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Justice Department Opposes Google's Undersea Cable From China
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 29, 2019

Aug. 29, 2019

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-28/justice-department-oppos… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Political Opponents
by Giacomo Tesio Aug. 29, 2019

Aug. 29, 2019

https://wwwhive.com/2019/08/14/huawei-technicians-helped-african-government… Huawei employees have provided other services, not disclosed publicly. Technicians from the Chinese powerhouse have, in at least two cases, personally helped African governments spy on their political opponents, including intercepting their encrypted communications and social media, and using cell data to track their whereabouts, according to senior security officials working directly with the Huawei employees in these countries. [...] Huawei has “never been engaged in ‘hacking’ activities,” said a Huawei spokesman in a written statement. “Huawei rejects completely these unfounded and inaccurate allegations against our business operations. Our internal investigation shows clearly that Huawei and its employees have not been engaged in any of the activities alleged. We have neither the contracts, nor the capabilities, to do so.” The spokesman added: “Huawei’s code of business conduct prohibits any employees from undertaking any activities that would compromise our customers or end users data or privacy or that would breach any laws. Huawei prides itself on its compliance with local regulations and laws in all markets where it operates.” [...] A senior police commander relayed a presidential order to access Mr. Wine’s encrypted written and spoken communications, including those through WhatsApp and Skype, to a six-man cyber team based at police headquarters, according to the security officials. They spent days trying to penetrate the communications using the Pegasus spyware but failed. They asked for help from Huawei technicians—who then cracked Mr. Wine’s encrypted communications using Pegasus within two days, the security officials said. “It was very clear he was organizing a political event, not a music show. We had to act quickly,” one of the officials said. In a WhatsApp chat group, Uganda’s cyber team saw a list of 11 lawmakers Mr. Wine was planning to secretly insert into the concert program. The rally, at Mr. Wine’s beach club, was scheduled unusually early to throw off the security services. Using information from the cyber hub, hundreds of police swarmed the venue, arresting dozens of organizers and attendees. Some were arrested before they could reach the club. “We were shocked. They knew everything about the event and the speakers, who we hadn’t announced,” Mr. Wine said. One of the security officials showed the Journal screenshots of Mr. Wine’s WhatsApp chats with the Firebase crew where participants were exchanging details on the planned events. The official said the operation would have been impossible without the skills of Huawei’s technicians. Mr. Wine, whose attempts to organize subsequent rallies have also been foiled, said the surveillance has spread to his family, his entourage and the people who frequent bars where his music is played. He now switches between several phones and uses devices of sympathetic members of the public, but he said he is outgunned by Mr. Museveni’s expanding machine. “The deal with Huawei is a survivor strategy to consolidate power,” he said in an interview in his Kampala home. “It’s an all-out assault.” [...] _____ Credo ci siano due aspetti interessanti in questa storia (vera o falsa che sia): - il coinvolgimento di singoli impiegati, non della azienda - la diffusione della tecnologie in questione anche in Europa Giacomo

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NYTimes: Utopia, Abandoned
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 28, 2019

Aug. 28, 2019

Utopia, Abandoned The Italian town Ivrea was once a model for workers’ rights and progressive design. Now, it’s both a cautionary tale and evidence of a grand experiment in making labor humane. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/t-magazine/olivetti-typewriters-ivrea-it… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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L’Italia centralizza il governo del digitale: nasce un nuovo dipartimento a Palazzo Chigi - Repubblica.it
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 28, 2019

Aug. 28, 2019

https://www.repubblica.it/economia/2019/08/28/news/l_italia_centralizza_il_… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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[notsp] Agenda and videos of the UNIDIR “Innovations Dialogue: Digital Technologies and International Security"
by Diego Latella Aug. 28, 2019

Aug. 28, 2019

Dear All, On Aug. 19, 2019 an “Innovations Dialogue” took place in Geneva, at Palais des Nations, organized by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). The meeting addressed “Digital Technologies and International Security”. More information available at: http://unidir.org/programmes/security-and-technology/2019-innovations-dialo… <http://unidir.org/programmes/security-and-technology/2019-innovations-dialo…> The meeting agenda can be found here: http://unidir.org/files/medias/pdfs/innovations-dialogue-agenda-eng-0-838.p… <http://unidir.org/files/medias/pdfs/innovations-dialogue-agenda-eng-0-838.p…> The videos of the main sessions are available here: http://webtv.un.org/search/session-i-unidir-innovations-dialogue-2019-/6074… <http://webtv.un.org/search/session-i-unidir-innovations-dialogue-2019-/6074…> All the Best Diego Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR-ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy (http:www.isti.cnr.it) FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it) http://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, mob: +39 348 8283101, fax: +390506212040 =================== The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than compulsion; if in the process we learn how to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task. Above all, remember your humanity. -- Sir Joseph Rotblat

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Halt the use of facial-recognition technology until it is regulated
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 28, 2019

Aug. 28, 2019

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02514-7 (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Organisation of a stakeholder dialogue on the application of Article 17 of Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market | Digital Single Market
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 28, 2019

Aug. 28, 2019

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/organisation-stakeholder… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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A Skeptical View of Information Fiduciaries | Open Markets Institute
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 28, 2019

Aug. 28, 2019

In the Harvard Law Review, Lina Khan and David Pozen explore ways to disrupt the emerging consensus by identifying a number of lurking tensions and ambiguities in the theory of information fiduciaries, as well as a number of reasons to doubt the theory’s capacity to resolve them satisfactorily. February 25, 2019 | by Open Markets https://openmarketsinstitute.org/academic-articles-and-papers/skeptical-vie… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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China’s Long March to Technological Supremacy
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 28, 2019

Aug. 28, 2019

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2019-08-27/chinas-long-march-… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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All EFF’d Up | Yasha Levine
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 27, 2019

Aug. 27, 2019

All EFF’d Up Silicon Valley’s astroturf privacy shakedown https://thebaffler.com/salvos/all-effd-up-levine (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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