[nonostantement #74] - beckpackers in asia / facial recognition in airports / wikipedia in italy
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People In Asia Are Sick Of Western ‘Begpackers’ Asking Locals To Fund Their Travels For Them
"Authorities in some countries have had enough, and now immigration officers on the Indonesian island of Bali have started sending these 'begpackers' to their embassies to get themselves sorted out."The Black Sites
"A rare look inside the C.I.A.’s secret interrogation program." - article from 2007.Can I buy a phone that doesn’t use anything from Google or Apple?
"[...] The problem is that most people – including me – want to use Googly things on their phones."Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos
"Well, thanks to an outage currently affecting Facebook, users of the social network have been given a similar peek behind the digital curtain, with many images on the site now replaced with the tags they’ve been assigned by the company’s machine vision systems."I Opted Out of Facial Recognition at the Airport—It Wasn't Easy
"Last year, a Delta customer service representative reported that only 2 percent of customers opt out of facial-recognition. It's easy to see why."What’s It Like to Live in Barcelona’s Most Famous Gaudí Home? A Bit Inconvenient
"Ms. Viladomiu likens her experience to living on the set of “Big Brother,” the reality television show, photographed by tourists whenever she steps out onto her balcony and monitored by security cameras and smoke detectors she has sometimes inadvertently set off while cooking her dinner."[Video] - China’s Vanishing Muslims: Undercover In The Most Dystopian Place In The World
"China’s Uighur minority live a dystopian nightmare of constant surveillance and brutal policing. At least one million of them are believed to be living in what the U.N. described as a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy,” while many Uighur children are taken to state-run orphanages where they're indoctrinated into Chinese customs."China Is Forcing Tourists to Install Text-Stealing Malware at its Border
"The malware downloads a tourist’s text messages, calendar entries, and phone logs, as well as scans the device for over 70,000 different files."The Promise of Vaping and the Rise of Juul
"Teens have taken a technology that was supposed to help grownups stop smoking and invented a new kind of bad habit, molded in their own image."[Video] - Liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp April 29 1945
"On April 29 1945 American troops of the 45th Thunderbird Division liberated the Dachau camp together with units of the 42nd Infantry and the 20th Armored division.
The films shot by cameramen of the US Signal Corps April 29 and May 5 1945."[In Italian] - Non chiederti cosa Wikipedia possa fare per te
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