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Seeing stones : pandemic reveals Palantir’s troubling reach in Europe - 10 avril 2021
Covid has given Peter Thiel’s secretive US tech company new opportunities to operate in Europe in ways some campaigners find worrying
The 24 March, 2020 will be remembered by some for the news that Prince Charles tested positive for Covid and was isolating in Scotland. In Athens it was memorable as the day the (...)
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Automating Society Report 2020 - 30 octobre 2020
Life in the automated society : How automated decision-making systems became mainstream, and what to do about it
On a cloudy August day in London, students were angry. They flocked to Parliament Square by the hundreds, in protest – their placards emblazoned with support for unusual allies : their teachers, and an (...)
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Keren Weitzberg | Machine-Readable Refugees - 18 septembre 2020
Hassan (not his real name ; other details have also been changed) paused mid-story to take out his wallet and show me his ID card. Its edges were frayed. The grainy, black-and-white photo was of a gawky teenager. He ran his thumb over the words at the top : ‘Jamhuri ya Kenya/Republic of Kenya’. ‘Somehow,’ he said, (...)
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Europe starts testing app interoperability service to power cross-border COVID-19 exposure alerts - 14 septembre 2020
The European Commission has begun testing backend infrastructure that’s needed to make national coronavirus contacts tracing apps interoperate across the bloc’s internal borders.
It’s kicked off test runs between the backend servers of the official apps from the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy and (...)
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ADM Systems in the COVID-19 Pandemic : A European Perspective - 1er septembre 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred the deployment of a plethora of automated decision-making (ADM) systems all over Europe. High hopes have been placed by both local administrations and national governments in applications and devices aimed at containing the outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (...)
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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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La CNIL lance une enquête sur TikTok - 12 août 2020
L’autorité française a reçu une plainte au mois de mai concernant l’application chinoise menacée d’une interdiction aux Etats-Unis.
TikTok est également sous le feu des projecteurs en France. Déjà bannie en Inde et menacée d’une interdiction aux Etats-Unis, l’application détenue par l’entreprise chinoise ByteDance fait (...)
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Google Coronavirus Apps Give it Way to Access Location Data - 30 juillet 2020
Some government agencies that use the software said they were surprised that Google may pick up the locations of certain app users. Others said they had unsuccessfully pushed Google to make a change.
When Google and Apple announced plans in April for free software to help alert people of their possible exposure (...)
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Une petite note manuscrite du renseignement extérieur allemand brise un très vieux secret - 25 juillet 2020
Des révélations de la presse allemande éclairent Maximator, une alliance de cinq pays européens, dont l’Allemagne et la France, dans le domaine du renseignement technique, active depuis 1976.
Une feuille griffonnée d’une écriture en pattes de mouche, quatre colonnes que l’on devine rapidement tracées au stylo-bille bleu, (...)
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Facial recognition developed by Clearview AI likely illegal in Europe - 20 juin 2020
The European Data Protection Board warned on Wednesday that Clearview AI’s technology is likely to be illegal in Europe.
The warning comes after Amazon and IBM scaled back their facial recognition products.
Facial recognition technology developed by U.S. firm Clearview AI could be illegal in Europe, according to (...)
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The five : robots helping to tackle coronavirus - 1er juin 2020
Automatons have been chipping in with the effort to beat Covid, from disinfecting hospitals to delivering groceries
Boston Dynamics
Singapore park-goers have been reminded of their social distancing obligations by Boston Dynamics’ yellow “dog”. The robot hound is equipped with numerous cameras and sensors, which it (...)
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Face matching and digital avatars coming to the EU’s borders - 30 mai 2020
Across Europe, leaders have been desperately seeking new ways to secure borders. Concerns over migration have contributed to the evolution of new forms of authoritarian technology
On the outskirts of Vienna, staff at the Austrian Institute of Technology are working on a project that could radically change border (...)
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Stopcovid : une application problématique sur le plan éthique et politique - 11 mai 2020
Pierre-Antoine Chardel, Valérie Charolles et Eric Guichard font le point sur les risques engendrés par la mise en œuvre d’une solution de type Stopcovid, solution techniciste de court terme qui viendrait renforcer une défiance des citoyens envers l’État et ses représentants, ou à l’inverse un excès de confiance dans le (...)
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A flood of coronavirus apps are tracking us. Now it’s time to keep track of them. - 7 mai 2020
There’s a deluge of apps that detect your covid-19 exposure, often with little transparency. Our Covid Tracing Tracker project will document them.
As the covid-19 pandemic rages, technologists everywhere have been rushing to build apps, services, and systems for contact tracing : identifying and notifying all (...)
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Les démocraties européennes à l’épreuve d’une crise sanitaire hors norme - 30 mars 2020
Confrontés à la nécessité de gérer une situation inédite en temps de paix, les gouvernements promulguent des mesures liberticides qui inquiètent.
Partout en Europe, devenue en quelques semaines l’épicentre de la pandémie de Covid-19, les restrictions se multiplient. Interdiction de rassemblement, circulation soumise à (...)
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In fight against coronavirus, governments embrace surveillance – POLITICO - 26 mars 2020
Chinese-style surveillance is coming to a neighborhood near you.
From drones barking orders at park-goers to tracing people’s movements through cellphones, Western governments are rushing to embrace sophisticated surveillance tools that would have been unthinkable just a few weeks ago.
In the European Union, home (...)
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Can I move my data to the EU before Google shifts it to the US ? | Technology | The Guardian - 29 février 2020
Post-Brexit, Sean wants to keep his data protected by the EU’s GDPR rather than laxer US privacy laws
Given Google’s recent announcement about moving UK users’ data to US jurisdiction, what’s the best way to migrate to EU-based services ? Can you download+upload or crossload your Gmail to another service ? And are we (...)
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L’Europe a infligé 114 millions d’euros d’amende aux entreprises depuis l’entrée en vigueur du RGPD - 23 janvier 2020
Grâce à l’amende infligée à Google en janvier 2019, la France est le pays européen à avoir imposé les plus lourdes sanctions en matière de violation des données depuis mai 2018.
Le Règlement général sur la protection des données est en vigueur, dans toute l’Union européenne, depuis le 25 mai 2018. Le texte de référence en (...)
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Ubiquitous Surveillance Cameras Are Changing Our Understanding of Human Behavior - VICE - 18 janvier 2020
Ever since the infamous murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964, it’s been a common assumption that bystanders are unlikely to intervene in a public attack if they witness it as part of a group. But that assumption is now in question—ironically, due to the ubiquitous presence of surveillance cameras in cities around the (...)
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An elegy for cash : the technology we might never replace - 3 janvier 2020
Cash is gradually dying out. Will we ever have a digital alternative that offers the same mix of convenience and freedom ?
Think about the last time you used cash. How much did you spend ? What did you buy, and from whom ? Was it a one-time thing, or was it something you buy regularly ?
Was it legal ?
If you’d (...)
