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Facebook’s Algorithm Practices Gender Discrimination - 12 avril 2021
A University of Southern California study provides still more evidence that the company’s ad targeting illegally discriminates.
New research from a team at the University of Southern California provides further evidence that Facebook’s advertising system is discriminatory, showing that the algorithm used to target (...)
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The NYPD used Clearview’s controversial facial recognition tool. Here’s what you need to know - 12 avril 2021
Newly-released emails show New York police have been widely using the controversial Clearview AI facial recognition system—and making misleading statements about it.
It’s been a busy week for Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition company that uses 3 billion photos scraped from the web to power a search (...)
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Coded Bias : Algorithmes et discrimination - 11 avril 2021
Ce documentaire enquête sur les biais algorithmiques dévoilés par la découverte de failles dans la reconnaissance faciale par Joy Buolamwini, chercheuse au MIT Media Lab.
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Digidog, a Robotic Dog Used by the Police, Stirs Privacy Concerns - 11 avril 2021
The New York Police Department has been testing Digidog, which it says can be deployed in dangerous situations and keep officers safer, but some fear it could become an aggressive surveillance tool.
Two men were being held hostage in a Bronx apartment. They had been threatened at gunpoint, tied up and tortured (...)
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The French army is testing Boston Dynamics’ robot dog Spot in combat scenarios - 10 avril 2021
Spot appeared in research exercises alongside military students
Spot, the quadruped robot built by US firm Boston Dynamics, has appeared alongside soldiers during military exercises carried out by the French army. The robot was apparently being used for reconnaissance during a two-day training exercise, but the (...)
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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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Financing Border Wars - 10 avril 2021
The border industry, its financiers and human rights
This report seeks to explore and highlight the extent of today’s global border security industry, by focusing on the most important geographical markets—Australia, Europe, USA—listing the human rights violations and risks involved in each sector of the industry, (...)
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Le syndicalisme ne fait pas son entrée chez Amazon aux Etats-Unis - 9 avril 2021
Le scrutin organisé sur le site de Bessemer, en Alabama, se solde par un échec pour les organisations syndicales.
Les syndicats avaient gagné la bataille médiatique. Ils ont perdu celle des urnes. Les salariés de l’entrepôt Amazon de Bessemer, bourgade pauvre située au sud de l’ancienne cité minière de Birmingham, en (...)
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Clearview AI Offered Thousands Of Cops Free Trials - 9 avril 2021
A BuzzFeed News investigation has found that employees at law enforcement agencies across the US ran thousands of Clearview AI facial recognition searches — often without the knowledge of the public or even their own departments.
A controversial facial recognition tool designed for policing has been quietly (...)
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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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Homeless in the Shadow of Apple’s $5 Billion Campus - 8 avril 2021
A group of ex-tech workers, gig employees, and locals priced out of the housing market are fighting for affordable housing in Silicon Valley
At the corner of East Homestead and North Wolfe Road in Cupertino, California, stands a large oak tree planted by one of the most successful companies in history — Apple. The (...)
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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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553,000,000 Reasons Not to Let Facebook Make Decisions About Your Privacy - 7 avril 2021
Another day, another horrific Facebook privacy scandal. We know what comes next : Facebook will argue that losing a lot of our data means bad third-party actors are the real problem that we should trust Facebook to make more decisions about our data to protect against them. If history is any indication, that’ll (...)
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Google promises it won’t just keep tracking you after replacing cookies - 7 avril 2021
Google says it wants a ‘privacy-first web’
Google is slowly phasing out third-party tracking cookies, and today, it’s making it clear that it won’t just replace them with something equally invasive despite the impact the change will have on Google’s lucrative advertising business. In a blog post, Google explicitly (...)
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Supreme Court Backs Google in Copyright Fight With Oracle - 7 avril 2021
The 6-to-2 ruling ended a decade-long battle over whether Google had improperly used Java code in its Android operating system.
The Supreme Court on Monday sided with Google in a long-running copyright dispute with Oracle over software used to run most of the world’s smartphones. The 6-to-2 ruling, which resolved (...)
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Cinq questions sur la fuite de données concernant plus de 533 millions de comptes Facebook - 5 avril 2021
Un internaute a mis en ligne, samedi 3 avril, une gigantesque base de données contenant notamment les numéros de téléphone associés à des centaines de millions d’utilisateurs.
L’alarme a été sonnée en plein week-end de Pâques, le samedi 3 avril, par un professionnel de la sécurité informatique. Dans une série de tweets (...)
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Contre les syndicats, Amazon mobilise des employés sur les réseaux sociaux - 4 avril 2021
Des comptes tenus par des employés rémunérés pour dire du bien d’Amazon participent à l’offensive du géant du Web contre la création d’un syndicat.
Le site d’information américain The Intercept a publié, mercredi 31 mars, plusieurs documents internes confidentiels d’Amazon. Ils décrivent la mise en place d’un système d’« (...)
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Les données personnelles volées à 533 millions d’utilisateurs de Facebook ont été mises en ligne - 4 avril 2021
Un utilisateur d’un forum de piratage de bas niveau a publié gratuitement en ligne les numéros de téléphone et les données personnelles de centaines de millions d’utilisateurs de Facebook. Les données exposées comprennent les informations personnelles de plus de 533 millions d’utilisateurs de Facebook dans 106 pays, dont (...)
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533 million Facebook users’ phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online - 4 avril 2021
The data includes phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and - in some cases - email addresses.
The personal data of over 500 million Facebook users has been posted online in a low-level hacking forum.
The data includes phone numbers, full names, location, email address, and (...)
