Month: March 2018

Ethics Panel in London to consider use of facial recognition technologies

Stuart Mitchell

An independent panel that advises City Hall on the ethics of policing in the capital is to examine the use by the Metropolitan Police of facial recognition technology, and how they prioritise in the face of Government cuts to their budgets. Today the Mayor of London announced that a new Chair of the London Policing Ethics Panel, the ethical policy expert Dr Suzanne Shale, will review the Metropolitan Police’s use of facial-recognition technology as part of a wider look at digital policing. Facial recognition technology has been previously used at…

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Signia Launches “It’s Your Choice” Video Series to Show the Realities of Hearing Loss

Stuart Mitchell

Signia has announced the premier of It’s Your Choice—a new video series debuting on YouTube highlighting three individuals with hearing loss and their path to better hearing. Signia designed this project to raise awareness of hearing loss and the risks associated with waiting to address it, and show how different life can be once someone chooses to get hearing aids. The following are the three people selected for the series, who each received a free pair of Signia hearing aids: Harvey Patterson, Monrovia, California Danyell Schendel, Memphis, Tennessee Robert Seidler,…

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Aussie production industry comes together for short film celebrating gender inclusivity

Stuart Mitchell

An independent short film by a majority-female crew is turning gender stereotyping on its head, celebrating the inclusive message of #BesideNotBehind. Written,  shot, edited and released all within two weeks in time for International Women’s Day (8 March), Beside Not Behind plays on the old saying that “Behind every great man is a great woman” and promotes the message that support can, and should, go both ways. It follows three women in everyday situations where gender bias, presumption and misconception exists in sometimes the most subtle ways. Its portrayal of…

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PepsiCo and The Nature Conservancy Announce New Water Conservation Projects in Southwestern States

Stuart Mitchell

To mark World Water Day, PepsiCo and The Nature Conservancy have announced new projects to conserve and replenish water in the Southwestern United States, marking the next stage of their multi-year national collaboration. In 2016, PepsiCo announced its goal to return all the water that it consumes in manufacturing operations located in high water-risk areas to the same watershed from which it is taken, by 2025. The collaboration that the global food and beverage company has formed with The Nature Conservancy is at the heart of its strategy for achieving…

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Greenpeace Launch Mission To Minimise Meat Production And Consumption.

Stuart Mitchell

In order to shift the broken meat and dairy system, Greenpeace have one ambitious goal: the reduction of meat and dairy production and consumption by at least 50% by 2050.  If left unchecked, agriculture is projected to produce 52% of global greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades, 70% of which will come from meat and dairy. We all want to live in a world with clean water,  lush forests, and  abundant and  nutritious food. We want our children to be able to grow  up strong and thrive on a…

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