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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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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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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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Facial recognition tech stories and rights harms from around the world - 2 mars 2021
From Delhi to Detroit, Budapest to Bogota, Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) is being rapidly deployed in public and private spaces across the world.
As of 2019, 64 out of 176 countries were using facial recognition surveillance systems. In the US alone, more than 50 percent of all American adults were in a (...)
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Vaccinés, vos papiers ! - 2 mars 2021
Lentement mais sûrement, l’idée d’un passeport vaccinal en France fait son chemin. Certains pays comme Israël avancent franchement sur ce point et l’ont déjà validé concernant les transports aériens vers des pays le mettant également en place (Chypre et la Grèce), appuyés en cela par le taux de leur population déjà vaccinée (...)
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Clearview AI Is Taking Facial Recognition Privacy to the Supreme Court - 27 février 2021
International regulators have found Clearview AI’s technology breaches their privacy laws
Clearview AI plans to challenge an Illinois law guarding against private facial recognition databases in the Supreme Court, according to Bloomberg Law.
The Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has been a thorn (...)
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Facial recognition tech stories and rights harms from around the world - 12 février 2021
A new report by the International Network of Civil Liberties Organisations looks at the use and abuse of facial recognition technology by states across the globe, providing detailed case studies from the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe.
From Delhi to Detroit, Budapest to Bogota, Facial Recognition (...)
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Les scanners chinois utilisés par les douanes belges pointés du doigt : "Avec ça, ils peuvent infiltrer nos aéroports" - 5 février 2021
Les douanes belges utilisent des scanners fabriqués par une société chinoise pourtant interdits dans d’autres pays pour des raisons de sécurité. Si les douanes elles-mêmes n’y voient aucun problème, les critiques se multiplient, à en croire l’édition de vendredi du journal De Standaard.
Les scanners fixes et mobiles en (...)
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Data Exploitation and Political Campaigning : A Company Guide Resource - 22 janvier 2021
PI presents here 5 profiles of companies involved in political campaigning in order to provide a snapshot of how the digital political campaign sector works and further highlight the opacity and concerns for privacy.
Key findings
PI analysed publicly available material in order to profile 5 companies (...)
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My ID, my identity ? The impact of ID systems on transgender people in Argentina, France and the Philippines - 19 janvier 2021
My ID, my identity ? The impact of ID systems on transgender people in Argentina, France and the Philippines
We spoke to trans-right activists in three country : the Philippines, France and Argentina to understand how ID systems in their countries are impacting their lives and how certain legal frameworks may (...)
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The Capitol siege and facial recognition technology. - 14 janvier 2021
In a recent New Yorker article about the Capitol siege, Ronan Farrow described how investigators used a bevy of online data and facial recognition technology to confirm the identity of Larry Rendall Brock Jr., an Air Force Academy graduate and combat veteran from Texas. Brock was photographed inside the Capitol (...)
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Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism - 4 janvier 2021
The creation of the union, a rarity in Silicon Valley, follows years of increasing outspokenness by Google workers. Executives have struggled to handle the change.
OAKLAND, Calif. — More than 225 Google engineers and other workers have formed a union, the group revealed on Monday, capping years of growing activism (...)
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Sandvine ... the surveillance octopus in the Arab region - 2 janvier 2021
Partnership and business agreements between Arab governments and corporates on the one hand, and foreign companies working in the internet and communication surveillance industry (software/hardware) on the other, is currently witnessing an increase in rate and scale. The aim is to manipulate the flow of (...)
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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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Major data breach : Personal information of 360,000 teachers and former teachers in Quebec exposed - 20 décembre 2020
MONTREAL — Hundreds of thousands of teachers and former teachers in Quebec had their personal information exposed during a data breach that occurred in 2018, Quebec’s Treasury Board announced Friday afternoon.
Quebec’s Minister of Education received confirmation Wednesday that the personal data of as many as 360,000 (...)
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How global tech companies enable the Belarusian regime — and the Belarusian revolution - 19 décembre 2020
Can anything be done against companies whose tools facilitate repression ?
Belarusians continue to protest against longtime ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka, braving police violence and the cold. As the EU prepares its third package of sanctions against Belarusian officials and enterprises, demands are growing for the (...)
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Accusations de harcèlement sexuel, comportements toxiques, démissions... Les salariés d’Ubisoft usés par une année de scandales - 25 novembre 2020
Cinq mois après le début d’une vague d’accusations de harcèlement sexuel et sexiste, le numéro un du jeu vidéo français multiplie les initiatives pour corriger son image.
Watch Dogs : Legion le 29 octobre, Assassin’s Creed : Valhalla le 10 novembre, Immortals : Fenyx Rising prévu pour le 3 décembre… En apparence, (...)
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Students Have To Jump Through Absurd Hoops To Use Exam Monitoring Software - 24 novembre 2020
Last month, as students at Wilfrid Laurier University, in Ontario, Canada, began studying for their midterm exams, many of them had to memorize not just the content on their tests, but a complex set of instructions for how to take them.
The school has a student body of nearly 18,500 undergraduates, and is one of (...)
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Community Technology — Narrative Adventures and Adaptations - 22 octobre 2020
AKA footnotes for fellows :)
Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak with Cassie Robinson about a few things that are on her mind, and the minds of many of us, for part of a session this week with the Community Tech Fellowship Programme. Our conversation reminded me of one I’d had with Immy Kaur a few months back (...)
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Structurer la participation citoyenne aux choix technologiques - 22 octobre 2020
Dans un article sur Médium (Community Technology — Narrative Adventures and Adaptations), la canadienne Bianca Wylie (@biancawylie) revient sur les moyens utiles à la société civile pour interroger des choix technologiques d’envergure. L’activiste, qui a mené la résistance face au projet de smart-city dans le quartier de (...)
