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The Social Democrats hosted a webinar last Wednesday to discuss the broad topic of left unity. The participants were Sinn Féin TD Éoin Ó Broin, Social Democrat TD Gary Gannon, Labour Senator Annie Hoey, People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny, and UCD Professor Emeritus Kathleen Lynch. A number of things struck me. First of all […]
According to leaked documents revealed in the Washington Post, Huawei, China’s giant telecom, has helped to develop an AI system to identify Uyghurs, its oppressed Turkic minority in the province of Xinjiang. Allegedly the facial recognition system is programmed to send “Uyghur alarms” to the police when Uyghurs are spotted by security cameras. The documents say […]
The Government is under pressure following the emergence of the Public Services Card debacle, with the data protection commissioner ruling that the state had illegally gathered, and held, data on citizens. Costs incurred in the scheme will run to about the equivalent of a large euromillions win – all for nothing. It is very likely […]
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