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- August 21, 2024 –
- With regards to the rapid growth of the artificial intelligence market, Bloomberg alleges that technology companies are "concealing their actual carbon footprints" by invoking outdated emissions accounting rules. (Bloomberg)
- August 18, 2024 – Libyan crisis
- The Central Bank of Libya suspends all operations following the kidnapping of the head of its information technology department by an unknown party. (Reuters)
- August 2, 2024 – Mass surveillance in the United Kingdom
- Several civil rights groups denounce proposals made by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to grant British police nationalized live facial recognition technology and surveillance to charge people police consider significantly likely to participate in far-right riots, condemning the opportunism of the proposals, their potential racial and gender inaccuracy, and their possible use to target future legal protests. (The Guardian)
