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Che cos’è il “femminismo dei dati” e perché Bologna è una città apripista - 14 avril 2021
Bologna pubblicherà dati di genere e adotterà indicatori di impatto di genere fin dalla programmazione di attività e spesa. Altre città seguiranno l’esempio per portare in Italia il "data feminism" che considera i dati come dispositivo di potere dai quali quindi partire per ridurre le diseguaglianze
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Microsoft to Buy Artificial Intelligence Provider for $16 Billion - 14 avril 2021
By acquiring a provider of artificial-intelligence software, the tech giant is hoping to bolster its offerings for the fast-growing field of medical computing.
Microsoft said on Monday that it would buy Nuance Communications, a provider of artificial-intelligence and speech-recognition software, for about $16 (...)
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Au Poste #15 avec Olivier Tesquet, auteur d’« État d’urgence technologique (...) - davduf.net - 13 avril 2021
Depuis plus de 10 ans, l’homme-machine Olivier Tesquet traque nos traces, et le joyeux capitalisme de surveillance. On l’a convoqué #AuPoste. Il est resté près de deux heures et demi, passionnantes, et glaçantes.
Tesquet parle comme son livre « État d’urgence technologique » (Premier Parallèle) se déguste : avec précision (...)
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Facebook’s Algorithm Practices Gender Discrimination - 12 avril 2021
A University of Southern California study provides still more evidence that the company’s ad targeting illegally discriminates.
New research from a team at the University of Southern California provides further evidence that Facebook’s advertising system is discriminatory, showing that the algorithm used to target (...)
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Facebook’s ad algorithms are still excluding women from seeing jobs - 12 avril 2021
Its ad-delivery system is excluding women from opportunities without regard to their qualifications. That would be illegal under US employment law.
Facebook is withholding certain job ads from women because of their gender, according to the latest audit of its ad service.
The audit, conducted by independent (...)
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The NYPD used Clearview’s controversial facial recognition tool. Here’s what you need to know - 12 avril 2021
Newly-released emails show New York police have been widely using the controversial Clearview AI facial recognition system—and making misleading statements about it.
It’s been a busy week for Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition company that uses 3 billion photos scraped from the web to power a search (...)
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Aragón implantará en su historia clínica un algoritmo para la detección del riesgo de suicidio - 11 avril 2021
Los datos de suicidio del primer trimestre de 2021 son un 9% superiores a esta etapa en 2020
La consciencia de que la pandemia que sigue a la COVID-19 es la de la salud mental y la necesidad de actuar ante los datos sobre su impacto en la población continúa haciéndose cada día más reconocible por su dimensión y (...)
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Coded Bias : Algorithmes et discrimination - 11 avril 2021
Ce documentaire enquête sur les biais algorithmiques dévoilés par la découverte de failles dans la reconnaissance faciale par Joy Buolamwini, chercheuse au MIT Media Lab.
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Europeans can’t talk about racist AI systems. They lack the words. - 11 avril 2021
In Europe, several automated systems, either planned or operational, actively contribute to entrenching racism. But European civil society literally lacks the words to address the issue.
In February, El Confidencial revealed that Renfe, the Spanish railways operator, published a public tender for a system of (...)
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Automated translation is hopelessly sexist, but don’t blame the algorithm or the training data - 11 avril 2021
Automated translation services tend to erase women or reduce them to stereotypes. Simply tweaking the training data or the models is not enough to make translations fair.
Ever since Google Translate launched in the late 2000s, users noticed that it got gender wrong. In the early 2010s, some Twitter users (...)
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Seeing stones : pandemic reveals Palantir’s troubling reach in Europe - 10 avril 2021
Covid has given Peter Thiel’s secretive US tech company new opportunities to operate in Europe in ways some campaigners find worrying
The 24 March, 2020 will be remembered by some for the news that Prince Charles tested positive for Covid and was isolating in Scotland. In Athens it was memorable as the day the (...)
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Spotify wants to suggest songs based on your emotions - 10 avril 2021
Spotify has patented technology that will allow it to analyse your voice and suggest songs based on your "emotional state, gender, age, or accent".
The patent, which was filed in 2018 and granted on 12 January, would allow the streaming giant to "make observations" about a user’s environment and emotions using (...)
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Financing Border Wars - 10 avril 2021
The border industry, its financiers and human rights
This report seeks to explore and highlight the extent of today’s global border security industry, by focusing on the most important geographical markets—Australia, Europe, USA—listing the human rights violations and risks involved in each sector of the industry, (...)
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Dans tous les commissariats de France, on utilise la reconnaissance faciale - 9 avril 2021
Près de 400.000 fois par an, la police utilise la reconnaissance faciale via un fichier qui recense 19 millions de personnes. Le système est à la frontière de la légalité et provoque son lot d’inquiétudes. StreetPress fait le point.
« Cela fait plusieurs fois que des personnes nous disent qu’elles se sont fait (...)
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Clearview AI Offered Thousands Of Cops Free Trials - 9 avril 2021
A BuzzFeed News investigation has found that employees at law enforcement agencies across the US ran thousands of Clearview AI facial recognition searches — often without the knowledge of the public or even their own departments.
A controversial facial recognition tool designed for policing has been quietly (...)
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Russian retailer launches facial recognition payment system - 9 avril 2021
The latest expansion of this technology has sparked concerns over privacy and security
Russia’s X5 group, the country’s leading food retailer, announced on Wednesday the launch of a facial recognition payment system, the latest expansion of a technology that has sparked privacy and security concerns.
To launch its (...)
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How US Capitol attack surveillance methods could be used against protesters - 9 avril 2021
The FBI has relied on a variety of technologies to track down rioters – and watchdogs are concerned those technologies could impede protesters exercising their first amendment rights
Over the past months, federal law enforcement has used a wide variety of surveillance technologies to track down rioters who (...)
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Russie : dans les supermarchés, le paiement par reconnaissance faciale divise - 9 avril 2021
En Russie, le nouveau mode de paiement par reconnaissance faciale fait débat. Les détracteurs de cette technologie, déjà utilisée dans plusieurs supermarchés, y voient un outil de surveillance pour les autorités.
En Russie, une grande nouveauté a fait son apparition dans certains supermarchés. Depuis peu, il est en effet (...)
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JO2024 : l’Agence nationale de la recherche planifie la technopolice - 8 avril 2021
Pour les JO de Paris 2024, l’État français et ses institutions, comme l’Agence nationale de la recherche, financent, encouragent et développent la Technopolice. Ils prévoient notamment l’utilisation de la reconnaissance faciale de masse, le déploiement de techniques d’analyse vidéo de « gestion de foule » ou encore (...)
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Ban Automated Recognition of Gender and Sexual Orientation - 7 avril 2021
Automated recognition of gender and sexual orientation is scientifically flawed and puts LGBT+ lives at risk. The European Union has the opportunity to ban this technology and prevent such tools from being exported around the world.
A growing number of governments and companies use artificial intelligence (AI) (...)
