双语资讯速览 | 苹果起诉以色列间谍软件集团NSO
01 6park.com欧盟拟立法提升社交媒体政治广告透明度 6park.com
The EU will unveil draft legislation aimed at curtailing the use of social media practices such as microtargeting and user profiling by forcing technology groups to share information on how they disseminate ads and target citizens online. 6park.com 欧盟将公布一项立法草案,旨在限制微目标定向和用户画像等社交媒体做法的使用,迫使科技集团分享有关它们如何在网上散播广告和瞄准公民的信息。 6park.comThe rules will make the likes of Facebook and Google reveal the parameters they use to determine who views political ads online, including the categories of personal data used for “targeting and amplification”, the goals and the length of time of the ad campaign. 6park.com这些规则将使Facebook和谷歌等公司披露他们用于确定谁在网上观看政治广告的参数,包括用于“瞄准和放大”的个人数据类别,广告活动的目标和时间长度。 6park.comThe way large online platforms have used citizens’ data to target them with political ads has had “negative effects” on “their freedoms of opinion and of information, to make political decisions and exercise their voting rights”, a draft document showed on Tuesday. The news comes as pressure grows to make political advertising more transparent. 6park.com周二的一份文件草案显示,大型网络平台利用公民数据向他们投放政治广告的方式,对“他们的意见和信息自由、做出政治决定和行使投票权的自由”产生了“负面影响”。这一消息传出之际,要求提高政治广告透明度的压力越来越大。 6park.com——本文2021年11月24日发布于FT中文网,英文原题为EU to push for transparency on political ads on social media
02 6park.comAtom Bank实行每周四天工作制 6park.com
Atom Bank has moved to a four-day week for its 430 employees, the largest company to make such a move in the UK since the pandemic forced a rethink about how useful it is to force people back into the office. 6park.com Atom Bank已开始对其430名员工实行每周四天工作制,这是自新冠疫情迫使人们重新思考强迫人们回到办公室有多大用处以来,采取这一措施的最大英国公司。 6park.comThe changes, which began at the start of November, reduced the working week at Atom from 37.5 to 34 hours without affecting salaries. Atom said that the majority of workers had made the change, but those who continued to work five days would also benefit from reduced hours. 6park.com这些变化11月初开始实行,在不影响工资的情况下,将Atom Bank的每周工作时间从37.5小时减少到34小时。Atom Bank表示,大多数员工已经做出了改变,而那些每周继续工作五天的人也将从工作时间减少中受益。 6park.com“People are working for more than 50 years, it’s multiple marathons, so we’re asking how can we keep our people engaged and keep ourselves healthy,” Mark Mullen, Atom’s chief executive told the Financial Times. “I’m quite excited about it — there’s no going back.” 6park.com“人们要工作50多年,就像要跑好几场马拉松,所以我们想知道,如何才能让员工参与进来,同时保持健康。”Atom Bank首席执行官马克•马伦告诉英国《金融时报》,“我对此非常兴奋——不会回到过去的模式。” 6park.com——本文2021年11月24日发布于FT中文网,英文原题为Atom Bank moves to a four-day work week without cutting pay
03 6park.com美国将释放5000万桶战略石油储备 6park.com
President Joe Biden has announced the release of oil from the US’s strategic stockpile in an attempt to drive down petrol prices and snuff out a crude market rally that the White House has said poses a threat to the global economic recovery. 6park.com 拜登总统宣布从美国的战略储备释放5000万桶石油,以试图压低汽油价格,遏制原油市场的涨势。白宫称,油价上涨对全球经济复苏构成了威胁。 6park.comBiden linked the release to efforts to beat back sharply rising inflation, saying Americans were “feeling the impact of elevated gas prices at the pump and in their home heating bills, and American businesses are, too, because oil supply has not kept up with demand as the global economy emerges from the pandemic”. 6park.com拜登将此举与遏制通胀飙升的努力联系起来,称美国人“感受到了加油站价格和家庭取暖账单上涨的影响,美国企业也感受到了这些影响,因为在全球经济从疫情复苏之际,石油供应跟不上需求”。 6park.comOil prices rose on the news, with international benchmark Brent up 0.15 per cent to $79.82 a barrel, as traders calculated that the total volume to be released would be less than expected, and that Opec+ could retaliate by holding back more oil than planned. 6park.com油价在消息发布后上涨,国际基准布伦特原油上涨0.15%,至每桶79.82美元。根据交易员们的计算,释放的总量将会低于预期,而欧佩克+可能会比原计划更多地抑制石油供应作为报复。 6park.com——本文2021年11月24日发布于FT中文网,英文原题为US to release 50m barrels of oil from reserves
04 6park.com苹果起诉以色列间谍软件集团NSO 6park.com
Apple is suing NSO Group Technlogies, the Israeli military-grade spyware manufacturer that created surveillance software used to target the mobile phones of journalists, political dissidents and human rights activists, to block it from using its products. 6park.com 苹果正在起诉以色列军用级间谍软件制造商NSO Group technologies,以阻止其使用自己的产品。NSO开发了针对记者、持不同政见者和人权活动人士手机的监控软件。 6park.comNSO develops and sells its spyware, known as Pegasus, which exploits vulnerabilities in iPhones and Android smartphones, and allows those who deploy it to infiltrate a target’s device unnoticed. 6park.comNSO开发并销售名为Pegasus的间谍软件,该软件利用iphone和Android智能手机的漏洞,让部署该软件的人在不知不觉中渗透到目标设备中。 6park.comApple’s suit provided new details about a recently patched vulnerability, nicknamed FORCEDENTRY, that was used by NSO’s clients for about eight months to deliver code to an unspecified number of targets. 6park.com苹果公司的诉讼提供了关于一个最近被修补的漏洞的新细节,该漏洞被NSO的客户使用了大约8个月,向一个数目不详的目标提供代码。 6park.comNSO said its software had saved “thousands of lives . . . around the world” and that its technology helped governments “catch paedophiles and terrorists”. 6park.comNSO表示,其软件拯救了“全世界数千条生命”,而且它的技术帮助政府“抓住恋童癖者和恐怖分子”。 6park.com——本文2021年11月24日发布于FT中文网,英文原题为Apple sues Israeli spyware group NSO
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