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They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them. - 6 février 2021
Times Opinion was able to identify individuals from a trove of leaked smartphone location data.
In 2019, a source came to us with a digital file containing the precise locations of more than 12 million individual smartphones for several months in 2016 and 2017. The data is supposed to be anonymous, but it isn’t. (...)
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TousAntiCovid : vers des QR codes dans certains lieux publics à risque - 19 janvier 2021
Le gouvernement entend accompagner la réouverture des bars et restaurants de cette fonctionnalité dans l’application de suivi des contacts, avec pour objectif d’identifier les clusters pouvant s’y former.
L’application TousAntiCovid va proposer à ses utilisateurs d’enregistrer leur présence dans certains lieux publics (...)
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La voiture connectée, nouveau lieu du crime et de l’enquête - 15 janvier 2021
Position GPS, vitesse, enregistrements audio… La voiture est une véritable mine d’indices pour la police.
Le 26 juin 2017, le corps de Ronald French, un mécanicien automobile, a été retrouvé dans un champ de maïs du comté de Kalamazoo, dans le Michigan.
Durant deux ans, l’enquête a piétiné sans aboutir à la moindre (...)
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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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Insecure wheels : Police turn to car data to destroy suspects’ alibis - 28 décembre 2020
Looser privacy standards for vehicle data are a treasure chest of data for law enforcement.
On June 26, 2017, the lifeless body of Ronald French, a bearded auto mechanic with once-twinkling eyes, was mysteriously found in a cornfield in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
French, a grandfather of eight who always tried (...)
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Les données de l’application de traçage australienne accidentellement collectées par une agence de renseignement - 25 novembre 2020
Un rapport rédigé au sujet de COVIDSafe, l’application de traçage numérique australienne, révèle une collecte indue des données de l’application. Sans preuve à ce jour d’une quelconque utilisation de ces informations.
Une ou plusieurs des principales agences australiennes de renseignement et de sécurité ont collecté (...)
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Corona Detective - Find out who gave you COVID19 - 2 novembre 2020
Any technology that works by broadcasting unique codes can never truly be anonymous. Corona Detective simply matches your identity to your codes while you are broadcasting them.
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Hoe anoniem is CoronaMelder ? ’Overheid weet niets, boefjes misschien wel’ - 2 novembre 2020
"De CoronaMelder-app werkt volledig anoniem." Het is een zin die het ministerie van Volksgezondheid meerdere malen heeft verspreid over de corona-app die door het departement is ontwikkeld. Eén probleem : het klopt niet helemaal.
"Als je naast Mark Rutte staat, hij de CoronaMelder gebruikt en vervolgens corona (...)
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Workplace Surveillance in Times of Corona - 28 septembre 2020
With numbers of COVID-19 infections soaring again in the United States and around the world, we have to learn how to manage its long-term ramifications for our economies. As people adjust to minimizing the risk of infections in everyday settings, one critical context is work. Even though millions have shifted to (...)
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Schools Are Buying Up Surveillance Technology to Fight COVID-19 - 9 septembre 2020
But will it actually prevent an outbreak ?
Fayette County Public Schools, a 24-school district in Georgia, reopened its classroom doors last month. As at many schools around the country, officials in Fayette have concerns about safely bringing students back to school amid a pandemic—and they’re turning to (...)
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COVID-19 Tracking Technology Will Not Save Us - 3 septembre 2020
Technology may be part of the solution to stopping the spread of COVID-19, but apps alone will not save us. As more states develop COVID exposure notification apps, institutions and the people they serve should remain skeptical and remember the bigger picture. This is still experimental, unproven technology, both (...)
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ADM Systems in the COVID-19 Pandemic : A European Perspective - 1er septembre 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred the deployment of a plethora of automated decision-making (ADM) systems all over Europe. High hopes have been placed by both local administrations and national governments in applications and devices aimed at containing the outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (...)
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Cops Don’t Need GPS Data to Track Your Phone at Protests - 27 août 2020
For the thousands of people protesting and reporting on George Floyd’s death at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department—or even for bystanders caught up in the demonstrations—arrests, injuries, and even death are becoming commonplace in this moment. And just like protests we’ve experienced within the past (...)
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Comment Venise gère les foules grâce à l’IA - 20 août 2020
En s’appuyant sur les nouvelles possibilités offertes par l’intelligence artificielle en matière de traitement des images, Axians Italie développe le « Venice Crowd Project », destiné à mieux gérer les flux de touristes dans le centre de Venise.
Le centre historique de Venise, qui compte environ 53 000 habitants, accueille (...)
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Covidsafe app overhaul compensates for ’handshakes’ only connecting 27% of the time on some iPhones - 18 août 2020
Exclusive : the most recent test data and information about changes made to the app have been released under freedom of information
The makers of the Covidsafe app have had to overhaul the algorithm for determining close contacts to improve the functionality of the app on iPhones, Guardian Australia has learned, (...)
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Deux mois après son lancement, l’application StopCovid est (toujours) un échec - 16 août 2020
Lancée le 2 juin, l’application StopCovid ne rencontre pas le succès escompté par le gouvernement. Peu d’utilisateurs, faible communication, incompatibilité avec les autres applications européennes : les écueils ont été nombreux.
Difficile d’être optimiste ou positif sur le sujet. Et quand on parle de StopCovid aux (...)
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From Japan to Brazil and South Africa : how countries’ ‘data cultures’ shape their response to coronavirus - 13 août 2020
Since March, The Correspondent has been tracking how countries are using surveillance technology to respond to the spread of the coronavirus. We’ve already documented how governments have turned to contact-tracing apps, telecom tracking and self-assessment apps to curb the spread of the virus. But it’s clear that (...)
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8 million people, 14 alerts : why some covid-19 apps are staying silent - 11 août 2020
Critics have rounded on contact tracing apps in France and Australia for sending out almost no virus notifications. But experts say it’s not a total failure—as long as we learn what went wrong.
When France launched its app for digital contact tracing, it looked like a possible breakthrough for the virus-ravaged (...)
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The Trump campaign app is tapping a "gold mine" of data about Americans - 10 août 2020
President Trump’s campaign app is targeted to his most fervent supporters, but it is able to collect data about a swath of the American public far larger than his base.
The app requests access to significantly more information from each user’s phone than Joe Biden’s, and is on as many as 1.4 million devices, (...)
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The original Big Tech is working closer than ever with governments to combat coronavirus – with no scrutiny - 10 août 2020
Telecom companies are at the core of the world’s communication universe. Since the coronavirus pandemic, they’ve been passing even more sensitive data to governments. It’s time they were held as accountable as Google and Facebook.
The texts can arrive at any time. Recipients are told they’ve been exposed to the (...)
