Human rights abuses based on use of new technologies happen everywhere in the world. Almost all governments try to acquire more control on people by use of modern technologies (e.g. facial recognition ...

Powerful companies use their resources and products to profile and judge us, to decide what we see, what we may access, what we may do, and if and how we may participate. They interfere with our ...

The test requires you to define your body type (‘rectangle,’ ‘hourglass,’ ‘pear’ and ‘round’ for women; ‘ectomorph,’ ‘mesomorph,’ and ‘endomorph’ for men) before going on to lifestyle questions: what ...

Electronic tags have been a key part of criminal justice for many years throughout the world. As traditional radio-frequency tags are replaced by GPS ankle tags, we examine how these different ...

The European Union (EU) is the world’s largest donor of development aid, an instrumental supporter of democracies and peace around the world, and a powerful global force for reigning-in big tech and ...

Tucked away in a discrete side street in Hungary’s capital, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL) has since 2006 operated as an official EU agency responsible for developing, ...

Models can be continually re-trained through iteration from human feedback to further fine-tune inadequate behaviours and to make the model more robust, such as OpenAI being able to detect and prevent ...

An oven-ready infrastructure is already in place to enable this - government initiatives, such as the Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard Hub provide a template for public authorities to ...

2.a. How has FRT been used by UK police? Police forces across the UK have been using FRT in public spaces as far back as 2016. The Metropolitan Police (The Met) have been at the forefront of rolling ...

PI, Worker Info Exchange, and App Drivers and Couriers Union have teamed up to challenge the unprecedented surveillance that gig economy workers are facing from their employers. Key findings The ...

Two of the most concerning features that Office 365 offers are the tools for information governance and risk management called Audit and Content Search.These can be used to present a quite worryingly ...

The report on disinformation by the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression follows a growing trend by international bodies (including ...