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LexisNexis to Provide Giant Database of Personal Data to ICE - 3 avril 2021
The company signed a contract with an ICE division that plays a key role in deportations.
The popular legal research and data brokerage firm LexisNexis signed a $16.8 million contract to sell information to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to documents shared with The Intercept. The deal is (...)
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Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions of Browsers. Here’s What We Know. - 3 avril 2021
Today, Google launched an “origin trial” of Federated Learning of Cohorts (aka FLoC), its experimental new technology for targeting ads. A switch has silently been flipped in millions of instances of Google Chrome : those browsers will begin sorting their users into groups based on behavior, then sharing group (...)
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Analysis : Digital vaccine certificates – global patchwork, little transparency - 3 avril 2021
A global debate has sparked around the idea of implementing a digital infrastructure to prove a person’s COVID-19 vaccination status across borders. But as the initiatives multiply across Europe and all over the globe, an international consensus is hard to reach — and issues still abound.
With COVID-19 vaccination (...)
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How beauty filters took over social media - 3 avril 2021
The most widespread use of augmented reality isn’t in gaming : it’s the face filters on social media. The result ? A mass experiment on girls and young women.
Veronica started using filters to edit pictures of herself on social media when she was 14 years old. She remembers everyone in her middle school being (...)
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How to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil you - 3 avril 2021
Algorithms are meaningless without good data. The public can exploit that to demand change.
Every day, your life leaves a trail of digital breadcrumbs that tech giants use to track you. You send an email, order some food, stream a show. They get back valuable packets of data to build up their understanding of (...)
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Internet par satellite : la nouvelle bataille de l’espace - 2 avril 2021
La course s’accélère pour diffuser l’Internet haut débit dans les zones inaccessibles partout sur la planète. Elon Musk s’impose avec Starlink, un projet de constellation de 42 000 satellites. Absente, l’Europe veut réagir, car l’enjeu est de taille.
Vostothni, au sud-est de la Sibérie, dans la nuit du jeudi 25 mars. Sur (...)
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If You Care About Privacy, It’s Time to Try a New Web Browser - 2 avril 2021
A new crop of internet browsers from Brave, DuckDuckGo and others offer stronger privacy protections than what you might be used to.
Most of us use web browsers out of habit.
If you surf the web with Microsoft Edge, that may be because you use Windows. If you use Safari, that’s probably because you are an Apple (...)
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The Amazon union vote : What happens next. - 2 avril 2021
The counting of votes that will determine whether a union can form at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., begins Tuesday. But the results of the union election, one of the most consequential in recent memory, may not be known until later this week or early next week because the vote can often involve a (...)
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Apple reportedly bans facial scans of employees, but not factory workers - 2 avril 2021
Apple’s new security guidelines reportedly increase surveillance camera use and require background checks on factory workers.
Apple recently banned its manufacturing partners from collecting facial recognition scans and the fingerprint data of Apple employees who visit manufacturing facilities, according to a (...)
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Document : Amazon Twitter Army Handpicked for “Sense of Humor” - 1er avril 2021
Amazon ambassadors were trained to defend Jeff Bezos and clap back at Bernie Sanders under a program codenamed “Veritas.”
Amazon’s small Twitter army of “ambassadors” was quietly conceived in 2018 under the codename “Veritas,” which sought to train and dispatch select employees to the social media trenches to defend (...)
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Géopolitique de la surveillance numérique - Ép. 2/4 - À l’ère de la surveillance numérique - 30 mars 2021
Depuis quelques temps, je regarde mon portable Huawei d’un œil soucieux. Et si les services secrets chinois s’en servaient pour m’espionner ? Ou bien les Américains ? Ou les services français ? Et d’ailleurs comment font-ils tous ces États pour surveiller internet ?
Depuis l’affaire Snowden, il est devenu clair que les (...)
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Amazon delivery drivers have to consent to AI surveillance in their vans or lose their jobs - 30 mars 2021
AI cameras look for yawning or distracted drivers
Amazon is well-known for its technological Taylorism : using digital sensors to monitor and control the activity of its workers in the name of efficiency. But after installing machine learning-powered surveillance cameras in its delivery vans earlier this year, (...)
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Amazon va-t-il connaître son tout premier syndicat ? - 29 mars 2021
Le bras de fer entre le géant l’e-commerce et ses salariés en Alabama se clôture ce lundi 29 mars. En cas de victoire, la multinationale américaine devra accepter la création d’un syndicat. Un enjeu de taille, scruté par le reste du pays.
« Je suis fatigué avant même de partir de chez moi. » Malgré la démotivation, Perry (...)
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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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Disney tests optional facial recognition entry to Magic Kingdom - 27 mars 2021
Disney is testing a new way for visitors to enter the Magic Kingdom – through facial recognition.
The test, launched Tuesday, is optional and will be conducted from March 23 to April 23.
The technology captures an image of a guest’s face and converts it into a unique number, which is associated with the form of (...)
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Clear Conquered U.S. Airports. Now It Wants to Own Your Entire Digital Identity. - 27 mars 2021
‘You are your driver’s license, your credit card, your health care card, your building access card’
In March, the air travel industry ground to a halt.
The coronavirus pandemic was spreading, and both airlines and passengers were caught unprepared. Most of the world, including the United States, began turning away (...)
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He got Facebook hooked on AI. Now he can’t fix its misinformation addiction - 27 mars 2021
The company’s AI algorithms gave it an insatiable habit for lies and hate speech. Now the man who built them can’t fix the problem.
Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, a director of AI at Facebook, was apologizing to his audience.
It was March 23, 2018, just days after the revelation that Cambridge Analytica, a consultancy (...)
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Facebook’s A.I. Whiz Now Faces the Task of Cleaning It Up. Sometimes That Brings Him to Tears. - 27 mars 2021
Facebook has heralded artificial intelligence as a solution to its toxic content problems. Mike Schroepfer, its chief technology officer, says it won’t solve everything.
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s chief technology officer, was tearing up.
For half an hour, we had been sitting in a conference (...)
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3G Could End This Year. For People Who Rely on Basic Phones, That’s a Big Problem. - 27 mars 2021
Some rural residents, religious communities, and people who just like simple phones are still reliant on the vanishing network
Over the years, Mia Lipsit has innovated a number of tech workarounds to avoid buying a smartphone : She’s hacked her Kindle Fire to download Google Play (so she can use the Whole Foods (...)
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Les PDG de Facebook, Google et Twitter en accusation devant le Congrès américain pour leur rôle dans la désinformation - 26 mars 2021
Quatrième comparution en un an pour Mark Zuckerberg, troisième pour Sundar Pichai et Jack Dorsey : les PDG ont répondu, jeudi, aux questions des élus américains.
Quatrième comparution en un an pour Mark Zuckerberg, troisième pour Sundar Pichai et Jack Dorsey : les PDG de Facebook, Google et Twitter ont répondu, jeudi 25 (...)
