Atahualpa Blanchet:“The declaration by Mercosur human rights ministers on artificial intelligence stands as a guiding light in the search for a fair balance between technological innovation and the protection of rights.”Read the full article
Christina Colclough:“Whilst the process of automation is nothing new, the extent and speed of it is. It has been estimated that over 300 million jobs worldwide will be severely affected by these systems.”Read the full article
Many fear that France’s planned use of algorithmic video surveillance (AVS) for the 2024 Paris Olympics will infringe on civil liberties and lead to widespread mass surveillance beyond the event.Read the full article
The new directive makes possible EU-wide class actions for breaches of 66 different EU directives and regulations, from legislation related to medical devices to the EU’s seminal 2018 GDPR privacy law.Read the full article
Hichilema’s government is not following the traditional ‘arrest, prosecute, convict’ anti-graft playbook. Instead, it is embracing a hybrid approach of prosecution for some offenders and a policy of ‘no jail but surrender the assets’ for [...]Read the full article
After the recent floods in Pakistan left behind unprecedented destruction, the demand for climate reparations is louder than ever.Read the full article
Ana Belén Muñoz Ruiz:Safety at work can be and already is being used as grounds for collecting and processing employees’ data, but the measures must be part of a rationale of prevention.Read the full article
Amazon controls 33 per cent of the global cloud infrastructure market. This dominance has serious implications in terms of competition, surveillance and security.Read the full article
The hotline is a vital link in a chain of solidarity that has been activated in the face of European public institutions’ neglect of their duties. The others include NGOs that provide shelter and material aid to migrants and refugees, or those carrying out maritime rescue [...]Read the full article
A report by Alzheimer Europe estimates that around 1.3 million people in Italy suffer from dementia. If ageing trends continue at their current pace, this figure could double by 2050. The country faces a major challenge in providing care for this growing number of [...]Read the full article
Every year, thousands of seafarers are abandoned by their shipowners while the world looks on with indifference. Trapped on board without wages until their ships are sold, some spend months and even years in their floating prisons.Read the full article
The billions that the most powerful corporations avoid paying in taxes are crucial for a just economic recovery in the post-pandemic era. The G20’s stance on global tax justice will be decisive in turning the tide.Read the full article
While the boom in remote work seen during the pandemic could create opportunities in countries with lower labour costs, it also threatens to reproduce the same colonial structures that have long dominated relations between rich and developing [...]Read the full article
Can the inclusion of social or environmental objectives in a company’s articles of association help to make them more virtuous? Whilst it may help promote a shift in business mindsets, it may also amount to little more than ‘fairwashing’.Read the full article
In recent years, neuroscience has demonstrated the powerful role that emotions play in our decision-making – something that brands, social media and politicians have figured out how to exploit.Read the full article
Chloé Maurel:Every year, US$88.6 billion leaves Africa in the form of illicit capital flight, according to the UN. Africa is affected more than all other continents, making it a net creditor to the rest of the world, contrary to the popular belief of an Africa aided by the countries of the [...]Read the full article
While the rejection of animal suffering remains the most deeply rooted and the most decisive conviction, anti-speciesism now also takes into account climate change caused by factory farming as well as infectious diseases of animal origin, zoonoses, of which the Covid-19 pandemic is the most [...]Read the full article
Ainu Indigenous leaders are aware that their ancestral knowledge is endangered: “We are being wiped out. In 30 years, we will all be Japanese”.Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:The EU’s current approach is not only censurable for all that it entails in terms of neglect of duty, non-compliance with international commitments and collaboration with the endless atrocities committed by mafias and governments, but also, and all the more so, for the simple reason that it does [...]Read the full article
“It’s not about whether you have ‘nothing to hide,’ it’s that you need to live in freedom and not under the eye of constant surveillance.”Read the full article
Chloé Maurel:Should scientific knowledge be treated as a ‘public good’ or does it have a market value like anything else? The UN and its agencies have long argued the former.Read the full article
Adrián Foncillas:Surveillance technology has helped to contain the spread of coronavirus, but it is essential that limits be set on how much information can be collected and for how long, to prevent governments from extending its use once the crisis is [...]Read the full article
Benjamin Hourticq:In response to the coronavirus pandemic, some large multinational corporations are putting their money and production capacities at the service of societies. But behind the scenes, they are working hard to ensure the preservation of the same economic model currently being called into question [...]Read the full article
In 2019, 35 countries cut off access to the internet, 40 per cent more than in 2018. This figure is all the more alarming as internet shutdowns are becoming increasingly specific, targeted, complex, and above all, lengthy.Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:Sanctions have long had a bad reputation for both failing to achieve results and for causing much more suffering to the vulnerable civilian populations they ostensibly aim to protect than to the political and economic leaders they [...]Read the full article
Andrés Ortega:There is a global race for 5G and the Chinese company Huawei is in pole position. 5G technology, as well as being a strategic tool for a whole host of sectors, is crucial to the new information and communication boom being driven by the Internet of Things and artificial [...]Read the full article
Renewable energy companies are repeating the same business practices for which the fossil fuel industry has been criticized – practices that are very far from being clean.Read the full article
All over the world, coastal areas are losing ground. While the latest IPCC report recommends strengthening protection systems, other strategies are emerging, such as the removal of infrastructure and housing, and are highlighting the social inequalities in the distribution of [...]Read the full article
Rashmee Roshan Lall:The point of a new travel model would be to forge the real linkages that enrich the visitor just as much as the people and the place they have visited. This has never been more important.Read the full article
Anthony Bellanger:The growing contempt towards journalists around the world has prompted the IFJ to draw up a new global charter reinforcing the ethical standards governing the profession.Read the full article
“Activists can hold financial institutions accountable for investing in human rights abuses, and those who profit from misery can be hit where it hurts – in the wallet.”Read the full article
Since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in May 2018, the legislation in EU countries has been brought into line, and penalties for the misuse of technology have been strengthened. But the widespread development of the video surveillance market has led to abuses, [...]Read the full article
Older people are living longer and better than ever. Old age is nothing like what it used to be. Yet we are still trapped in the “age-stereotype paradox”. No matter how much it changes, society continues to attach the same stereotypes as ever to old age: illness, boredom, loneliness and [...]Read the full article
In Europe, local newspapers have lost readers’ trust and support, but new media outlets are emerging with a different approach. In South America and Africa, meanwhile, new opportunities are emerging to build counterpower at local [...]Read the full article
Miguel Ángel Martínez del Arco:The social and solidarity economy is a phenomenon that is gaining traction throughout the EU and the rest of the world. Although the 2008 global crisis has played a part in its progress, its origins date back to the mid-19th [...]Read the full article
Brazil has experienced two unprecedented human and environmental disasters, in 2015 and 2019, caused by burst mining dams. Ever since, all those who live near similar dams live in fear of another disaster.Read the full article
Martine Kaluszynski:In France, after several attacks and the increase in the number of prisoners who follow radical Islam, striking prison guards are denouncing their working conditions, which they consider outdated and, above all, dangerous.Read the full article
Activists from Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, amongst others, are calling for an end to educating schoolchildren with texts that portray women as subordinate and LGBTI people as abnormal.Read the full article
Can we reduce greenhouse gases from food production and at the same time save the future global food system? And if so, how? Ever-growing meat production and consumption are coming under ever-closer scrutiny.Read the full article
Christina Colclough:“We are already seeing how autonomous systems are having a detrimental effect on workers. Especially those in non-unionised workplaces, where there are no check-and-balances in the form of organised labour, and no means to reach agreements to rectify [...]Read the full article
Beata Cnudde:We need to demand workplaces that provide encouragement, opportunity and support for employees to develop and use their skills and capacities effectively.Read the full article
“Since we voluntarily give our data to Google and Facebook, the Estonian attitude is: ‘Why shouldn’t we expect our government to use our data in a way that benefits us?’”Read the full article
Emily Kawano :Rather than making a virtue out of the pursuit of calculated self-interest, profit maximisation and competition, this economy nurtures our capacity for solidarity, cooperation, reciprocity, mutual aid, altruism, caring, sharing, compassion and [...]Read the full article
As well as being more precise, will the medicine of the future also be universal, or will this revolutionary healthcare be the reserve of a small part of the global population? What will happen to all the data on our genetic profile? Could insurers and employers use it to [...]Read the full article
Andrés Ortega:Many people in Silicon Valley do not want to participate in programs for the battlefield or promote excessive war or security technology. The movement against autonomous weapons, the so-called “killer robots”, is growing, and not only in the [...]Read the full article