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Force-feeding migrants on hunger strike

lundi 2 mars 2020 à 01:00

Some migrants in US immigration prison are on hunger strike and being force-fed. They are being held waiting for hearings to decide whether they can have asylum.

UCLA renounces face recognition

lundi 2 mars 2020 à 01:00

UCLA has yielded to public pressure and decided not to install face recognition technology.

I suggest sending a message of appreciation. Here is what I sent.

From: Richard Stallman 
To: chancellor@ucla.edu
cc: media@stratcomm.ucla.edu
cc: rms
bcc: lia@fightforthefuture.org
Subject: Thank you for no face recognition
bcc: rms-outgoing@gnu.org
Reply-To: rms@gnu.org
--text follows this line--
I am very gratified to read that UCLA decided not to use face
recognition technology.

It is not illegal to deploy systematic face recognition, but it ought
to be, since it is the foundation for repression.  All organizations
have the responsibility to help prevent face recognition from becoming
widespread.

See https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html
for why that level of surveillance is incompatible with democracy.
Also https://stallman.org/articles/real-privacy-laws.html.

Giving up the good way

lundi 2 mars 2020 à 01:00

An oil company has given up on plans to drill for oil off Australia's southern coast.

Urgent: Roger Stone sentencing recommendation

lundi 2 mars 2020 à 01:00

US citizens: call on congress and the DOJ inspector general to investigate the process of reversing the Roger Stone sentencing recommendation.

Held captive through healthcare

lundi 2 mars 2020 à 01:00

Corporations like having healthcare linked to employment. They like having people held captive in jobs they hate for fear that they’ll lose their health coverage.*

And other reasons why big companies will fight to the death — their workers' death — against any plan that will assure those workers get medical care.