On Friday, May 1, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) formally left OPEC and the wider OPEC+ alliance, ending nearly six decades inside one of the most consequential economic groups in modern history. […]
UAE Leaving OPEC is About More Than Just Oil
UK High Court Supports Facial Recognition Roll-out, New Ruling Confirms
On 21 April, the UK High Court handed the Metropolitan Police a significant victory in the battle over live facial recognition, dismissing a legal challenge to the force’s policy and clearing the way for […]
Kazakhstan Free Speech Battle Reflects a Growing Global Pattern
A dispute over the treatment of journalists in Kazakhstan has drawn international attention this month after six press-freedom and human-rights organisations urged President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to drop criminal charges against several reporters […]
Europe Wants to Keep Children Off Social Media: What’s It Really About?
Greece has become the latest European country to propose a legal minimum age for social media, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis saying children under 15 should be barred from accessing the platforms […]
Facial Recognition Wrongly Jailed Woman for Crimes in a State She’d Never Even Visited
Angela Lipps, a 50-year-old woman from Tennessee, says she spent months in jail over fraud offences in North Dakota, a state she says she had never visited, after police used facial recognition […]
Your ID Photos Will Power UK Facial Recognition System
The UK government’s recent digital ID consultation contains a detail that should have triggered far more alarm than it did. Ministers are proposing a national identity system built around a biometric image […]
Essex Police Pause Facial Recognition, But Why Was It Rolled Out at All?
Essex Police has paused its use of live facial recognition after a Cambridge study found the system was statistically more likely to correctly identify black people than other ethnic groups, and more […]