Smile! You’re being filmed. CCTV has become part of everyday life – could we be going the same way with facial recognition? The EU is the only place in the world with rules on the use of AI, including in surveillance, but some countries have found loopholes. Rights campaigners warn that the tech is a serious invasion of privacy and question how effective
In the late 1970s I was a student working on my PhD thesis in linguistics at Indiana University in Bloomington, the US. There were no such things as laptops or mobile phones, and the use of personal computers was still a rare commodity. Calling Tripoli via the operator was a weekly event I engaged in so that I could hear the voice of my dear parents
Franco Debono has spent almost 30 years cross-examining witnesses in Malta’s criminal courts. Now he has turned his sights on a defendant with a 100-year alibi: Albert Einstein. Debono, one of Malta’s most prominent criminal lawyers and a former MP, has published a paper in a peer-reviewed astronomy journal titled ‘ Lacunae in the philosophical foundations
