Innovation can deliver patient-centric, digitally advanced, resilient and sustainable healthcare ‒ the MedTech Europe Manifesto and a new video series show what’s possible if the EU seizes this opportunity for transformation.
EU countries may soon push for human rights and tech standards focus group in ITU on 04/06/24 Some EU countries are looking to start a focus group on human rights and artificial intelligence (AI) under the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) umbrella, Bilel Jamoussi, who leads these groups at the international organisation, told Euractiv.
Sweden wants to let police use facial recognition technology on 04/06/24 Sweden's government said Monday (3 June) that it wanted to give law enforcement the ability to use real-time facial recognition technology from cameras in public places, for example to identify people suspected of certain crimes.
TikTok fails ‘disinformation test’ before EU vote, study shows on 04/06/24 Wildly popular social network TikTok approved adverts containing political disinformation ahead of European polls, a report showed Tuesday (4 June), flouting its own guidelines and raising questions about its ability to detect election falsehoods.
EU’s Stratcom struggles to counter Russian election disinformation on 04/06/24 The European Union's disinformation-busting team last month debunked a Russian-language video on YouTube that said citizens were fleeing dictatorship in EU member Poland and seeking refuge in Belarus, a close ally of Moscow.
Germany’s Christian Democratic party hit by ‘serious’ cyberattack on 02/06/24 Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the country's leading opposition party, has been hit by a major cyberattack and has taken parts of its IT-infrastructure off the grid as a precautionary measure, authorities said on Saturday (1 June).
Poland sees ‘Russian cyberattack’ behind fake military draft report on 01/06/24 The Polish government said Friday (31 May) that a false story stating that Poles would be mobilised to fight in Ukraine that appeared on the state news agency was likely a Russian cyberattack.