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21-04-2021 ) Executive Vice President of the European Commission for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age, Margrethe Vestager (L), and European Commissioner in charge of internal market Thierry Breton (R), give a press conference on the EU approach to Artificial Intelligence in Brussels, Belgium, 21 April 2021. [EPA-EFE/OLIVIER HOSLET / POOL]
By KELVIN CHAN | Associated Press | Published: April 21, 2021 LONDON — Risky uses of artificial intelligence that threaten people's safety or rights such as live facial scanning should be banned or tightly controlled, European Union officials said Wednesday as they outlined an ambitious package of proposed regulations to rein in the rapidly expanding technology. The draft regulations from the EU's executive commission include rules for applications deemed high risk such as AI systems to filter out school, job or loan applicants. They would also ban artificial intelligence outright in a f...
The Fight for Free Speech: Civil Liberties in Spain The Fight for Free Speech: Civil Liberties in Spain April 7, 2021 Graphic depicts a Spanish police officer flanked by a crowd of protesters calling for justice for Pablo Hasél “Today it is me, tomorrow it could be you.” That was Pablo Hasél’s last tweet before his arrest on February 12, 2021, after taking refuge in the University of Lleida to avoid a nine-month jail sentence. As police in riot gear moved in to escort him away and students surrounded him in support, Hasél raised a fist in defiance, ...
15 Mar 2021 Members of the European Parliament are welcoming plans from the European Commission to make email, messaging, and chat providers search through users’ private conversations and report “illegal material”, according to Patrick Breyer MEP. Breyer, a German digital rights activist who represents the German Pirate Party in the EU’s parliament, revealed that fellow MEPs had voted overwhelmingly to “[welcome] the Commission’s intention to oblige e-mail, messaging and chat providers to search all private messages for allegedly illegal material and report to the police” on s...
There are risks in a rapid rollout of advanced surveillance tools by immigration agencies. By Niamh Kinchin on Mar 09 2021 12:25 PM Print article Travellers using Smartgates at an Australian airport. (source: Australian Border Force) Developments in global border control technologies are providing innovative ways to address issues relating to migration, asylum-seeking and the introduction of illegal goods into countries. But while governments and national security can benefit from this, advanced surveillance technology creates risks for the misuse of personal data and the vi...