Business Insider: Western tech majors tested or used controversial Russian face recognition program.

According to a report published last week by US publication Business Insider, a range of western tech firms are users of FindFace, a controversial face recognition technology developed by Russian startup NtechLab, reports Adrien Henni for East West Digital News.

FindFace matches faces against social media accounts, regardless of privacy rights, among other facial recognition capabilities. Its approach is similar to that developed by US startup Clearview AI, which wasrecently fined in the UK for illegally creating a face recognition database.  

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🇦🇲💥🇦🇿 Fighting resumes in Nagorno-Karabakh, between Armenia and Azerbaijan

Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan blamed the Azerbaijani side during a meeting with Andrzej Kasprzyk, head of a small OSCE mission monitoring the ceasefire regime in Karabakh. Mirzoyan said Baku attempts to "destabilise the situation".

The Karabakh foreign ministry condemned the "new wave of Azerbaijan's aggressive actions against Artsakh [the Armenian name for Karabakh]".

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🇷🇺🇵🇱⚡The main thing from the statement of the press bureau of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service:

▪️Poland is preparing to establish control over the most promising sectors of the Ukrainian economy;
▪️Ukrainian authorities, in fact, have already begun to sell their sectors of the economy to Poland;
▪️Polish companies are buying grain from Ukraine at low prices, dooming Ukrainian enterprises to bankruptcy.

🇵🇱 Polish takeover of a rump-state Ukraine… I toada so!

🇷🇺🇷🇸⚡A Russian military base will appear in Europe

Russian Ambassador in Belgrade Alexander Botsan-Kharchenkov said that a Russian military base would be set up in Serbia.

He stressed that this decision is a sovereign affair of the republic and Russia itself.

🇲🇩🇷🇺 Moldova is now facing regular bomb threats and other provocations from the Russian occupation regime in Tiraspol and Russian occupier soldiers as it is the prelude to war according to the Moldovan side.

In the event of any Russian escalations this will make reunification with Romania almost inevitable as Maia Sandu has said that she would turn to Romania for security help in the event of attacks and any Romanian government would face the public pressure to accept.

Moldova is already buying gas from Romania and increasingly integrating with the Romanian energy grid as it is.

🇨🇳 China apparently testing fish for Covid now… wtf is happening?

🇵🇱🇲🇩🇺🇦🇷🇺 Landbridge from Transnistria through Odessa to Russia is inevitable.

If Ukraine attacks Crimea, specifically the Crimea Bridge, I expect Kiev to get flattened

I expect the rump state of Ukraine that is left in a few years will be administered by Poland, if not a defacto annexed vassal state at best.

Manufactured News Segment? Manipulated Child?
Watch as the mother mouths the exact lines her child is saying during the interview… did the kid have to memorize a literal noscript word for word?

WTF is with the army of cryptobots being overtaken by the army of ‘Lady Dianna’ bots on telegram recently?

🇺🇦Ukraine becomes the poorest country in Europe again…

Wages in Ukraine decreased to UAH14,577 per month in January from UAH17,453 in December of 2021, according to the National Bank of Ukraine's most recent data available.

Wages in Ukraine had been rising faster than those in Russia in recent years, but quite apart from the problems that a war with Russia has caused business, the devaluation of the hryvnia in the last months has once again made Ukraine the poorest country in Europe, with wages US$150 lower than those in Moldova

🇺🇦Residents of eastern Europe are very conscious of the dollar value of their income, as most people with savings keep a significant proportion in foreign exchange to protect it from the persistent currency volatility.

Devaluations also send the cost of widespread imports soaring.

Ukrainian have suffered from very similar problems, as the country is running out of money and the central bank has been unable to hold up the value of the hryvnia.

The situation has been made worse by the approximately 4 million refugees living in other European countries that have been withdrawing foreign exchange using bank cards to pay for their lives outside Ukraine, in effect fuelling capital flight.

Ask the Houthis how they are doing.

I don’t hear you crying about them. Yet you expect people to care about soldiers who put rocket silos in schools

WEF | Davos Agenda 2022
Pekka Lundmark, President and CEO of Nokia on the future of 'smartphones':

"I was talking about 6G earlier which is around 2030, I would say that by then definitely the smartphone as we know it today will not be able to use the most common interface. Many of these will be built directly into our bodies; holograms will be very high quality in the era of 6G..."

Bunch of nerds with a god complex... what could possibly go wrong? 🤪

@TheGreatResetTimes

“the coronavirus was artificially created and is very likely to have been created using American advances in biotechnology” - Jeffrey Sachs May 2022
leading expert in the respected medical journal ‘The Lancet’ & professor at Columbia University, the leading academic institution for global biosecurity

🇺🇲🇹🇼⚡The United States does not support Taiwan's move towards independence.

Pentagon

🇹🇼 Taiwan as we call it in the west, officially the Republic of China (ROC)is a country. The territories controlled by the ROC consist of 168 islands. The main island of Taiwan, is where its highly urbanised population is concentrated.
The capital, Taipei, forms along with New Taipei City and Keelung the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. With around 23.9 million inhabitants, Taiwan is among the most densely populated countries in the world.

Taiwan has been settled for at least 25,000 years. Ancestors of Taiwanese indigenous peoples settled the island around 6,000 years ago.

In the 17th century, large-scale Han Chinese immigration to western Taiwan began under a Dutch colony and continued under the Kingdom of Tungning. The island was annexed in 1683 by the Qing dynasty of China, and ceded to the Empire of Japan in 1895. The Republic of China, which had overthrown the Qing in 1911, took control of Taiwan while allied with the “Allies” of World War II following the surrender of Japan in 1945.

The resumption of the Chinese Civil War resulted in the ROC's loss of mainland China to forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and consequent retreat to Taiwan in 1949.

Its effective jurisdiction has since been limited to Taiwan and smaller islands. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the ROC transitioned from a one-party military dictatorship to a multi-party democracy with a semi-presidential system.

Taiwan is a developed country, ranking 20th on GDP per capita. It is ranked highly in terms of civil liberties,healthcare, and human development.

💥The political status of Taiwan is contentious.The ROC no longer represents China as a member of the United Nations, after UN members voted in 1971 to recognize the PRC instead.💥

The ROC has maintained its claim of being the sole legitimate representative of China and its territory, although this has been downplayed since its democratization in the 1990s. Taiwan is claimed by the CCPs PRC, which refuses diplomatic relations with countries that recognise the ROC.

🇹🇼 Tawain isn’t “moving towards independence”.
Taiwan is and has been independent.
The “People’s Republic of China” 🇨🇳 has NEVER had any position in or control of Taiwan.

Fucking stupid games the west plays, hypocrites