All posts tagged "civil liberties"

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  Italy mandates vaccine passports for all workers

  Italy’s prime minister Mario Draghi has made vaccine passports mandatory for its 1.2 million government and local authority employees and all private sector workers. It is the first EU country

  • Posted September 16, 2021
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  COVID elimination strategies saved economies as well as lives, say scientists

  Countries that focused on eliminating COVID-19 performed better on health, economic and civil liberties measures compared with those that opted to mitigate the virus, a group of leading scientists has

  • Posted April 29, 2021
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  US abandons boycott of global AI partnership

  The US has reversed its decision not to join an international alliance dedicated to the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), with key administration figures having apparently concluded that refusing

  • Posted May 31, 2020
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  New US AI principles urge light-touch approach to regulation

  The White House has proposed a set of principles that aim to prevent US government agencies from “over-regulating” private sector development of artificial intelligence (AI) and stifling innovation. It has

  • Posted January 14, 2020
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  Democracy in ‘crisis’ around the globe, says US think tank

  Political freedom declined around the world in 2017 as the United States retreated from its traditional role as a champion of democracy, according to Washington DC-based think tank Freedom House.

  • Posted January 24, 2018
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