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Ethical guidelines for COVID-19 tracing apps - 26 juin 2020
Protect privacy, equality and fairness in digital contact tracing with these key questions.
Technologies to rapidly alert people when they have been in contact with someone carrying the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 are part of a strategy to bring the pandemic under control. Currently, at least 47 contact-tracing apps (...)
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Not just nipples : how Facebook’s AI struggles to detect misinformation - 22 juin 2020
Automated moderation can be a blunt instrument – as users trying to post an image of Aboriginal men in chains discovered
“It’s much easier to build an AI system that can detect a nipple than it is to determine what is linguistically hate speech.”
The Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg made that comment in 2018 when he (...)
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Facebook incorrectly removes picture of Aboriginal men in chains because of ’nudity’ - 14 juin 2020
Facebook also blocks users from sharing Guardian Australia’s story based on its use of the image
Facebook incorrectly removed a post critical of the prime minister’s comments regarding slavery in Australia that featured a photograph of Aboriginal men in neck chains from the late 1800s, claiming the photo featured (...)
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A Single Company Will Now Operate Facial Recognition for Nearly 800 Million People - 6 juin 2020
Idemia just scored a major new contract with the EU
Idemia, a French company specializing in facial, fingerprint, and iris recognition, just scored a new contract with the European Union that will include processing images attached to more than 400 million people’s identities. The company’s algorithms will verify (...)
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La stratégie du choc pandémique : comment les entreprises du numérique conquièrent de nouveaux marchés - 4 juin 2020
Si, malgré la récession qui s’amorce, le secteur du numérique se prépare à la croissance et recrute à tout-va, c’est au prix d’une lutte pour la survie, les entreprises les plus grandes et agressives s’accaparant la majorité des marchés et absorbant les plus petites, dans une nouvelle phase de sélection et de compétitivité (...)
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An algorithm was taken to court – and it lost (which is great news for the welfare state) - 3 juin 2020
As governments and big tech team up to target poorer citizens, we risk stumbling zombie-like into an AI welfare dystopia. But a landmark case ruled that using people’s personal data without consent violates their human rights.
An algorithm was taken to court in the Netherlands last week.
The System Risk (...)
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Covid-19 surveillance tech explained : 6 ways governments are monitoring the virus – and you - 2 juin 2020
Desperate to control the spread of the coronavirus and lift restrictions, governments around the world are turning to technology. We list the six most important technologies being used and explore the risks and limitations of each. We still need your help to get the global picture.
Governments across the world (...)
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Een snelle uitweg uit de lockdown ? Niet met een app - 1er juin 2020
Het ene land na het andere land beloofde dit voorjaar een app om coronabesmettingen op te sporen. Maar in de praktijk schiet de technologie nog tekort. Daarom, terug van weggeweest : het vertrouwde, handmatige contactonderzoek.
Toen Sam Aldridge voor het eerst hoorde over een app die nagaat met wie je allemaal in (...)
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We were told technology would end Covid-19 lockdowns, but the truth is there’s no app for that - 1er juin 2020
In many countries, contact-tracing apps were presented as a precondition to end lockdowns. But our Track(ed) Together investigation reveals that many countries are struggling with the technology, turning instead to less high-tech solutions.
Sam Aldridge was sceptical when she first heard about Australia’s (...)
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La surveillance d’Internet par les services de renseignement jugée contraire à la Constitution en Allemagne - 21 mai 2020
La Cour constitutionnelle de Karlsruhe – la plus haute autorité judiciaire du pays – a jugé, mardi, que le BND surveillait illégalement les communications à l’étranger.
Le programme de surveillance des télécommunications à l’étranger, mené par le service fédéral de renseignement (ou BND, pour Bundesnachrichtendienst), est (...)
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Revue articles et communications autour de Stop-Covid - 12 mai 2020
Afin de garder un trace (!) des débats qui enflamèrent l’opinion publique lors de la crise sanitaire du printemps 2020, voici une revue partielle d’articles parus dans la presse et quelques communications officielles autour de l’application Stop-Covid, entre discours réalistes et solutionnisme technologique (cette liste (...)
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Refusez les programmes de surveillance de données comme PRISM, XKeyscore etTempora - 9 mai 2020
Refusez les programmes de surveillance des données comme PRISM, XKeyscore et Tempora.
Nous avons tous le droit à la vie privée dès maintenant en chiffrant nos communications et en mettant fin à notre dépendance à l’égard des services propriétaires.
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prism-break.org - Zintv - 9 mai 2020
Mettons fin à notre dépendance à l’égard des services propriétaires.
LE SITE PRISM-BREAK.org LUTTE CONTRE LA SURVEILLANCE
Échapper aux programmes de surveillance nécessite de changer la manière dont on utiliser Internet. Néanmoins, trouver et utiliser les bons outils numériques alternatifs n’est pas forcément (...)
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A High-Tech Coronavirus Dystopia - 8 mai 2020
For a few fleeting moments during New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday, the somber grimace that has filled our screens for weeks was briefly replaced by something resembling a smile.
“We are ready, we’re all-in,” the governor gushed. “We are New Yorkers, so we’re aggressive about it, (...)
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A flood of coronavirus apps are tracking us. Now it’s time to keep track of them. - 7 mai 2020
There’s a deluge of apps that detect your covid-19 exposure, often with little transparency. Our Covid Tracing Tracker project will document them.
As the covid-19 pandemic rages, technologists everywhere have been rushing to build apps, services, and systems for contact tracing : identifying and notifying all (...)
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UK finds itself almost alone with centralized virus contact-tracing app that probably won’t work well, asks for your location, may be illegal • The Register - 5 mai 2020
Herd immunity all over again
Comment Britain is sleepwalking into another coronavirus disaster by failing to listen to global consensus and expert analysis with the release of the NHS COVID-19 contact-tracking app.
On Monday, the UK government explained in depth and in clearly written language how its iOS and (...)
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COVID-19 Digital Rights Tracker - 3 mai 2020
This live tracker documents new measures introduced in response to COVID-19 that pose a risk to digital rights around the world.
In response to the outbreak of COVID-19 :
Contact Tracing Apps are being used in 29 countries
Alternative digital tracking measures are active in 30 countries
Physical surveillance (...)
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Washington Post-University of Maryland poll finds a problem for Apple-Google coronavirus app - The Washington Post - 2 mai 2020
Nearly 3 in 5 Americans say they are either unable or unwilling to use the infection-alert system under development by Google and Apple, suggesting that it will be difficult to persuade enough people to use the app to make it effective against the coronavirus pandemic, a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll (...)
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Show evidence that apps for COVID-19 contact-tracing are secure and effective - 1er mai 2020
Governments see coronavirus apps as key to releasing lockdowns. In exchange for people’s health data, they must promise to work together to develop the highest standards of safety and efficacy.
In the toolkit of strategies to stop the spread of SARS-CoV-2, more countries are reaching for smartphone apps. When (...)
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Urgence sanitaire, réponse sécuritaire, par Félix Tréguer (Le Monde diplomatique, mai 2020) - 29 avril 2020
À défaut de pouvoir soigner le Covid-19, les pouvoirs publics de nombreux pays ont décidé de confiner la population au prétexte de la protéger. Mais, de la protection à la surveillance, il n’y a qu’un pas, que franchissent volontiers les partisans du contrôle numérique des foules. Une aubaine pour l’industrie du secteur et (...)
