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This open access book brings together a range of contributions that
seek to explore the ethical issues arising from the overlap between
counter-terrorism, ethics, and technologies. Terrorism and our
responses pose some of the most significant ethical challenges to
states and people. At the same time, we are becoming increasingly
aware of the ethical implications of new and emerging technologies.
Whether it is the use of remote weapons like drones as part of
counter-terrorism strategies, the application of surveillance
technologies to monitor and respond to terrorist activities, or
counterintelligence agencies use of machine learning to detect
suspicious behavior and hacking computers to gain access to
encrypted data, technologies play a significant role in modern
counter-terrorism. However, each of these technologies carries with
them a range of ethical issues and challenges. How we use these
technologies and the policies that govern them have broader impact
beyond just the identification and response to terrorist
activities. As we are seeing with China, the need to respond to
domestic terrorism is one of the justifications for their rollout
of the "social credit system." Counter-terrorism technologies can
easily succumb to mission creep, where a technology's exceptional
application becomes normalized and rolled out to society more
generally. This collection is not just timely but an important
contribution to understand the ethics of counter-terrorism and
technology and has far wider implications for societies and nations
around the world.
This open access book brings together a range of contributions that
seek to explore the ethical issues arising from the overlap between
counter-terrorism, ethics, and technologies. Terrorism and our
responses pose some of the most significant ethical challenges to
states and people. At the same time, we are becoming increasingly
aware of the ethical implications of new and emerging technologies.
Whether it is the use of remote weapons like drones as part of
counter-terrorism strategies, the application of surveillance
technologies to monitor and respond to terrorist activities, or
counterintelligence agencies use of machine learning to detect
suspicious behavior and hacking computers to gain access to
encrypted data, technologies play a significant role in modern
counter-terrorism. However, each of these technologies carries with
them a range of ethical issues and challenges. How we use these
technologies and the policies that govern them have broader impact
beyond just the identification and response to terrorist
activities. As we are seeing with China, the need to respond to
domestic terrorism is one of the justifications for their rollout
of the "social credit system." Counter-terrorism technologies can
easily succumb to mission creep, where a technology's exceptional
application becomes normalized and rolled out to society more
generally. This collection is not just timely but an important
contribution to understand the ethics of counter-terrorism and
technology and has far wider implications for societies and nations
around the world.
High-growth and innovative firms are the drivers of tomorrow's jobs
and our future prosperity. Supporting these firms, including how
they can access finance, should be one of the highest policy
priorities of European governments. By seeking to provide deeper
pools of capital across the EU for firms and reducing dependence on
bank financing, the EU's proposed Capital Markets Union initiative
can make a significant contribution to this agenda. This
publication focuses on how the Capital Markets Union might lead to
tangible gains in investment and jobs growth. It is based on a
micro analysis of the challenges faced by growth and innovative
firms in six large member states. The report proposes a bottom-up
policy agenda to complement the EU's approach, focused on improving
the tax, legal and business support environment for investors and
firms.
The digitally-enabled economy is unleashing a new wave of change,
something we are only just beginning to feel and understand. The
economic evidence shows that this innovation-the development and
adoption of new products, services, processes and business
models-is vital to support rising living standards. But making the
political case for the progressive power of innovation, and the
digital economy, can be more challenging. The forces of "creative
destruction" threaten incumbent firms, jobs, and the way people
work and live, creating strong incentives to oppose change.
Confronting these hard realities is one of the defining challenges
for progressive politics in the twenty-first century. This
collection of essays aims to explore how progressives can embrace
the power and promise of innovation through ICT and the digital
economy, while developing new institutions to enable societies to
cope with the new challenges and risks that this heralds.
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