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Tunisian police are using drones and Facebook to doxx LGBTQ protesters - 22 avril 2021
Law enforcement unions have leveraged technology to harass minorities and discredit demonstrations demanding economic and social reform
The worst attacks against Rania Amdouni began in February. The 26-year-old human rights activist and artist had been on the front lines of a new wave of protests in Tunisia for (...)
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How a Chinese Surveillance Broker Became Oracle’s “Partner of the Year” - 22 avril 2021
A network of local resellers helps funnel Oracle technology to the police and military in China.
Banners printed for the occasion read, “Build a new type of strategic partnership.” Artfully made cutouts of the two companies’ logos adorned the stage. And the frosting on the massive sheet cake curled into a red “20,” (...)
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How French welfare services are creating ‘robo-debt’ - 20 avril 2021
When automated fraud detection algorithms fail, welfare services can wrongly demand the repayment of benefits. Over the last five years, several scandals showed the breadth of the problem. In Australia, 400,000 people were put in ‘robo-debt’, 40,000 in Michigan and 26,000 in the Netherlands. Journalist Lucie Inland (...)
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Am I FLoCed ? - 20 avril 2021
Google is testing FLoC on Chrome users worldwide. Find out if you’re one of them.
Google is running a Chrome "origin trial" to test out an experimental new tracking feature called Federated Learning of Cohorts (aka "FLoC"). According to Google, the trial currently affects 0.5% of users in selected regions, (...)
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1 500 cartes Delhaize Plus pillées par un pirate informatique - 20 avril 2021
Delhaize a porté plainte. Les clients lésés ont été remboursés. L’entreprise assure qu’à aucun moment son site n’a été piraté. Et conseille à ses clients de changer régulièrement de mot de passe.
L’enseigne de supermarchés Delhaize a été victime de pirates informatiques voici quelques jours. Une personne a réussi à récupérer les (...)
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Police in Ogden, Utah and small cities around the US are using these surveillance technologies - 19 avril 2021
Police departments want to know as much as they legally can. But does ever-greater surveillance technology serve the public interest ?
At a conference in New Orleans in 2007, Jon Greiner, then the chief of police in Ogden, Utah, heard a presentation by the New York City Police Department about a sophisticated new (...)
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La police met à nu le système d’espionnage de LVMH contre François Ruffin - 19 avril 2021
Deux récents rapports de police détaillent par le menu les dessous d’un système d’espionnage mis sur pied par l’ancien chef de services secrets français, Bernard Squarcini, au profit du géant mondial du luxe LVMH, propriété du milliardaire Bernard Arnault. Leur cible ? Le futur député François Ruffin et son journal.
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Seagate lance le disque SkyHawk AI de 18 To pour la vidéo surveillance - 19 avril 2021
Seagate a annoncé le lancement du nouveau disque dur SkyHawk AI de 18 To dédié à la vidéosurveillance. C’est le disque la plus haute capacité fourni par Seagate pour les applications nécessitant un traitement vidéo assisté par une Intelligence Artificielle.
Un nouveau modèle SkyHawk AI 18 To vient donc d’être ajouté sur la (...)
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Loi Sécurité globale : « la technologie permet la surveillance généralisée » - 18 avril 2021
La loi Sécurité globale actuellement débattue par les parlementaires permettrait, si elle est adoptée en l’état, de faire un grand bond en avant vers une surveillance de masse généralisée. Au cœur de ce dispositif, l’utilisation de la reconnaissance faciale. Bastien Le Querrec, juriste bénévole au sein de l’association La (...)
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Loi sécurité globale adoptée : résumons - 17 avril 2021
La loi sécurité globale a été définitivement adoptée hier par l’Assemblée nationale, à 75 voix contre 33, au terme d’un débat soumis aux exigences de la police et dont nous n’attendions plus grand chose (lire notamment notre analyse de l’examen en commission à l’Assemblée ou au Sénat).
La prochaine étape sera l’examen de la (...)
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Quand la grande distribution fait de l’or avec vos données - 17 avril 2021
Avec l’explosion du e-commerce et des programmes fidélités, les enseignes de la grande distribution disposent d’une masse de données sur leurs clients qu’elles pourraient monétiser.
"Etes-vous intéressé par notre carte de fidélité ?" Qui n’a jamais entendu cette banale phrase lancée par l’hôtesse ou l’hôte de caisse au (...)
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Outsourcing oppression - 16 avril 2021
How Europe externalises migrant detention beyond its shores
This report seeks to address the gap and join the dots between Europe’s outsourcing of migrant detention to third countries and the notorious conditions within the migrant detention centres. In a nutshell, Europe calls the shots on migrant detention (...)
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I Thought My Job Was To Report On Tech In India. Instead, I’ve Watched Democracy Decline. - 16 avril 2021
I love writing about tech. But covering how a Hindu nationalist government is using it to destroy a secular democracy isn’t what I signed up for.
I was in a cavernous college auditorium on the frigid winter afternoon in New Delhi in 2015 when Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, was selling the promise of India, his (...)
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Automatic gender recognition tech is dangerous, say campaigners : it’s time to ban it - 16 avril 2021
Simplistic gender binaries infringe on the right to self-expression
Dangers posed by facial recognition like mass surveillance and mistaken identity have been widely discussed in recent years. But digital rights groups say an equally insidious use case is currently sneaking under the radar : using the same (...)
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President of Mexico should veto the biometric mobile phone registry - 16 avril 2021
Collecting personal biometric data in exchange for a mobile SIM card is unnecessary and dangerous. Yet, this is the stark reality the Mexican Chamber of Senators has set in motion after voting yesterday, April 13, in favor of establishing a National Register of Mobile Phone Users. Access Now and Red en Defensa de (...)
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How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics : a whistleblower’s account - 16 avril 2021
The inside story of Sophie Zhang’s battle to combat rampant manipulation as executives delayed and deflected
Shortly before Sophie Zhang lost access to Facebook’s systems, she published one final message on the company’s internal forum, a farewell tradition at Facebook known as a “badge post”.
“Officially, I’m a (...)
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Forced Arbitration Thwarts Legal Challenge to AT&T’s Disclosure of Customer Location Data - 16 avril 2021
Location data generated from our cell phones paint an incredibly detailed picture of our movements and private lives. Despite the sensitive nature of this data and a federal law prohibiting cellphone carriers from disclosing it, repeated unauthorized disclosures over the last several years show that carriers will (...)
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India wants to use facial recognition in its coronavirus vaccine drive - 15 avril 2021
Opponents fear that the move is designed to further entrench the country’s controversial biometric ID system
India is planning to add a facial recognition system based on Aadhaar, the country’s centralized biometric identity program, to the national Covid-19 vaccination drive. The proposal has prompted criticism (...)
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EU Set to Ban Surveillance, Start Fines Under New AI Rules - 15 avril 2021
The European Union is poised to ban artificial intelligence systems used for mass surveillance or for ranking social behavior, while companies developing AI could face fines as high as 4% of global revenue if they fail to comply with new rules governing the software applications.
The rules are part of legislation (...)
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France’s police bill : surveillance for the long haul - 15 avril 2021
The French government seems not to be interested in tackling systemic police violence. Instead, one of the most defining features of Macron’s first term as France’s head of state lies in the fast-paced expansion of state surveillance powers. A case in point is Parliament’s impending adoption of the “Bill on Global (...)
