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Did you protest recently ? Your face might be in a database | Facial recognition
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/17/protest-black-lives-matter-database

In the United States, at least one in four law enforcement agencies are able to use facial recognition technology. The implications are troubling In recent weeks, millions have taken to the streets to oppose police violence and proudly say : “Black Lives Matter.” These protests will no doubt be featured in history books for many generations to come. But, as privacy researchers, we fear a darker legacy, too. We know that hundreds of thousands of photos and videos of protesters have been (...)

#Microsoft #Clearview #NYPD #FBI #IBM #Amazon #algorithme #CCTV #drone #activisme #biométrie #militaire #facial #reconnaissance #biais #discrimination #surveillance (...)

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High Court finds Najib guilty of all seven charges in misappropriation of RM42m SRC International funds | Malaysia | Malay Mail
▻https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2020/07/28/high-court-finds-najib-guilty-of-misappropriation-of-rm42m-src-internationa/1888749

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Datuk Seri Najib Razak has been found guilty by the High Court today for abuse of power and misappropriating over RM42 million from 1Malaysia Development Berhad’s (1MDB) former subsidiary SRC International Sdn Bhd.

In delivering his judgement to a packed courtroom, High Court judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali said Najib was complicit in the deposits of RM42 million from SRC International in his private account.

“In conclusion after considering all evidence in this trial, I find that the prosecution has successfully proven its case beyond reasonable doubt against the accused, I therefore find the accused guilty and convict the accused on all seven charges,” he said.

Najib Razak, Malaysia’s Former Prime Minister, Found Guilty in Graft Trial - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/world/asia/malaysia-1mdb-najib.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

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Douze ans de prison pour le « kleptocrate » Najib Razak, un haut fait démocratique en Malaisie
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2020/07/29/douze-ans-de-prison-pour-le-kleptocrate-malaisien-najib-razak_6047585_3210.h

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Pour chacun des six principaux chefs d’accusation, le prévenu encourait une peine d’une dizaine d’années : au lieu d’être additionnés, ils ont été fondus en une seule sentence de douze ans. Najib Razak a plaidé non coupable, affirmant avoir été abusé par d’anciens affidés.

The Guardian view on Najib’s rise and fall : a victory for the rule of law | Editorial | Opinion | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/28/the-guardian-view-on-najibs-rise-and-fall-a-victory-for-the-rule-of-law
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Najib faces four more trials related to the theft of billions of dollars from 1MDB. The US department of justice said that the fund’s cash was used to purchase luxury apartments in Manhattan, paintings by Monet and even financed a major Hollywood movie. The DoJ says $680m (£525m) ended up in the prime minister’s bank accounts. This in a country where 40% live on less than £2 a day.

But Najib has stayed active in politics, working behind the scenes. His party, the United Malays National Organisation (Umno), played a decisive role in instigating Machiavellian levels of betrayal to bring down the government that had come to power by defeating him. Umno currently props up the shaky Perikatan Nasional government, made up of Malay-centric parties and rural fundamentalists. Regaining high office, his opponents say, is the only way Najib can save himself from jail.

This would be an awful turn of events. Najib’s Umno was autocratic as well as corrupt, and it let the economy splutter. The party lost office in 2018 after six decades in power. There was a genuine hope that the new multiracial Pakatan Harapan government would be a force for change. But apart from press freedoms and an anti-corruption drive, the hopes of the new government were largely unfulfilled.

#Malaisie #corruption #Najib #1MDB

Think the federal cops in Portland are scary? Police use these tactics all the time , The Guardian, 29 july 2020, Brandon Soderberg and Baynard Woods▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/29/think-the-federal-cops-in-
portland-are-scary-police-use-these-tactics-all-the-time

Plainclothes police ‘jump-out boys’ terrorize American cities. Sometimes they become all-out criminal gangs

If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/26/with-facebook-we-are-already-through-the-looking-glass?CMP=share_btn_tw

Facebook and America are now indivisible, says the Observer journalist who broke the Cambridge Analytica scandal – and the world is a sicker place for it In 2016, we didn’t know. We were innocent. We still believed social media connected us and that connections were good. That technology equalled progress. And progress equalled better. Four years on, we know too much. And yet, it turns out, we understand nothing. We know social media is a bin fire and that the world is burning. But it’s (...)

#DataPropria #CambridgeAnalytica/Emerdata #FBI #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #manipulation #données #élections #BigData #microtargeting #publicité (...)

##CambridgeAnalytica/Emerdata ##publicité ##SocialNetwork
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China is rewriting the facts about coronavirus to suit its own narrative | Carrie Gracie | Opinion | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/27/china-truth-coronavirus-panorama-xi-jinping
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Some governments have demanded an international investigation in China to determine the origins and early spread of the virus. The Chinese government says it will join a global inquiry into the pandemic but only when the crisis is over. It says it should not be blamed as it is a victim too, and that its tough measures to combat the Wuhan outbreak prevented hundreds of thousands of infections and bought the world time. Dr Ali Khan spent much of his career in the US Centers for Disease Control and says the world now needs to think ahead. “We can’t afford to do this again. If … some countries having an outbreak [are] deciding to not share that information, there have to be consequences.” But what consequences? The WHO’s regulations on protecting against the international spread of disease are legally binding, but there are no sanctions for countries that fail to adhere to them. In recent weeks, western governments have begun adopting a tougher tone towards Beijing on a range of issues, but there is little sign of a concerted international push for new WHO inspection powers to tackle future disease outbreaks. Indeed, the US has just withdrawn funding for the WHO, alleging that the global health body served as Beijing’s puppet during the early stages of coronavirus. For now, we are left hoping that China’s leadership has learned its own lessons about the need to act faster to protect its own public and the world.

#Covid-19#migration#migrant#chine#monde#pandemie#sante#santeglobale#oms#surveillanceepidemiologique

The ’cancel culture’ war is really about old elites losing power in the social media age | Nesrine Malik | Opinion | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/13/cancel-culture-elites-power-social-media-age-online-mobs
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Whenever I talk to people who are suddenly concerned about “cancel culture” or “online mobs”, my first thought is always: “Where have you been for the last decade?” I’ve been online long enough and, like many others, been receiving criticism and abuse online for long enough, to know that what some see as a new pattern of virtual censure by moral purists is mostly a story about the internet, not ideology or identity.

If critics of “cancel culture” are worried about opinions, posts and writings being constantly patrolled by a growing group of haters, then I am afraid they are extremely late to the party. I cannot remember a time where I have written or posted anything without thinking: “How many ways can this possibly be misconstrued, and can I defend it if it were?” It’s not even a conscious thought process now, it’s instinct.

#réseaux_sociaux #pouvoir #presse_alternative #presse_établie #puissance #nouveaux_modes_d_information

En Australie, Andrew Marlton lutte pour l’environnement avec sa BD ’’First Dog on the Moon’’...
Toujours une joie ! ▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/10/brenda-the-civil-disobedience-penguin-vs-the-gigantic-floating-gas-refi