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GIDARI | Escuela de pastores

Como os contamos a finales del año pasado, en lady Moustache hemos estado trabajando en el nombre y la de identidad de una nueva marca que verá la luz próximamente. Tras un largo proceso, podemos decir que la marca ya está lista. Se trata de una escuela para pastores ubicada en pleno valle del Roncal.

Para la imagen de marca, nuestro equipo de diseño y creativo ha jugado con los símbolos, valores y colores típicos de la zona y el oficio, haciendo referencia a las casas del valle y a otros elementos como el ganado o el bastón.

En un mundo cada vez más industrializado, hay que encontrar ese equilibrio que nos haga volver a los orígenes y a los oficios que siguen siendo esenciales y poco a poco se van perdiendo.   

En este momento, nos encontramos inmersos en la creación de una estrategia de comunicación que consiga lanzar la escuela y convertirla en un referente a nivel nacional.

Desde Lady Moustache apoyamos y fomentamos los proyectos rurales. Puedes ver todos nuestros proyectos en www.ladymoustache.es.

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The Trauma Of Filming A Black Person Being Killed By The Police

Often forgotten in these far too common acts of police violence and fatal police-civilian encounters, involving unarmed Black people, is the dangerous, emotional and traumatic labor of bearing witness.

Written By Constantine Gidaris

Posted April 22, 2022

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Patrick Lyoya is shown on bodycam video shortly before an unidentified police officer shot him in the back of his head in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on April 4, 2022. | Source: City of Grand Rapids / City of Grand Rapids

On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner’s murder by NYPD officers was captured by Ramsey Orta on his mobile phone camera. Choked, handcuffed and pinned face down to the ground, Garner’s repeated calls for help, encapsulated by the phrase “I can’t breathe,” were ignored by the arresting officers.

Nearly six years later, the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Department officers was recorded by Darnella Frazier, a young Black woman who captured the final moments of Floyd’s life on her mobile phone. Her video shows Floyd handcuffed with his head pinned underneath the knee of a police officer, repeatedly yelling, “I can’t breathe.”

Like Orta’s video, the footage that Frazier uploaded to Facebook has since gone viral. Used by many media outlets, Frazier’s video has led to public outrage and ongoing mass protests. It also assisted in the decision to fire the four arresting police officers, and to subsequently charge one with second-degree murder and the other three with aiding and abetting.

Bearing direct and indirect witness to trauma

Often forgotten in these far too common acts of police violence and fatal police-civilian encounters, involving unarmed Black people, is the dangerous, emotional and traumatic labor of bearing witness.

Following Garner’s death, Orta’s life took a drastic turn for the worse. From 2014 to 2016, Orta was arrested three times for a series of charges, which activists maintain stem from retaliatory set-ups by the NYPD for filming the video. Despite providing the footage that served as the catalyst for the “I can’t breathe” slogan and movement, Orta remains incarcerated to this day.

The day after Floyd’s death, Frazier returned to the scene of the killing, crying and emotionally distraught. In a video that has been viewed nearly 2.5 million times, Frazier pleads, “They killed this man. And I was right there! I was like five feet away! It is so traumatizing.”

If the emotional and traumatic consequences of bearing witness to Floyd’s killing were not enough, Frazier has also encountered online harassment for recording and posting the video. In the comments section of the video Frazier uploaded to Facebook, some have chastised her for recording the footage without intervening. Frazier comes to her own defence, writing:

“I don’t expect anyone who wasn’t placed in my position to understand why and how I feel the way that I do. MIND YOU I am a minor! 17 years old, of course I’m not about to fight off a cop.”

Attempts to diminish the profound effects of bearing witness to traumatic events aim to dismiss the notion of shared trauma. As literary critic Shoshana Felman and psychoanalyst Dori Laub argue, the listener or, in this case, the viewer, becomes “a participant and co-owner of the traumatic event.” In this sense, viewing the deaths of Garner and Floyd behind a screen can be different but equally traumatic experiences for both the person recording and for the viewer.

The effects of bearing witness

Viewing race-based trauma can be particularly traumatic for Black people for whom police violence is a leading cause of death. This realization is intensified by the danger that the mere occupation of public space poses for Black lives.

In part, this stems from a refusal on behalf of white folks to recognize the extensive history of race-based policing in both the United States and in Canada. There is also a pressing need for white people to understand that policing itself is a form of harm, especially for people of colour. As writer and activist Desmond Cole reminds us, police violence committed against Black people is too often treated as a “one off.”

Some suggest that using mobile phone cameras to watch the police is a means of “prevent[ing] police violence from being used against other community members or oneself.” But given that Black men are far more likely to be killed by police than white men, bearing witness on camera as a form of cop-watching has not prevented further police violence from occurring. Instead, bearing witness involves race-based trauma that attempts to hold police accountable for the pain they have long inflicted against Black people and communities.

As writer Kia Gregory says, acts of police violence and deadly police-civilian encounters “are so pervasive, they inflict a unique harm on viewers, particularly African Americans, who see themselves and those they love in these fatal encounters.”

Patrick Lyoya’s parents Peter Lyoya (L) and Dorcas Lyoya pose for a portrait as they hold a photo of their son at their home on April 15, 2022, in Lansing, Michigan. | Source: The Washington Post / Getty

The trauma of bearing witness extends from the person experiencing, recording or witnessing violent or fatal police encounters, to those who subsequently view and witness the recording through a digital medium, and most often through social media platforms. Viewing such videos can induce stress, fear, frustration, anger and anxiety. There is medical evidence to suggest that viewing footage of race-based trauma can lead to a physical ailments, including eating and sleeping disorders, high blood pressure and heart problems.

Bearing witness to these acts of deadly police violence can be traumatizing for anyone. Keenly aware of the mental health toll that police violence and race-based trauma can take, a GoFundMe campaign has raised nearly US$500,000 for Darnella Frazier’s “peace and healing.”

For Black folks, in particular, the terrifying and everyday reality that they encounter at the hands of police is a trauma that endures long after the initial act of witnessing has occurred. It is a trauma that is relived and re-experienced not only in person but behind the screen.

Constantine Gidaris, PhD Candidate, English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University

This article is republished from The Conversationunder a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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Korean Phrase (lol)

i’ve been watching kdramas for weeks nonstop and i can’t help to learn a few of their phrases that catch my ears, so i’m going to write some that i remember in latin cause i can’t type hangul. i’m sorry if i type it wrong since i only rely on my hearing and try to type exactly how i hear it.

jigeum pamokcha = let’s eat now

baegopa = hungry

jamkkaman gidari = wait a little longer, wait a second?

na waso = i’m home

jusungeyo, mianhae = i’m sorry (didn’t know the level of formality but both means same)

taengida = what a relief

anything that starts with ‘an’ means not, an baegopa = not hungry, an busowo = not afraid, an joha = don’t like

cugule = you want to die?; cugo = death; cumunda = you’re dead

micheoso = crazy; no micheoso = you’re crazy; no michinaba = you must’ve lost your mind

kamsa = grateful

chogiyo = excuse me

sipeo means ‘want’, mogosipeo = want to eat

sekiya??? i don’t know how to spell it but it sounds like that, means jerk lol

no narang sagile = go out with me

jib = house

yeppo = beautiful

maja = that’s right

kaja = let’s go

etc.

there are a lot but these are the most common things i heard whenever i watch kdramas lol. i’m gonna write some more if there are anything that catch my attention lol.

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Secret F.B.I. Subpoenas Scoop Up Personal Data From Companies https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/us/data-privacy-fbi.html

Secret F.B.I. Subpoenas Scoop Up Personal Data From Scores of Companies

By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries | Published Sept. 20, 2019, 5:00 a.m. ET | New York Times | Posted September 20, 2019 8:00 AM ET |

The F.B.I. has used secret subpoenas to obtain personal data from far more companies than previously disclosed, newly released documents show.

The requests, which the F.B.I. says are critical to its counterterrorism efforts, have raised privacy concerns for years but have been associated mainly with tech companies. Now, records show how far beyond Silicon Valley the practice extends — encompassing scores of banks, credit agencies, cellphone carriers and even universities.

The demands can scoop up a variety of information, including usernames, locations, IP addresses and records of purchases. They don’t require a judge’s approval and usually come with a gag order, leaving them shrouded in secrecy. Fewer than 20 entities, most of them tech companies, have ever revealed that they’ve received the subpoenas, known as national security letters.

The documents, obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit and shared with The New York Times, shed light on the scope of the demands — more than 120 companies and other entities were included in the filing — and raise questions about the effectiveness of a 2015 law that was intended to increase transparency around them.

“This is a pretty potent authority for the government,” said Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas who specializes in national security. “The question is: Do we have a right to know when the government is collecting information on us?”

The documents provide information on about 750 of the subpoenas — representing a small but telling fraction of the half-million issued since 2001, when the Patriot Act expanded their powers.

The credit agencies Equifax, Experian and TransUnion received a large number of the letters in the filing. So did financial institutions like Bank of America, Western Union and even the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. All declined to explain how they handle the letters. An array of other entities received smaller numbers of requests — including Kansas State University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, probably because of their role in providing internet service.

Other companies included major cellular providers such as AT&T and Verizon, as well as tech giants like Google and Facebook, which have acknowledged receiving the letters in the past.

Albert Gidari, a lawyer who long represented tech and telecommunications companies and is now the privacy director at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society, said Silicon Valley had been associated with the subpoenas because it was more willing than other industries to fight the gag orders. “Telecoms and financial institutions get little attention,” he said, even though the law specifically says they are fair game.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation determined that information on the roughly 750 letters could be disclosed under a 2015 law, the USA Freedom Act, that requires the government to review the secrecy orders “at appropriate intervals.”

The Justice Department’s interpretation of those instructions has left many letters secret indefinitely. Department guidelines say the gag orders must be evaluated three years after an investigation starts and also when an investigation is closed. But a federal judge noted “several large loopholes,” suggesting that “a large swath” of gag orders might never be reviewed.

According to the new documents, the F.B.I. evaluated 11,874 orders between early 2016, when the rules went into effect, and September 2017, when the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group, requested the information.

“We are not sure the F.B.I. is taking its obligations under USA Freedom seriously,” said Andrew Crocker, a lawyer with the foundation. “There still is a huge problem with permanent gag orders.”

The Justice Department declined to comment.

National security letters, which the F.B.I. has issued since the 1980s, have long been a point of contention in the debate over privacy and security. Initially, the bureau had to show “specific and articulable facts” indicating that the target was an agent of a foreign power. Now, the F.B.I. must certify that the information is “relevant” to a terrorism, counterintelligence or leak investigation.

“NSLs are an indispensable investigative tool,” the Justice Department argued in the Freedom of Information Act case. The department has said in legal documents that the information gleaned from the letters is important to identifying subjects and their associates, while helping to clear the innocent of suspicion.

According to a 2007 report from the Justice Department inspector general, the F.B.I. didn’t track how often information from the letters was used in criminal proceedings. But the report also said the letters had led to guilty pleas for arms trading, at least one conviction for material support of terrorism, and multiple charges of fraud and money laundering. The tool was also cited in efforts to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Much of the concern about the letters has focused on the gag orders, which accompany nearly every request and prevent the recipient — typically indefinitely — from disclosing even the existence of the letter. The federal government has argued that the secrecy is necessary to avoid alerting targets, giving would-be terrorists clues about how the government conducts its surveillance or hurting diplomatic relations.

After a series of court rulings found that the gag orders violated First Amendment protections, Congress enacted the review requirements.

The documents obtained through the lawsuit include the number of orders reviewed, as well as redacted copies of 751 letters from the F.B.I. informing companies and organizations their gag orders had been lifted. These so-called termination letters do not reveal the contents of the original national security letters, but indicate which entities received them.

Because so few gag orders have been reviewed and rescinded, it isn’t possible to say whether the companies that received the most termination letters also received the most national security letters. But given the overall secrecy around the program, the termination letters offer a rare glimpse into these subpoenas.

Equifax, Experian and AT&T received the most termination letters: more than 50 each. TransUnion, T-Mobile and Verizon each received more than 40. Yahoo, Google and Microsoft got more than 20 apiece. Over 60 companies received just one.

The underlying national security letters were not included in the documents, and it is unclear when most of them were issued and who the individual targets were.

Tech companies have disclosed more information about the letters they received than the major phone providers, which included general information about them in transparency reports.

“We have fought for the right to be transparent about our receipt” of national security letters, Richard Salgado, Google’s director of law enforcement and information security, said in a 2016 statement explaining why the company was releasing the subpoenas. “Our goal in doing so is to shed more light on the nature and scope” of the requests, he added.

Other companies have generally remained mum. In response to inquiries, a TransUnion spokesman would say only that the company “has not disclosed the receipt of any national security letters.” An spokesman for Equifax said it was “compliant with the national security letters process.”

Mr. Gidari, the former tech lawyer, attributed some of that lack of reporting to differences in company culture, noting that tech firms were more predisposed to openness, and financial institutions less likely to discuss any outside access to customer data. And most small companies, he said, don’t have the resources to keep long-term track of or challenge the subpoenas.

“That’s the problem with the Freedom Act: It procedurally pretended to solve the problem,” he said. “But the whole structure of this involves presumption in favor of the government for perpetual sealing.”

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The Nigerian Institution of Safety Engineers installed Engr. Akaninyene Ekong as 3rd National Chairman TNigerian Institution of Safety Engineers, a division of the Nigerian society of Engineers last week Saturday inaugurate Engr. Akaninyene Edet Ekong MNSE, FNISafetyE as its 3rd National Chairman at the Ibom Icon Hotel and Golf Resort (le Meridien) , Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. The colourful event which draw dignitaries and professional engineers from across the country also feature some respected public figures being honoured with meritorious awards Among those in attendace includes, Engr. Tasiu Sa'ad Gidari- wudil, FNSE the National president Nigerian society of Engineers, Engr. Azuka Emeasoba, FNISafetyE immediate past National Chairman NISafetyE. Engr. Prof. Joseph Odigure, FNSE, Engr. Wisdom Enang, FNSE. His Royal Highness Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero the Emir of Kano, His Royal majesty Edidem Sylvanus Okon, paramount ruler Uyo LGA, His Royal majesty Rt Hon Edidem Cosmas Nkanga, paramount Ruler Uruan LGA, His Royal Majesty Etinyin Meseme Paramount Ruler Odukpani LGA, Cross River State, Engr. Chidozie Okereke FNISafetyE, Engr. Segun Olatunji FNISafetyE, Chairman Board of Fellows, Engr&Mrs Joseph Ekong, distinguished Senator Bassey Albert Chairman Senate Committee, upstream petroleum resources, Engr. Christopher Ekpenyong senator representing Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District Akwa Ibom State among other distinguished personalities. Engr Akaninyene Ekong, becomes the 3rd National Chairman of NISafetyE, having served as a pioneer Chairman of Akwa Ibom State Chapter of NISafetyE, National Vice Chairman 1 and deputy National Chairman in the last two years as well as holding other positions over the years. He has worked with joint professional training & support internationally as a HSE consultant, ExxonMobil development company (EMDC) as part of the Nigeria Drilling team and with prosafety, integrated services as a HSE consultant; Read Full Piece on www.newsieevents.com https://www.instagram.com/p/CZwl_umpziO/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Building collapse: Ensure application of standards in your operations – Minister tells Engineers

The Minister of Power, Mr Abubakar Aliyu has called on engineers in the building sector to be proactive and ensure standard operations in the discharge of their duties.

Mrs Odutayo Oluseyi, Assistant Director, Press, Ministry of Power, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Monday.

The minister spoke against the backdrop of a recent building collapse in the country during a visit by the Deputy President/President-elect of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Mr Gidari-Wudil, in his Office.

Aliyu, while congratulating the NSE President-elect, reminded him of the enormous responsibility bestowed on him as the President.

He said that Government is making lots of investments in the area of infrastructure which engineers are critical stakeholders

The Minister of Power, Mr Abubakar Aliyu has called on engineers in the building sector to be proactive and ensure standard operations in the discharge of their duties.

Mrs Odutayo Oluseyi, Assistant Director, Press, Ministry of Power, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Monday.

The minister spoke against the backdrop of a recent building collapse in the country during a visit by the Deputy President/President-elect of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Mr Gidari-Wudil, in his Office.

He said, “the huge investment in the area of the infrastructure of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is commendable.”

He advised the incoming President to ensure the application of professionalism through proper procedures and specifications

The minister urged Wudil to synergise with Government to curb further calamities occasioned by infrastructural defects.

Responding, the President-elect of the NSE assured the minister that the Nigerian Society of Engineers under his watch would be proactive and up and doing.

He further said that the society would work closely with the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) and other bodies to ensure the application of professionalism due to the strategic nature of the Engineering profession.

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" Il padre" Alla Corte di Genova

Martedì 13 marzo alle 20.30, al Teatro della Corte va in scena “IL PADRE” di August Strindberg, con Gabriele Lavia protagonista. Lo spettacolo, prodotto dalla Fondazione Teatro della Toscana e dal Teatro Stabile di Genova è diretto da Gabriele Lavia e interpretato anche da Federica Di Martino e da Giusi Merli, Gianni De Lellis, Michele Demaria, Anna Chiara Colombo, Ghennadi Gidari, Luca Pedron. Le scene sono di Alessandro Camera, i costumi di Andrea Viotti, le musiche di Giordano Corapi e le luci di Michelangelo Vitullo. “IL PADRE” è una tragedia che nasce dal tentativo di comporre un’opera “naturalistica”, uno scavo nella natura umana a partire da una semplice dinamica familiare: due genitori si scontrano sull’educazione da impartire alla figlia. Il Capitano di Cavalleria Adolf, icona dell’uomo moderno, lontano da ogni forma di superstizione popolare o religiosa, vorrebbe decidere il destino della figlia adolescente Berta e mandarla a studiare in città, per farla diventare un’insegnante. Sua moglie, donna dal carattere concreto e volitivo, è pronta a tutto per contrastare il volere del marito, persino ad instillare in lui l’atroce dubbio di non essere il padre della ragazza, scatenando nell’uomo un calvario mentale che finirà per annientarlo. Un conflitto di coppia mette così alla berlina la crisi della famiglia borghese, la solitudine umana costretta in dinamiche relazionali rigide, gelide e a lunghi periodi di sofferenza psichica. “IL PADRE” è il testo più famoso di Strindberg e, come lo definì Nietzsche, “Un capolavoro di dura psicologia”. Gabriele Lavia, maestro della scena teatrale, lo affronta per la terza volta nell’arco della sua carriera ed afferma: «L’azione di quest’opera è tutta interiore e stretta nella morsa tragica dell’unità di tempo, luogo e azione nella quale deve essere compiuto il “delitto perfetto”: l’omicidio psichico. Il nostro spettacolo precipita l’azione dentro una vertigine di velluto rosso sangue dove il quieto salotto familiare comincia ad ‘affondare’ nel naufragio di ogni certezza. È il naufragio del mondo e della storia. Ma forse la vita non è altro che un naufragio». “IL PADRE” è in scena al Teatro della Corte da martedì 13 a domenica 18 marzo. Dal martedì al sabato alle ore 20.30. Domenica ore 16. La recita del giovedì inizia alle 19.30. La prima rappresentazione sarà preceduta nel foyer della Corte, alle ore 19,45 da un breve concerto organizzato in collaborazione con il Conservatorio Paganini: musiche tratte E. Grieg - Due Danze norvegesi per pianoforte a quattro mani e da A. Dvorak - Due Danze slave per pianoforte a quattro mani. Al pianoforte Clarissa Carafa e Michele Carraro. L’ingresso al concerto è libero. -------------------------------------- Mercoledì 14 marzo alle ore 17.30, nel foyer della Corte, Gabriele Lavia e gli attori della Compagnia de “IL PADRE” incontrano il pubblico. Conduce Umberto Basevi. Ingresso libero. http://dlvr.it/QKZcrp

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US COVID-19 monitoring: a patchwork of apps, human tracers

An operator works in a name heart devoted to COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) tracing. Picture Credit score: AFP

Digital or handbook? Bluetooth or GPS? Centralized or decentralized?

Efforts in america to trace the unfold of the lethal novel coronavirus – referred to as contact tracing – have turn out to be a patchwork primarily based on differing approaches to know-how and civil liberties.

Some US governors have shunned digital tracing efforts, as an alternative hiring 1000’s of human contact tracers to find individuals who have been close to an contaminated particular person.

Others see smartphone apps – which use Bluetooth wi-fi sensing and ship automated alerts when folks have crossed paths with an contaminated particular person – as the one method to scale up the trouble to succeed in folks in danger of spreading the illness.

With each techniques, considerations stay over privateness and authorities surveillance.

An Apple-Google platform designed with wi-fi Bluetooth beacons is aimed toward easing the trail to digital contact tracing by permitting smartphones utilizing the 2 dominant techniques to speak with one another.

The system unveiled by the large tech companies this week has been made accessible to 22 international locations however has been adopted thus far for apps in simply three US states.

Some jurisdictions are in search of centralized management via well being companies and to make use of satellite tv for pc GPS location – which the tech companies will not enable attributable to considerations over privateness and civil liberties.

Privateness activists are divided on the tradeoffs of cellular know-how for virus monitoring.

“We don’t yet know if any of these technologies will work, but we do know that we currently lack many of the protections needed to guard against abuse or overreach,” mentioned Neema Singh Guliani of the American Civil Liberties Union.

However Jules Polonetsky of the Future of Privateness Discussion board, a nonprofit analysis group, mentioned the Google-Apple system strikes the suitable stability on privateness as a result of it retains information on customers’ gadgets till they select to share it.

“Relying on such apps is in my view a potentially helpful supplemental safety measure that fills a gap created by the current challenges,” Polonetsky mentioned in a weblog publish.

Location monitoring

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A number of US states are launching their very own apps with out Google and Apple – a state of affairs much like that in Europe the place competing tracing techniques are being developed.

Rhode Island’s “Crush Covid” app was developed by India-based tech agency Infosys and makes use of GPS-based location sensing, location maps and push notifications.

Utah’s Wholesome Collectively app makes use of a comparable system whereas promising to delete location and Bluetooth information after 30 days.

Some officers have pressed Google and Apple to permit the use of location information in its API, or utility program interface.

Polonetsky famous that any modifications “will affect users in every country in the world, creating risks that governments could misuse the API for law enforcement or for human rights abuses.”

Lauren Sarkesian of the New America Basis’s Open Expertise Institute famous that to get large participation, “governments and app providers must ensure that strong privacy protections are in place, especially by avoiding collection of sensitive location data.”

To be efficient, digital tracing wants buy-in from not less than 40 to 60 % of a inhabitants, in accordance with some researchers.

In Utah, 45,000 folks, lower than two % of the inhabitants, downloaded the tracing app within the first month it was accessible.

A ballot by analysis agency PSB discovered two-thirds of People mistrust the federal government with their private information in coping with the COVID-19 outbreak.

“Although contact tracing is essential for public health, Americans’ distrust in the government’s ability to safeguard data lowers the trade-offs of sharing personal data for the public good,” mentioned Chris Foster of PSB mum or dad agency BCW.

Claire Standley, a professor on the Georgetown College Heart for International Well being Science and Safety, mentioned digital tracing efforts could also be hampered by a low price of adoption and competing techniques.

“If incompatible apps are used, it could make it much more challenging to track people if they move between jurisdictions,” she mentioned.

Tracer armies

An operator works in a name heart devoted to COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) tracing. Picture Credit score: AFP

Some giant US states have opted for old style contact tracing by hiring folks to name these in danger of an infection, a painstaking course of which has its personal challenges.

Early estimates indicated 100,000 new tracers can be required for america, whereas some consultants say the necessity is way higher.

Greater than a dozen public well being consultants urged Congress in an open letter to applicable $12 billion to vastly broaden the quantity of contact tracers to 180,000.

New York is hiring an estimated 17,000 tracers and California not less than 10,000. Massachusetts took the lead with the hiring of 1,000 folks and comparable efforts are underway in Maryland, Virginia, Indiana and different states.

Albert Gidari, consulting director of privateness on the Stanford Heart for Web and Society, mentioned digital Bluetooth techniques will probably be sooner and higher than the gradual and imprecise handbook contact tracing, which depends on folks’s reminiscence, and will not determine encounters with individuals who do not know one another.

A handbook system “requires you to disclose personal information to a stranger who works for the government without the faintest idea of who will see, how it is stored or how long it will be kept,” Gidari advised a web based convention organized by the Heart for Democracy and Expertise.

Some consultants say the virus is so difficult it requires a large effort in each digital and human contact tracing.

“There may be additional benefit in including digital technologies alongside traditional human contact tracing,” Standley mentioned.

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Detention & Deportation News

AUSTRALIA: The Federal Court of Australia has issued a damning judgement of the conduct of the Immigration Minister in the case of an Afghan refugee. 

In a separate matter, asylum seekers in detention report clear breaches of Commonwealth workplace health and safety laws, according to the Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA). Furthermore, the Australian police have utilised emergency powers invoked by the state Labour government to ban a refugee detention protest.

CANADA: In a blog post, Constantine Gidaris documents the case of Ebrahim Toure, an undocumented refugee i indefinte detention in Canada.

MEXICO: In a blog post for Refugees International, Rachel Schmidtke states that coronavirus exacerbates dangers for migrants in Mexican detention.

SWITZERLAND: The Global Detention Project launched a Covid-19 Global Immigration Detention tracking platform.

UK: The human rights charity Detention Action’s legal challenge secured the release of over 350 from immigration detention and all the cases will be urgently reviewed.

US: The UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore called for the release of children in detention in a statement.

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Have a Search Warrant for Data? Google Wants You to Pay

Facing an increasing number of requests for its users’ information, Google began charging law enforcement and other government agencies this month for legal demands seeking data such as emails, location tracking information and search queries.Google’s fees range from $45 for a subpoena and $60 for a wiretap to $245 for a search warrant, according to a notice sent to law enforcement officials and reviewed by The New York Times. The notice also included fees for other legal requests.A spokesman for Google said the fees were intended in part to help offset the costs of complying with warrants and subpoenas.Federal law allows companies to charge the government reimbursement fees of this type, but Google’s decision is a major change in how it deals with legal requests.Some Silicon Valley companies have for years forgone such charges, which can be difficult to enforce at a large scale and could give the impression that a company aims to profit from legal searches. But privacy experts support such fees as a deterrent to overbroad surveillance.Google has tremendous amounts of information on billions of users, and law enforcement agencies in the United States and around the world routinely submit legal requests seeking that data. In the first half of 2019, the company received more than 75,000 requests for data on nearly 165,000 accounts worldwide; one in three of those requests came from the United States.Google has previously charged for legal requests. A record from 2008 showed that the company sought reimbursement for a legal request for user data. But a spokesman said that for many years now, the tech firm had not systematically charged for standard legal processes.The money brought in from the new fees would be inconsequential for Google. Just last week, the valuation of its parent company, Alphabet, topped $1 trillion for the first time. Alphabet is scheduled to report its latest financial results on Feb. 3.The new fees could help recover some of the costs required to fill such a large volume of legal requests, said Al Gidari, a lawyer who for years represented Google and other technology and telecommunications companies. The requests have also grown more complicated as tech companies have acquired more data and law enforcement has become more technologically sophisticated.“None of the services were designed with exfiltrating data for law enforcement in mind,” said Mr. Gidari, who is now the consulting privacy director at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society.Mr. Gidari also said it was good that the fees might result in fewer legal requests to the company. “The actual costs of doing wiretaps and responding to search warrants is high, and when you pass those costs on to the government, it deters from excessive surveillance,” he said.In April, The Times reported that Google had been inundated with a new type of search warrant request, known as geofence searches. Drawing on an enormous Google database called Sensorvault, they provide law enforcement with the opportunity to find suspects and witnesses using location data gleaned from user devices. Those warrants often result in information on dozens or hundreds of devices, and require more extensive legal review than other requests.A Google spokesman said that there was no specific reason the fees were announced this month and that they had been under consideration for some time. Reports put out by the company show a rise of just over 50 percent in the number of search warrants received in the first half of 2019 compared with a year earlier. The volume of subpoenas increased about 15 percent. From last January through June, the company received nearly 13,000 subpoenas and over 10,000 search warrants from American law enforcement.Google will not ask for reimbursement in some cases, including child safety investigations and life-threatening emergencies, the spokesman said.Law enforcement officials said it was too early to know the impact of the fees, which Google’s notice said would go into effect in mid-January.Gary Ernsdorff, a senior prosecutor in Washington State, said he was concerned that the charges for search warrants would set a precedent that led more companies to charge for similar requests. That could hamper smaller law enforcement agencies, he said.“Officers would have to make decisions when to issue warrants based on their budgets,” he said.Mr. Ernsdorff said there was a potential silver lining, noting that the time it takes for Google to respond to warrants has significantly increased in the past year. Other law enforcement officers also said the time they had to wait for Google to fulfill legal requests had grown.“If they are getting revenue from it, maybe this will improve their performance,” Mr. Ernsdorff said.Other law enforcement officials said the effects of the reimbursement fees would be minimal.“I don’t see it impacting us too much,” said Mark Bruley, a deputy police chief in Minnesota. “We are only using these warrants on major crimes, and their fees seem reasonable.”Telecommunication companies such as Cox and Verizon have charged fees for similar services for years. At least one of Google’s biggest peers, Facebook, does not charge for such requests. Microsoft and Twitter said they were legally allowed to request reimbursement for costs but declined to explicitly address whether they charged law enforcement for such requests.Michael H. Keller contributed reporting. Read the full article

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