Page 2 - Intelligence Board News Today

The Artificial Intelligence Act in the European Union prohibits certain uses of AI, lays down prerequisites for high and low risk AI syste

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Do you want a simple way to keep current on important privacy changes? Avoid sleepless nights wondering whether you missed a privacy speed bump or pothole between annual updates? Worry no longer. Troutman Pepper is pleased to offer  More Privacy, Please — a monthly newsletter recapping significant industry and legal developments, as well as trends in the areas of cybersecurity, informatio...

Access Now 21 April 2021 | 9:26 am Access Now has been advocating for a human rights-based regulation to ensure that both the private and public sector respect and promote human rights in the context of artificial intelligence, including a call for red lines for applications of AI that are incompatible with fundamental rights. Unfortunately, the new proposal falls short of meeting the minimum requirements needed to safeguard human rights in the EU. “In her presentation of the AI ...

3 years in prison for thought crimes… ‘the incitement of disharmony, based on an intent to stir up, maintain or normalise hatred, through threatening, abusive or insulting communications’. …bewilderingly the NZ Left see no danger with this, but what happens when the Right are back in power and they decide the definition should include climate change activists? This looming hate speech debate is supposedly a response to the white supremacist terror attack in Christchurch, but the s...

including a clarified definition of a “terrorist act” – in response to the Christchurch terror attack. It’s the Government’s first step in implementing recommendation 18 of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the attacks on March 15, 2019, which called for a review of all legislation related to counter-terrorism in New Zealand. Justice Minister Kris Faafoi promised the changes in December after the release of the recommendations. He acknowledged the need to “move our legislation to...

Are you ready folks? 2021 is the year when the NZ Free Speech vs Hate Speech debate explodes, destroying friendships, cancelling half the country and abusing the remaining rest. Alliances will be torn asunder, political debate will never be the same and a level of toxicity will seep into public discourse that will ensure a polarisation unseen in NZ. When the insanity of what is about to be released is over and the wasted political landscape despoiled, not one New Zealander will be safer from wh...

Intelligence agencies failures highlighted but no accountability sought Phil Pennington © RNZ / Sam Rillstone Several key security and intelligence agencies failed to do their counter-terrorism job well, or at all, but there remains no way of holding them to account. This is revealed in the report of the Royal Commission into the 15 March 2019 mosque terrorist attacks. The commissions overall conclusion was that no one dropped the ball; its assigning of limited accountability ...

ROBERT KITCHIN/STUFF Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern delivers a summary of the findings of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Terrorist Attack on Christchurch Mosques. (Video first published in December 2020) EXPLAINER: Natural hazards such as earthquakes, biosecurity intrusions like the Queensland fruit fly, and pandemics such as Covid-19 are obvious and known threats to New Zealanders. Domestic terrorism and violent extremism were less understood, before ripping into the public’s consc...

Dont be afraid to see what you see. >> and dont be afraid to say it. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> if you see it, say it, they say at the train statio >> well, facts are fas, and when you get a lot of experts agreeing on the facts, sometimes theyre wrong. but when you get 17 intelligence agencies agreeing on something -- i used to be on the intelligence board. i always voted no, so it wouldnt always be 17-0. when you get all of them agreeing on something, thats rare. thats unusual. trump would have been ...

Transitions who said that transition people need clearances in order to lock at the fbi background reports. the transition people need to read the reports. these authorities say there are other ways that the president could give a clearance if he were serving as an adviser or put him on the intelligence board and many of them have business interests in the government. there seem to be no show stoppers. >> his kids would run the business, but he did not tell us that his kids could get security cl...