All posts tagged "Human Rights"
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Citizens sue EU governments over failure to deliver on climate change pledgesCitizens of European Union member states have sued their respective national governments over failure to tackle climate change in a first for the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Three
- Posted April 6, 2023
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Human rights and AI: interesting insights from Australia’s commissionThe conundrum is one that many governments face: how do you make the most of technological advances in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI) while protecting people’s rights? This applies
- Posted June 11, 2021
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EU set to ramp up activity in Indo-PacificThe EU is to step up its engagement with China, South-East Asia and an arc of neighbouring countries under its new strategy for the Indo-Pacific region, signalling a more assertive
- Posted April 19, 2021
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Emotion recognition tech fundamentally flawed, says human rights charityEmerging AI-based emotion recognition technologies are “untenable” under international human rights law, and developing, designing or sharing such tech should be banned, a recent report has argued. The study, which
- Posted February 12, 2021
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New Zealand launches government algorithm standardsNew Zealand has produced a set of standards designed to guide government use of algorithms and to improve data transparency and accountability, in what it claims is a world first.
- Posted August 5, 2020
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Council of Europe starts work on legally-binding AI treatyThe Council of Europe is working on a future legal framework to regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) across all 47 member states. The Council’s Ad hoc Committee on
- Posted July 22, 2020
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Australian ministers seek to calm data privacy fears over corona tracing appAustralia’s government services minister Stuart Robert has moved to address data privacy concerns over the plan to introduce a corona tracking app, saying on Monday that all data will remain
- Posted April 22, 2020
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Automated welfare fraud detection system contravenes international law, Dutch court rulesA Dutch court has ruled that an automated surveillance system using artificial intelligence (AI) to detect welfare fraud violates the European Convention on Human Rights, and has ordered the government
- Posted February 9, 2020
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Australia sets out proposals to protect public from dangers of emerging techAustralia’s human rights commissioner has unveiled draft proposals – including drawing up a national strategy on new and emerging technologies, reforming laws, and commissioning an independent body to oversee ethical
- Posted December 23, 2019
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Businesses to trial Australian government’s AI principlesFive companies in Australia, including some of the country’s biggest, are to trial eight artificial intelligence (AI) principles developed as part of the government’s AI Ethics Framework. Microsoft, National Australia
- Posted November 11, 2019
