Another election, another warning.
'Increased threat' of foreign terrorists, election influence operations in 2022: DHS
The Department of Homeland Security recently warned that the threat from foreign terrorist organizations and cyberthreat from adversaries like Russia, including election interference, will likely increase in 2022 according to an intelligence analysis obtained by ABC News.
The document, titled "Key Threats to the Homeland in 2022" and dated June 8, asserts that the greatest threat to the United States this year comes from lone wolf actors and small groups of individuals motived by a cadre of extremist beliefs like the alleged shooter in Buffalo, New York who is currently facing hate crimes charges for killing 10 African-American shoppers at a grocery store. Federal law enforcement agencies including the DHS and Justice Department have previously prioritized combatting domestic violent extremism since the start of the Biden administration.
Harder to say, “Digitals, Citizen” but easier to access.
Paving a Digital Road to Hell? A Primer on the Role of the World Bank and Global Networks in Promoting Digital ID
Digital
Welfare State and Human Rights Project
Center for Human Rights
and Global Justice
NYU School of Law June 2022
The beginning of the Executive Summary:
Governments around the world are designing or implementing digital identification systems, often with biometric components (digital ID). The spread of these systems is driven by a new development consensus which holds that digital ID can contribute to inclusive and sustainable development and is a prerequisite for the realization of human rights. But a specific model of digital ID is being promoted, which draws heavily on the Aadhaar system in India as a source of inspiration. Such digital ID systems aim to provide individuals with a ‘transactional’ or ‘economic’ identity, by establishing their uniqueness. The promise is that with such an economic identity, an individual can transact with both government and private sector actors. This will then improve access to public and private services, fuel economic growth, and contribute to the emergence of truly digital economies. Unlike traditional systems of civil registration, such as birth registration, this new model of economic identity commonly sidesteps difficult questions about the legal status of those it registers.
Many consider rapid and widescale deployment of such digital ID systems to be dangerous. Evidence is emerging from many countries around the world about actual and potential, often severe and large-scale, human rights violations linked to this model of digital ID. Such systems may exacerbate pre-existing forms of exclusion and discrimination in public and private services. The use of new technologies may lead to new forms of harm, including biometric exclusion, discrimination, and the many harms associated with surveillance capitalism.13 Meanwhile, the promised benefits of such systems have not been convincingly proven. These dangerous digital ID systems may lead to “pain without gain.”14
Indirect, not misdirected.
https://www.bespacific.com/the-future-of-corporate-criminal-liability-watching-the-esg-space/
The Future of Corporate Criminal Liability: Watching the ESG Space
Nelson, J.S. (Josephine Sandler), The Future of Corporate Criminal Liability: Watching the ESG Space (January 15, 2022). J.S. Nelson, The Future of Corporate Criminal Liability: Watching the ESG Space, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4057736 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4057736
“The future of corporate criminal liability in the U.S. and around the world may be for failure to adequately act on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. In Europe and elsewhere, courts have found a fundamental right or the equivalent to protection from climate change. That right has been exercised in court cases against governments first, and it is moving into cases against private corporations. This manuscript focuses within ESG issues on potential U.S. corporate criminal liability for inaction to prevent climate change. There has not been discussion of this topic elsewhere in the literature, and businesses need to look for these developments in the law. U.S. courts are not likely to follow the international pattern of finding a fundamental right to protection against climate change, but they are more likely to find potential corporate criminal liability for misrepresentations that corporations make to investors in the gap between what corporations say and what they do on climate change issues. The first movements in this evolution are already happening.”
Perspective.
EU Consumer Protection and Data Privacy Authorities Adopt 5 Key Principles for Fair Advertising to Children
On June 14, 2022, representatives of the EU’s Consumer Protection Cooperation (CPC) Network, together with several national data protection authorities in the EU and the secretariat of the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”), endorsed five key principles for fair advertising to children (see press release here ). These recommendations are based on relevant requirements in EU data and consumer protection laws.
Before you take the plunge… Worth your time to read.
On the Dangers of Cryptocurrencies and the Uselessness of Blockchain
Earlier this month, I and others wrote a letter to Congress, basically saying that cryptocurrencies are a complete and total disaster, and urging them to regulate the space. Nothing in that letter is out of the ordinary, and is in line with what I wrote about blockchain in 2019. n response, Matthew Green has written not really a rebuttal—but “a general response to some of the more common spurious objections…people make to public blockchain systems.”
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