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Inside the Video Surveillance Program IBM Built for Philippine Strongman Rodrigo Duterte
▻https://theintercept.com/2019/03/20/rodrigo-duterte-ibm-surveillance

Jaypee Larosa was standing in front of an internet cafe in Davao City, a metropolitan hub on the Philippine island of Mindanao, when three men in dark jackets pulled up on a motorcycle and opened fire. That summer evening, Larosa, 20, was killed. After the shooting, according to witnesses, one of the men reportedly removed Larosa’s baseball cap and said, “Son of a bitch. This is not the one.” Then they drove off. Larosa’s murder, on July 17, 2008, was one of hundreds of extrajudicial killings (...)

#IBM #CCTV #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance

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Tanzania introduces $930 fee for bloggers, surveillance cameras in internet cafes - CNN
▻https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/12/africa/tanzania-blogging-internet-freedoms-africa/index.html

As part of sweeping new internet regulations, the Tanzanian government has introduced a $930 fee for those wanting to have an online blog, giving the authorities unprecedented control over the internet.

The government now requires all bloggers to pay the annual fee and register before they begin publishing material.

The state-run Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) said in a statement bloggers and content providers have until May 5 to complete the application process.

It’s not just bloggers affected by the provisions, but online radio stations, online streaming platforms, online forums, social media users and internet cafes.

Bloggers are asked to provide a lengthy list of details, including share capital, tax certificates, estimated investments and other information to secure accreditation.

The legislation, officially known as the Electronic and Postal Communications (Online Content) Regulations 2018, also sets out a series of prohibited content, including “content that causes annoyance... or leads to public disorder.”

Additionally, internet cafes are required to install surveillance cameras.

Breaking these stipulations permits the regulatory authorities to revoke licenses.

Local newspapers have reported that the government has introduced the regulations to curb “moral decadence.”

Ethiopia Imposes Nationwide Internet Blackout · Global Voices
▻https://globalvoices.org/2017/06/01/ethiopia-imposes-nationwide-internet-blackout

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Last year, the government was forced to postpone the national university entrance exam after the initial session was marred by a leak spread on Facebook. Activists in the diaspora leaked questions on Facebook ahead of the exam in early June in 2016 after the government refused to re-schedule the exam for students who missed an entire semester of classes due to protests.

But the current blackout is different from previous mobile Internet and social media shutdowns that have been imposed in an effort to prevent exam leaking. This blackout is broader in scope and scale, effectively eliminating Ethiopia from the map of the global Internet.

This is especially easy for the Ethiopian government to do, since all Internet and phone service in the country is provided through through a single government-owned Internet service provider, Ethio Telecom. The blackout thus leaves businesses, banks, Internet cafes in Addis Ababa and social media pages of government media cut off from the rest of the world, making it harder for them to do their day-to-day work.

#Éthiopie #Internet #examens #censure #autorité

3quarksdaily: Terror on Trial 2: Counter Forensics
▻http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2017/04/terror-on-trial-part-two-counter-forensics.html#sthash.1uR4KGYr.uxfs
▻http://www.3quarksdaily.com/.a/6a00d8341c562c53ef01bb0991743e970d-pi

While the murder series of the right-wing terror trio National Socialist Underground (NSU) has generally escaped major international attention (especially in comparison with Islamist terror attacks), one of the assassinations continues to come up. The murder of Halit Yozgat, the 9th assassination of the NSU, resists the fate of the others, because of one rather delicate detail: a secret service agent was present at the crime scene at the time of the murder. When Halit Yozgat was shot in the head by two members of the NSU on April 6, 2006, from a close distance with a silenced Česká CZ 83 pistol (the signature style of the NSU assassinations), Andreas Temme, an agent of the Hessian domestic intelligence service, was in the internet café in Kassel. When Halit Yozgat’s father, İsmail Yozgat, found his son when he returned to the café a few minutes after the murder, Temme was gone.

Architects seek to debunk spy’s testimony in neo-Nazi murder trial | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/07/architects-called-upon-to-aid-neo-nazi-trial?CMP=share_btn_tw

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Nearly five years into the trial of a German neo-Nazi gang who went on a killing spree against immigrants, relatives of the victims have become so frustrated with the police’s inability to untangle the case they have turned to a an unlikely profession in search of clues: architects.

Forensic Architecture, a London-based organisation started by architect Eyal Weizman have previously investigated war crimes in Syria, Palestine and the former Yugoslavia, using modern technology to search urban areas for evidence.

“If a pile of rubble is what’s left of your crime scene an architect may be better qualified to analyse it than [the police],” Weizman said.

For the 11th anniversary of the death of the ninth and final victim of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Underground attackers, Weizman’s researchers have turned their attention to the case of a western European state allegedly colluding in a brutal crime.

Pas une journée sans nouvelles d’Edward Snowden ou de Chelsea Manning <3

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Edward Snowden interview with Dagens Nyheter - DN Fokus
►http://fokus.dn.se/edward-snowden-english

It used to be, when people were pressed into exile, they’d lose their connections, they’d lose their significance, they’d lose their influence in the political debate.That’s why exile, as a strategy of response to political dissent, always has been so popular, whether it was the Soviet Union deporting authors they didn’t like or American dissidents going to Cuba. But technology is changing that. Exile as, a strategy, is beginning to fail.

Chelsea Manning’s statement for Aaron Swartz Day 2015
▻https://boingboing.net/2015/11/09/chelsea-mannings-statement-f.html

#exil #répression #whistleblowers #dissidents

Neo Nazi Killers of Germany (SHOCKING Crime Documentary)

The Bosphorus serial murders also known as Döner murders, the term often used by the media, were a series of attacks that took place in Germany between 2000 and 2006, leaving ten people dead and one wounded. The attackers called themselves National Socialist Underground (NSU) (German: #Nationalsozialistischer_Untergrund). The primary targets were ethnic Turks, but one Greek and one German policewoman were also killed.

The victims were mostly small business owners, including doner kebab vendors and greengrocers. They were murdered in daylight with gunshots to the face at close range with a silenced CZ 83 pistol. According to the parents of a Turkish victim who worked in an internet café, the police originally suspected foreign organised criminals. A German policewoman, Michèle Kiesewetter, was also shot and killed and the police officer on patrol with her was critically wounded. Other crimes, including a bomb attack, may have been committed by the group. German authorities identified three suspects, #Uwe_Böhnhardt, #Uwe_Mundlos, and #Beate_Zschäpe as responsible for the murders. According to the acting Attorney General of Germany, Rainer Greisbaum, the suspects had Neo-Nazi links. Böhnhardt and Mundlos were found dead by police after they robbed a bank on 4 November 2011. Police said they killed themselves. Zschäpe surrendered on 11 November 2011. She will probably face charges of murder, attempted murder, arson, and belonging to a terrorist organization. Zschäpe said she was only willing to testify if she was considered a state witness, with mitigation of sentence. The police discovered an alleged hit-list of 88 names that included “two prominent members of the Bundestag and representatives of Turkish and Islamic groups”.

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBN-kp7tRh4

#Allemagne #néo-nazis #néo-nazisme #meurtre #extrême-droite #violence #terrorisme
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Verdict due in police killing of Egyptian #blogger
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/verdict-due-police-killing-egyptian-blogger

A court was due to deliver its verdict Monday in the retrial of two policemen accused of killing a blogger, whose death was a rallying cry during #Egypt's 2011 uprising. Policemen Mahmoud Salah Mahmoud and Awad Ismail Suleiman are accused of torturing and killing #Khaled_Said in June 2010 after unlawfully arresting him from an Internet cafe in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria. An initial trial sentenced the defendants to seven years in jail in October 2011 after finding them guilty of unlawful arrest and excessive brutality. read more

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Japan’s Internet Cafes: Home for the Underemployed - Businessweek
▻http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-11/japans-internet-cafes-home-for-the-underemployed

Over the past 10 years, Internet cafes in Japan have become hotels for the underemployed. Many are equipped with tiny private booths, showers, and laundry service and offer reasonably priced packages for overnight users. The monthly rate at one cafe is 1,920 yen ($19) a day. In 2007, according to Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, 60,900 people spent a night at an Internet cafe, and about 5,400 were living in them full time.
Finding residents willing to be photographed wasn’t easy. In 2009, I started by waiting outside cafes at night, approaching people arriving with suitcases. No one wanted to talk. People living in Internet cafes are not proud of it and want to keep their living and working conditions secret. The cafes themselves share this discretion: Only one of the several I approached, Cyber@cafe in Tokyo, granted me access. Akihiro Sato, the owner, believes his business is helping those who would otherwise be homeless.