HR & Tech Weekly News Circular

Each week the Human Rights, Big Data & Technology Project, based at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre, prepares an overview of related news stories from the week. This summary contains news articles from 7-14 June 2019.

You can follow the HRBDT Project on twitter: @hrbdtNews.

AIDS

Global community pledges $14 billion to step up fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria   – UN News

Algorithms and AI

Why Facebook’s AI guru isn’t scared of killer robots   – The Next Web

The biggest threat of deepfakes isn’t the deepfakes themselves  – MIT Technology Review

Passport facial recognition checks fail to work with dark skin  – BBC

Data Protection

No-deal Brexit data – should firms worry?  – BBC

Facebook encryption: Should governments be given keys to access our messages?  – BBC

Health

The fight to reverse damage caused by MS  – BBC

Social Media

Holy tech! Churches try new ways to connect  – BBC

Julia Gillard: Abuse of women online ‘disproportionate’  – BBC

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Disclaimer: The views expressed herein are the author(s) alone.