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Merkel Erdoğan extradition

mardi 22 août 2017 à 02:00

Erdoğan is trying to make Spain extradite an exiled Turkish writer.

White-supremacist propaganda mill

mardi 22 août 2017 à 02:00

Sinclair Broadcast News is an overt white-supremacist propaganda mill.

Spain releases Turkish exile from jail

mardi 22 août 2017 à 02:00

Spain has released Turkish exile Doğan Akhanlı from jail, but has not yet ruled out extraditing him to Turkey. Meanwhile, writer Hamza Yalcin remains in jail as Spain considers whether to extradite him.

Database of schools' student records

mardi 22 août 2017 à 02:00

Sony and IBM want to make a combined database of all schools' educational records, grades, and perhaps every piece of big data that digital education is planned to collect about each student.

To make it exciting, they plan to use a blockchain. Blockchain is the time-release version of cleavage: it blinds techies so they don't think about what might be wrong with the project.

What might be wrong with this project? The question of privacy does not seem to get much attention, and I fear they will use this to get data and misuse it.

I expect they will adopt a worthless "privacy policy", tell the public "We protect your privacy by firmly following our privacy policy", and the result will be injustice.

Court orders imprisonment of wife

mardi 22 août 2017 à 02:00

India's Supreme Court annulled a marriage, and ordered the wife to be held incommunicado as a prisoner of her parents.

Her father claimed the husband had forced her into marriage, but she says no.

The court also ordered an investigation of the facts. An investigation may be called for, but how can that justify imprisoning her now?