Archiv: (Macht)Missbrauch / abuse (of power)


04.01.2025 - 19:08 [ Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor ]

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya‘s life in danger due to torture: Immediate international intervention needed for his release

According to testimonies gathered by Euro-Med Monitor, the Israeli army subsequently transferred Dr. Abu Safiya to a field interrogation site in the Al-Fakhura area of Jabalia Refugee Camp. There, he was forced to strip off his clothes and was subjected to severe beatings, including being whipped with a thick wire commonly used for street electrical wiring. Soldiers deliberately humiliated him in front of other detainees, including fellow medical staff. He was later taken to an undisclosed location before being transferred to the Sde Teyman military camp under Israeli army control.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has also received information from recently released detainees at the Sde Teyman military camp, confirming that Dr. Abu Safiya was subjected to severe torture, leading to a significant deterioration in his health. This occurred despite him already being injured by Israeli air strikes on the hospital, where he worked tirelessly until the facility was stormed and set ablaze by Israeli forces.

04.01.2025 - 18:12 [ Communist Party of Israel ]

Israeli Govt Pressed to Reveal Location of Detained Gaza Hospital Director

In response to an official request submitted by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) Israel on behalf of his family to arrange a lawyer’s visit for him, “Mashlat” – the body responsible for coordinating with the army regarding the location of detainees and prisoners from the occupied Gaza Strip – stated that they have no indication of his arrest or detention of the Kamal Adwan Hospital director, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. Despite clear documentation of his arrest, the Israeli army officially stated on Thursday, January 3, that “it has no indication of the arrest or detention of the Kamal Adwan Hospital Director.”

01.01.2025 - 20:29 [ Caitlin Johnstone ]

Happy New Year. Our Society Is Every Bit As Diseased As You Suspect It Is.

The public is becoming more and more restless and agitated because they can sense that something’s wrong but can’t say what it is, like a dementia patient with a urinary tract infection. This agitation is erupting in ways which range from the crazy to the very lucid, from hate crimes and racist movements to mass protests against genocide and an expanding awareness that a better world is possible.

Our job at this point in history is to try to steer this growing restlessness toward health and clarity. To help people understand where the real bad guys are, to highlight the manipulations and abusive systems at play here, to assure everyone that their growing sense that something is very wrong is absolutely correct, and to help them see exactly what’s causing it.

01.01.2025 - 11:22 [ Communist Party of Israel ]

MK Cassif: Hussam Abu Safiya is the Symbol of the Gaza Genocide

According to Hadash-Ta’al MK Ofer Cassif, “We must not allow the Israeli government to kill this noble man [Abu Safiya]. His life and liberty, like those of all Palestinians, must be protected.” “In human history, every genocide has had its own martyrs and symbols. Those who faced barbaric power and humanitarian calamity with resilient, stoic virtue. Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and his unlawful abduction is the symbol of the Gaza genocide. We must not allow him to perish in captivity. I filed an official query for the Minister of Defense, like habeas corpus, demanding to know of his whereabouts. But this isn’t enough. I urge all to demand his immediate release from Israeli captivity.”

MK Ahmed Tibi (Hadash-Ta’al) called in the Knesset plenum on Monday, December 30, for the release of the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital. Tibi stated that “Dr. Abu Safiya has become an international icon in the last 24 hours. With a systematic destruction of hospitals in Gaza, and all health infrastructure, to render life impossible after the conflict – Israel is the country that has destroyed the most hospitals globally.” “This brave doctor, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, whose 15-year-old child was killed, and later had his hospital shot at and was wounded, remained with his team and patients – it’s a brave decision.” He added: “Ultimately, he came out to the tank and was arrested. Today, he’s in the detention facility at Sde Teiman and there is an international demand to release him. Why? Because doctors are killed in Sde Teiman. Dr. Albatsh, an orthopedist, was detained, tortured, and died. I called on the Defense Minister to release him today.”

According to Hadash-Ta’al MK Aida Touma-Sliman, “Dozens of Palestinians who were held at some point by the Israeli Army are nowhere to be found. The fact is extremely concerning given that according to Bt’selem, more than 60 Palestinians have died while imprisoned by Israel since the beginning of the war – some with clear indications of violence and torture. Like the darkest regimes, Israel is creating, under the cover of war, a parallel world of torture and violence where people are being disappeared.”

30.11.2024 - 05:05 [ Caitlin Johnstone ]

If You Want To Help The World, Focus On Fighting The Empire

(November 23, 2024)

We live in a civilization built of lies and abuse, powered by lies and abuse, and defended using lies and abuse. Even the most kindhearted and well-intentioned among us struggle to bring about positive change, because the very fabric of our society is stacked against truth and kindness.

14.10.2024 - 08:56 [ New York Times ]

How Israel’s Army Uses Palestinians as Human Shields in Gaza

An investigation by The New York Times found that Israeli soldiers and intelligence agents, throughout the war in Gaza, have regularly forced captured Palestinians like Mr. Shubeir to conduct life-threatening reconnaissance missions to avoid putting Israeli soldiers at risk on the battlefield.

01.10.2024 - 15:40 [ Netzpolitik.org ]

Bundesverfassungsgericht: BKA-Gesetz erneut in Teilen verfassungswidrig

(heute)

Das Gesetz zur Neustrukturierung des Bundeskriminalamtgesetzes stammt noch von der schwarz-schwarz-roten Vorgängerregierung. Der vorher existierende Informationsverbund aller Polizeibehörden änderte sich dadurch von Grund auf: Die gesamte Informationsordnung des Bundeskriminalamts (BKA) wurde neu strukturiert, mit sehr weitreichenden neuen Speicherungen in der Verbunddatenbank INPOL, auf die neben der Bundespolizei und der Zollverwaltung alle Polizeibehörden für alle erdenklichen Auswertungszwecke zugreifen können. Eine massive und anwachsende Bevorratung der personenbezogenen Daten zum Zweck der Terrorismusabwehr war die Folge.

01.10.2024 - 15:26 [ Tagesschau.de ]

BKA soll heimlich Wohnungen durchsuchen dürfen

(August 14, 2024)

Der Entwurf zur Reform des BKA-Gesetzes, der dem ARD-Hauptstadtstudio vorliegt, umfasst „die Befugnis zum verdeckten Betreten von Wohnungen als Begleitmaßnahme für die Online-Durchsuchung und Quellen-Telekommunikationsüberwachung“, also das Anbringen von Spähsoftware auf Desktops oder Smartphones, sowie die Befugnis „zur verdeckten Durchsuchung von Wohnungen“.

Der stellvertretende Vorsitzende der Grünen-Bundestagsfraktion, Konstantin von Notz, sprach gegenüber den RND-Zeitungen von „ernsten Zeiten“. Das BKA brauche „moderne Ermittlungsbefugnisse und -mittel“.

01.09.2024 - 01:39 [ Caitlin Johnstone ]

Washington’s Israel Policy Is Just Feigning Ignorance Of Israeli Depravity

A war zone is a collapse in law and order where might makes right and whoever has the guns makes the rules. People who normally wouldn’t risk imprisonment for acting out their fantasies of torture and murder have the opportunity during wartime to become one of the people with the guns who make the rules. They have a helpless population at their fingertips to whom they can do anything they like.

War is the worst thing in the world. It’s the most insane thing humans do. So, so much of the trauma and dysfunction of our species are the lingering reverberations from wars which ended decades ago, passed down from generation to generation by soldiers returning home and by civilians who’ve been subjected to unfathomable abuse by those who found themselves free to do anything they want to them.

31.08.2024 - 19:15 [ Caitlin Johnstone ]

Do Something Every Day To Help De-Normalize The Abuses Of The Empire

One very important task we can undertake as citizens of the western empire is to help de-normalize the tyranny, murderousness and savagery that the imperial propagandists work to normalize.

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Denormalize poverty.

Denormalize injustice and inequality.

Denormalize the ruined buildings and ruined bodies in Gaza.

Denormalize the nuclear brinkmanship with Russia.

Denormalize the destruction of our biosphere in the ravages of ecocidal capitalism.

Denormalize the surging authoritarianism we’re experiencing as the empire works frantically to stomp out dissent.

Denormalize the war machinery rolling out around the world, and the increasingly militarized police forces in our streets.

Denormalize the psychopathy of the politicians and government officials who cheerfully serve the empire in facilitation of these horrors.

Denormalize the way media and government institutions controlled by the powerful work to manipulate the way we think and perceive every day of our fucking lives for the benefit of the powerful.

28.08.2024 - 19:33 [ Netzpolitik.org ]

BKA-Gesetz: Wenn Polizisten zu Einbrechern mutieren

Obwohl die Polizei eine ganze Reihe an Trojaner-Produkten besitzt, kann sie nicht alle Geräte erfolgreich aus der Ferne infizieren.

Deshalb will die Bundesinnenministerin jetzt nachschärfen. Damit die Smartphones und Tablets von Verdächtigen mit der staatlichen Spähsoftware infiziert werden können, sollen Polizisten künftig in die Wohnungen der Verdächtigen einbrechen dürfen. Das zumindest sieht die Änderung des BKA-Gesetzes vor, die netzpolitik.org Mitte August veröffentlicht hat. Die Klempner lassen grüßen.

Mit Verve schoss Bundesjustizminister Marco Buschmann (FDP) dagegen. Mit dieser Maßnahme werde es das BKA-Gesetz nicht bis ins Bundeskabinett schaffen, kündigte er an.

Der Liberale hatte seine Rechnung ohne den Messerangriff von Solingen und ohne den Bundespräsidenten gemacht. Denn Frank-Walter Steinmeier mischte sich unmittelbar nach der grausamen Bluttat ins politische Tagesgeschäft ein und brachte die Änderung des BKA-Gesetzes erneut ins Spiel.

28.08.2024 - 13:15 [ Netzpolitik.org ]

Chatkontrolle: „Ein Massenüberwachungsapparat von orwellschem Ausmaß“

(18.06.2024)

Unabhängig von der technischen Umsetzung der Chatkontrolle, hält Threema die mit der Chatkontrolle einhergehende Massenüberwachung für nicht mit der Demokratie vereinbar. Zudem sei sie unwirksam und untergrabe die Datensicherheit.

Der Messenger warnt auch davor, dass es später keinen Weg gäbe um zu überprüfen, ob die Chatkontrolle wirklich nur bei CSAM (Missbrauchsmaterial) Anwendung finde: „Ist der Massenüberwachungsapparat erst einmal implementiert, kann er leicht für das Erkennen anderer Inhalte als CSAM erweitert werden, ohne dass dies jemand merkt“, so Threema. Aus Sicht eines Dienstbetreibers sei der Erkennungsmechanismus, der von Dritten entwickelt und unterhalten würde, nichts anderes als eine Blackbox.

Sollte die EU-Verordnung zur Chatkontrolle in einer Form durchkommen, die verschlüsselte Kommunikation untergräbt, möchte Threema zuerst alle Optionen wie rechtliche Schritte und technische Workarounds prüfen. Sollte es keinen anderen Weg geben „werden wir andere Kommunikationsdienste aufrufen, die EU mit uns zu verlassen.“

Auch Signal-Messenger gegen Chatkontrolle

Am Montag hatte auch Meredith Whittaker, die Chefin des Signal-Messengers, den belgischen „Kompromissvorschlag“ kritisiert. Mit dem Begriff „Upload Moderation“ hätte die belgische Ratspräsidentschaft der Technologie des Client-Side-Scannings nur einen neuen Namen verpasst, das Scannen bleibe aber das gleiche. Es sei letztlich egal, ob man das Untergraben von Verschlüsselung nun Hintertür, Vordertür oder „Upload Moderation“ nenne, der Effekt bleibe gleich, so Whittaker. Sie warnt vor einer „gefährlichen Schwachstelle in der Kerninfrastruktur“, die außerdem über Europa hinaus globale Auswirkungen hätte.

28.08.2024 - 13:03 [ Legal Tribune Online ]

Rat der EU: Abstim­mung über Chat­kon­trolle ver­tagt

(20.06.2024)

Die Verhandlungen zwischen den EU-Staaten über die umstrittene Chatkontrolle sind nun unter anderem wegen der deutschen Bedenken vorerst gescheitert. Eine Abstimmung im Rat, die am Donnerstag angesetzt war, wurde vertragt. Es habe sich abgezeichnet, dass keine ausreichende Mehrheit erreicht werden würde, hieß es am Donnerstag von der belgischen Ratspräsidentschaft. Der Vorsitz beschloss daher, den Punkt von der Tagesordnung zu nehmen.

28.08.2024 - 12:40 [ Anadolu ]

UK’s Online Safety Bill to be fully enforced next year

(20.08.2024)

The UK‘s new Online Safety Bill, which is set to take effect next year and aims to curb speculative news and online hate speech, has gained renewed attention after far-right groups used social media to incite violence.

28.03.2024 - 21:29 [ Washington Post ]

U.S. raises treatment of imprisoned Palestinian leader Barghouti with Israel

The State Department has not named Barghouti in public statements, but U.S. officials said they are aware of allegations of abuse. The department said in a statement to The Post that it has informed Israel that it must “thoroughly and transparently investigate credible allegations of and ensure accountability for any abuses or violations.”

07.03.2024 - 19:59 [ Daniel Neun / Radio Utopie ]

Taktik des Terrorkrieges: “Hate Speech” und Kontrolle

(27.01.2018)

Lüge, Betrug, Verrat, Vergewaltigung, Mord, Folter, Ausbeutung, Unterdrückung, Krieg, Genozid und deren strukturelle Manifestation durch Politik, Staat und Kapital zu hassen ist eine ganz normale menschliche Emotion. Sie kann allerdings genau dazu benutzt werden was sie bei Menschen normalerweise hervorruft.

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Des Weiteren gibt die Akzeptanz des politischen, letztlich unweigerlich repressiven Begriff “Hate Speech” (Hass-Sprache) repressiven Organen die Option einer maximal perfiden und zynischen Dialektik: mehr Lüge, mehr Betrug, mehr Verrat, mehr Vergewaltigung, mehr Mord, Folter, Ausbeutung, Unterdrückung und Krieg gegen Ausgelieferte und Hilflose anzuwenden, mit der ganz normalen menschlichen Reaktion der Betroffenen zu rechnen, diese einzukalkulieren, sogar gezielt zu provozieren und diese dann als “hateful” zu bezeichnen und noch mehr entsprechende Maßnahmen gegen diese anzuwenden, da diese ja “hateful” seien, abnormal und gefährlich.

25.02.2024 - 02:00 [ Middle East Eye ]

Sexual abuse and beatings: A Palestinian mother‘s ordeal in Israeli custody

The group of women spent 11 days in this facility, during which Hussain was taken for interrogation twice, an experience no less traumatising.

„They asked me many questions about my family, my husband and my siblings,“ Hussain recalled.

„The soldiers kept threatening to hurt my children, shouting at me that if I don‘t tell the truth, they will torture and kill my kids.

„They kept asking about my brothers and sisters. One of my brothers is a lawyer and two others are professors and one is a doctor and one barber. They are working people, they have no connection to anything else. They kept insisting that they were ‚activists‘, and when I asked what they meant, they said I knew the answer.

„During the interrogations, they tied me to a chair and a female soldier stood next to me, kicking me and shoving me with her weapon to answer properly.

„They also asked about my social media accounts and I told them I only had Facebook. They threatened they would keep watching me on it.“

After suffering in this undisclosed detention facility for 11 days, Hussain was then moved again, this time to a prison…….

25.02.2024 - 01:46 [ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights ]

Israel/oPt: UN experts appalled by reported human rights violations against Palestinian women and girls

(19.02.2024)

Palestinian women and girls have reportedly been arbitrarily executed in Gaza, often together with family members, including their children, according to information received. “We are shocked by reports of the deliberate targeting and extrajudicial killing of Palestinian women and children in places where they sought refuge, or while fleeing. Some of them were reportedly holding white pieces of cloth when they were killed by the Israeli army or affiliated forces,” the experts said.

The experts expressed serious concern about the arbitrary detention of hundreds of Palestinian women and girls, including human rights defenders, journalists and humanitarian workers, in Gaza and the West Bank since 7 October. Many have reportedly been subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment, denied menstruation pads, food and medicine, and severely beaten. On at least one occasion, Palestinian women detained in Gaza were allegedly kept in a cage in the rain and cold, without food.

“We are particularly distressed by reports that Palestinian women and girls in detention have also been subjected to multiple forms of sexual assault, such as being stripped naked and searched by male Israeli army officers. At least two female Palestinian detainees were reportedly raped while others were reportedly threatened with rape and sexual violence,” the experts said. They also noted that photos of female detainees in degrading circumstances were also reportedly taken by the Israeli army and uploaded online.

25.02.2024 - 00:20 [ Tablet Magazine ]

Gaza in the Minds of Israelis

(20.02.2024)

Since 2005, as Dotan Halevy, one of the anthology’s editors puts it in the introduction, a generation has grown up in Gaza “that knows nothing of Israel” (and in Israel, a generation that “knows nothing of Gaza”). Unfortunately, that generation of Israelis is now getting to know Gaza too well. During the Oct. 7 assault, hundreds or even thousands of the Strip’s civilians streamed into southern Israel. They plundered and, alongside the Hamas fighters, murdered and raped—while their faces shone with profound joy.

14.02.2024 - 22:56 [ CommonDreams.org ]

IDF Let Israeli Civilians Film Torture of Palestinian Detainees: Report

Israel Defense Forces officers brought Israeli civilians into detention centers and allowed them to watch and film Palestinian prisoners being tortured, according to survivor testimonies published this week by the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor.

Prisoners held at detention centers in Zikim on the northern border of the Gaza Strip and at a site in southern Israel affiliated with Naqab Prison „told Euro-Med Monitor that the Israeli soldiers had purposefully presented them before Israeli civilians, falsely claiming that they were fighters affiliated with Palestinian armed factions and that they had taken part in the October 7 attack on Israeli towns,“ the group said.

13.02.2024 - 18:21 [ Euro-Med Human Rights Monitot ]

“They brought Israeli civilians to watch our nude torture”: IDF torture of Palestinian prisoners is turned into entertainment for Israeli viewers

Palestinian Omar Abu Mudallala, 43, told the Euro-Med Monitor team: “I was arrested at the checkpoint set up near the Kuwait roundabout, which separates Gaza City from the central region, as part of the Israeli random arrest campaigns. I was subjected to all types of torture and abuse for approximately 52 days,” pointing out that Israeli soldiers “brought Israeli civilians to watch our nude torture.”

Abu Mudallala added: “The Israeli army brought a number of Israeli civilians into our detention centres while beating us and telling them, ‘These are Hamas terrorists who killed you and raped your women on 7 October,’ while the Israeli civilians were filming us being beaten, abused, and tortured while making fun of us.”

„This happened five times while I was being held. The first time was in Barkasat Zikim, where we were blindfolded. However, one of the detainees who speaks Hebrew told us that the soldiers were interacting with Israeli civilians claiming that we were armed fighters. The other four incidents took place in the Negev detention facility, where successive Israeli groups were taken inside tents to witness our abuse and record the torture methods we were subjected to without allowing us to speak or interact with them. Since we were not wearing blindfolds at the time, I saw them all four times with my own eyes.“

27.01.2024 - 06:40 [ Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي / Twitter ]

Hamas posts another hostage video showing Israeli women kidnapped on October 7 and taken hostage to Gaza. The three – Doron Steinbrecher, 30,Daniella Gilboa, 19 & Karina Ariev, 19– the latter two IDF soldiers–, apparently filmed 4 days ago.

(26.01.2024)

28.12.2023 - 13:33 [ The Grayzone / Twitter ]

What is wrong with Israelis? @MaxBlumenthal takes a searing look at the societal sickness that exploded into the open after October 7, as Israelis of all walks of life took to social media to mock the suffering of Palestinians, flaunted war crimes and clamored for genocide

25.12.2023 - 20:38 [ Palestine Captives / Twitter ]

His hands are trembling a lot while eating food after being starved for a long period.. This elderly man was released today along with several detainees through the Kerem Shalom crossing in the southern Gaza Strip

25.12.2023 - 20:29 [ Palestine Now / Twitter ]

BREAKING: TORTURED CIVILIANS WHO WERE ARRESTED BY ISRAEL AND STRIPPED NAKED ARE RELEASED “Signs of beatings and torture are visible on their bodies”

The occupation releases a number of Gaza detainees through the Kerem Shalom crossing.

Why are they allowed to torture civilians in such manner?

18.12.2023 - 16:45 [ Amnesty International ]

Israel/OPT: Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees amid spike in arbitrary arrests

Israeli authorities have dramatically increased their use of administrative detention, a form of arbitrary detention, of Palestinians across the occupied West Bank; extended emergency measures that facilitate inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoners; and failed to investigate incidents of torture and death in custody over the past four weeks, Amnesty International said today.

Since 7 October, Israeli forces have detained more than 2,200 Palestinian men and women, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club. According to Israeli human rights organization HaMoked between 1 October and 1 November, the total number of Palestinians held in administrative detention, without charge or trial, rose from 1,319 to 2,070.

12.12.2023 - 16:42 [ World Health Organization ]

WHO calls for protection of humanitarian space in Gaza following serious incidents in high-risk mission to transfer patients, deliver health supplies

On 9 December 2023, a WHO team, in collaboration with the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and with support from the United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS), completed a high-risk mission to Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City to deliver medical supplies, assess the situation in the hospital, and transfer critically-injured patients to a hospital in the south. The mission delivered trauma and surgical supplies, enough to treat 1500 patients, to the hospital, and transferred 19 critical patients with 14 companions to Nasser Medical Complex in south Gaza, where they can receive a higher level of care.

On the way north, the UN convoy was inspected at the Wadi Gaza checkpoint, and ambulance crew members had to leave the vehicles for identification. Two PRCS staff were detained for over an hour, further delaying the mission. WHO staff saw one of them being made to kneel at gunpoint and then taken out of sight, where he was reportedly harassed, beaten, stripped and searched.

10.12.2023 - 12:00 [ Muhammad Shehada / Twitter ]

Identity Confirmed: Munir Qeshta al-Masry, a small business owner of an aluminium workshop in Beit Lahia. NEVER a Hamas member!

This is depraved on many levels; forcing civilians to strip & stand almost completely naked at gun point & filming/posting this for a victory image

2\ The IDF appears to have done TWO takes of Munir’s video, forcing him to walk forward TWICE with a rifle in the air towards them as the rest of the crowd were forced to stand frightened with their arms & IDs up, fearing to be sprayed with bullets had they made one wrong move!

10.12.2023 - 11:50 [ Ramy Abdu| رامي عبد / Twitter ]

Israeli propaganda fail, take 100 The Israeli colonial forces are sharing a video where the so-called Hamas fighters are handing over their guns. After the civilians being stripped naked of course, but still with their guns in their hands!

Meanwhile, an Israeli soldier is yelling at them in Arabic: “Khabibi, grab the gun I gave you, but don’t shoot it, we don’t want trouble and march slowly carrying it and put it on the other side on the ground”.

The man forced to carry the gun is Moin Qeshta Al-Masry, owner of an aluminum workshop, who fled to Al-Khalifa school in Beit Lahya, from where he was kidnapped with the others.

28.11.2023 - 06:34 [ Sulaiman Ahmed / Twitter ]

BREAKING: RELEASED CHILD HOSTAGE AHMED BASHAR RETURNS HOME AND SPEAKS ABOUT ABUSE BY ISRAELIS

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The youth‘s hope is in the resistance. If it wasn‘t for the resistance, no one would have hope. Our hope is only in the resistance. Our trust in the resistance is high.

28.11.2023 - 06:19 [ Sulaiman Ahmed / Twitter ]

BREAKING: CHILD HOSTAGE MUHAMMAD NAZZAL SPEAKS OUT ABOUT ISRAELI ABUSE

“Elderlies died and they were stomped and beaten.

They broke my arm and finger last week.

They beat me again today.

They did not provide any medical treatment.

The Red Cross only today treated my arm.”

#ElonGoToGaza

16.11.2023 - 21:44 [ United Nations ]

Gaza: Lack of fuel threatening to shut down ‘entire’ humanitarian operation

In a wide-ranging briefing to journalists in Geneva, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini reiterated calls for a ceasefire and addressed misinformation targeting the agency, including claims that aid is being diverted.

He said he has also received reports of UN schools being used “for military purposes”.

During the briefing, Mr. Lazzarini said he had received reports that Gaza was under a communications blackout due to the lack of fuel.

He repeated his earlier warning that UNRWA is running out of fuel, thus putting lifesaving support to 2.2 million in Gaza at risk. Everything from aid delivery, to water supply, to even accessing cash from ATM machines will be impacted. (…)

While the agency received a “tiny shipment” of fuel – half a truck – on Wednesday, he said “it was delivered with conditionalities”. The fuel can only be used for trucks collecting goods arriving at the Rafah crossing with Egypt, meaning that water desalination plants, sewage pumping systems or bakeries will go without.

“As from yesterday 70 per cent of the population just in the south has no access anymore to clean water, and as of today, we have raw sewage starting to flow in the streets,” he said.

16.11.2023 - 21:29 [ UNRWA, @UN Agency for Palestine Refugees / Twitter ]

LIVE : I received REPORTS that several @UNRWA schools (in the north) have been used for military purposes, including REPORTS of a recent discovery of weapons in schools (in the north) AND the positioning of Israeli Forces tanks in at least two @UN schools (in the north of Gaza).

12.11.2023 - 03:26 [ Physicians for Human Rights Israel ]

The Letter that Outraged Us: The Physicians‘ Letter Calling for the Destruction of Shifa Hospital in Gaza

(06.11.2023)

Dozens of Israeli physicians signed a letter urging the military to destroy the “hornet nests and the hospitals shielding them” in the Gaza Strip. The letter indicates that its authors consider the civilians in these hospitals to be legitimate targets – as if they can choose to leave; as if there’s a safe way out and another hospital able to take them in.

Following their appeal, we drafted the response letter below, undersigned by physicians and health professionals working in hospitals and in the community: (…)

No person with a conscience can remain indifferent to the massacre of civilians, including men, women, and children, carried out on October 7, 2023, by Hamas militants – the scale of which has yet to be fully revealed. However, our deep outrage must not be transformed into a carte blanche for killing civilians in the Gaza Strip, where residents are also counting the wounded and dead – certainly not when physicians are the ones demanding this. Fortunately, the letter’s signatories represent only a small minority of the health community, while the vast majority remains busy saving lives – no matter whose lives it may be.

03.10.2023 - 11:55 [ Netzpolitik.org ]

Europol will Chatkontrolle-Daten unbegrenzt sammeln

(29.09.2023)

Europol wünscht sich ungefilterten Zugang zu Daten der Chatkontrolle, um KI-Algorithmen zu trainieren. Das geht aus internen Dokumenten hervor, die wir veröffentlichen. Zwei ehemalige Beamte der EU-Polizei wechselten zur US-Organisation Thorn, die massiv für das geplante Gesetz lobbyiert.

03.10.2023 - 11:00 [ World Economic Forum / Weltwirtschaftsforum ]

World Economic Forum Launches Coalition to Tackle Harmful Online Content

(29 Jun 2021)

· Leaders in Australia, the UK, Indonesia, Ukraine, Bangladesh, Singapore and other public and private sector members have come together to collaborate and share best practices to reduce the spread of child sexual exploitation and abuse online, violent extremist and terrorist content, and health misinformation

03.10.2023 - 10:30 [ Elander & the News / Twitter ]

OFCOM – UK broadcasting regulator, gained extensive new powers of censorship and news control, under the Online Safety Bill, which it wrote in conjunction with the unelected WEF! The CEO of Ofcom is also a member of the WEF Global coalition for digital safety. Just saying

(29.09.2023)

26.09.2023 - 10:15 [ Glenn Greenwald / threadreaderapp.com ]

Not only is corporate media like @AP predictably running hit pieces on Rumble for its crime of not obeying censorship orders of the neoliberal establishment, but British media outlets are explicitly threatening that Rumble will be banned from the UK under its repressive new law:

26.09.2023 - 08:47 [ Daniel Neun / Radio Utopie ]

May, Macron und Merkel: Kriegskoalition gegen das World Wide Web

(14.Juni 2017)

Die entsprechenden Pläne von Terror-Theresa, lange vor ihrer Wahlniederlage entworfen, lasen wir bereits vor. Schlüssel dabei ist die praktisch und naturgemäß von allen Regierungen angestrebte Infiltration, Untermininierung und damit das faktische Verbot für 3,7 Milliarden Menschen im Internet – zum überwältigenden Anteil im öffentlich zugänglichen World Wide Web – ihre Telekommunikation, ihren Geschäftsbetrieb, ihr Privatleben, ihre Interaktionen im World Wide Web zu verschlüsseln. (…)

Für meine PappenheimerInnen von Genösschen – wie ich bereits mehrfach bemerkt habe: die dümmsten, miesesten und verlogensten der Welt – gilt diesbezüglich, wie immer: Kopf einziehen und versuchen nicht aufzufallen.

Helfen wird der Nomenklatura, ob international oder in diesem Saftladen von Republik, nichts von alledem. Sie ist fällig.

Und ihre Ehrenlogen vorneweg.

26.09.2023 - 08:31 [ Netzpolitik.org ]

Recherchen decken Netzwerk der Chatkontrolle-Lobby auf

Auch Sicherheitsbehörden seien an der Chatkontrolle interessiert, heißt es in der Recherche. Ein Thema sei dabei die Ausweitung der Chatkontrolle auf andere Kriminalitätsbereiche. Ein internes Dokument zeige, dass Vertreter von Europol dies bei einem Treffen im Juli 2022 anfragten:

„Es gibt andere Kriminalitätsbereiche“, die von der KI-gestützten Erkennung profitieren würden, wird Europol in dem Protokoll zitiert. Das geplante EU-Zentrum könnte doch auch für andere Zwecke genutzt werden als allein für die Suche nach Missbrauchsbildern.

21.09.2023 - 09:55 [ Reuters ]

UK urges Meta not to roll out end-to-end encryption on Messenger and Instagram

A Meta spokesperson said: „The overwhelming majority of Brits already rely on apps that use encryption to keep them safe from hackers, fraudsters and criminals.
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„We don‘t think people want us reading their private messages so have spent the last five years developing robust safety measures to prevent, detect and combat abuse while maintaining online security.“

21.09.2023 - 09:45 [ techcrunch.com ]

Meta targeted for fresh UK gov’t warning against E2E encryption for Messenger, Instagram

Although friction from policymakers has clearly made the “pivot to privacy” which founder Mark Zuckerberg announced all the way back in 2019, when he said the company would universally apply E2EE on its services, slow going.

Finally, though, this August, Meta announced it would enable E2EE by default for Messenger by the end of the year.

18.09.2023 - 23:35 [ Techdirt ]

Intelligence Community Feels It Might Be Time To Start Stuffing Surveillance Gear Into People’s Pants

Who among us has not considered shoving a camera into our underwear… but for the greater good… on the public’s dime?

18.09.2023 - 23:26 [ IntelligenceCommunitynews.com ]

IARPA launches SMART ePANTS

(August 23, 2023)

The Smart Electrically Powered and Networked Textile Systems (SMART ePANTS) program represents the largest single investment to develop Active Smart Textiles (AST) that feel, move, and function like any garment. Resulting innovations stand to provide the Intelligence Community (IC), Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and other agencies with durable, ready-to-wear clothing that can record audio, video, and geolocation data.

18.09.2023 - 23:21 [ clickondetroit.com ]

Kids Online Safety Act reviewed by Congress

(August 29, 2023)

The bill is working its way through Congress, and it’s important we understand what it does and doesn’t do.

18.09.2023 - 23:15 [ Techdirt.com ]

Influencers Starting To Realize How The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) Will Do Real Damage

(Jul 25th 2023)

„40 Senators have sponsored a bill to make sure you have to upload your driver’s license before you can use your First Amendment on the internet. That’s what they want. That’s what this bill is.

This bill is designed to make sure that they have your home address before you can actually post about ANYTHING on the internet.“

18.09.2023 - 19:17 [ Wired.co.uk ]

The UK’s Secretive Web Surveillance Program Is Ramping Up

(15.05.2023)

WIRED contacted nine of the UK’s internet service providers and telecom companies asking about their abilities to create and store people’s internet connection records. Eight did not respond to the request for comment. TalkTalk, the only one that did, said it will “meet its obligations” under UK law but couldn’t “confirm or deny” whether ICRs existed.

18.09.2023 - 18:41 [ NewStatesman.com ]

Cameron’s internet filter goes far beyond porn – and that was always the plan

(23 December 2013)

Through secretive negotiations with ISPs, the coalition has divided the internet into ‚acceptable‘ and ‚unacceptable‘ categories and cut people off from huge swathes of it at the stroke of a key.

18.09.2023 - 18:32 [ Techcrunch.com ]

UK Advisor Involved In Britain’s Internet Filter Arrested For Child Porn

(Mar 4, 2014)

Britain has come under fire for its Internet filtering program, which can inadvertently block sensitive culture topics that overlap with common porn terms. The program accidentally “led to the creation of filters that not only cover hardcore pornography, but hate speech, self-harm, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, dating, nudity, violence, gambling, social networking, file-sharing, games and more,” explained Wired UK.

Despite the embarrassing arrest, there is no announced plan to revise the Internet filtering program.

04.09.2023 - 20:00 [ Freiheitsrechte.org ]

Chat control: incompatible with fundamental rights

Authorities can impose so-called „detection orders“ against providers of interpersonal communications services. This means that authorities can, for example, oblige messenger services to monitor the communications of all their users. It is sufficient that the authority has identified a significant risk that the service in question is being used for the dissemination of depictions of sexual violence against children. Detection orders do not have to be limited to monitoring the communications of specific users who are under suspicion. Instead, authorities can order that the content of all communications of all users of the service be monitored preventively.

04.09.2023 - 19:40 [ Chatcontrol.dk ]

Chat Control: Your private messages will be scanned

Whan can be done against this proposed law? It is important that more people know about it. Share the link to this page! Chat with others about it and talk with your representatives in the European Parliament about it (or write a nice e-mail to them).

23.08.2023 - 18:24 [ Times of Israel ]

Shin Bet said to join probe into quadruple murder in Abu Snan

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, whose ministry oversees the police, published a post on his Facebook account on Wednesday morning calling Arab armed gangs “terrorist organizations” with “huge budgets and hundreds of thousands of weapons at their disposal, including millions of bullets, explosive charges, and grenade launchers.”

Ben Gvir warned that such “militias” will soon direct their attacks against the State of Israel, and called once again for the establishment of a national guard to prevent local crime.

10.08.2023 - 14:20 [ Communist Party of Israel ]

Knesset Okays ‘Sexual Terrorism’ Racist Law

(03.08.2023)

Sponsored by a group of lawmakers led by MK Limor Son Har Melech, from the racist coalition faction Otzma Yehudit, and MK Yulia Malinovsky from right-wing opposition party Yisrael Beytenu, the new law marked a rare case of cross-Knesset alignment and passed 39 to 7 on its final reading.

Sharp criticism of the law quickly came in from Hadash-Ta’al lawmakers and Israel’s rape crisis center umbrella organization, with both alleging the law improperly creates a ranking of the severity of such crimes. Hadash-Ta’al MK Aida Touma-Sliman, a former head of the Knesset’s Women’s Status Committee, told the Knesset: “Do not punish according to hierarchies and classifications.” “Shame on these laws,” she continued, tweeting after the law passed, “Don’t promote racism on the backs of victims!”

10.07.2023 - 12:37 [ Netzpolitik.org ]

EU-Staaten wollen Verschlüsselung doch nicht schützen

Zwölf weitere Staaten stimmen Irland zu und lehnen den Schutz von Verschlüsselung ab. Laut den Niederlanden „sollten sich Anbieter nicht hinter Verschlüsselung verstecken können“. Frankreich will Verschlüsselung nicht schwächen, aber „unbedingt“ verschlüsselte Inhalte scannen.

Auch die EU-Kommission kritisiert den vorgeschlagenen Schutz von Verschlüsselung deutlich. „Der vorgeschlagene Text würde nicht nur die Aufdeckung von [Material über sexuellen Kindesmissbrauch] verhindern, sondern auch bereits etablierte Maßnahmen wie Spamfilter unmöglich machen.“

21.06.2023 - 16:25 [ Abstimmung21.de ]

Themenwahl 2023: Anlasslose Kontrolle von Chatnachrichten verhindern

Die EU-Kommission plant eine umfassende Überwachung unserer Messenger-Kommunikation (z. B. via WhatsApp, iMessage, facebook Messenger, Telegram und andere) in ganz Europa einzuführen. Durch die Überwachung all unserer Nachrichten hofft die EU-Kommission, Missbrauchsdarstellungen von Kindern und Jugendlichen auf unseren Endgeräten zu finden, um somit gegen die Verbreitung kinderpornographischer Darstellungen vorzugehen (1).

Im Koalitionsvertrag heißt es dazu: „Allgemeine Überwachungspflichten, Maßnahmen zum Scannen privater Kommunikation und eine Identifizierungspflicht lehnen wir ab“ (2).

Entgegen dieser Vereinbarung hat die deutsche Bundesregierung Anfang April entschieden, die Massnahmen zum Scannen der privaten Kommunikation auf EU-Ebene nicht abzulehnen (3).

16.06.2023 - 15:45 [ Jabberwocking.com ]

The FBI abused its surveillance of Americans 278,000 times in 18 months

Section 702 of the FISA Act allows agencies like the NSA to eavesdrop on foreign nationals overseas. It prohibits spying on US citizens or anyone who‘s within the United States. (…)

In practice, then, NSA maintains a huge database of information about the communications of US citizens. Agencies like the FBI are allowed to query this database, but only under strict rules. The primary rule is that queries can only be done if they are related to foreign intelligence or are likely to show evidence of a crime.

15.06.2023 - 11:24 [ D64 / Nitter ]

Anne Herpertz von der @Piratenpartei zeigt, was auf dem Spiel steht: Geschäftsgeheimnisse, ärztliche Diagnosen oder sexuelle Präferenzen. Alles wird überwacht. #Chatkontrollestoppen @chatgeheimnis

10.06.2023 - 18:02 [ Truthout.org ]

Trump Will Face Espionage Act Charges in Mar-a-Lago Documents Case, Report Says

(June 8, 2023)

The Espionage Act is frequently used to target and prosecute federal whistleblowers. Many progressives have called for reforms to the law due to its use against figures like Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning, who exposed atrocities committed by the U.S. military and civil liberties violations by the U.S. government.

01.06.2023 - 15:33 [ safe.ai ]

What is AI risk?

7.Deception

We want to understand what powerful AI systems are doing and why they are doing what they are doing. One way to accomplish this is to have the systems themselves accurately report this information. This may be non-trivial however since being deceptive is useful for accomplishing a variety of goals.

Future AI systems could conceivably be deceptive not out of malice, but because deception can help agents achieve their goals. It may be more efficient to gain human approval through deception than to earn human approval legitimately. Deception also provides optionality: systems that have the capacity to be deceptive have strategic advantages over restricted, honest models. Strong AIs that can deceive humans could undermine human control. AI systems could also have incentives to bypass monitors. Historically, individuals and organizations have had incentives to bypass monitors. For example, Volkswagen programmed their engines to reduce emissions only when being monitored. This allowed them to achieve performance gains while retaining purportedly low emissions. Future AI agents could similarly switch strategies when being monitored and take steps to obscure their deception from monitors. Once deceptive AI systems are cleared by their monitors or once such systems can overpower them, these systems could take a “treacherous turn” and irreversibly bypass human control.

8.Power-Seeking Behavior

Companies and governments have strong economic incentives to create agents that can accomplish a broad set of goals. Such agents have instrumental incentives to acquire power, potentially making them harder to control (Turner et al., 2021, Carlsmith 2021).

01.06.2023 - 14:29 [ Techdirt ]

The FBI’s Constant Abuse Of Section 702 Surveillance May Finally Take This Tool Away From The NSA

That’s been the takeaway from every examination of the FBI’s access to NSA Section 702 collections. The FBI says one thing, does another, and months or years down the road, the system of checks and balances decides to call bullshit.

25.05.2023 - 19:20 [ Deutscher Anwaltverein ]

Stellungnahme des Deutschen Anwaltvereins durch den Ausschuss Gefahrenabwehrrecht zum Vorschlag für eine Verordnung des Europäischen Parlaments und des Rates zur Festlegung von Vorschriften zur Prävention und Bekämpfung des sexuellen Missbrauchs von Kindern

Das im Verordnungsvorschlag vorgesehene Instrument der Aufdeckungsanordnung läuft auf eine automatisierte, massenhafte Analyse von Kommunikations(inhalts-)daten aller Nutzer hinaus. Dies würde letztlich zu einer vollständigen Aufhebung der Vertraulichkeit der Kommunikation im digitalen Raum – etwa bei Email-, Messenger- und Chatanbietern, sozialen Medien oder Clouddiensten – führen, die mit den Grundrechtsgarantien insbesondere der Art. 7, 8 und 11 GRCh nicht zu vereinbaren ist.

(…)

Die dadurch begründete Pflicht zur massenhaften Auswertung von Kommunikationsinhalten ist mit den Freiheitsgrundrechten, insbesondere dem Recht auf Achtung des Privatlebens (Art. 7
EU-GRCh
, Art. 8 EMRK), auf Schutz personenbezogener Daten (Art. 8 EU-GRCh) sowie dem Recht auf Meinungs- und Informationsfreiheit (Art. 11 EU-GRCh, Art. 10 EMRK), unvereinbar.

(…)

Dies würde letztlich zu einer vollständigen Aufhebung der Vertraulichkeit der Kommunikation im digitalen Raum – etwa bei Email-, Messenger- und Chatanbietern, sozialen Medien oder Clouddiensten – führen, die mit den Grundrechtsgarantien insbesondere der Art. 7, 8 und 11 GRCh nicht zu vereinbaren ist.

25.05.2023 - 19:18 [ Netzpolitik.org ]

Deutscher Anwaltverein: Chatkon­trolle ist ein „massiver Eingriff in die Freiheits­rechte“

Auch die derzeit im EU-Parlament diskutierten Änderungen seien nicht geeignet, sämtliche rechtliche Bedenken auszuräumen.

„Die Chatkon­trolle bedeutet letztlich eine vollständige Aufhebung der Vertrau­lichkeit der Kommunikation im digitalen Raum“, sagt Rechts­anwalt David Albrecht, Mitglied im Ausschuss Gefahren­ab­wehrrecht des DAV, in einer Pressemitteilung. Insgesamt seien die Pläne nicht mit der Grundrech­te­charta der Europäischen Union vereinbar, so Albrecht. Ohne Änderungen würde der Europäische Gerichtshof (EuGH) die Regelungen in einigen Jahren wieder „kassieren“, warnt der Jurist.

15.05.2023 - 15:23 [ Netzpolitik.org ]

Momentaufnahme der Machtverschiebung

Werfen wir den Blick dazu noch ein paar Jahr weiter zurück. Denn nüchtern betrachtet fand der erste „iPhone-Moment“ im digitalen Sinne nicht 2007 statt, als Steve Jobs die Bühne betrat. Sondern es war ein Moment am 12. März 1989 – und dieser vollzog sich still und leise und ohne große Werbekampagne.

Es war der Tag, an dem der Entwurf zum World Wide Web erstmals veröffentlicht wurde. Der Einfluss des WWW auf unser aller Handeln bis heute ist wohl nur schwer in Zahlen zu fassen, geschweige denn in finanzielle Werte. Wie auch? Patentiert oder lizenziert wurde das WWW nie.

10.05.2023 - 05:50 [ Fox News ]

Trump to appeal verdict in E Jean Carroll civil case, says he has ‚absolutely no idea‘ who she is

Carroll, 79, alleged that Trump raped her at the Bergdorf Goodman department store across the street from Trump Tower in Manhattan sometime in 1996. According to Carroll, the two had a chance run-in at the store, where Trump was shopping for a gift for „a girl.“ She said he asked for her advice, and the two shopped together before he pushed her into a dressing room and assaulted her. Trump and his legal team insist that Carroll‘s allegations are fabricated, with the former president‘s initial reaction including an accusation that Carroll was motivated by wanting to sell copies of her book.

10.05.2023 - 05:42 [ theHill.com ]

Trump found liable for sexual abuse in civil case

The jury found Trump liable for battery and defamation but did not find that he raped Carroll. The writer alleged Trump raped her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in 1996.

Carroll testified, “I’m here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, he said it didn’t happen.” She said Trump “lied and shattered my reputation, and I’m here to try and get my life back.”

05.05.2023 - 10:50 [ NYmag.com ]

Who Are the Newly Revealed Jeffrey Epstein Associates?

(04.05.2023)

A multiple-part report from The Wall Street Journal has revealed a number of additional prominent people who were associates of Jeffrey Epstein’s. Their ties to the notorious sex trafficker and longtime high-society hobnobber were not previously known, having not appeared in Epstein’s infamous black book or in the public flight logs of passengers who traveled aboard his private jet before his jailhouse death in 2019 while awaiting trial.

The new reports also deepen public understanding of the ties between Epstein and some boldfaced names who he had previously been associated with. And they underscored just how frequently Epstein met with his high-flying pals.

05.05.2023 - 10:40 [ Wall Street Journal ]

Bill Gates, Leon Black, Thomas Pritzker: ​One​ Day in the Life of Jeffrey Epstein

(May 4, 2023)

On Monday, Sept. 8, 2014, Jeffrey Epstein had a full calendar. He was scheduled to meet that day with Bill Gates, Thomas Pritzker, Leon Black and Mortimer Zuckerman, four of the richest men in the country, according to schedules and emails reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Epstein also planned meetings that day with a former top White House lawyer, a college president and a philanthropic adviser, three of the dozens of meetings the Journal reported he had with each of them.

05.05.2023 - 10:20 [ Wall Street Journal ]

Jeffrey Epstein Documents, Part 2: Dinners With Lawrence Summers and Movie Screenings With Woody Allen

(May 3, 2023)

Jeffrey Epstein, far right, and some of the people he scheduled meetings with, clockwise from top left: Woody Allen, Ehud Barak, Terje Rød-Larsen, Eva Andersson-Dubin, Lawrence Summers, Leon Black, Bill Gates and Reid Hoffman.

05.05.2023 - 10:05 [ Washington Examiner ]

White House won’t talk about CIA Director Burns meeting with Jeffrey Epstein

(02.05.2023)

CIA spokeswoman Tammy Kupperman Thorp provided the Washington Examiner with a statement that did not mention Epstein by name.

“Director Burns recalls being introduced by a mutual friend in Washington, DC, and then met with him once briefly in New York City, about a decade ago as the Director was preparing to leave government service,” the CIA spokeswoman said. “The Director did not know anything about him, other than he was introduced as an expert in the financial services sector and offered general advice on transition to the private sector. The Director does not recall any further contact, including receiving a ride to the airport. They had no relationship.”

04.05.2023 - 21:48 [ Fox News ]

White House declines to comment on CIA director‘s multiple meetings with Jeffrey Epstein

(May 2, 2023)

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about the issue during a Tuesday briefing. The 2014 meetings saw Burns, who then severed as deputy secretary of state, meet Epstein twice: First in Washington and then again at Epstein‘s home in Manhattan.

Reporters pressed Jean-Pierre about the issue in the briefing room on Tuesday.

„Does President Biden have any reaction to CIA director William Burns meeting with Jeffrey Epstein in 2014? This, obviously, was after Epstein had served time for a sex crime and was a registered sex offender,“ a reporter asked.

„I‘m just not going to comment on that from here,“ Jean-Pierre replied brusquely.

04.05.2023 - 18:44 [ Unlimited Hangout ]

Unraveling the Epstein-Chomsky Relationship

Chomsky, who has previously discussed the Epstein case in interviews and who has maintained that Epstein’s ties to intelligence agencies should be considered a “conspiracy theory,” had not previously disclosed these meetings. Chomsky, when confronted by Journal reporters, was evasive, but ultimately admitted to meeting and knowing Jeffrey Epstein.

Many, largely on the left, have expressed dismay and confusion as to why someone with the political views of Chomsky would willingly meet, not once but several times, with someone like Jeffrey Epstein, particularly well after Epstein’s notoriety as a sex trafficker and pedophile. As this report will show, Epstein appeared to view Chomsky as another intellectual who could help guide his decisions when it came to his scientific obsessions – namely, transhumanism and eugenics. What Chomsky gained in return from meeting with Epstein isn’t as clear.

04.05.2023 - 18:18 [ Blick.ch ]

Neue Papiere enthüllen prominente Kontakte des verurteilten Sexualstraftäters: So nah stand Epstein (†66) einer Schweizer Privatbank

Laut neu entdeckten Dokumenten des verstorbenen Finanziers und Pädophilen Jeffrey Epstein (†66) hat dieser gute Beziehungen mit der in Genf ansässigen Privatbank Edmond de Rothschild Group gepflegt. Dies geht aus Recherchen des «Wall Street Journals» hervor, das offenbar im Besitz von Epsteins privatem Kalender ist.

Nachdem Epstein 2019 wegen angeblichen Sexhandels mit minderjährigen Mädchen verhaftet worden war, versicherte die Bank noch, dass man Epstein nie getroffen habe und keine geschäftlichen Beziehungen zu ihm unterhalte. Jetzt teilte die Bank dem «Wall Street Journal» mit, dass diese früheren Aussagen nicht korrekt waren.

04.05.2023 - 17:40 [ Zero Hedge ]

Epstein‘s Private Calendar Emerges: Among Prominent Names Listed Are Biden‘s CIA Chief, Goldman Top Lawyer

(01.05.2023)

One month after meeting with Epstein, in October 2014, Burns stepped down from this role at the State Department to serve as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a think tank. He ran it until he was nominated by Biden to serve as CIA director in early 2021.

04.05.2023 - 17:26 [ Wall Street Journal ]

Epstein’s Private Calendar Reveals Prominent Names, Including CIA Chief, Goldman’s Top Lawyer

The nation’s spy chief, a longtime college president and top women in finance. The circle of people who associated with Jeffrey Epstein years after he was a convicted sex offender is wider than previously reported, according to a trove of documents that include his schedules.

04.05.2023 - 17:17 [ DailyMail.co.uk ]

Epstein‘s VERY tangled web: Pedophile met with current CIA Director William Burns, Obama White House lawyer, Noam Chomsky and music director for the American Symphony Orchestra in the years AFTER his sex offence conviction

(30.04.2023)

Jeffrey Epstein‘s newly-released private calendar revealed he had scheduled meetings with a slew of prominent individuals, including the current CIA director, after he was convicted as a sex offender.

The documents contain emails and scheduled meetings with now-CIA Director William Burns, Bard College president Leon Botstein, Obama‘s White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler and professor Noam Chomsky.

The meetings were scheduled between 2013 to 2017 after the pedophile had served time in jail in 2008 for sex crimes involving a teenage girl.

29.04.2023 - 07:44 [ LondonWorld.com ]

Wikipedia may no longer be available in UK because of online safety bill

Lucy Crompton-Reid, the chief executive of Wikimedia UK, said it was “definitely possible that one of the most visited websites in the world – and a vital source of freely accessible knowledge and information for millions of people – won’t be accessible to UK readers (let alone UK-based contributors)”.

29.04.2023 - 07:29 [ Telegraph.co.uk ]

Wikipedia could be taken offline in the UK

Lucy Crompton-Reid, chief executive of Wikimedia UK, warned the text of the bill could compel the website to introduce age verification.

The Wikimedia Foundation, which supports the free encyclopaedia, said it would refuse to verify the age of UK readers.

Failure to properly comply with the Online Safety Bill could create a situation where the site is fined, or even blocked for UK users entirely.

28.04.2023 - 05:49 [ Netzpolitik.org ]

PEGA-Untersuchungsausschuss: Zwölf EU-Staaten kontrollieren Geheimdienste nicht

Die Regulierung und Kontrolle von Geheimdiensten ist eine nationale Angelegenheit. Deshalb unterscheidet sich die unabhängige Aufsicht zwischen den einzelnen Staaten. Nur 15 der 27 EU-Staaten haben überhaupt unabhängige Aufsichtsbehörden.

27.04.2023 - 18:49 [ CyberScoop.com ]

Return of the EARN IT Act rekindles encryption debate at critical moment for privacy-protecting apps

Additionally, the FBI and Interpol both recently spoke out against encrypted chat apps and lawmakers in the U.K. and European Union are considering laws like the EARN IT Act that could also decrease the availability of encryption.

All these developments could open the next front in the war over encryption that has flared up over the past decade, often pitting law enforcement against civil liberties groups in the U.S. and abroad.

27.04.2023 - 18:39 [ The Technocrat, MIT Technology ]

Why child safety bills are popping up all over the US

The laws also expose the lack of federal protections for everyone’s security, privacy, and freedoms online, regardless of age, says Bailey Sanchez, policy counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum, another DC-based think tank. (Current federal laws prohibit websites from collecting data on users under the age of 13.)

“Someday that 17-year-old is going to turn 18, and unless they’re in a handful of states, there is no privacy law that applies to them,” she says.

27.04.2023 - 18:25 [ CPO Magazine ]

Citing Privacy Concerns, WhatsApp, Signal Wage Media Campaign Against UK Online Safety Bill

(April 25, 2023)

WhatsApp and Signal, two of the largest privacy-focused messaging apps, have joined forces to petition against the United Kingdom’s proposed Online Safety Bill due to privacy concerns. They are accompanied in this effort by several other smaller privacy apps, such as Viber and Wire, who have signed on to an open letter directed to UK legislators.