Category: Technology
Smartphone Tracking, or Contact Tracing | Context
Digital contact tracing creates location trails allowing for a supervising instance to know, in hindsight, whether two people were in proximity at the same time. Many smartphone apps only function…
Muslims on the Internet: The UK Example – The Islamic Ummah from Egroups to Electronic Pilgrimage | Context
Discussion forums were the first electronic Muslim spaces of communication. Nowadays, religious texts, counselling, interpretation and news dominate the Islamic presence on the internet, while extremist websites subsist in different…
Hate Speech Laws and Social Media Companies | Brief
The German government cabinet has passed a tougher stance against hate speech. What makes sense about the legal project, in Germany and elswhere, is to hold social media companies responsible…
Germany. Full Digital Identification of Online Users Impracticable | Context
The German Federal Council is examining whether in Germany, every user of social networks, and every online gamer, ought to be subject to identification requirements. The German federal states of…
Why Artificial Intelligence Needs Limits | Brief
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the trend of the hour. It will have tangible and perceivable effects on the economy and on society, and will be revolutionary for a number of…
How Artificial Intelligence Can Make More Of Energy
by Thorsten Koch, MA, PgDip Smartphone assistants already use artificial intelligence (AI). But AI is equally relevant in the energy sector. Through analyses and predictions, through secure and smart networks…
