Congress’ $2.3 trillion spending and relief package includes controversial measures previously introduced as the CASE Act, the Trademark Modernization Act, and a felony streaming proposal — all significantly expanding the rights and powers of intellectual property owners.
“The CASE Act is a terribly written law that will threaten ordinary Internet users with huge fines for everyday online activity. It’s absurd that lawmakers included these provisions in a must-pass spending bill,” Evan Greer, deputy director of Fight for the Future,
The multitrillion-dollar package also includes a provision authored by Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) that would allow the Justice Department to charge businesses for felony copyright infringement if they intentionally stream copyrighted material online.
Ruling class will never let anything go to waste.
Remember - copyright and patents are very important for exploiters and both must be fully eliminated. And anyone who stands for keeping them or widening is effectively enemy of the people
In a new blog post for the International Monetary Fund, four researchers presented their findings from a working paper that examines the current relationship between finance and tech as well as its potential future. Gazing into their crystal ball, the researchers see the possibility of using the data from your browsing, search, and purchase history to create a more accurate mechanism for determining the credit rating of an individual or business. They believe that this approach could result in greater lending to borrowers who would potentially be denied by traditional financial institutions.
It is important that usually your bank already has access to your complete purchase history (at least here in Mordor).
Microsoft and Google are collecting and selling all browsing history also (but not telling who it is), yet it is not very hard to match it with your ID. Apple is not selling it yet, but collect in databases and share with government.
https://gizmodo.com/your-credit-score-should-be-based-on-your-web-history-1845912592
Citizen Lab has discovered that operators using NSO Group software, nicknamed Kismet, hacked the iPhones of 37 journalists (most from Al Jazeera) using an iMessage vulnerability that had been present for roughly a year. The zero-click attacks left no trace and would have allowed access to passwords, microphone audio and even snapping photos.
And it is only holes known for medium and large private security companies.
It is tons of much more serious intentionally made holes that exist for beloved governments and Apple itself.
The sharp rise in the incidence of COVID-19 in the UK is associated with a new genetic variant of the coronavirus, which has been identified in the country and may be 70% more infectious, Johnson said, adding that British experts have not yet found evidence that the mutated virus could be more lethal.
"Although there is still considerable uncertainty on this issue, it can be 70% more infectious than the original version that we dealt with before. So far, this is only preliminary data, which can later be refined, but this is the best we have now. there is, and we must act on the basis of this information, since the spread of the infection is very fast, "said the head of government.
"We have no evidence that it causes more severe disease or higher mortality," Johnson added. So far, nothing also indicates that vaccines will not work against the new variant of the virus.
According to Patrick Wallance, senior scientific adviser to the British government, the new variant of the virus contains an unusually high number of mutations.
"Viruses mutate constantly, but in the new variant we see 23 changes in the genome, many of which are associated with changes in the spike protein produced by the virus," Vallance said, adding that mutations were noted in those parts of the genome that respond for the way the virus binds to cells and enters them.
Similar genetic variants of the coronavirus have also been previously found in other countries. The more contagious variety of coronavirus can also occur outside the UK, Wallance said, but there is a major outbreak in the kingdom that is caused by it. There is no information about whether the new variant of the virus originated in the UK or was imported from outside.
“Now it is very important for the general efforts to sequencing the genome of the virus to understand how it is changing and how much. Only by assessing the situation at the global level, we will begin to understand which parts of the genome of the virus are undergoing changes and in which parts of the planet this is happening. an important part of monitoring the virus, " Vallance said.
All vaccines target mostly spike protein, so some changes can render specific vaccine fully unusable.
Note that people who previously had COVID have immunity also for many internal proteins making is much harder for virus to avoid destruction.
VUI - 202012/01 (as UK calls virus) can be variant of COVID made by UK labs, contrary to original variant made by US or China.
Per 100k people.
You can see clearly how capitalism rises his head, 1994 is where libertarians want us all to go btw.
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