Will EU rules on facial recognition put Malta’s Safe City in jeopardy?
New rules on artificial intelligence unveiled by the European Commission and set to be debated on Thursday by MEPs, clearly throw facial recognition out the window and could spell more trouble for Malta’s Safe City project
21 April 2021, 5:56pm
by David Lindsay
While the Maltese government seems to still be contemplating the exact form that its controversial Safe City surveillance programme will take, MEPs on the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) will on Thursday begin debating a European Commission proposal for new and improved artificial intelligence rules that could have a fundamental effect on the government’s surveillance aspirations.
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A mega salary given to former MFSA CEO Joe Cuschieri led the Central Bank to demand better pay for its senior staff, in what Finance Minister Clyde Caruana has euphemistically termed as a solution to an “anomaly”.
Cuschieri, who was part of former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat s inner circle, was parachuted into the newly-created CEO role at the financial regulator in 2018.
He was given a basic salary of €115,000, which made him one of the highest paid public officials.
Caruana told parliament on Monday that “anomalies” between the salaries of deputy governors at the Central Bank and chief officers at the MFSA had developed “in recent years”. The discrepancies were flagged to the Finance Ministry and Prime Minister in 2019 by the Central Bank, the minister said.
Former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat gave his blessing for then MFSA CEO Joe Cuschieri to continue drawing an additional pay packet from the regulatory authority, a parliamentary committee heard on Tuesday.
Apart from his pay as CEO, which was over €100,000, Cuschieri also requested to be paid for his role as an ex-officio member of the MFSA’s board.
In a parliamentary hearing before the public appointments committee on Tuesday, MFSA chairman John Mamo said he had sought advice from Muscat after an internal audit committee at the financial regulator flagged how Cuschieri was drawing this extra pay over and above his remuneration as CEO.