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Thursday, April 6, 2017

New photo from Facebook April 06, 2017 at 01:09PM

Tayfası mayınlara çarpıp batmaya başlayan SS President Coolidge’i terkederken. 26Ekim 1942 via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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Wednesday, April 6, 2016

New photo from Facebook April 06, 2016 at 04:36PM

Eski Türkiye’de seviyeli siyaset. via @tarkanteymen via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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Basic ID information of 50 M Turkish citizens are out there and the minister says it is an “old story”

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The hack seemed to have happened by 2009. However, since we do not change our birth place, or father name or ID number, the data is still valid and thus causing anxiety. Even the minister’s personal data is out there. I checked mine. It is there, too:(

[2016/04/06] 12. thanksgiving.epicm.org is now down:

but the mirror works:

Turkish minister calls massive data leak report an ‘old story’

Turkey’s communications minister has denied reports of a massive data leak containing the personal information of nearly 50 million Turkish citizens, saying the leak was an “old story” from 2010, as allegations triggered concerns over personal data protection

Hack Brief: Turkey Breach Spills Info on More Than Half Its Citizens

Wired Top Stories by Andy Greenberg

Though the database is from 2008, privacy activists say it still represents a serious exposure of sensitive information for most of the nation.

Data of nearly 50 million Turks allegedly leaked online

Hackers have posted a database online that seems to contain the personal information of nearly 50 million Turkish citizens in what is one of the largest public leaks of its kind

Vía Erkan’s Field Diary http://ift.tt/1SbtWRe

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#PanamaPapers roundup: Iceland’s Prime Minister; the First Casualty

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Panama Papers: Pirates Prepare to Takeover Iceland (Update)

TorrentFreak by Andy

null From August 2015, an anonymous source began leaking around 11.5 million secret documents created by the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca to German news outlet Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ).

Chinese Censors Erase #PanamaPapers Evidence From Web

Global Voices Online by Oiwan Lam

Relatives of current top leader Xi Jinping and ex-top leader Li Peng have offshore companies arranged through Mossak Fonseca. Images from ICIJ.

#PanamaPapers was a hack, not a whistleblow

The Next Web by Kirsty Styles

Revelations from the massive #PanamaPapers data dump are still being made by journalists across the world, but one thing seems to be clear. According to Ramon Fonseca, a co-founder of Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian company whose dealings have been leaked for all to see, this was a hack. Unlike those released by Ed Snowden, he told Panama’s Channel 2 that the documents were obtained illegally by hackers, according to Bloomberg.

Iceland’s Prime Minister Resigns, First Casualty of #PanamaPapers

The Intercept by Robert Mackey

Last Updated | 6:33 p.m.

ICELAND’S PRIME MINISTER, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, resigned on Tuesday, becoming the first leader to be forced from office over the secret financial dealings revealed by the Panama Papers leak.

PM running out of the parliament. News expected soon. #breaking #iceland #panamaleaks http://pic.twitter.com/lgkRfGpj6V

— Ásta Helgadóttir (@asta_fish) April 5, 2016

The prime minister, who was elected to parliament as a reformer in 2009, promising transparency following the ruinous collapse of three Icelandic banks the year before, failed to disclose that his family secretly held bonds worth millions of dollars in the same banks, through a shell company in the British Virgin Islands.

Panama Papers Endanger Anonymity of ‘Pirate’ Sites

TorrentFreak by Ernesto

This weekend an unprecedented database of over 11 million files leaked from Mossack Fonseca, the world’s largest offshore law firm.

Panama Papers: ‘Schäuble largely ignored shell companies’

EurActiv.com by Nicole Sagener

The Panama Papers scandal has led German Justice Minister Heiko Maas to pledge the creation of a transparency register. However, the Greens’ finance expert Gerhard Schick told EurActiv Germany that this is not a new idea and that the issue has been largely ignored despite evidence of wrongdoing.

Bernie Sanders On the Panama Papers: Told You So

Wired Top Stories by Issie Lapowsky

The Vermont senator’s 2011 comments on Panama are eerily prophetic.

The #PanamaPapers Ensnare Hundreds of Indians, Including Bollywood Royalty

Global Voices Online by Vishal Manve

Bollywood stars Amitabh Bacchan and his daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai named in the Panama Papers. Image remix via Wikimedia Commons. Used under a CC license.