human rights

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…

8 years ago

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,…

8 years ago

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…

8 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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,…

10 years ago

David Cameron Will Allow Government to Easily Monitor Your Internet Activity if Re-Elected

UK Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to introduce powers allowing security and intelligence services to monitor internet communications if re-elected…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

11 years ago