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ECHR President: Polarisation and COVID-19 threaten difficult times ahead
European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)
28 January 2021
Strasbourg
Increased polarisation and challenges to Europe’s fundamental principles, together with the global COVID-19 pandemic, are likely to create the most difficult period we have seen in many years, according to the President of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Speaking at the court’s annual...
Facial recognition: strict regulation is needed to prevent human rights violations
Council of Europe
28 January 2021
Strasbourg
The Council of Europe has called for strict rules to avoid the significant risks to privacy and data protection posed by the increasing use of facial recognition technologies. Furthermore, certain applications of facial recognition should be banned altogether to avoid discrimination. In a new set...