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Tesla accused of ignoring and covering up suspension defects in class action lawsuit - 26 novembre 2020
Owners allege Tesla continues to blame drivers for the issue rather than take safety seriously in Model S and Model X electric vehicles.
A new class action lawsuit (PDF) landed on Tesla last Friday as owners allege the California-based automaker continues to ignore suspension safety issues in older Model S and (...)
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Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show - 13 octobre 2020
Court records in an arson case show that Google gave away data on people who searched for a specific address.
There are few things as revealing as a person’s search history, and police typically need a warrant on a known suspect to demand that sensitive information. But a recently unsealed court document found (...)
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Ex-content moderator sues YouTube, claims job led to PTSD symptoms and depression - 23 septembre 2020
The worker watched videos that included beheadings, shootings and child abuse, according to the lawsuit.
A former content moderator is suing Google-owned YouTube after she allegedly developed depression and symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder from repeatedly watching videos of beheadings, (...)
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Portland, Oregon, passes toughest ban on facial recognition in US - 11 septembre 2020
The ordinance outlaws the use of facial recognition not only by government agencies, but also by private businesses.
The city council in Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday passed the strongest ban on facial recognition in the US, blocking use of the technology by private businesses as well as government agencies in (...)
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’A totally different ballgame’ : Inside Uber and Lyft’s fight over gig worker status - 29 août 2020
Labor activists are targeted in a social media campaign as gig economy companies spend millions to prevent workers from becoming employees.
Veena Dubal couldn’t stop her mind from reeling. It was around midnight on March 29 and coronavirus lockdowns were in effect. She says she paced back and forth between her (...)
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In the ’Blackest city in America,’ a fight to end facial recognition - 3 juillet 2020
Activists say facial recognition and its racial bias have no place in Detroit, a city that boasts the highest percentage of Black residents in the US.
Activists in Detroit have been waiting a long time for July 24. Since the city’s contract with DataWorks began in 2017, community members have been pushing to stop (...)
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Google faces $5 billion lawsuit for tracking people in incognito mode - 18 juin 2020
Google faces a proposed class action lawsuit that accuses the tech giant of invading people’s privacy and tracking internet use even when browsers are set to "private" mode. The suit, filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, alleges that Google violates wiretapping and privacy (...)
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Your face mask selfies could be training the next facial recognition tool - 20 mai 2020
Researchers are crawling the internet for photos of people wearing face masks to improve facial recognition algorithms.
Your face mask selfies aren’t just getting seen by your friends and family — they’re also getting collected by researchers looking to use them to improve facial recognition algorithms. CNET found (...)
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Coronavirus pandemic changes how your privacy is protected - CNET - 23 mars 2020
Data protection officials around the world are loosening rules on how your data can be used during the COVID-19 outbreak.
As the coronavirus pandemic gets worse, privacy commissioners are lifting data restrictions for health officials to keep track of the outbreak. A review of policy changes around the world shows (...)
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How schools are using kids’ phones to track and surveil them - CNET - 27 février 2020
A technology used in a number of prisons is tracking students now too.
Teachers often lament that phones can be a distraction in classrooms. Some governments have even banned phones outright in schools. But a few school administrations see phones in schools as a benefit because they can help keep track of students (...)
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Rights groups join student demands to bar facial recognition at colleges - CNET - 16 février 2020
The ACLU, EFF and several other groups sign a letter of support for the student demands.
Students shouldn’t have to worry that colleges and universities are tracking their movements with facial recognition, a group of rights organizations said in an open letter Thursday. The letter supports demands by student (...)
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Data Privacy Day : Find and delete the scary amount of data Google has on you - CNET - 31 janvier 2020
Everything you do online while signed into Google, and even some stuff when you aren’t, becomes a part of your Google profile, but you can wipe the slate clean with these steps.
Today marks the 13th observance of Data Privacy Day, an international celebration meant to increase awareness about the importance of (...)
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Just got a new TV or streamer ? You need to change these privacy settings - 31 décembre 2019
Smart TVs and streamers from Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung and more all bury their privacy settings. Take control of yours.
So you just got a new smart TV, or maybe a Roku or Fire TV ($42 at Amazon) streamer as a holiday gift (maybe from yourself, but who’s counting ?). Congrats ! Whether it was a discounted (...)
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Facebook built a facial recognition app for employees - 6 décembre 2019
The discontinued app could identify employees and their friends who had enabled facial recognition, Facebook said.
Facebook, which has been under fire because of privacy concerns, said Thursday it built an internal app that allowed employees to identify their colleagues and friends who enabled facial recognition (...)
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TikTok accused of secretly gathering user data and sending it to China - 5 décembre 2019
A proposed class-action lawsuit alleges the app "includes Chinese surveillance software."
TikTok, known for its quirky 15-second videos, has been illegally and secretly harvesting vast amounts of personally identifiable user data and sending it to China, according to a proposed class-action lawsuit filed in (...)
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Elon Musk says Neuralink plans 2020 human test of brain-computer interface - 17 juillet 2019
"A monkey has been able to control a computer with his brain," CEO Musk says of his startup’s brain-machine interface.
Neuralink, Elon Musk’s startup that’s trying to directly link brains and computers, has developed a system to feed thousands of electrical probes into a brain and hopes to start testing the (...)
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Amazon Alexa transcripts live on, even after you delete voice records - 4 juillet 2019
You can delete voice recordings so Amazon can’t listen to your conversations with Alexa anymore, but text records are a different story.
Amazon doesn’t need to hear your voice recordings to know what you’ve said. It can read them.
After Alexa hears its wake word — which can vary from "Echo" to "Alexa" to "computer" — (...)
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Amazon fired these 7 pregnant workers. Then came the lawsuits - 19 mai 2019
A warehouse worker told her manager she was pregnant. Less than two months later, she was fired. Several lawsuits against Amazon show a similar pattern.
When Beverly Rosales found out she was pregnant in October, one of the first people she knew she had to tell was her manager at Amazon.
Rosales knew she’d have (...)
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Police are using flawed data in facial recognition searches, study finds - 18 mai 2019
When the faces aren’t quite there, police have resorted to using celebrity doppelgangers, artist sketches and computer-generated images.
Police across the country are making facial recognition searches even when there’s barely anything to match it with.
A study from the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and (...)
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Algorithmes et robots journalistes : l’avenir de la presse ? - 7 décembre 2016
Les robots-journalistes sont déjà parmi nous. Ces algorithmes spécialistes du brassage de données et de l’écriture automatique menacent-ils les reporters humains ? Ou doit-on les regarder comme une chance ?
Ce n’est plus un fantasme à la Jules Verne : les "robots-journalistes" commencent à s’implanter dans les (...)
