Edwards was hospitalised on mental health grounds after he was named as paying a teenage drug addict for sexually explicit pics with the scandal sparking a media spat over UK privacy laws and the future of the BBC.
“Publicly available” is not the same as “free to use,” the law firm behind the class-action suit argues, seeking to temporarily halt the development of Google’s entire AI structure.
Citing concerns about U.S. intelligence agencies accessing EU citizens’ private data, the Austrian non-profit group NOYB will legally challenge the agreement in the European Court of Justice, where it saw off two previous incarnations of the transatlantic deal.
As multiple civil rights groups are sounding the alarm, Justice Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti tries to allay concerns. The emergence of a surveillance state as described in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, he said, was a “far-off” prospect.
