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Coronavirus : l’Europe réclame des données d’opérateurs téléphoniques pour évaluer l’effet des mesures de confinement - 25 mars 2020
La Commission européenne a demandé à des opérateurs des réseaux mobiles de lui fournir des données statistiques agrégées et non nominatives pour vérifier « si les consignes de confinement sont appliquées » et combattre la pandémie. En France, Orange a été choisi.
Les données personnelles des Européens vont être mises à (...)
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When Disease Comes, Rulers Grab More Power - The Atlantic - 25 mars 2020
On March 13—Friday the 13th, as it happened—my husband was driving down a Polish highway when he turned on the news and learned that the country’s borders would shut down in 24 hours. He pulled over and called me. I bought a ticket from London to Warsaw minutes later. I don’t live there all of the time, but my husband (...)
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Uber asked Trump to protect drivers as part of coronavirus response plans — Quartz - 25 mars 2020
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi sent a letter to US president Donald Trump today, asking him to ensure that Uber’s drivers are included in the economic stimulus plans in response to coronavirus.
“My goal in writing to you is not to ask for a bailout for Uber,” wrote Khosrowshahi, “but rather for support for the (...)
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Coronavirus. 100 000 caméras surveillent les confinés à Moscou… Et tous les autres - 25 mars 2020
Le #confinement a été décidé en Russie pour les personnes qui reviennent de pays touchés par la pandémie de coronavirus. 200 personnes ont été contrôlées en train d’enfreindre cette règle dans la capitale moscovite grâce au système de vidéosurveillance. Au grand dam de l’opposition.
❝À Moscou, la #reconnaissance_faciale est (...)
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Vidéo - Coronavirus : un drone survole Marseille pour faire respecter le confinement - 25/03/2020 00:09:48 - Boursorama - 25 mars 2020
Il survole Marseille en diffusant un message appelant les habitants à rester chez eux. Ce drone aide les forces de l’ordre à faire respecter les mesures de confinement imposées pour lutter contre la pandémie de Covid-19.
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Commission tells carriers to hand over mobile data in coronavirus fight – POLITICO - 25 mars 2020
Thierry Breton held a conference call with telecoms executives to ask for greater access to people’s anonymized information.
The European Commission on Monday urged Europe’s telecoms giants including Deutsche Telekom and Orange to share reams of people’s mobile data from across the region to help predict the spread (...)
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COVID-19 Toolkit Page — Unacast - 25 mars 2020
COVID-19 is upending our health, our economy, and our world. Organizations in every sector are turning to location data and human mobility insights to measure its impact, create pivot strategies, and predict recovery.
Social Distancing Scoreboard
The first tool in our Toolkit aims to provide organizations (...)
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The Militarization of Quarantine - 25 mars 2020
Eyal Weizman is the founding director of Forensic Architecture, an interdisciplinary research agency that uses architectural techniques and technologies to investigate cases of state violence and human rights violations. Weizman—a Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, where (...)
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Yuval Noah Harari : the world after coronavirus | Free to read | Financial Times - 24 mars 2020
This storm will pass. But the choices we make now could change our lives for years to come
Humankind is now facing a global crisis. Perhaps the biggest crisis of our generation. The decisions people and governments take in the next few weeks will probably shape the world for years to come. They will shape not (...)
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Le monde après le coronavirus, vu par Yuval Noah Harari - Le Temps - 24 mars 2020
Société de surveillance, démission démocratique, nations désunies : l’orage va passer mais les choix que la crise actuelle nous amène à faire pourraient altérer nos vies, alerte dans le « Financial Times » l’historien et humaniste israélien, auteur du best-seller « Sapiens. Une brève histoire de l’humanité »
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Coronavirus : S’pore Government to make its contact-tracing app freely available to developers worldwide, Singapore News & Top Stories - The Straits Times - 24 mars 2020
SINGAPORE - In a move to help the international community combat the coronavirus pandemic, the Government will be making the software for its contact-tracing application TraceTogether, which has already been installed by more than 620,000 people, freely available to developers around the world.
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Governments Haven’t Shown Location Surveillance Would Help Contain COVID-19 | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 24 mars 2020
Governments around the world are demanding new dragnet location surveillance powers to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. But before the public allows their governments to implement such systems, governments must explain to the public how these systems would be effective in stopping the spread of COVID-19. There’s no (...)
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COVID-19 and Digital Rights | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 24 mars 2020
Many of our digital rights are impacted by COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019). For example, public health authorities across the world are working to contain the spread of the virus by collecting and analyzing personal information about large numbers of people, including their health, travel, and personal (...)
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Poland is making quarantined citizens use a selfie app to prove they’re staying inside - CBS News - 24 mars 2020
In response to the global coronavirus pandemic, Poland is asking quarantined residents to prove that they’re following the rules and staying at home – by taking selfies. The country launched a phone app on Friday for residents who are under under mandatory 14-day quarantines after returning from abroad, AFP reports. (...)
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As Coronavirus Surveillance Escalates, Personal Privacy Plummets - The New York Times - 23 mars 2020
Tracking entire populations to combat the pandemic now could open the doors to more invasive forms of government snooping later.
In South Korea, government agencies are harnessing surveillance-camera footage, smartphone location data and credit card purchase records to help trace the recent movements of (...)
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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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« Il faut qu’on s’améliore » : Amazon avoue ses « lacunes » dans la lutte contre le virus - 23 mars 2020
Lors d’une réunion dont Mediapart diffuse des extraits, les dirigeants de l’entreprise ont reconnu que toutes les mesures de protection imposées par le gouvernement n’étaient pas encore en place. Des milliers de salariés travaillent dans ses entrepôts.
Dans la bouche de l’un des plus hauts dirigeants d’Amazon en France, (...)
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Privacy fears as India hand stamps suspected coronavirus cases - Reuters - 23 mars 2020
MUMBAI/CHENNAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - People suspected of having the coronavirus in India have received hand stamps and are being tracked using their mobile phones and personal data to help enforce quarantines, raising concerns about privacy and mass surveillance.
The outbreak, termed COVID-19, has (...)
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Singapore’s Big Brother fights against coronavirus - Axios - 23 mars 2020
The government of Singapore is tracing the coronavirus in ways that are simultaneously impressive and terrifying for those who worry about high-tech dictatorship.
The latest example : On Saturday, a friend living there received a WhatsApp message from the Singaporean government with instructions to download a new (...)
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Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon Should Suspend Data Caps Because of Coronavirus - VICE - 23 mars 2020
ISPs have spent years imposing unnecessary and expensive broadband caps to make an extra buck. With a looming public health crisis, telecom experts say it’s time to suspend them.
For years, US broadband providers have taken advantage of a lack of US competition by imposing arbitrary and expensive broadband usage (...)
