by admin | Nov 19, 2025
The prospect of having one’s personal information taken and used without consent has become an ever more urgent problem. Prior to the proliferation of computers, and later digital networks, such information could only be accessed in physical form. Now, with an...
by admin | Nov 19, 2025
Rapid progress in data technology, including AI, means more personal data than ever is being collected – whether it be DNA, facial recognition or any human identifier or activity. For individuals, that raises obvious privacy concerns. But Professor Yiu Siu-ming of the...
by admin | May 14, 2025
Live broadcasts of court proceedings have become more common around the world, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic. In China, they are also part of an effort to encourage judicial transparency.But sentiment about such broadcasts is divided. Some fear that judges...
by admin | May 2, 2025
The power of computers to ‘see’ – to recognise visual patterns – is being tapped for all sorts of purposes, from enabling autonomous vehicles, to providing fast and comprehensive analysis of medical image results, to recognising faces. But there...
by admin | Nov 15, 2024
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK government announced that it was “following the science” in implementing severe interventions. The approach sounded reasonable, but soon revealed serious limitations, particularly in regard to people’s freedoms and...
