2024-04-11

"Other countries including the UK cannot ignore it. As with GDPR rules, the Act includes proposed regulations that organisations will need to comply with, in order to do business with the EU"

“The UK remains an active member of the European Standardisation Organisations, and a number of senior BCS volunteers are providing leadership and technical guidance in establishing the state of the art both in Europe and on the international stage”

So there you have it - the first steps to legislate for the use of AI in Europe, and I'm sure that the UK will follow suit in due course.

(Summary article provided courtesy of the British Computer Society, which back in the day was instrumental in guiding the introduction of GDPR legislation for the protection of the

2024-03-02

Humanity is at the cross-roads - and on board a bus being driven as hard and fast as possible into a future that nobody has tested for safety - despite "our safety" being the go-to excuse of our elites to lock us down, jab us with who-knows what, feed us with who-knows what, confine us to quarters, and generally ride roughshod over all our traditional time-honoured freedoms.

Have we noticed yet?

Or are we still too busy playing ever more responsive silly games on our phones?

Do we the people have to separately investigate, conduct our own safety trials, determine any effects detrimental to the environment, document and prove the harm that any and each of these novel technological marvels may do to us and/or the environment, to the satisfaction of a legal system that takes forever, charges exorbitant fees, and may not even be fair and even-handed?

If so, then what are our

2021-10-05

From - the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: 

"The FinCEN Files show trillions in tainted dollars flow freely through major banks, swamping a broken enforcement system"

The Pandora Papers:

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2021-06-17

Hardly a day goes by without news of some technical innovation or other, but we are used to that - so much so that we scarcely take the time to register the fact, never mind stop to think about whether or not we ought to worry about it.

So it is with this one - Skynet went live on 8th June . . .

So what? No doubt it's some new satellite group to be used for some good purpose or other.

Which does not actually preclude its use for purposes which we might consider to be not so good - should we be worried?

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2020-10-27

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