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Facebook Scraped 1 Billion Pictures From Instagram to Train Its A.I. — But Spared European Users - 5 mars 2021
The team purposely excluded Instagram images from the European Union, likely because of GDPR
Facebook researchers announced a breakthrough yesterday : They have trained a “self-supervised” algorithm using 1 billion Instagram images, proving that the algorithm doesn’t need human-labeled images to learn to accurately (...)
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Palantir Says Faulty AI and Privacy Regulation Are a Risk to the Company - 28 août 2020
Palantir has never made a profit, and according to its S-1 filing, may never make a profit. But it has no plans to stop now.
Palantir, a Denver-based surveillance firm that contracts with commercial firms and government agencies such as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, published its public filing (...)
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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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Why Big Tech’s new face recognition bans don’t go far enough - 17 juin 2020
While these tech giants may have stepped back from facial recognition, their bans don’t encompass other technology they supply for police or square with their past lobbying and legislative efforts.
Advocates against flawed facial recognition systems have pushed for limits or bans on the use of these controversial (...)
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Criteo, un géant du marketing de surveillance français - 23 mai 2020
Pistage agressif sur tous vos appareils, faille de sécurité majeure, duplicité du discours et absence de consentement mais toujours l’impunité pour Criteo
Criteo, un géant publicitaire dont le modèle économique est basé sur votre surveillance
Peu connu du grand public, Criteo est une success story française ayant réussi (...)
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Phone tracking grows with COVID-19. Scruff wants out of it - Protocol - 8 avril 2020
Phone tracking is having a moment, but gay dating app Scruff wants no part of it
Location data is big business, and is now at the center of efforts to study the spread of COVID-19. But who’s in control ?
A few years ago, a particular type of email began showing up in the inbox of Eric Silverberg, whose gay dating (...)
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Antonio Casilli : « Cette épidémie s’avère aussi un signal d’alarme à propos du numérique » | AOC media - Analyse Opinion Critique - 27 mars 2020
Près de 3 milliards de personnes sont aujourd’hui confinées. Dans cette situation, qu’il s’agisse du travail ou de toute autre forme d’interactions humaines, les relations numériques sont venues pallier l’absence de contact physique. Comme si nous avions été brutalement précipités dans un monde 2.0 depuis longtemps (...)
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Clearview a menti : son app de reconnaissance faciale est utilisée par des milliardaires et des boutiques - 7 mars 2020
La startup de reconnaissance faciale Clearview AI défendait que son app n’était accessible qu’aux forces de l’ordre. C’est faux, et son usage dans le cadre privé soulève des questions d’éthiques encore plus nombreuses.
Chaque semaine amène son lot de révélations sur Clearview AI. Début janvier, le New York Times a placé sous (...)
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Here’s the File Clearview AI Has Been Keeping on Me, and Probably on You Too - VICE - 29 février 2020
We used the California Consumer Privacy Act to see what information the controversial facial recognition company has collected on me.
After a recent, extensive, and rather withering bout of bad press, the facial recognition company Clearview AI has changed its homepage, which now touts all the things it says its (...)
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Ten Questions—And Answers—About the California Consumer Privacy Act | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 26 février 2020
You may have heard from a lot of businesses telling you that they’ve updated their privacy policies because of a new law called the California Consumer Privacy Act. But what’s actually changed for you ?
EFF has spent the past year defending this law in the California legislature, but we realize that not everyone (...)
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Les publicitaires digèrent mal la fin des cookies sur Internet - 15 février 2020
Sans ces fichiers, les entreprises ne pourront plus tracer les internautes pour leur envoyer des publicités ciblées. Tout un pan de leur modèle risque de s’effondrer au profit des « GAFA ».
Panique à bord. « Il faut se préparer à un tsunami », « on va dans le mur »… Telles sont les réactions que l’on peut entendre dans le (...)
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Will we just accept our loss of privacy, or has the techlash already begun ? | Alan Rusbridger | Opinion | The Guardian - 3 février 2020
Not so long ago we searched Google. Now we seem quite happy to let Google search us
‘As always in the digital world… everything could be disrupted in the blink of an eye.’
Probably too late to ask, but was the past year the moment we lost our technological innocence ? The Alexa in the corner of the kitchen (...)
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Ad industry seeks to delay new California data privacy law - Los Angeles Times - 3 février 2020
Some of the advertising industry’s biggest trade associations are asking California’s attorney general to delay enforcement of the state’s new privacy law.
Starting Jan. 1, the California Consumer Privacy Act required most companies with websites and customers in the state to implement new data collection standards (...)
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Privacy in the EU and US : Consumer experiences across three global platforms | Heinrich Böll Stiftung | Brussels office - European Union - 22 janvier 2020
Data protection and privacy laws are being introduced or reviewed around the world in an effort to keep pace with technologies and strengthen the protection of personal data and privacy online. It is important to look at how these regulations are being implemented and whether they help consumers exercise their (...)
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RGPD : « Les Américains considèrent la donnée personnelle comme un simple bien commercialisable » - 22 janvier 2020
L’avocat Alexandre Lazarègue constate, dans une tribune au « Monde », que la loi sur la protection des données adoptée par la Californie, contrairement au RGPD européen, ne permet pas aux citoyens américains de reprendre le contrôle de leurs vies privées.
Tribune. Depuis le 1er janvier 2020, le California Consumer Privacy (...)
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California’s groundbreaking privacy law takes effect in January. What does it do ? - 3 janvier 2020
Landmark law, the ‘most comprehensive’ in the US, gives Californians an arsenal of tools to protect their data online
Last year, California passed a landmark privacy law that gives consumers more control over their data. The legislation gives residents unprecedented rights to control what information companies (...)
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How we survive the surveillance apocalypse - 3 janvier 2020
Online privacy is not dead, but you have to be angry enough to demand it.
Go, go gadgets has long been the attitude in my house. Perhaps yours, too : A smartphone made it easier to stay in touch. A smart TV streamed a zillion more shows. A smart speaker let you talk to a smart thermostat without getting out of (...)
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California Rings In The New Year With A New Data Privacy Law - 31 décembre 2019
On Jan. 1, the toughest data privacy law in the U.S. goes into effect : the California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA.
That’s why you’re seeing a host of emails pop up in your inbox from various companies announcing updates to their terms of service, particularly their privacy policies. With no similar federal law (...)
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California is rewriting the rules of the internet. Businesses are scrambling to keep up - 30 décembre 2019
A sweeping new law that aims to rewrite the rules of the internet in California is set to go into effect on Jan. 1.
Most businesses with a website and customers in California — which is to say most large businesses in the nation — must follow the new rules, which are supposed to make online life more transparent (...)
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What Does California’s New Data Privacy Law Mean ? Nobody Agrees - 29 décembre 2019
The statute was meant to standardize how companies disclose their consumer data-mining practices. So far, not so much.
Millions of people in California are now seeing notices on many of the apps and websites they use. “Do Not Sell My Personal Information,” the notices may say, or just “Do Not Sell My Info.”
But (...)
