All posts tagged "Law"
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UK peers urge tighter AI regulation for transparent and safe adoption in governmentA UK peer who has proposed new legislation to regulate the use of artificial intelligence has said that human-centred design and management needs to be placed at the heart of
- Posted May 14, 2025
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Canadian government’s battle with big tech platforms and what it means for the future of journalismCanada recently passed a law to address the continuing financial woes of its traditional news media, trust in which has steadily fallen to 42% in 2022. The Online News Act,
- Posted August 14, 2023
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India’s latest data protection bill provokes fresh privacy concernsA controversial new data protection bill, which sets out rules for use of personal data by private firms and the government, has been tabled in India. Minister of electronics and
- Posted August 8, 2023
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‘Radical incrementalism’: new APS commissioner details 10-year reform agendaPriorities for reform of the Australian Public Service (APS) will include a focus on people, behaviours and strengthening laws and institutions to ensure that the APS can sustain delivering and
- Posted July 3, 2023
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‘An iconoclastic government’: former DEXEU chief Philip Rycroft on threats to the UK and its democracyPhilip Rycroft ran both the UK’s Brexit department, and Whitehall’s relations with the devolved governments. Now the former permanent secretary is speaking out: the Johnson government, he says, is ‘challenging
- Posted October 16, 2020
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UK government legal chief quits over Brexit rowThe head of the UK government’s legal department has resigned over prime minister Boris Johnson’s attempt to override parts of the Brexit withdrawal agreement relating to Northern Ireland. Sir Jonathan
- Posted September 9, 2020
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US tech firms and universities back AI research platform lawMore than 20 major US universities and technology companies have given their support to bipartisan legislation aimed at creating a national artificial intelligence (AI) research platform, it emerged last week.
- Posted July 7, 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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Trump attacks raise concern about whistleblower protectionsUS president Donald Trump and his allies have made repeated attacks on the whistleblower whose complaint led to the impeachment inquiry, prompting intelligence agency chiefs to reaffirm their commitment to
- Posted December 3, 2019
