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WHO power

vendredi 17 avril 2020 à 02:00

The WHO has been given so little power to coordinate response to epidemics that it can only plead with national governments.

Deportation without hearing

vendredi 17 avril 2020 à 02:00

The bully has told border thugs to deport asylum seekers summarily, without an asylum hearing.

Exams via snooping software

vendredi 17 avril 2020 à 02:00

Schools are trying to make students take exams via vicious snooping software.

The article says how nasty the program's behavior, and the company's behavior, are.

But even before we get to the nastiness of the surveillance, and the painfulness of the hoops (such as to stare at the screen and never look away), even installing the program violates your freedom. It is surely not free software, so just by running on your computer it denies your freedom, and (I expect) it requires an equally unjust operating system in order to install it.

(I tried to check those things, but the company's web site would not let me connect.)

I see two ways to avoid this in justice.

Your stand will have more power if you join together with other students as a group to refuse.

Tracking coronavirus

vendredi 17 avril 2020 à 02:00

Tracking coronavirus may be a good idea, but doing this by tracking every individual creates a threat of repression.

A clever system to detect who an infected person has come close to, without reporting where any person has been, is described here.

Riots in prisons

vendredi 17 avril 2020 à 02:00

Covid-19 outbreaks are sparking riots in many US prisons.