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ACLU Sues to End ICE’s Rigged Algorithm for Detaining Immigrants - 2 mars 2020
In 2013, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement quietly began using a software tool to recommend whether people arrested over immigration violations should be let go after 48 hours or detained. The software’s algorithm supposedly pored over a variety of risk factors before outputting a decision.
A new lawsuit, (...)
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EU Police Push for Pan-European Facial Recognition Network - 22 février 2020
A police investigator in Spain is trying to solve a crime, but she only has an image of a suspect’s face, caught by a nearby security camera. European police have long had access to fingerprint and DNA databases throughout the 27 countries of the European Union and, in certain cases, the United States. But soon, (...)
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Rights groups join student demands to bar facial recognition at colleges - CNET - 16 février 2020
The ACLU, EFF and several other groups sign a letter of support for the student demands.
Students shouldn’t have to worry that colleges and universities are tracking their movements with facial recognition, a group of rights organizations said in an open letter Thursday. The letter supports demands by student (...)
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How Clearview AI is using facial recognition - Vox - 13 février 2020
Clearview AI built a massive database of faces that it’s making available to law enforcement, and nobody’s stopping it.
Your Instagram pictures could be part of a facial recognition database that’s been made available to law enforcement agencies. That’s thanks to Clearview AI, a mysterious startup that has scraped (...)
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An Algorithm That Grants Freedom, or Takes It Away - The New York Times - 8 février 2020
Across the United States and Europe, software is making probation decisions and predicting whether teens will commit crime. Opponents want more human oversight.
Darnell Gates sat at a long table in a downtown Philadelphia office building. He wore a black T-shirt with “California” in bright yellow letters on the (...)
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Do Ring Cameras Violate Wiretapping Laws ? New Hampshire Is About to Find Out - VICE - 3 février 2020
Prosecutors want to use audio captured by one of Amazon’s home surveillance cameras as evidence in an unprecedented case.
Last July, Timothy Burke was standing outside his sister’s apartment in Rochester, N.H., allegedly firing a pistol at the ground. Words were exchanged—a conversation of obvious interest to the (...)
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Many Facial-Recognition Systems Are Biased, Says U.S. Study - The New York Times - 1er février 2020
Algorithms falsely identified African-American and Asian faces 10 to 100 times more than Caucasian faces, researchers for the National Institute of Standards and Technology found.
The majority of commercial facial-recognition systems exhibit bias, according to a study from a federal agency released on Thursday, (...)
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Ring’s Neighborhood Watch Feature Is Bringing Out the Worst in Boston - 29 janvier 2020
A home-security app promises to keep its users "safe and informed." Instead, it’s turning us all into bad neighbors.
On a Tuesday afternoon in December, a man dressed in a camo hoodie with a shopping bag at his side walked up a set of stairs, past a pole wrapped in Christmas ribbon, and onto a porch in East (...)
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DNA Collection at the Border Threatens the Privacy of All Americans - 24 janvier 2020
We’re one step closer to the “genetic panopticon” that Antonin Scalia warned us about.
What if the United States government took the DNA of vast numbers of Americans for use without their consent ? The Trump administration has just brought us one step closer to that dystopia. On January 6, the federal government (...)
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La justice algorithmique n’est pas une question technique | Mais où va le Web - 23 janvier 2020
Dans une tribune à Boston Review, Annette Zimmermann, Elena di Rosa et Hochan Kim défendent l’idée selon laquelle nous avons besoin d’une surveillance plus démocratique du développement de l’intelligence artificielle, et que celle-ci devrait s’ouvrir aux citoyens plutôt qu’être cantonnée aux développeurs et aux designers. (...)
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The Invention of “Ethical AI” - 22 décembre 2019
How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation
The irony of the ethical scandal enveloping Joichi Ito, the former director of the MIT Media Lab, is that he used to lead academic initiatives on ethics. After the revelation of his financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the financier charged with sex trafficking (...)
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De la ville intelligente à la ville capturée - 17 décembre 2019
Dès l’origine, le projet de ville intelligente a été défini de manière ambiguë : « il promet d’habiliter la planification urbaine en faisant de la ville un centre de données en temps réel sur tous les aspects de son fonctionnement et d’optimiser l’infrastructure urbaine via des capteurs reliés dans un réseau centralisé ». Son (...)
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The doorbells have eyes : The privacy battle brewing over home security cameras - 12 décembre 2019
Police want to register — and even subsidize — private security cameras. That’s just the start of the ethical challenges ahead.
Ding-dong, your doorbell is looking a bit creepy.
Ring video doorbells, Nest Hello and other connected security cameras are the fastest-growing home improvement gadgets since garage-door (...)
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About Face - 28 novembre 2019
Law enforcement use of face recognition technology poses a profound threat to personal privacy, political and religious expression, and the fundamental freedom to go about our lives without having our movements and associations covertly monitored and analyzed.
This technology can be used for identifying or (...)
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Amazon’s Ring Planned Neighborhood “Watch Lists” Built on Facial Recognition - 28 novembre 2019
Ring, Amazon’s crimefighting surveillance camera division, has crafted plans to use facial recognition software and its ever-expanding network of home security cameras to create AI-enabled neighborhood “watch lists,” according to internal documents reviewed by The Intercept.
The planning materials envision a (...)
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The Captured City - 24 novembre 2019
The “smart city” makes infrastructure and surveillance indistinguishable
You can’t go about your day anymore without tripping over smart stuff — smart refrigerators, smart toothbrushes, smart locks, smart whatever. All this smartness usually amounts to equipping the previously dumb thing with sensors that collect (...)
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Rekognition : le jeu des 26 erreurs du système de reconnaissance faciale d’Amazon - 16 novembre 2019
Lors d’un test de l’Union américaine pour les libertés civiles, le logiciel a confondu 26 élu·es avec des criminel·les.
La reconnaissance faciale est une technologie qui s’améliore très rapidement. À partir de simples images, il est désormais possible de détecter âge, genre et même émotions des personnes filmées. Il est (...)
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The government keeps its use of facial recognition tech secret. The ACLU is suing. - 13 novembre 2019
The ACLU is suing the FBI to find out what the government is doing with facial recognition technology. Dive in with this Reset podcast episode
The ACLU is suing the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the DEA to get documents that explain how the US government is using facial recognition technology.
The lawsuit (...)
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Border Agents Can’t Search Smartphones And Laptops Without "˜Reasonable Suspicion,’ Court Rules - 13 novembre 2019
A Boston federal court ruled Tuesday that U.S. federal agents can’t conduct "suspicionless" searches of international travelers’ smartphones and laptops at the border and other ports of entry, a decision hailed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) as a "major victory for privacy rights."
In a 48-page (...)
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Interdire la reconnaissance faciale (1/3) : la reconnaissance faciale n’est pas une technologie, c’est une idéologie ! - 5 novembre 2019
Aux États-Unis, les initiatives d’interdiction de l’utilisation de la reconnaissance faciale par la police de quelques villes américaines (on parle de moins d’une dizaine : 4 villes ont voté une interdiction "“ San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley et Somerville "“ et autant ont des projets en ce sens) ou le projet de loi de (...)
