The Intercept
She Sent Money to Family in Gaza. ICE Claimed It’s Evidence She Supports Hamas.
To keep her in ICE detention in Texas, the Trump administration pointed to Leqaa Kordia’s remittances to family in Palestine.
 *She Sent Money to Family in Gaza. ICE Claimed It’s Evidence She Supports Hamas.*
Starmer welcomed a defecting Tory MP whose views are very right wing:
the Guardian
Natalie Elphicke is a hard-right Tory. Her defection sums up Labour’s contempt for progressive voters | Owen Jones
It was hailed as a triumph: it is anything but. It reveals a party that’s lost its moral compass
 It shows his goal is victory, and never mind for what cause.
Northern Ireland thugs spied on journalists that were investigating them:
the Guardian
Northern Ireland police spied on investigative journalists, tribunal told
Secretive hearing learns of ‘defensive operation’ carried out by PSNI in attempt to identify sources
the Guardian
Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna reveal bill to ‘cancel all medical debt’
Exclusive: legislation creates a program to cancel all existing patient debt and block creditors from collecting past medical bills
 *Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna reveal bill aimed at eliminating medical debt.*
[2/2] … can't identify a person (or a car) is not an injustice. But it makes sense to demand that the company demonstrate at the technical level that these cameras cannot identify persons. We can't take on trust any statements about what the machine actually does today if that depends on software, because the machine's owner could install different software any day.
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Business Insider
A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial-recognition technology
A photo shared on Reddit showed one of the vending machines with an error code suggesting it used facial-recognition tech.
How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
 Vending machines installed in a university in Canada have cameras, but various companies assert that they don't identify persons or store photos of them. They only detect that some person is in front of the machine and perhaps wants to use it. In my view, the injustice of most cameras that watch people lies in tracking people. A camera that …
[4/4] … into injustice. Trade agreements is one of the few areas in which the corrupter did good things, For instance, keeping the US out of the TPP, and spiking the WTO. But that is no reason to vote for the corrupter, since Biden has continued the same policies. What's more, Biden has taken broad action against monopolies in the US. In any case, the danger that the corrupter would impose fascism and abolish human rights in the US outweighs other the political issues.
[3/4] … government of the country it claims to be located in to sue on its behalf. With the dispute resolution system spiked, the WTO will be unable to do much to countries that relax the unjust copyright laws that persecute people who share with other people, and may be unable to pressure countries to make exceptions in patent law for software, medicine and agriculture. If the WTO limited itself to preventing international dumping of products, I would support it. But it goes far beyond that, …
[2/4] … US has sabotaged the WTO by blocking appointment of "judges" to implement its dispute appeals procedure. See how I have condemned the WTO in the past. The WTO "dispute resolution procedure" is much like an ISDS clause except that businesses cannot directly sue countries for making laws to protect human right, public health, the environment, or their citizens' standard of living. In the WTO, only another member country can do that. But a big enough company can generally get the …
[5/5] … the aid operations suspend bringing food to Gaza. A hypothetical sincere investigation might confirm this, but governments are not often that sincere about their motives. The US should skip the useless "investigation" and tell Israel to change these policies and respect truces for aid deliveries, or it will receive no more arms.