Ex-ByteDance employee claims China had ‘supreme access’ to all data
China’s Communist Party had “supreme access” to all data held by TikTok’s parent company Bytedance, including on servers in the United States, a former employer who is bringing a wrongful termination lawsuit has alleged.
The allegations in the lawsuit – which Bytedance denies and has vowed to contest – comes at a time of intense scrutiny within the US and other Western nations over what level of control, if any, Beijing is able to exert over TikTok and the social media app’s wildly popular content.
Yintao “Roger” Yu filed a lawsuit of wrongful termination against Bytedance in Superior Court in San Francisco earlier this month. He says he worked at the company from August 2017 to November 2018, as a head of engineering for US operations.
Thailand’s opposition parties start alliance talks after voters reject military rule
Leader of liberal Move Forward says he is ‘next prime minister of Thailand’ and ready to form coalition government
Thailand’s opposition parties have secured by far the largest number of votes in national elections, delivering a damning verdict to the military-backed government that has ruled for nearly a decade.
Move Forward, a progressive opposition party popular with young Thais, surpassed expectations by winning the most votes and seats and said on Monday that it was ready to form a government. Its leader, Pita Limjaroenrat, told media he had invited Pheu Thai, the party associated with the exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, and four other opposition parties to form an alliance.
China sentences US citizen to life in prison for spying
A Hong Kong permanent resident who is also a US citizen has been given a life term for "espionage." The US Embassy in Beijing said it was aware of the sentencing, but did not comment further, citing "privacy concerns."
A 78-year-old US citizen was sentenced on Monday by a Chinese court to life imprisonment for spying.
Reuters news agency reported that John Shing-wan Leung was a permanent resident of Hong Kong and also a United States passport holder.
According to the Associated Press, Leung was detained on April 15, 2021 by the counterintelligence agency in the southeastern city of Suzhou.
News of his sentencing came by way of the WeChat account of an Intermediate People's Court in Suzhou on Monday.
New threat to privacy? Scientists sound alarm about DNA tool
The traces of genetic material that humans constantly shed wherever they go could soon be used to track individual people, or even whole ethnic groups, scientists said on Monday, warning of a looming "ethical quagmire".
A recently developed technique can glean a huge amount of information from tiny samples of genetic material called environmental DNA, or eDNA, that humans and animals leave behind everywhere -- including in the air.
The tool could lead to a range of medical and scientific advances, and could even help track down criminals, according to the authors of a new study published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.
But it also poses a vast range of concerns around consent, privacy and surveillance, they added.
Humans spread their DNA -- which carries genetic information specific to each person -- everywhere, by shedding skin or hair cells, coughing out droplets, or in wastewater flushed down toilets.
Austrian train plays Hitler speech over loudspeaker
Travellers on an intercity train in Austria were startled on Sunday when a recording of an Adolf Hitler speech was played on board.
Instead of the normal announcements, a crowd could also be heard shouting "Heil Hitler" and "Sieg Heil" over the train's speaker system.
The operator said there had been several such incidents in recent days.
One passenger on the Bregenz-Vienna service told the BBC that everyone on the train was "completely shocked".
David Stoegmueller, a Green Party MP, said the speech by the Nazi German leader was played over the intercom shortly before the train, an ÖBB Railjet 661, arrived in Vienna.
Italian man fined nearly €900 for filling in pothole hits out at ‘injustice’
Claudio Trenta, 72, has triggered a national debate after deciding to fix 30cm hole himself in Lombardy
An Italian pensioner has pledged to fight against the “injustice” of being fined almost €900 for fixing a pothole.
Claudio Trenta was so frustrated by the local council’s failure to repair the 30cm pothole on a pedestrian crossing in Barlassina, a small town in Lombardy, that the 72-year-old decided to take action himself by filling it with cold bitumen.
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