Well it’s been a dramatic start to the year. No, I’m not talking about the England’s Cricket Team’s disappointing defeat in the 5th Test in Sydney, but about geopolitical events around the…
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A survey commissioned by the Office of the Police Chief Scientific Adviser found that 25% of respondents agreed with or were neutral about the acceptability of sexual deepfakes even when the person…
Pornography
The Scottish Government is facing growing criticism after an expert review recommended allowing abortions up to birth, including for reasons such as the baby’s sex.
Abortion
Freedom of Speech
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, said that people should not “blindly trust” everything that artificial intelligence tools tell them.
Artificial Intelligence
Scottish Parliament rejects Assisted Suicide Bill
Assisted Suicide
CARE for Scotland urges MSPs to reject assisted suicide ahead of…
Assisted Suicide
CARE for Scotland comment: Royal College of Psychiatrists switches to oppose…
Assisted Suicide
New poll shows on assisted suicide, public want safety prioritised over…
Assisted Suicide
Assisted Suicide
An amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill will allow “authorised testers” to test artificial intelligence platforms to ensure that they cannot create images of child sexual abuse.
Artificial Intelligence
A church leader has been approached by the police to warn him that Bible verses printed on his campervan “could be seen as hate speech”.
Freedom of Speech
Joining together with Restore Glasgow (an anti-human trafficking group) and Evangelical Alliance Scotland, we decided to publicly back Ash Regan MSP’s ‘Unbuyable’ Bill by calling the Church together in Glasgow to hear…
Sexual Exploitation
The number of possible victims of modern slavery referred to the Home Office has hit a record high. In the three months to September there were more than 6,400 referrals, representing a…
Modern Slavery
Public concern over trans rights in the UK has risen sharply, with a new survey revealing that 39% of Britons now believe trans rights have “gone too far” — more than double…
Transgender
Week two of the House of Lords Select Committee hearings on the Assisted Suicide Bill has drawn strong warnings from medical, legal, and disability advocates who say the legislation poses serious risks…
Assisted Suicide
The government have announced that online pornography that features strangulation, colloquially known as ‘choking’, and suffocation will be made a criminal offence.
Pornography