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Spain was going to invest a fortune in data centers. And then Deepseek arrived

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Data centers They looked like the new gold fever in Spain. Recent data revealed how investments of Various Big Tech They promised to significant this market. Artificial intelligence promoted all those efforts, but these days some companies are rethinking what to do. The reason is, of course, Deepseek. Deepseek. The arrival of the models Deepseek v3 in November and Deepseek-R1 Just a few days ago it has made all these investments now questioned for a single reason. It may not be necessary to spend so much money. Chinese models of this startup seem to show that the same can be achieved (or more) With much less. “Unrealistic”. As revealed expandingSpain could attract more than 43.7 billion investment until 2030. However, sources in the sector have indicated in that economic newspaper that some millmillonarium projects to build large data centers in Spain were “unrealistic” and there is talk of figures that were not even guaranteed by the funds. Market adjustment. The Search for efficiency You can make these analyzes a certain adjustment in the market. Both investment funds and risk capital companies can now show more prudence when investing. Spaindc provided for the arrival of 58,000 million euros to the data centers sector until 2030. But there will be (a lot of investment). Although it seems clear that there will be a review of the budgets in various projects, as long as the need for the creation of data centers will continue to exist. The demand, due to the rise of AI and cloud services, will be remarkable. Great plans. In our country ACS has for example plans to invest globally 60,000 million euros (12,000 million in Spain). Merlin, another of the leading companies in this sector, announced the promotion of two megacampus in Extremadura with 1 GW capacity in each. Repsol, also cited expanding, It has plans to invest 4,000 million in Spain in this area. Long -term optimism, but short caution. The movements that have occurred these days after the impact caused by Depseek seems to have made many companies be recalibrating their short, medium and long term plans. However, it is impossible to know what the impact of medium -term Deepseek will be. Some experts pointed out In the Independent How they were not entirely convinced of the real efficiency of Deepseek, but they admit that that will certainly force a potential rethinking of the data centers. Image | Amazon In Xataka | We have calculated how much money the Big Tech are being spent on data centers. The numbers are dizzy

LaLiga wants your biometric data to enter the field. Europe has something to say

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The Spanish soccer employer returns to the load with its intention of implementing systems of facial recognition and fingerprints in the accesses to the stadiums, despite the fact that European regulations prevent it, so they continue to work on the way of achieving it. The current situation. Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga, reiterated on Tuesday in Congress his desire to apply biometric identification in the stadiums. “Within the stadiums there are people who are prohibited from entry, but the data protection agency has told us that it goes against the European regulations,” he said according to Brand. This battle is not new. In January 2024, the Spanish Agency for Data Protection (AEPD) already launched a warning to LaLiga for teaching a contract to develop a facial recognition system in access to fields. Between the lines. LaLiga’s motivation is clear: reinforcing her fight against violence and racism in stadiums. The organization has filed more than 40 criminal complaints and reported more than 560 intolerant chants since 2013. Ensure that those sanctioned with the prohibition of access to the stadiums can go to the matches with the payment of another person or with a free admission is what LaLiga would seek implementing biometry. The obstacle. The General European Data Protection Regulation expressly prohibits the processing of biometric data except for very specific exceptions, such as the explicit consent of the interested party or a need for essential public interest. There are some precedents in Spain, but with many nuances. This is the case of Osasuna, which already implemented facial recognition in 2022 in the Sadar, but as a voluntary and complementary system to the traditional fertilizer. The key is precisely in their optional character: partners can choose to register their face to access the stadium or maintain their usual method. However, that did not help him to avoid a recent fine of 200,000 euros. The technology, developed by the Pamplonesa company, converts facial images into numerical codes that cannot be converted into images, thus complying with privacy requirements. Consulted by XatakaLaLiga refers to an October statement already the therabas of Thebes in Congress. In that press release, the employer stressed that “biometry would be a crucial tool for the detection and eradication of violent and racist behaviors in the stadiums.” In fact, Miguel Ángel Aguilar, prosecutor for hate crimes, supported this idea by suggesting “the reform of the data protection law to allow biometric identification, obtain evidence and condemn the people who perform the insults in the stadiums “. Deepen. The AEPD has been blunt: when there are less intrusive alternatives to verify the identity, such as showing the access title next to the ID, “it is hardly justifiable” to implement biometric systems. In addition, the agency warns that there must first be a legal basis that justifies data processing, not vice versa. For now, LaLiga continues to work with the Interior Ministry to try to find a route that allows these systems to be implemented, although the current regulatory framework seems to leave it in a difficult aspiration to materialize. Outstanding image | Gregorio Cavana in Unspash In Xataka | I have run for weeks with glasses that project data in my field of vision. The future of running will have to wait

OpenAi has taken everything he wanted from the Internet to train his AI. Now accuses Depseek of stealing his data

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The models of AI of Deepseek They are really good. They show it comparative evidence we publish yesterday and that put it at the level of chatgpt, Claude or Gemini. That has unleashed praises, but also suspicion. There are people who do not believe that training deepseek It has cost just 5.6 million dollarsbut also now in Openai they accuse Depseek of something else. Deepseek, you are using our data without permission. Openai spokesmen have indicated Financial Times They have discovered evidence that “distillate” techniques have been used from OpenAi models used by Depseek. What is that of “distilled” in AI? Yesterday we talk about how Depseek developers have used a large number of techniques to achieve such an efficient model. Among them stands out for reinforcement learningbut it is also known that they use models distillate. In this technique a smaller “student model” is taught to behave as a larger and more advanced “teacher model”. Data of the “teacher model” are used so that the small model is faster and more efficient, but equally intelligent in specific tasks. Use not allowed. The distillate or distillation of models is a common practice in the industry, but the terms of OpenAi service prohibit that their models be used for this purpose. Thus, it is specified that users cannot “copy” none of their services or “use the output (of Openai models) to develop models that compete with Openai.” OpenAI and Microsoft have already investigated this. According to Bloombergboth companies analyzed last accounts that were being used to take advantage of their chatbots and that apparently belonged to Deepseek developers. They used Openai’s API, but there were suspicions that they had violated the terms of service by taking advantage of that access to make distillate of their models. Many do. David Sacks, responsible for AI in Donald Trump’s team, alerted him to what was happening and said there was evidence that Depseek had used OpenAi data. Spokesmen of the company led by Sam Altman indicated that “we know that companies of the People’s Republic of China – and others – are constantly trying to distill the models of leading companies in AI in the US.” The thief is believed that everyone is of his condition. The ironic thing here is that Openai has not had scruples when collecting internet data to train their models, also violating the terms of service of those platforms. Last year it was discovered for example how transcribed a million youtube hours To train GPT-4. Timnit Gebru, famous for his controversial dismissal From Google, I commented on LinkedIn that Openai “must be the most insufferable company in the world.” And he continued: “They can steal the entire world and swallow all possible resources. But no one can give them their own medicine not even a bit.” If you are on the Internet, it can be used, right? Other companies They do exactly the sameand are shielded in the argumetno of “fair use.” They collect Any public content On the Internet without asking users or permission or platforms. Not only that: it is suspected that in many cases these models are trained with works Protected by copyrightsomething that has resulted in numerous demands. Image | Xataka with Grok In Xataka | The next phase of AI is not to see who invests more but who invests less

Deepseek is the fashion model. The problem is that nobody knows very well what you are doing with our data

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If you are a user of Chatgptit is likely that in the last week you have tried Deepseek. He Chinese ia chatbot It is so promising that It has become a serious threat to many of the American technological giants. Not only is it an open source proposal that can work very well at home (in a certain hardware), but also has a free online version that, at least for the moment, allows unlimited consultations. There is also one Payment API whose rates are very competitive. When we use chatbots like Deepseek we usually share a lot of information. These tools have become allies when planning vacations, summarizing documents, making budgets, analyzing images, among other things. Their language models swallow every word that we introduce to give us the answers we are looking for or an approach that we can refine to Prompts. What do they do with our data? Now, after the initial crush of discovering a new application of ia, let’s ask ourselves What happens to our data. Do they disappear after being processed by the model? Do we give them perpetuity to a company that we don’t even know? Are they stored as a treasure for training future iterations of the model? Certainly there are many questions, many, but they are not completely new. We already asked ourselves many of these questions when Chatgpt achieved popularity. Perhaps we did not ask ourselves the questions, but several European regulators were asked, which forced the company led by Sam Altman to make some changes to continue operating in certain countries of the block. Deepseek is the new star, and sooner or later these questions should appear on the scene. In the midst of so many questions there are some certainties: Deepseek collects a huge amount of data. This is probably not a surprise for some, but for others who have just started using chatbot. To have more clarity about the PRIVACY PRACTICES OF THE CHINISH COMPANY we can consult its page of Privacy Policy. Let’s start at the beginning, Hangzhou Deepseek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd. and Beijing Deepseek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd. collect information on the profile of users, such as username, date of birth (if applicable), address of email and/or telephone number and password. Our chats also collect, that is, texts, audios, charged files, comments, history. Everything goes to these companies. Suppose you have a question about Depseek and use the contact paths to talk to them. Well, the aforementioned organizations will also collect all the information you send. From identity or age tests, comments or consultations about the service. Everything mentioned so far is within a category called “Information you provide.” Within the range of information collected by companies behind Depseek we find another category called “automatically collected information.” Here they are made with our device model, operating system (and the language of the), IP address, cookies and diagnostic data and performance. They will also capture the keys of keys, and everything will be associated with a device ID and a user ID. It is not possible to quote our data, but there are no doubt that they are valuable. One way to measure its value is to size everything they drive. First, Depseek uses the data collected to train your AI models. Companies also talk about “interactions supervision”, and at this point we are not sure if there are humans analyzing conversations. In the documents of the companies we find other interesting information, such as that “review the entries and exits of the user and other information to protect the security and well -being” of the community. They also collect data to comply with legal obligations, to “carry out public interest tasks” and to notify changes in services. Later we will see where the data of the millions of Deepseek users are stored. The data collected by Depseek does not stay in Deepseek Deepseek says in its privacy policy that you can share the information collected from all categories indicated above. We go in parts. First, we can mention corporate group entitiesthat is, actors that are under the umbrella of organizations that control Deepseek. But there is more. They can also be sent to “advertising or analytical partners.” Possibly remember that paragraphs above we point out that the information collected is labeled with a device ID and a user ID. Well, these identifiers are usually very useful to track user activity and cross it with that of other platforms. At this point Depseek mentions that you can use activity from other sites and services, but in some jurisdictions. It is not clear how this will be applied in the European Union. Deepseek also explains that they can share the information collected with “the agencies responsible for enforcing the law, Public authoritiesthe head of copyright or other third parties if we believe in good faith that is necessary. ” In other words, they can give this data to the government. While this occurs in almost any jurisdiction, we must pay special attention to China, which has been involved in several controversies in this regard. There are numerous investigations that point against the Chinese Communist Party (PCCH) and Laws of the People’s Republic of China for forcing the technology companies of their country to provide data to relevant information. A document of United States National Security Department points out that the Government urges companies to install rear doors To help in operations to maintain national security. One of Tiktok’s conflict points It was precisely the one we just mentioned. The data of the Americans were apparently exposed to foreign actors. To address this concern, Bytedance, the social network matrix, An agreement with Oracle arrived To store the data of the United States users in their territory, also submitting them to legislation the North American country. The data collected by Depseek is stored on servers in China. Besides, We have spoken a lot about how strict the regulation towards technological ones in the European Union. The General Data … Read more

Nobody says that he knows how to read in the curriculum. Maintaining these three data does not make sense in 2025

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One of the main premises given by personnel recruitment experts is to maintain the Updated curriculumand adapt it to the job offer to which it is going to apply. Almost unconsciously, it tends to update incorporating New skills and knowledge that they are acquired and, perhaps, do not realize that there are skills that are already assumed as basic. In the same way that nobody puts in your curriculum if you know how to read or write In Spain of 2025, there are certain data and skills that should disappear by being obvious. Update the curriculum in these details also denotes that the candidate Adapt to labor market language current. No one is going to write you a postal letter One of these usual errors is to include postal address with your personal data. In addition to being a superfluous data in current selection processes, including so many personal data is an unnecessary exhibition of your privacy. In none of the possible scenarios, the recruiter will send you a postal response to your address as the first contact. Therefore, instead of including your postal address, you can highlight your contact email or, if you prefer, your phone number. The only reference to your place of residence should be the population or province of residence, since this data will serve the recruiter to get an idea of ​​geographical availability in case of applying to a position with hybrid or face -to -face day options. User level computer is no longer an option Including certain “bulb” skills is counterproductive when recruiters will not use more than Six seconds to browse your curriculum and determine if you are the candidate profile they are looking for. Fill with straw Your skills only hinder that task, and can make other real skills go unnoticed. Skills such as “User level computer”, use of email or social networks are skills that, in 2025, are already assumed as basic and implicit, such as knowing how to read and write. Instead, highlight your skills in the use of specific tools related to those areas. For example, you can highlight your domain with mailing tools or Newsletters distribution, Knowledge in software for monitoring metrics on social networks, or some digital certification that accredits your training in that section. Without vagueness or adjectives Unless the position that is postulated is to become the promotional image of the company, add adjectives related to physical appearance does not proceed in a curriculum, and even are assumed. The perfect example is to indicate “good presence” as a quality of the candidate. In addition to being a vague and inaccurate term, it does not provide information on the skills, knowledge and capabilities to develop the post, which is what really interests recruiters in the first leakers of candidates. The concept of “good presence” takes greater relevance as the selection process progresses. To the go to a job interviewit is necessary to offer a professional image to cause good impression to the person you are going to have. That first positive impression is not only obtained by wearing properly. Come on time or respond properly They also contribute to the interview being a success. Photo yes, photo no: the controversy is served As an additional option to the three data that have become superfluous for the selection of candidates, we find the option to include or not a photo of the candidate. In this sense, there is no unanimous criterion about the suitability of including a photo in the curriculum. In case of opting to include it, this must be a photo in which only the one who runs to the vacancy appears, with a neutral background and opt for a professional style and costumes. According to experts From the Employment Consultant Hays, not including the photo in the curriculum could be indicative that the candidate hides something, so he tends to be suspicious. On the other hand, not including it makes biases are avoided By age, race or physical appearance and focus on the candidate’s skills. In countries with Anglo -Saxon influence such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia or Canada, they consider it negative to include a photo of the candidate in the curriculum. In fact, in the United Kingdom it is prohibited by 2010 Equity Law. Therefore, if the vacancy is to cover a position in companies in those countries, it is advisable to eliminate the photo of the curriculum. In Xataka | If your chair holds in a job interview, it is no accident: they are evaluating more than your curriculum Image | Unspash (The Jopwell Collection)

5 applications that you must immediately uninstall to protect your bank data

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The cyber scams They advance almost at the same time that a new alternative or digital security option arises. And if we believed that cybercrequence had “housed” in applications, emails, text messages and calls with the intention of obtaining personal and bank information, the scammers have found a new way of violating users through apps that have The intention to protect the user: Applications of type VPN. These types of applications, increased in recent years, have the objective of providing an “extra filter” of safety and tranquility to the user because they create a safe connection between a device and a VPN server in various processes such as the payment of a service or the purchase of a product. Protect your information to avoid being a victim of cyber criminals.Credit: Shuttersock Therefore, these types of apps help protect online privacy, hide the IP address from where a bank transactionaccess to restricted content by region as well as protect from cyber attacks. Given this series of benefits, more than one user has decided to make use of these apps with the intention of avoiding Data filtration. However, and ironically, these applications have also caused a large number of scammers to discover a new opportunity to make their crimes. Through apps that are passed through transparent and reliable platforms, Cybercriminals They have the opportunity to steal information. VPN applications that you should uninstall of your cell phone Before the increase of this kind of Cyberdelitesthe cybersecurity company Kaspersky He launched a warning to its users and the general population about various applications that have been identified as fraudulent or false: Maskvpn DEWVPN Paladinvpn Proxigate Shieldvpn Shinevpn According to Kasperskyonce the app It is installed on a cell phone, it becomes a proxy server that It allows the scammer to access passwords, bank history, sensitive information and personal data of the user remotely and without raising suspicions. The victims of the scammers are usually elderly or immigrants.Credit: Shuttersock For all the above, the company mentions that the first action for Avoid data filtration It is uninstalling any of these applications immediately from the cell phone as well as reporting it in the digital store where it was downloaded. Similarly, recommend using type applications VPN that are verified or that come from official companies in Cybersecurity. Continue reading: Tiktok, the Chinese global phenomenon that faces possible closure in the US. The woman who lost $ 850,000 was cheated by a Brad Pitt created with artificial intelligence Instagram and Facebook are updated to be more transparent in data verification (tagstotranslate) Applications

Announces a data center almost as large as Manhattan and up to 65,000 million investment

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We are witnessing how the race is accelerated for the development of the artificial intelligence (AI). After Stargate ad, An initiative of 500,000 million dollars that promises to greatly benefit OpenAIthe target movement arrives. The social networks giant plans to invest up to 65,000 million dollars this year to consolidate its role in this strategic area. Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s CEO, has said In a publication in Threads that part of this money will be used in the construction of a data center of more than 2 gigawatts. According to their size, data centers to hyperscala may need from megawatts to gigawatts of power. In this case, we are facing an installation that “could cover a significant part of Manhattan.” A huge effort … and staggered As expected, not the entire planned cluster will start operating at the same time. Goal expects to put online around 1.3 million GPU Specialized for the end of the year, which will require 1 power gigavatio. The works will continue to reach the power stop in the following months with the objective of promoting the main long -term target products and businesses. But the Menlo Park company also has some more immediate purposes: it wants it to call 4, A model of AI that is expected to arrive this yearbecome a latest generation leader. We can interpret this as an online missile for Openai and its most advanced models, such as GPT-4O. Goal also wants to develop an AI Engineer system. An overlap of the Metca Data Center on Manhattan The Meta calls have pleasantly surprised the industry. Yes ok Zuckerberg is stubborn to use the term Open Source incorrectlythese products are available to most users and offer good results. In addition, they give life to the generative functions used by millions of users of Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp through Goal AI. For a while, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud cloud infrastructure have been one of the most outstanding market. Now we are seeing how companies such as Openai and Meta allocate billions of dollars to mount their own hardware. In this reconfiguration Nvidia is presented as one of the great winnersbecause it is the one who supplies most of the specialized GPUs for Ia. Images | Mark Zuckerberg | Goal In Xataka | China is closely monitoring the United States movement with Stargate. And your answer has already prepared

If the question is who wants to build the world’s largest data center, the answer is surprising: India

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The data centers is the new gold fever of technology. That Mukesh Ambani, the founding billionaire of the company Reliance Group. His intention is to go beyond what the great American technological ones promise and build in India the largest data center worldwide. 3 GW. That is the energy capacity that Ambani projects for a new data center that wants to build in Jamnagar. This is stated by sources close to the project In Bloomberg. Akash Abani, CEO and son of the founder, said in a recent statement that they were building a data center in less than two years “as we have always done in – in 24 months.” An irreverent figure. At present, the largest mute data centers are below 1 GW of energy capacity, as indicated in Bloomberg with data from the DC Byte consultant. In visual capitalist They showed a year ago the largest data centers in the world. To be able to compare with the Indian project, a fact: all AWS data centers in the Northern Virginia region, in the US, about 300, add a total of 2.5 GW, when one in India could have more energy capacity that all those United centers. Amazing. The most capacity data center in the world is currently from Microsoft in Boydton, Virginia, with almost 600 MW of energy capacity. The more energy, the better. Data centers are usually measured by the energy they can provide to their servers, their cooling systems and the rest of the equipment of these facilities. The larger the figure, the more computing capacity, and here the AI ​​models have created a career to build more and larger data centers. Ambani for all. The tycoon is known for his aggressive tactics to have his rivals with price wars that few can sustain. It happened in the mobile segment and now wants to take the strategy to AI. Its objective is to reduce inference costs to a minimum to become an absolute reference in this market. This was stated In a statement highlighting that “our goal is to create the cheapest artificial intelligence in the world, right here, in India.” Astronomical cost. However, it is not clear how Reliance will finance this potential operation. According to Bloomberg estimates, a data center could have a cost of between 20 and 30,000 million dollars. Reliance Industry, the main division of the group, has about 26,000 million dollars. Jamnagar. The Indian city has a population of 650,000 people. There is the refining and petrochemical complex of Reliance, the largest in the world, but also Reliance wants to build there a renewable energy complex huge These energy sources would be especially used in that data center. Stargate in the spotlight. These days there is much of what to talk about in data centers, especially after the announcement of Openai and Softbank of PROJECT STARGATE to create a series of data centers in the US with a gigantic investment of 500,000 million dollars. There are no specific details of the energy capacity that is discussed in that case, but with that investment that data would be equally colossal. Image | Microsoft In Xataka | Stargate impossible accounts: the challenge of finding 500,000 million dollars for the largest IA project

Sweden did not believe Russia’s economic data. He has found the proof he was looking for by observing Moscow from space

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If the question is how Russia’s economy is doing, the answer surely depends on who you ask. A few weeks ago, The New York Times published a report where he explained the tensions that exist between the Russian elites as economic growth slows of the nation. They signed up the sanctions and the war itself, but in the face of rhetoric, Moscow responded that they would endure all threats. Sweden was not so clear, and claims to have evidence of the real situation. Stagnation and signs of slowdown. As we have told other timesthe war economy that Russia launched at full speed after the invasion of Ukraine appears to be showing signs of significant slowdown. In fact and as the Times emphasizedeven generating tensions among the country’s economic elite as the conflict enters its fourth year. According to recent official data, many civil sectors have stopped growing and have even begun to declinewhich has exacerbated economic uncertainty. The Russian currency, the ruble, fell three weeks ago to its lowest level in two yearsand companies face difficulties in obtaining new loans or receiving payments from customers, reflecting an increasingly restrictive financial environment. Rise in interest rates. The response of the Central Bank of Russia has been a drastic rise in reference interest rates, reaching 21% in October, the highest level since the fall of the Soviet Union. Despite efforts to contain inflation, the economic growth forecast for the new year has been revised downwards, standing between 0.5% and 1.5%well below the 3.5% to 4% recorded in 2024. In the background, the elephant in the room: the slowdown occurs despite the continued record government spending to finance the warwhich indicates that economic stimuli are no longer having the same effect. Economists and officials have begun to warn about the imminent risk of so-called stagflationa dangerous combination of price increase without economic growth. The impact of sanctions and the Russian response. The strict economic sanctions imposed by the West in response to the invasion of Ukraine have limited Russia’s ability to maintain its military-spending-fueled growth. In this regard, the Kremlin has insisted that it has withstood the impact of sanctions, but slowing growth and rising inflation indicate otherwise. Civilian businesses, in particular, have been hardest hit by the economic crisis. For example, Russian Railways, the country’s largest employer, reported a 9% drop in cargo volume transported last October compared to the previous year. To counteract this decline, the company has announced a price increase of more than 10% and has reduced its investment plans for 2025 by a third. Despite this, experts consider that the crisis is not yet serious enough enough to force President Vladimir Putin to reconsider his ambitions in Ukraine. Conflict Central Bank and the industrial elite. One of the main points of conflict within the Russian economic elite is the relationship between the Central Bank of Russia and the country’s leading industrialists. The bank’s governor, Elvira Nabiullina, has implemented a strict monetary policy to curb inflation, which has generated criticism from businessmenwho argue that record-high interest rates are stifling growth. In response to these, Nabiullina recently defended his strategy before Parliament, arguing that all the country’s economic resources are being used to the maximum and that macroeconomic stability should not be sacrificed for accelerated growth. However, its position has become increasingly isolated in an environment in which Business interests demand more flexible measures to sustain their operations in a context of growing uncertainty. Distrust in official figures. And in the face of domestic rhetoric, Western officials have expressed skepticism about the veracity of the economic data provided by the Kremlin, arguing that the official figures do not accurately reflect the reality of the Russian economy. In this regard, the Minister of Finance of Sweden, Elisabeth Svantesson, expressed during the World Economic Forum in Davos that Russia is presenting an image of economic stability that does not match the real situation. According to Svantesson, government statistics, which put inflation at 9.5%are not credible considering that the Central Bank of Russia has raised interest rates to 21%a discrepancy that suggests much greater inflationary pressure than is officially recognized. Furthermore, the continued flight of capital is another indicator of the country’s economic difficulties, which a priori contradicts the Kremlin’s narrative of resistance to Western sanctions. The “trick” of space. Thus, and given the lack of confidence in Russian data, Western officials have resorted to alternative methods to assess the nation’s economic health, including in the equation analysis of night satellite images of Moscow. Svantesson pointed out that city ​​lighting in 2023 was visibly dimmer compared to 2021which, in his opinion, suggests lower energy consumption and, therefore, a decline in economic activity. In fact, comparative photographs from media like Business Insider showed that, although factors such as cloud cover and time of day can influence perception, in general a pronounced decrease in illuminated areas is observed, especially in the suburbs of the capital, which could point to this deterioration in the level of life and possible cuts in the electricity supply. Manipulation of the economic narrative. Svantesson went a little further, and even emphasized that the Russian government’s official narrative seeks to convince Ukraine and its allies that sanctions have not had the desired impact. However, the data (and alternative data, such as the analysis of night lights), suggest that the economic reality is somewhat different from the image projected by Moscow. The minister concluded that, although the exact state of the Russian economy cannot be known with certainty, what is clear is that “the official version promoted by the Kremlin is not true.” Image | POT In Xataka | The end of the war is very far away for two reasons. One is arriving in Ukraine from the US, the other is an unprecedented figure in Russia In Xataka | Russia already knows how to respond to the sanctions that block its international trade: with cryptocurrencies

What data can Google and WhatsApp give about their users after a court order, as in the case of the attorney general?

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The judicial case opened against Álvaro García Ortiz, attorney general of the State, continues to move forward to try to settle his responsibility in the leak to the media of Alberto Gómez Amador’s tax filepartner of Isabel Díaz Ayuso. After the procedures to track the prosecutor’s telephone numbers and requesting call information from telephone companiesnow Judge Ángel Hurtado will ask WhatsApp and Google to help recover messages of the applications installed on García Ortiz’s two cell phones and in his email account. At the request of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard, Judge Hurtado has ordered the issuance of a rogatory commission to the two technology companies so that they provide all the required data and know precisely if the prosecutor was involved in the leak. to the media about the emails between Gómez Amador’s lawyer and the Prosecutor’s Office. For this, requests WhatsApp for messages received and/or sent by the userchat backups and communication logs. Regarding Google, the judge of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court requests the data stored in the services and products linked to the accountbackups of linked devices, third-party applications, chats and communication logs, with crucial data such as date, time, origin, destination or type of communication. State security forces have the power to ask companies for copies of information that is related to an ongoing investigation. However, “access to these companies that usually operate or have their data outside the European Union is very limited,” according to statements to EL ESPAÑOL – El Androide Libre de David del Olmoforensic computer expert specialized in mobile devices. Requests for rogatory commissions and judicial authorizations are usually slow, and according to the expert, “in many cases we will only obtain access data, but not the content of the messages, which is encrypted“. In that case it would be necessary to “perform a forensic analysis on the mobile device and then compare the data with the operator, if it wants to collaborate.” EL ESPAÑOL – El Androide Libre has contacted representatives of Google and WhatsApp in Spain, but until the closing of this edition they have not made any statements and refer to their respective privacy policies. This is how WhatsApp manages In the case of WhatsApp, the Meta company ensures in your Help Center that “does not disclose the content of its users’ messages in response to government requestsand it can’t do that either.” End-to-end encryption “ensures that only you and the person you communicate with can read or hear what you send.” The text, image or video leaves the device sending it encrypted and It remains that way until it reaches the mobile phone designated as the recipient. Nobody, not even WhatsApp itself, can consult the content. Currently, when companies like Meta receive, through a court order, a request to inform the police or a judge of a suspect or accused in a criminal investigation, they can provide data such as name, contacts, active hours and other information, but never the content of the messages, which is protected with end-to-end encryption protocol. That information is only kept on the phone used or, if the user chooses, in the phone’s cloud-based backup associated with a Drive account. WhatsApp chats are end-to-end encrypted Unsplash Omicrono Government agencies send requests for user data to WhatsApp, more than 300,000 between January and June 2024 internationally, according to the latest report published by Meta. In the case of Spain, the figure drops to 3,100 requests in legal processes corresponding to 5,765 accounts or users, with 66.3% of cases in which requests produced some dataalthough these are not specified. To check if these requests comply with applicable laws and WhatsApp privacy policiesthe company “has a specialized and trained compliance team that reviews and evaluates each government request for user data, in order to determine whether the request was sent in the context of an emergency or as a legal process originating from authorities police or government”. Meta transparency portal report on user information requests Goal The Free Android If the mobile phone from which the communications were made is found, David del Olmo explains that, in the case of WhatsApp, the information “is stored in the local database on the device, so recovering deleted messages without access to backup is technically possible in some cases.” Everything will depend “on the appropriate tools, the level of encryption and the possible physical or logical limitations of the device.” This is how Google manages For its part, the Internet giant explains very clearly how it proceeds in these cases in the terms of service published on their website. “At Google we receive requests for the disclosure of information about users from public bodies around the world. We carefully review each of these requests to ensure that it complies with applicable laws,” they say in the section ‘How Google handles government requests for user information‘. Gmail Justin Morgan Unsplash “If a request asks for too much information, we try to limit it and, In some cases, we refuse to provide the information in its entirety. In the Transparency Report, we publish the number and type of requests we receive,” they conclude. Still, there is a nuance, since the response to these requests depends on which Google service provider is: Google LLC, being based in the US, is governed by US law, while Google Ireland Limited, the provider of Mountain View services in Europeoperates under Irish law. Every six months, and for the sake of transparency, Google publishes a detailed report on the number of government requests for user information and the number of accounts subject to these requests, which can give a reliable clue about the final result of the proceedings requested by the magistrate of the Supreme. In the last recorded period, from January to June 2024, Google received more than 7,180 government requests for information corresponding to 11,368 accounts around the world. Of all of them, In 85% of the cases (an average also applicable to Spain) data were … Read more

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