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Amazon says ’Black Lives Matter’. But the company has deep ties to policing - 14 juin 2020
Activists say the company’s work, which includes commercial partnerships with law enforcement, harms communities of color
Amazon says ’Black Lives Matter’. But the company has deep ties to policing
Activists say the company’s work, which includes commercial partnerships with law enforcement, harms communities of (...)
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Auditer les algorithmes : de la difficulté de passer des principes aux applications concrètes - 14 juin 2020
Des chercheurs de Google AI (dont Andrew Smart, responsable de l’équité de l’apprentissage automatisé chez Google, Rebecca N. White et Timnit Gebru qui codirigent l’équipe chargée de l’éthique de l’IA chez Google, Margaret Mitchell et Ben Hutchinson chercheurs au groupe de recherche de Google sur l’intelligence des machines, (...)
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IBM quits facial-recognition market over police racial-profiling concerns - 11 juin 2020
CEO writes to US Congress calling for ‘national dialogue’ about use in law enforcement
IBM is pulling out of the facial recognition market and is calling for “a national dialogue” on the technology’s use in law enforcement.
The abrupt about-face comes as technology companies are facing increased scrutiny over their (...)
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Amazon suspend l’utilisation de sa reconnaissance faciale par la police pendant un an - 11 juin 2020
La société basée à Seattle n’a pas dit pourquoi, mais les manifestations après la mort de George Floyd ont attiré l’attention sur l’injustice raciale aux Etats-Unis et sur la façon dont la police utilise la technologie pour suivre les personnes.
Amazon a annoncé, mercredi 10 juin, interdire pendant un an à la police (...)
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Podcast : Protest surveillance : before, during, and after - 10 juin 2020
With huge numbers of people out on the streets standing up for their rights in the US and Hong Kong, and around the world - we take a look at the surveillance tools police and security forces round the world have been using to monitor people as they exercise their civil rights.
Given everything that’s happening at (...)
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Facial Recognition’s Many Controversies, From Stadium Surveillance to Racist Software - 10 juin 2020
The long-raging debate around facial recognition software, with all the privacy worries it brings with it, has taken on new urgency as the technology has improved and spread by leaps and bounds.
On Tuesday, San Francisco became the first major American city to block police and other law enforcement agencies from (...)
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IBM will no longer offer, develop, or research facial recognition technology - 9 juin 2020
IBM will no longer offer general purpose facial recognition or analysis software, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said in a letter to Congress today. The company will also no longer develop or research the technology, IBM tells The Verge. Krishna addressed the letter to Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) and (...)
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Minneapolis Police Can Use Facial Recognition And License Plates Readers To Identify Protesters - 3 juin 2020
As protesters demonstrate in Minneapolis in response to George Floyd’s death, law enforcement agencies have access to a host of surveillance tools that could make it easier to target and find them.
The Minneapolis Police Department has a wide breadth of surveillance technologies that could be used to monitor and (...)
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From RealPlayer to Toshiba, Tech Companies Cash in on the Facial Recognition Gold Rush - 2 juin 2020
At least 45 companies now advertise real-time facial recognition
More than a decade before Spotify, and years before iTunes, there was RealPlayer, the first mainstream solution to playing and streaming media to a PC. Launched in 1995, within five years RealPlayer claimed a staggering 95 million users.
But it was (...)
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Coronavirus Monitoring Bracelets Flood the Market, Ready to Snitch on People Who Don’t Distance - 25 mai 2020
Surveillance firms around the world are licking their lips at a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to cash in on the coronavirus by repositioning one of their most invasive products : the tracking bracelet.
Body monitors are associated with criminality and guilt in the popular imagination, the accessories of Wall (...)
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Nextdoor’s Delicate Partnership With Local Police - 25 mai 2020
The hyper-local social media platform Nextdoor is winning over local law enforcement and other government officials in the U.S., alarming civil rights advocates.
Charles Husted, the chief of police in Sedona, Arizona, couldn’t contain his excitement. He had just been accepted into the Public Agencies Advisory (...)
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Facebook told my followers I was spreading misinformation about government surveillance. I wasn’t. - 25 mai 2020
Calling for more censorship — or for Big Tech companies to become the arbiters of truth — will ultimately backfire. We need to address the problem of viral disinformation at its root.
Okay I’ll admit it. I still use Facebook. When I logged on last night I saw something I had never seen before : a notification that (...)
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Amid coronavirus, USC is requiring facial recognition scans of students living on campus, but the technology sparks controversy - 21 mai 2020
Amid coronavirus, USC is requiring facial recognition scans of students living on campus, but the technology sparks controversy
The facial recognition device at USC also links to a questionable South Korean company that boasts contracts with government agencies.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, USC has (...)
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Podcast : Who watches the pandemic watchers ? We do - 21 mai 2020
No sooner had the stay-at-home orders come down than mobile app developers around the world began to imagine how our smartphones could make it safer for everyone to venture back out. Dozens of countries and a handful of US states are now urging citizens to download government-blessed apps that use GPS-based (...)
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Mass Incarceration Poses Uniquely American Coronavirus Risk - 7 mai 2020
There is a fundamental flaw in the models that Trump administration officials have used to project the curve of the coronavirus outbreak as it rips across the United States. Those models were based on other countries’ experiences with the virus — from China to Italy — and do not account for a uniquely American risk (...)
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Baltimore Police Want to Use War-Zone Surveillance on Residents - 13 avril 2020
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Thursday to stop the Baltimore Police Department from testing one of the most expansive surveillance regimes in any American city, an aerial photography system capable of tracking the outdoor movement of every one of its 600,000 residents.
Last week the (...)
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Apple and Google team up in bid to use smartphones to track coronavirus spread | World news | The Guardian - 12 avril 2020
The app will use a Bluetooth technology to trace every phone a person comes in contact with, raising concerns over privacy
Apple and Google announced on Friday an unprecedented collaboration to leverage smartphone technology to help trace and contain the spread of coronavirus.
The collaboration will open up their (...)
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Trump 2020 Location-Tracking Firm Cashing In on Coronavirus - 11 avril 2020
A smartphone tracking firm helping Donald Trump clinch his 2020 presidential reelection recently told investors it’s identified a promising new profit opportunity : the global coronavirus pandemic.
Phunware is part of a vast galaxy of obscure advertising technology companies that help clients follow and target (...)
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ACLU White Paper : The Limits of Location Tracking in an Epidemic | American Civil Liberties Union - 9 avril 2020
As Americans struggle to confront the COVID-19 outbreak, some have suggested that cell phone location tracking technology can help in the effort to contain the disease. The tech industry and the White House are reportedly having conversations over how information technology might be deployed, and there is (...)
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Opinion | All This Dystopia, and for What ? - The New York Times - 10 mars 2020
When you signed up for this newsletter you may have noticed the language indicated it would be a “limited run.” And like all limited runs, ours is coming to an end next week.
We’re winding down next Tuesday and taking a brief hiatus. Next month, The Privacy Project newsletter will evolve into The New York Times’s (...)
