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Israel trades Pfizer doses for medical data in vaccine blitz - 18 janvier 2021
JERUSALEM (AP) — After sprinting ahead in the race to inoculate its population against the coronavirus, Israel has struck a deal with Pfizer, promising to share vast troves of medical data with the international drug giant in exchange for the continued flow of its hard-to-get vaccine.
Proponents say the deal could (...)
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Volunteer sleuths track down Hawaii’s quarantine scofflaws - 25 septembre 2020
Former longtime television reporter Angela Keen knows how to track people down.
During the coronavirus pandemic, she’s putting her skills to use finding tourists who defy Hawaii’s mandatory two-week quarantine on arriving travelers.
When members of her Facebook group spot tourists posting about their beach trips (...)
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Israeli police use drones to check in on virus patients - 14 avril 2020
The drone glides up toward a high-rise until it reaches an apartment window where a woman waves from inside, proving to police that she is self-isolating after testing positive for the coronavirus.
Israeli police are deploying drones as part of efforts to stem the outbreak, allowing officers to keep a safe (...)
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London police to use face scan tech, stoking privacy fears - 27 janvier 2020
LONDON (AP) — London police will start using facial recognition cameras to pick out suspects from street crowds in real time, in a major advance for the controversial technology that raises worries about automated surveillance and erosion of privacy rights.
The Metropolitan Police Service said Friday that after a (...)
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Does the naked body belong on Facebook ? It’s complicated - 22 janvier 2020
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When is a photograph of nude bodies artistic or titillating ? A woman’s exposed nipple a political statement or erotica ?
A video of childbirth might show genitalia. Should what someone considers a celebration of life be censored ?
In 1964, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart declined to (...)
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Secret documents reveal how China mass detention camps work - 26 novembre 2019
The watch towers, double-locked doors and video surveillance in the Chinese camps are there “to prevent escapes.” Uighurs and other minorities held inside are scored on how well they speak the dominant Mandarin language and follow strict rules on everything down to bathing and using the toilet, scores that determine (...)
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AP Exclusive : New election systems use vulnerable software - 25 juillet 2019
Pennsylvania’s message was clear : The state was taking a big step to keep its elections from being hacked in 2020. Last April, its top election official told counties they had to update their systems. So far, nearly 60% have taken action, with $14.15 million of mostly federal funds helping counties buy brand-new (...)
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US now seeking social media details from all visa applicants - 3 juin 2019
The State Department is now requiring nearly all applicants for U.S. visas to submit their social media usernames, previous email addresses and phone numbers. It’s a vast expansion of the Trump administration’s enhanced screening of potential immigrants and visitors.
In a move that’s just taken effect after approval (...)
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German ruling could impede Facebook’s data-combo moves - 7 février 2019
Facebook is pushing back against a German ruling that could make it harder for the company to combine data from all the services it runs in order to target ads even more precisely.
Thursday’s ruling, though aimed at current practices, hints at potential troubles ahead if Facebook follows through with plans to (...)
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In China, your car could be talking to the government - 3 décembre 2018
When Shan Junhua bought his white Tesla Model X, he knew it was a fast, beautiful car. What he didn’t know is that Tesla constantly sends information about the precise location of his car to the Chinese government.
Tesla is not alone. China has called upon all electric vehicle manufacturers in China to make the (...)
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AP : Trump 2020 working with ex-Cambridge Analytica staffers - 30 septembre 2018
A company run by former officials at Cambridge Analytica, the political consulting firm brought down by a scandal over how it obtained Facebook users’ private data, has quietly been working for President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election effort, The Associated Press has learned.
The AP confirmed that at least four (...)
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Google tracks your movements, like it or not - 14 août 2018
Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to.
An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you’ve used privacy settings that say they will prevent it from doing (...)
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Russian hackers hunted journalists in years-long campaign - 23 décembre 2017
Russian television anchor Pavel Lobkov was in the studio getting ready for his show when jarring news flashed across his phone : Some of his most intimate messages had just been published to the web.
Days earlier, the veteran journalist had come out live on air as HIV-positive, a taboo-breaking revelation that (...)
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Government health care website quietly sharing personal data - 21 janvier 2015
The government’s health insurance website is quietly sending consumers’ personal data to private companies that specialize in advertising and analyzing Internet data for performance and marketing, The Associated Press has learned.
The scope of what is disclosed or how it might be used was not immediately clear, but (...)
