Climate justice action repression vs EU data protection law: the Advocate General’s opinion
In his opinion, the Court’s Advocate General assesses the compliance of the French law regulating the collection of biometric data by police with EU data protection criteria. Although his interpretation remains strictly theoretical and fails to account for the reality of police practices in France, one of his proposals might become handy for people when seeking redress after abusive data collection.
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3D Printed Mail is a Modern Solution to an Ancient Problem
The human body and sharp objects don’t get along very well, especially when they are being wielded with ill-intent. Since antiquity there have been various forms of armor designed to protect the wearer, but thankfully these days random sword fights don’t often break out on the street. Still, [SCREEN TESTED] wanted to test the viability of 3D printed chain mail — if not for actual combat, at least for re-enactment purposes.
He uses tough PLA to crank out a bed worth of what looks like [ZeroAlligator]’s PipeLink Chainmail Fabric, which just so happens to be the trending result on Bambu’s MakerWorld currently. The video shows several types of mail on the printer, but the test dummy only gets the one H-type pattern, which is a pity — there’s a whole realm of tests waiting to be done on different mail patterns and filament types.
If you want to be really safe when the world goes Mad Max, you’d probably want actual chain mail, perhaps from stainless steel. On the other hand, if someone tries to mug you on the way home from a con, cosplay armor might actually keep you safer than one might first suspect. It’s not great armor, but it’s a great result for homemade plastic armor.
Of course you’d still be better off with Stepahnie Kwolek’s great invention, Kevlar.
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The AI Act isn’t enough: closing the dangerous loopholes that enable rights violations
While the EU's AI Act aims to regulate high-risk AI systems, it is undermined by major loopholes that allow their unchecked use in the context of national security and law enforcement. These exemptions risk enabling, among others, mass surveillance of protests and discriminatory migration practices. To prevent this, EDRi affiliate Danes je nov dan has published recommendations for Slovenia to adopt stricter national safeguards and transparent oversight mechanisms.
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L’idea non è particolarmente originale. Due amici, musicisti disoccupati, si danno appuntamento in uno studio di registrazione a New York e iniziano a improvvisare con l’idea di avvicinarsi, improvvisando, al suono e allo stile jazz della Blue Note degli anni ’50 ma con una forte connotazione rock. Nel 1968, l’eclettico organista, chitarrista,
Educare alla speranza: studenti protagonisti di dignità e futuro
Il 17 novembre è la Giornata internazionale degli studenti, un appuntamento annuale che invita a riflettere sul valore universale dell’educazione innanzitutto come diritto allo studio. Istituita nel 1941 per ricordare gli studenti e i professori di Praga giustiziati dai nazisti il 17 novembre del 1939, questa ricorrenza è oggi un’occasione per ripensare la scuola come luogo in cui costruire pace e giustizia.
In un mondo attraversato da conflitti e disuguaglianze, l’educazione diventa così un laboratorio dove immaginare il futuro. Nella sua recente Lettera apostolica Disegnare nuove mappe di speranza, papa Leone XIV scrive che «educare è un atto di speranza e una passione che si rinnova perché manifesta la promessa che vediamo nel futuro dell’umanità. La specificità, la profondità e l’ampiezza dell’azione educativa è quell’opera – tanto misteriosa quanto reale – di “far fiorire l’essere […] è prendersi cura dell’anima” come si legge nell’ Apologia di Socrate di Platone. È un “mestiere di promesse”: si promette tempo, fiducia, competenza; si promette giustizia e misericordia, si promette il coraggio della verità e il balsamo della consolazione. Educare è un compito d’amore che si tramanda di generazione in generazione, ricucendo il tessuto lacerato delle relazioni e restituendo alle parole il peso della promessa: “Ogni uomo è capace della verità, tuttavia, è molto sopportabile il cammino quando si va avanti con l’aiuto dell’altro”. La verità si ricerca in comunità».
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Un cammino che possiamo affrontare prendendo come bussola, ha ricordato il Pontefice, la Dichiarazione conciliare Gravissimum educationis sull’estrema importanza e attualità dell’educazione nella vita della persona umana, di cui quest’anno ricorre il 60° anniversario. Una Dichiarazione che mette al primo punto «Il diritto di ogni uomo all’educazione». «Tutti gli uomini di qualunque razza, condizione ed età, in forza della loro dignità di persona hanno il diritto inalienabile ad una educazione – si legge nel testo -, che risponda alla loro vocazione propria e sia conforme al loro temperamento, alla differenza di sesso, alla cultura e alle tradizioni del loro paese, ed insieme aperta ad una fraterna convivenza con gli altri popoli, al fine di garantire la vera unità e la vera pace sulla terra. La vera educazione deve promuovere la formazione della persona umana sia in vista del suo fine ultimo, sia per il bene dei vari gruppi di cui l’uomo è membro ed in cui, divenuto adulto, avrà mansioni da svolgere».
La dichiarazione conciliare, aggiunge papa Leone XIV, «riafferma il diritto di ciascuno all’educazione e indica la famiglia come prima scuola di umanità. La comunità ecclesiale è chiamata a sostenere ambienti che integrino fede e cultura, rispettino la dignità di tutti, dialoghino con la società. Il documento mette in guardia da ogni riduzione dell’educazione a addestramento funzionale o strumento economico: una persona non è un “profilo di competenze”, non si riduce a un algoritmo previsibile, ma un volto, una storia, una vocazione».
Fede e identità: un binomio generativo
In questo contesto, anche l’educazione cattolica sta attraversando una fase di ripensamento profondo, come si legge in un nostro articolo del 2024, «Fede, identità, scuola. Una sfida da affrontare». La sfida, infatti, non è semplicemente “insegnare religione”, ma restituire alla fede il suo carattere vitale, non come obbligo o ornamento, bensì come necessità antropologica e spazio di identità. «In questa ricerca della propria ragion d’essere, la sfida non passa soltanto attraverso la necessaria innovazione pedagogica, l’imprescindibile attenzione per le lingue straniere o la proposta in termini umani e valoriali – si legge nell’articolo -. Non si tratta nemmeno di proporre un ritorno al passato, di ripristinare modalità ottocentesche. Lo spirito della tradizione, bisogna dirlo chiaramente, è un’altra cosa. È una ricerca che dev’essere inquadrata nella stessa identità cristiana e che chiama in causa il ruolo dei cristiani e delle loro istituzioni nel XXI secolo, non in altre epoche. Non dobbiamo dimenticare che, mentre molte parrocchie si svuotano di giovani, nelle scuole la Chiesa continua a mantenere un notevole spazio di contatto con i ragazzi. Il che non significa necessariamente che il compito sia facile, ma questo non ci esenta dalla responsabilità di cercare di interpretare i “segni dei tempi” e di adattarci ai cambiamenti della società e della Chiesa, e ai venti dello Spirito Santo».
L’università come ponte globale
Anche le Università cattoliche sono chiamate a questo ripensamento profondo, soprattutto per l’internazionalizzazione e la globalizzazione dell’istruzione superiore. Oggi, infatti, solo negli Strati Uniti, sono oltre un milione gli studenti internazionali, ma il dato è in crescita un po’ ovunque, come si legge nell’articolo «L’assistenza pastorale agli studenti internazionali». In questo contesto, il compito primario di una missione universitaria e di una cappellania, è quello di «preservare e rafforzare l’identità cattolica dell’università, promuovendo questa missione fra tutti i membri della comunità universitaria. Attraverso le proprie attività di ministero nel campus, la cappellania universitaria potrebbe diventare un punto di contatto centrale per fornire assistenza pastorale agli studenti internazionali, organizzando per loro regolari attività e collaborando con il personale universitario, le facoltà e altre componenti interessate. Tale attività può comprendere l’avvio di programmi di assistenza pastorale in collaborazione con uffici di sensibilizzazione diocesani locali, parrocchie e altri gruppi impegnati a sostenere questi studenti. Facilitando tali iniziative, la cappellania universitaria aiuta a creare un ambiente inclusivo, in cui gli studenti internazionali siano in grado di progredire sotto i profili accademico, spirituale e sociale».
Inaugurare una nuova stagione
Da queste prospettive emerge una visione comune: educare è atto di pace e di fiducia, è costruire mappe di speranza nel cuore della storia. La Giornata internazionale degli studenti ricorda che il diritto di studiare non può essere dato per scontato e oggi più che mai, come ricorda papa Leone XIV sempre nella Lettera apostolica, siamo chiamati a «inaugurare una stagione che parli al cuore delle nuove generazioni, ricomponendo conoscenza e senso, competenza e responsabilità, fede e vita».
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Forthcoming Digital Omnibus would mark point of no return
127 civil society organisations and unions are urging the European Commission to halt its planned Digital Omnibus, warning that the proposals would weaken core EU laws like the GDPR and AI Act, and represent the biggest rollback of digital rights in EU history.
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Installing an 84MB Hard Drive Into a PDP-11/44
Over on YouTube [Usagi Electric] shows us how he installed an 84MB hard drive into his PDP-11/44.
In the beginning he purchased a bunch of RA70 and RA72 drives and board sets but none of them worked. As there are no schematics it’s very difficult to figure out how they’re broken and how to troubleshoot them.
Fortunately his friend sent him an “unhealthy” Memorex 214 84MB hard drive, also known as a Fujitsu 2312. The best thing about this hard drive is that it comes complete with a 400 page manual which includes the full theory of operation and a full set of schematics. Score!
After removing the fan and popping the lid we see this Fujitsu 2312 is chock-full of 7400 series logic. For power this drive needs 24 volts at 6 amps, 5 volts at 4.5 amps, and -12 volts at 4 amps. Fitting the drive into the PDP-11 rack requires a little mechanical adjustment but after making some alterations the hard drive and a TU58 tape drive fit in their allotted 3U rack space.
After a little bit of fiddling with the drive controller board the Control Status Register (RKCS1) reads 000200, which indicates fully functional status. At this point the belief is that this computer would boot off this drive, if only it contained an operating system. The operating system for this machine is RSX11. And that, dear reader, is where we are now. Does anyone have a copy of RSX11 and a suggestion for how we get it copied onto the Fujitsu 2312? We wouldn’t want to have to toggle-in our operating system each time we boot…
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La regina delle Criptovalute è stata presa! Ha rubato 7 miliardi di dollari in Bitcoin
Un tribunale di Londra ha condannato la 47enne cinese Zhimin Qian, nota anche come Yadi Zhang, a 11 anni e 8 mesi di carcere per aver riciclato Bitcoin ottenuti attraverso il più grande schema Ponzi di investimenti in criptovalute della storia cinese. Tra il 2014 e il 2017, lo schema ha truffato oltre 128.000 persone, costando loro oltre 7,3 miliardi di dollari in criptovalute.
L’indagine internazionale, condotta dalle forze dell’ordine britanniche e cinesi, è durata sette anni e ha portato al sequestro di 61.000 bitcoin. Al momento della confisca, il loro valore è salito circa 7,3 miliardi di dollari.
Si tratta del più grande sequestro di criptovalute nella storia del Regno Unito, che ha superato persino il sequestro di oltre 94.000 bitcoin per un valore di 3,6 miliardi di dollari effettuato dal Dipartimento di Giustizia degli Stati Uniti nel 2022, in relazione all’attacco informatico a Bitfinex.
Oltre a Bitcoin, le forze dell’ordine hanno sequestrato a Zhimin Qian beni per un valore di 11 milioni di sterline (14,4 milioni di dollari), tra cui portafogli crittografici, dispositivi crittografati, denaro contante e oro.
Dal 2014 al 2017, Qian ha gestito un enorme schema Ponzi chiamato Lantian Gerui (che in cinese significa “Cielo Blu”) in Cina. L’azienda sosteneva di investire in prodotti sanitari ad alta tecnologia e di estrarre Bitcoin, e alla fine ha raccolto oltre 40 miliardi di yuan (circa 5,6 miliardi di dollari) da circa 130.000 investitori, promettendo rendimenti dal 100% al 300%. Molte vittime dello schema hanno investito tutti i loro risparmi pensionistici e altri beni nello schema.
All’epoca, Qian si guadagnò il soprannome di “Bitcoin Queen” perché promuoveva attivamente le criptovalute in generale e Bitcoin in particolare, definendole “oro digitale”.
Nel 2017, quando lo schema Ponzi fallì e attirò l’attenzione delle autorità cinesi, Qian convertì tutti i fondi ricevuti dagli “investitori” in Bitcoin e fuggì nel Regno Unito sotto falso nome, entrando nel Paese con documenti falsi.
Arrivata nel Regno Unito nel settembre 2017, Qian assunse degli assistenti e affittò una villa in un quartiere esclusivo di Londra per 17.000 sterline (circa 23.000 dollari) al mese. Viaggiò in tutta Europa e nel Sud-est asiatico, soggiornando in hotel di lusso e acquistando costosi gioielli e orologi. Tentò anche di riciclare criptovalute attraverso l’acquisto di immobili di lusso a Londra e Dubai.
Nell’ottobre 2018, le forze dell’ordine britanniche ricevettero informazioni su un tentativo di vendita di beni criminali a Londra e avviarono un’indagine. Fu allora che le autorità rintracciarono Qian e perquisirono la sua villa londinese. Tuttavia, la truffatrice viveva sotto falso nome di Yadi Zhang e, a quel punto, gli investigatori non erano a conoscenza della sua vera identità.
Dopo la perquisizione, Qian fuggì da Londra e sfuggì alla giustizia per quasi sei anni. Fu arrestata solo nel 2024 a York. Il suo assistente e complice, era stato arrestato in precedenza, nel maggio 2021, nella stessa villa e successivamente condannato a sei anni e otto mesi di carcere per favoreggiamento del riciclaggio di denaro.
Secondo quanto riportato dai media, durante la perquisizione, la polizia ha trovato il diario di Qian, in cui aveva annotato le sue “aspirazioni e intenzioni”. Ad esempio, desiderava diventare regina di Liberland, uno stato autoproclamato tra Croazia e Serbia, e sognava anche di “incontrare il Duca e i membri della famiglia reale”.
Oltre a Qian e Wen, è stato condannato un altro partecipante alla frode di 47 anni, del Derbyshire, che aiutava Qian ad affittare immobili e gestiva trasferimenti di criptovalute. Ha ricevuto una condanna a quattro anni e 11 mesi per trasferimento di beni ottenuti illegalmente (criptovalute), sebbene il suo avvocato abbia affermato di non essere a conoscenza della reale portata dei crimini di Qian.
Vale la pena notare che i bitcoin sequestrati possono ora essere utilizzati per risarcire le vittime o trattenuti dalle autorità britanniche. Una decisione in merito non è stata ancora presa e il Tesoro del Regno Unito non ha ancora commentato la situazione.
L'articolo La regina delle Criptovalute è stata presa! Ha rubato 7 miliardi di dollari in Bitcoin proviene da Red Hot Cyber.
Allarme sabotaggio informatico: Volt Typhoon si prepara ad attività distruttive
L’Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) ha lanciato l’allarme sulla prontezza degli stati autoritari ad andare oltre lo spionaggio informatico per arrivare al sabotaggio diretto delle infrastrutture critiche.
Mike Burgess, a capo dell’Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), ha dichiarato che i governi stranieri stanno sempre più prendendo in considerazione l’idea di colpire sistemi energetici, telecomunicazioni e reti finanziarie utilizzando la tecnologia per attacchi informatici distruttivi.
Secondo il capo dell’agenzia, negli ultimi anni le agenzie di intelligence hanno osservato un crescente interesse da parte di diversi stati per scenari “ad alto impatto”, dall’interruzione delle comunicazioni allo spoofing o all’avvelenamento delle riserve idriche.
Tali azioni, ha sottolineato Burgess, non sono più solo teoriche. Secondo l’ASIO, diversi paesi hanno creato squadre speciali che studiano come paralizzare le infrastrutture di altri stati in caso di conflitto. Mentre in precedenza l’obiettivo di tali strutture era quello di ottenere segretamente dati e interferire con i processi interni, ora si stanno preparando al sabotaggio.
La situazione, secondo lui, è aggravata da una combinazione di fattori: lo sviluppo dell’intelligenza artificiale, l’emergere di strumenti commerciali per attacchi informatici e la possibilità di noleggiare servizi dannosi sul darknet. Queste tendenze rendono l’accesso agli strumenti di sabotaggio significativamente più facile e gli autori più difficili da rintracciare.
L’agenzia prevede che nei prossimi cinque anni la minaccia di sabotaggio, anche attraverso mezzi digitali, aumenterà sia in termini di preparazione tecnica degli aggressori sia in termini di determinazione ad agire.
Burgess ha osservato che le minacce moderne non solo stanno diventando più numerose, ma anche meno distinte. L’ASIO stima che gli stessi attori possano combinare intelligence, attacchi informatici e l’uso di proxy criminali, sfumando il confine tra attività militare e criminale. Tali tendenze, ha affermato, stanno portando a un “ambiente di sicurezza degradato”, in cui gli stati che aderiscono a modelli autoritari agiscono in modo sempre più aggressivo e meno prevedibile.
Ha citato come esempi i gruppi cinesi Salt Typhoon e Volt Typhoon. Il primo è specializzato in cyberspionaggio e ha già condotto ricognizioni sulle reti di telecomunicazioni australiane, mentre il secondo si stava preparando per operazioni distruttive, ottenendo l’accesso a strutture critiche statunitensi con il potenziale di disattivarle.
Tali intrusioni, ha sottolineato il direttore dell’ASIO, forniscono a un avversario la capacità tecnica di disattivare le comunicazioni o l’alimentazione elettrica in qualsiasi momento e, in tali circostanze, ulteriori sviluppi dipendono esclusivamente dalla volontà politica, non dalla disponibilità di strumenti.
Ha prestato particolare attenzione al problema dell’impreparazione delle aziende a tali minacce. A suo avviso, la maggior parte degli incidenti aziendali si verifica a causa di vulnerabilità ben note e della negligenza delle misure di sicurezza di base. Nonostante i rischi siano stati identificati da tempo, il management spesso percepisce gli attacchi informatici come imprevisti. Allo stesso tempo, ha sottolineato, la protezione contro il sabotaggio richiede gli stessi approcci gestionali del monitoraggio di guasti interni, furti o incidenti.
Burgess ha esortato le aziende ad abbandonare un approccio superficiale alla sicurezza e ad andare oltre presentazioni e report. Ha sottolineato che i dirigenti devono comprendere chiaramente quali dati, sistemi e servizi sono critici per l’azienda e i suoi clienti, dove sono archiviati, chi vi ha accesso e quanto sono protetti. Solo allora potranno costruire un sistema di sicurezza coeso che elimini le lacune tra i reparti e le soluzioni isolate.
Secondo il responsabile dell’ASIO, la mancanza di misure globali non può essere giustificata né dalla complessità delle tecnologie né dalla mancanza di risorse. Se i rischi sono prevedibili e le vulnerabilità sono note, l’inazione si trasforma in una violazione deliberata della sicurezza.
Ha sottolineato che ignorare queste minacce nel contesto attuale è inaccettabile, soprattutto considerando che i potenziali avversari dispongono già di tutto il necessario per attaccare le infrastrutture, comprese le capacità di intelligenza artificiale.
L'articolo Allarme sabotaggio informatico: Volt Typhoon si prepara ad attività distruttive proviene da Red Hot Cyber.
Microsoft corregge 63 vulnerabilità, tra cui uno zero-day sfruttato attivamente
Nel Patch Tuesday di novembre, Microsoft ha corretto 63 vulnerabilità, tra cui una vulnerabilità zero-day critica che era già stata sfruttata in attacchi. Questa volta, le correzioni hanno interessato un’ampia gamma di componenti Windows e prodotti Microsoft, dal kernel del sistema operativo alla suite Office e alle soluzioni cloud.
Secondo l’azienda stessa, la vulnerabilità più pericolosa riguardava il kernel di Windows e consentiva di ottenere privilegi di sistema; alla vulnerabilità è stato assegnato l’identificatore CVE-2025-62215. La falla consentiva l’escalation dei privilegi locali sfruttando una sincronizzazione non corretta durante la condivisione delle risorse. La scoperta del bug è stata fatta dal team interno di Microsoft per le minacce informatiche.
Delle vulnerabilità rimanenti, 29 riguardano l’escalation dei privilegi, 16 consentono l’esecuzione di codice remoto, 11 forniscono accesso a informazioni sensibili, tre causano crash di sistema, due aggirano i meccanismi di sicurezza e due comportano la manomissione dei dati. Quattro delle vulnerabilità scoperte sono state classificate come “critiche”, anche a causa della possibilità di esecuzione di codice remoto.
Gli aggiornamenti hanno interessato sia le versioni moderne di Windows che i sistemi legacy. Windows 10 ha ricevuto l’aggiornamento per la prima volta nell’ambito del supporto esteso.
Microsoft ha inoltre rilasciato una correzione non programmata per un bug che impediva agli utenti di registrarsi al programma ESU. Oltre alle correzioni delle vulnerabilità, l’azienda ha rilasciato anche gli aggiornamenti KB5066835 e KB5066793 per Windows 11 e la build KB5068781 per Windows 10.
Oltre a Microsoft, anche altri fornitori hanno rilasciato aggiornamenti. Adobe ha corretto le vulnerabilità in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop e altri prodotti. Cisco ha corretto bug in diverse soluzioni, tra cui ASA e sistemi di identificazione utente, e ha lanciato l’allarme per una nuova ondata di attacchi che sfruttano vecchie vulnerabilità. È stato corretto un bug critico relativo all’esecuzione di codice remoto nella libreria JavaScript expr-eval.
Fortinet ha rilasciato un aggiornamento per FortiOS che risolve un problema di escalation dei privilegi. Il bollettino sulla sicurezza Android di Google di novembre ha corretto due vulnerabilità . Inoltre, Ivanti , SAP , Samsung e QNAP hanno rilasciato i loro aggiornamenti mensili in sincronia con Microsoft. Nello specifico, QNAP ha corretto sette vulnerabilità zero-day dimostrate durante la competizione di hacking Pwn2Own Ireland 2025.
Questo mese, le vulnerabilità nei prodotti Microsoft Office, inclusi Excel e Word, meritano un’attenzione particolare. Sono stati corretti sia i difetti di divulgazione delle informazioni sia i bug che potrebbero consentire l’esecuzione di codice dannoso all’apertura dei documenti. Sono state identificate vulnerabilità anche in Kerberos di Windows, nei componenti DirectX, nei driver Bluetooth e Wi-Fi, in Desktop remoto e nell’interfaccia utente grafica del sottosistema Windows per Linux.
Alcuni problemi hanno interessato Visual Studio e le estensioni CoPilot, evidenziando la vulnerabilità degli strumenti di sviluppo.
Un elenco completo delle vulnerabilità risolte è disponibile nella documentazione ufficiale di Microsoft. Dato lo sfruttamento attivo di alcune di queste vulnerabilità, si consiglia di aggiornare i sistemi alla versione più recente il prima possibile.
L'articolo Microsoft corregge 63 vulnerabilità, tra cui uno zero-day sfruttato attivamente proviene da Red Hot Cyber.
Eventi | Ermeneutiche dell’Unico
Se la storia della riflessione cristiana sull’unicità di Dio ha da sempre risposto al dovere di rendere intelligibile il mistero di Dio nell’incontro con le differenti culture dell’umanità, tale impegno stimola ancora oggi rinnovate possibilità di comprensione della fede in dialogo con le religioni e le sfide del mondo post-secolare.
Secondo una prospettiva dialogica, rispettosa della ricchezza spirituale dell’Islam, l’intento principale di questo volume è quello di studiare non solo la dimensione radicalmente monoteista della fede cristiana, ma osservare come la fede trinitaria possa dirsi e comprendersi a partire da uno sguardo islamico, mostrando le ragioni della sua credibilità, le fonti della sua “singolarità” e la ricchezza della sua ermeneutica.
A partire da queste premesse, uno studio dedicato all’ermeneutica teologica dell’unicità di Dio rappresenta un campo di indagine privilegiato per una corretta comprensione dell’immagine del Dio cristiano e islamico, una conoscenza che superi i pregiudizi radicati nella secolare tradizione controversistica medievale e la rigida autoreferenzialità delle ragioni filosofico-teologiche di ambedue le tradizioni religiose.
Incontro con l’autore, Luigi Territo
Sabato 29 novembre – ore 17:30
La Civiltà Cattolica, Via di Porta Pinciana, 1 – Roma
Intervengono:
Don Giuliano Savina Direttore, Direttore dell’Ufficio Nazionale per l’Ecumenismo e il Dialogo Interreligioso della CEI
Bernadette Fraioli, Storica delle religioni e Dott.ssa di Ricerca in Storia dell’Europa
Introduce
P. Claudio Zonta S.I., scrittore de La Civiltà Cattolica
Commento musicale a cura dell’Ensemble Falconieri
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In questi giorni si discute sulla proposta della sinistra e del sindacato di applicare una tassa patrimoniale “una tantum” ai grandi patrimoni. Vedremo perché, secondo il mio parere, tale proposta sia condivisibile in termini
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Kansas county pays $3M for forgetting the First Amendment
Press freedom just scored a $3 million win in Kansas. The county that participated in an illegal raid on the Marion County Record in 2023 is cutting big checks to journalists and a city councilor to settle their lawsuits.
As part of the settlement, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office also made a statement of “regret” for the raid, saying, “This likely would not have happened if established law had been reviewed and applied prior to the execution of the warrants.”
You think? Any police officer or judge with half an understanding of the First Amendment should’ve known better than to ask for or sign off on the raid on the Record and the home of owners Eric and Joan Meyer.
But apparently, police don’t always read the law, and judges may need a refresher, too. Let’s break down the flashing red lights any judge or cop should heed before storming a newsroom.
The First and Fourth amendments strongly protect against searches of journalists and newsrooms.
Under the Fourth Amendment, a search warrant must be supported by probable cause, which means a likelihood that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found at a particular place. The government must also specify the place to be searched and the thing to be seized.
When a search warrant targets materials protected by the First Amendment — like notes, recordings, drafts, and materials used or created by journalists — the Fourth Amendment’s requirements must be scrupulously followed, the Supreme Court has said.
This means that judges must be extra strict in applying the Fourth Amendment’s requirements when a search impacts First Amendment rights, which it will any time it involves a journalist or newsroom. What judges should never do is allow overly broad searches where police rifle through journalists’ desks and computer files willy-nilly in the hopes of turning up something “incriminating.”
The Privacy Protection Act of 1980 forbids the use of search warrants to seize materials from journalists, with only a few narrow exceptions.
The PPA is a federal law that requires law enforcement to get a subpoena, not just a search warrant, in most cases when dealing with reporters and newsrooms. Subpoenas give journalists the chance to challenge a demand for documents or equipment in court before police can seize them. If police had sought a subpoena for the Record’s newsgathering materials, for instance, the newspaper could have successfully challenged the demand in court, meaning that the newsroom would never have been raided and the Record’s confidential sources would have been protected.
There are narrow exceptions to the PPA’s subpoena requirement, including when there is probable cause to believe a journalist has committed a criminal offense related to the material sought. But, in general, the offense cannot relate to the receipt, possession, communication, or withholding of newsgathering materials or information.
Journalists can read a guide on our website for more information about the PPA.
State shield laws are another barrier to newsroom searches.
Almost every state has a reporter’s shield law on the books that protects journalists from the compelled disclosure of their confidential sources and unpublished information, and sometimes protects against the forced disclosure of nonconfidential information, too. Courts around the country have also recognized a First Amendment and common law reporter’s privilege that can provide similar protections.
Kansas’ shield law, for instance, applies to “any information gathered, received or processed by a journalist, whether or not such information is actually published, and whether or not related information has been disseminated.” It forbids compelling a journalist from disclosing unpublished information or confidential sources until after a court hearing.
Other states’ shield laws have similar protections. Barging into a newsroom and searching it violates those laws and the established processes for law enforcement to obtain information from the press.
Accessing publicly available information or information provided by a source is not a crime, and is protected by the First Amendment.
Seems obvious, but judging by how often this comes up, maybe not.
Everyone has a First Amendment right to read, watch, or view publicly available information. It’s not a crime to access a record made publicly available by a government agency (as reporters at the Record did), to read something that someone published on a public website, even if it was published by accident, or to photograph police officers in public.
Journalists also have a right to publish information given to them by a source, even if the source obtained it illegally, as long as the journalist didn’t participate in the illegality. That means that if a source gives a journalist a document or recording that the source stole, the journalist can’t be punished for publishing it.
Because these things are not crimes, it also means that accessing publicly available information or publishing information that a source illegally obtained can’t be the basis for a raid on a newsroom or search of a journalist’s materials.
Next time, think before you raid.
The $3 million settlement is a step toward accountability, but it can’t undo the damage to the Record’s journalists or sources, and especially not to Joan Meyer, who died the day after police invaded her home.
If local communities don’t want to keep learning First Amendment law the expensive way, they must insist that law enforcement actually read the Constitution and the law before targeting the press.
No, journalists don’t need permission to cover immigration courts
Last month, we wrote to the Hyattsville Immigration Court in Maryland to express our alarm over a report that two journalists from Capital News Service had been expelled for not seeking express permission from the federal government to cover immigration proceedings.
Not only was that a blatant First Amendment violation, it was contrary to the Executive Office for Immigration Review’s own fact sheet, in which the arm of the Justice Department said that coordinating media visits with the government in advance was “encouraged,” not mandatory. It’s hard to blame journalists for not wanting to go out of their way to put themselves on the radar by “coordinating” with an administration that abhors the free press.
But we noticed another problem with the fact sheet. It said reporters “must” check in upon arriving at immigration court. We’d been hearing anecdotes for some time about journalists being asked to “check in” at lobbies of immigration courts in other parts of the country. The fact sheet confirmed it.
We expressed our concerns to the EOIR, which was (surprisingly) responsive to our initial letter, despite the shutdown. It confirmed that, as CNS reported, the journalists’ access had been restored and they were free to report on immigration court proceedings.
It also stated that journalists are not required to either coordinate visits with the government in advance or check in with courthouse personnel upon arrival. It explained that it prefers journalists check in so that they can arrange for priority seating, but that they do not have to do so. And it issued a new fact sheet to make that clear. Yes, the fact sheet reflects that EOIR, like far too many local and federal agencies, still unconstitutionally demands that all media inquiries be routed through a public information office. But that‘s a battle for another day.
We’re posting the email exchange and new fact sheet below so that any journalist who is told something to the contrary can show it to whoever is giving them incorrect information.
And kudos to the unnamed EOIR official who took care of this promptly. Let’s hope the Trump administration doesn’t fire them for gross competence.
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An account is spamming horrific, dehumanizing videos of immigration enforcement because the Facebook algorithm is rewarding them for it.#AI #AISlop #Meta
AI-Generated Videos of ICE Raids Are Wildly Viral on Facebook
“Watch your step sir, keep moving,” a police officer with a vest that reads ICE and a patch that reads “POICE” says to a Latino-appearing man wearing a Walmart employee vest. He leads him toward a bus that reads “IMMIGRATION AND CERS.” Next to him, one of his colleagues begins walking unnaturally sideways, one leg impossibly darting through another as he heads to the back of a line of other Latino Walmart employees who are apparently being detained by ICE. Two American flag emojis are superimposed on the video, as is the text “Deportation.”The video has 4 million views, 16,600 likes, 1,900 comments, and 2,200 shares on Facebook. It is, obviously, AI generated.
Some of the comments seem to understand this: “Why is he walking like that?” one says. “AI the guys foot goes through his leg,” another says. Many of the comments clearly do not: “Oh, you’ll find lots of them at Walmart,” another top comment reads. “Walmart doesn’t do paperwork before they hire you?” another says. “They removing zombies from Walmart before Halloween?”
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“PLEASE THAT’S MY BABY,” a dark-skinned woman screams while being restrained by an ICE officer in another video. “Ma’am stop resisting, keep moving,” an officer says back. The camera switches to an image of the baby: “YOU CAN’T TAKE ME FROM HER, PLEASE SHE’S RIGHT THERE. DON’T DO THIS, SHE’S JUST A BABY. I LOVE YOU, MAMA LOVES YOU,” the woman says. The video switches to a scene of the woman in the back of an ICE van. The video has 1,400 likes and 407 comments, which include “ Don’t separate them….take them ALL!,” “Take the baby too,” and “I think the days of use those child anchors are about over with.”
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The account started experimenting with extremely crude AI-generated deportation videos in February, which included videos of immigrants handcuffed on the tarmac outside of deportation planes where their arms randomly detached from their body or where people suddenly disappeared or vanished through stairs, for example. Recent videos are far more realistic. None of the videos have an AI watermark on them, but the type and style of video changed dramatically starting with videos posted on October 1, which is the day after OpenAI’s Sora 2 was released; around that time is when the account started posting videos featuring identifiable stores and restaurants, which have become a common trope in Sora 2 videos.A YouTube page linked from the Facebook account shows a real video uploaded of a car in Cyprus nearly two years ago before any other content was uploaded, suggesting that the person behind the account may live in Cyprus (though the account banner on Facebook includes both a U.S. and Indian flag). This YouTube account also reveals several other accounts being used by the person. Earlier this year, the YouTube account was posting side hustle tips about how to DoorDash, AI-generated videos of singing competitions in Greek, AI-generated podcasts about the WNBA, and AI-generated videos about “Billy Joyel’s health.” A related YouTube account called Sea Life 897 exclusively features AI-generated history videos about sea journeys, which links to an Instagram account full of AI-generated boats exploding and a Facebook account that has rebranded from being about AI-generated “Sea Life” to an account now called “Viral Video’s Europe” that is full of stolen images of women with gigantic breasts and creep shots of women athletes.
My point here is that the person behind this account does not seem to actually have any sort of vested interest in the United States or in immigration. But they are nonetheless spamming horrific, dehumanizing videos of immigration enforcement because the Facebook algorithm is rewarding them for that type of content, and because Facebook directly makes payments for it. As we have seen with other types of topical AI-generated content on Facebook, like videos about Palestinian suffering in Gaza or natural disasters around the world, many people simply do not care if the videos are real. And the existence of these types of videos serves to inoculate people from the actual horrors that ICE is carrying out. It gives people the chance to claim that any video is AI generated, and serves to generally litter social media with garbage, making real videos and real information harder to find.
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Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment about whether the account violates its content standards, but the company has seemingly staked its present and future on allowing bizarre and often horrifying AI-generated content to proliferate on the platform. AI-generated content about immigrants is not new; in the leadup to last year’s presidential debate, Donald Trump and his allies began sharing AI-generated content about Haitian immigrants who Trump baselessly claimed were eating dogs and cats in Ohio.
In January, immediately before Trump was inaugurated, Meta changed its content moderation rules to explicitly allow for the dehumanization of immigrants because it argued that its previous policies banning this were “out of touch with mainstream discourse.” Phrases and content that are now explicitly allowed on Meta platforms include “Immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit,” “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “Migrants are no better than vomit,” according to documents obtained and published by The Intercept. After those changes were announced, content moderation experts told us that Meta was “opening up their platform to accept harmful rhetoric and mod public opinion into accepting the Trump administration’s plans to deport and separate families.”
Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral”
Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”Sam Biddle (The Intercept)
Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants.
Newly released documents provide more details about ICEx27;s plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants.#ICE #bountyhunters
ICE Plans to Spend $180 Million on Bounty Hunters to Stalk Immigrants
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is allocating as much as $180 million to pay bounty hunters and private investigators who verify the address and location of undocumented people ICE wishes to detain, including with physical surveillance, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.The documents provide more details about ICE’s plan to enlist the private sector to find deportation targets. In October The Intercept reported on ICE’s intention to use bounty hunters or skip tracers—an industry that often works on insurance fraud or tries to find people who skipped bail. The new documents now put a clear dollar amount on the scheme to essentially use private investigators to find the locations of undocumented immigrants.
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OpenAI’s guardrails against copyright infringement are falling for the oldest trick in the book.#News #AI #OpenAI #Sora
OpenAI Can’t Fix Sora’s Copyright Infringement Problem Because It Was Built With Stolen Content
OpenAI’s video generator Sora 2 is still producing copyright infringing content featuring Nintendo characters and the likeness of real people, despite the company’s attempt to stop users from making such videos. OpenAI updated Sora 2 shortly after launch to detect videos featuring copyright infringing content, but 404 Media’s testing found that it’s easy to circumvent those guardrails with the same tricks that have worked on other AI generators.The flaw in OpenAI’s attempt to stop users from generating videos of Nintendo and popular cartoon characters exposes a fundamental problem with most generative AI tools: it is extremely difficult to completely stop users from recreating any kind of content that’s in the training data, and OpenAI can’t remove the copyrighted content from Sora 2’s training data because it couldn’t exist without it.
Shortly after Sora 2 was released in late September, we reported about how users turned it into a copyright infringement machine with an endless stream of videos like Pikachu shoplifting from a CVS and Spongebob Squarepants at a Nazi rally. Companies like Nintendo and Paramount were obviously not thrilled seeing their beloved cartoons committing crimes and not getting paid for it, so OpenAI quickly introduced an “opt-in” policy, which prevented users from generating copyrighted material unless the copyright holder actively allowed it. Initially, OpenAI’s policy allowed users to generate copyrighted material and required the copyright holder to opt-out. The change immediately resulted in a meltdown among Sora 2 users, who complained OpenAI no longer allowed them to make fun videos featuring copyrighted characters or the likeness of some real people.
This is why if you give Sora 2 the prompt “Animal Crossing gameplay,” it will not generate a video and instead say “This content may violate our guardrails concerning similarity to third-party content.” However, when I gave it the prompt “Title screen and gameplay of the game called ‘crossing aminal’ 2017,” it generated an accurate recreation of Nintendo’s Animal Crossing New Leaf for the Nintendo 3DS.
Sora 2 also refused to generate videos for prompts featuring the Fox cartoon American Dad, but it did generate a clip that looks like it was taken directly from the show, including their recognizable voice acting, when given this prompt: “blue suit dad big chin says ‘good morning family, I wish you a good slop’, son and daughter and grey alien say ‘slop slop’, adult animation animation American town, 2d animation.”
The same trick also appears to circumvent OpenAI’s guardrails against recreating the likeness of real people. Sora 2 refused to generate a video of “Hasan Piker on stream,” but it did generate a video of “Twitch streamer talking about politics, piker sahan.” The person in the generated video didn’t look exactly like Hasan, but he has similar hair, facial hair, the same glasses, and a similar voice and background.
A user who flagged this bypass to me, who wished to remain anonymous because they didn’t want OpenAI to cut off their access to Sora, also shared Sora generated videos of South Park, Spongebob Squarepants, and Family Guy.OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment.
There are several ways to moderate generative AI tools, but the simplest and cheapest method is to refuse to generate prompts that include certain keywords. For example, many AI image generators stop people from generating nonconsensual nude images by refusing to generate prompts that include the names of celebrities or certain words referencing nudity or sex acts. However, this method is prone to failure because users find prompts that allude to the image or video they want to generate without using any of those banned words. The most notable example of this made headlines in 2024 after an AI-generated nude image of Taylor Swift went viral on X. 404 Media found that the image was generated with Microsoft’s AI image generator, Designer, and that users managed to generate the image by misspelling Swift’s name or using nicknames she’s known by, and describing sex acts without using any explicit terms.
Since then, we’ve seen example after example of users bypassing generative AI tool guardrails being circumvented with the same method. We don’t know exactly how OpenAI is moderating Sora 2, but at least for now, the world’s leading AI company’s moderating efforts are bested by a simple and well established bypass method. Like with these other tools, bypassing Sora’s content guardrails has become something of a game to people online. Many of the videos posted on the r/SoraAI subreddit are of “jailbreaks” that bypass Sora’s content filters, along with the prompts used to do so. And Sora’s “For You” algorithm is still regularly serving up content that probably should be caught by its filters; in 30 seconds of scrolling we came across many videos of Tupac, Kobe Bryant, JuiceWrld, and DMX rapping, which has become a meme on the service.
It’s possible OpenAI will get a handle on the problem soon. It can build a more comprehensive list of banned phrases and do more post generation image detection, which is a more expensive but effective method for preventing people from creating certain types of content. But all these efforts are poor attempts to distract from the massive, unprecedented amount of copyrighted content that has already been stolen, and that Sora can’t exist without. This is not an extreme AI skeptic position. The biggest AI companies in the world have admitted that they need this copyrighted content, and that they can’t pay for it.
The reason OpenAI and other AI companies have such a hard time preventing users from generating certain types of content once users realize it’s possible is that the content already exists in the training data. An AI image generator is only able to produce a nude image because there’s a ton of nudity in its training data. It can only produce the likeness of Taylor Swift because her images are in the training data. And Sora can only make videos of Animal Crossing because there are Animal Crossing gameplay videos in its training data.
For OpenAI to actually stop the copyright infringement it needs to make its Sora 2 model “unlearn” copyrighted content, which is incredibly expensive and complicated. It would require removing all that content from the training data and retraining the model. Even if OpenAI wanted to do that, it probably couldn’t because that content makes Sora function. OpenAI might improve its current moderation to the point where people are no longer able to generate videos of Family Guy, but the Family Guy episodes and other copyrighted content in its training data are still enabling it to produce every other generated video. Even when the generated video isn’t recognizably lifting from someone else’s work, that’s what it’s doing. There’s literally nothing else there. It’s just other people’s stuff.
Big Tech admits in copyright fight that paying for training data would ruin generative-AI plans
Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Andreessen Horowitz are trying to keep AI developers from having to pay for copyrighted material used in AI training.Kali Hays (Business Insider)
Il cerchio si stringe attorno a #Zelensky
Ucraina, tempesta su Zelensky
I conflitti interni tra le varie fazioni della classe dirigente ucraina esplodono talvolta pubblicamente, riproponendo l’interrogativo sul tempo che potrebbe rimanere al (ex) presidente Zelensky prima di essere rimosso, esiliato o fare una fine molto…altrenotizie.org
La strategia di Trump nel caso-Bbc
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La cantonata è stata ammessa dallo stesso Tim Davie, direttore generale dimissionario della Bbc: sono stati fatti errori che ci sono costati ma ora li stanno usando come arma. Una settimana prima delle elezioni presidenziali statunitensi del 2024, un prestigioso
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La Russia avanza a Pokrovsk: battaglia urbana e ritirate ucraine nel fronte orientale
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La conquista della città darebbe al Cremlino una piattaforma operativa per completare il controllo sul Donbass, quasi due anni dopo la caduta di Bakhmut
L'articolo La Russia avanza a Pokrovsk: battaglia urbana e ritirate ucraine nel fronte
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LA BONIFICA PRIMA DI TUTTO
Da oggi siamo al sito dalle 15.30 alle 17.30 (tutti i giorni esclusi sabato e domenica). In anteprima il manifesto del corteo di sabato 22 novembre ad Albano ore 15.00. Più tardi il comunicato stampa del corteo.
#Ambiente #StopInceneritore #NoInceneritore #NoInceneritori #ZeroWaste #Rifiuti #Riciclo #EconomiaCircolare #NoAlCarbone #EnergiaPulita
Bibliogame Night
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Segnalato da Fare Zero Makers Fab Lab e pubblicato sulla comunità Lemmy @GNU/Linux Italia
Scopri il successo di Bibliogame Night, l’evento mensile di giochi da tavolo e ruolo nato nella Biblioteca di Francavilla e ora a Fragagnano. Unisciti alla community, prenota il tuo
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Italia e Germania insieme nel rilancio europeo. Il racconto dalla Festa della Bundeswehr
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La Germania e l’Italia possono essere protagoniste del rilancio europeo, a partire dalla cooperazione tra le loro Forze armate. A dirlo è il neo-insediato ambasciatore tedesco in Italia, Thomas Bagger. Alla residenza di Villa Almone, sede
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Chiuderli
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Ciò che quei garanti garantiscono non è quel che sembrerebbe garantito dalla denominazione, sicché la sola garanzia di serietà che può essere offerta è chiuderli. L’insegna recita: «Garante per la protezione dei dati personali». Quella più in voga è freudianamente anglofona: Authority per la privacy. L’indipendenza di queste Autorità (mica solo questa) è credibile soltanto […]
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Il ministro Pichetto Fratin: “Più che transizione ecologica dovremmo chiamarla transizione sociale”
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“La transizione in atto, che ogni tanto chiamiamo ecologica, ogni tanto transizione energetica, ogni tanto ambientale è una transizione sociale, che comporta diverse modalità di consumo e determina automaticamente la necessità di nuove competenze”.
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Procurement, sarà buy American vs buy European? Non necessariamente
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La riforma del procurement del Pentagono annunciata da Pete Hegseth la scorsa settimana viaggia su due binari paralleli. Se da un lato il nuovo Warfighting acquisition system punta ad accelerare l’assegnazione delle commesse e le consegne per le Forze armate americane, dall’altro ha
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The newly-formed, first of its kind Adult Studio Alliance is founded by major porn companies including Aylo, Dorcel, ERIKALUST, Gamma Entertainment, Mile High Media and Ricky’s Room, and establishes a code of conduct for studios.#porn
Major Porn Studios Join Forces to Establish Industry ‘Code of Conduct’
Six of the biggest porn studios in the world, including industry giant and Pornhub parent company Ayl o, announced Wednesday they have formed a first-of-its-kind coalition called the Adult Studio Alliance (ASA). The alliance’s purpose is to “contribute to a safe, healthy, dignified, and respectful adult industry for performers,” the ASA told 404 Media.“This alliance is intended to unite professionals creating adult content (from studios to crews to performers) under a common set of values and guidelines. In sharing our common standards, we hope to contribute to a safe, healthy, dignified, and respectful adult industry for performers,” a spokesperson for ASA told 404 Media in an email. “As a diverse group of studios producing a large volume and variety of adult content, we believe it’s key to promote best practices on all our scenes. We all come from different studios, but we share the belief that all performers are entitled to comfort and safety on set.”
The founding members include Aylo, Dorcel, ERIKALUST, Gamma Entertainment, Mile High Media and Ricky’s Room. Aylo owns some of the biggest platforms and porn studios in the industry, including Brazzers, Reality Kings, Digital Playground and more.
In a press release Wednesday, the ASA said its primary mission is “to publish and adhere to a comprehensive Code of Conduct, providing a structured framework for directors, producers, and talent to ensure the safest possible sets and consistent industry best practices.” The ASA’s code of conduct addresses performers’ rights to consent to the types of scenes they’ll shoot, their scene partners including extras, sexual acts, script and creative documents, the length of the shoot day, location, remuneration and conditions, and any other rights involved in their agreement with the studio.
The founding studios say they have signed agreements to adhere to the ASA’s code of conduct, but the ASA “encourages all studios, members or not, to adopt and adhere to these guidelines to foster a safer, more respectful, and more professional adult industry,” the spokesperson said.
“All performers have the right to be treated with professional respect and dignity, free from harassment of any kind,” the code states. “They should be: Able to refuse, at any time, any act, even if previously agreed upon; Able to visually confirm their partner’s STI test status on set before any sexual performance; Provided water, snacks, meals, breaks, and privacy as needed; Provided all necessary sexual health and hygienic materials needed to perform; Paid their agreed-upon rate for the date of production.”
The code also outlines rights and expectations for third-party producers and crew members, including verifying performers’ ages, ensuring an environment “free of harassment of any kind (mental, physical or sexual),” and “never using their influence or access to the studio to pressure performers or promise work.” Agencies and talent agents are also addressed in the code of conduct: “Agencies should represent and protect performers, inform them very clearly of the specific requirements of pornographic performances,” the code states. “They must inform performers of their rights and duties and legitimate expectations, with no expectation of sexual contact with agency staff, reasonably limited contract terms (within industry standard range of 1 year), and no punitive buyouts for performers who choose to leave the agency.”
A need for more autonomy over one’s working conditions spurred the rise of the independent adult content creator economy in the last 10 years, as more performers moved away from studio work—which often dictates workers’ hours, physical location, and ownership rights to their performances, and can be sporadic—to models like webcamming and subscription platforms like OnlyFans. Porn is legal in the U.S. but is still a heavily stigmatized career, and performers have reported that legislation like 2018’s Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act have made their livelihoods more precarious, even when working with studios.
In 2020, as Hollywood reckoned with allegations of abuse and coercion against the most powerful people in the entertainment industry, multiple performers came forward with their own stories of physical and mental abuse on-set. The power dynamic present in mainstream acting careers also exists in porn, with the added stigma of sex work: adult performers, like mainstream entertainment professionals or many other industries, might feel like they risk being ostracized within their industry for speaking out about mistreatment, but they also may feel a risk fueling decades-old anti-porn campaigns and their harmful rhetoric.
Many studios have previously established their own codes of conduct, including Gamma Entertainment-owned Adult Time, which published a guide to “what to expect on an Adult Time set” in 2023, and Kink, which published its shooting protocols, consent documents and checklists in 2019. There are also several talent-focused rights groups, like the Free Speech Coalition, that have operated with performer and crew wellbeing guidelines in place for years.
Michigan Lawmakers Are Attempting to Ban Porn Entirely
The “Anticorruption of Public Morals Act” proposes a total ban on porn in the state, and also targets the existence of trans people online, content like erotic ASMR, and selling VPNs in the state.404 MediaSamantha Cole
“The landscape for adult production has expanded rapidly over the past few years, so it's encouraging to see bigger studios codify industry best practices,” Mike Stabile, director of public policy at the Free Speech Coalition, told 404 Media. Stabile noted that the needs and requirements of productions and performers vary; independent content creators working with other indie creators might not need or have the resources to hire an intimacy coordinator on each shoot, for example, or a small fetish studio that doesn’t engage in fluid exchange might not need to adhere to testing. But “it sets a bar for what performers can and should expect in production, and provides a framework for understanding one's rights on set,” he said.
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“It's incredibly powerful because it isn't just one studio or one group, it's a collection of some of the most influential leaders in adult production,” Stabile said. “While these practices aren't entirely new, by publishing guidelines they're creating a broad system of accountability. Whether or not other studios join and sign-on, I expect we'll see broader adoption of these protocols at all levels.”“I believe strong production standards are the foundation of a safe and respectful and successful industry, and I’ve always believed performers deserve nothing less,” performer Cherie DeVille said in the ASA press release. “It's powerful to see these top studios come together with the shared goal of ensuring performer wellness remains a top priority.”
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A Washington judge said images taken by Flock cameras are "not exempt from disclosure" in public record requests.#Flock
Judge Rules Flock Surveillance Images Are Public Records That Can Be Requested By Anyone
A judge in Washington has ruled that police images taken by Flock’s AI license plate-scanning cameras are public records that can be requested as part of normal public records requests. The decision highlights the sheer volume of the technology-fueled surveillance state in the United States, and shows that at least in some cases, police cannot withhold the data collected by its surveillance systems.In a ruling last week, Judge Elizabeth Neidzwski ruled that “the Flock images generated by the Flock cameras located in Stanwood and Sedro-Wooley [Washington] are public records under the Washington State Public Records Act,” that they are “not exempt from disclosure,” and that “an agency does not have to possess a record for that record to be subject to the Public Records Act.”
She further found that “Flock camera images are created and used to further a governmental purpose” and that the images on them are public records because they were paid for by taxpayers. Despite this, the records that were requested as part of the case will not be released because the city automatically deleted them after 30 days. Local media in Washington first reported on the case; 404 Media bought Washington State court records to report the specifics of the case in more detail.
A screenshot from the judge's decision
Flock’s automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are used in thousands of communities around the United States. They passively take between six and 12 timestamped images of each car that passes by, allowing the company to make a detailed database of where certain cars (and by extension, people) are driving in those communities. 404 Media has reported extensively on Flock, and has highlighted that its cameras have been accessed by the Department of Homeland Security and by local police working with DHS on immigration cases. Last month, cops in Colorado used data from Flock cameras to incorrectly accuse an innocent woman of theft based on her car’s movements.The case came in response to a public records request made by Jose Rodriguez, who in April sought all of the images taken by the city’s Flock cameras between the hours of 5 and 6 p.m. on March 30 (he later narrowed this request to only ask for images taken by a single camera in a half-hour period). The city argued that Rodriguez would have to request them directly from Flock, a private company not subject to public records laws. But Flock’s contracts with cities say that the city owns the images taken on their cameras. The city eventually took Rodriguez to court. In the court proceedings, the city made a series of arguments claiming that Flock images couldn’t be released; the judge’s decision rebuked all of these many arguments.
“I wanted the records to see if they would release them to me, in hopes that if they were public records it would raise awareness to all the communities that have the Flock cameras that they may be public record and could be used by stalkers, or burglars scoping out a house, or other ways someone with bad intentions may use them. My goal was to try getting these cameras taken down by the cities that put them up,” Rodriguez told 404 Media. “In order to show that the records were public records and that they don’t qualify as exempt under the Washington public records act we cited the contract, and I made requests to both cities requesting their exterior normal surveillance camera footage from their City Hall and police station that recorded the streets and parking lots with vehicles driving by and license plates viewable, which is what the Flock images also capture. Both cities provided me with the surveillance videos I requested without issue but denied the Flock images, so my attorney used that to show how they contradict themselves.”
"it is pretty abhorrent that the city tried to make all of these arguments in the first place"
The case highlights the lengths that police departments and cities are willing to go to in order to prevent the release of what they incorrectly perceive to be private information owned by their surveillance vendors (in this case, Flock). Stanwood’s attorneys first argued that the records were Flock’s, not the city’s, which is clearly contradicted in the contract, which states “customer [Stanwood] shall retain whatever legally cognizable right, title, and interest in Customer Generated Data … Flock does not own and shall not sell Customer Generated Data.” The attorneys then argued that images taken by Flock cameras do not become requestable data until it is directly accessed and downloaded by the police on Flock’s customer portal: “the data existing in the cloud system … does not exist anywhere in the City’s files as a record.” The city’s lawyers also argued that Flock footage is police “intelligence information” that should be exempt from public records requests, and that “there are privacy concerns with making ALPR data accessible to the public.”“Honestly, it is pretty abhorrent that the city tried to make all of these arguments in the first place, but it’s great that the court reaffirmed that these are public records,” Beryl Lipton, senior investigative researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told 404 Media in a phone interview. “So much of the surveillance law enforcement does is facilitated by third party vendors and that information is stored on their external servers. So for the court to start restricting access to the public because law enforcement has started using these types of systems would have been horribly detrimental to the public’s right to know.”
In affidavits filed with the court, police argued that “if the public could access the Flock Safety System by making Public Records Act requests, it would allow nefarious actors the ability to track private persons and undermine the effectiveness of the system.” The judge rejected every single one of these arguments.
Both Lipton and Timothy Hall, Rodriguez’s attorney, said that, to the contrary, Rodriguez’s request actually shows how pervasive mass surveillance systems are in society, and that sharing this information will help communities make better informed decisions about whether they want to use technology like Flock at all.
“We do think there should be redactions for certain privacy reasons, but we absolutely think that as a whole, these should be considered public records,” Lipton said. “This is part of the whole problem: These police departments and these companies are operating under the impression that everything that happens on the street is fair game, and that their systems are not a privacy violation. But then when it comes to the public wanting to know, they say ‘this is a privacy violation,’ and I think that’s them trying to have it both ways.”
Hall said that Rodriguez’s case, reporting by 404 Media, and a recent study by the University of Washington about Flock data being available to immigration enforcement officers, has started a conversation in the state about Flock in general.
“Now because of the Washington State Public Records Act, people can be aware of all the information these cameras are collecting. Now there’s a discussion going on: Do we even want these cameras? Well, they’re collecting way more information than we realized,” Hall told 404 Media in a phone call. “A lot of people are now realizing there’s a ton of information being collected here. This has now opened up a massive discussion which was ultimately the goal.”
A Flock spokesperson told 404 Media that the company believes that the court simply reaffirmed what the law already was. The city of Stanwood did not respond to a request for comment.
Rodriguez said that even after fighting this case, he is not going to get the images that he originally took, because the city automatically deleted it after 30 days, even though he filed his request. He can now file a new one for more recent images, however.
“I won’t be getting the records, even though I win the case (they could also appeal it and continue the case) no matter what I won’t get those records I requested because they no longer exist,” Rodriguez said. “The cities both allowed the records to be automatically deleted after I submitted my records requests and while they decided to have their legal council review my request. So they no longer have the records and can not provide them to me even though they were declared to be public records.”
Leaving the Door Wide Open: Flock Surveillance Systems Expose Washington Data to Immigration Enforcement - Center for Human Rights
Summary Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks have become increasingly common in Washington state.Andrea Marcos (Center for Human Rights)
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