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Facial recognition on trial : emotion and gender “detection” under scrutiny in a court case in Brazil - 3 juillet 2020
We are seeing AI-powered facial recognition systems deployed in increasingly sensitive environments around the world, and often without people’s knowledge or consent. It is critical to ensure these systems do not facilitate human rights violations, in particular of people and communities who are already at risk. (...)
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COVID-19 contact-tracing apps in MENA : a privacy nightmare - 27 juin 2020
At the outbreak of the COVID-19 global pandemic, a number of countries in the MENA region turned to technology to help track and prevent the spread of the virus, using apps, drones, and even robots to monitor the movement of citizens under quarantine. Now, as countries are looking to slowly return to life and lift (...)
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Les Applications de traçage numérique pour la lutte contre le COVID-19 dans la région MENA : un cauchemar pour les données personnelles - 27 juin 2020
En réponse à la pandémie mondiale de COVID-19, un certain nombre de pays de la région MENA ont fait appel à la technologie dans le but de détecter et limiter la propagation du virus, que ce soit avec applications, des drones, ou des robots pour suivre le mouvement des citoyens en quarantaine. Maintenant que les pays (...)
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Emotion, Gender Prediction Tech Should Be Banned from Brazil’s Metro : NGO Testifies - 26 juin 2020
Access Now, a non-profit that defends the digital rights of citizens around the world, presents an expert opinion in a lawsuit against São Paulo metro operator ViaQuatro and its use of facial categorization software to predict the age, gender and emotional state of passengers for advertisement purposes.
ViaQuatro (...)
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Human rights organizations call on Egyptian authorities to cease restrictions on internet freedoms and digital rights - 24 mai 2020
Following the rise in the number of patients with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), Egyptian authorities have taken significant, large-scale measures in order to limit the spread of the virus. These include imposing a curfew on citizens for a specified number of hours, the full and temporary closure of some (...)
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#KeepItOn : Burundi silences the majority on election day - 24 mai 2020
As millions of Burundians head to the polls to elect their next president today, May 20, 2020, the Pierre Nkurunziza government has rushed to block access to social media including Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and YouTube. This blatant denial of the rights to access information and freedom of expression casts a (...)
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COVID-19 Digital Rights Tracker - 3 mai 2020
This live tracker documents new measures introduced in response to COVID-19 that pose a risk to digital rights around the world.
In response to the outbreak of COVID-19 :
Contact Tracing Apps are being used in 29 countries
Alternative digital tracking measures are active in 30 countries
Physical surveillance (...)
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Zoom’s Flawed Encryption Linked to China - 4 avril 2020
Meetings on Zoom, the increasingly popular video conferencing service, are encrypted using an algorithm with serious, well-known weaknesses, and sometimes using keys issued by servers in China, even when meeting participants are all in North America, according to researchers at the University of Toronto.
The (...)
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World Report 2020 : Shutting Down the Internet to Shut Up Critics | Human Rights Watch - 17 janvier 2020
From Caracas to Khartoum, protesters are leveraging the internet to organize online and stand up for their rights offline. In response, in the past year governments in Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Myanmar and Zimbabwe shut down the internet in all or (...)
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It’s not the first time Iran has shut down the internet, but this time, it’s different - 24 novembre 2019
A rushed decision by the Iranian government to raise fuel prices by 50%, after years of political and economic instability and threats to human rights, has forced Iranians across the country into the streets to demand change. According to Amnesty International, at least a dozen protesters have been killed, many (...)
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New report shows 100+ members of civil society targeted as NSO Group continues to evade scrutiny - 1er novembre 2019
In May this year, we published an article detailing a WhatsApp breach where the secure messaging app was found to be vulnerable to a specific type of attack by malicious actors. Today, on the back of a lengthy investigation by WhatsApp and our friends at Citizen Lab, we are finally learning more about who the (...)
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United Nations : protect rights in welfare systems’ tech overhaul - 25 octobre 2019
Automating benefits, services threatens welfare rights, privacy
(New York, October 17, 2019) "“ Governments should heed the call of the United Nations’ leading expert on poverty to fully integrate human rights protections into their efforts to digitize and automate welfare benefits and services, seven human rights (...)
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No summer break for free expression in Europe : Facebook cases that matter for human rights - 4 octobre 2019
The summer of 2019 was an intense period for the right to freedom of expression and information in Europe. Besides regulatory pressure on tech companies by governments and global policy initiatives such as the Christchurch Call, European courts issued multiple opinions and judgments. In this blog post, we draw (...)
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Judges raise the gavel to #KeepItOn around the world - 27 septembre 2019
In July, Sudan ended a five-week long internet shutdown. A case brought by the Sudanese lawyer Abdelazeem Hassan is reported to have been the catalyst for the court order to the telco companies MTN and Sudatel to restore internet access in the country. Winning the lawsuit was a victory for freedom of expression (...)
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Is NSO Group’s infamous Pegasus spyware being traded through the EU ? - 15 septembre 2019
When sophisticated surveillance systems are sold and used effectively without constraint, it puts civil society, free expression, and our democracies in the crosshairs. The brutal murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi remains a grim reminder of the vulnerability of those speaking out for human rights. In the (...)
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Les blocages d’Internet par les autorités en forte hausse dans le monde - 30 juin 2019
Dans son rapport annuel, Acces Now, une ONG qui défend les libertés numériques, s’inquiète de l’augmentation des coupures volontaires du Web, notamment en Asie et en Afrique. Et le plus souvent lors de périodes électorales ou de protestations.
196. C’est le nombre de blocages d’internet qui ont eu lieu durant toute (...)
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Internet en Afrique : Comment les gouvernements le ferment-ils ? - 31 mars 2019
Pas de Facebook, Twitter ou WhatsApp.C’est ce qui devient de plus en plus courant dans certains pays africains, où les gouvernements ont périodiquement fermé l’Internet ou bloqué les plateformes de médias sociaux.
Cela fait un an que le Tchad a bloqué l’accès aux sites de médias sociaux les plus populaires.
Le Soudan en (...)
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New Law Could Give U.K. Unconstitutional Access to Americans’ Personal Data, Human Rights Groups Warn - 27 novembre 2018
Nine human rights and civil liberties organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Justice Department today objecting to a potential agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom that would give British law enforcement broad access to data held by U.S. technology companies.
The possible agreement stems (...)
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World’s Leading Human Rights Groups Tell Google to Cancel Its China Censorship Plan - 28 août 2018
Leading human rights groups are calling on Google to cancel its plan to launch a censored version of its search engine in China, which they said would violate the freedom of expression and privacy rights of millions of internet users in the country.
A coalition of 14 organizations "” including Amnesty (...)
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Google Censorship Plan Is "Not Right" and "Stupid," Says Former Google Head of Free Expression - 10 août 2018
Google’s former head of free expression issues in Asia has slammed the internet’s giant’s plan to launch a censored search engine in China, calling it a "stupid move" that would violate widely"“held human rights principles.
As The Intercept first reported last week, Google has been quietly developing a search (...)
