When America’s law enforcement investigators serve tech companies with subpoenas or search warrants,”the target of the investigation has no idea their data is being seized,” the Washington Post pointed out this weekend.
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“In 2017, as Julian Assange began his fifth year holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London, the CIA plotted to kidnap the WikiLeaks founder,” reports Yahoo News, “spurring heated debate among Trump administration officials over the legality and practical…
いまや「民主主義の後退」は世界各地で見られ、それはブラック・ライヴズ・マターやトランプ大統領支持者によるホワイトハウス暴動を経た米国も例外ではない。民主主義国家から独裁国家への移行は一瞬ではなく徐々に進行するプロセスだとすれば、市民抵抗運動によってそれを阻止することはいかに可能だろうか？ 民主主義を守るための手引きを掲げ、非暴力的運動の現代的戦略と可能性を探る研究者や市民を追った短期連載の最終回。
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The FCC has sent out the first checks from its Emergency Connectivity Fund, an effort to help close the “homework gap” at schools by covering the cost of computers and internet services. Thousands of school districts, in every state plus D.C., Guam and Puerto Rico, will split this first $1.2 billion distribution, and there’s still […]
The European Union has warned it may take action over Russia’s involvement in “malicious cyber activities” against several EU member states. The “Ghostwriter” campaign targeted “numerous members of Parliaments, government officials, politicians, and members of the press and civil society in the EU”, according to a press release from the European Council on Friday, and was […]
China’s central bank said on Friday that all cryptocurrency-related transactions are illegal in the country and they must be banned, citing concerns around national security and “safety of people’s assets.” The world’s most populated nation also said that foreign exchanges are banned from providing services to users in the country. In a joint statement, 10 […]
市民抵抗運動の系譜を分類し、データベース化する近年の試みからは、それが予想以上に成功を収めてきたことがわかる。街頭デモのような「集中型」ばかりでなく、ストライキやボイコットのような「分散型・非協力型」のやり方を駆使し、その国の人口の少なくとも3.5％の「積極的かつ持続的な参加」を集めた大衆抵抗運動は、歴史上どれも目標を達成してきたという有名な「3.5％の法則」は、インターネットの普及でどう変わるのか？ 市民抵抗運動の現代的戦略と可能性をめぐる短期連載…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill Wednesday that would block Amazon and other companies from punishing warehouse workers who fail to meet certain performance metrics for taking rest or me…
Schneider shares insight into her personal thinking about a range of issues including crypto lending, SPACs, NFTs and what startups can do to stay out of regulators’ cross hairs.
Once the darlings of Wall Street and venture capital as recently as the beginning of this year, China’s edtech firms are now wondering if they will be able to remain solvent long enough to see the beginning of the next. In a series of sweeping regulations, the central government has taken a wrecking ball to […]
