INTERVIEW-No secret safe in age of AI, says French digital envoy
'We might not employ or insure someone because they risk depression, or a country might use predictions about your sexual orientation against you,' Verdier said.
EU campaigns to raise data privacy rights awareness as survey shows gap
More a quarter of Europeans had not heard of any of the data privacy rights provided under GDPR, a large-scale survey found
Reverence for tradition threatens same-sex marriage in Japan
'To be honest, it's going to be tough to get this through parliament,' said Kanako Otsuji, the only openly out LGBT+ MP
After refuge in northwest Syria, a family again faces danger
Many Syrians fled to the rebel-held northwest when the army captured their home areas but are now under attack again
INTERVIEW-Madonna takes on frightening world with new album 'Madame X'
"If you're talking about the far right and the rights that are being taken away from, say the LGBTQ community or women's rights ... obviously I am traumatised and horrified"
Ecuador approves same-sex marriage as LGBT+ groups hail landmark week
The Latin American nation is the 27th country to allow same-sex marriage
INTERVIEW-'Too many' maps slow return of Indonesia's indigenous land
Indonesia's president had vowed to return 12.7 million hectares of land to indigenous people following a historic 2013 court ruling to lift state control of customary forests
Second Ebola patient dies in Uganda, two others in intensive care
Uganda has banned public gatherings in the Kasese district where the patients are being treated
Stranded Rohingyas linked to human trafficking -Thai police
Many Rohingya Muslims have boarded boats in recent months to try to reach Malaysia, part of what authorities fear could be a new wave of people smuggling by sea
Cyclone Vayu spares Indian west coast a direct hit, to skirt coast
The storm had been expected to hit the Gujarat coast, with officials urging more than 300,000 people to move out of low-lying areas