The Gaza Tribunal is a vital step on the path to justice and accountability, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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How surveillance technology is changing our rights to privacy
Web users are frequently and unwittingly signing away their privacy rights – opening the door to mass snooping, writes JULIAN VIGO
As six out of 10 Argentines don’t vote for Milei LEONEL POBLETE CODUTTI looks at the country’s real crisis that runs far deeper than just the ballot box
ANDREW MURRAY looks back on the ignominious career of the former US vice-president, who died earlier this week
STEPHEN ARNELL wonders at the family resemblance between former prince Andrew and his great-uncle ‘Dickie’
After Zohran Mamdani’s electoral win, BHABANI SHANKAR NAYAK points to the forgotten role of US communists in New York’s radical politics
The Labour leadership’s narrow definition of ‘working people’ leads to distorted and unjust Budget calculations, where the unearned income of the super-wealthy doesn’t factor in at all, argues JON TRICKETT MP
IN May, San Francisco became the first city in the United States to ban the use of facial recognition technology to include such technology as used by government agencies, while not addressing technology which unlocks mobile devices or cameras installed by businesses or individuals.
Still, this ban is a step in the right direction and it is setting a precedent for other cities to follow as Oakland, California, and Somerville, Massachusetts are also currently under discussion about employing similar facial recognition bans.
In Britain, however, facial recognition technology has been under serious debate as was seen in a lawsuit filed by the human rights charity Liberty on behalf of the complainant, Ed Bridges, a self-described “father of two, football fan and campaigner on human rights.”
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