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Putin signs law banning cell phone use in class
Putin signs law banning cell phone use in classThe Media in 4-4-2 - Dec 21, 2023
The Russian Duma validates a crucial educational amendment, ending the use of smartphones in schools from December 2024.
In schools these days, the image of students absorbed in their phones has become the norm, whether they are young people or teenagers. However, Russia has just made a radical change: the ban on smartphones in primary and secondary schools.
The Duma approved an amendment to the “education law”, imposing a strict ban on communication tools, including smartphones, within educational establishments. This modification will officially come into force on December 1, 2024, marking a radical turning point in the country's educational policies.
The document was published on the official legal information portal.
In accordance with this regulation, the use of mobile phones will be strictly reserved for educational purposes or in cases of emergency. Last year, Russia already banned the use of cell phones in classrooms in primary and secondary schools, a measure aimed at preventing student distraction and maintaining their concentration on lesson content.
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Smartphone: The facts about “Geofencing”
Smartphone: The facts about “Geofencing”Digital Dawn - Nov 01, 2023
As worshipers gathered at Calvary Chapel in 2020, they were watched from above.
Satellites have spotted cellphones belonging to members of the nondenominational Protestant church in San Jose, California. Their location was eventually passed to a private company, which then sold the information to Santa Clara County government. This data, along with observations from law enforcement officers on the ground, was used to levy heavy fines on the church for violating COVID-19 restrictions on public gatherings.
“Every Sunday,” Calvary associate pastor Carson Atherly would later testify, “the officers served me with a notice of violation during or after the church service.”
Calvary is suing the county over its use of location data, a controversial tool increasingly used by governments at all levels – including in connection with the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. While allowing law enforcement order to more easily identify potential offenders, the practice, called "geofegging," has also emerged as a cutting-edge privacy issue, raising constitutional issues involving warrantless searches and, with the Calvary Chapel, religious freedom.
“We are between the emergence of this technological practice and the moment when the courts have ruled on its constitutionality,” said Alex Marthews, national president of Restore the 4th, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the Fourth Amendment, which protects the rights of Americans against “unreasonable searches and seizures.”
“Geofencing” often begins with an innocent click. Smartphone applications ask if it is possible to access geolocation in order to improve the service. When users answer yes, they often don't realize that the apps that help them drive, cook, or pray are likely to sell their information to far-off entities for profit. This information, along with other intelligence detailing people's behaviors and preferences, is valuable to businesses trying to target customers. According to Grand View Research, the global location-based market was estimated at $16 billion last year.
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Reincarnating the fight
Reincarnating the fightInternational Network - Oct 28, 2023
The images of President Macron massively booed, whistled like never before, at the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup on September 8, are edifying in that they bluntly reveal the absurdity of a system called " democratic”, where the people are required to submit to a manifestly illegitimate power under the media pretext that their representative would have been “(re)elected”. By whom and how, the mystery remains.
Let us remember: on March 12, 2020, Mr. Macron announced the end of our fundamental freedoms of movement and assembly with the sentencing of an entire population to house arrest due to the circulation of a little-known respiratory virus, stopping the epidemic movement of Yellow Vests who were then banned from the streets.
From collective punishment to targeted repression for offenses of opinion, the people of France tasted even more of the totalitarian pleasures of a regime that only the historical privilege of “progress” separates from the banana republic. In the name of state health, it was the security ideology of zero risk that had to prevail, crushing in the process any critical requirement in favor of human dignity: the world was masked, confined, stung, ridiculously subjected to its masters wizards.
If the smartphone is the opium of the people – monopolizing hands and attention from a very young age – this period of liberticidal crisis will have enabled our leaders to ensure an accelerated virtualization of the world and human relationships, where the Teleworking became the norm, and telecombat a sad inevitability for the resistance fighters in yellow vests, thrown into a new society: that of hypercontrol and omnisurveillance.
What this authority fears above all is the independence of its citizens. The productive independence of craftsmen and small entrepreneurs, which multiple taxes and successive confinements must have brought to an end; and independence of thought, which the colonized media – promoters of commercial stupidity and cultural mediocrity – would end up criminalizing.
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Your phone is a spy for the authorities
Your phone is a spy for the authoritiesEel under the Rock - Jul 13, 2023
Smartphone and privacy, an oxymoron in the era of mass surveillance? Yes, according to a Comparitech report.
You may think of your phone as a tool for communication, entertainment and productivity, but it's also a gateway for authorities to spy on you. Indeed, France is not the only country to have passed a law allowing the police to take remote control of suspects' devices, with access to cameras, microphones and GPS data.
The French Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, welcomed the adoption of new legislation authorizing this type of espionage for a maximum period of six months, with the authorization of a judge, in cases where the penalties incurred are at least five years old. "We are a long way from the totalitarianism of 1984," he added. "Human lives will be saved."
Obviously, the fact that a police or government agent could hack into your phone and casually observe a live stream of your life sounds like the most obscene invasion of privacy. And clearly, this opens the door to occasional abuses of civil liberties by those in positions of power, as well as more targeted abuses of that power by actors in bad faith.
But this practice is far from new, let alone rare. In 2006, before the release of the first iPhone, the US FBI remotely activated cellphone microphones (even with the phones turned off) and listened to suspects, completely legally. Back then, you could still remove the batteries from many phones. Now not so much.
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Justice law: how the police will spy on your phone
Eel under the Rock - Jul 10, 2023
Despite the fears expressed, the National Assembly has just authorized the possibility of transforming smartphones into “snitches” within the framework of certain legal investigations.
Being able to remotely activate a smartphone, laptop or any connected object in order to see and hear their owners is no longer a dystopia. After the Senate, it is the turn of the National Assembly to approve the possibility of remotely activating the cameras and microphones of these everyday devices.
The goal is to be able to listen to and film people targeted in organized crime and terrorism investigations. This is a key article of the justice programming bill.
While some see this as a serious breach of users' privacy and privacy, these measures should only be taken in very specific cases. In order, precisely, to avoid any overflow. This key article brought 80 deputies in agreement while 24 elected officials said they were against.
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Call for the demartphonization of society
Call for the demartphonization of societyThe Age of Doing - June 23, 2023
First published in the daily L'Humanité, this forum, of which L'âge de faire is a stakeholder, calls for the abandonment of the smartphone and demands that the government allow everyone to live without a connected prosthesis. .
Appearing only about fifteen years ago, the smartphone has become incredibly quickly a central object of our society. It is enough to observe our contemporaries, in the street, in the subway, in the restaurant, everywhere, to realize the dominating place which it occupies. According to the latest INSEE statistics, 77% of the French population aged 15 and over have one. This percentage reaches 92% among 30-40 year olds, and 94% for 15-29 year olds. It should be noted that these statistics relate to the year 2021 and that the equipment rate being constantly rising, it is certainly even higher today. It should also be noted that it concerns increasingly young children. According to a Médiamétrie study, the latter are offered their first smartphone, on average, before the age of 10. Again, these statistics date from 2020 and everything suggests that this average age has fallen further.
Will every human be, in a few years, systematically connected to the "big picture" via a smartphone?
A number of us do not want it and live without a smartphone, for many reasons. This small object is a concentrate of industrial pollution. It contains around fifty different metals that are almost impossible to recycle, the extraction of which creates dramatic situations all over the world. In Chinese smartphone factories, workers are subjected to the most extreme conditions of exploitation when they are not subjected to forced labor, like the Uighurs. We think that at a time when we are told of power cuts, the available energy should not be monopolized by this equipment, as well as by the gigantic infrastructure necessary for its operation (relay antennas, servers, etc.) . We affirm that the electromagnetic waves associated with this technology pose serious public health questions.
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In Ireland, parents unite to deny smartphones to their children
In Ireland, parents unite to deny smartphones to their childrenHuffpost – June 11, 2023
Parents and schools in the town of Greystones have collectively decided to adopt a pact to ban the use of mobile phones for children, up to middle school. An initiative that is already inspiring the Irish government.
Should children be protected from screens? So think parents and schools in the Irish town of Greystones, south of Dublin. Collectively, they decided, as early as May, to put in place a pact which prohibits smartphones from children at home and in the eight primary schools of the Irish city, and this until college, according to The Guardian .
With this decision, parents intend to reduce the pressure and influence exerted by social networks on children. "Childhood is getting shorter and shorter," said Rachel Harper, principal of St Patrick's School, who is behind the initiative, according to The Guardian. Parents worry that screens will expose children to more anxiety and adult content. “The longer we can preserve their innocence, the better,” Laura Bourne, who has a child in the small section of a school in Greystones, told the British newspaper.
A future national policy
According to Rachel Harper, the pact was made because children's anxiety levels are rising and can only partly be attributed to the Covid-19 pandemic. Schools in the city have circulated questionnaires to parents to invite them to meetings and think about an initiative to remedy this anxiety. From this emerged the need to create a “village” without smartphones, explained Rachel Harper.
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Discontinuation of 2G and 3G: the killing of millions of objects
Discontinuation of 2G and 3G: the killing of millions of objectsReporterre - Apr 08, 2023
From 2025, the 2G and 3G networks will gradually die out. What cause a huge waste, many equipment being concerned: telephones, cars and even elevators.
“The smartphone makes me addicted and it's intrusive! For a long time, Louise [*] has preferred a good old Nokia 108 to simply call and send SMS. And most of the time, that's enough. "Everyone around me knows me for having a 'little bigo'," she says. But at the end of 2022, the student no longer receives the 2G network of her operator, Free mobile. No more success with another Nokia 108, found on Leboncoin and which works perfectly with Orange. Is his SIM card in question? No, assure him the advisers of the customer service of Free. A first evokes "the stop of the network for the old models of telephone". A second explains to him that “2G is no longer present in certain territories”. Farewell bigophone.
Has Free Mobile disconnected its 2G network? The operator is categorical: “We have cut neither 3G nor 2G while roaming. Free does not have its own 2G network, its customers have always switched to that of Orange via a roaming agreement which also covers 3G. This contract was also recently extended until the end of 2025. However, the switch to the Orange network has no longer been systematic in recent months.
Louise is not an isolated case. In Brest, for example, other "free users" have noticed a loss of the 2G network since the summer of 2022. Some have since regained their connection, others have not... On the Darty site, consumers are recounting the same misadventure. Among them, Laurent wrote on January 11 about a Gigaset GL390 phone that is only compatible with 2G: “I bought this mobile phone for my 83-year-old mother, because it was easy to use. However, it is not compatible with its operator Free. »
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How your SIM card is spying on you without your knowledge
How your SIM card is spying on you without your knowledgeThe mail from the strategists - 15 Jan 2023
Marc German returns in the second week to the security of smartphones
I received again Marc German, specialist in digital security, who had already given us an edifying interview on this subject. Today, he more particularly evokes the question of the SIM card and the capacity of this tiny object to spy on you and to know everything about you.
An essential interview to protect you against the caste police.
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Smartphone… Knock Knock Knock… Open, that's progress!
Age to do - Jan 07, 2023
Will we soon be forced to have a working smartphone to receive friends in our own apartment?
2021: 77% of the French population over the age of 15 already had a smartphone (INSEE).
This rate of equipment is constantly increasing, and everything is done to crack those who still and always resist the connected invader: buy a train ticket, access an administration, read the menu of a restaurant which now only offers a QR code to its customers… The pitfalls of everyday life are increasing for non-smartphone users. Here is another example of delusional constraint, discovered while visiting my old friend Béber, living in Paris. Tenant of a small apartment located in the 12th arrondissement, he saw a technician arrive one day in charge of replacing the building's intercom. “We are all tenants, it is the management (Gecina, lessor with a heritage valued at 20 billion euros, Editor's note) which takes care of this kind of thing. They don't ask your opinion”, he explains to me. Once all the gear is properly installed, the guy tells him how it works: when people ring the intercom, the ringtone will no longer ring on his old handset hanging next to the door, but directly on his smartphone! Fortunately, for the proper functioning of the trick, the Béber in question is equipped with it.
That said, we had to open the Parisian door from Romania?!
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Letter to my son
International Network - Dec 24, 2022
My son, Friday, instead of going to high school, you participated in the demonstration for the defense of the climate and the saving of the planet.
You can't imagine how proud I was to see you involved in such an essential cause. Deeply moved by so much maturity and nobility of soul, I was totally won over by the relevance of your fight. Also, I inform you that I have decided to be unfailingly supportive and, from today, to do everything to reduce the carbon footprint of the family.
So, to start, we'll get rid of all the Smartphones in the house. And then also television. You won't mind, of course, if your console suffers the same fate: it's said to generate polluting electronic waste that poisons the rivers of Southeast Asia.
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The Luddite Club: a place without phones or social networks
The Luddite Club: a place without phones or social networksNexus - Dec 16, 2022
Today, it can be hard to imagine life without smartphones and social media. These technologies have become an integral part of our daily lives, but more and more teenagers are starting to feel overwhelmed and stressed by them.
The continuous connection can be tiring and lead to feelings of anxiety and fear of missing out. To disconnect, some young people have decided to take up knitting or adopt flip phones from the 2000s. Still others do not hesitate to call themselves Luddism.
