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LAPD Asked for Ring Surveillance Video Related to Black Lives Matter Protests - 17 février 2021
Emails show that the LAPD repeatedly asked camera owners for footage during the demonstrations, raising First Amendment concerns.
Emails obtained from the Los Angeles Police Department show that the department sought protest-related footage from Amazon’s Ring home camera systems in the wake of George Floyd’s (...)
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Vanessa Codaccioni : « L’État nous pousse à agir comme la police » - 16 janvier 2021
Promouvoir la surveillance de tous par tous. Voilà ce que veut l’État, comme l’explique Vanessa Codaccioni dans son dernier ouvrage, « La société de vigilance ». Et en plus d’appeler les citoyens à la délation, il les surveille toujours plus en renforçant les pouvoirs de la police, comme l’illustre la loi de « sécurité (...)
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We Should Be Very Worried About Joe Biden’s “Domestic Terrorism” Bill - 16 janvier 2021
Joe Biden used to brag that he practically wrote the Patriot Act, the Bush-era law that massively increased government surveillance powers. Now he’s hoping to pass a further “domestic terrorism” law once in office. The danger is real that the January 6 Capitol attack will be used as an excuse to severely curtail our (...)
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Police surveillance of Black Lives Matter shows the danger technology poses to democracy - 15 janvier 2021
US police forces have been turning to technology to track down Black Lives Matter protestors. Content from social media platforms and affiliated sites has been instrumental in the authorities being able to identify protestors based on photos of their faces, clothes and hair, or on the fact that they posted while (...)
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Why 2020 was a pivotal, contradictory year for facial recognition - 29 décembre 2020
The racial justice movement pushed problems with the technology into public consciousness—but despite scandals and bans, its growth isn’t slowing.
America’s first confirmed wrongful arrest by facial recognition technology happened in January 2020. Robert Williams, a Black man, was arrested in his driveway just (...)
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Tech platforms vowed to address racial equity : how have they fared ? - 28 décembre 2020
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google and Amazon issued statements in response to Black Lives Matter this year but did they follow through ?
Following the death of George Floyd and nationwide protests against police brutality and racial inequality, some of the largest technology corporations waded into the (...)
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Exploitation des données, manipulation de l’opinion, culte du secret… La trahison des GAFA - 21 décembre 2020
Il y a encore quelques années, Mark Zuckerberg était considéré comme un génie, Google comme l’une des entreprises les plus cool au monde… et puis la confiance s’est perdue. L’avidité des géants de la tech semble avoir eu raison des valeurs des pionniers du numérique : liberté, innovation et progrès.
Deux jours d’audience de (...)
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San Francisco Supervisors Must Rein In SFPD’s Abuse of Surveillance Cameras - 14 octobre 2020
Black, white, or indigenous ; well-resourced or indigent ; San Francisco residents should be free to assemble and protest without fear of police surveillance technology or retribution. That should include Black-led protesters of San Francisco who took to the streets in solidarity and protest, understanding that (...)
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One Way to Prevent Police From Surveilling Your Phone - 29 septembre 2020
Use Signal and add a PIN code to your phone’s SIM card to help protect against spying.
Federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department used “a sophisticated cell phone cloning attack—the details of which remain classified—to intercept protesters’ phone communications” in Portland (...)
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Facebook Sued Over Kenosha Killings - 23 septembre 2020
“If Facebook won’t change their M.O., then a judge needs to tell them to enforce their own standards.”
When 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse killed two Black Lives Matter protesters (and wounded a third) in late August in Kenosha, Wisconsin, he instantly became a hero among white nationalist circles, in which the Second (...)
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How San Francisco police surveillance closed in on Black Lives Matter protests - 19 septembre 2020
Activists and privacy advocates say police use of indiscriminate monitoring erodes fundamental freedoms
When Marquise Rosier joined hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters on May 31 in downtown San Francisco, he knew that the police would have their eyes on him.
“My thought process going in was ‘Yeah, I know for (...)
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De l’automatisation de la discrimination - 15 septembre 2020
Le racisme n’est pas seulement une forme de domination parmi d’autres, une idéologie ou une histoire. C’est avant tout « un ensemble de technologies qui génèrent des modèles de relations sociales »… Un ensemble de technologies qui, comme bien des technologies, ont tendance à devenir des boîtes noires trop souvent (...)
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Comment la Silicon Valleyr réagit au COVID19 et à BlackLivesMatter ? - 15 septembre 2020
Alors que la pandémie mondiale de COVID-19 est pour les GAFAM une opportunité de marché en or, les grandes entreprises des nouvelles technologies font face à des contestations venues de différents pans de la société américaine.
Historien, professeur à l’université de Stanford, Fred Turner est un spécialiste de la (...)
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Operation Legend Is Bringing Surveillance Tech to Cities - 13 septembre 2020
Using federal grants, cities are contracting with companies that hack smartphones and detect gunshots.
In August, 40 federal agents arrived in Memphis. Some were already on the ground by the time U.S. Attorney Michael Dunavant announced the onset of Operation Legend and the city became, along with St. Louis, the (...)
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Human rights groups ask U.N. to intervene in U.S. crackdown on racial justice protesters - 11 septembre 2020
This week, Access Now and the USC Gould School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic (USC IHRC) – with the support of the international law firm Foley Hoag LLP (on behalf of Access Now) – submitted an Urgent Appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedoms of Peaceful Assembly and of (...)
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Facebook Didn’t Remove Kenosha Militia Event Page - 3 septembre 2020
Facebook said it removed a militia event associated with the shooting of three protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin. It didn’t. Here’s what really happened, and why it could happen again.
Despite Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s previous statements that the company had removed a militia event where people discussed (...)
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The Thin Blue Line Between Violent, Pro-Trump Militias and Police - 1er septembre 2020
Police in Kenosha told armed vigilantes, “We appreciate you guys. We really do.” Then one of them killed two protesters.
The videos that preceded Anthony Huber’s killing on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, are jarring. Among the most chilling is one from the parking lot of an auto repair shop. Several shots ring (...)
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How NCRIC Keeps Tabs on Black Lives Matter Protesters - 24 août 2020
The center sent daily emails listing upcoming protests to thousands of local police and circulated inflammatory online posts.
Almost two weeks after a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd while he was handcuffed face down in the street, a hacker began exfiltrating 19 gigabytes of documents from the (...)
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NYPD Used Facial Recognition Technology In Siege Of Black Lives Matter Activist’s Apartment - 19 août 2020
The NYPD deployed facial recognition technology in its hunt for a prominent Black Lives Matter activist, whose home was besieged by dozens of officers and police dogs last week, a spokesperson confirmed to Gothamist.
Derrick Ingram, the 28-year-old co-founder of Warriors in the Garden, was targeted by officers in (...)
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Police use of facial recognition violates human rights, UK court rules - 14 août 2020
Use of the tech needs to be narrower to conform to human rights law, court held.
Privacy advocates in the UK are claiming victory as an appeals court ruled today that police use of facial recognition technology in that country has "fundamental deficiencies" and violates several laws.
South Wales Police began (...)
