative affect of some machine learning applications that embed and perpetuate unethical or even inhumane automation. Terms such as 'harm', 'damage', and surprisingly, 'weapon' have entered the language of this discourse. However, these characteristics are not unique to applications of data science but have long manifested in IS that can also can exhibit opacity and establish tight vicious cycles. These, when coupled with a lack of governance feedback, can perpetuate injustice that has community or sector‐wide reach. In this paper, we explore how IS design that sets out with the best of intentions or at least, conceived as a 'neutral' system for managing transactional information, can emerge as 'tools that punish'. We argue that there are crucial principles to be taken from Recordkeeping Informatics, concerned as it is with the entanglement of information and people across space and through time on multi‐generational timescales. In particular we discuss how transdisciplinary and critical approaches are necessary to cover more of the design space and surface issues, rights, stakeholders, and, most importantly, values that may be otherwise hidden from a here‐and‐now, transactional viewpoint. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Upholding human rights – in particular for marginalised and displaced peoples – depends on exercising rights in data, information and records. In considering these information rights we face the challenge of designing ethical, adaptive, and inclusive information systems and technologies that support the actualisation of human rights, social justice, and Indigenous and First Nations sovereignty. Too often systems designed for an uncritical and generalised "happy centre" fail those on the margins, in all of their individualised complexity.The purpose of this panel will be to introduce an international initiative aimed at addressing this challenge, and to explore a developing research agenda for tackling the broad range of socio‐technical issues that comprise this wicked problem. It is hoped that this panel will galvanise the community towards action and engagement with this programme or its goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]