Tuesday, December 22, 2020

in ‘close contact,’ Johnson and von der Leyen clock ticks and other matters

clock ticks David Hughes, PA Political Editor Tue, 22 December 2020, 1:41 pm CET

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/johnson-von-der-leyen-close-124107472.html 

 there isn’t long left” 




The UK leaves the single market and customs union on December 31 
The Office for Budget Responsibility

 and on the Arab Middle East Al Jazeera related 
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/revealed-abusive-texts-led-discovery-123445185.html 

 A series of abusive text messages sent to an Al Jazeera investigative programme were the first crumbs that eventually led to the discovery of an unprecedented hacking operation against dozens of staff from the Qatar-based media network, according to one of the journalists who was targeted. 

 The phone that appears to have been hacked had been used to contact various parties in the UAE. 

Citizen Lab said in its report into the hack that Almisshal’s phone appeared to have been hacked by tools developed by Israel’s NSO Group, whose spyware is alleged to have been used in previous surveillance campaigns in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. 

 NSO has said its software is only meant to be used by government clients to track terrorists and criminals. 

In the past, its software has been linked to allegations of human rights violations, including the targeting of journalists in Morocco, political dissidents from Rwanda, politicians in Spain, and pro-democracy clergy in Togo. 

 In a statement about the Al Jazeera hack, NSO Group said it was not familiar with the allegations. “As we have repeatedly stated, we do not have access to any information with respect to the identities of individuals our system is used to conduct surveillance on. However, where we receive credible evidence of misuse, combined with the basic identifiers of the alleged targets and timeframes, we take all necessary steps in accordance with our product misuse investigation procedure to review the allegations,” NSO Group said.

Noted  https://uk.news.yahoo.com/priti-patel-ahead-of-the-curve-covid-102424740.html
And
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/string-failures-british-government-helped-060008075.html?soc_src=community&soc_trk=wa
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To be fair to ministers, some aspects of the crisis were acted on speedily and decisively. The chancellor, Rushi Sunak, and HM Treasury were probably ahead of the (sharply downwards) economic curve, while the Nightingale hospitals were also ready in time. Those in the NHS, the medical regulator, universities and pharma companies have moved with impressive speed to develop new treatments and vaccines, and indeed to identify the new more infectious mutation of the coronavirus.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/priti-patel-government-ahead-curve-143550016.html



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