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Child Protection Day: Mass surveillance prevents finding real solutions
On the European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (#EndChildSexAbuseDay) on 18 November 2023, civil rights activist and MEP Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party, Greens/EFA) calls for a rational debate on effective child protection rather than embracing mass surveillance solutionism:
“Paedocriminals can circumvent any form of surveillance, but a society tackling child protection in a rational way can make a real difference. As long as surveillance projects such as chat control and blanket data retention are confused with child protection, there will be a lack of political will to invest in direct and genuine child protection. Europe urgently needs a rational debate about effective child protection rather than embracing mass surveillance solutionism.Statistically speaking, there are one or two children in every school class who have suffered sexualised violence (“Vor unseren Augen”, 2023, German only). In 70 to 85% of all cases, according to the Council of Europe, child sexual abuse is committed by someone the child knows and trusts. Perpetrators mainly lurk in the immediate vicinity and use strategies to gain trust and extort secrecy. In 90% of cases, the sexual offences are not reported to the police. Perpetrators benefit from the lack of awareness, education and professional handling of the issue of child sexual abuse.
On the Internet, organised criminals, unlike the majority of citizens, technically protect themselves from surveillance measures. The journalist and darknet expert Daniel Moßbrucker has succeeded in disrupting a paedocriminal forum and force it to give up. He calls on law enforcement agencies to initiate a paradigm shift. Their current tactics are allowing the darknet forums to grow, even though this could be curbed by proactive removal.
For better child protection, Europe needs mandatory protection programmes and responsible experts in schools, churches and sports clubs. Europe urgently needs long-term and well-funded awareness campaigns and counselling services, child and youth work as well as a strong civil society. When it comes to investigation, the solutions are raising public awareness, specially trained experts, long-term investigations, removal of child sexual exploitation content, targeted investigation orders and login traps.
It is misleading, inappropriate for the topic and contradicts the available science to claim that programmes of mass surveillance have an effect on structures and strategies of paedocriminality. Rather, the issue of child protection is being used as a pretext to politically enforce surveillance measures such as the lobbying project Chat Control or the blanket data retention of internet addresses. Our children and abuse victims deserve real, effective, court-proof and rights-respecting protection. Let’s stop spying and start protecting.”
Auto elettriche, green economy, diritti umani: ma quale sostenibilità?
Siamo nell’epoca della guerra al cambiamento climnatico e all’inquinamento.
Siamo sulla soglia di non ritorno (chi parla del 2030, ma per altri l’abbiamo già superata) che decreta il futuro del mondo quale lo conosciamo e la nostra stessa esistenza come specie. Risorse, mancano, bisogna trovare fonti alternative, bisogna ottimizzare quelle che abbiamo, bisogna cambiare paradigma: d’altro canto è scritto nei testi di antropologia che solo chi si sa adattare sopravvive.
Fatto questo preambolo ecco uno spunto di riflessione.
Versione semplificata da alcuni esempi e macro evidenze di un contesto più articolato in cui il modello è sempre quello: un mondo di squali e guerra alle risorse (siano esse materie prime, siano vite ed esseri umani).
Poi ognuno può trarre le proprie conclusioni.
Da una parte abbiamo che:
“Le navi da crociera inquinano più delle auto circolanti in Europa. Le 218 navi per il turismo marittimo di lusso hanno emesso nel 2022 4,4 volte più inquinanti di tutte le automobili del continente (253 milioni).”L’Italia è il Paese dove le navi da crociera inquinano di più, al primo posto in Ue.
Dall’altro abbiamo personaggi e realtà come ad esempio Elon Musk e la Tesla che vendono macchine ellettriche per inquinare meno, per rendere più green il pianeta.
Personalmente la prima cosa che mi chiedo è che sostenibilità nel medio lungo periodo avranno le auto elettriche?
Riusciranno a sostenere il mercato ed il confronto con quelle a combustibili fossili?
In fatto di sostenibilità c’è da ricordare anche come vengono realizzate e costruite le machine elettriche, con una batteria: le materie prime sono essenziali e fondamentali. Dove, come e chi le estrae?
Per esempio un componente per le batterie possiamo parlare di cobalto.
Spostiamoci in Africa, in RDC – Repubblica Democratica del Congo e scopriremo gironi dantestchi in cui persone di ogni sesso ed età sono intenti inn attività di estrazione mineraria, scavando, spostando sacchi, nelle peggiori situazioni infanganti i diritti fondamentali di ogni individuo.
Solo a me sembra che ci sia qualcosa che stona in tutto questo contesto?![Una visione generale dei minatori che lavorano presso la miniera artigianale di Shabara vicino a Kolwezi il 12 ottobre 2022. Circa 20.000 persone lavorano uno Shabara, a turni di 5.000 alla volta. [Junior Kannah / AFP] RDC Repubblica Democratica del Congo](https://poliverso.org/photo/link/169075 "Una visione generale dei minatori che lavorano presso la miniera artigianale di Shabara vicino a Kolwezi il 12 ottobre 2022. Circa 20.000 persone lavorano uno Shabara, a turni di 5.000 alla volta. [Junior Kannah / AFP] RDC Repubblica Democratica del Congo")
Historic agreement on child sexual abuse proposal (CSAR): European Parliament wants to remove chat control and safeguard secure encryption
Today the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) in the European Parliament adopted by a large majority (51:2:1) a mandate to negotiate the controversial EU draft law on chat control. The Commission’s bill proposes bulk scanning and reporting of private messages for allegedly suspicious content by using error-prone algorithms, including „artificial intelligence“. But the European Parliament’s position removes indiscriminate chat control and allows only for a targeted surveillance of specific individuals and groups reasonably suspicious of being linked to child sexual abuse material, with a judicial warrant. End-to-end encrypted messengers are exempted. Instead, internet services will have to design their services more securely and thus effectively prevent the sexual exploitation of children.
EU lawmaker Patrick Breyer of the Pirate Party, a long-time opponent of chat control who negotiated the EU Parliament‘s position on behalf of his group, explains:
“Under the impression of massive protests against the looming indiscriminate chat control mass scanning of private messages, we managed to win a broad majority for a different, new approach to protecting young people from abuse and exploitation online. As a pirate and digital freedom fighter, I am proud of this breakthrough. The winners of this mandate are on the one hand our children, who will be protected much more effectively and in a court-proof manner, and on the other hand all citizens, whose digital privacy of correspondence and communication security will be guaranteed.
Even if this compromise, which is supported from the progressive to the conservative camp, is not perfect on all points, it is a historic success that removing chat control and rescuing secure encryption is the common aim of the entire Parliament. We are doing the exact opposite of most EU governments who want to destroy digital privacy of correspondence and secure encryption. Governments must finally accept that this highly dangerous bill can only be fundamentally changed or not be passed at all. The fight against authoritarian chat control must be pursued with all determination!
In detail, our position will protect young people and victims of abuse much more effectively than the EU Commission’s extreme proposal:
- Security by design: In order to protect young people from grooming, internet services and apps shall be secure by design and default. It must be possible to block and report other users. Only at the request of the user should he or she be publicly addressable and see messages or pictures of other users. Users should be asked for confirmation before sending contact details or nude pictures. Potential perpetrators and victims should be warned where appropriate, for example if they try to search for abuse material using certain search words. Public chats at high risk of grooming are to be moderated.
- In order to clean the net of child sexual abuse material, the new EU Child Protection Centre is to proactively search publicly accessible internet content automatically for known CSAM. This crawling can also be used in the darknet and is thus more effective than private surveillance measures by providers.
- Providers who become aware of clearly illegal material will be obliged to remove it – unlike in the EU Commission’s proposal.
- Law enforcement agencies who become aware of illegal material must report it to the provider for removal. This is our reaction to the case of the darknet platform Boystown, where the worst abuse material was further disseminated for months with the knowledge of Europol.
At the same time, we are pulling the following poisonous teeth out of the EU Commission’s extreme bill:
- We safeguard the digital secrecy of correspondence and remove the plans for blanket chat control, which violate fundamental rights and stand no chance in court. The current voluntary chat control of private messages (not social networks) by US internet companies is being phased out. Targeted telecommunication surveillance and searches will only be permitted with a judicial warrant and only limited to persons or groups of persons suspected of being linked to child sexual abuse material.
- We safeguard trust in secure end-to-end encryption. We clearly exclude so-called client-side scanning, i.e. the installation of surveillance functionalities and security vulnerabilities in our smartphones.
- We guarantee the right to anonymous communication and remove mandatory age verification for users of communication services. Whistleblowers can thus continue to leak wrong-doings anonymously without having to show their identity card or face.
- Removing instead of blocking: Internet access blocking will be optional. Under no circumstances must legal content be collaterally blocked.
- We prevent the digital house arrest: We don’t oblige app stores to prevent young people under 16 from installing messenger apps, social networking and gaming apps ‘for their own protection’ as proposed. The General Data Protection Regulation is maintained.“
The mandate is not expected to be voted on in plenary. The Council could make a further attempt to position itself on 4 December, after which the European Parliament’s negotiations with the Council and the European Commission (“trialogue”) can begin. The majority of EU governments have so far stuck to the plan for mass chat control without suspicion and the undermining of secure encryption. Other governments are firmly opposed to this. A legal opinion published yesterday by a former ECJ judge concludes that neither chat control nor an end to secure encryption would stand up in court.
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Former CJEU judge: EU Chat Control plans for indiscriminately searching private messages and breaking secure encryption are doomed to fail in court
In another blow to the EU Commission’s proposed child sexual abuse regulation, a former judge of the EU’s top court of justice finds that the proposed mass scanning of private messages for suspected content would likely be struck down by the Court for violating the fundamental right to privacy. The ex judge dismisses the defence put forward by the Commission in response to similar findings by the EU Council’s legal service earlier this year. Adding to those findings, the former judge concludes that the proposed extension of scanning obligations to end-to-end encrypted communications services also violates EU law for lacking legal certainty (pages 35-37 of the legal analysis).
“EU governments in Council must accept now that the only way forward with this dystopian Chat Control bill, both politically and legally, is to remove indiscriminate mass scanning and end-to-end encrypted services from the proposal. I call on EU governments to stop pursuing chat control and the destruction of secure encryption! An overwhelming majority in the EU Parliament will tomorrow propose limiting surveillance to suspects and safeguarding secure encryption. No child is helped with legislation that will inevitably fail in court even before its implementation. Do you really want to repeat the disaster caused by the Data Retention Directive?” comments Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer, who commissioned the legal opinion and co-negotiated the European Parliament’s position on the proposed Chat Control regulation.
The author of the legal opinion Christopher Vajda is a long-time judge of the CJEU (2012-2020).
In his legal opinion he finds that «the provision for DOs [detection orders] in the Regulation is likely to be unlawful on grounds of proportionality, lack of reasoning, legal certainty, as well as the requirement that such interferences should be provided by the law.»
In response to the Commission, he concludes that he “cannot see how a DO [detection order], and the process leading up to it, can preclude it being considered to require general and indiscriminate monitoring of electronic communications.”
The ex-judge calls the Detection Orders of the proposal “a major inroad into the fundamental right to the protection of privacy and data guaranteed by Articles 7 and 8 of the Charter which is, so far as I am aware, far greater than contained in any previous legislation”.
EU Digital Identity Regulation (eIDAS): Pirates don’t support blank cheque for surveillance of citizens online!
The EU Parliament and EU Council yesterday struck a political deal on the reform of the EU Digital Identity Regulation (eIDAS 2). A new digital identity wallet app is to allow EU citizens to access public and private digital services such as Facebook or Google, and pay online. The deal was made even though more than 500 scientists and numerous NGOs in an open letter „strongly warn against the currently proposed trilogue agreement, as it fails to properly respect the right to privacy of citizens and secure online communications“ – criticism which the Pirate Party Members of the European Parliament underline.
“This regulation is a blank cheque for surveillance of citizens online, endangering our privacy and security online”, comments Pirate Party lawmaker Patrick Breyer. “Browser security is being undermined, and overidentification will gradually erode our right to use digital services anonymously. Mark Zuckerberg should have no right to see our ID! Entrusting our digital lives to the government instead of Facebook and Google is jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire. This deal sacrifices essential requirements the European Parliament had put forward to make the eID app privacy-friendly and secure. The EU misses the opportunity to establish a trustworthy framework for modernization and digitization. We will watch the implementation very closely.”
Pirates Mikulas Peksa and Patrick Breyer worked until the last minute to try and fix at least some of the numerous risks of the EU digital identity scheme. In a major victory, Member States will not be obliged to assign a single unique ID number to every citizen. Signing up for the eID app will be voluntary, and it will remain possible to access public and private services by other existing identification and authentication means. The app client will be open source.
Overall though the scheme remains a blank cheque for surveillance of citizens online: As hundreds of scientists publicly warn and contrary to what the EU claims, web browser manufacturers could be forced to expose our securely encrypted Internet use (including intimate and sensitive activities) to government surveillance. This is an unacceptable attack on secure encryption. The eID apps can also be used to monitor our digital lives because there is no requirement of unobservability. The content of our eID wallets (potentially bringing together personal banking data, medical prescriptions and criminal records) could be monitored via central databases because we have no right to store documents exclusively on our personal devices.
The lure of conveniently signing in to private digital services using a single official eID app is a trap. Overidentification will gradually erode our right to use digital services anonymously which currently keeps us safe from criminal activity, unauthorised disclosure, identity theft, stalking and other forms of abuse of personal data. The eID app will not allow for multiple, truly separate user profiles which vulnerable persons rely on.
The server-side code of the eID wallet will not have to be open source, meaning the public cannot know what the code actually does and if it is safe.
In view of all this, the new EU eID app will not be trustworthy and will fail to sufficiently encourage the development of digital and eGovernment services in Europe – much to the Pirates regret.
See also the assessment of the deal published by NGO epicenter.works
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Il futuro dei social è decentralizzare. L'articolo di Chiara Crescenzi su GuerrediRete
...Ma questa situazione rappresenta soltanto una minima parte di quello che accade davvero sulle piattaforme decentralizzate, che contrastano la diffusione di contenuti tossici opponendogli l’empowerment di comunità forti e coese. È abbastanza evidente, quindi, che decentralizzare sia oramai un imperativo per le piattaforme di social media, ammesso che queste ci tengano ad avere con sé i propri utenti. “Lo paragono alla crescita del cibo biologico e coltivato in modo sostenibile – ha dichiarato Bill Ottman, fondatore e amministratore delegato di Minds, piattaforma di social media parzialmente decentralizzata, commentando la diffusione di app federate -. Trent’anni fa, la gente diceva: ‘Non so di cosa stai parlando e non so perché dovrebbe preoccuparmi’. E ora, alla gente importa”.
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La falsa promessa di ChatGPT, di Noam Chomsky, Ian Roberts e Jeffrey Watumull
In breve, ChatGPT ed i suoi compagni sono costituzionalmente incapaci di bilanciare creatività e limiti. Essi o generano in eccesso (producendo sia verità che falsità, sostenendo assieme decisioni etiche o non etiche), oppure generano per difetto (esibendo disimpegno per ogni decisione e indifferenza per le conseguenze). Considerata l’amoralità, la finta scienza e l’incompetenza linguistica di questi sistemi, non si sa se ridere o piangere della loro popolarità.
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Non c’è via d’uscita per i dittatori. Il post di Branko Milanovic
In un interessante articolo che ha twittato ieri, Kaushik Basu discute, usando un modello matematico, un vecchio problema: come i governanti una volta che sono al potere non possono lasciarlo anche se lo vogliono, perché la loro strada, e la loro permanenza al potere, è cosparsa di cadaveri che chiederanno tutti vendetta (metaforicamente) se il governante dovesse dimettersi. Inoltre, dato che il numero delle malefatte e degli immaginari o reali nemici si moltiplica per ogni periodo aggiuntivo al potere, essi hanno bisogno di ricorrere ad una sempre maggiore repressione per restare al potere.
non c’è niente che si possa offrire ai dittatori per farli recedere. Essi devono continuare a governare finché o muoiono in pace nei loro letti – e dopo la morte vengono o vilipesi o celebrati (alcune volte, entrambe le cose) – o finché non vengono rovesciati, o si imbattono nel proiettile di un assassino. Una volta che si è sulla vetta, non c’è via d’uscita. Essi sono divenuti prigionieri, come i molti altri che hanno gettato in carcere
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Political advertising: EU won’t ban voter manipulation and microtargeting
Yesterday, the EU Parliament and Council agreed on new rules on transparency and targeting of political advertising. The Parliament was able to secure a publicly accessible library of online political advertising, but targeting political messages based on the individual preferences, weaknesses, situation and personality of every user will remain legal (so-called surveillance advertising). Patrick Breyer, EU lawmaker and digital freedom fighter for the Pirate Party, who co-negotiated the regulation in the Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE), takes stock:
“The targeting rules are a farce. The digital manipulation of elections in the style of Cambridge Analytica, targeted disinformation before referendums such as Brexit, contradictory election promises to different voter groups – all of this remains legal. Anti-democratic and anti-european movements will benefit most: they can continue to use surveillance advertising to target hate messages and lies at voters who are susceptible to them in order to undermine our democracy. Here, the short-sighted self-interest of those in power and the surveillance capitalist interests of big tech have combined to create a toxic mixture for democracy.”
The agreed targeting rules in detail:
- The existing prohibition in the Digital Services Act of analysing the user’s political opinion, sexual orientation or health for advertising purposes remains in place. In practice, however, political advertising tends to be based on matching interests and other correlations, which remains legal. Even Cambridge Analytica did not analyse the political opinion of users before Trump’s election as US president, but rather their personalities.
- The user consent already required under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) remains a precondition for being allowed to tailor political advertising to the individual situation of the user and profiling their digital lives. Surveillance data from third-parties may not be used. For the first time, Parliament could implement a ban on annoying consent banners if the user rejects personalised political advertising via their browser settings (“do not track”). Parliament was also able to ensure that consent to political surveillance advertising may not be made a precondition for accessing websites (“tracking walls”).
“Every user will be able to decide in favour of or against political surveillance advertising,” explains Breyer. “In the best-case scenario, yesterday’s agreement heralds the beginning of the end of annoying cookie banners and tracking walls. We can build on this foundation in the ePrivacy negotiations and extend these rules to all banners. In the worst case scenario, the new rules will be undermined by suggestively designed consent banners and consent clauses hidden deep in terms and conditions. Letting individual internet users decide on the protection of democratic elections is a dangerous failure of the legislator, for which the EU Commission and EU governments are responsible.”
The new rules will come into force in 2025.
Etiopia, la guerra genocida in Tigray e le conseguenze 3 anni dopo
La guerra genocida è iniziata in Tigray il 4 novembre 2020. I media italiani politicizzati non ne hanno dato degna visibilità, se non per mettere in luce qualche sporadica notizia sensazionalistica.
Personalmente coinvolto emotivamente per amicizie di lunga data e visto le premesse informative in Italia, ho cominciato a condividere aggiornamenti, per quel che potevo, per quel che riuscivo a sapere da varie fonti.
Il Tigray, stato regionale a nord dell’ Etiopia confinante con l’Eritrea, ha circa 7 milioni di abitanti.
Sono stati distrutti il 90% degli ospedali, lo stupro è stato usato come arma producendo una stima di 120.000 abusi su donne di ogni età, arresti di massa, deportazioni e detenzioni su base etnica contro il diritto umanitario internazionale su persone di ogni genere, di ogni età e ceto sociale (anche donne e umoni di chiesa) e persone solo per il sospetto che fossero sostenitori dei “ribelli”. Furono attaccati anche luoghi di culto. La guerra per strategia bellica fu combattuta in totale isolamento comunicativo e blackout elettrico: 2 anni in cui il popolo tigrino è stato tenuto in ostaggio. Le stime delle vittime parlano di 800.000 morti, tigrini civili uccisi direttamente da attacchi aerei, massacri, uccisioni extragiudiziali o per fame indota da volontà politiche del governo etiope. L’occupazione delle forze regionali amhara e milizie Fano nellla parte nord occidentale del Tigray hanno perpetrato attività di pulizia etnica, anche dopo l’inizio della tregua del novembre 2022, che ha decretato un formale cessate il fuoco con l’accordo di Pretoria tra il governo federale etiope e i membri del TPLF – Tigray People’s Liberation Front, partito del Tigray considerato gruppo terroristico dalla legge etiope dl maggio 2021. Questo ultimo anno di tregua formale comunque non ha fermato abusi e violenze sulla popolazione civile di etnia tigrina.
ARCHIVIO: Tigray : la Guerra Genocida Dimenticata dal Mondo – Archivio
Oggi la situazione si è normalizzata ma resta critica e grave.
Ci sono ancora più di 1 milione di sfollati interni, IDP, in Tigray in attesa oltre che di poter tornare a casa, anche di assistenza e supporto alimentare e per cure mediche.
Le persone continuano ancora a morire di fame dopo un anno dall afirma dell’ accordo di tregua.
Secondo uno studio congiunto condotto dal Tigray Health Bureau, dal Tigray Health Research Institute e dalla Mekelle University, almeno 1.329 persone sono morte di fame in soli 9 distretti nella regione per il periodo di 9 mesi che hanno portato ad agosto 2023.
La sospensione degli aiuti alimentari da parte di WFP e USAID per nove mesi consecutivi, ha aggravato le condizioni umanitarie di una regione già scosse da disastri come siccità, invasione di locuste nel deserto
La presenza degli sfollati crea disagi perché in varie zone occupano edifici scolastici per cui i ragazzi non possono tornare sui banchi di scuola.
Gli ospedali dopo 3 anni continuano ad essere in mancanza di risorse. Ci sono flebili segnali di ripresa e supporto nei più grandi centri, ma per le aree rurali e più decentralizzate, soprattutto quelle ancora occupate dalle forze amhara ed eritree, sussistono problematiche di accesso alle cure e al supporto umanitario alimentare.
Approfondimenti: Etiopia: le atrocità cessa l’anniversario del fuoco – Human Rights Watch
La commissione degli esperti sul diritto umanitario dell’ ONU – ICHREE, istituita per investigare in maniera indipendente sui crimini di guerra e contro l’umanità perpetrati sul popolo tigrino, è stata bloccata nel suo operato. Il suo mandato non è stato rinnovato come sperato dalla diaspora e da tutta quella parte di società civile che chiede giustizia per le vittime. Il mandato non è stato rinnovato per due cause principali: la pressione da parte del governo etiope perché ha rivendicato, come strumento di distrazione di massa, di essere stato sovrano quindi che come da accrodo di Pretoria ha istituito un processo di giustizia di transizione come processo interno nazionale e dall’altra la volontà politica dell’ ONU che non ha rispettato il “mai più” voltandosi dall’altra parte il 4 ottobre durante la seduta della commissione per decidere le sorti del ICHREE. Il movente della comunità internazionale? Probabilmente tutelare le proprie risorse in gioco, vecchi e nuovi accordi economici mascherati da “crescita e sviluppo” in Etiopia.
In una dichiarazione rilasciata in occasione del primo anniversario dell’accordo di Pretoria, il TPLF afferma che il popolo del Tigrai continua a soffrire terribilmente a causa della sua mancata attuazione, affermando che:
“Milioni di persone nel Tigrai sono sparse ovunque in cerca di rifugio nei campi, e coloro che sono sotto le forze d’invasione sono costretti a cambiare la propria identità, mentre coloro che si trovano nei campi per sfollati stanno morendo di fame”
“Le forze d’invasione avrebbero dovuto ritirarsi dal Tigrai, ma non sono state ritirate.” ha osservato il TPLF. Il TPLF esorta il governo federale, l’UA, gli Stati Uniti, l’UE, l’IGAD e le organizzazioni internazionali dei media e dei diritti a mantenere i progressi raggiunti attraverso l’accordo di Pretoria e ad impegnarsi per assumersi i propri obblighi morali e legali per garantire la piena attuazione dell’accordo.”
Per l’Italia naturalmente si è tutto risolto con la firma dell’accordo di Pretoria, così i media italiani si sono sentiti legittimati di non scriverne più (non che prima di tale data avessero contribuito con l’informazione su tale contesto, anzi).
A fine ottobre 2023 funzionario USA rivela che la richiesta dell’Etiopia di idoneità AGOA è “ancora in sospeso”. “Queste decisioni sono ancora in sospeso”, ha detto la signora Hamilton ai giornalisti del continente, e che “probabilmente non ci sarà alcun annuncio al momento in cui arriveremo al Forum AGOA”. Il presidente Joe Biden ha firmato un ordine esecutivo nel novembre 2021 che rimuoveva l’Etiopia dall’AGOA a seguito dell’escalation della guerra, iniziata un anno prima nella regione del Tigrè, e ha assistito a “grosse violazioni dei diritti umani riconosciuti a livello internazionale. ”Il governo etiope ha condannato la decisione, descrivendola come “sbagliata e non riuscendo a considerare il benessere dei comuni cittadini.”
Approfondimento: L’accordo di pace di Pretoria: promesse infrante e l’appello urgente per l’emendamento e la rinegoziazione
La guerra genocida iniziata in Tigray il 4 novembre 2020 ha avuto fine formale il 3 novembre 2022 con l’accordo di cessazione ostilità, ma abusi e violenze continuano ancora oggi.
Come sempre a pagarne il caro prezzo, anche con la vita, sono i milioni di persone. Come prassi, l’informazione in Italia ha spento i riflettori su questa ennesima crisi umanitaria in atto per passare al prossimo scoop.
Una preghiera per tutte le vittime della guerra genocida in Tigray. Una pensiero di speranza per tutte le persone che ancora soffrono.
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I deepfake di nudo inondano Internet nel vuoto legislativo del 31/10/23
I deepfake di nudo, compresi quelli di minori, stanno diventando sempre più comuni online man mano che gli strumenti per crearli diventano più accessibili, avvertono gli esperti, ma la legge è ancora indietro nel regolamentare tale materiale .
La "strategia multi-cloud" della Commissione Europea solleva dubbi sulla coerenza il 31/10/23
il servizio cloud statunitense Oracle ha annunciato che la Commissione Europea ha deciso di includere i servizi Oracle Cloud Infrastructure nelle sue offerte, sollevando dubbi sulla coerenza con gli schemi di sicurezza cloud proposti.
I politici dell'UE si preparano allo scontro nel spinoso dibattito sullo status dei lavoratori su piattaforma il 31/10/23
Le istituzioni dell'UE si stanno preparando ad un confronto sul funzionamento della presunzione legale di occupazione, l'aspetto più delicato della Direttiva sui lavoratori su piattaforma, in un trilogo giovedì prossimo (9 novembre).
Francia e Germania si allontanano sempre più sulla sovranità digitale del settore cloud il 31/10/23
Il recente annuncio di "un nuovo cloud indipendente per l'Europa" da parte di Amazon Web Services ha sottolineato la crescente divergenza tra le posizioni di Parigi e Berlino riguardo alla sovranità digitale nel settore cloud.
La Moldavia blocca l'accesso alle principali agenzie di stampa russe il 31/10/23
La Moldavia ha bloccato lunedì (30 ottobre) l'accesso ai siti web dei principali mezzi di informazione russi, comprese le agenzie di stampa Interfax e TASS, accusandoli di prendere parte ad una guerra di informazione contro Paese.
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Historic agreement on child sexual abuse proposal (CSAR): European Parliament wants to remove chat control and safeguard secure encryption
This week, the European Parliament’s negotiators reached a broad majority agreement on a common position concerning the controversial EU chat control bill. The Commission’s bill proposes bulk scanning and reporting of private messages for allegedly suspicious content by using error-prone algorithms, including „artificial intelligence“. But the European Parliament’s position removes indiscriminate chat control and allows only for a targeted surveillance of specific individuals and groups reasonably suspicious of being linked to child sexual abuse material, with a judicial warrant. End-to-end encrypted messengers are exempted. Instead, internet services will have to design their services more securely and thus effectively prevent the sexual exploitation of children.
EU lawmaker Patrick Breyer of the Pirate Party, a digital freedom fighter who negotiated the parliamentary position on behalf of his group Greens/EFA, explains:
“Under the impression of massive protests against the looming indiscriminate chat control mass scanning of private messages, we managed to win a broad majority for a different, new approach to protecting young people from abuse and exploitation online. As a pirate and digital freedom fighter, I am proud of this breakthrough. The winners of this agreement are on the one hand our children, who will be protected much more effectively and in a court-proof manner, and on the other hand all citizens, whose digital privacy of correspondence and communication security will be guaranteed.
Even if this compromise, which is supported from the progressive to the conservative camp, is not perfect on all points, it is a historic success that removing chat control and rescuing secure encryption is the common aim of the entire Parliament. We are doing the exact opposite of most EU governments who want to destroy digital privacy of correspondence and secure encryption. Governments must finally accept that this highly dangerous bill can only be fundamentally changed or not be passed at all. The fight against authoritarian chat control must be pursued with all determination!
In detail, our position will protect young people and victims of abuse much more effectively than the EU Commission’s extreme proposal:
- Security by design: In order to protect young people from grooming, internet services and apps shall be secure by design and default. It must be possible to block and report other users. Only at the request of the user should he or she be publicly addressable and see messages or pictures of other users. Users should be asked for confirmation before sending contact details or nude pictures. Potential perpetrators and victims should be warned where appropriate, for example if they try to search for abuse material using certain search words. Public chats at high risk of grooming are to be moderated.
- In order to clean the net of child sexual abuse material, the new EU Child Protection Centre is to proactively search publicly accessible internet content automatically for known CSAM. This crawling can also be used in the darknet and is thus more effective than private surveillance measures by providers.
- Providers who become aware of clearly illegal material will be obliged to remove it – unlike in the EU Commission’s proposal.
- Law enforcement agencies who become aware of illegal material must report it to the provider for removal. This is our reaction to the case of the darknet platform Boystown, where the worst abuse material was further disseminated for months with the knowledge of Europol.
At the same time, we are pulling the following poisonous teeth out of the EU Commission’s extreme bill:
- We safeguard the digital secrecy of correspondence and remove the plans for blanket chat control, which violate fundamental rights and stand no chance in court. The current voluntary chat control of private messages (not social networks) by US internet companies is being phased out. Targeted telecommunication surveillance and searches will only be permitted with a judicial warrant and only limited to persons or groups of persons suspected of being linked to child sexual abuse material.
- We safeguard trust in secure end-to-end encryption. We clearly exclude so-called client-side scanning, i.e. the installation of surveillance functionalities and security vulnerabilities in our smartphones.
- We guarantee the right to anonymous communication and remove mandatory age verification for users of communication services. Whistleblowers can thus continue to leak wrong-doings anonymously without having to show their identity card or face.
- Removing instead of blocking: Internet access blocking will be optional. Under no circumstances must legal content be collaterally blocked.
- We prevent the digital house arrest: We don’t oblige app stores to prevent young people under 16 from installing messenger apps, social networking and gaming apps ‘for their own protection’ as proposed. The General Data Protection Regulation is maintained.”
The EU Parliament’s civil liberties committee is due to confirm the agreement on 13 November.
Chat control: Johansson vainly tries to dismiss lobbying network in LIBE Committee
Today, the EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, had to answer to the LIBE Committee in the course of the lobbying affair concerning Chat control (#ChatControlGate)[1]. Last month, several European media outlets had revealed the close involvement of lobbyists in the preparation of the controversial regulation on sexual child abuse and the interconnections of the EU Commission with a foreign network.[2] Johansson was asked countless critical questions from all parliamentary groups, but she insisted no mistakes had been made. It would only be examined whether she had violated the Digital Services Act with an emotional advertising campaign in member states that reject her Chat control proposal as it stands.
Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer, digital freedom fighter and co-negotiator of the proposed regulation, comments:
“It was only to be expected that Johansson would respond to the revelations with her usual propaganda, such as citing a biased and suggestive Eurobarometer survey that violates the rules of good public opinion research.”[1]
“In order to really hold Johansson accountable for her foreign-influenced bill and her lobbying in office, my committee, on our initiative, has demanded full access to all correspondence of her office with lobbying organisations – such as the secret letters of the dubious US foundation Thorn. Only then can we see the full extent of the entanglement with our own eyes.
“We are having the Legal Service look into legal action against the EU Commission for unfair influence and pressure on the legislative process through targeted false advertising in critical countries. And I have today lodged a complaint with the EU Ombudsman.
“The European Data Protection Supervisor is already investigating. We will hold Ms Johansson accountable for her crimes against our fundamental rights and our democracy!”
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Breyer’s question to Johansson in the LIBE Committee today was:
“It is about #ChatControl Gate today, about your links with a foreign lobby network, so close that you wrote to the Thorn boss yourself: ‘The regulation I propose is a strong European response. Without your help we would not have come this far.’
May I congratulate you on your new side job as a surveillance influencer on the internet? Recently, you actually dared to try to put pressure on critical member states in the current legislative process by means of a targeted emotional disinformation campaign using taxpayers’ money.
What would you actually say if Parliament were to place targeted advertisements in your home country, Sweden, in order to criticise your authoritarian Chat control proposal, which is contrary to fundamental rights?
Have you lost all respect for democracy and your role in the legislative process?
If these methods are really as normal as you write, when else did you purposefully pressure specific countries?
The best thing about your scandalous methods is that they have failed politically in the Council and also in Parliament.
We will hold you accountable for your illegal methods! Our legal service is examining a possible lawsuit against the EU Commission . Today I have lodged a complaint with the EU Ombudsman.”
[1] patrick-breyer.de/en/breyer-on…
[2] balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/w…
[3] patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-cont…
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