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Amazon Employee Attempts Suicide After E-Mail Warning to CEO
Move over Foxconn, there’s a new king of Kafkaesque, oppressive-working conditions-driving-employees-to-suicide company: Amazon.com. A distressed Amazon employee jumped off the company’s Apollo building in Seattle in a bid to express frustration with the working conditions there. This was made clear in the man’s e-mail sent to thousands of his co-workers, including…
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AI Accurately Predicts Outcome of Human Rights Cases
Artificial intelligence has become more sophisticated during the last decade and able to mimic human behaviours rather well. Of course, there’s a certain level of hesitancy about the rising intelligence of machines and how it might affect humankind. It’s evidently clear though that the research in this field is groundbreaking…
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Professor Claims Computers Might Need ‘Human Rights’
In the modern age, technological advancements are occurring at a blistering pace and household items are now capable of incredible processing power. The introduction of automated production lines means computers could revolutionise the job market and even act as service units to humans in a way perceived by science-fiction many…
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Employers In The EU Can Read Your Private Messages At Work
It’s a slow day. Really slow and you’re bored, so you decide to fire up Facebook and check to see who’s messaged you. Twitter, Facebook, even your personal emails, we all have a way of communicating online. Might not be the best time to open up your personal messages at…
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Software Companies Leaving UK Because of Government’s Surveillance Plans
The company that runs the open-source blog platform called Ghost is moving out its premium service from within the UK’s bounds because of Governmental plans to weaken protection for privacy and freedom of expression. The founder of Ghost, John O’Nolan released online that the company is changing the default location…
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Harvard Human Rights Clinic Tells UN: “Ban Killer Robots”
A new 38-page report, written by a partnership of Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic, is warning the United Nations to “ban killer robots”. The report, entitled Mind the Gap: The Lack of Accountability for Killer Robots, expresses the fear that “Fully autonomous weapons, also…
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Three-Quarters of UK and US Citizens Believe Internet Access is a ‘Human Right’
A study commissioned by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) has revealed that 75% of Britons and 77% of Americans think internet access should be considered a basic human right. The study gathered opinions from 23,376 internet users across 24 countries. The UK and US figures are actually on…
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Russian Human Rights Officials Say Snowdon Deserves Political Asylum
The fallout from the PRISM scandal continues and Russian Human Rights officials are the latest political figures to have their say. The head of Russia’s top official Human Rights body, Mikhail Fedotov – pictured above, has told the press that he believes Edward Snowden deserves political asylum. “He must be…
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