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Polish government goes on spending spree after seizing 400 m Euros
by Steven Schear 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/8ad509/polish_authorities_has_seized_…

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Big Brother Rolling Out Beastmarking Disenfranchisement And More Worldwide / India Up
by grarpamp 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/technology/india-id-aadhaar.html ‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Food, Phones and Finances By VINDU GOELAPRIL 7, 2018 Photo India has collected biometric data on most of its 1.3 billion residents, to be used in a nationwide identity system called Aadhaar, meaning “foundation.” Credit The New York Times NEW DELHI — Seeking to build an identification system of unprecedented scope, India is scanning the fingerprints, eyes and faces of its 1.3 billion residents and connecting the data to everything from welfare benefits to mobile phones. Civil libertarians are horrified, viewing the program, called Aadhaar, as Orwell’s Big Brother brought to life. To the government, it’s more like “big brother,” a term of endearment used by many Indians to address a stranger when asking for help. For other countries, the technology could provide a model for how to track their residents. And for India’s top court, the ID system presents unique legal issues that will define what the constitutional right to privacy means in the digital age. To Adita Jha, Aadhaar was simply a hassle. The 30-year-old environmental consultant in Delhi waited in line three times to sit in front of a computer that photographed her face, captured her fingerprints and snapped images of her irises. Three times, the data failed to upload. The fourth attempt finally worked, and she has now been added to the 1.1 billion Indians already included in the program. Photo A woman has her retinas scanned, one of several identifying characteristics the system uses to track people. Credit The New York Times Ms. Jha had little choice but to keep at it. The government has made registration mandatory for hundreds of public services and many private ones, from taking school exams to opening bank accounts. “You almost feel like life is going to stop without an Aadhaar,” Ms. Jha said. Technology has given governments around the world new tools to monitor their citizens. In China, the government is rolling out ways to use facial recognition and big data to track people, aiming to inject itself further into everyday life. Many countries, including Britain, deploy closed-circuit cameras to monitor their populations. But India’s program is in a league of its own, both in the mass collection of biometric data and in the attempt to link it to everything — traffic tickets, bank accounts, pensions, even meals for undernourished schoolchildren. “No one has approached that scale and that ambition,” said Jacqueline Bhabha, a professor and research director of Harvard’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, who has studied biometric ID systems around the world. “It has been hailed, and justifiably so, as an extraordinary triumph to get everyone registered.” Photo Fingerprints are another. Credit The New York Times Critics fear that the government will gain unprecedented insight into the lives of all Indians. In response, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other champions of the program say that Aadhaar is India’s ticket to the future, a universal, easy-to-use ID that will reduce this country’s endemic corruption and help bring even the most illiterate into the digital age. “It’s the equivalent of building interstate highways,” said Nandan Nilekani, the technology billionaire who was tapped by the government in 2009 to build the Aadhaar system. “If the government invested in building a digital public utility and that is made available as a platform, then you actually can create major innovations around that.” The potential uses — from surveillance to managing government benefit programs — have drawn interest elsewhere. Sri Lanka is planning a similar system, and Britain, Russia and the Philippines are studying it, according to the Indian government. Aadhaar, which means “foundation” in English, was initially intended as a difficult-to-forge ID to reduce fraud and improve the delivery of government welfare programs. But Mr. Modi, who has promoted a “digital India” vision since his party took power in 2014, has vastly expanded its ambitions. The poor must scan their fingerprints at the ration shop to get their government allocations of rice. Retirees must do the same to get their pensions. Middle-school students cannot enter the water department’s annual painting contest until they submit their identification. In some cities, newborns cannot leave the hospital until their parents sign them up. Even leprosy patients, whose illness damages their fingers and eyes, have been told they must pass fingerprint or iris scans to get their benefits. The Modi government has also ordered Indians to link their IDs to their cellphone and bank accounts. States have added their own twists, like using the data to map where people live. Some employers use the ID for background checks on job applicants. Photo Ajay B. Pandey, center, runs the Unique Identification Authority of India, the government agency that oversees Aadhaar. Credit The New York Times “Aadhaar has added great strength to India’s development,” Mr. Modi said in a January speech to military cadets. Officials estimate that taxpayers have saved at least $9.4 billion from Aadhaar by weeding out “ghosts” and other improper beneficiaries of government services. Opponents have filed at least 30 cases against the program in India’s Supreme Court. They argue that Aadhaar violates India’s Constitution — and, in particular, a unanimous court decision last year that declared for the first time that Indians had a fundamental right to privacy. Rahul Narayan, one of the lawyers challenging the system, said the government was essentially building one giant database on its citizens. “There has been a sort of mission creep to it all along,” he said. The court has been holding extensive hearings and is expected to make a ruling in the spring. The government argues that the universal ID is vital in a country where hundreds of millions of people do not have widely accepted identification documents. Photo People filling out forms to register for the Aadhaar system in New Delhi. One advantage cited for using biometric data is that it can identify people who are illiterate or have no proper identification. Credit The New York Times “The people themselves are the biggest beneficiaries,” said Ajay B. Pandey, the Minnesota-trained engineer who leads the Unique Identification Authority of India, the government agency that oversees the system. “This identity cannot be refused.” Businesses are also using the technology to streamline transactions. Banks once sent employees to the homes of account applicants to verify their addresses. Now, accounts can be opened online and finished with a fingerprint scan at a branch or other authorized outlet. Reliance Jio, a telecom provider, relies on an Aadhaar fingerprint scan to conduct the government-mandated ID check for purchases of cellphone SIM cards. That allows clerks to activate service immediately instead of forcing buyers to wait a day or two. But the Aadhar system has also raised practical and legal issues. Although the system’s core fingerprint, iris and face database appears to have remained secure, at least 210 government websites have leaked other personal data — such as name, birth date, address, parents’ names, bank account number and Aadhaar number — for millions of Indians. Some of that data is still available with a simple Google search. As Aadhaar has become mandatory for government benefits, parts of rural India have struggled with the internet connections necessary to make Aadhaar work. After a lifetime of manual labor, many Indians also have no readable prints, making authentication difficult. One recent study found that 20 percent of the households in Jharkand state had failed to get their food rations under Aadhaar-based verification — five times the failure rate of ration cards. Photo Waiting to register for the system in New Delhi. Aadhaar was initially intended to reduce fraud and improve the delivery of welfare benefits. Officials have since broadly expanded its range. Credit The New York Times “This is the population that is being passed off as ghosts and bogus by the government,” said Reetika Khera, an associate professor of economics at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, who co-wrote the study. Seeing these problems, some local governments have scaled back the use of Aadhaar for public benefits. In February, the government for the Delhi region announced that it would stop using Aadhaar to deliver food benefits. Dr. Pandey said that some problems were inevitable but that his agency was trying to fix them. The government is patching security holes and recently added face recognition as an alternative to fingerprint or iris scans to make it easier to verify identities. Fears that the Indian government could use Aadhaar to turn the country into a surveillance state, he said, are overblown. “There is no central authority that has all the information,” he said. Before Aadhaar, he said, hundreds of millions of Indians could not easily prove who they were. “If you are not able to prove your identity, you are disenfranchised,” he said. “You have no existence.” Suhasini Raj contributed reporting. Follow Vindu Goel on Twitter: @vindugoel. A version of this article appears in print on April 8, 2018, on Page BU1 of the New York edition with the headline: India’s ‘Big Brother’ Program.

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Help Puerto Rico use tech for social good
by Yosem Companys 08 Apr '18

08 Apr '18

Dear friends and colleagues, - How should the Puerto Rican government use technology to improve quality of life and socioeconomic development, especially in the poorest and most vulnerable communities? I would appreciate your emailing me as soon as possible one-sentence proposed actions in the format of "Do X with Y to achieve Z." Feel free to share links to any case studies or articles that may show their successful implementation elsewhere. Your proposed actions could apply to any societal sector including and not limited to: - Accountability; - Affordable access to Internet, Web, mobile, or mesh, among others; - Agriculture; - Disaster relief; - Economic growth and development; - Education and training, whether primary, secondary, higher education, vocational, or online; - Entrepreneurship; - Environment; - Food; - Health; - Housing that's affordable but can resist storms; - Jobs; - Manufacturing; - Open data; - Open governance; - Pharma/Biotech; - Privacy; - Public safety; - Security, physical or cyber; - Transportation; and, - Water. Please share with your closest 1-million friends, post on all your social media accounts, or email to all your other lists. I truly appreciate your help. Thanks, Yosem

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Cryptocurrency: Where You Can Stay, No Regulators, Markets, and Tunes
by grarpamp 08 Apr '18

08 Apr '18

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Cryptocurrency: Versus Banknet [Terminator Themed Docu]
by grarpamp 08 Apr '18

08 Apr '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbJMgA5bhnM https://www.bitchute.com/video/9ejpWVfGb3Ks/ https://seed02.bitchute.com/3717/9ejpWVfGb3Ks.mp4 infohash: dacbbbbd2b65e05ef160b5b4ab3619c48d3c1742 In the 21st Century Bitcoin is Humanitys last stand against the T-800 Bankers. 106 years of banker dominance, Monetary history and the rise of Bitcoin explained through the Sci-fi Terminator film Franchise. As art it may be a bit mashy and long for some folk. Probably forgot the infohash earlier.

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MIT Technology Review: “genetics must account for more than half of intelligence”
by Zenaan Harkness 08 Apr '18

08 Apr '18

So the "everyone is absolutely bloody equal dangit!" crowd were right and diversity omelettes will definitely lead to more happiness, wealth and a generally brighter future. Or something ... https://dailystormer.name/mainstream-science-magazine-affirms-genetic-basis… Mainstream Science Magazine Affirms Genetic Basis for Intelligence https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610339/dna-tests-for-iq-are-coming-but-i… DNA tests for IQ are coming, but it might not be smart to take one direct link to the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg.2017.104 Remember, to the neo-marxists, individuality, especially on any basis of recognition, improvement and mastery of ones traits, especially IQ, is grounds for instant dismissal from life - look at Maoist China, Stalin's purges, Pol Pot and the rest - the Marxist dictators of the "Left" start by "purging" the intellectual 'elite' (the educated, the wealthy, the competent), and then, as has been repeatedly pointed out, starts eating itself (one could guess this is out of fear, since so much murder has recently taken place). Happens every single time in history that the lefty marxists take power. Just like you can guess who's behind today's suppression of free speech: Every. Single. Time. >From the MIT article above: Several educators contacted by MIT Technology Review reacted with alarm to the new developments, saying DNA tests should not be used to evaluate children’s academic prospects. You see, IQ capacity, and the development of one's capabilities, is seen as a literal threat - i.e. the dominance hierarchy is largely predicted by IQ and conscientiousness leading to social standing, which is the overwhelming predictor of access to sexual partners and position in the dominance hierarchy (as Jordan Peterson junkies now well know), and having such knowledge quantified empirically is seen as a threat. Thus the dozens of millions of murdered dead bodies piled up during the last century. Learn your lessons, folks. And create your world,

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Re: monkeys from the dark ages
by Cecilia Tanaka 07 Apr '18

07 Apr '18

Juan, please, did you really send the pretty aggressive message below? Usually, you would never attach stupid non sense pics, and "monkeys from the dark ages" doesn't seem the kind of expression that you would use to offend "feminazis" or any kind of people... Sounded out of tone, strange. :-/ It was a heavy and aggressive provocation mentioning "the West". Not your style. Sorry, it remembers me a lot when that stupid loser was faking messages of some members of this list... :P ---------- "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison On Feb 16, 2018 22:32, "juan" <juan.g71(a)gmail.com> wrote: I'm of course referring to the feminists. The 'progressives' are nothing but recycled puritan monkeys with exactly the same lunatic anti sex views. The feminists are just recycled, witch-burning joo-kkkristians. Funnily enough there is a sizable number of fake libertarian scum who are also feminists. Then again americunt 'libertarians' are just fascists with a thin veneer of libertarian rhetoric so it's hardly surprising. So libertarians are apologist of google, goldmand sachs and feminazis! Cool!. Oh, it's also worth looking into the 'progressives' involvenment in eugenics, and the voting record of the 'democratic party' regarding slavery haha. last but not least, the same western 'progressives' who stridently whine about 'womenyzzx' fictional oppression in the west are the same supreme scum who blow up women and children in the midle east for fun and profit. Like obomba and the swedish scum who gave obomba the 'nobel peace prize' (...)

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Backpage Seized By Feds
by grarpamp 07 Apr '18

07 Apr '18

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16776932 https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/8acrj6/fbi_seizes_control_of_backpag… https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/04/06/2055220/fbi-seizes-backpagecom-a-s… https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Backpage%20Report%202017.01.10%2…

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Re: [Cryptography] India Crypto Currency Ban
by grarpamp 07 Apr '18

07 Apr '18

On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 4:23 AM, Sandeep Kamboj <sandeep2147(a)gmail.com> wrote: > "India Crypto Currency Ban" Fake News! > India's central bank has announced a ban on the sale or purchase of > crypto-currency. No such jurisdiction beyond themselves. https://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/PressRelease/PDFs/PR264270719E5CB28249D7BC… https://medium.com/@blockchainlawyer.india/rbi-press-release-05apr2018-fud-… https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/04/06/no-india-not-just-banned-virtual… Indians are still free to buy / sell / hold / use cryptocurrency amongst themselves and business however they want, including via exchanges. And even if they weren't, hardly anything short of pulling the plug on the internet will stop cryptocurrency. > "In view of the associated risks Fake Risks! > entities regulated by RBI shall not deal with or provide services to RBI stock price drops on news as competitors move in. More govt shenanigans https://wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonetisation

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Cryptocurrency: Monero Forked Hard - 4 New Projects Born, Ops and Key Claiming Begin
by grarpamp 07 Apr '18

07 Apr '18

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/8ah959/monero_forked_hard_… https://decentralpost.com/2018/04/07/monero-forked-hard-4-new-projects-born/

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