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How US Capitol attack surveillance methods could be used against protesters - 9 avril 2021
The FBI has relied on a variety of technologies to track down rioters – and watchdogs are concerned those technologies could impede protesters exercising their first amendment rights
Over the past months, federal law enforcement has used a wide variety of surveillance technologies to track down rioters who (...)
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Oklahoma Quietly Launched a Mass Surveillance Program to Track Uninsured Drivers - 8 avril 2021
Cash-strapped governments are turning to tech that converts cameras into automated license plate readers to penalize uninsured drivers
In March, the president of Rekor Systems Inc., Robert Berman, told investors that 2020 was a “transformative year.” The surveillance tech company’s platform, Rekor One, which (...)
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Dystopia Prime : Amazon Subjects Its Drivers to Biometric Surveillance - 7 avril 2021
Some high-tech surveillance is so dangerous to privacy that companies must never deploy it against a person without their voluntary opt-in consent. It comes as little surprise that Amazon, the company that brought you Ring doorbell cameras and Rekognition face surveillance, has a tenuous understanding of both (...)
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Gig economy workers score historic digital rights victory against Uber and Ola Cabs - 28 mars 2021
Uber & Ola ordered to provide transparency regarding the use of controversial driver surveillance systems such as Uber’s Real Time ID and Ola’s Guardian system.
Uber ordered to reveal the data used as the basis of the unfair dismissal of two drivers.
Ola has been ordered to reveal driver performance related (...)
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Documents Show Amazon Is Aware Drivers Pee in Bottles - 28 mars 2021
If employees actually had to pee in bottles, Amazon said, “nobody would work for us.” That’s a lie.
In anticipation of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s scheduled trip to Bessemer, Alabama, to support the unionization drive by Amazon workers there, Amazon executive Dave Clark cast the $1 trillion behemoth as “the Bernie Sanders (...)
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Steeds meer camera’s in het straatbeeld : "Ze voorkomen criminaliteit niet, de samenleving wordt er niet beter van" - 26 mars 2021
In ons land hangen duizenden ANPR-camera’s die nummerplaten herkennen en er komen er steeds meer bij, maar de politie heeft niet genoeg manschappen om de beelden te monitoren en te verwerken. Experts zijn het roerend eens : "Camera’s alleen lossen criminaliteit niet op". Dat brengt VRT NWS-journalist Tim Verheyden (...)
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Statut des livreurs : partout en Europe, les plates-formes lâchent du lest - 18 mars 2021
En France, en Espagne et au Royaume-Uni, plusieurs décisions récentes ont pour effet d’améliorer les droits sociaux des livreurs. La Commission Européenne doit désormais se pencher sur le sujet.
Just-Eat annonce vouloir salarier ses coursiers en France, le gouvernement espagnol impose le salariat aux plateformes de (...)
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Uber reconnaît à ses chauffeurs britanniques un statut de travailleur salarié, une première - 17 mars 2021
Le géant américain de réservation de voitures a annoncé, mardi, que l’ensemble de ses quelque 70 000 chauffeurs au Royaume-Uni bénéficieront d’un salaire minimum et de congés payés dès mercredi.
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Uber accused of using ’loaded questions’ in survey of drivers - 4 mars 2021
Uber accused of using ’loaded questions’ in survey of drivers
Unions say questions are designed to help get sympathetic changes in employment law
Uber has been accused of using “loaded questions” in a consultation with drivers, after a landmark court ruling handed workers rights to improved conditions.
The firm may (...)
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Présentation de l’édition française “Automating Society 2020” - 3 février 2021
Détection de la fraude fiscale à l’aide de l’intelligence artificielle. Déploiement de radars permettant de repérer les conducteurs qui téléphonent au volant. Automatisation à grande échelle des démarches de Pôle Emploi. Ce ne sont là que quelques exemples des nombreuses façons dont les systèmes de décision automatisés (...)
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Amazon plans to install always-on surveillance cameras in its delivery vehicles - 3 février 2021
To ostensibly improve safety conditions but also monitor drivers
Amazon plans to install high-tech video cameras in its delivery vehicles in order to better monitor the behavior of drivers as they deliver packages, according to a new report from The Information.
The hardware and software will be supplied by (...)
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Droit du travail : un chauffeur Uber requalifié en « salarié » - 24 janvier 2021
Je me sens comme un esclave : je travaille de longues heures chaque jour, sous les ordres d’une application, mais je n’ai pas de quoi me payer un salaire à la fin du mois. »
Guillaume* est chauffeur indépendant, ou « limousine » comme on dit chez Bruxelles Mobilité, où il a obtenu sa licence il y a un peu plus de deux (...)
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België test camera’s die je beboeten voor filmpje kijken of bellen achter het stuur - 16 décembre 2020
België test camera’s die je beboeten voor filmpje kijken of bellen achter het stuur
Verkeersinstituut Vias test momenteel een nieuw camerasysteem dat registreert of een automobilist achter het stuur met de telefoon in de hand aan het bellen is. Op basis van de beelden kan de politie dan een boete opsturen. Uit de (...)
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Un rapport officiel confirme le sac de nœuds de l’ubérisation - 5 décembre 2020
La commission mandatée pour réfléchir au statut des travailleurs d’Uber ou de Deliveroo estime que la meilleure solution est de les salarier... mais elle préconise d’autres issues car le gouvernement souhaite avant tout soutenir les plateformes.
L’exécutif n’en a pas fini de se débattre avec le dossier de l’ubérisation. (...)
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Uber made big promises in Kenya. Drivers say it’s ruined their lives. - 1er décembre 2020
"When you have a family to feed, kids to pay school fees for, rents to pay, a loan to pay and your work is too much and exploitative, what happens ?" a driver said.
NAIROBI, Kenya — At first, work as an Uber driver seemed to offer Harrison Munala everything he’d hoped for when he moved from a town in the western (...)
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Driver-Facing Dash Cams Now Use A.I. to Catch Truckers On Their Phones - 24 novembre 2020
‘If the truck I’m in ever gets a camera installed in it facing me… I will stop the truck and quit on the spot’
Over the last three years, hundreds of thousands of freight trucks in the United States have been equipped with machine learning algorithms to analyze drivers’ behavior. They can detect how many times per (...)
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Uber Drivers Launch Legal Action Over ‘Robo-Firing’ By Algorithm - 13 novembre 2020
A UK-based union that represents gig economy workers has filed legal action against Uber over the use of an algorithm to dismiss drivers.
App Drivers & Couriers Union (ADCU) has filed the action against the “robo-firing” in the Netherlands, where Uber’s international headquarters are, in relation to four drivers (...)
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Uber bought itself a law. Here’s why that’s dangerous for struggling drivers like me - 12 novembre 2020
The company, along with Lyft and DoorDash, spent more than $200m to deny drivers the wages and benefits we’re entitled to
Last week, Uber bought itself a law.
Along with Lyft, Instacart, DoorDash and Postmates, app companies spent more than $200m – the most spent on any ballot campaign in US history – to bankroll (...)
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’Those in Power Won’t Give Up Willingly’ : Veena Dubal and Meredith Whittaker on the Future of Organizing Under Prop 22 - 5 novembre 2020
Workers can build solidarity and fight back against ‘anti-democratic, corporate law-making’
California voters, overwhelmed by a deluge of gig-company-sponsored misinformation over several months, voted in favor of Proposition 22, which eradicates basic labor protections for the state’s most vulnerable workers.
The (...)
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Proposition 22 : What Has Changed, What Has Not - 5 novembre 2020
A cheat sheet for your doomscrolling
Proposition 22 passed in California on Tuesday. Uber, Lyft, and other gig economy companies spent more than $200 million on the ballot measure, which will allow them to classify drivers as independent contractors rather than employees.
Here’s what has changed :
Gig economy (...)
