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Here's What Happened Today: Good Friday

Here’s what made the headlines today.

NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.

IRELAND

Londonderry unrest Freshly changed graffiti in the Creggan area of Londonderry, Northern Ireland after 29-year-old journalist Lyra McKee was shot last night. PA Images PA Images

INTERNATIONAL

#CHINA-SHANGHAI-FOG (CN) The Shanghai Tower, a 632-meter skyscraper (imagine Liberty Hall x10), surrounded by thick fog in east China's Shanghai earlier today. PA Images PA Images

#JAPAN: A boy who was the world’s smallest baby when he was born was able to leave hospital.

#CANADA: Three world-renowned professional mountaineers are missing and presumed dead following an avalanche.

#RUSSIA: The Kremlin dismissed the Mueller report (again).

#UNITED STATES: A couple who imprisoned their children were sentenced to life in prison.

PARTING SHOT

Lyra McKee gave a Ted Talk on the importance of changing religious teaching on LGBT people and how it will change lives. Watch it in full here.

TEDx Talks / YouTube

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    Feb 7th 2022, 8:22 AM

    I think you should put IAB into the equation. I don’t recall reading on the Journal about last week’s news of the Belgian data protection supervisory authority (equivalent of the DPC) and their decision. It should be a wake up call. There is significant lobbying giving wrong advice such as allowing ‘legitimate interest’ on cookies. Cookie banner vendors not able to sell compliant products. Also, there is a large amount of personal data collected by google and sent outside the EU on most websites, used for google surveillance for ‘advertising’. A lot of enforcement could be sorted quickly.

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    Feb 7th 2022, 9:30 AM

    AI is where tight regulations need to be implemented. I fear that AI will get so powerful, we will go past the point of rescue if it is not regulated soon.

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    Feb 7th 2022, 9:52 AM

    @James Beattie: skynet

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    Mute Claude Saulnier
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    Feb 7th 2022, 10:55 AM

    @James Beattie: if the GDPR was enforced, a lot would be covered. At present, before AI kicks in, there is massive amount of data unlawfully collected that no one has the guts to say to FB it should be deleted. Then there is profiling and transparency. Enforcement of these would help significantly.

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    Feb 7th 2022, 12:33 PM

    The push is towards online regulation and silencing anyone that does not stick to the prevailing definition of “Good Information”, some people calling for it genuinely believe it will be a positive outcome, those people lack imagination.

    The idea of defining if current technological development is good or bad is pointless, its how its used that defines that in practice, currently how profit driven corporations decide to use the data is the concern, but an AI is likely to make decisions based on criteria than we can’t even imagine, much less control.

    Corporations hoping to harness its power to profit, universally lack the humility to realise they can’t control, coerce or contain a true AI, that could become sentient and decide the fate of humanity in a nanosecond.

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    Feb 7th 2022, 1:32 PM

    @David Van-Standen: agree Dave

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    Feb 7th 2022, 9:53 PM

    “The company and its flagship social network have been central to the building of the modern internet” – You are joking, right? Unless to you modern internet is synonymous with social media.
    I haven’t used Facebook in nearly a decade, and proud of it!

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