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The A.I. Industry Is Exploiting Gig Workers Around the World — Sometimes for Just $8 a Day - 13 février 2021
A new paper sheds light on the industry’s troubling relationship with the global gig economy
Modern artificial intelligence relies on algorithms processing millions of examples or images or text. A picture of a bird in an A.I. dataset would be manually tagged “bird” so that the algorithm associated aspects of that (...)
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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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‘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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Eight case studies on regulating biometric technology show us a path forward - 4 septembre 2020
A new report from the AI Now Institute reveals how different regulatory approaches work or fall short in protecting communities from surveillance.
Amba Kak was in law school in India when the country rolled out the Aadhaar project in 2009. The national biometric ID system, conceived as a comprehensive identity (...)
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Europe wants to be a role model for technological responses to COVID-19. But it’s complicated. - 1er septembre 2020
Launch of our new report on ’Automated Decision-Making Systems in the COVID-19 Pandemic’…
The ongoing pandemic has spurred the deployment of a plethora of automated decision-making (ADM) systems all over Europe. In a special issue of their Automating Society Report 2020, AlgorithmWatch and Bertelsmann Stiftung (...)
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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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L’économie du Mur : un marché en pleine expansion - 1er mai 2010
L’économie du Mur : un marché en pleine expansion
Julien Saada
Depuis quelques années, l’apparition des nouveaux « murs » de protection, à l’instar de la barrière de sécurité israélienne au Moyen-Orient, des enclaves de Ceuta et Melilla en Afrique du Nord ou du Virtual Fence aux États-Unis, a engendré un nouveau marché en (...)
