XL REPUBBLICA - how Mika keeps himself busy ;-) - part 2

[Julia Welcomes]

there'll be one issue for both july and august

then, no new ones till September

 

Yay ! Thanks !

[BiaIchihara]

RT @GianniSantor0: Next @mikasounds column for @LaRepubblicaXL is about you, about me, about us all basically. Out monday. #popup

[Poisonyoulove]

RT @GianniSantor0: Next @mikasounds column for @LaRepubblicaXL is about you, about me, about us all basically. Out monday. #popup

 

I bet it's something I won't be able to relate to!

[natalia_recos]

I'm so excited! I can't wait. Just loved the last one!!!

[robertina]

Someone in Milan says that XL is already out

[mamiam]

Someone in Milan says that XL is already out

 

Exciting news!!

 

Love,love

me

[Lucrezia]

Even here in Sicily where i'm on holiday is already out...strange!

Btw, the new column is really strong

[mamiam]

Even here in Sicily where i'm on holiday is already out...strange!

Btw, the new column is really strong

 

Ahh - you make me really curious!! Hope you're willing to translate - even you're on holiday ...

 

Love,love

me

[maggie112]

What it is about?

[Lucrezia]

Ahh - you make me really curious!! Hope you're willing to translate - even you're on holiday ...

 

Love,love

me

 

Oh yeah sure!

If you want i can make a translation of the column even if i really can't wait to read the original version because it's a topic very interesting...

 

What it is about?

 

It's about the datagate scandal

Edited July 13, 2013 by Lucrezia

[mer]

Interesting article by Mojca Kleva, a Slovene Member of the European Parliament

http://mojcakleva.eu/datagate-scandal-and-european-citizens/

 

In recent weeks, the European Parliament discussed a lot about the biggest data surveillance scandal after Wikileaks which was revealed by a former employee of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). His disclosure to the media that the agency has been exercising communication control over the citizens of the U.S. and foreign (including European) citizens with the help of the intelligence programme PRISM definitely raised a lot of attention in the European Parliament.

 

The ntelligence programme PRISM should be designed for monitoring internet communications offered by the largest Internet companies – Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, YouTube, Skype, PayTalk, AOL. Only Twitter and Amazon.com should be excluded. According to the information from the media, PRISM was supposedly gathering information regarding emails, interviews, video clips, data files, video conferences, etc.. Of course, also via the currently very popular social networks.

 

And once again it has been proven that we are all controlled by the “big brother”.

 

Even with all the legislation that we already adopted in Europe, the feeling that something is watching over us, is still present. Especially when we hear stories like the one of Edward Snowden. With the increasing development of information technology and its capacity to collect, analyze and disseminate information about individuals I definitely feel that we need to strengthen our legislation as regards personal data protection.

 

In Europe, we take data protection much more seriously than the Americans, who are, according to a recent survey, supporting the work of the NSA, at least in the light of the fight against terrorism. Europeans see data protection as a fundamental civil right. That is why the Members of the European Parliament asked the European Commission to obtain information regarding the control of European citizens from the U.S.. In case any European government knew anything about this, the European Union will have to react.

 

We are talking about the protection of our data.

 

The Commission will therefore have to clarify whether the IT companies that are part of the scandal, respected the EU legislation on data protection when they gave the U.S. government access to the data. Any U.S. – EU Agreement is required to fully ensure the highest standards of data protection for European citizens. Our regulations are, fortunately, very strict. And they must adhere to all enterprises operating on European soil.

 

I have a feeling that the future summer months will be full of discussions regarding data protection. How to ensure in a globalized world, where we are practically only a click away from the people on the other side of the world, that user data are equally protected? Do we trust the internet too much? Is it even possible to have different standards of data protection in this online world? And to what extent are government agencies necessary and effective in preventing terrorism? This raises a lot of questions and it is essential that we talk about it. But more than just a discussion at this point, we urgently need a clear response and action by our countries! The leaders of Member States should wake up and protect private information of their people.

 

I´m Holidays more interesting news.

Edited July 15, 2013 by mari62
adding source of article, in order to avoid confusion

[mamiam]

In recent weeks, the European Parliament discussed a lot about the biggest data surveillance scandal after Wikileaks which was revealed by a former employee of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). His disclosure to the media that the agency has been exercising communication control over the citizens of the U.S. and foreign (including European) citizens with the help of the intelligence programme PRISM definitely raised a lot of attention in the European Parliament.

 

The ntelligence programme PRISM should be designed for monitoring internet communications offered by the largest Internet companies – Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, YouTube, Skype, PayTalk, AOL. Only Twitter and Amazon.com should be excluded. According to the information from the media, PRISM was supposedly gathering information regarding emails, interviews, video clips, data files, video conferences, etc.. Of course, also via the currently very popular social networks.

 

And once again it has been proven that we are all controlled by the “big brother”.

 

Even with all the legislation that we already adopted in Europe, the feeling that something is watching over us, is still present. Especially when we hear stories like the one of Edward Snowden. With the increasing development of information technology and its capacity to collect, analyze and disseminate information about individuals I definitely feel that we need to strengthen our legislation as regards personal data protection.

 

In Europe, we take data protection much more seriously than the Americans, who are, according to a recent survey, supporting the work of the NSA, at least in the light of the fight against terrorism. Europeans see data protection as a fundamental civil right. That is why the Members of the European Parliament asked the European Commission to obtain information regarding the control of European citizens from the U.S.. In case any European government knew anything about this, the European Union will have to react.

 

We are talking about the protection of our data.

 

The Commission will therefore have to clarify whether the IT companies that are part of the scandal, respected the EU legislation on data protection when they gave the U.S. government access to the data. Any U.S. – EU Agreement is required to fully ensure the highest standards of data protection for European citizens. Our regulations are, fortunately, very strict. And they must adhere to all enterprises operating on European soil.

 

I have a feeling that the future summer months will be full of discussions regarding data protection. How to ensure in a globalized world, where we are practically only a click away from the people on the other side of the world, that user data are equally protected? Do we trust the internet too much? Is it even possible to have different standards of data protection in this online world? And to what extent are government agencies necessary and effective in preventing terrorism? This raises a lot of questions and it is essential that we talk about it. But more than just a discussion at this point, we urgently need a clear response and action by our countries! The leaders of Member States should wake up and protect private information of their people????

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Thanks a lot for translation Mer!! And yes, you're right Lucrezia, this is really strong - and hot stuff

 

Love,love

me

[Marilyn Mastin]

Brilliant stuff from our wise young man!

[crazyaboutmika]

Thank you so much for the translation Mer

Mika will maybe run for presidency soon if he keeps writing like this

[mari62]

The article posted by mer is NOT a translation of Mika's column, but is from Mojca Kleva's blog, a Slovene Member of the European Parliament

http://mojcakleva.eu/datagate-scandal-and-european-citizens/

Edited July 15, 2013 by mari62

[mamiam]

The article posted by mer is NOT a translation of Mika's column, but is from a blog by Mojca Kleva, a Slovene Member of the European Parliament

http://mojcakleva.eu/datagate-scandal-and-european-citizens/

 

OK - thank you - that makes sense

 

Love,love

me

[Lucrezia]

I'm making a fast translation of Mika's column and i'll post a pic about the italian version give me just a hour

[Lucrezia]

we are at war and you do not know (the “datagate” scandal and us)

 

You are not worth anything! You are just a drop in the most bigger ocean than you can imagine. No one remembers a drop, everybody remembers the waves. You're useless and forgettable as a grain of sand of last beach where you've been, or as a single drop of rain on the windshield during the last storm. It's in this way that they want make you feel. They make you feel like a useless piece of **** and you act exactly as if you were it. These are companies, enterprises, corporations, governments and individuals that collect information and patterns of behavior without you knowing it and without your permission. And we are the water droplets that form the ocean. When we speak about the violation of our privacy we justify the thing psychologically saying to ourselves that we are not so significant to be important. If our little indiscretions or our personal habits are recorded and spied on, what does it matter? Our whims or some secrets are not threats nor to national security nor even for life. I realize that we were dangerously desensitized about our privacy.

I was fascinated about the recent scandal of the "Datagate". Not only because the governments of the U.S. and the UK have intercepted our emails and our phone calls but also for the answer of the audience so quiet compared to the media response. And this is neither the first nor the last time we'll deal with similar scandals. The methods of ensure the privacy and the way to collect user data from Google and Facebook have been the subject of searches of the European Authorities.

On my site I am forced to collect the basic data of subscribers but also to inform users that this is the practice. It is a rule imposed by Universal who runs the site and it is the owner and this is beyond my control. On other sites I collect only the data of those who subscribe to the fan club. We are often told that posting the details of our daily lives on Twitter and Facebook we ourselves who chafe the boundaries of our privacy. The fundamental thing that we forget is the choice. We choose how much and what to share, what to show or what to bury in the closet.

We are not worth anything. It 's easier forget and forgive and let the problem get worse when we think that our lives and our communications are irrelevant. It’s not like that. Taken individually, our data may not be important but for those who collect them are a gold mine and we need to be aware of how valuable they are. Each of us must get angry because the details of our lives, our habits no longer belong to us and the choice of what to share with the rest of the world is not ours.

In this ocean of people and information is easy to forget the consequences that a user of the Internet, in the vast world of Web, can have on another person. How many other teens have to cry in secret after being humiliated via Facebook in front of the whole school? How many more guys risk to commit suicide after that their sexual orientation was publicly heralded by strangers online? The fact that we are a multitude cools our reactions to these events even if we are ready to warm up now for a gossip.

Nothing will be solved as long as each of us will not accept the reciprocal responsibility for the privacy of others. Only then we will be united against the government and against companies that now they seem to be more and more, as never before, the same thing. Only then we could stop this violent vortex in this crap Orwellian world.

 

And here's a pic of the column

http://t.co/O4KdaUyMra

Edited July 15, 2013 by Lucrezia

[Alireine]

Thank you for the translation Lucrezia!

I like it, I feel as if he is directly talking to me because I was not interested at all in this data story, and he shows me now why I was wrong not to care about.

Good job Mika

[Yasi]

Thank you a thousand times Lucrezia:huglove:

That's funny,cause I'm illustrating Julian Assange for an article for a magazine I'm working with,and all day long we talk about political scandals,privacy in internet etc at work.

''Nothing will be solved as long as each of us will not accept the reciprocal responsibility for the privacy of others. Only then we will be united against the government and against companies that now they seem to be more and more, as never before, the same thing. Only then we could stop this violent vortex in this crap Orwellian world.''

This may sound quite easy in US,or UK,but who thinks about all the middle eastern people who are victim of political hackings?!in the latest US political scandal (Snowden etc) Iran was a HUGE victim,though no one can see that...of course people can stop it among themselves (though it's not easy at all),but how can we stand against government here while other countries think we deserve it,how can we succeed without the help of the world?!

We should first change our point of view,the world's point of view.

But anyway,it's a strong column,I really like it when Mika talks about the things that are happening in RL,and sorry if I interpret everything so political.

[cathouzouf]

Thanks for the translation lucrezia! That must have been really hard to translate

[BiaIchihara]

thanks for translating Lu

[mamiam]

we are at war and you do not know (the “datagate” scandal and us)

 

You are not worth anything! You are just a drop in the most bigger ocean than you can imagine. No one remembers a drop, everybody remembers the waves. You're useless and forgettable as a grain of sand of last beach where you've been, or as a single drop of rain on the windshield during the last storm. It's in this way that they want make you feel. They make you feel like a useless piece of **** and you act exactly as if you were it. These are companies, enterprises, corporations, governments and individuals that collect information and patterns of behavior without you knowing it and without your permission. And we are the water droplets that form the ocean. When we speak about the violation of our privacy we justify the thing psychologically saying to ourselves that we are not so significant to be important. If our little indiscretions or our personal habits are recorded and spied on, what does it matter? Our whims or some secrets are not threats nor to national security nor even for life. I realize that we were dangerously desensitized about our privacy.

I was fascinated about the recent scandal of the "Datagate". Not only because the governments of the U.S. and the UK have intercepted our emails and our phone calls but also for the answer of the audience so quiet compared to the media response. And this is neither the first nor the last time we'll deal with similar scandals. The methods of ensure the privacy and the way to collect user data from Google and Facebook have been the subject of searches of the European Authorities.

On my site I am forced to collect the basic data of subscribers but also to inform users that this is the practice. It is a rule imposed by Universal who runs the site and it is the owner and this is beyond my control. On other sites I collect only the data of those who subscribe to the fan club. We are often told that posting the details of our daily lives on Twitter and Facebook we ourselves who chafe the boundaries of our privacy. The fundamental thing that we forget is the choice. We choose how much and what to share, what to show or what to bury in the closet.

We are not worth anything. It 's easier forget and forgive and let the problem get worse when we think that our lives and our communications are irrelevant. It’s not like that. Taken individually, our data may not be important but for those who collect them are a gold mine and we need to be aware of how valuable they are. Each of us must get angry because the details of our lives, our habits no longer belong to us and the choice of what to share with the rest of the world is not ours.

In this ocean of people and information is easy to forget the consequences that a user of the Internet, in the vast world of Web, can have on another person. How many other teens have to cry in secret after being humiliated via Facebook in front of the whole school? How many more guys risk to commit suicide after that their sexual orientation was publicly heralded by strangers online? The fact that we are a multitude cools our reactions to these events even if we are ready to warm up now for a gossip.

Nothing will be solved as long as each of us will not accept the reciprocal responsibility for the privacy of others. Only then we will be united against the government and against companies that now they seem to be more and more, as never before, the same thing. Only then we could stop this violent vortex in this crap Orwellian world.

 

And here's a pic of the column

http://t.co/O4KdaUyMra

 

Thanks a million Lucrezia - you're an angel Strong art. with wise words from our MIKA

 

Love,love

me

[Lucrezia]

Thank you for the translation Lucrezia!

 

Thank you a thousand times Lucrezia:huglove:

 

Thanks for the translation lucrezia! That must have been really hard to translate

 

thanks for translating Lu

 

Thanks a million Lucrezia - you're an angel Strong art. with wise words from our MIKA

 

Love,love

me

 

You're welcome ladies

[Marilyn Mastin]

we are at war and you do not know (the “datagate” scandal and us)

 

You are not worth anything! You are just a drop in the most bigger ocean than you can imagine. No one remembers a drop, everybody remembers the waves. You're useless and forgettable as a grain of sand of last beach where you've been, or as a single drop of rain on the windshield during the last storm. It's in this way that they want make you feel. They make you feel like a useless piece of **** and you act exactly as if you were it. These are companies, enterprises, corporations, governments and individuals that collect information and patterns of behavior without you knowing it and without your permission. And we are the water droplets that form the ocean. When we speak about the violation of our privacy we justify the thing psychologically saying to ourselves that we are not so significant to be important. If our little indiscretions or our personal habits are recorded and spied on, what does it matter? Our whims or some secrets are not threats nor to national security nor even for life. I realize that we were dangerously desensitized about our privacy.

I was fascinated about the recent scandal of the "Datagate". Not only because the governments of the U.S. and the UK have intercepted our emails and our phone calls but also for the answer of the audience so quiet compared to the media response. And this is neither the first nor the last time we'll deal with similar scandals. The methods of ensure the privacy and the way to collect user data from Google and Facebook have been the subject of searches of the European Authorities.

On my site I am forced to collect the basic data of subscribers but also to inform users that this is the practice. It is a rule imposed by Universal who runs the site and it is the owner and this is beyond my control. On other sites I collect only the data of those who subscribe to the fan club. We are often told that posting the details of our daily lives on Twitter and Facebook we ourselves who chafe the boundaries of our privacy. The fundamental thing that we forget is the choice. We choose how much and what to share, what to show or what to bury in the closet.

We are not worth anything. It 's easier forget and forgive and let the problem get worse when we think that our lives and our communications are irrelevant. It’s not like that. Taken individually, our data may not be important but for those who collect them are a gold mine and we need to be aware of how valuable they are. Each of us must get angry because the details of our lives, our habits no longer belong to us and the choice of what to share with the rest of the world is not ours.

In this ocean of people and information is easy to forget the consequences that a user of the Internet, in the vast world of Web, can have on another person. How many other teens have to cry in secret after being humiliated via Facebook in front of the whole school? How many more guys risk to commit suicide after that their sexual orientation was publicly heralded by strangers online? The fact that we are a multitude cools our reactions to these events even if we are ready to warm up now for a gossip.

Nothing will be solved as long as each of us will not accept the reciprocal responsibility for the privacy of others. Only then we will be united against the government and against companies that now they seem to be more and more, as never before, the same thing. Only then we could stop this violent vortex in this crap Orwellian world.

 

And here's a pic of the column

http://t.co/O4KdaUyMra

That's good! Thanks for the translation. It's similar to the subject of the other article, but with Mika's personal touch.