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North Macedonia: Abuse of personal data of mobile phone subscribers in marketing campaigns

The holidays always represent an opportunity for sales companies to conduct various marketing campaigns for their products. So, they will often call "by random choice" potential customers to offer vouchers and attractive discounts. But it isn't clear how they manage to find the subscribers' private mobile numbers. The people who conduct this type of marketing, and with whom Meta.mk spoke,...

From attending classes on a pedal boat to playing video games during classes – the misuses of the online teaching?

The new school year in North Macedonia started on the 1st of October with a distance learning based on the national platform schools.mk where the pupils are able to see and hear the lectures of their teachers and professors. But, this way of teaching also posed new challenges both for the students and the teachers, and the whole educational...

New NED working paper: Why Is there demand for disinformation and why is it growing

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) from the United States released a new working paper titled “Demand for Deceit: How the Way We Think Drives Disinformation,” authored by Samuel Woolley and Katie Joseff. The paper focuses on the demand for disinformation and raises the question of why there are such news consumers who are constantly seeking and trusting disinformation sources while rejecting other information sources. What...

ACMIS served as a decoration only: The Criminal and the Supreme Court were allocating cases manually

The Ministry of Justice's working group has stated numerous irregularities in the operations of both the Criminal Court Skopje and the Supreme Court's regarding the use of the ACMIS system (Automated Court Case Management Information System). As was announced by the Minister of Justice, Bilen Saljiji, the Commission has stated that the ACMIS system is implemented and regularly used...

Subpoena for the mayor of Berovo because he was travelling without a travel warrant

A subpoena for Dragi Nadzinski, the mayor of Berovo, was lodged by the Sector of Interior (SoI) Shtip, announced MoI. In the subpoena that was lodged at the Basic Public Prosecution in Berovo, it states that D.N. from Berovo has misused his position and authorization. According to the police, as a mayor of Berovo, Nadzinski has used the municipality's...