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18-year-old shot by Hong Kong police in stable condition as students stage protest
A student who was shot by police with a live round at close range on Tuesday has stabilised following an operation, according to the Hospital Authority.
Tsang Chi-kin, an 18-year-old form 5 student, was shot in Tsuen Wan after a scuffle with an officer.
The officer rushed towards a group of protesters attacking another officer whilst pointing a pistol, but was also surrounded. Tsang used a metal rod to hit the surrounded officer, before he fired the shot.
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/10/02/18-year-old-shot-hong-kong-police-stable-condition-students-stage-protest/
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A student who was shot by police with a live round at close range on Tuesday has stabilised following an operation, according to the Hospital Authority.
Tsang Chi-kin, an 18-year-old form 5 student, was shot in Tsuen Wan after a scuffle with an officer.
The officer rushed towards a group of protesters attacking another officer whilst pointing a pistol, but was also surrounded. Tsang used a metal rod to hit the surrounded officer, before he fired the shot.
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/10/02/18-year-old-shot-hong-kong-police-stable-condition-students-stage-protest/
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RIAA Reports Telegram to US Govt. Over Piracy Concerns
The RIAA has submitted its most recent overview of "notorious markets" to the U.S. Government. As usual, the music industry group lists various torrent sites, download portals and stream-ripping sites as direct threats. This year, however, the messaging app Telegram is also highlighted as a problem.
Responding to a request from the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), the RIAA has submitted its annual list of “notorious markets.”
The submission identifies online and offline piracy hubs to help guide the U.S. Government’s position towards foreign countries when it comes to copyright enforcement.
“The online and physical markets identified in our comments are harming American creators, businesses, and the American economy,” writes George York, the RIAA’s Senior Vice President of International Policy.
Traditionally the online focus lies on classic pirate sites, such as torrent indexers, linking sites, cyberlockers, download portals, and stream-rippers. These are also listed in the latest RIAA submission. It includes many of the usual suspects, such as The Pirate Bay, Flvto, Newalbumreleases, and Uploaded.
While these mentions were expected, there’s also a new ‘issue’ highlighted by the music group – the encrypted messaging app Telegram. The software, which was launched by VKontakte founders Nikolai and Pavel Durov a few years ago, is frequently used by pirates, the RIAA notes.
The RIAA points out that messaging apps by themselves are of no special concern. However, Telegram also allows its users to share files of up to 1.5GB, a process that can be automated with scripts. This is a feature that many pirates have embraced.
“Telegram offers many user-created channels which are dedicated to the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted recordings, with some channels focused on particular genres or artists,” the RIAA notes.
Many of these files are hosted on Telegram’s servers and the RIAA says that it sent 18,000 DMCA notices to Telegram, identifying over 18,000 instances of copyright infringement.
The messaging app says that it forwards these requests to channel owners. However, according to the music group, this doesn’t have the desired effect, as many channel operators ignore the takedown requests. In addition, repeat infringers don’t appear to be punished in any way.
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The RIAA has submitted its most recent overview of "notorious markets" to the U.S. Government. As usual, the music industry group lists various torrent sites, download portals and stream-ripping sites as direct threats. This year, however, the messaging app Telegram is also highlighted as a problem.
Responding to a request from the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), the RIAA has submitted its annual list of “notorious markets.”
The submission identifies online and offline piracy hubs to help guide the U.S. Government’s position towards foreign countries when it comes to copyright enforcement.
“The online and physical markets identified in our comments are harming American creators, businesses, and the American economy,” writes George York, the RIAA’s Senior Vice President of International Policy.
Traditionally the online focus lies on classic pirate sites, such as torrent indexers, linking sites, cyberlockers, download portals, and stream-rippers. These are also listed in the latest RIAA submission. It includes many of the usual suspects, such as The Pirate Bay, Flvto, Newalbumreleases, and Uploaded.
While these mentions were expected, there’s also a new ‘issue’ highlighted by the music group – the encrypted messaging app Telegram. The software, which was launched by VKontakte founders Nikolai and Pavel Durov a few years ago, is frequently used by pirates, the RIAA notes.
The RIAA points out that messaging apps by themselves are of no special concern. However, Telegram also allows its users to share files of up to 1.5GB, a process that can be automated with scripts. This is a feature that many pirates have embraced.
“Telegram offers many user-created channels which are dedicated to the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted recordings, with some channels focused on particular genres or artists,” the RIAA notes.
Many of these files are hosted on Telegram’s servers and the RIAA says that it sent 18,000 DMCA notices to Telegram, identifying over 18,000 instances of copyright infringement.
The messaging app says that it forwards these requests to channel owners. However, according to the music group, this doesn’t have the desired effect, as many channel operators ignore the takedown requests. In addition, repeat infringers don’t appear to be punished in any way.
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DMCA Notice Confirms Trump Tweet Was Taken Down By Warner Music
Earlier today Twitter exploded when a tweet by US President Donald Trump was taken down for alleged copyright infringement. A copy of the DMCA notice obtained by TorrentFreak shows that Warner Music was behind the takedown. It became the seventh copyright complaint filed against Trump's Twitter account in 2019 alone, raising questions about Twitter's repeat infringer policy.
President of the United States Donald Trump is well-known for his love of Twitter.
He currently has well in excess of 65 million followers and regularly uses the platform to promote himself and attack his critics.
Earlier today, Twitter erupted when a tweet by the President, which contained a video attacking the integrity of political rival Joe Biden, received some serious editing thanks to Twitter.
While the words “LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH!” remained, the actual video had been removed following a copyright infringement complaint.
Trump’s tweet contained a video that has been doing the rounds featuring a photograph central to the recent Biden/Ukraine controversy. However, the photograph itself wasn’t the reason the video was taken down by Twitter.
The viral video contains a clip from Nickelback’s 2005 video ‘Photograph’, prompting speculation that the band itself was behind the takedown sent to Twitter. While they may have had a hand in it, the actual DMCA served on Twitter and obtained by TorrentFreak reveals that the notice was sent by Warner Music.
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Earlier today Twitter exploded when a tweet by US President Donald Trump was taken down for alleged copyright infringement. A copy of the DMCA notice obtained by TorrentFreak shows that Warner Music was behind the takedown. It became the seventh copyright complaint filed against Trump's Twitter account in 2019 alone, raising questions about Twitter's repeat infringer policy.
President of the United States Donald Trump is well-known for his love of Twitter.
He currently has well in excess of 65 million followers and regularly uses the platform to promote himself and attack his critics.
Earlier today, Twitter erupted when a tweet by the President, which contained a video attacking the integrity of political rival Joe Biden, received some serious editing thanks to Twitter.
While the words “LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH!” remained, the actual video had been removed following a copyright infringement complaint.
Trump’s tweet contained a video that has been doing the rounds featuring a photograph central to the recent Biden/Ukraine controversy. However, the photograph itself wasn’t the reason the video was taken down by Twitter.
The viral video contains a clip from Nickelback’s 2005 video ‘Photograph’, prompting speculation that the band itself was behind the takedown sent to Twitter. While they may have had a hand in it, the actual DMCA served on Twitter and obtained by TorrentFreak reveals that the notice was sent by Warner Music.
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https://torrentfreak.com/dmca-notice-confirms-trump-tweet-was-taken-down-by-warner-music/
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Vulnerabilities exploited in VPN products used worldwide
APTs are exploiting vulnerabilities in several VPN products used worldwide
💡 Introduction
The NCSC is investigating the exploitation, by Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors, of known vulnerabilities affecting Virtual Private Network (VPN) products from vendors Pulse secure, Palo Alto and Fortinet.
This activity is ongoing, targeting both UK and international organisations. Affected sectors include government, military, academic, business and healthcare. These vulnerabilities are well documented in open source.
Details💡
Vulnerabilities exist in several SSL VPN products which allow an attacker to retrieve arbitrary files, including those containing authentication credentials.
An attacker can use these stolen credentials to connect to the VPN and change configuration settings, or connect to further internal infrastructure.
Unauthorised connection to a VPN could also provide the attacker with the privileges needed to run secondary exploits aimed at accessing a root shell.
💡 Top vulnerabilities
The highest-impact vulnerabilities known to be exploited by APTs are listed below, although this is not an exhaustive list of CVEs associated with these products.
Sample exploit code for these vulnerabilities is publicly available online. The NCSC cautions against testing infrastructure with untrusted third-party code.
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APTs are exploiting vulnerabilities in several VPN products used worldwide
💡 Introduction
The NCSC is investigating the exploitation, by Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors, of known vulnerabilities affecting Virtual Private Network (VPN) products from vendors Pulse secure, Palo Alto and Fortinet.
This activity is ongoing, targeting both UK and international organisations. Affected sectors include government, military, academic, business and healthcare. These vulnerabilities are well documented in open source.
Details💡
Vulnerabilities exist in several SSL VPN products which allow an attacker to retrieve arbitrary files, including those containing authentication credentials.
An attacker can use these stolen credentials to connect to the VPN and change configuration settings, or connect to further internal infrastructure.
Unauthorised connection to a VPN could also provide the attacker with the privileges needed to run secondary exploits aimed at accessing a root shell.
💡 Top vulnerabilities
The highest-impact vulnerabilities known to be exploited by APTs are listed below, although this is not an exhaustive list of CVEs associated with these products.
Sample exploit code for these vulnerabilities is publicly available online. The NCSC cautions against testing infrastructure with untrusted third-party code.
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https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/alert-vpn-vulnerabilities
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France Set to Roll Out Nationwide Facial Recognition ID Program
Digital identity enrollment app to be rolled out in November
Privacy, absence of consent and security among concerns raised
France is poised to become the first European country to use facial recognition technology to give citizens a secure digital identity -- whether they want it or not.
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Digital identity enrollment app to be rolled out in November
Privacy, absence of consent and security among concerns raised
France is poised to become the first European country to use facial recognition technology to give citizens a secure digital identity -- whether they want it or not.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-03/french-liberte-tested-by-nationwide-facial-recognition-id-plan
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The Eye on the Nile
Phishing attack on government opponents in Egypt - with apps from the Play Store
Specialists reveal a sophisticated phishing attack in Egypt. Android apps that made it into the Play Store without catching the eye were involved.
Back in March 2019, Amnesty International published a report that uncovered a targeted attack against journalists and human rights activists in Egypt. The victims even received an e-mail from Google warning them that government-backed attackers attempted to steal their passwords. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2019/03/phishing-attacks-using-third-party-applications-against-egyptian-civil-society-organizations/
According to the report, the attackers did not rely on traditional phishing methods or credential-stealing payloads, but rather utilized a stealthier and more efficient way of accessing the victims’ inboxes: a technique known as “OAuth Phishing”. By abusing third-party applications for popular mailing services such as Gmail or Outlook, the attackers manipulated victims into granting them full access to their e-mails.
Recently, we were able to find previously unknown or undisclosed malicious artifacts belonging to this operation. A new website we attributed to this malicious activity revealed that the attackers are going after their prey in more than one way, and might even be hiding in plain sight: developing mobile applications to monitor their targets, and hosting them on Google’s official Play Store.
After we notified Google about the involved applications, they quickly took them off of the Play Store and banned the associated developer.
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https://research.checkpoint.com/the-eye-on-the-nile/
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Phishing attack on government opponents in Egypt - with apps from the Play Store
Specialists reveal a sophisticated phishing attack in Egypt. Android apps that made it into the Play Store without catching the eye were involved.
Back in March 2019, Amnesty International published a report that uncovered a targeted attack against journalists and human rights activists in Egypt. The victims even received an e-mail from Google warning them that government-backed attackers attempted to steal their passwords. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2019/03/phishing-attacks-using-third-party-applications-against-egyptian-civil-society-organizations/
According to the report, the attackers did not rely on traditional phishing methods or credential-stealing payloads, but rather utilized a stealthier and more efficient way of accessing the victims’ inboxes: a technique known as “OAuth Phishing”. By abusing third-party applications for popular mailing services such as Gmail or Outlook, the attackers manipulated victims into granting them full access to their e-mails.
Recently, we were able to find previously unknown or undisclosed malicious artifacts belonging to this operation. A new website we attributed to this malicious activity revealed that the attackers are going after their prey in more than one way, and might even be hiding in plain sight: developing mobile applications to monitor their targets, and hosting them on Google’s official Play Store.
After we notified Google about the involved applications, they quickly took them off of the Play Store and banned the associated developer.
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https://research.checkpoint.com/the-eye-on-the-nile/
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Legal firm claims Fortnite made to be "as addictive as possible"
A Montreal legal firm is pursuing legal action on behalf of parents, comparing the game to tobacco and cocaine.
Many parents know the problems with overlong sessions of their children, in Canada now two minors want to sue against manufacturer Epic Games. The development studio has specifically produced Fortnite in such a way that it is the most addictive game, her lawyers say.
A 10-year-old and a 15-year-old applied to a court in Montréal for a class-action lawsuit against Epic Games. Their lawyers' accusation: The US development studio Epic Games deliberately programmed Fortnite Battle Royale "to be the most addictive game", the newspaper La Presse quotes. Epic had worked with psychologists and tried to avoid any "loss of attention" in experiments with test persons.
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https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justice-et-faits-divers/201910/03/01-5243992-demande-daction-collective-fortnite-comme-la-cigarette-.php
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A Montreal legal firm is pursuing legal action on behalf of parents, comparing the game to tobacco and cocaine.
Many parents know the problems with overlong sessions of their children, in Canada now two minors want to sue against manufacturer Epic Games. The development studio has specifically produced Fortnite in such a way that it is the most addictive game, her lawyers say.
A 10-year-old and a 15-year-old applied to a court in Montréal for a class-action lawsuit against Epic Games. Their lawyers' accusation: The US development studio Epic Games deliberately programmed Fortnite Battle Royale "to be the most addictive game", the newspaper La Presse quotes. Epic had worked with psychologists and tried to avoid any "loss of attention" in experiments with test persons.
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https://www.gamereactor.eu/legal-firm-claims-fortnite-made-to-be-as-addictive-as-possible/
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https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justice-et-faits-divers/201910/03/01-5243992-demande-daction-collective-fortnite-comme-la-cigarette-.php
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3G Internet and Confidence in Government
How does the internet affect government approval? Using surveys of 840,537 individuals from 2,232 subnational regions in 116 countries in 2008-2017 from the Gallup World Poll and the global expansion of 3G networks, we show that an increase in internet access reduces government approval and increases the perception of corruption in government. This effect is present only when the internet is not censored and is stronger when traditional media is censored. Actual incidents of corruption translate into higher corruption perception only in places covered by 3G. In Europe, the expansion of mobile internet increased vote shares of anti-establishment populist parties.
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3456747
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How does the internet affect government approval? Using surveys of 840,537 individuals from 2,232 subnational regions in 116 countries in 2008-2017 from the Gallup World Poll and the global expansion of 3G networks, we show that an increase in internet access reduces government approval and increases the perception of corruption in government. This effect is present only when the internet is not censored and is stronger when traditional media is censored. Actual incidents of corruption translate into higher corruption perception only in places covered by 3G. In Europe, the expansion of mobile internet increased vote shares of anti-establishment populist parties.
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID3456747_code3025720.pdf?abstractid=3456747&mirid=1
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3456747
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Leaked drone footage purports to show Xinjiang prisoners blindfolded and tied up
Drone footage anonymously posted to YouTube appears to show hundreds of male prisoners in Xinjiang, western China, tied up and wearing blindfolds.
China has installed a 21st century police state in the region, where the US has accused Beijing of housing more than a million Uighur Muslims in "concentration camps."
https://www.businessinsider.de/china-xinjiang-prisoners-blindfolded-tied-up-leaked-drone-footage-2019-10
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Drone footage anonymously posted to YouTube appears to show hundreds of male prisoners in Xinjiang, western China, tied up and wearing blindfolds.
China has installed a 21st century police state in the region, where the US has accused Beijing of housing more than a million Uighur Muslims in "concentration camps."
https://www.businessinsider.de/china-xinjiang-prisoners-blindfolded-tied-up-leaked-drone-footage-2019-10
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FBI misused surveillance data, spied on its own, FISA ruling finds
Contractor looked up relatives; data was used to vet agents, sources in US.
In an October 2018 ruling unsealed and posted on October 8, 2019 by the Office of the Director of Intelligence, the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) found that the employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had inappropriately used data collected under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The FBI was found to have misused surveillance data to look into American residents, including other FBI employees and their family members, making large-scale queries that did not distinguish between US persons and foreign intelligence targets.
The revelation drew immediate outcry from privacy advocates and renewed calls for the termination of FISA and USA FREEDOM Act that authorized bulk intelligence collection. President Donald Trump signed a bill extending Section 702 collection authorizations for six years in 2018; the Office of the Director of National Intelligence announced earlier this year that the administration would seek the extension of authority for collection of call data granted under the USA FREEDOM Act.
In a statement emailed to Ars Technica, ACLU Senior Legislative Counsel Neema Singh Guliani, said:
"The government should not be able to spy on our calls and emails without a warrant. Any surveillance legislation considered by Congress this year must include reforms that address the disturbing abuses detailed in these opinions. Congress and the courts now have even more reason to prohibit warrantless searches of our information, and to permanently close the door on any collection of information that is not to or from a surveillance target."
https://icontherecord.tumblr.com/post/188217887058/release-of-documents-related-to-the-2018-fisa
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/unsealed-fisa-ruling-slaps-fbi-for-misuse-of-surveillance-data/
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Contractor looked up relatives; data was used to vet agents, sources in US.
In an October 2018 ruling unsealed and posted on October 8, 2019 by the Office of the Director of Intelligence, the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) found that the employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had inappropriately used data collected under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The FBI was found to have misused surveillance data to look into American residents, including other FBI employees and their family members, making large-scale queries that did not distinguish between US persons and foreign intelligence targets.
The revelation drew immediate outcry from privacy advocates and renewed calls for the termination of FISA and USA FREEDOM Act that authorized bulk intelligence collection. President Donald Trump signed a bill extending Section 702 collection authorizations for six years in 2018; the Office of the Director of National Intelligence announced earlier this year that the administration would seek the extension of authority for collection of call data granted under the USA FREEDOM Act.
In a statement emailed to Ars Technica, ACLU Senior Legislative Counsel Neema Singh Guliani, said:
"The government should not be able to spy on our calls and emails without a warrant. Any surveillance legislation considered by Congress this year must include reforms that address the disturbing abuses detailed in these opinions. Congress and the courts now have even more reason to prohibit warrantless searches of our information, and to permanently close the door on any collection of information that is not to or from a surveillance target."
https://icontherecord.tumblr.com/post/188217887058/release-of-documents-related-to-the-2018-fisa
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/unsealed-fisa-ruling-slaps-fbi-for-misuse-of-surveillance-data/
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This is how you kick facial recognition out of your town
Bans on the technology have mostly focused on law enforcement, but there’s a growing movement to get it out of school, parks, and private businesses too.
In San Francisco, a cop can’t use facial recognition technology on a person arrested. But a landlord can use it on a tenant, and a school district can use it on students.
This is where we find ourselves, smack in the middle of an era when cameras on the corner can automatically recognize passersby, whether they like it or not. The question of who should be able to use this technology, and who shouldn’t, remains largely unanswered in the US. So far, American backlash against facial recognition has been directed mainly at law enforcement. San Francisco and Oakland, as well as Somerville, Massachusetts, have all banned police from using the technology in the past year because the algorithms aren’t accurate for people of color and women. Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has even called for a moratorium on police use.
Private companies and property owners have had no such restrictions, and facial recognition is increasingly cropping up in apartment buildings, hotels, and more. Privacy advocates worry that constant surveillance will lead to discrimination and have a chilling effect on free speech—and the American public isn’t very comfortable with it either. According to a recent survey by Pew Research, people in the US actually feel better about cops using facial recognition than they do about private businesses.
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https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614477/facial-recognition-law-enforcement-surveillance-private-industry-regulation-ban-backlash/
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Bans on the technology have mostly focused on law enforcement, but there’s a growing movement to get it out of school, parks, and private businesses too.
In San Francisco, a cop can’t use facial recognition technology on a person arrested. But a landlord can use it on a tenant, and a school district can use it on students.
This is where we find ourselves, smack in the middle of an era when cameras on the corner can automatically recognize passersby, whether they like it or not. The question of who should be able to use this technology, and who shouldn’t, remains largely unanswered in the US. So far, American backlash against facial recognition has been directed mainly at law enforcement. San Francisco and Oakland, as well as Somerville, Massachusetts, have all banned police from using the technology in the past year because the algorithms aren’t accurate for people of color and women. Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has even called for a moratorium on police use.
Private companies and property owners have had no such restrictions, and facial recognition is increasingly cropping up in apartment buildings, hotels, and more. Privacy advocates worry that constant surveillance will lead to discrimination and have a chilling effect on free speech—and the American public isn’t very comfortable with it either. According to a recent survey by Pew Research, people in the US actually feel better about cops using facial recognition than they do about private businesses.
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Revealed: Google made large contributions to climate change deniers
Firm’s public calls for climate action contrast with backing for conservative thinktanks
Google has made “substantial” contributions to some of the most notorious climate deniers in Washington despite its insistence that it supports political action on the climate crisis.
Among hundreds of groups the company has listed on its website as beneficiaries of its political giving are more than a dozen organisations that have campaigned against climate legislation, questioned the need for action, or actively sought to roll back Obama-era environmental protections.
The list includes the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a conservative policy group that was instrumental in convincing the Trump administration to abandon the Paris agreement and has criticised the White House for not dismantling more environmental rules.
Google said it was disappointed by the US decision to abandon the global climate deal, but has continued to support CEI.
Google is also listed as a sponsor for an upcoming annual meeting of the State Policy Network (SPN), an umbrella organisation that supports conservative groups including the Heartland Institute, a radical anti-science group that has chided the teenage activist Greta Thunberg for “climate delusion hysterics”.
SPN members recently created a “climate pledge” website that falsely states “our natural environment is getting better” and “there is no climate crisis”.
👉🏼 The obscure law that explains why Google backs climate deniers
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/11/obscure-law-google-climate-deniers-section-230
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/11/google-contributions-climate-change-deniers
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Firm’s public calls for climate action contrast with backing for conservative thinktanks
Google has made “substantial” contributions to some of the most notorious climate deniers in Washington despite its insistence that it supports political action on the climate crisis.
Among hundreds of groups the company has listed on its website as beneficiaries of its political giving are more than a dozen organisations that have campaigned against climate legislation, questioned the need for action, or actively sought to roll back Obama-era environmental protections.
The list includes the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a conservative policy group that was instrumental in convincing the Trump administration to abandon the Paris agreement and has criticised the White House for not dismantling more environmental rules.
Google said it was disappointed by the US decision to abandon the global climate deal, but has continued to support CEI.
Google is also listed as a sponsor for an upcoming annual meeting of the State Policy Network (SPN), an umbrella organisation that supports conservative groups including the Heartland Institute, a radical anti-science group that has chided the teenage activist Greta Thunberg for “climate delusion hysterics”.
SPN members recently created a “climate pledge” website that falsely states “our natural environment is getting better” and “there is no climate crisis”.
👉🏼 The obscure law that explains why Google backs climate deniers
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/11/obscure-law-google-climate-deniers-section-230
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/11/google-contributions-climate-change-deniers
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Escort forums in Italy and the Netherlands hacked, user data put up for sale
A third forum for zoophilia and bestiality fans was also hacked. User data put up for sale as well.
A Bulgarian hacker has breached two online forums dedicated to sex workers, stolen user information, which he's now selling on a hacking forum.
The two forums are EscortForumIt.xxx and Hookers.nl -- serving sex workers and customers in Italy and the Netherlands, where prostitution is legal.
Both forums have confirmed the breaches this week.
vBulletin zero-day strikes again
Both were running outdated versions of the vBulletin forum software. The hacker told ZDNet this week in an email that he used a vBulletin zero-day (CVE-2019-16759) disclosed at the end of September to breach the two sites.
The hacker is now selling the data on a publicly-available hacking forum. Stolen data includes usernames, email addresses, and password hashes -- obtained from both forums, with 33k records from the Italian one, and 300k from the Dutch one.
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/escort-forums-in-italy-and-the-netherlands-hacked-user-data-put-up-for-sale/
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A third forum for zoophilia and bestiality fans was also hacked. User data put up for sale as well.
A Bulgarian hacker has breached two online forums dedicated to sex workers, stolen user information, which he's now selling on a hacking forum.
The two forums are EscortForumIt.xxx and Hookers.nl -- serving sex workers and customers in Italy and the Netherlands, where prostitution is legal.
Both forums have confirmed the breaches this week.
vBulletin zero-day strikes again
Both were running outdated versions of the vBulletin forum software. The hacker told ZDNet this week in an email that he used a vBulletin zero-day (CVE-2019-16759) disclosed at the end of September to breach the two sites.
The hacker is now selling the data on a publicly-available hacking forum. Stolen data includes usernames, email addresses, and password hashes -- obtained from both forums, with 33k records from the Italian one, and 300k from the Dutch one.
👉🏼 Read more:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/escort-forums-in-italy-and-the-netherlands-hacked-user-data-put-up-for-sale/
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How Photos of Your Kids Are Powering Surveillance Technology
Millions of Flickr images were sucked into a database called MegaFace. Now some of those faces may have the ability to sue.
The pictures of Chloe and Jasper Papa as kids are typically goofy fare: grinning with their parents; sticking their tongues out; costumed for Halloween. Their mother, Dominique Allman Papa, uploaded them to Flickr after joining the photo-sharing site in 2005.
None of them could have foreseen that 14 years later, those images would reside in an unprecedentedly huge facial-recognition database called MegaFace. Containing the likenesses of nearly 700,000 individuals, it has been downloaded by dozens of companies to train a new generation of face-identification algorithms, used to track protesters, surveil terrorists, spot problem gamblers and spy on the public at large. The average age of the people in the database, its creators have said, is 16.
“It’s gross and uncomfortable,” said Mx. Papa, who is now 19 and attending college in Oregon. “I wish they would have asked me first if I wanted to be part of it. I think artificial intelligence is cool and I want it to be smarter, but generally you ask people to participate in research. I learned that in high school biology.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/11/technology/flickr-facial-recognition.html
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Millions of Flickr images were sucked into a database called MegaFace. Now some of those faces may have the ability to sue.
The pictures of Chloe and Jasper Papa as kids are typically goofy fare: grinning with their parents; sticking their tongues out; costumed for Halloween. Their mother, Dominique Allman Papa, uploaded them to Flickr after joining the photo-sharing site in 2005.
None of them could have foreseen that 14 years later, those images would reside in an unprecedentedly huge facial-recognition database called MegaFace. Containing the likenesses of nearly 700,000 individuals, it has been downloaded by dozens of companies to train a new generation of face-identification algorithms, used to track protesters, surveil terrorists, spot problem gamblers and spy on the public at large. The average age of the people in the database, its creators have said, is 16.
“It’s gross and uncomfortable,” said Mx. Papa, who is now 19 and attending college in Oregon. “I wish they would have asked me first if I wanted to be part of it. I think artificial intelligence is cool and I want it to be smarter, but generally you ask people to participate in research. I learned that in high school biology.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/11/technology/flickr-facial-recognition.html
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Social Credit Scoring In China Extends To Foreign Businesses, Creates New Risks
China's Sesame Credit system of scoring Chinese citizens on a code of personal conduct moves up a notch as foreign corporations begin to fall under a similar system.
Beginning next year, compliance will be enforced by China's Ministry of Public Security over access to corporate data housed on Chinese servers.
Foreign companies are being advised to reevaluate their data collection processes in light of this new action. The effect could be a further decoupling of US-China tech and trade activities.
"Foreign companies will have to decide whether it is worth the risk to sell or manufacture in China. This new lead could lead to diversification of supply chains or decoupling," said David Jacobson, who teaches global business strategy at the SMU Cox School of Business and is a visiting professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
The new cybersecurity laws give the Chinese government access to files, contracts, copyrights, business strategies and phone records with no permission asked, according to Jacobson. The rules first went into effect in 2018 but compliance was not enforced.
But starting in 2020, China is demanding that businesses collect and feed internal information into a centralized data system. The data will be used to quantify the moral codes of corporations, and the individuals that run them, and reward or punish accordingly.
Corporations will be judged on compliance, bill payments, party support by both management and employees, according to Jacobson. He noted that the representation of Communist Party in Chinese company meetings or as board of director supervisors is becoming "much more pervasive."
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccafannin/2019/10/08/social-credit-scoring-in-china-extends-to-foreign-businesses-creates-new-risks
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China's Sesame Credit system of scoring Chinese citizens on a code of personal conduct moves up a notch as foreign corporations begin to fall under a similar system.
Beginning next year, compliance will be enforced by China's Ministry of Public Security over access to corporate data housed on Chinese servers.
Foreign companies are being advised to reevaluate their data collection processes in light of this new action. The effect could be a further decoupling of US-China tech and trade activities.
"Foreign companies will have to decide whether it is worth the risk to sell or manufacture in China. This new lead could lead to diversification of supply chains or decoupling," said David Jacobson, who teaches global business strategy at the SMU Cox School of Business and is a visiting professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
The new cybersecurity laws give the Chinese government access to files, contracts, copyrights, business strategies and phone records with no permission asked, according to Jacobson. The rules first went into effect in 2018 but compliance was not enforced.
But starting in 2020, China is demanding that businesses collect and feed internal information into a centralized data system. The data will be used to quantify the moral codes of corporations, and the individuals that run them, and reward or punish accordingly.
Corporations will be judged on compliance, bill payments, party support by both management and employees, according to Jacobson. He noted that the representation of Communist Party in Chinese company meetings or as board of director supervisors is becoming "much more pervasive."
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccafannin/2019/10/08/social-credit-scoring-in-china-extends-to-foreign-businesses-creates-new-risks
#SocialCredit #scoring #china #risks
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Breaking: Visa, Mastercard, eBay, Stripe All Leave Libra
Wow. Within the span of an hour or two, reports have revealed that Facebook’s crypto project, Libra, suffered some heavy blows.
It first started on Friday morning, with the Financial Times revealing that both eBay, the e-commerce/online marketplace giant, and Stripe, a fintech giant, have dropped out of the Libra Association.
Speaking to the outlet, an eBay spokesperson asserted that while the company “respects the vision of Libra”, the American firm will not be moving ahead with its participation in the Association, citing a focus on ” rolling out eBay’s managed payments experience for our customers.”
Stripe made a similar comment, telling the FT that it is “supportive of projects that aim to make online commerce more accessible for people”, but will not be moving forward with the Facebook-backed crypto project at this time.
Within the hour or two after the FT’s revelatory report, both Mastercard and Visa — seen by many in the crypto community to be the Association’s two most important partners — also revealed that they will be rescending their membership. In their own comment, Visa cited Libra’s inability to “fully satisfy all requisite regulatory expectations.”
FIVE household names have pulled out of $LIBRA (Visa, Paypal, Stripe, Ebay, and Mastercard). I doubt they'll be the last.
Regulators are stonewalling it.
Zuck is testifying before Congress Oct. 23rd.
Now you can long/short its chance of even launching: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-07/facebook-skeptics-now-have-derivatives-to-bet-on-libra-delays
— The Crypto Dog📈 (@TheCryptoDog) October 11, 2019
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https://www.newsbtc.com/2019/10/11/breaking-visa-mastercard-ebay-stripe-all-leave-libra/
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Wow. Within the span of an hour or two, reports have revealed that Facebook’s crypto project, Libra, suffered some heavy blows.
It first started on Friday morning, with the Financial Times revealing that both eBay, the e-commerce/online marketplace giant, and Stripe, a fintech giant, have dropped out of the Libra Association.
Speaking to the outlet, an eBay spokesperson asserted that while the company “respects the vision of Libra”, the American firm will not be moving ahead with its participation in the Association, citing a focus on ” rolling out eBay’s managed payments experience for our customers.”
Stripe made a similar comment, telling the FT that it is “supportive of projects that aim to make online commerce more accessible for people”, but will not be moving forward with the Facebook-backed crypto project at this time.
Within the hour or two after the FT’s revelatory report, both Mastercard and Visa — seen by many in the crypto community to be the Association’s two most important partners — also revealed that they will be rescending their membership. In their own comment, Visa cited Libra’s inability to “fully satisfy all requisite regulatory expectations.”
FIVE household names have pulled out of $LIBRA (Visa, Paypal, Stripe, Ebay, and Mastercard). I doubt they'll be the last.
Regulators are stonewalling it.
Zuck is testifying before Congress Oct. 23rd.
Now you can long/short its chance of even launching: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-07/facebook-skeptics-now-have-derivatives-to-bet-on-libra-delays
— The Crypto Dog📈 (@TheCryptoDog) October 11, 2019
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https://www.newsbtc.com/2019/10/11/breaking-visa-mastercard-ebay-stripe-all-leave-libra/
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„Dopamin“: Miniserie über die Suchtmechanismen von Tinder, Facebook und Co.
„Die tun alles, um dich süchtig zu machen“, heißt es über #Tinder, #Facebook, #CandyCrush, #Instagram, #YouTube, #Snapchat, #Uber und #Twitter in der Miniserie von #Arte. In acht Folgen wird genau erklärt, welche Mechanismen in unserem Gehirn ausgelöst werden, damit wir dranbleiben.
📺 Dopamin - Facebook
📺 Dopamin - Tinder
📺 Dopamin - Candy Crush
📺 Dopamin - Instagram
📺 Dopamin - YouTube
📺 Dopamin - Snapchat
📺 Dopamin - Uber
📺 Dopamin - Twitter
💡 Eigentlich wissen wir das ja längst:
Candy Crush, Tinder, Facebook und Konsorten sind vor allem eins – Zeitfresser. Trotzdem fällt es uns extrem schwer, das #Smartphone einfach mal links liegen zu lassen und nicht alle paar Minuten zu checken, was es Neues gibt. Zumal das, was uns dann als Neuigkeit präsentiert wird, nur in den seltensten Fällen Nachrichtenwert hat oder uns wirklich weiterbringt. Trotzdem ziehen wir uns seitenweise Tante Monikas Bilder aus Paris rein, schwören, „nur noch ein Level“ bei Candy Crush zu absolvieren, lassen uns von der Autoplay-Funktion in immer abstrusere Untiefen von Youtube entführen und können einfach nicht genug kriegen von niedlichen Katzenfotos auf Instagram. Was stimmt nicht mit uns?
https://t3n.de/news/dopamin-miniserie-ueber-tinder-1204497/
#Tinder #Facebook #CandyCrush #Instagram #YouTube #Snapchat #Uber #Twitter #Dopamin #Video #nachdenken
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„Die tun alles, um dich süchtig zu machen“, heißt es über #Tinder, #Facebook, #CandyCrush, #Instagram, #YouTube, #Snapchat, #Uber und #Twitter in der Miniserie von #Arte. In acht Folgen wird genau erklärt, welche Mechanismen in unserem Gehirn ausgelöst werden, damit wir dranbleiben.
📺 Dopamin - Facebook
📺 Dopamin - Tinder
📺 Dopamin - Candy Crush
📺 Dopamin - Instagram
📺 Dopamin - YouTube
📺 Dopamin - Snapchat
📺 Dopamin - Uber
📺 Dopamin - Twitter
💡 Eigentlich wissen wir das ja längst:
Candy Crush, Tinder, Facebook und Konsorten sind vor allem eins – Zeitfresser. Trotzdem fällt es uns extrem schwer, das #Smartphone einfach mal links liegen zu lassen und nicht alle paar Minuten zu checken, was es Neues gibt. Zumal das, was uns dann als Neuigkeit präsentiert wird, nur in den seltensten Fällen Nachrichtenwert hat oder uns wirklich weiterbringt. Trotzdem ziehen wir uns seitenweise Tante Monikas Bilder aus Paris rein, schwören, „nur noch ein Level“ bei Candy Crush zu absolvieren, lassen uns von der Autoplay-Funktion in immer abstrusere Untiefen von Youtube entführen und können einfach nicht genug kriegen von niedlichen Katzenfotos auf Instagram. Was stimmt nicht mit uns?
https://t3n.de/news/dopamin-miniserie-ueber-tinder-1204497/
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Chinese Citizens Will Have to Scan Their Faces to Get Internet Access and New Phone Numbers
Starting December 1, Chinese citizens will have to allow telecommunications carriers to scan their faces when signing up for internet access or to get a new phone number.
The new rule was announced by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on September 27 (link in Chinese). Roughly translated via Google, the statement says the reason for the new changes is to “earnestly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of citizens in the cyberspace.” On top of requiring carriers to use facial recognition to see whether an applicant matches their ID, people will no longer be able to transfer SIM cards to others. Lastly, MIIT wants carriers to verify whether mobile or landline phones are correctly registered under real names, and terminate those that aren’t. At the end of its statement, MIIT somewhat ominously notes that it will “increase supervision and inspection, strengthen assessment accountability, supervise the implementation of work, [and] continue to strictly promote the real-name registration management of telephone users.”
On the surface, it may not seem bad to cut down on fraud—but the underlying implication is that this gives the Chinese government yet another means of controlling what people say, see, and do online. Registering your face in exchange for internet access just makes it easier to track what you post on social media, and what websites you might frequent. The Chinese government already has a vise-grip on the internet, in which sites like Facebook and Twitter are blocked.
That iron grip also extends to non-Chinese companies. This past week, Apple removed an app used by pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong in a bid to appease the government, as well as the Quartz news app in China for its coverage of the protests. Earlier this year, Microsoft’s Bing search engine was briefly blocked for unclear reasons. And Google has been developing a censored search engine for China. Codenamed Project Dragonfly, Google’s censored search purportedly blacklists certain search terms dictated by the government but crucially, also ties all searches to specific phone numbers. In July, a top Google exec told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the company has terminated the project but skepticism on how dead the search engine for China really is lives on.
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https://gizmodo.com/chinese-citizens-will-have-to-scan-their-faces-to-get-i-1838936778
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Starting December 1, Chinese citizens will have to allow telecommunications carriers to scan their faces when signing up for internet access or to get a new phone number.
The new rule was announced by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on September 27 (link in Chinese). Roughly translated via Google, the statement says the reason for the new changes is to “earnestly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of citizens in the cyberspace.” On top of requiring carriers to use facial recognition to see whether an applicant matches their ID, people will no longer be able to transfer SIM cards to others. Lastly, MIIT wants carriers to verify whether mobile or landline phones are correctly registered under real names, and terminate those that aren’t. At the end of its statement, MIIT somewhat ominously notes that it will “increase supervision and inspection, strengthen assessment accountability, supervise the implementation of work, [and] continue to strictly promote the real-name registration management of telephone users.”
On the surface, it may not seem bad to cut down on fraud—but the underlying implication is that this gives the Chinese government yet another means of controlling what people say, see, and do online. Registering your face in exchange for internet access just makes it easier to track what you post on social media, and what websites you might frequent. The Chinese government already has a vise-grip on the internet, in which sites like Facebook and Twitter are blocked.
That iron grip also extends to non-Chinese companies. This past week, Apple removed an app used by pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong in a bid to appease the government, as well as the Quartz news app in China for its coverage of the protests. Earlier this year, Microsoft’s Bing search engine was briefly blocked for unclear reasons. And Google has been developing a censored search engine for China. Codenamed Project Dragonfly, Google’s censored search purportedly blacklists certain search terms dictated by the government but crucially, also ties all searches to specific phone numbers. In July, a top Google exec told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the company has terminated the project but skepticism on how dead the search engine for China really is lives on.
👉🏼 Read more:
https://gizmodo.com/chinese-citizens-will-have-to-scan-their-faces-to-get-i-1838936778
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Awesome macOS open source applications
List of awesome open source applications for macOS. This list contains a lot of native, and cross-platform apps. The main goal of this repository is to find free open source apps and start contributing. Feel free to contribute to the list, any suggestions are welcome!
💡 https://github.com/serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps
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List of awesome open source applications for macOS. This list contains a lot of native, and cross-platform apps. The main goal of this repository is to find free open source apps and start contributing. Feel free to contribute to the list, any suggestions are welcome!
💡 https://github.com/serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps
#macOS #opensource #apps #applications
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"The urgency of the crisis is now so great that many scientists feel, as humans, that we now have a moral duty to take radical action"
* Climate crisis prompts radical move by scientists
* More than 2,700 activists arrested globally in past week
* Signatories cite 'moral duty' to act (Updates numbers of signatories, adds comment from IPCC author)
LONDON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Almost 400 scientists have endorsed a civil disobedience campaign aimed at forcing governments to take rapid action to tackle climate change, warning that failure could inflict "incalculable human suffering."
In a joint declaration, climate scientists, physicists, biologists, engineers and others from at least 20 countries broke with the caution traditionally associated with academia to side with peaceful protesters courting arrest from Amsterdam to Melbourne.
Wearing white laboratory coats to symbolise their research credentials, a group of about 20 of the signatories gathered on Saturday to read out the text outside London's century-old Science Museum in the city's upmarket Kensington district.
"We believe that the continued governmental inaction over the climate and ecological crisis now justifies peaceful and non-violent protest and direct action, even if this goes beyond the bounds of the current law," said Emily Grossman, a science broadcaster with a PhD in molecular biology. She read the declaration on behalf of the group.
"We therefore support those who are rising up peacefully against governments around the world that are failing to act proportionately to the scale of the crisis," she said.
The declaration was coordinated by a group of scientists who support Extinction Rebellion, a civil disobedience campaign that formed in Britain a year ago and has since sparked offshoots in dozens of countries.
The group launched a fresh wave of international actions on Monday, aiming to get governments to address an ecological crisis caused by climate change and accelerating extinctions of plant and animal species.
A total of 1,307 volunteers had since been arrested at various protests in London by 2030 GMT on Saturday, Extinction Rebellion said. A further 1,463 volunteers have been arrested in the past week in another 20 cities, including Brussels, Amsterdam, New York, Sydney and Toronto, according to the group's tally. More protests in this latest wave are due in the coming days.
While many scientists have shunned overt political debate, fearing that being perceived as activists might undermine their claims to objectivity, the 395 academics who had signed the declaration by 1100 GMT on Sunday chose to defy convention.
"The urgency of the crisis is now so great that many scientists feel, as humans, that we now have a moral duty to take radical action," Grossman told Reuters.
Other signatories included several scientists who contributed to the U.N.-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has produced a series of reports underscoring the urgency of dramatic cuts in carbon emissions.
"We can't allow the role of scientists to be to just write papers and publish them in obscure journals and hope somehow that somebody out there will pay attention," Julia Steinberger, an ecological economist at the University of Leeds and a lead IPCC author, told Reuters.
"We need to be rethinking the role of the scientist and engage with how social change happens at a massive and urgent scale," she said. "We can't allow science as usual."
Extinction Rebellion's flag is a stylised symbol of an hourglass in a circle, and its disruptive tactics include peacefully occupying bridges and roads.
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* Climate crisis prompts radical move by scientists
* More than 2,700 activists arrested globally in past week
* Signatories cite 'moral duty' to act (Updates numbers of signatories, adds comment from IPCC author)
LONDON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Almost 400 scientists have endorsed a civil disobedience campaign aimed at forcing governments to take rapid action to tackle climate change, warning that failure could inflict "incalculable human suffering."
In a joint declaration, climate scientists, physicists, biologists, engineers and others from at least 20 countries broke with the caution traditionally associated with academia to side with peaceful protesters courting arrest from Amsterdam to Melbourne.
Wearing white laboratory coats to symbolise their research credentials, a group of about 20 of the signatories gathered on Saturday to read out the text outside London's century-old Science Museum in the city's upmarket Kensington district.
"We believe that the continued governmental inaction over the climate and ecological crisis now justifies peaceful and non-violent protest and direct action, even if this goes beyond the bounds of the current law," said Emily Grossman, a science broadcaster with a PhD in molecular biology. She read the declaration on behalf of the group.
"We therefore support those who are rising up peacefully against governments around the world that are failing to act proportionately to the scale of the crisis," she said.
The declaration was coordinated by a group of scientists who support Extinction Rebellion, a civil disobedience campaign that formed in Britain a year ago and has since sparked offshoots in dozens of countries.
The group launched a fresh wave of international actions on Monday, aiming to get governments to address an ecological crisis caused by climate change and accelerating extinctions of plant and animal species.
A total of 1,307 volunteers had since been arrested at various protests in London by 2030 GMT on Saturday, Extinction Rebellion said. A further 1,463 volunteers have been arrested in the past week in another 20 cities, including Brussels, Amsterdam, New York, Sydney and Toronto, according to the group's tally. More protests in this latest wave are due in the coming days.
While many scientists have shunned overt political debate, fearing that being perceived as activists might undermine their claims to objectivity, the 395 academics who had signed the declaration by 1100 GMT on Sunday chose to defy convention.
"The urgency of the crisis is now so great that many scientists feel, as humans, that we now have a moral duty to take radical action," Grossman told Reuters.
Other signatories included several scientists who contributed to the U.N.-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has produced a series of reports underscoring the urgency of dramatic cuts in carbon emissions.
"We can't allow the role of scientists to be to just write papers and publish them in obscure journals and hope somehow that somebody out there will pay attention," Julia Steinberger, an ecological economist at the University of Leeds and a lead IPCC author, told Reuters.
"We need to be rethinking the role of the scientist and engage with how social change happens at a massive and urgent scale," she said. "We can't allow science as usual."
Extinction Rebellion's flag is a stylised symbol of an hourglass in a circle, and its disruptive tactics include peacefully occupying bridges and roads.
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https://news.trust.org/item/20191013012429-9u1nq/
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Dismantling Big Tech: A User's Manual
Dismantling Big Tech: A User’s Manual
Congress, the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice and state governments across the U.S. are investigating the tech giants for anti-competitive behavior. This week on #Decrypted, #Bloomberg Technology’s Eric Newcomer walks us through those #investigations, and outlines how a #Democratic president may take it even further in 2021.
📻 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2019-10-09/dismantling-big-tech-a-user-s-manual-podcast
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Congress, the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice and state governments across the U.S. are investigating the tech giants for anti-competitive behavior. This week on #Decrypted, #Bloomberg Technology’s Eric Newcomer walks us through those #investigations, and outlines how a #Democratic president may take it even further in 2021.
📻 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2019-10-09/dismantling-big-tech-a-user-s-manual-podcast
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