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Border Police Wants Bite of Burgeoning Anti-Drone Industry - 4 mai 2021
Citing threats from drug cartels to migrants, CBP’s interest dovetails with a $487 million effort by the U.S. government to counter small drones.
In April, U.S. Army officers met with representatives from Aurora Flight Sciences, a Virginia-based subsidiary of Boeing, to test whether the company’s technology could (...)
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ANG, de losgeslagen politiedatabank - 30 avril 2021
België beschikt over een gigantische databank met politiegegevens : de Algemene Nationale Gegevensbank (ANG). Het beheer daarvan laat te wensen over : sinds de coronacrisis wordt te veel informatie geregistreerd, de informatie wordt niet gearchiveerd en burgers kunnen hun eigen gegevens niet raadplegen. Die (...)
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L’absence d’archivage de la BNG ? « Un problème majeur » - 30 avril 2021
Frank Schuermans est la figure centrale de l’Organe de Contrôle des données policières. L’info-flic, c’est son domaine. Son équipe et lui veillent à la légalité de la gestion des bases de données par nos polices. Cela tombe bien, Médor avait deux ou trois questions sur la BNG.
Interview réalisée le mardi 9 mars 2021. Frank (...)
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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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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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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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Digidog, a Robotic Dog Used by the Police, Stirs Privacy Concerns - 11 avril 2021
The New York Police Department has been testing Digidog, which it says can be deployed in dangerous situations and keep officers safer, but some fear it could become an aggressive surveillance tool.
Two men were being held hostage in a Bronx apartment. They had been threatened at gunpoint, tied up and tortured (...)
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Tienduizenden mensen mogelijk onterecht in gezichtendatabase van de politie - 26 mars 2021
De politie gebruikt foto’s van meer dan 1,3 miljoen personen voor gezichtsherkenning, maar heeft geen idee welke mensen terecht in de gezichtendatabase staan. Zo is dus ook niet bekend bij wie dat niet langer het geval is, bijvoorbeeld na een vrijspraak. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van NU.nl. Deskundigen betwijfelen (...)
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Facebook leak underscores strategy to operate in repressive regimes - 25 mars 2021
Exclusive : users are allowed to praise mass killers and ‘violent non-state actors’ in certain situations
Facebook users are permitted to praise mass murderers and “violent non-state actors” in certain situations, according to internal guidelines that underline how the tech corporation is striving to operate in (...)
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Automated suspicion : The EU’s new travel surveillance initiatives - 24 mars 2021
This report examines how the EU is using new technologies to screen, profile and risk-assess travellers to the Schengen area, and the risks this poses to civil liberties and fundamental rights.
By developing ‘interoperable’ biometric databases, introducing untested profiling tools, and using new ‘pre-crime’ (...)
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Whistleblowers : Software Bug Keeping Some Inmates In Prisons Beyond Release Dates - 19 mars 2021
According to Arizona Department of Corrections whistleblowers, hundreds of incarcerated people who should be eligible for release are being held in prison because the inmate management software cannot interpret current sentencing laws.
KJZZ is not naming the whistleblowers because they fear retaliation. The (...)
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Police raids across Europe after encrypted phone network shut down - 13 mars 2021
Belgian, Dutch and French police ‘looked over shoulders’ of gangs after hacking Sky ECC network
Police in Belgium and the Netherlands have arrested at least 80 people and carried out hundreds of raids after shutting down an encrypted phone network used by organised crime groups.
Belgian, Dutch and French police (...)
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Défendre les communs, le cas de la musique libre - 12 mars 2021
Résumé : Compositrice de musique libre sous licence Creative Commons, Rose enquête sur les blocages de l’usage et de la monétisation de sa propre musique sur internet par des faux labels. Elle découvre sur le site Fiverr, une place de marché virtuel, que certaines entités revendent ses musiques parmi celles d’autres (...)
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Defending the commons, the case of free music - 12 mars 2021
Abstract : Rose, a creative commons 0 license-free music composer, investigates her own music being blocked and monetized by fake labels. She discovers the website Fiverr, a virtual market on which some entities sell her music among other librarian-creators’ works. The conditions of use that are attached to (...)
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En Belgique, le réseau de communication Sky ECC infiltré par la police - 11 mars 2021
L’opération, menée par quelque 1 600 agents, qui ciblait les utilisateurs de ce logiciel réputé inviolable, a permis la saisie de 17 tonnes de cocaïne, d’armes, de voitures de luxe, d’uniformes de police ou encore d’1,2 million d’euros.
La police belge a mené, mardi 9 mars, ce qu’elle présente comme la plus grande opération (...)
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Officials in Baltimore and St. Louis Put the Brakes on Persistent Surveillance Systems Spy Planes - 11 mars 2021
Baltimore, MD and St. Louis, MO, have a lot in common. Both cities suffer from declining populations and high crime rates. In recent years, the predominantly Black population in each city has engaged in collective action opposing police violence. In recent weeks, officials in both cities voted unanimously to spare (...)
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Drogue, criminalité financière, corruption : les criminels trahis par leurs téléphones, réputés impénétrables - 9 mars 2021
La police fédérale a mené ce matin environ 200 perquisitions, dont une vingtaine renforcée avec les unités spéciales, visant le crime organisé lors d’une intervention coordonnée au plus haut niveau policier et judiciaire, selon les informations recueillies par la RTBF. L’opération est le fruit d’une intense coopération (...)
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Et si tous les clients d’un géant européen de l’assurance étaient victimes d’un « rançongiciel » ? - 6 mars 2021
Quels sont les « futurs chocs » qui nous attendent ? Usbek & Rica a demandé à Guy-Philippe Goldstein, auteur de romans d’anticipation, enseignant et chercheur sur les questions de cybersécurité et de cyberpuissance, d’explorer cette question à travers une série de micro-fictions. Dans ce nouvel épisode, l’auteur met en (...)
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‘They track every move’ : how US parole apps created digital prisoners - 5 mars 2021
Is smartphone tracking a less intrusive reward for good behaviour or just a way to enrich the incarceration industry ?
In 2018, William Frederick Keck III pleaded guilty in a court in Manassas, Virginia, to possession with intent to distribute cannabis. He served three months in prison, then began a three-year (...)
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Police Drones Are Starting to Think for Themselves - 1er mars 2021
In one Southern California city, flying drones with artificial intelligence are aiding investigations while presenting new civil rights questions.
CHULA VISTA, Calif. — When the Chula Vista police receive a 911 call, they can dispatch a flying drone with the press of a button.
On a recent afternoon, from a (...)
