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Fazio : « Il nostro tracciamento vale, ai piemontesi non serve Immuni » - 5 juin 2020
Il capo della task force regionale invita a non incentivare l’uso dell’applicazione
« Non riteniamo opportuno incentivare in Piemonte l’uso della app Immuni ». Il responsabile della Task force per la Fase 2, Ferruccio Fazio, lo dice dopo l’ultima riunione del suo gruppo di super-consulenti della Regione. E sorprende. (...)
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Singapore plans wearable virus contact tracing device for all - 5 juin 2020
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore plans to give a wearable device that will identify people who had interacted with carriers of coronavirus to all of its 5.7 million residents, in what could become one of the most comprehensive contact tracing efforts globally.
The small device, which can be worn on the end of a (...)
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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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Black Lives Matter protesters aren’t being tracked with Covid-19 surveillance tech. Not yet - 3 juin 2020
A video posted on Twitter sparked fears that Black Lives Matter protesters could be tracked down using Covid-19 contact-tracing technology. It’s a false alarm on this occasion, but without clear protections in place, the question is ‘when’ not ‘if’ our data is misused.
Like many of the people who watched Minnesota (...)
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StopCovid : « C’est le signe d’une société qui va très mal et qui est en train de devenir totalement paranoïaque » - 2 juin 2020
A partir de ce mardi 2 juin, l’application StopCovid débarque en France. Son but : pister le Covid-19 pour éviter sa propagation. Alors cette application est-elle vraiment efficace ? Nos données personnelles sont-elles menacées ? Entretien avec Benjamin Bayart, ingénieur français, ancien président de French Data Network (...)
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Keeping watch : help us track coronavirus surveillance around the world - 2 juin 2020
How you can help us track surveillance introduced in the response to coronavirus
We are Morgan and Dimitri, journalists for The Correspondent and De Correspondent. We’re looking for readers around the world to be our eyes and ears, keeping us up to date on the latest developments in pandemic surveillance from your (...)
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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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Appli StopCovid Danger - 31 mai 2020
Argumentaire de la LDH concernant l’application StopCovid
Bien que le parlement ait voté en faveur du déploiement de l’application StopCovid, la Ligue des droits de l’Homme (LDH) continue à alerter sur les dangers pour la vie privée et les libertés que présente son utilisation. Sécurité, fiabilité, anonymat, inefficacité, (...)
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Antonio Casilli, professeur de sociologie à Telecom Paris - 30 mai 2020
Ce samedi, Sonia Devillers reçoit Antonio Casilli, professeur de sociologie à Telecom Paris et auteur notamment de "En attendant les robots" paru aux éditions du Seuil en 2019.
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Nadim Kobeissi : Why StopCOVID Fails as a Privacy-Preserving Design - 29 mai 2020
This analysis is written in collaboration with Anne Weine and Benjamin Lipp.
France’s StopCOVID application will be considered for nation-wide deployment today by French lawmakers, having recently obtained an opinion from the French Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), which contained only (...)
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« Contact tracing » : on (re)fait le point sur les problèmes avec le Bluetooth - 28 mai 2020
Les applications de contact tracing ont recours au Bluetooth pour estimer la probabilité d’avoir été trop longtemps à proximité d’une personne contaminée par le coronavirus. Des scientifiques ont donc cherché à identifier sa faisabilité, et les problèmes que cela pourrait poser. Et ils sont encore plus nombreux que ceux qui (...)
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Coronavirus Monitoring Bracelets Flood the Market, Ready to Snitch on People Who Don’t Distance - 25 mai 2020
Surveillance firms around the world are licking their lips at a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to cash in on the coronavirus by repositioning one of their most invasive products : the tracking bracelet.
Body monitors are associated with criminality and guilt in the popular imagination, the accessories of Wall (...)
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Covid Contact tracing apps are a complicated mess : what you need to know - 23 mai 2020
As Governments, Apple and Google compete in proximity tracing, here’s our take on building tech in times of crisis.
Key findings
Contact tracing is an important emergency healthcare initiative, and is necessarily invasive.
Coronavirus Apps do much more and much less than manual contact tracing.
There are (...)
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Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a covid app—and it hasn’t helped much - 22 mai 2020
The country has the highest penetration of any automated contact tracing app in the world, but one senior figure says it “wasn’t a game changer.”
When Iceland got its first case of covid-19 on February 28, an entire apparatus sprang into action.
The country had already been testing some people at high risk of (...)
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India is forcing people to use its covid app, unlike any other democracy - 21 mai 2020
Millions of Indians have no choice but to download the country’s tracking technology if they want to keep their jobs or avoid reprisals.
The world has never seen anything quite like Aarogya Setu. Two months ago, India’s app for coronavirus contact tracing didn’t exist ; now it has nearly 100 million users. Prime (...)
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Why contact tracing may be a mess in America - 21 mai 2020
High caseloads, low testing, and American attitudes toward government authority could pose serious challenges for successful efforts to track and contain coronavirus cases.
Technology can certainly supplement human contact tracing. Smartphone apps that flag when someone may have been in close contact with an (...)
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Podcast : Who watches the pandemic watchers ? We do - 21 mai 2020
No sooner had the stay-at-home orders come down than mobile app developers around the world began to imagine how our smartphones could make it safer for everyone to venture back out. Dozens of countries and a handful of US states are now urging citizens to download government-blessed apps that use GPS-based (...)
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I tested the UK’s coronavirus app. Here’s what I found. - 19 mai 2020
The British government is testing a tracking and tracing app on a small island off the coast of England. Its success could determine how the coronavirus pandemic is contained elsewhere
When the British government announced last month that it would trial its new coronavirus app on the Isle of Wight, the small (...)
