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by Pauline Canham Last month, an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm was pitted against a human pilot in simulated F-16 fighter jet dogfights. The AI pilot won, 5-0. The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) hosted the ‘AlphaDogfight’ Trials as part of the Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program, which looks at future possibilities of teaming […]
by Shrutika Pandey and Rongeet Poddar The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disruptive impact on the education sector in India, as it has around the world. The imposition of a prolonged nationwide lockdown has rendered traditional classroom learning impracticable and has led to the advent of online education as an expedient tool to prevent further […]
by Pauline Canham In focus Police violate human rights in their use of facial recognition technology Three senior judges in the UK Court of Appeal have ruled that Police in South Wales violated the right to privacy under the European Convention on Human Rights, through the unlawful use of facial recognition technology. The ruling comes […]
by Patrick Lawrance May 2020 was reportedly the joint hottest month on record and it is estimated that we now have only 6 months to prevent a post lockdown emissions rebound, which will result in a climate catastrophe. Even with aggressive mitigation tactics, there are increasing fears that we will overshoot our 1.5ºC warming target, […]
by Ritwik Prakash Srivastava Introduction In the wake of COVID-19, the Indian government came up with a contact-tracing application Aarogya Setu (application). The Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, in his address to the nation on 14 April 2020, urged the citizens to download the application to supplement the State’s struggle against the contagion. What […]
by Pauline Canham and Lauren Ng COVID-19 Update – Stories from around the world… Contact-tracing apps challenge the right to privacy Countries, like the UK, looking to introduce a track-and-trace app to tackle the spread of coronavirus, would do well to learn the lessons from already-introduced schemes. There is widespread concern about rights to privacy, […]
By Amy Dickens 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 8-15 March 2019. You can follow the HRBDT Project on twitter: @hrbdtNews.
By Amy Dickens 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 1-8 March 2019. You can follow the HRBDT Project on twitter: @hrbdtNews.
By Lorna McGregor At the beginning of 2018, the MIT Technology Review forecast that one of the ten ‘breakthrough’ technologies for the year would be ‘AI for Everybody’, underscoring the transformational potential of AI to sectors such as health. In a new report by the ESRC Human Rights, Big Data and Technology project, we argue […]
By Amy Dickens 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 23 February – 1 March 2019. You can follow the HRBDT Project on twitter: @hrbdtNews.
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