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Illegal data exchange between address publisher and credit ranking agency - 27 mars 2021
noyb filed a GDPR complaint against the credit ranking agency CRIF GmbH and the address publisher AZ Direct on March 18, 2021. The companies exchange data which violates the GDPR, as well as Austrian law. Address publishers are only allowed to pass on data for advertising purposes, but not to credit agencies for (...)
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Big data experiments : new powers for Europol risk reinforcing police bias - 11 février 2021
EU policing agency Europol could be given new powers to process vast quantities of personal data under proposals put forward by the European Commission in December. One objective is to train algorithms “for the development of tools” to be used by Europol and national law enforcement agencies, raising the risk of (...)
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Covid-19 Ushered in a New Era of Government Surveillance - 30 décembre 2020
Government-mandated drone surveillance and location tracking apps could be here to stay
In early December, after finding 16 people had illegally crossed the border from Myanmar to Thailand and evaded the mandatory quarantine period, the Thai government said it would start patrolling the border with new (...)
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Les GAFA répercutent sur leurs clients les taxes sur le numérique - 4 septembre 2020
Apple, Google et Amazon ont annoncé des hausses de prix de leurs services dans plusieurs pays, dont la France, en réaction aux changements de fiscalité du numérique.
Visés par de nouvelles taxes, les géants du numérique ont choisi de les répercuter sur leurs partenaires. Apple, Google et Amazon ont, ces derniers jours, (...)
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Austria’s employment agency rolls out discriminatory algorithm, sees no problem - 28 août 2020
AMS, Austria’s employment agency, is about to roll out a sorting algorithm that gives lower scores to women and to the disabled. It is very likely illegal under current anti-discrimination law.
The Austrian employment agency, known by its German acronym AMS, is a state-owned company in charge of helping job (...)
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Deportation Union : Rights, accountability and the EU’s push to increase forced removals - 25 août 2020
Deportation Union provides a critical examination of recently-introduced and forthcoming EU measures designed to increase the number of deportations carried out by national authorities and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex. It focuses on three key areas : attempts to reduce or eliminate rights (...)
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Austria’s employment agency rolls out discriminatory algorithm, sees no problem - 4 juillet 2020
AMS, Austria’s employment agency, is about to roll out a sorting algorithm that gives lower scores to women and to the disabled. It is very likely illegal under current anti-discrimination law.
The Austrian employment agency, known by its German acronym AMS, is a state-owned company in charge of helping job (...)
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Bahrain, Kuwait and Norway contact tracing apps among most dangerous for privacy - 17 juin 2020
Bahrain, Kuwait and Norway have rolled out some of the most invasive COVID-19 contact tracing apps around the world, putting the privacy and security of hundreds of thousands of people at risk, an Amnesty International investigation reveals.
Amnesty’s Security Lab reviewed contact tracing apps from Europe, Middle (...)
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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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Face matching and digital avatars coming to the EU’s borders - 30 mai 2020
Across Europe, leaders have been desperately seeking new ways to secure borders. Concerns over migration have contributed to the evolution of new forms of authoritarian technology
On the outskirts of Vienna, staff at the Austrian Institute of Technology are working on a project that could radically change border (...)
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Coronavirus : en Europe, les applis de traçage divisent les Etats et ne convainquent pas les habitants - 16 mai 2020
Si la plupart des pays ont opté pour une technologie Bluetooth, le clivage concernant le choix de l’architecture globale – centralisée ou pas – fait craindre une incompatibilité entre les différentes applications.
Utiliser une application mobile pour enrayer un virus : l’idée n’existait pas il y a quelques mois à peine (...)
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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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Applications de traçage des contacts : un test pour le droit à la vie privée en Europe - 11 mai 2020
Alors qu’un tiers de la population mondiale vit confinée dans le but d’endiguer la propagation du coronavirus COVID-19, les gouvernements explorent des solutions technologiques [3] qui permettraient d’alléger les restrictions imposées aux déplacements. Les applications de traçage des contacts [4] sont l’outil high-tech du (...)
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Dans les eaux troubles du numérique - 9 mai 2020
Depuis ses débuts, Internet s’est développé en parallèle et avec des techniques de contrôle, de surveillance et de répression, dont les conséquences sont de plus en plus visibles durant cette période de coronavirus.
Premier lieu commun : Internet est entré dans les mœurs. Consulter ses mails, partager des fichiers, (...)
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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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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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Germany flips on smartphone contact tracing, backs Apple and Google - Reuters - 26 avril 2020
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany changed course on Sunday over which type of smartphone technology it wanted to use to trace coronavirus infections, backing an approach supported by Apple and Google along with a growing number of other European countries.
Chancellery Minister Helge Braun and Health Minister Jens Spahn (...)
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Coronavirus : la Belgique renonce à une application de traçage des malades - 26 avril 2020
Le ministre de l’Agenda numérique belge, Philippe de Backer, a annoncé qu’il n’y aura finalement pas, pour le moment, d’app de tracing pour automatiser l’identification des éventuelles contaminations de personnes par Covid-19. En France, le gouvernement va porter au vote le projet d’une application similaire.
La Belgique (...)
