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Hola W y tod@xs,</div>
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On Crime Time TV this week: "Watching the Watchers":<br>
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<p>"The European Union has agreed to stricter rules on the sale and export of cyber-surveillance technologies like facial recognition and spyware. After years of negotiations, the new regulation will be announced today in Brussels. Details of the plan were
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<p>The regulation requires companies to get a government license to sell technology with military applications; calls for more due diligence on such sales to assess the possible human rights risks; and requires governments to publicly share details of the licenses
they grant. These sales are typically cloaked in secrecy, meaning that multibillion-dollar technology is bought and sold with little public scrutiny."</p>
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Over and out,</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 10, 2020 7:49 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> thingist <thingist@mailman.thing.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [thingist] Prime time crime</font>
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<div class="PlainText"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/business/amazon-eu-antitrust.html__;!!Mih3wA!VCps-gtkM9y44kYQEd_NfX2ZdOCfj9HA5lhh4jgKmHIfhNuoEz4HA65BkiCVBAHzPJU$">https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/business/amazon-eu-antitrust.html__;!!Mih3wA!VCps-gtkM9y44kYQEd_NfX2ZdOCfj9HA5lhh4jgKmHIfhNuoEz4HA65BkiCVBAHzPJU$</a>
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EU is finally taking action against Amazon. As usual, it's too little<br>
too late, but at least Vestager is moving, while Dorothee Bär prefers<br>
to play cheerleader for the games industry.<br>
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<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.t-online.de/unterhaltung/stars/royals/id_85558218/dorothee-baer-staatsministerin-ueberrascht-mit-superheldin-outfit.html__;!!Mih3wA!VCps-gtkM9y44kYQEd_NfX2ZdOCfj9HA5lhh4jgKmHIfhNuoEz4HA65BkiCV8P5uPdo$">https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.t-online.de/unterhaltung/stars/royals/id_85558218/dorothee-baer-staatsministerin-ueberrascht-mit-superheldin-outfit.html__;!!Mih3wA!VCps-gtkM9y44kYQEd_NfX2ZdOCfj9HA5lhh4jgKmHIfhNuoEz4HA65BkiCV8P5uPdo$</a>
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Attachment: Collage by Peter Fend <br>
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Btw, Fend has a show opening soon at Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin: <br>
"Birds Reign" from November 21, 2020 until January 23, 2021.<br>
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