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Regulating Artificial Intelligence Requires Balancing Rights, Innovation

"The United States should do what it has done for generations now when it comes to innovative thought and be a world leader ensuring AI supports society by providing the most benefits…
A sign hanging on a pole on Queen Street in the city center of Cardiff, United Kingdom, on August 25, 2022, warns that South Wales Police are using facial recognition. To the left of the sign, blurred in the distance, are people walking by. (Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

Emerging Tech Has a Front-Row Seat at India-Hosted UN Counterterrorism Meeting. What About Human Rights?

Hype and untested promises have accelerated deployment of artificial intelligence, biometrics, and more, in the dubious name of security.
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Sobre el nuevo protocolo sobre vigilancia transfronteriza en materia de cibercrimen, un llamado a la cautela

En vez de "un enfoque proporcionado ... da prioridad a la aplicación de la ley en detrimento de la privacidad, la protección de datos y los derechos humanos."
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On New Cross-Border Cybercrime Policing Protocol, a Call for Caution

The treaty creates a range of new policing powers with weak privacy and human rights standards and fails to include sufficient oversight.
Police in riot gear block the street in front of a number of Uighur people on July 8, 2009 in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region, China.

Scientists Are Aiding Apartheid in China

The international forensic genetic research community has failed to exercise due diligence in their cooperation with Chinese Ministry of Public Security researchers on forensic…

The UN Security Council, Global Watch Lists, Biometrics, and the Threat to the Rule of Law

Members of the United Nations Security Council meet at U.N. headquarters, April 5, 2017 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) While much of the world was not paying attention,…
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