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Inside the Italian Mafia’s Encrypted Phone of Choice
In March 2021, Bruzzaniti, an alleged member of the infamous ‘Ndrangheta mafia group and who says Milan belongs to him “by right,” asked his brother Antonio to go fetch something else crucial to the traffickers’ success. “Go right now,” Bruzzaniti wrote in a text message later produced in court records. “It’s needed urgently.” Investigators know what Bruzzaniti said because European authorities had penetrated an encrypted phone network called Sky and harvested around a billion of the users’ messages. These phones are the technological backbone of organized crime around the world.
The thing Antonio needed to urgently fetch was a phone from a different encrypted phone network, one that the authorities appear to have not compromised and which the mafia have been using as part of their operations. To that phone, a contact sent one half of the shipping container’s serial number. A reporting collaboration between Motherboard, lavialibera, and IrpiMedia has identified that encrypted phone as being run by a company called No. 1 Business Communication (No. 1 BC). The investigation has found members of the mafia and other organized crime groups turning to No. 1 BC as authorities cracked down on other platforms. The collaboration has identified multiple key players in No. 1 BC’s development, sales, and legal structure. “Take the bc1 right away,” Bruzzaniti wrote in another text, referring to the No. 1 BC phone.
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INTERVIEW: Lies of P developer explains why it’s bringing the famously Italian Pinocchio all the way to Paris
It’s a pretty wild year in the world of third-person action games, huh? Hi-Fi Rush popped out of nowhere and took the world by storm, while Star Wars Jedi: Survivor managed to capture the hearts of many due to slick combat in spite of sketchy performance issues. But you know, it’s only May, and there’s still one game I’m pumped for. Lies of P.
Lies of P was announced a while back, roughly two years ago, and ever since it has stood out as an interesting spin on the Souls-like formula. After playing it myself at GDC this year, I wanted to find out more about how the game plans to set itself apart from the competition.
“We wanted to create a setting that players would have not experienced in any other game, and we wanted to present it in a way that was completely different from what we knew before,” writes project director Ji Won Choi.
Italian regulator tells Meta to resume licensing talks with SIAE
The Italian Data Protection Agency gives OpenAI a chance to avoid being banned
At the end of March, the Italian Data Protection Authority (the “Garante”), announced that OpenAI’s fancy new ChatGPT software would imminently be blocked from use within the European nation over concerns that ChatGPT’s training and function violate the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). On Wednesday, the Garante published a list of necessary steps OpenAI will have to take by the end of April if Italy is to lift its temporary limitation on the processing of its user data.
“OpenAI will have to draft and make available, on its website, an information notice describing the arrangements and logic of the data processing required for the operation of ChatGPT along with the rights afforded to data subjects,” the Garante announced. Additionally, Italian users must be shown said notice and will have to declare that they are over the age of 18 prior to the completion of their registrations. What’s more, the company will be required to age gate the site to filter out users under the age of 18 by the end of September.
The Garante is also demanding that the company enact “easily accessible tools to allow non-users to exercise their right to object to the processing of their personal data,” per Wednesday’s release. “The same right will have to be afforded to users if legitimate interest is chosen as the legal basis for processing their data.”
Finally, OpenAI must by May, 31st run “through radio, TV, newspapers and the Internet” an ad campaign informing the public about their data collection methods and how Italians’ personal information will be used to train the company’s algorithms. In all, OpenAI has just 18 days to get all of its regulatory ducks in a row before the regulator implements additional penalties.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/the-italian-data-protection-agency-gives-openai-a-chance-to-avoid-being-banned-185638918.html?src=rss
After Italian Government Bans ChatGPT, VPN Searches Skyrocket
The Italian government recently banned ChatGPT, a popular artificial intelligence chatbot, citing privacy concerns as the primary reason for the…
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Blundering tourist, 43, fined £415 for driving bright-red Ferrari into world famous Italian square
A BLUNDERING tourist has been fined £415 after driving their bright red Ferrari into a world famous Italian square.
The American holidaymaker drove across the landmark, which is pedestrianised, much to the anger of locals.
The bumbling tourist was fined after driving across a historic square in Florence, Italy[/caption]
The owner of the flash sports car, 43, was apprehended after casually cruising across the Piazza della Signoria, which sits in the historic centre of Florence, Italy.
It is usually packed with tourists, often visiting the Uffizi Gallery, which is home to some of the country’s most famous artwork, particularly a substantial collection of ancient sculptures and paintings.
Cops caught him after he parked up in the nearby Via dei Gondi after driving down the street in what locals officials described as a “nonsensical” manner.
He was fined €470, equivalent to around £415, for the embarrassing gaffe.
The fine was particularly large as a police check revealed that he did not have the correct paperwork to drive the Swiss-registered Ferrari in Italy, let alone on the Piazza.
A spokesperson for the Municipality of Florence said: “Checks revealed that the 43-year-old driver had an American driving license that did not comply with international conventions and did not have an international driving permit or official translation.
“A report was taken for parking in the pedestrian area, driving against the direction and having non-compliant foreign license, the fine was a total of €470, which he paid directly to the agents.”
It comes after an American tourist was fined last year for causing £20,000 worth of damage to Rome’s iconic Spanish Steps by throwing an e-scooter down them.
The unnamed woman was caught on camera hurling the scooter onto the Unesco monument in an apparent tantrum, before throwing it a further two times.