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Privacy and civil rights groups warn against rapidly growing mass-surveillance network
Fusus is designed to provide law enforcement organizations (LEO) and other public safety institutions access to accurate, relevant information via a cloud-based network of authorized video monitoring assets. The company claims the platform “enhances all public safety and investigations assets for law enforcement, first responders, and private security personnel.” The…
Sue Gray ‘lobbied against Rishi Sunak’s policies while in secret talks to join Labour’
SUE Gray actively lobbied to try to block Rishi Sunak’s policies while in secret talks to join Labour, government insiders have claimed.
The partygate inquisitor objected to the PM vetoing Scotland’s new trans law, which made it easier for over 16s to change their sex on their birth certificate.
Sue Gray actively lobbied to try to block Rishi Sunak’s policies while in secret talks to join Labour, government insiders have claimed[/caption]
Gray objected to the PM vetoing Scotland’s new trans law[/caption]
The legal change sparked a furious political row, with womens rights campaigners warning it would mean biologically male prisoners in female prisons.
And in a fresh controversy, government insiders now claim Ms Gray actively tried to kill off the plan behind the scenes in late December.
A source said she directly contacted political advisers behind the backs of ministers to lobby against the move – known as triggering Section 35.
At the time the row was a major embarrassment for Labour because their Scottish politicians had backed the Gender Recognition Act.
Ms Gray was in cloak and dagger talks with Labour to become Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff at the time.
A Government insider said: “We know the use of Section 35 embarrassed Sir Keir Starmer by highlighting Scottish Labour’s support of putting men in women’s prisons.
“Given Sue had already lined up her Labour job, was she already working for him in the heart of Government and seeking to save his blushes?”
Ms Gray’s move to work for Sir Keir is on hold while it is probed by Whitehall appointments watchdog ACOBA.
They are meeting over the next week and are expected to make their decision within the next month.
She could be barred from taking up her new job until after the next election.
Ms Gray declined to comment
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SBF Asks Court To Dismiss Most Criminal Charges Against Him
According to Ars Technica, SBF’s lawyers are essentially arguing that there’s no evidence of harm caused because fraud requires a “scheme to cause economic loss to the victim,” which prosecutors allegedly haven’t proved. Instead, SBF alleges that federal prosecutors have concocted “a hodgepodge of different intangible losses” suffered by banks and lenders — including “the right to honest services,” “the loss of control of assets,” and “the deprivation of valuable information.” […] “In the end, the Government is trying to transform allegations of dishonesty and unfair dealing into violations of the federal fraud statutes,” SBF’s lawyers wrote. “While such conduct may well be improper, it is not wire fraud.”
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Def Con convention to host thousands of white hat hackers put against generative AI
Scheduled for August 10-13 in Las Vegas, the 2023 edition of the Def Con conference will host a major event entirely devoted to attacking large language models (LLM) employed by generative AI algorithms. The popular hacking convention will host an AI Village (AIV) initiative, with the first public generative AI…