https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/13/german-covid-contact-tracing-app-luca/?

German police used a tracing app to scout crime witnesses.

“Police in the city of Mainz, near Frankfurt, successfully petitioned local health authorities to release data from an app called Luca when a man fell to his death after leaving a restaurant in November. They said they were seeking witnesses who had dined at the restaurant around the same time and reportedly found 21 people from the app data.”

“Luca is subject to Germany’s strict data-protection regulations and, by law, information from the app cannot be accessed by non-health authorities and used in criminal prosecutions. The app stores the user’s personal details and uses QR codes to record how long they’ve spent at a location. The information is encrypted to obscure any personal information, according to Culture4life, the company that developed the app, and can only be decrypted by health authorities if someone at a venue is infected.
Culture4life said it received requests from law enforcement for data from Luca “almost every day” and that it always declined because it did not have the ability to access tracing information. “In this case, the health department probably simulated an infection under pressure or requests from the police and obtained the consent of the company [the restaurant] to provide the data,” the organization said.”

FWD from Sudanese Anarchists Gathering

To our anarchist comrades, regarding what happened in the demonstrations of January 17, 2022 AD and the positions on Monday:

Excessive repression practiced by the government forces against the defenseless peaceful revolutionaries led to the martyrdom of 7 revolutionaries in the center of the capital, Khartoum, and serious injuries with live bullets.

This led to a decision to take control of the capital, Khartoum, and all the cities of Sudan, and to declare comprehensive civil disobedience as of today, January 18, 2022 AD.

Currently the revolutionaries control almost all the streets with checkpoints. The security forces come from time to time to practice their excessive suppression of the revolutionaries, despite that, the revolutionaries are still in a control of the streets.

A.C.A.B

When Cutting Class Is a Matter of Life and Death

https://cwc.im/Walkouts2022

The wave of student walkouts looming around the US is the front line of the fight against a future in which human life is held cheap and we take mass casualties for granted.

Solidarity to the students. 🏴

bye