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»China is taking every measure it can to verify the identities of its over 850 million mobile internet users.
From Dec. 1, people applying for new mobile and data services will have to have their faces scanned by telecom providers, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said in a Sept. 27 statement (link in Chinese).«
Quartz: Getting a new mobile number in China will involve a facial-recognition test»
Med sitt senaste operativsystem för mobiler, iOS 13, lanserar Apple ett antal funktioner som gör det lättare för användare att skydda sitt privatliv. NYT förklarar en av funktionerna:
»When you use it [Apple ID] to register for a website or app, iOS 13 will present you with an option to hide your email address that is linked to your Apple ID. If you choose to use it, Apple will create what is essentially a burner email address so that you can sign up for the app or website while hiding your real email address from the third party.
Whenever the website or app then tries to contact you, it will email the burner address and not your real email address. Apple will forward the note to you so you are aware of it. Then if a business starts sending spam to the burner email address, you can easily delete your account and the business won’t have your real email address.«
Andra exempel är att man kan välja att ge appar engångstillstånd för tillgång till kamera, position m.m. samt möjlighet att dölja metadata (som position) när du delar en bild på sociala media.
NYT: How to Make the Most of Apple’s New Privacy Tools in iOS 13 »
Visa, Mastercard och Ebay hoppar av den grupp som backar upp Facebooks planerade digitala valuta, Libra. I vart fall för tillfället.
Så vad handlar det om? SVT rapporterar:
»Bland kritikerna finns bland annat den amerikanske presidenten Donald Trump, chefen för den amerikanska centralbanken Jerome Powell samt de franska och tyska regeringarna.
Kritiken har bland annat handlat om riskerna för kryptovalutans potentiella koppling till eventuell penningtvätt men också om att en privat global valuta kan komma att förflytta ekonomisk makt från stater till den privata sfären.
Enligt nyhetssajten Politico har flera av de företag som nu hoppar av varit måltavlor för direkt politisk press under de senaste veckorna.«
Svaret är alltså makt.
Länkar:
• SVT: Visa och Mastercard lämnar Facebooks kryptovaluta Libra »
• Politico: Facebook’s Libra project suffers major blow as Visa, MasterCard drop out »
TorrentFreak:
The latest Internet traffic report from Sandvine shows that global file-sharing traffic continues to rise. The same is true for VPN usage, which saw a drastic increase over the past year. According to Sandvine, increased fragmentation among legal video streaming services likely plays an important role in these trends.
Detta tycks bekräfta trenden att folk tycker det är enklare att ladda ner filmer och serier illegalt, än att ha abonnemang hos en rad olika legala streamingtjänster. Speciellt när mycket av innehållet är exklusivt för de respektive tjänsterna.
CNBC rapporterar:
Detta är visserligen amerikanska siffror baserade på amerikanska förutsättningar. Men sådana här trender brukar sprida sig till resten av västvärlden.
Despite Netflix ceding its pole position to YouTube, teens are flocking to it far more than other streaming services, Piper Jaffray found. Hulu and Amazon’s Prime Video served as the preferred platforms for 7% and 3% of teens surveyed, respectively. Cable TV ranked third at 12%, down from 14% in the spring, indicating that cord-cutting continues to be on the rise, the firm said.
Länk: Teens choose YouTube over Netflix for the first time, according to new survey »
When some users provided Twitter with their phone number to make their account more secure, the company used this information for advertising purposes, according to a blog post from Twitter published on Tuesday.
• Vice: Twitter Took Phone Numbers for Security and Used Them for Advertising »
• Twitter: Personal information and ads on Twitter »
Den kinesiska regimen kopplar ett allt hårdare grepp om medborgarna:
The Chinese regime announced a new rule which requires residents to pass a facial recognition test in order to apply for an internet connection via smartphone or computer.
The rule will be implemented from Dec. 1, 2019. In addition, no cell phone or landline number can be transferred to another person privately.
Länk: Beijing Launches New Rule: Residents Must Pass Facial Recognition Test to Surf Internet »
EFF:
»Top law enforcement officials in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia told Facebook today that they want backdoor access to all encrypted messages sent on all its platforms. In an open letter, these governments called on Mark Zuckerberg to stop Facebook’s plan to introduce end-to-end encryption on all of the company’s messaging products and instead promise that it will “enable law enforcement to obtain lawful access to content in a readable and usable format.”
This is a staggering attempt to undermine the security and privacy of communications tools used by billions of people. Facebook should not comply.«
Uppdatering, fler länkar:
• BBC: Facebook encryption threatens public safety, say ministers »
• Privacy International: PI response to confused governments’ confusing declaration of war and victory on encryption »
• ArsTechnica: US wants Facebook to backdoor WhatsApp and halt encryption plans »
I ett förtalsrelaterat mål har EU-domstolen kommit fram till att Facebook kan föreläggas att hindra att innehåll publiceras, om det är är identiskt med sådant som tidigare förklarats olagligt av domstol. Även om beslutet har en viss logik – så måste man fråga sig: hur? I praktiken lär det vara omöjligt utan automatisk filtrering av allt som alla användare laddar upp.
EDRi skriver:
»The ruling confirms that a hosting provider such as Facebook can be ordered, in the context of an injunction, to seek and identify, among all the content shared by its users, content that is identical to the content characterised as illegal by a court. If the obligation to block future content applies to all users on a large platform like Facebook, the Court has in effect considered it to be in line with the E-Commerce Directive that courts demand automated upload filters and blurred the distinction between general and specific monitoring in its previous case law. EDRi is concerned that automated upload filters for identical content will not be able to distinguish between legal and illegal content, in particular when applied to individual words that could have very different meanings depending on the context and the intent of the user.«
Politico:
“The court’s decision opens the door for serious restrictions on freedom of expression due to the takedown of legitimate speech. Extending removal to the vague concept of “equivalent” content is harmful because the context as well as motivation of users re-sharing content may significantly differ with each re-upload,” said Eliška Pírková, Europe policy analyst at Access Now, a campaigning group.
Speciellt komplicerat blir detta med tanke på att EU:s eHandelsdirektiv förbjuder generell övervakning av vad som laddas upp. (Vilket för övrigt även kolliderar med det uppladdningsfilter som blir konsekvensen av EU:s nya upphovsrättsdirektiv.)
• EDRi: CJEU ruling on fighting defamation online could open the door for upload filters »
• Politico: Facebook can be forced to delete defamatory content worldwide, top EU court rules »
Uppdatering:
• TechCrunch: Zuckerberg says Facebook will sue to stop EU’s global content takedowns »
