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.
Despite the EU’s crude attempt to master AI regulation, the AI Act is expected to become law this November after an EPP push for greater use of real-time biometric tracking by police failed.
“If Europe was aware of Chat Control, the debate would be tremendous,” Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer asserts in this interview about mass surveillance, fundamental rights, and how to effectively combat child sexual abuse online.
The 15-minute city limits access to what was hitherto experienced as common property, not subject to legislative abrogation. In this sense, we face a second enclosure, a violation of the commons.
The news comes after Queen Máxima called for the creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), defending CBDCs as instruments of “inclusivity” at an International Monetary Fund (IMF) meeting in Washington D.C. earlier this month.
