2021 blev Stefania Barca gästprofessor på Uppsala universitet. Den tioåriga gästprofessuren, där en ny professor inbjuds varje eller vartannat år, finansieras genom en tidigare donation av entreprenören Niklas Zennström till Uppsala universitet.
Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments
Rural departments have long relied on cheap software solutions to keep their operations running. But fire chiefs report sharp price increases as investors have entered the market.
String Theory Inspires a Brilliant, Baffling New Math Proof
String Theory Inspires a Brilliant, Baffling New Math Proof | Quanta Magazine
Years ago, an audacious Fields medalist outlined a sweeping program that, he claimed, could be used to resolve a major problem in algebraic geometry. Other mathematicians had their doubts. Now he says he has a proof.Joseph Howlett (Quanta Magazine)
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'Depraved Response to a Depraved Act': Netanyahu Blames Attack on Australia Recognizing Palestine | Common Dreams
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Dec 14, 2025
“Obviously massacring unarmed men, women, and children at a Hanukkah celebration is antisemitic terror,” Nathaniel added in a separate thread. “Just like massacring unarmed men, women, and children in Gaza and the West Bank is anti-Palestinian terror. There are no moral exceptions regarding the slaughter of civilians.”Electronic Intifada director Ali Abunimah said, “Basically Netanyahu is saying that Australia got what it had coming for not supporting his genocide in Gaza even more than it already does.”
'Depraved Response to a Depraved Act': Netanyahu Blames Attack on Australia Recognizing Palestine | Common Dreams
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Dec 14, 2025“Obviously massacring unarmed men, women, and children at a Hanukkah celebration is antisemitic terror,” Nathaniel added in a separate thread. “Just like massacring unarmed men, women, and children in Gaza and the West Bank is anti-Palestinian terror. There are no moral exceptions regarding the slaughter of civilians.”Electronic Intifada director Ali Abunimah said, “Basically Netanyahu is saying that Australia got what it had coming for not supporting his genocide in Gaza even more than it already does.”
'Depraved Response to a Depraved Act': Netanyahu Blames Attack on Australia Recognizing Palestine
"This is an atrocious downplaying of real antisemitism at a time when rampant Jew hatred is killing people," said an American congressional candidate and school shooting survivor.jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)
'Depraved Response to a Depraved Act': Netanyahu Blames Attack on Australia Recognizing Palestine | Common Dreams
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Jessica Corbett
Dec 14, 2025
“Obviously massacring unarmed men, women, and children at a Hanukkah celebration is antisemitic terror,” Nathaniel added in a separate thread. “Just like massacring unarmed men, women, and children in Gaza and the West Bank is anti-Palestinian terror. There are no moral exceptions regarding the slaughter of civilians.”Electronic Intifada director Ali Abunimah said, “Basically Netanyahu is saying that Australia got what it had coming for not supporting his genocide in Gaza even more than it already does.”
'Depraved Response to a Depraved Act': Netanyahu Blames Attack on Australia Recognizing Palestine | Common Dreams
Jessica Corbett
Dec 14, 2025“Obviously massacring unarmed men, women, and children at a Hanukkah celebration is antisemitic terror,” Nathaniel added in a separate thread. “Just like massacring unarmed men, women, and children in Gaza and the West Bank is anti-Palestinian terror. There are no moral exceptions regarding the slaughter of civilians.”Electronic Intifada director Ali Abunimah said, “Basically Netanyahu is saying that Australia got what it had coming for not supporting his genocide in Gaza even more than it already does.”
'Depraved Response to a Depraved Act': Netanyahu Blames Attack on Australia Recognizing Palestine
"This is an atrocious downplaying of real antisemitism at a time when rampant Jew hatred is killing people," said an American congressional candidate and school shooting survivor.jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)
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'Depraved Response to a Depraved Act': Netanyahu Blames Attack on Australia Recognizing Palestine | Common Dreams
Jessica Corbett
Dec 14, 2025
“Obviously massacring unarmed men, women, and children at a Hanukkah celebration is antisemitic terror,” Nathaniel added in a separate thread. “Just like massacring unarmed men, women, and children in Gaza and the West Bank is anti-Palestinian terror. There are no moral exceptions regarding the slaughter of civilians.”Electronic Intifada director Ali Abunimah said, “Basically Netanyahu is saying that Australia got what it had coming for not supporting his genocide in Gaza even more than it already does.”
'Depraved Response to a Depraved Act': Netanyahu Blames Attack on Australia Recognizing Palestine
"This is an atrocious downplaying of real antisemitism at a time when rampant Jew hatred is killing people," said an American congressional candidate and school shooting survivor.jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)
Canadian English supporters urge Carney to abandon federal shift to British spelling
Canadian English supporters urge Carney to abandon federal shift to British spelling
Promoters of Canadian English say the federal government is sending the wrong message to the world with its recent use of British spelling in official documents.Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press (CHEK)
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No one uses the word gaol in the UK.
We say prison instead. Occasionally jail but that's more common as a verb and not a noun.
It's standardization, not censorship. So I think your take is easy overblown. If anything, it helps us understand each other better.
Although, I have to admit, sticking to British English when we already have Canadian English is friggin dumb and a huge waste of effort.
This will make a lot of work for public servants with zero useful payoff.
Not worth doing.
16 Dead After Shooters Target Hanukkah Celebration at Australia's Bondi Beach | Common Dreams
Jessica Corbett
Dec 14, 2025
“The images out of Bondi Beach in Australia this morning of a vile, antisemitic massacre at a Hanukkah celebration are shocking, disgusting, and heartbreaking,” said Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a US Senate candidate.
16 Dead After Shooters Target Hanukkah Celebration at Australia's Bondi Beach
"The images out of Bondi Beach in Australia this morning of a vile, antisemitic massacre at a Hanukkah celebration are shocking, disgusting, and heartbreaking," said Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a US Senate candidate.jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)
DNA and family history: What US authorities could demand you hand over at the border
DNA, social media and family history: What US authorities could demand you hand over at the border
Exclusive: US Customs and Border Protection could soon demand your DNA as part of an Esta applicationSimon Calder (The Independent)
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Meanwhile, for US citizens, if you submit to facial recognition, you can literally walk in you the country without showing anyone at all a passport.
Which means they already have every single bit of that data on every American.
That's the split.
It's only visible to "them ferners what ain't shouldn't be here!" So the Libertarian nuts and conspiracy crackpots that scream about Obama still don't see the surveillance state happening to them because they're already distracted.
Maybe the destruction of the tourism industry will cause an introspection of the "both sides" people to wake up and fight against this destruction of America. Who am I kidding, I still see idiots supporting Trump, even after their lives are ruined by his insane policies.
Not even that long ago I dreamt of travelling to the US and see grand canyon and other natural wonders, drive on road 66 or atleast get a feeling of how the idealistic image of USA painted my movies/music/etc actually is, maybe visit burning man and so on. Now the plan is to stay the fuck out of there unless things change drastically.
Gladly there's a crapload of other places to visit, Kyiv is on my bucket list once things calm down there.
It's time to watch Gattaca again.
In a future society in the era of indefinite eugenics, humans are set on a life course depending on their DNA.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's crackdown on the community.The Associated Press (MPR News)
Expert warns of ‘unintended consequences’ if Canada implements youth social media ban
Expert warns of ‘unintended consequences’ if Canada implements youth social media ban
Australia’s first-of-its-kind legislation that restricts young people from using popular social media sites came into effect Wednesday, and other countries are considering following suit, but an expert says a similar blanket ban for youth isn’t likel…Jordan Fleguel (CTVNews)
Unintended consequences, like being happier, having lower suicide rates, and being less manipulated by toxic corporate advertising?
Don't threaten us with a good time.
Congratulations on being an outlier.
Social media increases the rate of suicide overall though, in addition to creating increased feelings of isolation, increased inattentiveness, increased levels of rage, increased levels of political polarization, etc.
Quite frankly you have absolutely nothing to base your claim about it being a corporate problem on. There's no evidence that Lemmy / Mastodon / Pixelfed's "neutral" algorithms are any less toxic or soul destroying then Facebook or Tiktok's. I personally suspect they are to some extent, but it's also very clear that many many many people are simply addicted to rage and will find and create it online regardless of algorithm.
I claim it is a corporate problem because of things such as Meta detecting when a teen girl deleted a selfie and then showing her beauty ads.
Also these kids are going to get older, go on social media, and then have the same problems. But because they are older it seems like people don't care about them anymore.
Also social media is really useful for minorities, such as queer people, to find community and support which is especially important if they happen to have bad parents or live in an unsupportive area.
I claim it is a corporate problem because of things such as Meta detecting when a teen girl deleted a selfie and then showing her beauty ads.
Yeah, that's real evil and fucked up, but the reality is that even before doing that, Facebook / Instagram was still leading to a noticeable increase in the suicide rate of teen girls.
Also these kids are going to get older, go on social media, and then have the same problems. But because they are older it seems like people don't care about them anymore.
That's like saying that you should let teens smoke cigarettes because they'll get older and get exposed to them anyways. There's inherent benefit in delaying exposure to harm, especially when your brain is developing and changing so much.
Also social media is really useful for minorities, such as queer people, to find community and support which is especially important if they happen to have bad parents or live in an unsupportive area.
I do get that and am very sympathetic to that use case. However, on balance, it still fucks up more kids then it saves. I think the appropriate middle ground is device / account based age verification without requiring IDs and documents. Then it at least leaves the door open for an older brother or concerned community member to get a kid who needs an outlet an unlocked phone, while still more broadly discouraging it's use and denormalizing it.
I am not entirely opposed to a ban for those under like 13, but I feel like 16 is too high. And I also wouldn't support a ban until they have a way to address the negatives it would cause, which they don't have atm.
Right now it feels more like the trolley problem except all you know is that people are on both tracks but you can't see how many until after you decide whether or not to pull the lever.
I'm not handing over my ID and info to whatever data collection company simply because I want to potentially view something on social media.
You believe sites just magically know who's under 16 or not? because if you do I got some ocean front property in Kansas to sell you.
It's not magic, it's very simple, and it's what Pornhub et al keep calling for: device based verification.
You do it once when you set up your OS / OS Account, and then your device can anonymously tell websites whether you are are old enough or young enough without sharing any other info.
And if it's happening at the device level, that means that credentials and actual paper IDs arent even required, you just need a system that lets parents lock down a child device to only use their account, and set that up with their age for them (or have one of their teachers do it).
When you set up devices they ask who’s using it.
You’d have to be illiterate to not be able to solve this yourself.
those already exist. parents don't use them overwhelmingly.
my sister's kids have had theri phones locked down since they got them. limited screen time, only approved apps, etc.
literally none of their friends parents are doing this. the kids feel like their parents are abusive and cruel because they are depriving them of something everyone else has
The Province at War with Unions
The Province at War with Unions – The Rover
François Legault and his government have launched the most anti-democratic, anti-union laws in modern Quebec history. He might not have been as ready to fight this battle as he claimed.Isaac Peltz (The Rover)
Here We Go Again: Internet Age Verification and Website Blocking Bill Reintroduced in the Senate (With Some Changes)
Here We Go Again: Internet Age Verification and Website Blocking Bill Reintroduced in the Senate (With Some Changes) - Michael Geist
The last Parliament featured debate over several contentious Internet-related bills, notably streaming and news laws (Bills C-11 and C-18), online harms (Bill C-63) and Internet age verification and website blocking (Bill S-210).Michael Geist
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Once captured by the law – sites that deliberately transmit pornographic materials to minors and do not use government-approved age verification or age estimation technologies – the enforcement side kicks in. The enforcement of the bill is left to the designated regulatory agency, which can issue notifications of violations to websites and services. Those notices can include the steps the agency wants followed to bring the site into compliance. This literally means the government via its regulatory agency will dictate to sites how they must interact with users to ensure no underage access. If the site fails to act as instructed within 20 days, the regulator can apply for a court order mandating that Canadian ISPs block the site from their subscribers. The regulator would be required to identify which ISPs are subject to the blocking order.Bill S-209 is better than its predecessor as it seeks to exclude search and other incidental distribution, adopts a new standalone definition for pornographic materials, and sets a higher bar for the technology itself. Yet many concerns remain: the bill still envisions court ordered website blocking, including blocking access to lawful content by those entitled to access it. In fact, the bill expressly states that the effect of the blocking may “have the effect of preventing persons in Canada from being able to access material other than pornographic material made available by the organization.” Orders that knowingly block lawful content is certain to raise Charter of Rights challenges.
Why are we ruining everything instead of telling parents who don’t set up parental controls the morons they are?
I’m not saying I want kids to look at adult content, I am saying that this technology, as is, is a massive fucking liability.
It can trivially leak, as we’ve seen with dozens of platforms including major ones. It can trivially be used for blackmail. It’s invasive.
It’s BAD technology and bad legislation.
This isn’t even better than nothing, this is creating entire new problems that didn’t exist before, while being trivial for motivated kids to bypass.
This is building the torment nexus.
Who in their right mind is saying giving third parties our verified info to link to porn and posting anything on the internet is a good idea, except absolute fucking fascists.
If you want this, make it so browsers have to send an age token in their request headers to access adult content, and require major browsers to support that. That’s basically adding child lock and doesn’t create issues.
Can kids get around it? Yes, but not on iOS or Android without side loading, and not on windows or macOS without disabling parental controls and code signing.
Besides, with this idea one kid will steal their parents account info and share it. You can’t prevent that.
May 2025
Yall might have something bigger to worry about than 7 month old news. For example, the fact that bill's successor passed a vote reading yesterday with a majority in agreement:
annnnnd the NDP sided with the Cons on this one.
I'm never voting NDP ever again. cowardice shills. And I don't even like the Liberals.
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Can you not at least wait a couple of years to see how the ongoing disaster in the UK unfolds? Will their age checkpoints become a mild nuisance that is routinely bypassed by everyone other than the most horny and gullible? Or will they reinvent the Great Firewall as they attempt to block websites, ban VPNs, and shut down whatever convenient means to evade the checkpoints becomes popular next.
But no, the biometric data ghouls are keen to lead Canada down that same road, regardless of where it leads. Our politicians are helpless to resist the finely crafted illusions of their lobbyists, which have been gradually perfected as they infiltrate one country after another. Will there be a free world left, when it's over? I wonder which language I should start learning.
Can you not at least wait a couple of years to see how the ongoing disaster in the UK unfolds?
No. They know it's terrible. That's why they have to push it through now.
They need to further the surveillance state.
now looking to ban vpns
I hope Canada is smart enough to realize how the bulk of knowledge work in their own government is done. Hint: things are gonna suck soon.
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The age checkpoint results so far in the UK:
- Not-for-profits and community groups which formerly had their own websites feel forced to move onto big social media platforms to avoid liability under the law.
- The wrong types of content are being taken down.
- "Age assurance" is applied widely to anything the slightest bit risky.
- The list of websites that have shut down or started to geoblock the UK continues to grow.
- There are constant reports of "age estimation" not working correctly — blocking people who should be allowed through and allowing those who shouldn't.
- People are angry about it, and have responded by resorting to VPNs and other such tools in unprecedented numbers.
- Perhaps emboldened by all this success in protecting the children, the government is now threatening all-out war on general-purpose computing in the form of requiring that devices "supplied for use in the UK must have installed tamper-proof system software" to scan for CSAM.
But it's only been a few months, I'm sure there's much more to come.
EFF, Open Rights Group, Big Brother Watch, and Index on Censorship Call on UK Government to Repeal Online Safety Act
Ahead of today's Parliamentary petition debate on the Online Safety Act, EFF joined Open Rights Group, Big Brother Watch, and Index on Censorship in sending a briefing to UK politicians urging them to listen to their constituents and repeal the legis…Electronic Frontier Foundation
Point 1 tells me who wanted this the most. Facebook is a fucking cesspit that I stopped looking at ages ago and seemed like people moving away from it. They are now becoming a hub again since people are forced into it.
And Zuckerberg is a reptile who guards his own privacy to impossible extremes while wanting to know every single tiny detail about us.
any organization making available pornographic material
Amazon Porn != Amazon Prime
I dont care if kids see tits. They'll live.
Get off my ass about what your children do in your house. If the internet is not for them - great. Assume everyone here is an adult, and move the fuck on.
It is important to also reject the excuse.
I'm not wasting any time bickering about whether this achieves its stated goals because fuck its stated goals.
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I prefer Ghost of Christmas Imperative.
"Stop exploiting workers you bourgeois piece of shit."
Or for the functional programming enjoyers, Ghost of Christmas Declarative. He doesn't tell you what to do, he just passive aggressively defines what you should be.
"One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem in becoming your own father or mother that a broad-minded and well-adjusted family can't cope with. There is no problem with changing the course of history—the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the end.
The major problem is simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you, for instance, how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be descibed differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is futher complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations while you are actually traveling from one time to another with the intention of becoming your own mother or father.
Most readers get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up; and in fact in later aditions of the book all pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term "Future Perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.
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- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
But I also have the privilege of living in a country with a fairly well trained and regulated police force (Germany). I know it’s not perfect but it’s also not terrible.
Most individual cops I‘ve met do their job for the right reasons.
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Most individual cops I‘ve met do their job for the right reasons.
Most individual cops I've met have been the most abrasive egotistical assholes in any room I met them in. The one that I knew was in a relationship really lent credence to the 40% of American cops self report committing domestic violence.
public abstract class Bastard {}
private interface DictatorshipOfTheBourgeoisie {}
private class Cop extends Bastard implements DictatorshipOfTheBourgeoisie {}
The way I’ve argued it is that not all people who work as police are bastards. Some may be good people outside of work. The moment they put on that badge and willfully become part of an oppressive system, they are bastards.
Yeah. It’s got holes-a-plenty, but it brings people into the conversation without throwing a totally blanket statement.
I think it is more so anyone who can stay a cop because they push all the good people out and attract the bastards
Some people join trying to make things better but I cannot imagine anyone staying in it for that
‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead
Exclusive: group behind notorious Florida immigration detention center created bid for reconstruction deal
Trump administration insiders and well-connected Republican businesses have been jostling to dominate pending humanitarian aid and reconstruction logistics in the shattered Gaza Strip, according to sources and documents reviewed by the Guardian.
With three-quarters of Gaza’s structures damaged or destroyed by two years of Israeli strikes, the rebuilding effort to come – estimated at $70bn by the United Nations – could be a rich prize for companies that specialize in construction, demolition, transportation and logistics.
But there’s no way to issue long-term contracts for reconstruction or humanitarian aid yet: a Board of Peace, chaired by Donald Trump, was endorsed by the United Nations to administer the territory but is not yet in operation. And the mandate of the new Civil-Military Coordination Center is limited.
Roomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy, to go private after buyout
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Dec 14 (Reuters) - Roomba vacuum cleaner maker iRobot (IRBT.O), said on Sunday that it had filed for bankruptcy protection, and would go private after being acquired by Picea, its primary manufacturer.The company, which raised concerns about staying in business in March, filed for bankruptcy in the District of Delaware as it grapples with macroeconomic and tariff-related uncertainties.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/irobot-enters-chapter-11-lender-acquire-roomba-maker-2025-12-15/
Trump’s immigration data dragnet
Thousands of contracts and documents outline the contours of DHS’s surveillance capabilities: geolocation, facial recognition, DNA testing, eye scans, spyware, licence plate cameras, credit reports and more. AI tools cross-reference datasets, while mobile apps give field agents information at their fingertips.
At the same time, the proliferation of data brokers and digital, “open-source” intelligence has made surveillance easier than ever. Unlike the government programmes revealed by Edward Snowden over a decade ago, DHS has not needed to build extensive in-house capabilities — vendors now offer sweeping tools at relatively low cost.
A wide array of private corporations, from global powerhouses to niche start-ups, have secured hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts, including AT&T, Thomson Reuters, Palantir and Clearview AI. Some have hired lobbyists with ties to the White House to capitalise on ICE’s growing ambitions.
Individual surveillance technologies should be understood within the “mass surveillance context”, says Emily Tucker, a professor at Georgetown Law School. “All this stuff is being used together.”
Former officials say internal safeguards have been sidelined. “There’s less oversight and more willingness to break the rules,” says Deborah Fleischaker, who served as DHS’s privacy officer and ICE chief of staff under Biden.
“Things are just unbound,” she adds. “People are doing things that have never been done before, in ways that have never been done before, with fewer safeguards in place.”
More than a dozen former senior government officials familiar with Trump’s deportation push spoke with the FT, most on the condition of anonymity fearing retribution.
They hold a range of views about the administration’s policies and left the department for a variety of reasons, but all shared concerns about the volume of data collection, the lack of oversight, and the shift from criminal to immigration work. Many raised fears that surveillance tools may soon be used on left-wing groups and protestors who ICE claims are threats to its agents.
An FT analysis of federal procurement data shows ICE has spent at least $353mn on surveillance contracts this year, up 27 per cent from 2024. In July, Trump’s spending bill gave ICE $29bn for operations on top of its existing annual budgets for the next four years, empowering the agency to buy more tools.
ICE is hiring staff to monitor social media, seeking contractors in Vermont and California to gather “information obtained from commercial and law enforcement databases as well as publicly accessible, open-source and social media platforms.”
ICE is also hiring old-fashioned private investigators. A tender posted last month seeks contractors to “use all technology systems available” to find addresses for persons of interest, including “physical observation”. The agency says it has approximately 1.5mn names it will divide among these vendors, who can earn between $7.5mn and $281mn based on the number of people they locate.
ICE and Customs and Border Protection also collect DNA from detainees and asylum applicants, according to a privacy disclosure. One attorney says he was representing a US citizen who was given a cheek swab while incorrectly detained. Samples are stored in an FBI database where they are queryable by a range of law enforcement agencies.
ICE has also signed a contract with BI² Technologies, a vendor selling handheld eye scanners. Former officials questioned the need for the devices, noting that the agency held few, if any, iris scans to search. “My first question is why?” a former privacy official says. “What do you expect to get out of this? If they’re just out there collecting irises and biometrics, that’s a problem for me.”
“They’re spending a lot of money on things they might not even use, to benefit people who are maybe close to the administration,” says Dave Maass, director of investigations at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital privacy nonprofit monitoring ICE’s surveillance purchases. “They’re moving very fast.”
Procurement records also show that ICE has obtained tools previous administrations found problematic.
In August, ICE removed a hold on a $2mn contract with the Israeli spyware firm Paragon Solutions, which sells a phone-hacking tool called Graphite. It has been used by the Italian government to target European journalists with iMessage and WhatsApp attacks, according to researchers at The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto.
The contract was paused by the Biden White House, which had banned the use of spyware sold by foreign companies with human rights concerns. Paragon was subsequently acquired by US-based private equity firm AE Industrial Partners, which also controls Department of Defense contractor REDLattice.
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in reply to GFGJewbacca • • •Oh, he knows. To some extent.
I don’t think Netanyahu is a “true fundamentalist” like the far right part of the government. He’s Machiavellian, a suvivalist. Perhaps it’s all some means to an end, but I think Israel’s international toxicity is very much factored into his political calculus.
I don’t mean to question his faith, and I hate to sound cynical, but he’s got a looong trail of political decisions that sure speak to that.
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in reply to dogbert • • •It’s a legitimate reason to speak out against Israel. They are committing genocide while claiming self defense for all Jewish people.
Israel does not represent all Jewish people any more than The Pope represents all Christian’s.
The Israeli government is a terrorist organization, not a religion. They endanger Jewish folks all over the world through their violent, racist, terrorist, genocidal actions and speech and propaganda.
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in reply to Peter Link • • •I submit that this happened not because Australia recognizes Palestine, but that it doesn't recognize Palestine in all but pointless words. If Palestine was actually recognized as an independent country on the world stage this wouldn't have happened.
Though whoever feels the need to shoot random people partying on a beach is obviously not right in the head so there's also a chance they would have just picked something else as their reason.