Showing posts with label December 04. Show all posts
Showing posts with label December 04. Show all posts

Sunday, December 4, 2016

Cyberculture agenda: It seems Only Twitter among 9 tech companies declares to Refuse to Help Build Muslim Registry for Trump

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Every American corporation, from the largest conglomerate to the smallest firm, should ask itself right now: Will we do business with the Trump administration to further its most extreme, draconian goals? Or will we resist?

This question is perhaps most important for the country’s tech companies, which are particularly valuable partners for a budding authoritarian. The Intercept contacted nine of the most prominent such firms, from Facebook to Booz Allen Hamilton, to ask if they would sell their services to help create a national Muslim registry, an idea recently resurfaced by Donald Trump’s transition team. Only Twitter said no.

10 Tips to Increase ROI on #DigitalDiplomacy

On Friday, December 2nd, the Oxford Digital Diplomacy Research Group, and the Latvian Mission to Geneva, co-hosted a Digital Diplomacy event at the UN headquarters in Geneva.  The purpose of the event was to examine whether there is a Return On Investment in digital diplomacy activities.

In August 2015, the Swiss humanitarian organization FSD kindly hired me as a consultant to work on the EU-funded Drones in Humanitarian Action program. I had the pleasure of working closely with FSD and team during the past 16 months. Today represents the exciting culmination of a lot of hard work by many dedicated individuals.

 

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New photo from Facebook December 04, 2016 at 08:32PM

Bu arada İzlanda’nın doğusunda bir yerlerde… via Reddit. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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New photo from Facebook December 04, 2016 at 05:26PM

Bu arada New York City. via Reddit. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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All elected representatives (both parliament & municipalities) of Hakkari in prison now…

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From @TurkeyUntold :

With the latest arrests today, there are no elected representatives (both parliament & municipalities) left representing Hakkari province.

The mayors of three districts of Turkey’s southeastern province of Hakkari have been detained on Dec. 3, state-run Anadolu Agency reported
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Preliminary observations and recommendations of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment, Mr. Nils Melzer on the Official visit to Turkey – 27 November to 2 December 2016

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Cyberculture agenda: “Internet Archive and an FBI Order

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A decade ago, the FBI sent Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, a now-infamous type of subpoena known as a National Security Letter, demanding the name, address and activity record of a registered Internet Archive user. The letter came with an everlasting gag order, barring Kahle from discussing the order with anyone but his attorney — not even his wife could know.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has disclosed that it has won two key victories for clients who’d received the FBI’s notorious, gag-ordered National Security Letters — a form of secret warrant that has become the go-to way for law enforcement to avoid scrutiny since the Patriot Act’s passage.

Google Play Reveals Best Games, Apps of 2016

Google Play revealed the top applications and games on its service in 2016. For these lists, the top “trending” apps and games were those that were the most downloaded in 2016.

On a global level, Google Play said Scoompa’s Face Changer 2 was the top trending app in 2016, followed by Lumyer – Photo & Selfie Editor from Lumyer and CastBox – Podcast Radio Music from CastBox.FM in second and third place, respectively.

3 Major Social Media Trends You Shouldn’t Overlook
What are the key social media and digital marketing trends to watch in 2017? Here are three big shifts.

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Erdoğan says he is “alone” against “interest lobbies”, his followers start an hashtag: #YanlızDeğilsinERDOĞAN [You are not alone]

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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called on Turkish citizens on Dec. 2 to convert their foreign exchange into gold or the Turkish Lira, adding that there was no option other than cutting interest rates to spur growth
Turkey’s main stock exchange, Borsa Istanbul, has become the first institution to convert all of its cash assets into the Turkish Lira

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New photo from Facebook December 04, 2016 at 02:23PM

Bu arada Panama City. via Reddit. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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Friday, December 4, 2015

New photo from Facebook December 04, 2015 at 03:13PM

Bu arada Türkmenistan’da… via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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Cyberculture agenda: Big Data might justify racism in wrong hands… Wikipedia’s use of artificial intelligence…

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Better artificial intelligence is often associated with the detriment of a human workforce, but judging by some new practices by the team at Wikipedia HQ, it doesn’t have to be that way.

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http://ift.tt/1QYoINe Ford Foundation’s Michael Brennan discusses the many studies showing how algorithms can magnify bias — like the prevalence of police background check ads shown against searches for black names. (more…)

As part of the #letter4u campaign responding to the Paris Attacks, Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei has been trying to do outreach with "the young people of Europe and North America".

As part of the #letter4u campaign responding to the Paris Attacks, Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei has been trying to do outreach with “the young people of Europe and North America”. Many bots have hijacked various other hashtags unrelated to the campaign to include photos such as these, or links to the actual letter.

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In the wake of the devastating floods in Chennai, Facebook has activated its Security Check feature for the city, which lets people in the affected areas mark themselves as safe. Most parts of the city have been submerged, leaving thousands of people stranded in their homes. With daily life coming to a standstill, more torrential rain is expected in the new few days.

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The nonprofit foundation that oversees development on Tor, the anonymity and privacy tool, has launched its first ever major cash fundraiser, seeking support for its crucial work. (more…)

Can We Trust the Hacker Philanthropists?

The billionaires are here to save us. As the governments of the world twiddle their thumbs in Paris over carbon emissions, on Monday Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg announced an ambitious philanthropic undertaking to fight climate change. That was followed by Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan’sannouncement Tuesday that he plans to donate nearly all of his money to philanthropic efforts. In a letter to his newborn daughter Max, Zuckerberg poured out the milk of human kindness:

Signal, a Dead-Easy Phone Crypto App, Comes to the Desktop

The first end-to-end encrypted messaging app for phones now intends to extend its secret-sharing to traditional computers.

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New photo from Facebook December 04, 2015 at 01:52PM

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Turkey vs. Russia: Not Turkey or Erdoğan Family but Turkish expats in Russia might be the real sufferers…

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said Russian President Vladimir Putin used to call him “brave and bold,” before the two countries’ relations soured over Turkey’s downing of a Russian fighter jet near the Syrian border on Nov. 24

MOSCOW — Turkish nationals in Russia have been grimly exchanging horror stories ever since Turkey shot down a Russian Su-24 bomber near the Syrian border on November 24, an incident that has spurred a furious Russian response.

While Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Çavuşoğlu meeting with Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Lavrov has said problems between the two countries haven’t been overcome, Lavrov stated he hasn’t heard anything new
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has slammed Moscow as “immoral” for accusing his family of being involved in illicit oil trade with ISIL, again challenging his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to resign if he cannot prove the claims
President Erdoğan in response to a question as to possible impact of Turkey-Russia relation on natural gas import has said, “As you know, we didn’t have natural gas before. This nation is used to suffering”
Russia and Turkey Hurl Insults as Feud Deepens
President Vladimir V. Putin has warned of further reprisals over the shooting down of a Russian warplane, while Turkey denounced “Soviet-style propaganda.”
Turks in Russia hit by Putin’s ‘serious consequences’ after downing of warplane

Tens of thousands of Turks fear their lives have irrevocably changed amid diplomatic war between Russian and Turkish leaders

Vildan Seçkiner was looking forward to seeing the sights of St Petersburg during her first trip to Russia. Instead, the 32-year-old was detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport for 16 hours, threatened, and deported. Her crime: holding Turkish citizenship.

EU migration deal with Turkey is fraught with risk
Why the EU migrant deal with Turkey is a gamble
The first night I was brought to Silivri Prison near Istanbul together with my colleague Erdem Gül, they asked us what charges we were in on at the first registration desk: “Terror or ordinary?”
First of all, I’m angry because the EU has shamelessly reached to its wallet for cash in order to halt the flow of poor refugees into its land

Nato has annouced plans to strengthen Turkey’s air defences on the country’s border with Syria. Since the downing of a Russian fighter jet the alliance with Moscow against the IS militants has collapsed, some commentators complain. Other urge the West not to allow Ankara to exploit the situation for its own purposes.

Turkish officials have said they are not overly worried about Russian trade sanctions against Turkish goods, adding they are in search of alternative markets as the loss of the Russian market is not in intolerable amounts
Dr. Doğuş Şimşek from Koç University interpreting the agreement between EU and Turkey has stated that policies contradicting international law will be pursued with enhancing border control and putting readmission agreement into effect.
Turkish PM Davutoğlu accused Moscow of running a “Soviet propaganda machine” with lies straight out of the Pravda newspaper after Russian officials claimed Ankara traded oil with ISIL in Syria

Vladimir Putin uses his annual address to Russia’s political elite to warn Turkey’s leaders that Moscow would never forget last week’s downing of a Russian fighter jet. The president said he was still bemused by the Turkish decision to shoot down the Su-24, and received applause for saying: “Perhaps only Allah knows why they did this.”

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Turkey may have fired the first shot on a Russian military plane last week, but Russia has made it clear it’s prepared to use everything in its arsenal against its new enemy No. 1.

Turkey: Russia’s IS oil claims ‘slander’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Russian allegations he is directly involved in the illegal oil trade with Islamic State militants are “slander”.
Putin: Turkey ‘will regret’ Syria act
Russia’s President Putin castigates Turkey’s leaders, warning that they will regret shooting down a Russian Su-24 bomber in Syria.

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