Everbridge, a leading provider of critical event management (CEM) systems, has unveiled new CEM capabilities across the Internet of Things (IoT) for corporate, government and healthcare organisations to protect their people, assets, operations, supply chain and brand from critical events such as coronavirus (COVID-19). The IoT extension module that will also leverage the intellectual property … Read more
While the UNGA has recognised the right to a healthy environment (R2HE) as a human right (see the previous post on this by Otto Spijkers here), the Council of Europe (CoE) has gone one step further, instituting a formal procedure that could lead to the adoption of such right in a “legal binding instrument”. This … Read more
In C-203/22, Dun & Bradstreet Austria, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered an important decision on algorithmic transparency. 1. The facts of the case CK (hereinafter also referred to as the “data subject”) requested a contract extension from its telephone provider. The telecom company contacted Dun & Bradstreet (also “D&B”), a … Read more
The development would stretch along Horseshoe Bay Road to the south of the golf course clubhouse pictured at the center. Photo by Brett Kosmider Plans for a residential complex at the Alpine golf course will go to the Egg Harbor Village Board on Wednesday, April 9. The meeting starts at 8 am. Last week, the … Read more
Thucydides’ famous Melian Dialogue came to mind when reading about President Trump’s demand that Ukraine surrender control over its natural resources and accept Russian control of additional territories. As described by Thucydides in the Melian Dialogue (416 BCE), Athens demands the submission of Melos, a weaker island state, offering it a stark choice: subjugation or … Read more