Category: Singapore

Apple is sticking taxpayers with part of the bill for rollout of tech giant’s digital ID card

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Apple is sticking taxpayers with part of the bill for rollout of tech giant’s digital ID card

The agreement, obtained through public record requests from CNBC and other sources, mostly portrays Apple as having a high degree of control over the government agencies responsible for issuing identification cards.

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Apple has “sole discretion” for key aspects of the program, including what types of devices will be compatible with the digital IDs, how states are required to report on the performance of the effort, and when the program is launched, according to the documents. Apple even gets to review and approve the marketing that states are required to do.

Laos: From Landlocked to High-Speed Rail-Linked

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

October 19, 2021 (Brian Berletic – NEO) – For anyone who travelled through the rugged landlocked Southeast Asian country of Laos years ago, they will remember the twisting mountain roads and the many days by bus it would take to traverse the terrain from China’s border with Laos at Boten to the Laotian capital of Vietniane across the Mekong River from Thailand’s city of Nong Khai.

Laos: From Landlocked to High-Speed Rail-Linked

British propaganda campaign incited mass slaughter of communists in Indonesia in 1960s, declassified papers reveal

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

RT | October 17, 2021

British spies played a part in the mass murder of Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) members in the 1960s, urging locals, including army generals, to “cut out” the “communist cancer,” declassified papers have revealed.

British propaganda campaign incited mass slaughter of communists in Indonesia in 1960s, declassified papers reveal

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No, The US Didn’t ‘Stand By’ Indonesian Genocide—It Actively Participated

World Economic Forum makes censorship pledge to “tackle harmful content and conduct online”

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

By Tom Parker | Reclaim the Net | June 29, 2021

The World Economic Forum, an international group that works to “shape global, regional and industry agendas,” has formed a new “Global Coalition for Digital Safety” that’s made up of Big Tech executives and government officials and intends to come up with new “innovations” to police “harmful content and conduct online.”

World Economic Forum makes censorship pledge to “tackle harmful content and conduct online”