Attacks against the International Criminal Court: Who cares about victims of atrocity crimes? – The attacks against the ICC are part of a wholesale U.S. assault on international legal norms and institutions since the 20 January 2025 inauguration of President Donald J. Trump. Exactly a year later, Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney made a blunt …
The attacks against the ICC are part of a wholesale U.S. assault on international legal norms and institutions since the 20 January 2025 inauguration of President Donald J. Trump. Exactly a year later, Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney made a blunt statement at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the world order has been ruptured, and that we now face a “brutal reality where geopolitics among the great powers is not subject to any constraints.” This article by Catherine Morris, attorney and founding director of Peacemakers Trust, considers what can be done to strengthen respect for human rights and to fulfill the promise of equal justice for the millions of victims of atrocity crimes around the world, who, as their last resort, seek accountability of perpetrators in the ICC.
Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Six highlights from this week: Google Is Accused of Burying $700M Settlement Emails — They’re Landing in Spam Folders; How ICE is using facial recognition in Minnesota; US Version of TikTok off to Bumpy Start; Competitors Surge; Google ties AI Search to Gmail and Photos, raising new privacy questions; and Activists Say Ring Cameras Are Being Used by ICE.
This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. Six highlights from this post: The FCA has launched a review into the implications of advanced AI on consumers, retail financial markets and regulators; The Dangerous Illusion Of Explainable AI In Modern Finance; Companies including Palantir and Deloitte have collectively reaped more than $22bn from contracts linked to Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown; Digital Economics and AI Tutorial, Spring 2026, Alfred P. Sloane Foundation; Speculative Growth and the AI; and Behavioral Economics of AI: LLM Biases and Corrections.