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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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« Il nous faut retrouver une forme d’hygiène numérique » - 3 mars 2021
Quelles traces numériques laissons-nous au quotidien ?
Elles sont de plus en plus nombreuses. L’image d’Épinal de ces « traces » renvoie surtout au profil que l’on se construit sur un réseau social. On y renseigne son nom, son état civil, son âge, sa profession, ses goûts… Mais ces données personnelles ne constituent que (...)
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FBI Seized Congressional Cellphone Records Related to Capitol Attack - 25 février 2021
The inclusion of congressional phone data in the FBI investigation raises thorny constitutional questions.
Within hours of the storming of the Capitol on January 6, the FBI began securing thousands of phone and electronic records connected to people at the scene of the rioting — including some related to members (...)
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Facial recognition tech stories and rights harms from around the world - 12 février 2021
A new report by the International Network of Civil Liberties Organisations looks at the use and abuse of facial recognition technology by states across the globe, providing detailed case studies from the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe.
From Delhi to Detroit, Budapest to Bogota, Facial Recognition (...)
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Former FBI Officials Tapped for Amazon’s Security Apparatus - 11 février 2021
As Amazon faces antitrust scrutiny, counterfeiting, and worker activism, the company is staffing up with former FBI agents focused on security and intelligence gathering.
Amazon, one of the largest corporations in the world, supplies state-of-the-art facial recognition software to law enforcement agencies, (...)
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Bumble, Tinder and Match are banning accounts of Capitol rioters - 20 janvier 2021
Bumble, Tinder and others are freezing out rioters with help from law enforcement — and, in some cases, their own photos. Other app users have taken matters into their own hands by striking up conversations with potential rioters and relaying their information to the FBI.
Tinder, Bumble and other dating apps are (...)
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We Should Be Very Worried About Joe Biden’s “Domestic Terrorism” Bill - 16 janvier 2021
Joe Biden used to brag that he practically wrote the Patriot Act, the Bush-era law that massively increased government surveillance powers. Now he’s hoping to pass a further “domestic terrorism” law once in office. The danger is real that the January 6 Capitol attack will be used as an excuse to severely curtail our (...)
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The dark side of open source intelligence - 16 janvier 2021
Internet sleuths have used publicly available data to help track down last week’s Washington D.C. rioters. But what happens when the wrong people are identified ?
In May, a video of a woman flouting a national Covid-19 mask mandate went viral on social media in Singapore. In the clip, the bare-faced woman argues (...)
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Parler Users Video GPS Data Shows Involvement in Capitol Attack - 13 janvier 2021
At least several users of the far-right social network Parler appear to be among the horde of rioters that managed to penetrate deep inside the U.S. Capitol building and into areas normally restricted to the public, according to GPS metadata linked to videos posted to the platform the day of the insurrection in (...)
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WhatsApp Doesn’t Read Your Messages, It Doesn’t Need To - Pen Magnet - 11 janvier 2021
As of this writing, WhatsApp released a newer version of its privacy policy on Jan 4, 2021.
Among other things, it mentions :
We are one of the Facebook Companies. You can learn more further below in this Privacy Policy about the ways in which we share information across this family of companies.
When I (...)
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The facial-recognition app Clearview sees a spike in use after Capitol attack. - 10 janvier 2021
After the Capitol riot, Clearview AI, a facial-recognition app used by law enforcement, has seen a spike in use, said the company’s chief executive, Hoan Ton-That.
“There was a 26 percent increase of searches over our usual weekday search volume,” Mr. Ton-That said.
There are ample online photos and videos of (...)
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The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance - 9 janvier 2021
The security state that failed to keep DC safe doesn’t need invasive technology to meet this moment—it needs more civilian oversight.
They took our Capitol, stormed the halls, pilfered our documents, and shattered the norms of our democracy. The lasting damage from Wednesday’s attack will not come from the mob (...)
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Powerful Cellphone Surveillance Tool Operates in Obscurity - 23 décembre 2020
CellHawk helps law enforcement visualize large quantities of information collected by cellular towers and providers.
Until now, the Bartonville, Texas, company Hawk Analytics and its product CellHawk have largely escaped public scrutiny. CellHawk has been in wide use by law enforcement ; the software is helping (...)
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Russian Hackers Have Been Inside Austin Network for Months - 18 décembre 2020
Russia appears to have used Austin’s network as infrastructure to stage additional cyberattacks.
State-sponsored hackers believed to be from Russia have breached the city network of Austin, Texas, The Intercept has learned. The breach, which appears to date from at least mid-October, adds to the stunning array of (...)
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U.S. Schools Are Buying Cellebrite Phone-Hacking Tech - 12 décembre 2020
In May 2016, a student enrolled in a high-school in Shelbyville, Texas, consented to having his phone searched by one of the district’s school resource officers. Looking for evidence of a romantic relationship between the student and a teacher, the officer plugged the phone into a Cellebrite UFED to recover deleted (...)
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Orders from the Top : The EU’s Timetable for Dismantling End-to-End Encryption - 23 novembre 2020
The last few months have seen a steady stream of proposals, encouraged by the advocacy of the FBI and Department of Justice, to provide “lawful access” to end-to-end encrypted services in the United States. Now lobbying has moved from the U.S., where Congress has been largely paralyzed by the nation’s polarization (...)
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Les ordres du sommet : Le programme de l’UE pour démanteler le chiffrement de bout en bout - 23 novembre 2020
Ceci est une republication en français de l’article de l’EFF « Orders from the Top : The EU’s Timetable for Dismantling End-to-End Encryption »
Aux États-Unis, ces derniers mois, un flux continu de propositions de lois, incitées et encouragées par le discours du FBI et du Département de la Justice, est venu prôner un « (...)
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DHS Plans to Start Collecting Eye Scans and DNA - 18 novembre 2020
As the agency plans to collect more biometrics, including from U.S. citizens, Northrop Grumman is helping build the infrastructure.
Through a little-discussed potential bureaucratic rule change, the Department of Homeland Security is planning to collect unprecedented levels of biometric information from (...)
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Une pandémie de données ne soigne pas de la vérité - 10 novembre 2020
Le géographe américain Taylor Shelton (@kyjts) a publié dans l’excellente revue en libre accès Big Data & Society (@BigDataSoc, blog), une intéressante analyse sur les limites des politiques conduites par les données.
Chaque jour, depuis mars, nous sommes sous le joug de décomptes d’infections et de décès dus au (...)
