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Speech of Prime Minister Abe: The Framework for Global Law and Accord on A.I. and Digital

Speech of Prime Minister Abe: The Framework for Global Law and Accord on A.I. and Digital

Boston, December 12, 2021 I would like to express my sincere gratitude for the invitation to speak today. I made a visit to Boston in 2015 as then Prime Minister and have good memories of visiting the Kennedy Library, Harvard University and MIT. How I wish today that...

Speech of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe: “Security in Cyberspace”

Speech of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe: “Security in Cyberspace”

To pay tribute to Prime Minister Abe, Boston Global Forum republishes his speech from the first Global Cybersecurity Day: (Excerpts of Prime Minister Abe’s speech at Boston Global Forum Conference, December 12, 2015.) “Ensuring security in cyberspace – cybersecurity –...

U.S. military challenges nations seeking to restrict navigation rights

( May 2nd, 2016) A U.S. Defense Department report says that the U.S. military conducted "freedom of navigation" operations against 13 countries last year, including several to challenge China's claims in the South and East China seas. Chinese expansion in those seas...

Is Belgium’s Interior Minister Copying Trump?

( May 2nd, 2016) Interior Minister Jan Jambon arrived for a meeting between the prime minister, a delegation of the victims of the Brussels attacks and the organizers of a march against terrorism and hate in the Brussels city center Sunday. “A significant part of the...

Google says its site is ‘partially dangerous’

( April 25th, 2016) This news is not confidence-building, especially because Google is so huge and pervasive. Using paper, old-fashioned typewriters, land-line telephones and libraries with books looks increasingly attractive…. The company says that Google.com is a...

U.S. officials’ requests for Apple user data rises

(April 25th, 2016) Apple has released figures indicating that U.S. authorities asked for user data from Apple accounts 1,015 times during the second half of 2015. The requests pertain to information on such services as iMessages, e-mails, photos and device backups....

Congressman asks U.S. probe of cellphone security gap

(April 25th, 2016) U.S. Congressman Ted Lieu called for a federal investigation of a gap in security that lets people get into others’ phones to record calls, texts and locations. The Guardian reports that security flaws within the system that brokers connections,...

NATO, Russian envoys meet for first time in 2 years

(April 25th, 2016) Ambassadors from Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization met last Wednesday for the first time in nearly two years, as continued Russian attacks on eastern Ukraine and saber-rattling in the Baltic maintained high military tensions between...