ROGER D HARRIS and SARA FLOUNDERS challenge propaganda against the blockaded socialist island
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
Marx and Engels incorporated in their writings a critique of the way that capitalism destroys the environment but it is only in the last half century that environmental concerns have become an integral part of the fight for socialism, writes the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
The racist Republican tactic of redistricting to keep Trump and his base in power is turning the clock back to the 1950s, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
With a political crisis engulfing the Labour Party, the case for PR is back on the agenda. TONY BURKE argues trade unions must now engage on changes to our voting system
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
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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