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France Sets EU Precedent with 2024 Olympic Surveillance Vote
March 29, 2023
The French government passes their project to experiment with large-scale, real-time camera systems to spot suspicious behavior during the 2024 Olympics, raising concerns among experts that the surveillance will become permanent and impinge human rights.
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Amnesty International: France’s Project for Olympic Surveillance Violates Right to Privacy
March 22, 2023
Amnesty International Warns that Should France's Project of mass surveillance for the 2024 Olympic Games Passes it will violate the rights to privacy and can lead to violations of the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.
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France to Regulate Social Media Influencers in the name of Protecting Consumers
March 16, 2023
The French government has taken notice of the power and market value of social media influencers whose global worth was over €15 billion in 2022, setting a plan to regulate their commercial work, placing them under the same rules as traditional media.
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Turkey’s anti-Erdogan opposition vows a reset on EU and NATO
March 15, 2023
In the upcoming elections, Turkey’s opposition, led by Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, is campaigning that should he take office, he can unfreeze European Union accession talks and will end Ankara’s veto on NATO membership for Sweden and Finland, as well as implement the European Court of Human Rights decisions calling for the release of two of Erdoğan’s best-known opponents.
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Significant Expansion of Corporate Sustainability Reporting for Companies Active in the EU
March 15, 2023
Since coming into full force in January 2023, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) has significantly expanded the existing EU regime for non-financial disclosure requirements currently governed by the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD), requiring large public and private companies with activities in the EU (including U.S. entities) to report on how their business model affects their sustainability, and on how external sustainability factors influence their activities.
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