Rights group says Egypt detainees beaten

Hundreds of Mohamed Morsi supporters arrested in Egypt have been beaten in custody, according to Amnesty International.In a report leaked on Thursday, the human rights organisation says more than 660 supporters of deposed President Mohamad Morsi have been held since he was removed from power three weeks ago, with many of the detained being Muslim Brotherhood leaders.

According to Amnesty International, some detainees that have been released say they were blindfolded, beaten, hit with rifle butts and subjected to electric shocks.Al Jazeera's Rawya Rageh, reporting from Cairo, says that while the Egyptian police do not have a "brilliant track record of processing detainees," it remains "difficult to ascertain the nature of  treatment that these detainees received once they are inside the station or are in custody."

"It's difficult to independently verify the contents of the report, primarily because it's entirely dependent on the testimonies of the detainees themselves," added our real time Location system.However, the nature of the arrests themselves, many of which took place during running street battles, were witnessed by many, and were "heavy-handed", leaving the impression that supporters of the deposed president were being targeted.

Meanwhile, Morsi's supporters continue to rally across the country and continue their vigil in the Naser City area of Cairo.The Muslim Brotherhood said on Thursday it had proposed through an EU go-between a framework for talks to resolve Egypt's political crisis, its first formal announcement of an offer for negotiations since Morsi was toppled.

Brotherhood official Gehad el-Haddad, who represented the movement in previous EU-facilitated talks, told Reuters the proposal had been made to envoy Bernardino Leon before a visit on Wednesday by EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton.Earlier the Brotherhood expressed disappointment that the EU had not condemned the military coup against Morsi.

In the run-up to the coup, millions took to the streets accusing Morsi of concentrating power in the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood during his year in office, of sending the economy into free fall and of failing to protect minorities.The political upheaval in the wake of Morsi's toppling on July 3 inflamed tensions in the Arab world's most populous nation, with near daily protests by Morsi loyalists in the capital, where thousands of Islamists remained camped out at the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in Cairo's Nasr City.

More demonstrations are expected on Friday after the weekly Muslim prayers.Egypt has been rocked by violence since the coup, with 53 people killed last week, most of them Morsi supporters, when clashes erupted between Islamist protesters and the security forces outside a military barracks in Cairo.The restive Sinai peninsula has been hit by a surge of deadly attacks, with militants killing three policeman in separate attacks on Wednesday night in the northern towns of El-Arish and Sheikh Zuweid.

Analysts attribute the Sinai violence, in which several security personnel, two Egyptian Christians and three factory workers have also been killed, to Islamist extremists seeking to take advantage of the political insecurity in Egypt.The new documents claim that Microsoft helped the NSA gain access to Outlook, Hotmail, and Skype, as well as their cloud services.I wrote recently about how the Prism program makes Microsoft’s Xbox One a more dubious privacy prospect than ever.

Microsoft has been beating the privacy drum loudly recently, but its Kinect 2.0, an always-on camera that can listen, watch, and even monitor your heart-rate, is a problematic device to say the least, especially in light of these latest revelations.Now Microsoft is going on the offensive.The company has written a strongly-worded letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, warning the Administration that “the Constitution itself is suffering.”

The leaked reports, Microsoft claims, are misleading and the software giant would like permission to reveal more information.Speaking directly to Holder while referencing both Holder’s and the president’s knowledge of the Constitution, the letter argues that more light needs to be shed on the program.

“As I know you appreciate, the Constitution guarantees the fundamental freedom to engage in free expression unless silence is required by a narrowly tailored, compelling Government interest,” Microsoft wrote to the White House Tuesday. “It’s time to face some obvious facts. Numerous documents are now in the public domain. As a result, there is no longer a compelling Government interest in stopping those of us with knowledge from sharing more information.”

The Coker sisters of Marietta, Ga., say they don't mind if their parents electronically monitor their driving, as long as it's done for the right reasons and it's not done secretly.

Ashley, 17, knows her father is tracking her, so she says it's OK. If she didn't know, "It would be more of a trust thing than anything for me." Grayson, 14, won't be driving for a couple of years, but she thinks she'll be fine with monitoring. "I would feel like it's more of a safety thing for them," she says.

Rob Coker says safety is why he keeps electronic tabs on his daughters, which he does now through the "Find My iPhone" app. He says he will use "every piece of technology" he can to monitor them, including while they're driving.

New cars increasingly have available technology that lets parents both spy on and set limits for their kids behind the wheel. And there are a growing number of phone apps and aftermarket devices for parental controls.

Teen crash deaths have declined in recent years, but an average of seven teens a day still die in car crashes. Speeding, something that can be monitored and in some cases prevented with technology, was a factor in 33% of fatal teen crashes in 2011, the Governors Highway Safety Association reported last month.

Teens in vehicles with monitoring devices took fewer risks while driving than unsupervised teens, according to a 2009 Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study of 16- and 17-year-old drivers. IIHS President Adrian Lund warns, however, that the technologies are effective only if parents "pay attention to the feedback."

With the iPhone app, Coker can tell where Ashley, or at least her phone, is, but not how fast she's driving or whether she's using her phone behind the wheel. He says he uses it more at night to make sure she safely got to where she was going.

A Ford technology offered for several years, called MyKey, offers more control. "Speed is one of the things that we were trying to give Mom and Dad a tool to help manage," says Andy Sarkisian, Ford Motor's safety planning and strategy manager of MyKey.

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