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Ban on covering your face in public transit

vendredi 2 août 2019 à 02:00

The Netherlands' ban on covering your face in public transit and public buildings turns out to be problematic to enforce.

That is good — because face coverings are the only known way to block face recognition personally. The ban harms anyone that wants privacy in movements.

Amazon's Ring

vendredi 2 août 2019 à 02:00

Everything Cops Say About Amazon's Ring Is Scripted or Approved by [Amazon].

It should be a crime to set up such an agreement: the thugs that sign it should be criminals and so should the company they make it with.

Meanwhile, the substance of Ring's massive face recognition is dangerous in substance.

Training to thugs in Central America

vendredi 2 août 2019 à 02:00

The US has giving misguided training to thugs in Central America.

Israeli soldiers demolished Palestinians' houses

vendredi 2 août 2019 à 02:00

When Israeli soldiers demolished Palestinians' houses in the West Bank, saying they were too close to the border between land that Israel claims to have annexed as part of Jerusalem and land Israel does not claim to have annexed, they attacked a number of solidarity witnesses.

For instance, British solidarity witnesses were in the bathroom, so soldiers threw in tear gas which had no way to dissipate. And that was only the start of the violence against them.

The attackers broke the witnesses' bones and in some cases maimed them.

Totalitarian surveillance

vendredi 2 août 2019 à 02:00

The bully hopes that totalitarian surveillance will stop people from fleeing El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to the US.

The reason I don't think so is that the governments will control the surveillance and the governments are not interested in making those countries safe for ordinary people. The surveillance won't eliminate the gangs because the gangs are too powerful