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Rapporteur calls for defossilization of economies and urgent reparations to avert ‘catastrophic’ rights and climate harms
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What if I told you that one of the most well-capitalized AI companies on the planet is asking volunteers to help them uncover “lost cities” in the Amazonia—by feeding machine learning models with open satellite data, lidar, “colonial” text and map records, and indigenous oral histories?
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The letter urges the European Commission to reassess Israel’s data protection adequacy status under the GDPR.
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The mandatory retention of metadata is an evergreen of European digital policy. Despite a number of rulings by Europe’s highest court, confirming again and again the incompatibility of general and indiscriminate data retention mandates with European fundamental rights, the European Commission is taking major steps towards the re-introduction of EU-wide data retention mandates. Recently, the Commission launched a Call for Evidence on data retention for criminal investigations—the first formal step towards a legislative proposal.
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To comply with a Trump executive order, Microsoft recently helped suspend the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor in the Netherlands who was investigating Israel for war crimes.
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The book follows different perpetrator types - people who commit illegitimate and illegal mass violence can be understood as belonging to different categories and that those can be both defined and bounded. These categories span different levels of authority and power, and often reflect different motivations: the criminal mastermind, the careerist, the profiteer, the follower, the fanatic, etc.
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The Commission of Inquiry’s vital new report documenting Israeli forces’ systematic destruction of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure, including educational, religious, and cultural sites, and war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination, underscores the long overdue need for concrete actions to stop the Israeli government’s atrocities and hold perpetrators to account.
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Safety matters—but so do privacy, access to information, and the fundamental rights of all users. We urge the Commission to avoid endorsing disproportionate, one-size-fits-all technical solutions. Instead, we recommend user-empowering approaches.
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The group had been recruited by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, or HOT, a nonprofit that uses an open-source data platform called OpenStreetMap to create a map of the world that resembles Google’s with one key exception: Anyone can edit it, making it a sort of Wikipedia for cartographers. The organization has an ambitious goal: Map the world’s unmapped places to help relief workers reach people when the next hurricane, fire, or other crisis strikes.
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A framework for collecting whistleblowing data and reporting on performance and impact.
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There is nothing new in weaponising airwaves to shape hearts and minds across borders.
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Today, the Guardian, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, launches Secure Messaging, a world-first from a media organisation
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In an era of maximization of data collection, consumers are left to rely on walls of pop-ups and click-throughs as well as broad promises about companies “caring about privacy.” When you track your steps, google your symptoms, or check the price of a prescription, you shouldn’t have to worry about which companies can access and exploit this information in ways that may be completely unrelated to its original purpose.
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It’s been seven years since the GDPR came into force, enshrining privacy rights for EU residents and changing the global privacy landscape. Throughout its history, the GDPR has been both lauded and criticized. It has inspired privacy regulations throughout the world and changed the way international companies do business, sometimes to their chagrin.
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In this article, I suggest that it was thanks to the intersectional solidarity between women with experiences of injustices caused by the Second World War, fascism and colonialism that today we truly have a Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We can carry their legacy further by enacting this call in solidarity with each other, regardless of what separates us and in recognition of what unites us—such as living on a planet facing environmental emergency and the effects of war—as members of the human family.
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Quantum technologies—encompassing quantum computing, communications, sensing, and materials—represent a groundbreaking frontier with the potential to revolutionize industries such as healthcare, energy, finance, and communications. However, like all transformative innovations, they come with opportunities, challenges and implications for human rights.
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