JORGE RODRIGUES SIMÃO

Cybercrime - Video

CYBERCRIME - INTERPOL

The Future of the Law

 Big Brother?

 The future is unlikely to witness an escalation of our privacy. Can the law curb the apparently relentless slide towards an Orwellian nightmare? ‘Low-tech’ collection of transactional data in both the public and private sector has become commonplace. In addition to the routine surveillance by CCTV in public places, the monitoring of mobile telephones, the workplace, vehicles, electronic communications, and online activity are increasingly taken for granted in most advanced societies. The escalating use of surveillance in the workplace, for example, is changing not only the character of that environment, but also the very nature of what we do and how we do it. The knowledge that our activities are, or even may be, monitored, and undermines our psychological and emotional autonomy. Indeed, the slide towards electronic supervision may fundamentally alter our relationships and our identity. In such a world, employees are arguably less likely to execute their duties effectively. If that occurs, the snooping employer will, in the end, secure the precise opposite of what he hopes to achieve.

Human Rights Watch demands US criminal probe of CIA torture

TORTURE

UN action on human rights

 Early on, the UN established a Commission on Human Rights initially composed of nine core individual members. These individuals proposed that Commission members should act as independent experts rather than present the views of their governments. The governments themselves rejected this proposal. The UN member states decided that the Commission should comprise governmental representatives from 18 elected UN member states. This membership of government representatives was expanded to 32 in 1967, and later to 53 members. In 2006, the Commission was abolished and replaced with a 47-member Human Rights Council.

As a rational human being you should always be alert to creative shortcuts to success. Undoubtedly the most serious mistake people make is failing to define success in the most personal way. In this regard the most creative shortcut to success is to reevaluate what success means to you. Ultimately, you will make yourself successful or unsuccessful just by the way you define success.

For some odd reason a large majority of people think that their problems are a lot more serious than they really are. You may be one of them. It is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that practically everyone else out there has a much easier life than you. But as Socrates pointed out, "If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart." Think that you and your problems are so important?