Anti-encryption demands: Government officials from the U.S., U.K., and Australia have asked Facebook to put a hold on its plans to expand encryption on services like Messenger, CNet reports. «We are writing to request that Facebook does not proceed with its plan to implement end-to-end encryption across its messaging services without ensuring that there is no reduction to user safety and without including a means for lawful access to the content of communications to protect our citizens,» says a letter signed by U.S. Attorney General William Barr and other officials.
Esta ley no es un bulo: el gobierno de Singapur ha aprobado una nueva ley
contra las noticias falsas, según informa SPDP
Radio. Esta ley prevé multas de hasta 60.000 USD y 10 años de
cárcel para los acusados que sean declarados culpables de difundir lo que, a juicio del gobierno, sean
noticias falsas. Los sitios web podrían tener que hacer frente a multas de más de 720.000 USD por no retirar
las noticias falsas tras haber recibido la orden correspondiente. Lógicamente, los defensores de la libertad de expresión
no ven esta ley con buenos ojos.
The lines are cut: Internet access in most of Iraq was shut down after violent protest in the country, CNet says. Some people were able to access messenging services through workarounds, however. Iraq also imposed curfews after violent anti-government protests, the Washington Post reports.
Se acabó la neutralidad de la red: un tribunal de apelaciones estadounidense ha
ratificado categóricamente la decisión de la Comisión Federal de Comunicaciones (FCC, por sus siglas en inglés) de derogar sus
leyes sobre la neutralidad de la red emitidas en 2015, según informa el
Hollywood Reporter. No obstante, la FCC no puede evitar que los estados aprueben
sus propias leyes que prohíban a los proveedores de banda ancha bloquear o
ralentizar selectivamente el tráfico, afirmó el tribunal.
Naughty hack: Asics, a sportswear company, blamed a cyberattack for pornography running on its storefront video screens in a New Zealand location for about nine hours, Insurance Business NZ reports. The store manager was “100 percent” sure his staff wouldn’t do such a thing. An investigation is underway.
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