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Des outils existent déjà contre l’alternative aux cookies proposée par Google - 28 avril 2021
Pour remplacer les cookies tiers, Google propose une nouvelle technologie appelée FLoC. Bien qu’elle soit plus respectueuse de la vie privée (tout en permettant les expériences publicitaires personnalisées), elle est loin de faire l’unanimité.
Aujourd’hui, les cookies tiers sont considérés comme l’un des fléaux (...)
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EU urged to ban AI tools that detect gender, sexuality - 26 avril 2021
Draft EU rules include curbs on AI technology like facial recognition, but not on systems that detect gender, sexuality, race or disability
April 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A cross-party group of European lawmakers called on Friday for an EU ban on artificial intelligence (AI) systems that detect and label (...)
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How a Chinese Surveillance Broker Became Oracle’s “Partner of the Year” - 22 avril 2021
A network of local resellers helps funnel Oracle technology to the police and military in China.
Banners printed for the occasion read, “Build a new type of strategic partnership.” Artfully made cutouts of the two companies’ logos adorned the stage. And the frosting on the massive sheet cake curled into a red “20,” (...)
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Am I FLoCed ? - 20 avril 2021
Google is testing FLoC on Chrome users worldwide. Find out if you’re one of them.
Google is running a Chrome "origin trial" to test out an experimental new tracking feature called Federated Learning of Cohorts (aka "FLoC"). According to Google, the trial currently affects 0.5% of users in selected regions, (...)
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Threats in the usage of facial recognition technologies for authenticating transgender identities - 3 avril 2021
Our partner Coding Rights summarise the findings of their research on the impact of facial recognition on trans people.
Key points
SERPRO is the main provider of Facial Recognition technologies to the Brazilian government. It is a public company with access to the database of all Brazilians drivers licenses, (...)
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Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions of Browsers. Here’s What We Know. - 3 avril 2021
Today, Google launched an “origin trial” of Federated Learning of Cohorts (aka FLoC), its experimental new technology for targeting ads. A switch has silently been flipped in millions of instances of Google Chrome : those browsers will begin sorting their users into groups based on behavior, then sharing group (...)
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Facebook guidelines allow users to call for death of public figures - 25 mars 2021
Exclusive : public figures considered to be permissible targets for otherwise-banned abuse, leaked moderator guidelines show
Facebook’s bullying and harassment policy explicitly allows for “public figures” to be targeted in ways otherwise banned on the site, including “calls for [their] death”, according to a tranche (...)
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Platform Capitalism, Empire and Authoritarianism : Is There a Way Out ? - 21 mars 2021
The world will face more widespread and intensified surveillance, but this time it could be framed as something for our own good, for the good of humanity.
President Trump has left the building. In his final days, in one of the most symbolic moments of his short period in the White House, after his supporters had (...)
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How Oracle Sells Repression in China - 19 février 2021
In its bid for TikTok, Oracle was supposed to prevent data from being passed to Chinese police. Instead, it’s been marketing its own software for their surveillance work.
Police in China’s Liaoning province were sitting on mounds of data collected through invasive means : financial records, travel information, (...)
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Les grands gagnants de « l’économie du confinement » - 8 février 2021
La crise planétaire a détruit des emplois et asséché des secteurs entiers. Mais elle en a aussi dopé d’autres, enrichissant les actionnaires de multinationales comme Apple, Netflix et Amazon.
Non, le nouveau coronavirus n’a pas tout asséché ni appauvri. La crise économique est sans nul doute planétaire et historique. (...)
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US has ’moral imperative’ to develop AI weapons, says panel - 27 janvier 2021
Draft Congress report claims AI will make fewer mistakes than humans and lead to reduced casualties
The US should not agree to ban the use or development of autonomous weapons powered by artificial intelligence (AI) software, a government-appointed panel has said in a draft report for Congress.
The panel, led by (...)
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Facebook and Twitter Face International Scrutiny After Trump Ban - 15 janvier 2021
Human rights groups and activists have spent years urging the companies to do more to remove content that encouraged violence.
LONDON — In Sri Lanka and Myanmar, Facebook kept up posts that it had been warned contributed to violence. In India, activists have urged the company to combat posts by political figures (...)
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WhatsApp Doesn’t Read Your Messages, It Doesn’t Need To - Pen Magnet - 11 janvier 2021
As of this writing, WhatsApp released a newer version of its privacy policy on Jan 4, 2021.
Among other things, it mentions :
We are one of the Facebook Companies. You can learn more further below in this Privacy Policy about the ways in which we share information across this family of companies.
When I (...)
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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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Brazil’s Bolsa Familia Program : the impact on privacy rights - 27 novembre 2020
Our partner organisation InternetLab has been researching the Bolsa Familia Program and its consequences for gender and privacy, here are the first results.
Over the last months, the organisation InternetLab has researched privacy, data protection, gender, and social protection, focusing on the beneficiaries of (...)
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Facewatch : the Reality Behind the Marketing Discourse - 18 octobre 2020
Key findings
Facewatch is allegedly developping a facial recognition technology that will work when people are wearing masks
Statements by the CEO of Facewatch and marketing documents suggest the company is partnering with police departments in the UK - but the reality is unclear
Beyond the marketing (...)
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Droit voisin : Google et les médias français proches d’un accord - 8 octobre 2020
Après des mois de conflit, l’accord couvre le droit voisin réclamé par la presse, mais aussi des contenus pour Showcase, un nouvel espace lancé par le moteur de recherche.
Le ton a changé. Après des mois, voire des années, d’épreuve de force et de déclarations martiales, Google et les représentants des médias français sont (...)
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Coronavirus is putting Europe’s privacy protectors front and centre – and they’re coming up short - 2 octobre 2020
Coronavirus is putting Europe’s privacy protectors front and centre – and they’re coming up short
Coronavirus is putting Europe’s privacy protectors front and centre – and they’re coming up short
Wojciech Wiewiórowski felt like his entire life had been leading up to the moment when Covid-19 hit Europe like a tidal wave (...)
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Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation - 14 septembre 2020
A 6,600-word internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist details how the social network knew leaders of countries around the world were using their site to manipulate voters — and failed to act.
Facebook ignored or was slow to act on evidence that fake accounts on its platform have been undermining elections (...)
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La montée en puissance des logiciels de reconnaissance ethnique fait craindre des dérives - 29 août 2020
Un certain nombre d’entreprises se vantent de proposer des logiciels capables de repérer l’origine ethnique, mais nombreux sont ceux qui redoutent que ces outils n’alimentent la discrimination
Le jour où Revlon a voulu savoir quels rouges à lèvres portaient les femmes issues de différentes origines ethniques et de (...)
