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Quand l’Europe aide la Chine pour surveiller massivement ses concitoyens - 23 septembre 2020
Amnesty International publie un rapport qui montre que plusieurs entreprises européennes fournissent à Pékin des technologies de reconnaissance faciale. L’ONG pointe une faille majeure : aucun garde-fou européen ne limite l’exportation de ce type de technologies.
On connaissait déjà la propension de la Chine à exporter (...)
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Amnesty International dénonce l’exportation vers la Chine de technologies européennes de surveillance - 22 septembre 2020
L’ONG montre du doigt notamment le géant français de l’identification numérique Idemia, pour la vente d’un système de reconnaissance faciale à la police de Shanghaï.
Plusieurs entreprises européennes ont doté la Chine de matériels de surveillance, notamment de reconnaissance faciale, dénonce Amnesty International dans un (...)
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Out of Control : Failing EU Laws for Digital Surveillance Export - 21 septembre 2020
This report gives evidence of the gaps in the current European Union (EU) export regulation framework for digital surveillance technologies and provides the EU institutions and its member states with actionable recommendations to improve the protections of human rights in the upcoming Recast Dual Use Regulation. (...)
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Why don’t more people say f**k the algorithm ? - 21 septembre 2020
Protest movements around the world have become inherently digital, but why are there so few protests responding to governments’ online actions ? And find out how volunteers are tracking down tourists breaking quarantine in Hawaii.
We live in a digital society. But while the internet’s relationship with protest (...)
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Suzhou introduced a new social scoring system, but it was too Orwellian, even for China - 21 septembre 2020
A city of 10 million in eastern China upgraded its Covid-tracking app to introduce a new “civility” score. It had to backtrack after a public outcry.
Suzhou is a city with a population of 10 million, located 100 km west of Shanghai. It is well known for its classic Chinese gardens and, since last week, one of the (...)
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Inside the World’s ‘Most Sophisticated’ Surveillance System, With BuzzFeed News’ Megha Rajagopalan - 20 septembre 2020
A leading China reporter talks to Alex Kantrowitz about surveillance, internet censorship, and the internment of Muslims in Xinjiang
China’s mass internment of Muslims in its Xinjiang region is one of the world’s most under-covered stories. The country has detained 1 million people there, putting them through a (...)
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China watching : President, PM, key Opposition leaders, Cabinet, CMs, Chief Justice of India…the list goes on - 16 septembre 2020
China is Watching : Over 10,000 Indians, entities from politics to business, judiciary to media, even crime-accused, tracked by big-data firm linked to Chinese govt.
Calling itself a pioneer in using big data for “hybrid warfare” and the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” a Shenzen-based technology company (...)
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La Chine accusée d’espionnage à grande échelle en Inde - 15 septembre 2020
L’Indian Express a révélé le lundi 14 septembre que Zhenhua Data, une société de Shenzhen, collectait sur Internet les données de milliers de personnalités indiennes de la politique, des milieux d’affaires, de la justice et des médias, dont celles du Premier ministre Narendra Modi.
Plus de “10 000 personnes et (...)
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AI is a totalitarian’s dream – here’s how to take power back - 15 septembre 2020
Soon artificial intelligence looks set to know us better than we know ourselves. But it will all be for our own good, right ? Simon McCarthy-Jones explores the ramifications in a curated piece originally published by The Conversation.
Individualistic western societies are built on the idea that no one knows our (...)
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Shenzhen Man Kills Himself Over Blocked WeChat Account - 13 septembre 2020
His account, which he used for business, had been blocked for three days after another user reported him for harassing her and sending pornographic content.
WeChat has made headlines in China this week over the death of a man in the southern city of Shenzhen. The 22-year-old killed himself after the ubiquitous (...)
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California Bill Makes App-Based Companies Treat Workers as Employees - - 13 septembre 2020
SACRAMENTO — California legislators approved a landmark bill on Tuesday that requires companies like Uber and Lyft to treat contract workers as employees, a move that could reshape the gig economy and that adds fuel to a yearslong debate over whether the nature of work has become too insecure.
The bill passed in a (...)
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Beware Rigged China Fever Cameras - 9 septembre 2020
Many China fever camera manufacturers have rigged algorithms dynamically adjusting temperatures to more ’normal’ results, IPVM has concluded from 6 months of testing 20+ devices. See the 80-second video below overviewing this :
This raises the risk of missing actual fevers and creates a false sense of safety while (...)
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En effaçant les camps de Ouïghours sur Baidu Maps, la Chine les a rendus visibles. - 8 septembre 2020
Privées d’accès au Xinjiang, des journalistes du site BuzzFeed se tournent en 2018 vers l’imagerie satellite du site chinois Baidu Maps pour localiser les 1.200 camps de concentration où sont détenu·es des Ouïghour·es, dans le cadre d’un génocide qui a commencé en 2014.
Avec les progrès de la technologie, cette technique (...)
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Forget TikTok. China’s Powerhouse App Is WeChat. - 4 septembre 2020
A vital connection for the Chinese diaspora, the app has also become a global conduit of Chinese state propaganda, surveillance and intimidation. The United States has proposed banning it.
Just after the 2016 presidential election in the United States, Joanne Li realized the app that connected her to fellow (...)
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Your order, their labor : An exploration of algorithms and laboring on food delivery platforms in China - 3 septembre 2020
This study examines the use of “algorithms in everyday labor” to explore the labor conditions of three Chinese food delivery platforms : Baidu Deliveries, Eleme, and Meituan. In particular, it examines how delivery workers make sense of these algorithms through the parameters of temporality, affect, and (...)
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» L’essor des réseaux de caméras intelligentes, et pourquoi nous devrions les interdire - 31 août 2020
La reconnaissance faciale inquiète un peu partout. Qu’on puisse, par caméra, suivre nos moindres mouvements en public préoccupe beaucoup plus que l’existence et la prévalence exponentielle des réseaux de vidéosurveillance « intelligents », alors qu’il s’agit d’un sujet tout aussi inquiétant.
Les ménages et les sociétés (...)
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Blanked-Out Spots On China’s Maps Helped Us Uncover Xinjiang’s Camps - 31 août 2020
China’s Baidu blanked out parts of its mapping platform. We used those locations to find a network of buildings bearing the hallmarks of prisons and internment camps in Xinjiang. Here’s how we did it.
In the summer of 2018, as it became even harder for journalists to work effectively in Xinjiang, a far-western (...)
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"Guerre des étoiles" : comment la notation systématique a infusé notre quotidien - 31 août 2020
L’évaluation, bien souvent à coup d’étoiles, des produits et services, est devenue une habitude en apparence inoffensive. Dans "La nouvelle guerre des étoiles", deux journalistes de Libération se sont plongés dans les arcanes, dérives et effets pervers de ces nouveaux systèmes de notation.
TripAdvisor, Amazon, Uber, (...)
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La nouvelle guerre des étoiles, Vincent COQUAZ, Ismaël HALISSAT - 30 août 2020
Combien de fois avez-vous été sollicités pour attribuer une note ? Pensez à vos derniers achats en ligne, aux étoiles qu’on attribue à un chauffeur ou un livreur... on ne les voit même plus. Cette mode est aussi silencieuse qu’irrésistible : hôpitaux, services publics, tous ont vocation à être comparés, classés. Mais, comme (...)
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Facebook, Google, Big Tech Line Up for New Nationalist Tech War With China - 29 août 2020
China’s rise has pushed Silicon Valley away from the values it once claimed to hold.
Last month, the CEOs of Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon were hauled before the U.S. Congress to be interrogated about their companies’ monopolistic behavior. While Democrats relentlessly grilled the four CEOs over their breach (...)
