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Facial recognition tech stories and rights harms from around the world - 2 mars 2021
From Delhi to Detroit, Budapest to Bogota, Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) is being rapidly deployed in public and private spaces across the world.
As of 2019, 64 out of 176 countries were using facial recognition surveillance systems. In the US alone, more than 50 percent of all American adults were in a (...)
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A year in surveillance - 31 décembre 2020
2020 has been a very turbulent year. This is also true with regards to European surveillance politics, both at the EU level and in national politics. Like most years, it was largely characterised by one central conflict, which in simple terms goes like this : a push for more and more technologically advanced (...)
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Benefitting whom ? An overview of companies profiting from “digital welfare” - 27 novembre 2020
Could private companies be the only ones really profitting from digital welfare ? This overview looks at the big players.
Key findings
Companies like IBM, MasterCard and credit scoring agencies are developping programmes that reshape our access to welfare.
A particular example is the case of the London Counter (...)
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Coronavirus is putting Europe’s privacy protectors front and centre – and they’re coming up short - 2 octobre 2020
Coronavirus is putting Europe’s privacy protectors front and centre – and they’re coming up short
Coronavirus is putting Europe’s privacy protectors front and centre – and they’re coming up short
Wojciech Wiewiórowski felt like his entire life had been leading up to the moment when Covid-19 hit Europe like a tidal wave (...)
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Les enjeux géopolitiques de la 5G - 27 septembre 2020
Le débat relatif à la 5G, qui permettrait d’échanger sans temps de latence 14 à 20 fois plus de données que l’actuelle 4G, s’enflamme. Il se cristallise, notamment, autour des problématiques environnementales que soulève cette nouvelle technologie.
Cette question, évidemment essentielle, tend à monopoliser un débat qu’elle (...)
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Manipulations numériques en Afrique, par André-Michel Essoungou - 26 août 2020
Début juin, Facebook a fermé 446 pages, 96 groupes et plus de 200 comptes Instagram administrés par la société franco-tunisienne URéputation. Celle-ci aurait cherché à influencer, par la diffusion de fausses informations, des élections en Afrique francophone. Laboratoire mondial des manipulations numériques, le continent (...)
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From Japan to Brazil and South Africa : how countries’ ‘data cultures’ shape their response to coronavirus - 13 août 2020
Since March, The Correspondent has been tracking how countries are using surveillance technology to respond to the spread of the coronavirus. We’ve already documented how governments have turned to contact-tracing apps, telecom tracking and self-assessment apps to curb the spread of the virus. But it’s clear that (...)
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Obscure Indian cyber firm spied on politicians, investors worldwide - 8 août 2020
LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A little-known Indian IT firm offered its hacking services to help clients spy on more than 10,000 email accounts over a period of seven years.
New Delhi-based BellTroX InfoTech Services targeted government officials in Europe, gambling tycoons in the Bahamas, and well-known (...)
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Companies are enforcing their own contact tracing to track employees - 5 juillet 2020
Tech titans don’t have a monopoly on contact tracing – companies are developing their own to keep tabs on employees in the new frontline of the fight against coronavirus
In the coming months, tens of thousands of workers in Anglo American’s mines in South Africa will be asked to use a new piece of equipment : it (...)
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Special Report : Cyber-intel firms pitch governments on spy tools to trace coronavirus - 8 mai 2020
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When law enforcement agencies want to gather evidence locked inside an iPhone, they often turn to hacking software from the Israeli firm Cellebrite. By manually plugging the software into a suspect’s phone, police can break in and determine where the person has gone and whom he or she has (...)
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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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WhatsApp à l’assaut du marché indien du paiement mobile - 23 avril 2020
Depuis près d’un an, l’application américaine de messagerie détenue par Facebook teste un outil de transaction sur téléphone portable dans le sous-continent.
Féru de technologies numériques, Sumit s’est démené pour faire partie des Indiens qui expérimentent, depuis février 2018, le nouveau service de paiement mobile de (...)
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In Kenya, thousands face an uncertain future without ID cards - Coda Story - 17 avril 2020
A government program for citizens and refugees highlights the pitfalls of humanitarian biometrics
Amina Ali Adan was born in the Kenyan town of Garissa, 65 miles away from Dadaab, one of the world’s largest refugee camps, situated near the Somali border. She is just one of tens of thousands of Kenyan citizens who (...)
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We Mapped How the Coronavirus Is Driving New Surveillance Programs Around the World - 10 avril 2020
At least 28 countries are ramping up surveillance to combat the coronavirus
In an attempt to stem the tide of the coronavirus pandemic, more than 25 governments around the world have instituted temporary or indefinite efforts to single out infected individuals or maintain quarantines. Many of these efforts, in (...)
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How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades - 11 février 2020
For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries.
For more than half a century, governments all over the world trusted a single company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret.
The company, Crypto AG, got its first break with a contract to build (...)
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Ubiquitous Surveillance Cameras Are Changing Our Understanding of Human Behavior - VICE - 18 janvier 2020
Ever since the infamous murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964, it’s been a common assumption that bystanders are unlikely to intervene in a public attack if they witness it as part of a group. But that assumption is now in question—ironically, due to the ubiquitous presence of surveillance cameras in cities around the (...)
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Une campagne de phishing persistante cible des gouvernements du monde entier - 16 décembre 2019
La société américaine de cybersécurité Anomali a mis au jour une campagne de phishing internationale visant aussi bien le gouvernement américain que sud-africain, suédois ou japonais. Actuellement ni les motivations, ni les auteurs de ces actes n’ont été percés.
Une importante campagne de phishing sévit aux quatre coins de (...)
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Smart CCTV Networks Are Driving an AI-Powered Apartheid in South Africa - 29 novembre 2019
In one of the world’s most racially divided countries, a company called Vumacam is building a nationwide surveillance network that scrutinizes peoples’ movements for “unusual behavior.”
“Beggars” and “vagrants” are not welcome in Parkhurst, South Africa, a mostly white, middle-class suburb of about 5,000 on the outskirts (...)
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En Afrique du Sud, le nouvel apartheid de la surveillance automatisée - 29 novembre 2019
Dans un pays fracturé, Vumacam installe un angoissant empire sécuritaire que l’IA risque de faire dériver vers des ségrégations plus grandes encore.
Dressé par Michael Kwet dans Vice, le portrait de l’entreprise sud-africaine Vumacam fait probablement verdir de jalousie les cadres de Ring, la pourtant très dystopique et (...)
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L’Afrique du Sud frappée de plein fouet par une double cyberattaque DDoS et ransomware - 31 octobre 2019
Entre une attaque par déni de service transformée en demande de rançon et une importante brèche informatique exploitée par des hackers, l’Afrique du Sud a traversé une semaine délicate. Et ce trois mois après le piratage de City Power, principal fournisseur d’électricité de Johannesburg.
Les infrastructures informatiques de (...)
