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January 21, 2024
Healing From the Horrors of Wounded Knee 133 Years Later
But how do we heal? That’s a question still worth asking.
WINONA LADUKE
Jan 21, 2024
On December 29, the Lakota held a ceremony at the Wounded Knee gravesite and read the names of those who were killed, and identified—aloud—women, children and entire families wiped out by the howitzers. There were many who were not named but remembered in the wind and in the moment.
It was somber. And, for the second year, clothing, moccasins and pipes that belonged to the murdered were there at Wounded Knee, returned from a museum in the east, where a ghoulish collection had rested for over a century. On that cold December morning, we prayed, listening to songs, as we looked upon the dresses, shirts of the Ghost Dancers and baby moccasins, all stripped from those slain at Wounded Knee. Now, all sat in open boxes covering the gravesite where their people had been buried. We mourned together.
It was l890 and the great leader Sitting Bull (Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake) was incarcerated at Fort Yates with his people. More than a decade had passed since the U.S. government illegally seized the Black Hills, forcing the people off sacred land. The buffalo had been decimated. Incarcerated at prisoner-of-war camps, the Lakota’s rations had been cut in half. The people were starving.
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In the early 1980s, Alex White Plume’s uncle told him that because the Army had not allowed survivors and family members to perform grieving ceremonies at Wounded Knee, the spirits of the victims were unable to leave the “Land of the Breathing.” In 1986, White Plume, his brother Percy and 17 other Lakota, calling themselves the Si Tanka Wokiksuye Okolakiciye—the “Big Foot Remembrance Group”—embarked on the first annual Big Foot Memorial Ride from the Sitting Bull homestead in Standing Rock to Pine Ridge.
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Genocide: Healing From the Horrors of Wounded Knee 133 Years Later
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/wounded-knee-of-1890Healing From the Horrors of Wounded Knee 133 Years Later
But how do we heal? That’s a question still worth asking.
WINONA LADUKE
Jan 21, 2024
On December 29, the Lakota held a ceremony at the Wounded Knee gravesite and read the names of those who were killed, and identified—aloud—women, children and entire families wiped out by the howitzers. There were many who were not named but remembered in the wind and in the moment.
It was somber. And, for the second year, clothing, moccasins and pipes that belonged to the murdered were there at Wounded Knee, returned from a museum in the east, where a ghoulish collection had rested for over a century. On that cold December morning, we prayed, listening to songs, as we looked upon the dresses, shirts of the Ghost Dancers and baby moccasins, all stripped from those slain at Wounded Knee. Now, all sat in open boxes covering the gravesite where their people had been buried. We mourned together.
It was l890 and the great leader Sitting Bull (Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake) was incarcerated at Fort Yates with his people. More than a decade had passed since the U.S. government illegally seized the Black Hills, forcing the people off sacred land. The buffalo had been decimated. Incarcerated at prisoner-of-war camps, the Lakota’s rations had been cut in half. The people were starving.
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In the early 1980s, Alex White Plume’s uncle told him that because the Army had not allowed survivors and family members to perform grieving ceremonies at Wounded Knee, the spirits of the victims were unable to leave the “Land of the Breathing.” In 1986, White Plume, his brother Percy and 17 other Lakota, calling themselves the Si Tanka Wokiksuye Okolakiciye—the “Big Foot Remembrance Group”—embarked on the first annual Big Foot Memorial Ride from the Sitting Bull homestead in Standing Rock to Pine Ridge.
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January 20, 2024
Amanda Knox testifies in Olympia about police interrogation bill
Jan 20, 2024, 7:08 AM
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BY MATT MARKOVICH
KIRO Newsradio Reporter
A House committee in Olympia has postponed a vote on a bill that featured testimony from one of the world’s most prominent wrongly convicted individuals, Amanda Knox.
House Bill 1062 seeks to remove deception as a tactic by law enforcement to elicit a confession during custodial interrogations.
The bill aims to ensure that statements obtained through deceptive means are not automatically admissible as evidence, marking a departure from the current legal landscape.
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If you are in custody and you’re being interviewed or interrogated by a police officer, they have the right to lie to you. You do not have the right, of course, to lie to a police officer. That can add extra charges,” Rep. Strom Peterson, D-Edmonds, said.
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“By the end of my interrogation, I thought I was insane because of how they gaslit me,” Knox said.
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(Police lie. Politicians lie. Religious lie. Corporations lie. trump ironically speaking truth saying ‘everyone does it’. How not to be driven insane? Thoughts?)
Culture of lies: Amanda Knox testifies in Olympia about police interrogation bill
https://mynorthwest.com/3947284/amanda-knox-testifies-about-police-interrogation-bill/Amanda Knox testifies in Olympia about police interrogation bill
Jan 20, 2024, 7:08 AM
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BY MATT MARKOVICH
KIRO Newsradio Reporter
A House committee in Olympia has postponed a vote on a bill that featured testimony from one of the world’s most prominent wrongly convicted individuals, Amanda Knox.
House Bill 1062 seeks to remove deception as a tactic by law enforcement to elicit a confession during custodial interrogations.
The bill aims to ensure that statements obtained through deceptive means are not automatically admissible as evidence, marking a departure from the current legal landscape.
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If you are in custody and you’re being interviewed or interrogated by a police officer, they have the right to lie to you. You do not have the right, of course, to lie to a police officer. That can add extra charges,” Rep. Strom Peterson, D-Edmonds, said.
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“By the end of my interrogation, I thought I was insane because of how they gaslit me,” Knox said.
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(Police lie. Politicians lie. Religious lie. Corporations lie. trump ironically speaking truth saying ‘everyone does it’. How not to be driven insane? Thoughts?)
January 19, 2024
'It's high time': Nunavut officially takes over land, resource responsibilities from feds
Prime Minister Trudeau signs agreement for largest land transfer in Canada's history
Emma Tranter · CBC News · Posted: Jan 18, 2024 12:06 PM PST | Last Updated: January 18
Nearly 25 years after Nunavut became a territory, it has signed a final agreement with the government of Canada to have the final say over a long list of decisions that were, until now, usually made in Ottawa.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Premier P.J. Akeeagok and Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. president Aluki Kotierk signed the agreement at a ceremony in Iqaluit this afternoon.
It's the largest land transfer in Canada's history, Trudeau said — two million square kilometres of land and water.
The 239-page document outlines how Canada will give control over Nunavut's land and resources to the government of Nunavut — a process known as devolution.
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Numavut independence: 'It's high time': Nunavut officially takes over land, resource responsibilities from feds
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nunavut-trudeau-sign-devolution-argreement-1.7086272'It's high time': Nunavut officially takes over land, resource responsibilities from feds
Prime Minister Trudeau signs agreement for largest land transfer in Canada's history
Emma Tranter · CBC News · Posted: Jan 18, 2024 12:06 PM PST | Last Updated: January 18
Nearly 25 years after Nunavut became a territory, it has signed a final agreement with the government of Canada to have the final say over a long list of decisions that were, until now, usually made in Ottawa.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Premier P.J. Akeeagok and Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. president Aluki Kotierk signed the agreement at a ceremony in Iqaluit this afternoon.
It's the largest land transfer in Canada's history, Trudeau said — two million square kilometres of land and water.
The 239-page document outlines how Canada will give control over Nunavut's land and resources to the government of Nunavut — a process known as devolution.
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January 19, 2024
New Zealand’s Māori king has called a rare nationwide meeting.
Māori leaders and others are expected to attend a rare national meeting due to concerns about the new government’s policies on indigenous rights
Eva Corlett in Wellington
@evacorlett
Thu 18 Jan 2024 19.48 EST
An estimated 3,000 Māori leaders, tribal representatives and a number of politicians are expected to meet this week, after the Kiingitanga* – the Māori king movement – called for a rare national meeting amid simmering tensions over the new National-led government’s direction for Māori.
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The coalition government – led by National’s Christopher Luxon and with the populist New Zealand First leader, Winston Peters, and Act party libertarian David Seymour sharing the deputy prime minister role – has announced at least a dozen policies that provide for Māori will be repealed or reviewed. This includes rolling back initiatives designed to improve Māori health outcomes, stopping “race-based” policies, and minimising Māori language use in the public service.
The government has said it will review the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, or Treaty of Waitangi, which upholds Māori rights, including the right to autonomy – a move some critics have called a “modern day confiscation of treaty rights” and part of a wider “anti-Māori” policy direction.
Since the government came into power, multiple iwi have filed urgent claims against the government’s policies in the Waitangi Tribunal – a commission of inquiry for claims brought by Māori against the Crown.
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New Zealand's right wing govt: New Zealand's Māori king has called a rare nationwide meeting.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/19/new-zealand-maori-king-nationwide-meeting-rare-why-news-details-indigenous-rightsNew Zealand’s Māori king has called a rare nationwide meeting.
Māori leaders and others are expected to attend a rare national meeting due to concerns about the new government’s policies on indigenous rights
Eva Corlett in Wellington
@evacorlett
Thu 18 Jan 2024 19.48 EST
An estimated 3,000 Māori leaders, tribal representatives and a number of politicians are expected to meet this week, after the Kiingitanga* – the Māori king movement – called for a rare national meeting amid simmering tensions over the new National-led government’s direction for Māori.
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The coalition government – led by National’s Christopher Luxon and with the populist New Zealand First leader, Winston Peters, and Act party libertarian David Seymour sharing the deputy prime minister role – has announced at least a dozen policies that provide for Māori will be repealed or reviewed. This includes rolling back initiatives designed to improve Māori health outcomes, stopping “race-based” policies, and minimising Māori language use in the public service.
The government has said it will review the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, or Treaty of Waitangi, which upholds Māori rights, including the right to autonomy – a move some critics have called a “modern day confiscation of treaty rights” and part of a wider “anti-Māori” policy direction.
Since the government came into power, multiple iwi have filed urgent claims against the government’s policies in the Waitangi Tribunal – a commission of inquiry for claims brought by Māori against the Crown.
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January 19, 2024
Bill to ban child marriage gets unanimous support in Washington House, moves to Senate
Jan. 8, 2024 Updated Mon., Jan. 8, 2024 at 9:43 p.m.
Today, children of any age can get married in the state. If they’re 17, they need parental consent. If they’re younger than that, they need approval from a judge. State law currently says a judge may grant permission for a child younger than 17 to get married “out of necessity.” But the law doesn’t outline what that so-called necessity looks like.
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Young people who are married before they are legal adults do not have access to the full range of legal services, counseling, therapy, financial support they might need, if they were in a coercive or abusive relationship,” Stonier said. “Especially in a marriage where they’re legally bound.”
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In the United States, child marriage remains legal in roughly 40 states. Nearly 300,000 children were legally married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2018, according to a study by Unchained At Last, a nonprofit organization that advocates against child marriage.
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Also in the United States, immigration law does not specify a minimum age to petition for a foreign spouse or fiancé to be the beneficiary of a spousal or engagement visa. This allows for children around the world to be “trafficked into the U.S. under the guise of marriage,” according to the study. “The U.S. approved nearly 9,000 petitions involving a minor between 2007 and 2017, and in 95% of them, the younger party was a girl.”
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Bill to ban child marriage gets unanimous support in Washington House, moves to Senate
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/jan/08/bill-to-ban-child-marriage-gets-unanimous-support-/Bill to ban child marriage gets unanimous support in Washington House, moves to Senate
Jan. 8, 2024 Updated Mon., Jan. 8, 2024 at 9:43 p.m.
Today, children of any age can get married in the state. If they’re 17, they need parental consent. If they’re younger than that, they need approval from a judge. State law currently says a judge may grant permission for a child younger than 17 to get married “out of necessity.” But the law doesn’t outline what that so-called necessity looks like.
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Young people who are married before they are legal adults do not have access to the full range of legal services, counseling, therapy, financial support they might need, if they were in a coercive or abusive relationship,” Stonier said. “Especially in a marriage where they’re legally bound.”
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In the United States, child marriage remains legal in roughly 40 states. Nearly 300,000 children were legally married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2018, according to a study by Unchained At Last, a nonprofit organization that advocates against child marriage.
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Also in the United States, immigration law does not specify a minimum age to petition for a foreign spouse or fiancé to be the beneficiary of a spousal or engagement visa. This allows for children around the world to be “trafficked into the U.S. under the guise of marriage,” according to the study. “The U.S. approved nearly 9,000 petitions involving a minor between 2007 and 2017, and in 95% of them, the younger party was a girl.”
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January 17, 2024
Google promised to delete location data on abortion clinic visits. It didn’t, study says
Tech giant said it would delete entries for locations deemed ‘personal’ or sensitive, but 18 months later, it’s still retaining data in some cases
Johana Bhuiyan
Wed 17 Jan 2024 11.01 EST
A year and a half has passed since Google first pledged to delete all location data on users’ visits to abortion clinics with minimal progress. The move would have made it harder for law enforcement to use that information to investigate or prosecute people seeking abortions in states where the procedure has been banned or otherwise limited. Now, a new study shows Google still retains location history data in 50% of cases.
Google’s original promise, made in July 2022, came shortly after the supreme court’s decision to end federal abortion protections. The tech giant said it would delete entries for locations deemed “personal” or sensitive, including “medical facilities like counseling centers, domestic violence shelters, and abortion clinics”. It did not provide a timeline for when the company would implement the new policy. Five months after that pledge, research first reported by the Guardian and conducted by tech advocacy group Accountable Tech in November 2022 showed that Google was still not masking that location data in all cases.
At the time, Google said it prioritized user privacy and that it had implemented the changes to its location retention policies in early 2022 “as promised” but that the system must not have detected that the user had visited a Planned Parenthood clinic in some of the cases.
In its newest study, which the Guardian reviewed exclusively, Accountable Tech found that the company still wasn’t deleting location history in all cases as promised, though Google’s rate of retention improved slightly. The rate of retention of location information decreased from 60% of tested cases, a measurement taken five months after Google’s pledge, to 50% of tested cases in the most recent experiment. The director of product of Google Maps, Marlo McGriff, disputed the findings of the study.
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Google promised to delete location data on abortion clinic visits. It didn't, study says
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/16/google-keeps-location-history-data-abortion-clinics-despite-delete-pledgeGoogle promised to delete location data on abortion clinic visits. It didn’t, study says
Tech giant said it would delete entries for locations deemed ‘personal’ or sensitive, but 18 months later, it’s still retaining data in some cases
Johana Bhuiyan
Wed 17 Jan 2024 11.01 EST
A year and a half has passed since Google first pledged to delete all location data on users’ visits to abortion clinics with minimal progress. The move would have made it harder for law enforcement to use that information to investigate or prosecute people seeking abortions in states where the procedure has been banned or otherwise limited. Now, a new study shows Google still retains location history data in 50% of cases.
Google’s original promise, made in July 2022, came shortly after the supreme court’s decision to end federal abortion protections. The tech giant said it would delete entries for locations deemed “personal” or sensitive, including “medical facilities like counseling centers, domestic violence shelters, and abortion clinics”. It did not provide a timeline for when the company would implement the new policy. Five months after that pledge, research first reported by the Guardian and conducted by tech advocacy group Accountable Tech in November 2022 showed that Google was still not masking that location data in all cases.
At the time, Google said it prioritized user privacy and that it had implemented the changes to its location retention policies in early 2022 “as promised” but that the system must not have detected that the user had visited a Planned Parenthood clinic in some of the cases.
In its newest study, which the Guardian reviewed exclusively, Accountable Tech found that the company still wasn’t deleting location history in all cases as promised, though Google’s rate of retention improved slightly. The rate of retention of location information decreased from 60% of tested cases, a measurement taken five months after Google’s pledge, to 50% of tested cases in the most recent experiment. The director of product of Google Maps, Marlo McGriff, disputed the findings of the study.
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January 16, 2024
Group of 27 Shell investors co-file new climate resolution
By Ron Bousso
January 15, 20241:32 PM PSTUpdated 18 hours ago
LONDON, Jan 15 (Reuters)
A group of 27 investors that own around 5% of Shell's (SHEL.L) shares has co-filed an independent resolution urging the energy company to set tighter climate targets, the biggest such drive to date.
The resolution, led by activist shareholder Follow This, will be brought to a vote at Shell's annual general meeting later this year.
The effort to ratchet up pressure on Shell's climate strategy comes as CEO Wael Sawan seeks to boost the company's profits, partly by slowing down investments in renewables and growing fossil fuel production.
The group of investors, which collectively hold around $4 trillion under management, include Amundi, Scottish Widows, Rathbones Group and Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management, Follow This said in a statement.
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Group of 27 Shell investors co-file new climate resolution
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/group-27-shell-investors-co-file-new-climate-resolution-2024-01-15/Group of 27 Shell investors co-file new climate resolution
By Ron Bousso
January 15, 20241:32 PM PSTUpdated 18 hours ago
LONDON, Jan 15 (Reuters)
A group of 27 investors that own around 5% of Shell's (SHEL.L) shares has co-filed an independent resolution urging the energy company to set tighter climate targets, the biggest such drive to date.
The resolution, led by activist shareholder Follow This, will be brought to a vote at Shell's annual general meeting later this year.
The effort to ratchet up pressure on Shell's climate strategy comes as CEO Wael Sawan seeks to boost the company's profits, partly by slowing down investments in renewables and growing fossil fuel production.
The group of investors, which collectively hold around $4 trillion under management, include Amundi, Scottish Widows, Rathbones Group and Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management, Follow This said in a statement.
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January 15, 2024
Nina Simone/I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
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Odetta/one man’s hands
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In honor of Dr. MLK jr. day, starter song list. Yours?
Richie Havens/freedom
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Nina Simone/I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
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Odetta/one man’s hands
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January 13, 2024
Israel: teacher held in solitary confinement for posting concern about Gaza deaths
Meir Baruchin, who was fired and jailed for criticising the military, says that many who agree with him are afraid to go public
Emma Graham-Harrison and Quique Kierszenbaum in Jerusalem
Sat 13 Jan 2024 10.42 EST
An unlikely charge of intent to commit treason landed Meir Baruchin, a grey-haired, softly spoken history and civics teacher, in the solitary confinement wing of Jerusalem’s notorious “Russian Compound” prison in early November.
The evidence compiled by police who handcuffed him, then drove to his apartment and ransacked it as he watched, was a series of Facebook posts he’d made, mourning the civilians killed in Gaza, criticising the Israeli military, and warning against wars of revenge.
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“Most Israelis don’t know much about Palestinians. They think they are terrorists, all of them, or vague images with no names, no faces, no family, no homes, no hopes,” Baruchin said. “What I am trying to do in my posts is present Palestinians as human beings.”
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“The message is crystal clear: keep silent, watch out,” he says, adding that they strengthened his own conviction about speaking out. “I thought to myself, when I retire, I might conclude this is the most significant lesson I ever gave in civics.”
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“I was not allowed a book, TV or anything. The wardens were not allowed to talk to me and there were no windows, so I didn’t know daytime from night-time. My watch was taken away.
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Israel: teacher held in solitary confinement for posting concern about Gaza deaths
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/13/it-is-a-time-of-witch-hunts-in-israel-teacher-held-in-solitary-confinement-for-posting-concern-about-gaza-deathsIsrael: teacher held in solitary confinement for posting concern about Gaza deaths
Meir Baruchin, who was fired and jailed for criticising the military, says that many who agree with him are afraid to go public
Emma Graham-Harrison and Quique Kierszenbaum in Jerusalem
Sat 13 Jan 2024 10.42 EST
An unlikely charge of intent to commit treason landed Meir Baruchin, a grey-haired, softly spoken history and civics teacher, in the solitary confinement wing of Jerusalem’s notorious “Russian Compound” prison in early November.
The evidence compiled by police who handcuffed him, then drove to his apartment and ransacked it as he watched, was a series of Facebook posts he’d made, mourning the civilians killed in Gaza, criticising the Israeli military, and warning against wars of revenge.
…
“Most Israelis don’t know much about Palestinians. They think they are terrorists, all of them, or vague images with no names, no faces, no family, no homes, no hopes,” Baruchin said. “What I am trying to do in my posts is present Palestinians as human beings.”
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“The message is crystal clear: keep silent, watch out,” he says, adding that they strengthened his own conviction about speaking out. “I thought to myself, when I retire, I might conclude this is the most significant lesson I ever gave in civics.”
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“I was not allowed a book, TV or anything. The wardens were not allowed to talk to me and there were no windows, so I didn’t know daytime from night-time. My watch was taken away.
…more…
January 13, 2024
Microsoft lets cloud users keep personal data within Europe to ease privacy fears
Jan 11, 2024
LONDON (AP) — Microsoft said Thursday that it is upgrading its cloud computing service to let customers store all personal data within the European Union instead of having it flow to the U.S. where national privacy laws don't exist.
The changes apply to services including Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and Dynamics 365, the Seattle-based tech company said.
Cloud computing companies have been moving to localize data storage and processing amid tightening requirements in the 27-nation European Union, which has strict data privacy laws.
Brussels and Washington have spent years wrangling over the safety of EU citizens’ data that tech companies store in the U.S. following revelations by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that the American government eavesdropped on people’s online data and communications.
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Microsoft lets cloud users keep personal data within Europe to ease privacy fears
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/world/article/microsoft-lets-cloud-users-keep-personal-data-18602253.phpMicrosoft lets cloud users keep personal data within Europe to ease privacy fears
Jan 11, 2024
LONDON (AP) — Microsoft said Thursday that it is upgrading its cloud computing service to let customers store all personal data within the European Union instead of having it flow to the U.S. where national privacy laws don't exist.
The changes apply to services including Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and Dynamics 365, the Seattle-based tech company said.
Cloud computing companies have been moving to localize data storage and processing amid tightening requirements in the 27-nation European Union, which has strict data privacy laws.
Brussels and Washington have spent years wrangling over the safety of EU citizens’ data that tech companies store in the U.S. following revelations by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that the American government eavesdropped on people’s online data and communications.
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