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In Pakistan, a man accused of blasphemy was shot dead in a courtroom. His killer was hailed as a hero.

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In Pakistan, a man accused of blasphemy was shot dead in a courtroom. His killer was hailed as a hero.

Extrajudicial killings of people accused of blasphemy aren't uncommon in Pakistan

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A 57-year-old man was shot dead in a Peshawar courtroom as he was being trialed for blasphemy on July 29. The killer, 24, was arrested immediately — it's unclear how he managed to bypass the court's security with a fire weapon. Tahir Ahmad Naseem was a Pakistani-American citizen who used to post videos online claiming he was some sort of prophet. In 2018, he was arrested by Peshawar police and charged with multiple counts of blasphemy after a madrassa student lodged complaints against him. The student presented to the authorities private online conversations in which Naseem claimed to be a prophet of Islam, which is a violation of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. Muslims believe that Prophet Muhammad was the last messenger of God and that any subsequent claim of prophethood is heresy.

Read More: Pakistan: The Blasphemous Use Of Blasphemy Law

Naseem was facing the death penalty in the trial for “defiling the sacred name of the Holy Prophet Muhammad”. Twitter user @bohutkhoob said:

Tahir Ahmad Naseem was gunned down today in a court hearing. He was accused of blasphemy 2 years ago by a teenager, who had documented their conversation in an online platform and then filed a case against him to the local police. — amina (@bohutkhoob) July 29, 2020

Soon after the incident, people in the courtroom were seen pulling out their phones to take photos and videos of the victim. A video showing Tahir's body lying on a bench went viral on Pakistani social media. Another viral video showed the killer in police custody saying that Prophet Muhammad had appeared in his dreams and told him to kill Naseem. Journalist Naila Inayat shared photos of Tahir laying dead in the courtroom after being shot:

Man under trial for #blasphemy shot dead inside a courtroom in Peshawar. Shooter said he ‘defended Islam’ by killing accused. Tahir Ahmed was booked for claiming to be a prophet in 2018. He had told the court that he suffered from mental illness & was unaware of the consequences. pic.twitter.com/MoF37nkaSU — Naila Inayat नायला इनायत (@nailainayat) July 29, 2020

Initially, some claimed that Naseem belonged to the Ahmadiyya community, which has faced persecution and hate campaigns since a Constitutional Amendment declared its members to be non-Muslim in 1974. An Ahmadiyya community spokesperson tweeted that Naseem had left that group many years previously:

In a tragic incident today a man was shot dead in front of a judge in Peshawar. It is being reported that he was Ahmadi, which is not true. He was born Ahmadi but left the community many years ago. /1 — Saleem ud Din (@SaleemudDinAA) July 29, 2020

On July 31, thousands of people rallied in Peshawar in support of the killer. They carried placards praising the act and demanded his release from jail, alleging that the government is “too slow” in prosecuting blasphemy cases. Ihsan Tipu, a Journalist covering Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province for The New York Times, tweeted a video of the rally that was held in support of the killer:

Thousands rallied on Friday in Peshawar to express solidarity with a man who killed Tahir Ahmad Naseem, an American citizen, accused of blasphemy inside a courtroom in Peshawar. pic.twitter.com/PMcoC5DOke — Ihsan Tipu Mehsud (@IhsanTipu) July 31, 2020

Pakistani celebrities such as actor Shahroz Sabzwari publicly praised the killer, and hashtags in his support also went viral. The senior leader of Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam – Fazl (JUI-F), Mufti Kifayatullah, tweeted in support of Khalid:

ملکی تاریخ میں آج پہلی دفعہ عدالت میں انصاف دیکھنے کو ملا https://t.co/C4iWzt1A2U — Mufti Kifayatullah (@MuftiKifayatJUI) July 29, 2020

In the Country's history this is the first time we have witnessed justice in the court of law.

As the killer was taken to custody, lawyers and police officers posed for selfies with him. Ihsan Tipu tweeted:

Peshawar elite police squad poses for a selfie with Faisal alias Khalid who last week killed Tahir Ahmad Naseem in a courtroom over blasphemy charges. pic.twitter.com/vpNw5fmj5C — Ihsan Tipu Mehsud (@IhsanTipu) August 3, 2020

This shows how deep the issue of blasphemy runs in Pakistan: Facebook page & profile apparently of this leading figure in the country's ruling party's branch in Sindh Province has changed profile pics to that of the killer who shot an alleged blasphemer in court in Peshawar today pic.twitter.com/dfqoxK69oJ — Secunder Kermani (@SecKermani) July 29, 2020

This is not the first time an incident of this nature has taken place in Pakistan. On January 4, 2011, the Governor of Punjab Salman Taseer was shot dead by one of his guards in Islamabad after he expressed negative views of the blasphemy laws. Even though no one has been formally executed under Pakistan's blasphemy laws, since 1990 at least 77 people have been extrajudicially killed in connection with those accusations, according to a tally by Al Jazeera. Since 1987, over 1,500 people have been charged with blasphemy in Pakistan, according to the New York Times. In Pakistan's polarized society, such extremist views are accepted, while those who disagree avoid speaking for fear of harassment, especially online. Still, many went public to condemn the murder:

Khalid, the man who murdered a mentally unstable man accused of blasphemy at a court in Peshawar yesterday, is a disgusting criminal like Mumtaz Qadri & deserves strong punishment. Stop glorifying murderers please; nobody has the right to kill. — Usama Khilji (@UsamaKhilji) July 30, 2020

The murder of Tahir Ahmad, who is reported to have a mental disability, in the Peshawar Sessions Court this morning is yet another example of how Pakistan’s blasphemy laws embolden vigilantes to threaten or kill the accused. — Amnesty International South Asia (@amnestysasia) July 29, 2020

How the Peshawar blasphemy killer is being revered as a hero, Ghazi or yet another Ilm-ud-Din or Qadri. This is what happens when you weaponise religion for decades. My column. #LetterFromPakistan https://t.co/iwmXZz2tUJ — Naila Inayat नायला इनायत (@nailainayat) July 30, 2020

An editorial in the online portal ProperGaanda said:

It is high time Pakistanis stop hailing the murderer as a hero and recognize him for what he was. That will be the first step in cultivating an atmosphere wherein potential extrajudicial murderers think twice before breaking the law and imposing their judgements on whether or not a human has the right to live.

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News of the Weird: America’s least competent criminal and a cool new way to find love

In Mumbai, India, 27-year-old Raphael Samuel, an apparent follower of antinatalism, is suing his parents (both attorneys) for giving him life. Samuel says he was conceived without his consent, so his parents should pay him for his life. “I love my parents, and we have a great relationship, but they had me for their joy and their pleasure,” Samuel explained to The Print. “My life has been amazing, but I don’t see why I should put another life through the rigmarole of school and finding a career, especially when they didn’t ask to exist. … Other Indian people must know that it is an option not to have children, and to ask your parents for an explanation as to why they gave birth to you.” [The Print, 1/30/2019]

Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em

Pavlos Polakis, Greece’s deputy health minister, did not take kindly to a recent reprimand from European Union Health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis, who admonished Polakis for smoking in public. Andriukaitis was in Athens Feb. 4 to mark World Cancer Day, reported Reuters. He also complained that the health ministry smelled of cigarette smoke and that nobody wears ties. Polakis replied in a Facebook post about the casual dress: “That’s a lie … the security guard at the entrance wore one. I don’t. It’s the suits which passed through here who bankrupted our country.” As for the scold about smoking, Polakis retorted: “I’ll decide when to stop smoking, on my terms.” Greece has the highest rate of smoking in the EU. [Reuters, 2/6/2019]

Lost at Sea(l)

When researchers at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in New Zealand thawed out some frozen leopard seal excrement in January, which they use to study the animals’ health, they discovered “deep inside the scat” a USB stick containing vacation photos from Porpoise Bay. Reuters reported the defrosted poo had been placed in the freezer in November 2017, and the USB stick was left to dry for a few weeks before volunteers tried it out. The only clue to its owner is the nose of a blue kayak shown in one of the photos. Should the owner want it back, NIWA has a request: more leopard seal poo, please. [Reuters, 2/5/2019]

Awesome!

Exterminators were called to the Rogers County (Oklahoma) courthouse on Feb. 4 after an attorney appeared in a third-floor courtroom with bed bugs falling out of his clothing. “Hard to imagine someone doesn’t know … bed bugs are crawling all over them, certainly in abundance,” remarked Sheriff Scott Walton to KJRH TV. Courthouse officials met and decided to close the building at noon until exterminators could eliminate the pests. “I was told the individual that had them also shook his jacket over the prosecutor’s files,” Walton said. The buggy attorney, however, seemed unfazed by his parasitic companions, and it was not clear who would pay for the extermination. [KJRH, 2/5/2019]

People With Issues

The Harlem Romantic Depot lingerie store in New York City was the target of a vandal’s political rage on Jan. 26. In surveillance video, the man can be seen pacing up and down in front of the store window, where two mannequins were on display: one of President Barack Obama dressed as a prince, and one of President Donald Trump, dressed as a princess and wearing a MAGA hat. Taking a brick or stone from a nearby construction site, the man used it to smash through the window, store owner Glen Buzzetti told the New York Daily News. Next, he yanked the Obama mannequin out of the window and threw it on the ground. A member of the store’s security team was able to chase the man down the block and catch him, Buzzetti said. But Obama fans in the street weren’t happy with him, either. “We had to protect him from the crowd,” Buzzetti said. “He could have been killed. We had women trying to kick him in the head.” He said the man kept repeating that “he hated Obama” and that “the (Obama) mannequin was looking at him bad.” [Daily News, 2/5/2019]

Police Blotter

— When firefighters responded to a house fire Feb. 5 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, resident Holly Williams, 37, was happy to tell them how it started. She and Michael Miller, 38, keep their car fuel in a container in the house, and they were arguing (about his drinking), and he was trying to take their car, so she flushed the gasoline down the toilet, reported the Altoona Mirror. Miller threw a lit cigarette in the toilet and as flames spread, Williams ran out of the house and called 911. Miller was arrested for arson, risking catastrophe and recklessly endangering another person; later Williams was charged, as well. [Altoona Mirror, 2/14/2019]

— Phillip Lee, 27, was arrested Feb. 4 on charges of simple robbery and simple battery after his attempt to take cash from a New Orleans Popeyes restaurant went south. The Times-Picayune reported that Lee arrived at the restaurant around noon and tried to steal money, but he couldn’t get the cash register open. So instead, he took some fried chicken and fled. Police caught up with him later, and the judge set his bond at $13,500. Popeyes is good, but wow. [New Orleans Times-Picayune, 2/6/2019]

Least Competent Criminal

Richard J. Betters Jr., 44, of Schenectady, New York, has encountered police detectives in nearby Rotterdam before, which explains why he had one officer’s phone number in his contacts list. So on Feb. 6, The Daily Gazette reported, when a detective mistakenly received a text from Betters offering drugs, it was a law enforcement slam dunk. The detective played along with Betters, offering to meet him at the Taco Bell in Rotterdam, where he arrested Betters for criminal possession of a controlled substance (Oxycodone pills). He was held on $20,000 bail. [Daily Gazette, 2/6/2019]

Recurring Theme

It’s happened again. In Fairhope, Alabama, 2-year-old Ezra Ingersoll visited Rotolo’s Pizzeria with his family for dinner and game-room fun on Jan. 4. Soon, his sister alerted mom Kelsey that Ezra was in the claw machine. Ezra, hoping to get a toy, had crawled through the opening, but the flap inside wouldn’t swing the other direction, so he was stuck. AL.com reported that police and firefighters responding took the machine apart to free the tyke, who received a free toy for his trouble. [AL.com, 2/5/2019]

Technology Update

And you thought smartphones were cutting edge! Samsung’s Family Hub smart refrigerator offers a new app, Refrigerdating, that works something like Tinder. Instead of uploading a profile pic of yourself, according to United Press International, you lure mates with a photo of the inside of your fridge. “Let the world know what kind of person you are,” the app’s website suggests. “Refrigerdating will then hook you up with a variation of fridges, of different tastes, to pick and choose from.” It even offers a little philosophical advice: “Remember, it’s the unexpected mixes that make the three star restaurants.” [United Press International, 2/6/2019]

Cabin Fever

As the polar vortex unleashed its cold fury on the middle of North America in early February, doctors switched from warning people about the cold to warning them about the dangers of flinging boiling water into the air to watch it freeze. The Chicago Sun-Times reported on Feb. 6 that eight people trying the boiling water challenge, ranging in age from 3 to 53, ended up at Loyola Medicine’s Burn Center. “We strongly warn people not to perform the boiling water challenge,” said Loyola burn surgeon Arthur Sanford. “There is no safe way to do it.” [Chicago Sun-Times, 2/6/2019]

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Mute Court: Trump’s Precedential Twits

As far as I know, I’m not blocked by @RealDonaldTrump on twitter. But then, I don’t follow him because his twits aren’t of any real interest to me, and I find his communications painful to read. If there’s anything I should know about, it will be strewn across the media, and I will regret reading them.

Others, apparently, desperately want to see Trump’s twits but they can’t because they’ve been blocked. They could always see them in incognito mode, but that’s not good enough and they don’t believe they should have to right click to see what the president twits. I suspect they always demand the right to “seek redress” by responding with their own special expression of vitriol.

Can a president block people on the twitters? When Jameel Jaffer’s first suit from the newly instituted Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, it was disappointing. With so many First Amendment problems swirling around, being blocked from the president’s twits was unserious. It was a novel issue, and sexy at the time suit was filed, but trivial. And complicated. I suspect Trump might have muted these offending twitterers rather than blocked them had he better understood the mechanics of twitter, but block he did, and sue Jaffer did.

Argument was had on the issue before SDNY Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald, where questions were posed as to the proper analogy of twitter to something less unserious.

She asked whether Twitter was different from a public town hall, where government officials would be unable to pull the plug from a microphone to mute speakers with unwelcome views.

“Once it is a public forum, you can’t shut somebody up because you don’t like what they’re saying,” Buchwald said.

Baer said the appropriate analogy was not a town hall, but rather Trump choosing to walk away from someone at a public event.

Assuming twitter to be a public forum is itself problematic. Twitter can suspend or terminate a user at will, as it’s a private enterprise and subject to no public carrier limitations. But then, if you’re not tossed off arbitrarily by twitter, then it has many of the indicia of the public square, where a few million random people can read and respond to each others cat pics and expressions of idiocy at will.

At the outset, there was a question of whether Trump’s use of twitter was as a private individual or as president. He solved that problem by using twitter to make official announcements of public policy and “speak” in his official capacity as president. Presidents can’t block Americans from learning what they’re saying and doing. But does that mean they can’t be blocked on twitter? New technology raises new questions.

Whether the act of blocking rises to a constitutional violation is the novelty of the case — in the law, it’s what’s known as a question of first impression, an issue no other court has decided before. That means there’s real pressure on the judge to get it right the first time. And with a tweeting president who is known for berating magistrates and getting his ardent supporters to dox them if they don’t rule in his favor, even more so.

Judge Buchwald gave it her best effort to get the parties to settle the suit rather than put her in the position of ruling.

The pressure was evident when Buchwald seemed to nudge the parties, in open court, to consider reaching a settlement behind the scenes. “You don’t necessarily want to risk law being made,” she said.

But, of course, both parties want exactly that, to make new law. For the Knight Institute, it would put them on the map to win against Trump. And for Trump, it would prove he’s not the blithering dolt everyone knows him to be.

There remains a genuine question of law — in the travel-ban controversy in particular, which the Supreme Court will settle soon — about whether his campaign promises and anti-Muslim tweets as a candidate can be imputed to later, official government acts. But as a public servant, no one really doubts that Trump’s tweets are a public concern, in more ways than one: They establish government policy, inform the citizenry about administration priorities, announce personnel changes, are a means of diplomacy, move financial markets, and, if Trump happens to be in a foul mood, could spark some global catastrophe.

While all of this is accurate, the implications of ruling that a president cannot block people on the twitters carries further implications as well. Can people be turned away from an event in a public forum because there is no room? What if they’re uninvited, or dressed “inappropriately,” according to whoever decides such things? Can they be removed for screaming obscenities at the president during a speech?

They may be entitled to know of the president’s public pronouncements, but are they entitled to any particular forum to learn of them? Is it their burden to wait until they appear in the funny pages or go incognito, or Trump’s burden to mute them instead of block them? Must Trump suffer his mentions replete with twits saying words that would hurt his delicate feelings?

Trump’s Twitter use draws intense interest for his unvarnished commentary, including attacks on critics. His tweets often shape news.

Katherine Fallow, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, told Buchwald the record “shows unambiguously that the president operates his account in an official capacity.”

Baer acknowledged that Trump sometimes uses his Twitter account to announce policy, but said that blocking users was not an official action.

Obviously, muting instead of blocking would resolve the problem for all. But the Baer raised one additional argument, that separation of powers precludes the court from ordering the president to do so.

Baer also argued that the court cannot order the president to unblock users, because of his position as head of another branch of government.

Marbury v. Madison may cover that question. As Cristian Farias noted at the top of his New York Magazine post, taxpayer money is funding Trump’s defense of his right to block.

For nearly two hours on Thursday, we the taxpayers funded the government’s defense, in a federal courtroom in Manhattan, of Donald Trump’s unbridled use of his Twitter account. On our dime, the Department of Justice dispatched three lawyers to tell a judge, more or less, that courts have no power to tell the president what to do with @realDonaldTrump — let alone to declare that the First Amendment imposes an obligation on him to unblock users who have been critical of him or his administration.

As trivial an issue as this may have been for the Knight Institute to take on, it’s far worse that government lawyers are dispatched to fight something so inane. Then again, petty minds create petty problems, and even petty people are entitled to have their petty rights protected.

Judge Buchwald will eventually hold that Trump’s use of twitter is an official presidential act, not because of twitter but because of the manner in which he uses it. And as such, he can’t block Americans from viewing his official public pronouncements in whatever medium they’re made provided it’s an open medium. So if he doesn’t want to see their mean twits, he can mute them, but he can’t block them from seeing his.

And if Trump doesn’t like it, he can just stop twitting, for which we would all be thankful.

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Facebook blocks photo of Neptune statue for being 'explicitly sexual' : Software news

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Facebook is facing renewed criticism after its software program appears to have blocked a photograph of a sixteenth-century statue of Neptune that stands inside the Piazza del Nettuno within the Italian city of Bologna, claiming it’s miles “sexually specific”.

Neighbourhood creator Elisa Barbara had chosen the statue, which indicates Neptune bare and preserving a trident, to demonstrate her Facebook page “Testimonies, curiosities and views of Bologna.” But the Nettuno photo fell foul of the social media giant’s privacy regulations, the Everyday Telegraph stated.

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In a statement, Fb instructed the artist: “Using the image became now not authorised as it violates Facebook’s tips on advertising. It affords a picture with content material that is explicitly sexual and which indicates to an excessive diploma the frame, concentrating unnecessarily on frame parts.

“The usage of photographs or video of nude bodies or plunging necklines isn’t allowed, even if the use is for artistic or academic reasons.”

Barbara responded with incredulity, posting on her Facebook page: “Yes to Neptune, no to censorship.”

She instructed the Telegraph: “I wanted to sell my web page however evidently for Fb the statue is a sexually express picture that shows off too much flesh. Simply, Neptune? This is loopy! Though peoples facebook wall, the home page is filled with photos. Even you can search Facebook.

“How can a piece of art, our very personal statue of Neptune, be the item of censorship?”

The figure becomes created in the 1560s by a Flemish sculptor referred to as Jean de Boulogne, nicknamed by way of the Italians Giambologna, and it has ruled the piazza for drawing near 500 years.

“Again inside the Fifties, all through celebrations for schoolchildren graduating, they used to cowl up Neptune,” Barbara brought. “Maybe Fb could pick the statue to be dressed again.”

A Fb spokesperson later said in an announcement that the censorship became a mistake. “Our team approaches tens of millions of advertising pics every week, and in a few instances, we incorrectly restrict ads. This picture does not violate our ad policies. We apologise for the error and have allowed the advertiser understand we are approving their advert.”

Facebook’s overzealous censoring software has brought the photos in social media large into controversy with growing frequency, even because it faces excessive complaint on some other front for doing too little to save you the unfold of “faux information”.

Ultimate 12 months, a Norwegian consumer changed into directed to take away the 1972 Pulitzer-prevailing “Terror of Conflict” photograph of a naked lady running from napalm assaults for the duration of the Vietnam Warfare from a publish about six that changed history.

In that case, Facebook additionally claimed the picture broke nudity rules. But, it later reversed its selection and issued an apology, announcing the company diagnosed “the records and worldwide importance of this photograph”.

“Because of its popularity as an iconic image of historical significance … we’ve determined to reinstate the photo on Fb in which we’re conscious it’s been eliminated,” the organisation said.

If so, Facebook leader working officer Sheryl Sandberg apologized to Norwegian prime minister Erna Solberg after the employer deleted a publish by means of her in which she shared the image in team spirit with Tom Egeland, a creator who had blanketed the Nick Ut photo as one in all seven pix he stated had “changed the records of warfare”.

“These are complicated selections, and we don’t continually get it right,” Sandberg wrote. “Even with clean standards, screening hundreds of thousands of posts on a case using case foundation each week is hard.

“However, we intend to do better. We’re dedicated to listening to our community and evolving. Thank you for supporting us get this proper.”

In January 2015, the organisation became accused of censoring images of Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid statue for allegedly containing “an excessive amount of bare pores and skin or sexual undertones”.

Fb says it restricts nudity due to the fact “some audiences within our worldwide network may be touchy to this type of content”. Some of the content often blocked are pics of genitals and naked buttocks.

Snapshots of woman nipples were forbidden until a girl’s breasts had been “actively engaged in breastfeeding” or in which the image confirmed “breasts with post-mastectomy scarring”.

But Facebook’s troubles with monitoring and eliminating content published using its 1.4bn current customers look set to keep.

In November, it becomes stated that software evolved with Mark Zuckerberg’s aid will permit 0.33 events to screen and suppress the visibility of posts.

The social media massive changed into accused of growing the software program as part of its effort to get China to lift its seven-yr ban on Fb, imposed after the Urumqi riots in July 2009 with a purpose to stem the float of information about the unrest.

A Fb spokesperson stated: “we have lengthy said that we are interested in China, and are spending time understanding and mastering more about the United States.”

Repeated accusations that Facebook locations unnecessarily hard standards on user content caused a shift in coverage Closing October, whilst the business enterprise started it turned into introducing editorial standards analogous to those of a newspaper and would no longer censor photograph cloth this is “newsworthy, tremendous, or vital to the public interest – despite the fact that they might in any other case violate our requirements”.

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“Our cause is to allow extra pix and Testimonies without posing safety risks or displaying image pictures to minors and others who do now not need to look them,” Facebook executives Joel Kaplan and Justin Osofsky wrote announcing the change.

Facebook is threatened with legal motion in Germany over its facial reputation software, which critics say violates privateness and records legal protection guidelines.

The tool runs all images uploaded to the social networking website thru a programme and identifies the person’s pals in every photo. There has been an outcry while it turned into rolled out in June to extra than 500m members worldwide, though customers can choose out of the automatic tagging, Facebook can nonetheless gather and keep (indefinitely) all pics added to the web page.

Now Hamburg’s information protection professional has written to Facebook to demand it stops strolling the facial popularity programme on German customers and deletes any associated statistics. Johannes Caspar said the German authorities would take motion if Fb did now not comply and could face fines of up to €three hundred,000 (£262,000).

“Need to Facebook maintain the characteristic; it needs to make sure that only information from men and women who have declared consent to the garage in their biometric facial profiles be stored in the database,” he said. The software offered the capability for “tremendous abuse” and changed into unlawful.

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It’s now not the primary time multinational generation companies have hit troubles in Germany, which takes on-line privateness a great deal higher significantly than many other international locations. In April, Google said it would no longer be collecting any more excellent photographs for its German Avenue View challenge. The decision followed a series of objections after the mapping of 20 German cities for the carrier, which takes snapshots of every Street and belongings inside a municipality. Germany’s privacy laws typically limit pix of human beings and assets except in public places, such as a carrying occasion, without someone’s consent.

“The legal state of affairs is obvious in my view,” Caspar instructed Wednesday’s Hamburger Abendblatt. “If the facts were to get into the wrong arms, then someone with a photo taken on a cellular cellphone ought to use biometrics to examine the snapshots and make an identification,” he said. Communist governments can utilise such a gadget to secret agent on the opposition or through security services around the world. “The right to anonymity is in risk,” he stated.

Caspar is subsidised through the federal client safety ministry. “We assume Facebook to conform with all European and German information security requirements and for it to respond to the request from the Hamburg regional statistics protection officer,” said a spokeswoman.

A Facebook spokesperson told Spiegel on-line the corporation turned into looking at Caspar’s request, however, that it “firmly rejected any accusations that we aren’t complying with our responsibilities to the Eu Union records protection laws”.

An expected 75bn photos have been uploaded to Fb because it changed into set up through Mark Zuckerberg as an online listing of Harvard University students in 2004.

A Syrian refugee who took a selfie with Angela Merkel has failed in his attempt to sue Fb over a chain of posts falsely linking him to terrorist assaults.

The picture which Anas Moda mini, from Darayya near Damascus, took of himself and the German chancellor at a Berlin refugee refuge in September 2015 has because been time and again shared on doctored photomontages supposedly identifying him as the culprit behind crimes and terrorist assaults across Europe.

In January, Modamani’s attorney filed an initial injunction against Fb Europe, “in search of to save you Facebook from publishing the slanderous photo of the Syrian refugee Anas Moda mini inside the context of terrorist assaults”.

But a courtroom within the southern metropolis of Würzburg on Tuesday rejected Modamani’s injunction, with the chief choose arguing that Facebook was now not obliged to proactively are seeking for out and delete defamatory posts since the social media large changed into “neither a perpetrator or participant within the smears”.

Modamani’s attorney, Chan-jo Jun, had was hoping the case might result in social media platforms being compelled to delete slanderous posts no longer directly when they had been flagged up by way of users, However, to actively are trying to find out and stop the proliferation of illegal content. Facebook’s criminal crew has argued that there may be no “miracle software program” that robotically blocks previously deleted the content material from being uploaded once more.

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Facebook developed secret software to censor user posts in China, Maybe Opera

Fb has advanced censorship software so that you can get China to lift its seven-yr ban on the sector’s biggest social network, in step with reports.

The social community evolved the software to suppress posts from appearing in users’ news feeds in precise geographies with the guide of the chief govt, Mark Zuckerberg, in step with the NY Times. The posts themselves will no longer be suppressed, simplest their visibility.

A Facebook spokesperson stated: “We’ve long said that we’re interested in China, and are spending time expertise and gaining knowledge of more about u. S . A ..

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“But, We’ve got not made any choice on our approach to China.”

The Cybersecurity Management of China, the United States’ net regulator, did no longer immediately reply to request for comment. China’s overseas ministry declined to comment.

China banned Facebook after the Urumqi riots in July 2009 to be able to stem the float of statistics about the unrest which left 140 people useless. The ban denied the social community get entry to the arena’s largest population of internet users if you want to be critical to Facebook’s continued growth.

Might offer the software program to enable third events to reveal famous tales and subjects that benefit visibility as users share them across the network. The 0.33-celebration partners could have complete manage to decide whether or not the one’s posts ought to display up in customers’ feeds. However, there may be no indication that Facebook has presented the software program to China yet.

US net groups have a practice of complying with ultimate authorities requests to block posted records in step with nearby laws, a challenge to evaluation.

Facebook restricted content in a score of countries within the second 1/2 of final 12 months, according to the business enterprise’s most current transparency file.

In Russia, it restrained content material that government there started violated “the integrity of the Russian Federation and local law which forbids sports together with mass public riots and the advertising and sale of medicine.”

get right of entry to items in Pakistan turned into restrained because of allegations that nearby blasphemy laws had been violated.

In France,

Fb limited content mentioned below laws prohibiting denying the Holocaust or condoning terrorism. It also eliminated posts of a photo referring to the November 2015 terrorist assaults in Paris at the grounds they violated French laws associated with the safety of human dignity.

Meanwhile, Fb has come beneath fireplace inside the past few months from those who accuse the social community of now not having performed sufficient to filter fake news shops which can have swayed the final results of America presidential election. Guidelines that Facebook is seeking to gather cell technology firm Opera Software propelled the Norwegian group’s percentage fee 26% better on Tuesday morning.

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Opera makes one of the world’s most widely used cellular telephone net browsers, and Mark Zuckerberg’s social network is reportedly interested in the company as a part of a plan to create a Facebook cellphone.

After surging through 1 / four at the Oslo stock trade

Opera shares fell returned through noon but remained 17% higher than Friday’s remaining price at forty.1 Norwegian krone (NOK), valuing the company at four.8bn NOK (£510m).

The employer declined to remark, at the same time as founder Jon von Tetzchner, who is the biggest shareholder with 10.9%, said he was now not privy to talks, in keeping with Reuters. Facebook has 350m cell users a month, but has struggled to sell marketing on phone displays and is looking to expand its control over the cell revel in.

It is weeks far from launching its smartphone apps keep, to promote and review offerings such as Pinterest and Spotify that incorporate Fb links. Zuckerberg is thought to have recruited half of a dozen iPhone engineers from Apple and is stated to be working with Taiwanese manufacturer HTC on a brand new handset.

“In our view, a bid for Opera makes the strategic experience for Facebook, and We’ve formerly mentioned the possibilities for co-operation between the two groups,” an analyst at Norwegian financial institution DNB said. “We count on that any a hit bid could pay at least double the ultimate fee from Friday. We’ve a buy recommendation on Opera with a rate target of 60 NOK in keeping with proportion.”

Doubling Friday’s closing rate would place a £860m fee tag at the firm.

Opera creates browsers that permit computing device computers and phones to get right of entry to the net, and its software works with Apple and Microsoft machines. Even though Opera’s presence on computing device computer systems – wherein browsers from Apple, Microsoft, Google and Mozilla tend to dominate – is confined, it has been a hit on second cellular telephones.

The Opera Mini browser, which goes on even secure handsets with small monitors and limited memory, has been widely followed in emerging markets and means 250 million human beings use an Opera product every month.

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Fb is threatened with legal motion

In Germany over its facial popularity software program, which critics say violates privacy and facts safety legal guidelines.

The tool runs all pix uploaded to the social networking website online via a programme and identifies the person’s pals on each Facebook photos facebook profile. Facebook page, the Facebook wall is full of pictures. There was an outcry while it becomes rolled out in June to extra than 500m individuals international, even though users can choose out of the automatic tagging, Facebook can still acquire and shop (indefinitely) all pics added to the website.

Now Hamburg’s statistics safety reliable has written to Facebook to call for it stops walking the facial recognition programme on German customers and deletes any related records. Johannes Caspar said the German government would take motion if Facebook did no longer comply and will face fines of as much as €three hundred,000 (£262,000).

“must Facebook hold the characteristic, it have to make sure that best statistics from folks who have declared consent to the garage in their biometric facial profiles be saved within the database,” he said. The software offered the capability for “enormous abuse” and turned into unlawful.

It is not the primary time multinational era firms have hit problems in Germany, which takes online privacy much extra seriously than many different international locations. In April, Google stated it would now not be collecting any additional pictures for its German Avenue View undertaking. The selection observed a sequence of objections after the mapping of 20 German towns for the provider, which takes photos of each Road and assets within a municipality. Germany’s privacy legal guidelines restrict photographs of human beings and property besides in public locations, which includes a carrying event, with out someone’s consent.

“The felony scenario is clear for my part,” Caspar advised Wednesday’s Hamburger Abendblatt. “If the information had been to get into the incorrect fingers, then a person with a photo taken on a cell cellphone should use biometrics to examine the snap shots and make an identification,” he stated. Undemocratic governments might utilise this sort of machine to secret agent on the competition or by protection offerings around the arena. “The proper to anonymity is at risk,” he said.

Caspar is subsidised using the federal patron protection ministry. “We anticipate Fb to comply with all Ecu and German records protection standards and for it to respond to the request from the Hamburg regional records safety officer,” said a spokeswoman.

A Fb spokeswoman advised Spiegel on line the agency turned into searching at Caspar’s request, but that it “firmly rejected any accusations that we aren’t complying with our obligations to European Union statistics protection laws”.

A predicted 75bn pix were uploaded to Facebook since it was an installation by way of Mark Zuckerberg as an internet directory for Harvard students in 2004.

Social networks which include Facebook and Twitter can not be required to put in an anti-piracy filtering system, the EU courtroom of justice has dominated.

Europe’s top courtroom has made the ruling in a case introduced through Belgian tune royalties firm Sabam towards the internet site Netlog.

Sabam wanted the court docket to claim that Netlog and other social networks have to actively display music and video published by way of users to ensure that it does now not infringe copyright.

However, the ECJ ruled that requiring social networks to put in anti-piracy filtering software program might fall foul of the present e-trade directive.

The ruling turned into welcomed through online advocacy agencies, who have warned that unfettered use of the internet is underneath risk from the debatable anti-counterfeiting change agreement (Acta).

Netlog has tens of millions of users every day, according to the courtroom. Sabam claimed that some its customers illicitly shared copyright music and films on the website.

The ECJ dominated that an anti-piracy filter could require social networks to carry out “energetic remark” of facts shared by users.

“For that reason, such an injunction might bring about a severe infringement of the freedom of the hosting provider to conduct its business due to the fact it would require that hosting provider provider to put in a complicated, highly-priced, everlasting PC machine at its very own rate,” the ECJ stated inside the judgment.

“[The] injunction ought to probably undermine freedom of information, for the reason that that system won’t distinguish competently between unlawful content material and lawful content material, with the result that its introduction ought to cause the blockading of legitimate communications.”

The judgment will be used as legal precedent in courts throughout the EU where this aspect of Eu regulation is in the query.

Peter Bradwell, the Open Rights Institution campaigner, welcomed the ruling. He said: “It’s top to peer courts promoting our rights by way of swatting away plans to snoop on human beings’ use of social networks. It’s far especially timely due to the fact, as visible in agreements like ACTA, policymakers anywhere find it a great deal tougher to admire our rights when making intellectual belongings policy.”

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