„Latin America is moving towards a stage of integration based on respect and solidarity among its peoples,“ Arce said, adding that his administration aims to strengthen regional integration through the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).
Daily Archives: 9. August 2021
Paraguayan Teachers to Protest For Wage Increase on Tuesday
Paraguay’s Educators Federation (FEP) President Silvio Piris announced that teachers would mobilize from Tuesday to pressure lawmakers to approve bill number 6672, which establishes a wage increase of over US$60 for teachers.
Nach Putsch in Bolivien: Präsident Arce ruft Militär zu Beginn einer „neuen Ära“ auf
Die Regierung von Ecuador unter Lenín Moreno (2017–2021) soll Tränengas und Munition geliefert haben. Auch von der argentinischen Regierung unter Mauricio Macri (2015–2019) kamen laut aktuellen Ermittlungen Tränengas, Munition wie auch
Anschlag in Berlin 2016: U-Ausschuss präsentierte Bericht
Man habe „keinen einzelnen Schuldigen“ gefunden und „keine Einzelfehler“ aufgedeckt, die direkt zum Anschlag geführt hätten, sagte der Ausschussvorsitzende Stephan Lenz (CDU). Allerdings habe der Ausschuss zahlreiche Fehler vor allem der Polizei und des Verfassungsschutzes festgestellt. „Und es ist die Summe dieser Fehler und Versäumnisse, die den Anschlag möglich gemacht haben.“
Abschlussbericht zum Breitscheidplatz-Attentat: Summe von Fehlern und Versäumnissen machte Terroranschlag möglich
Zudem hätte Amri intensiver sowie auch nachts und am Wochenende observiert werden müssen. Seine abgehörten Telefonate und Chats seien nicht gründlich genug ausgewertet worden.
Nach dem Anschlag wurde die Berliner Polizei personell deutlich aufgestockt. Allein im LKA wurden nach den Angaben 587 neue Stellen eingerichtet, viele davon beim Staatsschutz, der für Linksextremismus, Rechtsextremismus und Islamismus zuständig ist.
Mexiko klagt gegen US-Waffenkonzerne
Mexikos Präsident Andrés Manuel López Obrador und Außenminister Marcelo Ebrard betonten, dass die Klage sich nicht gegen die US-Regierung, sondern ausschließlich gegen die Waffenhersteller richte. Laut Ebrard ist das Ziel, dass die elf Unternehmen Entschädigungszahlungen leisten und in den USA effektive Kontrollmechanismen etabliert werden, um den illegalen Waffenhandel zwischen beiden Ländern zu stoppen.
Holiday chaos for thousands of Britons heading to France as Macron‘s tough new vaccine passports come in – meaning tourists who haven‘t got the right app or paperwork face being BANNED from bars, cafes and attractions across the country
– Thousands planned French getaways after it came off UK‘s ‚amber plus‘ travel list
– But they are facing chaos with Emmanuel Macron‘s new Covid passport rules
– Proof of double jab has to be uploaded to French coronavirus smartphone app
– But people without smartphones could be refused entry to restaurants and bars
Mass Biometric Scanning Of Students Is COVID-19‘s Latest Dystopian Twist
(25.08.2020)
As the EFF reports, testing is now being overseen by Professor Big Brother and his many, many eyes. All of this is in place just to keep students from cheating on tests:
„Recorded patterns of keystrokes and facial recognition supposedly confirm whether the student signing up for a test is the one taking it; gaze-monitoring or eye-tracking is meant to ensure that students don’t look off-screen too long, where they might have answers written down; microphones and cameras record students’ surroundings, broadcasting them to a proctor, who must ensure that no one else is in the room.“
Mass biometric surveillance has finally come home.
Apple distributed this internal memo this morning, dismissing their critics as „the screeching voices of the minority.“ I will never stop screeching about the importance of privacy, security, or civil liberties. And neither should you.
(06.08.2021)
A week after Apple introduced an important update iOS 14.7, which despite including critical security fixes, failed to address a vulnerability in iMessage that can be misused by the adversaries to pose a threat and attack iPhones via Pegasus malware.
(02.08.2021)
Shocking how Apple still has the nerve to claim they care about user privacy, just a few weeks after the Pegasus leak revealed that a spyware took advantage of (among other things) a big vulnerability on iMessage… the same app they‘re now deploying a privacy backdoor to…
(06.08.2021)
I read the information Apple put out yesterday and I‘m concerned. I think this is the wrong approach and a setback for people‘s privacy all over the world. People have asked if we‘ll adopt this system for WhatsApp. The answer is no.
(06.08.2021)
XKEYSCORE: NSA’s Google for the World’s Private Communications
(July 1 2015)
These servers store “full-take data” at the collection sites — meaning that they captured all of the traffic collected — and, as of 2009, stored content for 3 to 5 days and metadata for 30 to 45 days. NSA documents indicate that tens of billions of records are stored in its database. “It is a fully distributed processing and query system that runs on machines around the world,” an NSA briefing on XKEYSCORE says. “At field sites, XKEYSCORE can run on multiple computers that gives it the ability to scale in both processing power and storage.”
We‘re not pursuing homomorphic encryption for @WhatsApp . I‘ve been asked this before (link below). We should be skeptical of technical claims that apps like ours could see messages in „good“ cases only. That‘s just not how technology works.
(03.08.2021)
Facebook will soon be able to scan your texts – sparking privacy panic
(06.08.2021)
Other companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are also said to be working on homomorphic encryption.
Facebook Researchers Hope to Bring Together Two Foes: Encryption and Ads
(03.08.2021)
Facebook is bulking up a team of artificial intelligence researchers, including a key hire from Microsoft, to study ways of analyzing encrypted data without decrypting it, the company confirmed. The research could allow Facebook to target ads based on encrypted messages on its WhatsApp messenger, or to encrypt the data it collects on billions of users without hurting its ad-targeting capabilities, outside experts say.
Apple‘s Plan to „Think Different“ About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life
(05.08.2021)
To say that we are disappointed by Apple’s plans is an understatement. Apple has historically been a champion of end-to-end encryption, for all of the same reasons that EFF has articulated time and time again. Apple’s compromise on end-to-end encryption may appease government agencies in the U.S. and abroad, but it is a shocking about-face for users who have relied on the company’s leadership in privacy and security.
There are two main features that the company is planning to install in every Apple device. One is a scanning feature that will scan all photos as they get uploaded into iCloud Photos to see if they match a photo in the database of known child sexual abuse material (CSAM) maintained by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). The other feature scans all iMessage images sent or received by child accounts—that is, accounts designated as owned by a minor—for sexually explicit material, and if the child is young enough, notifies the parent when these images are sent or received. This feature can be turned on or off by parents.
Louder, for the people in the back: it’s impossible to build a client-side scanning system that can only be used for sexually explicit images sent or received by children.
(05.08.2021)
Apple’s plan to scan iPhone images raises privacy concerns
(05.08.2021)
Apple intends to install software on iPhones sold in the United States to scan for child abuse imagery, raising alarm that the move could open the door to surveillance of millions of personal devices.
Liberty Vittert, a professor of data science at Washington University in St. Louis and the features editor of the Harvard Data Science Review, says this is “a cosmic shift in big tech monitoring.”
Apple just announced a major change that has privacy advocates totally freaked out
If the thousands of security and privacy experts who’ve raised an outcry on social media over the past few days — and signed at least one letter calling for change — are correct, then Apple is about to make a staggeringly awful miscalculation. More specifically, they’re warning that a new feature set baked into the company’s software in the name of cracking down on one very specific, very horrible act (using iPhones in the service of child exploitation) will actually open the door to the very dystopian privacy nightmare that Apple’s own leaders have warned about for years.