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Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou is fighting extradition to the United States, where she faces fraud charges.
Las autoridades de #educación anunciaron que concluyeron las obras de reconstrucción de 147 escuelas en la provincia de #Deraa, en el sur de #Siria 🇸🇾. #PrensaLatinaActualiza @LuisEnr33483555 @mok_perez https://bit.ly/3o0To3W
Las autoridades de #educación anunciaron que concluyeron las obras de reconstrucción de 147 escuelas en la provincia de #Deraa, en el sur de #Siria 🇸🇾. #PrensaLatinaActualiza@LuisEnr33483555 @mok_perezbit.ly/3o0To3W
https://nitter.snopyta.org/PLprensalatina/status/1332096798962409475#m
RT by @El_Ciudadano: Con 104 A Favor y 18 En Contra la Asamblea de Ecuador aprueba la destitución de la Ministra de Gobierno, María Paula Romo por el uso excesivo e indebido de la fuerza en las protestas de Octubre 2019. Un duro golpe para Lenin Moreno
Con 104 A Favor y 18 En Contra la Asamblea de Ecuador aprueba la destitución de la Ministra de Gobierno, María Paula Romo por el uso excesivo e indebido de la fuerza en las protestas de Octubre 2019. Un duro golpe para Lenin Moreno que al pasar los días se va quedando más solo.
https://nitter.snopyta.org/JuanfranTorres/status/1331458196318384129#m
Pompeo confirma salida de tropas estadounidenses de #Iraq y #Afganistán. Más en #PrensaLatina 👉👉 http://bit.ly/2KqUibg @SecPompeo
Pompeo confirma salida de tropas estadounidenses de #Iraq y #Afganistán. Más en #PrensaLatina 👉👉 bit.ly/2KqUibg@SecPompeo
https://nitter.snopyta.org/PLprensalatina/status/1331004600523100160#m
Bloqueo de EE.UU. castigo colectivo contra el pueblo sirio Estados Unidos y varios de sus aliados persisten en la guerra económica contra Siria después que su ejército liberara la mayor parte del territorio nacional del terrorismo takfirista. https://b
Bloqueo de EE.UU. castigo colectivo contra el pueblo sirio Estados Unidos y varios de sus aliados persisten en la guerra económica contra Siria después que su ejército liberara la mayor parte del territorio nacional del terrorismo takfirista.bit.ly/2UU5f7n
https://nitter.snopyta.org/PLprensalatina/status/1330805154229211136#m
Chile sin TPP Las semillas son de los Pueblos, no de los Gobiernos ni las transnacionales. Vía: Semillas Wallmapu#semillaslibres #NoAlTPP #medioambientelimpio #ChileDespertó #PautaLibre #RenunciaPiñera
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Together, we’ve managed to save more than 16,000 old phones from dusty drawers and landfills already. ♻️ Help us reach our target of recycling 20,000 phones in 2020! Read more and apply for your free shipping label 👉 : https://bit.ly/38XAyGF
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¿Cómo tan miserable el subsecretario del #Minsal @AlbertoDougnac? 😡En vez de solidarizar con familiares, dice que doctora del hospital de La Florida, Carol Ortiz, MURIÓ de #Covid19 porque "bajó la guardia” al contraer virus fuera del hospital ¿Cómo sabe el que bajó la guardia?
https://nitter.net/MegafonoPopular/status/1330189753929650176#m
Estados Unidos retira soldados y equipos bélicos de Siria Las fuerzas de Estados Unidos, presentes ilegalmente en el territorio de Siria, retiraron en las últimas horas equipos bélicos y soldados desde sus bases en la provincia nororiental de Hasakeh.
Estados Unidos retira soldados y equipos bélicos de Siria Las fuerzas de Estados Unidos, presentes ilegalmente en el territorio de Siria, retiraron en las últimas horas equipos bélicos y soldados desde sus bases en la provincia nororiental de Hasakeh.bit.ly/2J1fows
https://nitter.snopyta.org/PLprensalatina/status/1330043277232357376#m
Condenan visita de Pompeo a asentamiento en Cisjordania La integrante del Comité Ejecutivo de la OLP, Hanan Ashrawi, calificó de espaldarazo al saqueo de tierras la visita del jefe de la diplomacia de EE.UU. a un asentamiento judío en Cisjordania. htt
Condenan visita de Pompeo a asentamiento en Cisjordania La integrante del Comité Ejecutivo de la OLP, Hanan Ashrawi, calificó de espaldarazo al saqueo de tierras la visita del jefe de la diplomacia de EE.UU. a un asentamiento judío en Cisjordania.bit.ly/2UMGVEm
https://nitter.snopyta.org/PLprensalatina/status/1330043279849623552#m
#Chile | Mediante un comunicado de prensa, se informó que abandonaron sus cargos dos subsecretarios, dos intendentes y ocho gobernadores #Política #Actualidad https://www.elciudadano.com/chile/renuncian-a-sus-cargos-12-funcionarios-de-gobierno-para-par
#Chile | Mediante un comunicado de prensa, se informó que abandonaron sus cargos dos subsecretarios, dos intendentes y ocho gobernadores #Política #Actualidad elciudadano.com/chile/renunc…
https://nitter.snopyta.org/El_Ciudadano/status/1330043268655161344#m
KDE Pinephone, Pine 64 y KDE presentan su móvil #akdemyes
https://www.kdeblog.com/kde-pinephone-pine-64-y-kde-presentan-su-movil-akdemyes.html
Hoy es un gran día. Hoy se presenta KDE Pinephone, el dispositivo móvil que une el teléfono libre de Pine 64 y con la Comunidad KDE. El primer dispositivos móvil que vendrá con el entorno Plasma Mobile por defecto instalado.
Sáhara Occidental. Se cumple una semana de Guerra https://www.resumenlatinoamericano.org/2020/11/20/sahara-occidental-se-cumple-una-semana-de-guerra/ #SaharaOccidental #Internacional #África
Marte sigue perdiendo agua
Marte sigue perdiendo agua
La escasa agua que todavía conserva la atmósfera marciana no está confinada en su capa inferior como se pensaba, sino que asciende a la superior, donde se convierte en hidrógeno atómico que escapa al espacio, según los datos recogidos por la sonda MA…www.agenciasinc.es
Épico regreso de Evo Morales a Bolivia http://youtube.com/watch?v=5lTA8dtYe_E&feature=youtu.be https://piensachile.com/2020/11/epico-regreso-de-evo-morales-a-bolivia/
Épico regreso de Evo Morales a Bolivia invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=5lTA8dtY… piensachile.com/2020/11/epic…
https://nitter.net/piensaChilecom/status/1328039454506946560#m
Cuando los anarquistas convirtieron el Hotel Ritz de Barcelona en un comedor social (1936)
Barcelona fue desde finales del siglo XIX y hasta los primeros compases de la Guerra Civil la capital del anarquismo mundial. Recién inicia...
Cuando los anarquistas convirtieron el Hotel Ritz de Barcelona en un comedor social (1936) – Strambotic – https://www.strambotic.com/ritz-de-barcelona-en-un-comedor-social/
For @themandalorian, they hired an actual Deaf actor to play one of the Tusken raiders and help create Tusken Sign Language. 😍
They did this bc a hearing person who knew ASL suggested it.
It’s our responsibility, when we’re in the room, to look around and see who’s missing.
Y para el resto del mundo, acá... Luna de hoy 31 de octubre. Teleobjetivo Fujinon 400:4.5 + Webcam Philips SPC640N. Procesamiento con GIMP stacking con Registax #luna #halloween #astronomia #fotografia
Roger Waters pide al primer ministro británico que libere a Julian Assange
La semana pasada terminó la audiencia de extradición del fundador de Wikileaks y en enero se conocerá la resolución. De ser extraditado a Estados Unidos, Assange podría enfrentar una sentencia de hasta 175 años de prisión.
Fuente: https://videos.jornada.com.mx/video/97014614/libera-a-julian-assange-le-pide-roger-waters-al-pr/
https://rebelion.org/roger-waters-pide-al-primer-ministro-britanico-que-libere-a-julian-assange/
Exposing Your Face Isn't a More Hygienic Way to Pay
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/exposing-your-face-isnt-more-hygienic-way-pay
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A company called PopID has created an identity-management system that uses face recognition. Their first use case is as a system for in-store, point of sale payments using face recognition as authorization for payment.
They are promoting it as a tool for restaurants, claiming that it is pandemic-friendly because it is contactless.
Nonetheless, the PopID payment system is less secure than alternatives, unfriendly to privacy, and is likely riskier than other payment alternatives for anyone concerned about catching COVID-19. On top of these issues, PopID is pitching it as a screening tool for COVID-19 infection, another task that it's completely unsuited for.Equities issues
It's important that payment systems not disadvantage cash payments, which have the best social equity. Many people are under-banked and in hard times such as these, many people use cash as a way to help them manage their budgets and spending. Cash is also the most privacy-friendly way to pay. As convenient as other systems are, and despite cash not being contactless, we need to protect people's ability to use cash1.
PopID is a charge-up-and-spend system. To lower their costs, PopID has its users charge up an account wn ith them using a credit card or debit card, and payments are deducted from that. Charge-and-spend systems are good for the store, and less good for the person using them; they amount to an interest-free loan that the consumer gives the merchant. This is no small thing: Starbucks, PayPal, and Walmart all have billions in interest-free loans from their customers. This further disadvantages people with budgets, as it requires them to give PopID money before it is spent and keep a balance in their system in anticipation of spending it.
PopID also requires their customers to have a smartphone for enrollment-by-selfie, which disadvantages those who don't have one.
To be fair, these issues are largely fixable. PopID could allow someone to enroll without a phone at any payment station. They could allow charge-up with cash, and they could allow direct charge2. But for now, the company does not offer these easy solutions.Fitness to task
Looking beyond its potentially fixable perpetuation of systematic inequalities, it's important that a system actually do what it's intended to do. PopID is pitching it as a pandemic-friendly system, providing both contactless payments and as a COVID-19 screening device, using the camera as a temperature sensor. Neither of these is a good idea.Temperature scanning with commodity cameras won't work
PopID promotes their system as a temperature scanning device for employees and customers alike. Temperature screening itself has limited benefit, as around half the people who have COVID-19 are asymptomatic.
Moreover, accurate temperature screening is expensive and hard. PopID is not the only organization to promote cheap face recognition with COVID-19 screening as the excuse. In reality, the cheap camera in a point-of-sale terminal is both inaccurate and intrusive as Jay Stanley of the ACLU describes in detail.
There's a wide range in the accuracy of temperature-scanning cameras, in normal human body temperature across a population, and even an individual's temperature based on time of day and their physical activities. Even the best cameras are finicky, not working accurately if people are wearing hats, glasses, or masks, and require the camera to view only one subject at a time.
Speeding up a sandwich shop line does help prevent COVID-19, because we know that spending too much time too close to other people is the primary mode of transmission. But, temperature scanning along with payment doesn't help people space themselves out or have shorter contact.Face recognition raises COVID-19 risks
PopID pitches their system as good during the pandemic because it is contactless. Yet it is worse than payment alternatives.
PopID's web site shows a picture of a payment terminal, with options to use contactless payment systems such as Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay. Presumably, any contactless credit card could be used. Additionally, a barcode system like the one Starbucks uses is contactless.
PopID's point of sale terminal
Any of these contactless payment alternatives are much better than PopID from a public health standpoint because they don't require someone to remove their mask. The LA Times article comments parenthetically, "(The software struggles at recognizing faces with masks.)"
Indeed, any contactless payment system has less contact than using cash, yet even cash is low-risk. Almost all COVID-19 transmission is through breathing in virus particles in droplets or aerosols, not from fomites that we touch. Moreover, cash is easy to wash in soapy water.
This is a big deal for a supposedly pandemic-friendly system. The most recent restaurant-based superspreading event in the news is particularly relevant. A person in South Korea sat for two hours in a coffee shop under the air conditioning, and spread the disease to twenty-seven other people, who in turn spread it to twenty-nine other people, for a total of fifty-six people. And yet, none of the mask-wearing employees got the virus.
This is particularly relevant to PopID; a contactless system that makes someone take off a mask endangers the other customers. Ironically, if a customer sees a store using PopID, they better be wearing a mask because PopID is requiring them to come off momentarily. Or they could just shop somewhere else.Security
PopID brings in new security risks that do not exist in other systems. They have the user's payment information (for charging up the payment store), their phone number (it's part of registration), name, and of course the selfie that's used for face recognition. There's no reason to suppose they're any worse than the cloud services that inevitably lose people information, but no reason to think they're better. Thus, we should assume that eventually a hacker's going to get all that information.
However, being a payment system, there is the obvious additional risk of fraud. PopID says, "Your Face now becomes your singular, ultra-secure 'digital token' across all PopID transactions and devices," yet that can't possibly be so.
Face recognition systems are well-known to be inaccurate as NIST recently showed, particularly with Black, Indigenous, Asian and other People of Color, women, and also Trans or nonbinary people. False positives are common and in a payment system, a false positive means a false charge. PopID says they will confirm any match through the verification process of asking someone their name. To be fair, this is not a bad secondary check but is hardly "ultra-secure." Moreover, it requires every PopID customer to tell the whole store their name (or use a PopID pseudonym).
Lastly, PopID doesn't say how they'll permit someone to dispute charges, an important factor since the credit card industry is regulated with excellent consumer protection. In the event of fraud, it's much easier to be issued a new credit card than a new face.
The end result is that PopID's pay-by-face is less secure than using a contactless card, and less secure than cash.Privacy
PopID is an incipient privacy nightmare. The obvious privacy issues of an unregulated payment system that knows where your face has been is only the start of the problem. The LA Times writes:But [CEO of PopID, John] Miller’s vision for a face-based network goes beyond paying for lunch or checking in to work. After users register for the service, he wants to build a world where they can “use it for everything: at work in the morning to unlock the door, at a restaurant to pay for tacos, then use it to sign in at the gym, for your ticket at the Lakers game that night, and even use it to authenticate your age to buy beers after.”Nothing more needs to be said. PopID as a payment system is a stalking horse for a face-surveillance panopticon and salable database of trusted faces.
“You can imagine lots of things that you can do when you have a big database of faces that people trust,” Miller said.Conclusion
PopID is less secure and less private than alternative forms of payment, contactless or not. It brings with it a lot of social equity issues that negatively impact marginalized communities. Moreover, any store using PopID and thus requiring other people to remove their masks to pay is exposing you to COVID-19 that you would not otherwise be exposed to.
Most alarmingly, it is also an insecure for-profit surveillance system building a database of you, your face, your purchases, your movements, and your habits.
- This is a complex issue in that we all intuitively think of money as dirty, and in pandemic times, this is even more on everyone's mind. However, the evidence at this writing (September, 2020) is that exposure through touch is possible but not common, while transmission through breath is the way almost all transmission occurs. ↩︎
- Yes, these potential fixes are in tension with each other. If someone using the system wants to be cash-only, they're going to have to have a pre-paid balance in the system. In the other direction, direct-charge system has higher costs to PopID, but that's their business issue, and not the customer's. ↩︎
I so totally agree with this list! Windows 10 definitely is a quantum leap improvement over Windows 8 such that it finally got me off Windows 7. The update suck among other things was still enough to make me take the jump to #linux and never look back.The worst version of Windows ever released
Windows Me was unstable, unloved and unusable. But was it really the worst OS Microsoft ever produced – worse even than Windows 8?www.computerworld.com
RT by @prensaopal: "348 millones de dólares adicionales en ayuda humanitaria" Ya sabemos que es "ayuda humanitaria" en la jerga de la Mafiocracia gringa :) Mike Pompeo: EEUU trabaja para apartar la “influencia maligna de Cuba” en Venezuela #19Sep htt
"348 millones de dólares adicionales en ayuda humanitaria" Ya sabemos que es "ayuda humanitaria" en la jerga de la Mafiocracia gringa :) Mike Pompeo: EEUU trabaja para apartar la “influencia maligna de Cuba” en Venezuela #19Sep elimpulso.com/2020/09/19/mik… a través de @elimpulsocom
https://nitter.13ad.de/marxismo_cl/status/1307708722131726344#m
[A]normalidad en tiempos de pandemiaSursiendo hilos sueltosUn nuevo [des]orden glocal
Las medidas de aislamiento físico que nos impuso la contingencia sanitaria por el Covid-19 cambió innumerables aspectos de lo cotidiano, la nueva [a]normalidad agregó como extensión de nuestros cuerpos nuevas herramientas, dispositivos electrónicos y digitales para sostener la [con]vivencia e interacción con la familia, el trabajo, las comunidades a las que pertenecemos. Sin imaginar el horizonte de cambios que se gestarían en la geografía global, gran parte de nuestras rutinas, hábitos y formas de interacción se modificaron paulatinamente; el espacio público, abierto y de convivencia se transformó en una zona de riesgo, con filtros sanitarios a los que solo puedes acceder si cumples con las condiciones para el control social. En varias ciudades del mundo se implementó el uso de cámaras de seguridad con algoritmos de reconocimiento facial y aplicaciones como las denominadas CoronApps para el monitoreo de movilidad del virus pero también para el rastreo y obtención de datos de la ciudadanía.#biodiversidad-tecnologica #comunalidad #comunicacion #comunidades #culturadigital #culturalibre #derechosdigitales #derechoshumanos #internet #monopolio-tecnologico #redescomunitarias
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Write code readable by a stranger because a month or two out you'll be looking at your code as a stranger again. #programmingmemes
