Professor accused of selling secrets to China sues the U.S. government

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Temple Prof Seeks Reinstatement of Damage Claims Against FBI

A Temple University physicist who was charged with sharing scientific technology with China only for the case to collapse before trial and be dismissed by the Justice Department is asking a federal appeals court to reinstate his claims for damages against the FBI agent who investigated him.

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FILE – An American flag flies outside the Department of Justice in Washington, March 22, 2019. A Temple University physicist who was charged with sharing scientific technology with China only for the case to collapse before trial and be dismissed by the Justice Department is asking a federal appeals court to reinstate his lawsuit against the FBI agent who investigated him. Lawyers for Xiaoxing Xi and his wife say in a brief filed Monday with a Philadelphia-based appeals court that a judge erred last year when he dismissed their claims for damages. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Temple University physics professor who was charged with sharing scientific technology with China only for the case to collapse before trial and be dismissed by the Justice Department asked a federal appeals court on Monday to reinstate his clams for damages against the U.S. government.

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Sửa đổi Luật Điện lực: Có còn độc quyền trong truyền tải điện?

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Sáng 4/1, tại kỳ họp bất thường Quốc hội XV, Bộ trưởng Tư pháp Lê Thành Long đăng đàn báo cáo về việc sửa đổi, bổ sung 8 luật hiện hành.

Cụ thể, theo Bộ trưởng Tư pháp Lê Thành Long, dự án Luật sửa đổi, bổ sung một số quy định của 8 luật gồm: Luật Đầu tư công, Luật Đầu tư theo phương thức đối tác công tư, Luật Đầu tư, Luật Đấu thầu, Luật Điện lực, Luật Doanh nghiệp, Luật Thuế tiêu thụ đặc biệt và Luật Thi hành án dân sự.

Trong đó, việc sửa đổi, bổ sung một số điều của các bộ luật liên quan tới các mảng kinh tế được đặc biệt quan tâm. Điển hình, về Luật Điện lực, ông Long cho hay, Điều 5 dự thảo Luật đã sửa đổi, bổ sung khoản 2 Điều 4 Luật Điện lực theo hướng quy định nhà nước độc quyền trong “vận hành lưới điện truyền tải, trừ lưới điện do các thành phần kinh tế ngoài nhà nước đầu tư xây dựng”.

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Pandemic Only 1 of America’s Security Concerns

Rumors have spread that China may be conducting nuclear tests in violation of zero-yield global agreements. Pictured: A security guard wears a face mask in Skidrow during the coronavirus pandemic on April 20 in Los Angeles, California. COVID-19 has spread to most countries around the world, claiming over 169,000 lives and infecting over 2.4 million people. (Photo: Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images/Getty Images)

 

The world was a dangerous place before—and will be after—the coronavirus pandemic.

While Americans debate the proper ongoing response to the virus and argue over the infection’s origins, nature, and trajectory, they may have tuned out other, often just as scary, news.

Many Americans are irate at China for its dishonest and lethal suppression of knowledge about the viral outbreak. But they may forget that China has other huge problems, too. Tiếp tục đọc “Pandemic Only 1 of America’s Security Concerns”

Facebook agreed to censor posts after Vietnam slowed traffic, say sources

 

Wednesday, 22 Apr 2020 12:45 AM MYT By James Pearson, The Star

FILE PHOTO An internet user browses through the Vietnamese governments new Facebook page in Hanoi Vietnam December 30 2015. REUTERSKhamFile Photo

An Internet user browses through the Vietnamese government’s Facebook page in Hanoi, Vietnam. In an emailed statement, Facebook confirmed it had reluctantly complied with the government’s request to ‘restrict access to content which it has deemed to be illegal’. — Reuters

HANOI: Facebook’s local servers in Vietnam were taken offline early this year, slowing local traffic to a crawl until it agreed to significantly increase the censorship of “anti-state” posts for local users, two sources at the company told Reuters on April 21.

The restrictions, which the sources said were carried out by state-owned telecommunications companies, knocked the servers offline for around seven weeks, meaning the website became unusable at times. Tiếp tục đọc “Facebook agreed to censor posts after Vietnam slowed traffic, say sources”

Nghị định 15/2020/NĐ-CP: Chia sẻ thông tin giả mạo, sai sự thật trên mạng xã hội bị phạt đến 20 triệu đồng

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Ngày 03 tháng 02 năm 2020, Chính phủ đã ban hành Nghị định số 15/2020/NĐ-CP quy định xử phạt vi phạm hành chính trong lĩnh vực bưu chính, viễn thông, tần số vô tuyến điện, công nghệ thông tin và giao dịch điện tử.

Nghị định số 15/2020/NĐ-CP quy định hành vi vi phạm hành chính, hình thức xử phạt, mức xử phạt, biện pháp khắc phục hậu quả, thẩm quyền lập biên bản và thẩm quyền xử phạt vi phạm hành chính trong các lĩnh vực: Bưu chính, viễn thông, tần số vô tuyến điện, công nghệ thông tin (gồm phát triển công nghiệp công nghệ thông tin; đầu tư, mua sắm; an toàn thông tin mạng; chống thư rác, tin nhắn rác; mạng xã hội, trang thông tin điện tử, trò chơi điện tử trên mạng, trò chơi điện tử công cộng) và giao dịch điện tử. Tiếp tục đọc “Nghị định 15/2020/NĐ-CP: Chia sẻ thông tin giả mạo, sai sự thật trên mạng xã hội bị phạt đến 20 triệu đồng”

Family of retired Sydney baker jailed in Vietnam say Australia needs to do more

As Chau Van Kham, a member of a banned pro-democracy group, prepares for his final appeal, his son fears he will die jail

Sydney man Chau Van Kham, left, is escorted into a court room in Vietnam
 Sydney man Chau Van Kham, left, is taken into court in Vietnam where he was sentenced to 12 years in jail for involvement with pro-democracy group Viet Tan. Photograph: Nguyen Thanh Chung/AP

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Trung Quốc dùng sông Mêkông làm công cụ bành trướng tại Đông Nam Á

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mediaCảnh sát võ trang Trung Quốc chuẩn bị chuyến tuần tra chung đầu tiên trên sông Mêkông, cảng Quan Lũy, Vân Nam. Ảnh tư liệu ngày 09/12/2011REUTERS

Nhật Bản và 5 nước khu vực sông Mêkông (Việt Nam, Cam Bốt, Lào, Thái Lan, Miến Điện) ngày 09/10/2018 đã họp thượng đỉnh tại Tokyo để thúc đẩy một chính sách mới nhằm phát triển toàn vùng theo hướng kết nối khu vực, lấy trọng tâm là cư dân bên sông và bảo vệ môi trường. Dù không nói ra, nhưng đề án do Tokyo chủ trì là một nỗ lực nhằm hạn chế đà bành trướng của Trung Quốc trên vùng lục địa Đông Nam Á. Đài phát thanh Mỹ NPR ngày 06/10/2018 vừa qua đã có một bài phân tích chi tiết về điều được gọi là « Trung Quốc định hình lại sông Mêkông để tăng cường đà bành trướng – China Reshapes The Vital Mekong River To Power Its Expansion ». Tiếp tục đọc “Trung Quốc dùng sông Mêkông làm công cụ bành trướng tại Đông Nam Á”

Vietnam arrests seven ‘terrorists’ over bombing of police station

Vietnam makes arrests for bombing of police station. PHOTO: AFP.
Vietnam makes arrests for bombing of police station. PHOTO: AFP.

JULY 5, 2018 / 5:09 PM / Reuters Staff

HANOI (Reuters) – Police in Vietnam have arrested seven people over the “terrorist” bombing of a police station in Ho Chi Minh City last month that injured three people, police said on Thursday.

The incident, in which two small explosive devices were detonated, followed protests by thousands of people in several cities against government plans to lease new economic zones to foreign investors.

“This is a terrorist case against the people’s government,” Ho Chi Minh City police said in a statement on their official website. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam arrests seven ‘terrorists’ over bombing of police station”

The Facial Recognition Technology Genie Is Out of the Bottle

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The potential for misuse of facial recognition technology is real, but its power may be too great for many to ignore.

Brian Buntz | May 30, 2018

The ACLU is worried about a Kafka-esque near future where police and other government agencies harness the power of facial recognition technologyto identify undocumented migrants, minority activists or individuals joining public protests. As such, the organization is demanding that online retail giant Amazon stop selling “dangerous” face recognition technology to law enforcement, which could potentially help police identify individuals from footage gathered from a variety of sources, including surveillance cameras in public and retail establishments, as well as from police body cameras.

US seeks further cooperation with Vietnam in defence industry

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US Defence Minister James Mattis urged Vietnam and the US to enhance cooperation in defence industry and consider signing suitable documents to create a foundation for the collaboration.

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US Defence Minister James Mattis and Vietnamese Defence Minister General Ngo Xuan Lich (Source: qdnd.vn)

He made the proposals at a meeting with Vietnamese Defence Minister General Ngo Xuan Lich on the sidelines of the 17th Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on June 1.

The US is taking into account the transfer of jet trainers and other equipment to Vietnam, the US officer said.

He used the occasion to thank Vietnam for hosting aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in the central city of Da Nang last March. Tiếp tục đọc “US seeks further cooperation with Vietnam in defence industry”

Cambridge Analytica controversy must spur researchers to update data ethics

A scandal over an academic’s use of Facebook data highlights the need for research scrutiny.
Revelations keep emerging in the Cambridge Analytica personal-data scandal, which has captured global public attention for more than a week. But when the dust settles, researchers harvesting data online will face greater scrutiny. And so they should.

At the centre of the controversy is Aleksandr Kogan, a psychologist and neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge, UK. In 2014, he recruited people to complete a number of surveys and sign up to an app that handed over Facebook information on themselves — and tens of millions of Facebook friends. Kogan passed the data to SCL, a UK firm that later founded controversial political-consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica in London. (All those involved deny any wrongdoing.) Tiếp tục đọc “Cambridge Analytica controversy must spur researchers to update data ethics”

The ethics of catching criminals using their family’s DNA

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A high-profile arrest in California shows how the long arm of the law can now extend into DNA databases to check for relatives.
Authorities search the home of a suspected killer

The use of ancestral DNA data to track a suspected murderer raises some troubling ethical questions.Credit: Rich Pedroncelli/AP/REX/Shutterstock

Last week’s arrest of a suspect in the Golden State Killer case in California has highlighted how DNA samples that have been volunteered for one purpose — in this case, genealogy — can be used for other reasons, often without the donor’s explicit consent. Several ethicists have expressed concern about US detectives using a genealogy website in this way. Coming so soon after the reuse of Facebook data in political campaigns in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, it’s another example of how new technology and techniques lead to unexpected conundrums, and how ethical and societal debate must catch up. Tiếp tục đọc “The ethics of catching criminals using their family’s DNA”

How do we control dangerous biological research?

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