'Idiots carrying flick knives': Final results of Tasmania's wanding trial
By Meg Whitfield
Searches of people since December have yielded a weapon in one in four instances, Tasmania Police say — adding that some people, upon seeing officers equipped with metal detection wands, will "produce the weapon in advance".
French far-right leader compares rally to Martin Luther King's struggle
Marine Le Pen was convicted and barred from holding public office after being found guilty of embezzling European Union funds.
"WITNESS expresses concern regarding the changes in the EU AI Act’s third draft of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (CoP). These modifications aim to lessen the burden of applying the EU AI Act on General-Purpose AI (GPAI) model providers. This directly impacts transparency, risk assessments and copyright, and undermines fundamental rights. We also believe these changes negatively impact the information environment and the ability to detect the use of AI and ensure content authenticity. They prioritise reduced implementation over obligations towards more robust rights protections.
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While one of the goals of the document is to provide a detailed framework for AI providers to ensure their models are safe, secure, and compliant with relevant regulations, we have concerns with a reduction of emphasis on some obligations now present in the latest version of the CoP, as well as a possible reduction in the scope of the systemic risks to be mitigated by GPAI providers."
https://blog.witness.org/2025/03/eu-ai-act-ensuring-rights-disclosure/
Daniel Thym says he wants to interpret #FundamentalRights more loosely (in the courts) to prevent the right-wing opposition parties from turning against the judiciary. However, he forgets that you don’t counter hostility toward the judiciary by restricting the rights of minorities, instead, that only paves the way for greater discrimination against them. The right-wing rejects the rule of law either way. #migration
Countries such as Brazil, Germany, France and others adopt what #legalexperts refer to as a proportionality-based approach to #freespeech, balancing it against other #fundamentalrights such as #humandignity, #democraticintegrity and #publicorder."
#Digital imperialism: How US #socialmedia firms are using #Americanlaw to challenge #globaltechregulation
https://theconversation.com/digital-imperialism-how-us-social-media-firms-are-using-american-law-to-challenge-global-tech-regulation-252116
https://www.europesays.com/1921783/ SC: Right to development equals right to clean environment | Latest News India #AurovilleFoundation #CleanEnvironment #Environment #FundamentalRights #SupremeCourt #SustainableDevelopment
@korporal Today, Cyndi Lauper was on Desert Island Disks. Of course, she talked about her first hit single, Girls just want to have fun. Turns out: Cyndi set up the Girls just want to have fundamental rights fund!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0028tmy (from 38")
„Sigmon chose to be executed by firing squad due to concerns about South Carolina’s lethal injection drugs. The return of such an antiquated — and to critics, barbaric — method underscores the complex nature of the American death penalty system in the modern era, where safety and availability issues with lethal injection have prompted some states to devise new methods, like nitrogen gas, or re-embrace old ones.“
#capitalPunishment #deathPenalty #udhr #fundamentalRights
I‘m inclined to think this is medieval, but honestly it may be more humane than injection. If „humane“ is even defined for #capitalPunishment, which I doubt. #deathPenalty #udhr #fundamentalRights
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/03/07/brad-sigmon-firing-squad-execution/
Akpabio’s wife slams Senator Natasha with N250bn lawsuit over alleged sexual harassment: The wife of the President of the Senate, Mrs. Unoma Godswill Akpabio, has filed multiple lawsuits against Kogi Central Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, in response to allegations of sexual harassment against her husband. Mrs. Akpabio has initiated fundamental rights and defamation suits against… https://creebhills.com/2025/03/akpabios-wife-slams-senator-natasha?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Akpabio #SenatorNatasha #SexualHarassment #DefamationLawsuit #FundamentalRights
Court adjourns Speed Darlington’s suit against IGP: A Federal High Court situated in Abuja on Monday convened, deferring the N300 million fundamental rights enforcement lawsuit initiated by the musician Darlington Achakpo, widely recognized as Speed Darlington, against the police, until March 19 for the formal acceptance of legal documents. Justice Musa Liman established the date subsequent to the… https://creebhills.com/2025/01/court-adjourns-speed-darlingtons-suit?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #SpeedDarlington #IGP #CourtCase #FundamentalRights #N300MillionLawsuit
"On 11 December 2024, the European Commission’s consultation on its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act guidelines closed. These guidelines will determine how those creating and using AI systems can interpret rules on the types of systems in scope, and which systems should be explicitly prohibited.
Since the final AI Act presents various grave loopholes when it comes to the protection of fundamental rights, particularly in the areas of policing and migration, it is important the guidelines clarify that fundamental rights are the central guiding basis to enable meaningful AI Act enforcement.
More specifically, we urge the AI Office to ensure the upcoming guidelines on AI Act prohibitions and AI system definition include the following as a necessary basis for fundamental rights-based enforcement:"
https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/upcoming-commission-guidelines-on-the-ai-act-implementation/
The EU's #AIAct experts consultation on the definition of an AI system and on prohibited AI practices closed on Dec 11. But loopholes still threaten #FundamentalRights.
The #AIActCivilSociety and the #ProtectNotSurveil coalitions demand guidelines that ban #SocialScoring, #BiometricSurveillance, and other harmful practices. We call on the AI Office to ensure the upcoming guidelines will provide a fundamental rights-based enforcement of the AI Act.
https://algorithmwatch.org/en/statement-commission-guidelines-ai-act/
Meta challenges EDPB's opinion on 'Consent or Pay' model: Meta sues EDPB over Opinion 08/2024, citing violations of EU law and fundamental rights. https://ppc.land/meta-challenges-edpbs-opinion-on-consent-or-pay-model/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Meta #EDPB #ConsentOrPay #EULaw #FundamentalRights
Here a new tool created by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights !
What are the #FundamentalRights safeguards and implications of using the EU’s #ITsystems for #migration and #policing?
Try it out: https://europa.eu/!bwy9pt
10 December: This year’s Human Rights Day is focusing on #HumanRights in our everyday lives. The #Citizens, #Equality, #Rights and #Values programme CERV promotes #RuleOfLaw #Democracy #FundamentalRights #EUFunding opportunities https://tinyurl.com/mtvkjbt7
New systematic review reveals up to 13 categories of systemic #risks from #AI: #Control #Democracy #Discrimination #Economy #Environment #FundamentalRights #Governance #HarmsToNonHumans #Information #IrreversibleChange #PowerConcentration #Security #Warfare
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5030173
"The civil rights organization European Digital Rights (EDRi) is making serious accusations against the EU Commission regarding the agreement on data sharing with the USA. Eleven years after the Snowden revelations and the associated outcry, mass surveillance is simply continuing based on the EU-US data protection framework, the umbrella organization complains. The EU now appears to have adopted an attitude of "business as usual", which suggests at least a certain tolerance of the ongoing mass collection of information on internet users by certain countries, such as the USA."
Virkkunen supports the uptake of #AI in public services and considers the #AIAct a sufficient safeguard.
She missed a crucial opportunity to acknowledge the many gaps in the #AIAct and that we need much more to protect our #FundamentalRights.
Read an analysis of the AI Act by civil society 
https://edri.org/our-work/eu-ai-act-fails-to-set-gold-standard-for-human-rights/
