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Amérique latine : désastre écologique et luttes sociales - Ép. 3/4 - Un monde sous perfusion métallique - 9 mars 2021
Au Chili, au Pérou, en Argentine, les conflits se sont multipliés ces dernières années entre les populations locales et les multinationales minières, accusées de violences et de dégâts environnements. Alors quelles sont ces revendications environnementales et sociales ?
En mars dernier, les salariés de la plus grande (...)
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Facial recognition tech stories and rights harms from around the world - 12 février 2021
A new report by the International Network of Civil Liberties Organisations looks at the use and abuse of facial recognition technology by states across the globe, providing detailed case studies from the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe.
From Delhi to Detroit, Budapest to Bogota, Facial Recognition (...)
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Workplace Surveillance in Times of Corona - 28 septembre 2020
With numbers of COVID-19 infections soaring again in the United States and around the world, we have to learn how to manage its long-term ramifications for our economies. As people adjust to minimizing the risk of infections in everyday settings, one critical context is work. Even though millions have shifted to (...)
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‘Aggression Detection’ Is Coming to Facial Recognition Cameras Around the World - 25 septembre 2020
Russian firm NTech Lab plans to roll emotional detection features worldwide as soon as 2021
NTech Lab, makers of Russia’s expansive real-time facial recognition surveillance system, is set to roll out “aggression detection” as well as “violence detection” features, which will flag law enforcement when the algorithm (...)
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Une entreprise américaine à l’origine de campagnes de désinformation en Amérique latine - 10 septembre 2020
CLS Strategies a dépensé plus de 3 millions d’euros en publicités ciblées sur Facebook et Instagram en Bolivie, au Venezuela et au Mexique, pour soutenir des candidats conservateurs.
Cinquante-cinq comptes et 42 pages Facebook, ainsi que 36 comptes Instragram, jugés coupables d’avoir cherché à monter des campagnes (...)
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Inside Facebook’s new power grab - 31 août 2020
From cables to internet cafes, Mark Zuckerberg is leaving his mark on the global South
Mark Zuckerberg is not a man used to failure. He has built a $600-billion empire, buying up or crushing most would-be competitors and brushing regulators aside. When, in 2015, he personally headed up an effort – first called (...)
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The problems AI has today go back centuries - 30 août 2020
Algorithmic discrimination and “ghost work” didn’t appear by accident. Understanding their long, troubling history is the first step toward fixing them.
In March of 2015, protests broke out at the University of Cape Town in South Africa over the campus statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes, a mining (...)
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Clearview AI, le cauchemar de la reconnaissance faciale devient réalité - 20 août 2020
Imaginée et financée par des personnalités de la droite américaine radicale, l’application de la société Clearview AI permet d’identifier une personne en comparant une photo à toutes celles, publiques, postées sur Internet. Alors que le logiciel était utilisé secrètement par des policiers et des entreprises, la société vient (...)
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Facebook Connectivity Investments to Deliver Over $200 Billion in Economic Benefits - 9 juillet 2020
Reports Estimate the 5-Year Impact of Facebook’s Infrastructure in LATAM, ASEAN and Sub-Saharan Africa
The importance of reliable, affordable internet connectivity has become more apparent to many people adapting to new ways of life during the coronavirus pandemic. Yet, 3.5 billion people around the world remain (...)
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There’s a massive scam hiding behind Google’s search results - 7 juillet 2020
People around the world are populating search engine results for a few dollars an hour. But some have found a way to make a tidy profit
Are fortune cookies Chinese food ? Google’s artificial intelligence system is hungry to find out. The machine learning algorithms that power online search rely on vast amounts of (...)
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New corona apps : fake it till you make it - 24 juin 2020
This week, De Correspondent’s Dimitri Tokmetzis and I revisited one of the key questions in the debate about contact-tracing apps – how much data should they collect ?
While tech companies want to limit the amount of information governments can harvest from iPhone and Android users, health agencies say they need (...)
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Face matching and digital avatars coming to the EU’s borders - 30 mai 2020
Across Europe, leaders have been desperately seeking new ways to secure borders. Concerns over migration have contributed to the evolution of new forms of authoritarian technology
On the outskirts of Vienna, staff at the Austrian Institute of Technology are working on a project that could radically change border (...)
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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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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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Les services secrets américains et allemands ont espionné plus de 120 pays après avoir racheté une société de chiffrement - 12 février 2020
En 1970, les deux agences de contre-espionnage ont acheté en secret Crypto AG, une entreprise vendant des services de chiffrement de conversations à des puissances étatiques.
Les services secrets américains et allemands ont espionné pendant des années plus d’une centaine de pays à travers une société suisse spécialisée (...)
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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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El imperio ’Ilegal’ de Hacking Team en América Latina - 11 avril 2018
El uso del software de espionaje de Hacking Team es ilegal en muchos países de América Latina, según un nuevo informe.
A principios de Abril de 2014, un espía del servicio de inteligencia de Ecuador mandó una serie de correos electrónicos al servicio al cliente de Hacking Team, una compañía italiana de hackers pagados (...)
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The Computers are Listening - How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text - 6 mai 2015
Most people realize that emails and other digital communications they once considered private can now become part of their permanent record.
But even as they increasingly use apps that understand what they say, most people don’t realize that the words they speak are not so private anymore, either.
Top-secret (...)
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Drone and CCTVs for Everyone : Surveillance Tech Expands Across Latin America - 13 janvier 2015
Despite the fact that there is no conclusive evidence that camera surveillance is an effective deterrent against crime, the movement towards a pervasive surveillance state continues in many Latin American countries. Surveillance technologies such as drones are gaining popularity, raising significant concerns for (...)
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New report finds little oversight of surveillance, intelligence agencies in Latin America - 20 novembre 2014
Governments across Latin America are struggling to put in place effective intelligence and surveillance oversight regimes that guarantee the rights of citizens, according to a new report released by Privacy International’s partner in Argentina, Asociación por los Derechos Civiles.
The report, "Who’s watching the (...)
