Category Archives: English – posts in English on this blog

Fake AI – unmasking the artificial intelligence hype

Something to read during the weekend: the Fake AI book edited by Frederike Kaltheuner. The publication on the website of the book is introduced as: From predicting criminality to sexual orientation, fake and deeply flawed Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rampant. … Lees verder

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CCBE news regarding anti-money laundering | AML, CFT

In its latest newsletter the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) warns that some of the elements of the European Anti-Money Laundering package violate fundamental rights: Adoption of a position paper on the Anti Money Laundering (AML) … Lees verder

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“Mitigating the Unintended Consequences of the FATF Standards” | AML, FATF, de-risking

Instead of fundamentally changing its concepts (as is necessary), FATF published a document regarding “Mitigating the Unintended Consequences of the FATF Standards“. In the announcement FATF informs the public that it launced in February 2021 a new project to study … Lees verder

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UBO Atlas | ubo-register, AML, CFT

Open State Foundation (OSF), a government and millionaire funded NGO that is responsible for (amongst others) the marketing of beneficial ownership registers, published the UBO Atlas, an overview of Ultimate Beneficial Ownership registers across the EU. OSF has the opinion … Lees verder

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FATCA and the challenges of EU tax administration and policy | fundamental rights in cross-border information exchange

The European Parliament think tank in October published the study ‘Exploring the opportunities and challenges of new technologies for EU tax administration and policy‘. The protection of taxpayer’s rights is discussed in paragraph 4.2, including the consequences of cross-border information … Lees verder

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Ronald Pol: “Anti-money laundering: The world’s least effective policy experiment? Together, we can fix it”

Ronald F. Pol wrote the paper “Anti-money laundering: The world’s least effective policy experiment? Together, we can fix it“, published on Taylor & Francis Online. From the abstract: It finds that the anti-money laundering policy intervention has less than 0.1 … Lees verder

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GDPR enforcement by the Irish DPC under attack

The Irish data protection supervisor, the Data Protection Commission (DPC), responsible for enforcement of GDPR rules against (amongst others) big tech, is under fire. Recently Max Schrems’ privacy organisation noyb was quarreling with DPC, read their article Irish DPC removes … Lees verder

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Vaccination and trust

Is the European Union naive about vaccination? It appears so when I read the European Commission’s communication of the 1st of December. According to the document the covid-19 vaccines are completely safe (even though a lot of medical studies are … Lees verder

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Has Big Pharma taken over WHO? | vaccination marketing

Today we are experiencing extraordinary times, not only because suddenly no one is criticizing the pharmaceutical industry anymore (any gagging taking place?). Even more amazing is that the WHO is actively promoting vaccination in the lovely video below, published in … Lees verder

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European fundamental rights pretensions and sour reality

Europe has great pretensions when it comes to fundamental rights, but unfortunately the reality is different. This can be seen in the European approach (especially Commission and Council) to the USA’s abusive practices in the area of Citizenship-Based Taxation and … Lees verder

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