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Facebook’s Secret Rules on Word “Zionist” Impede Criticism of Israel - 15 mai 2021
Obtained by The Intercept, the policies alarmed advocates, who said Facebook is silencing political speech.
Facebook’s secret internal rules for moderating the term “Zionist” let the social network suppress criticism of Israel amid an ongoing wave of Israeli abuses and violence, according to people who reviewed the (...)
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After Slamming Trump, Lawmakers Silent on Biden Drone Export Policy - 14 mai 2021
The door is open for drone sales to authoritarian countries like the United Arab Emirates.
When the Trump administration announced last July it was loosening decades-old restrictions on military drone exports, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee came out swinging. Progressive Democrats (...)
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Border Police Wants Bite of Burgeoning Anti-Drone Industry - 4 mai 2021
Citing threats from drug cartels to migrants, CBP’s interest dovetails with a $487 million effort by the U.S. government to counter small drones.
In April, U.S. Army officers met with representatives from Aurora Flight Sciences, a Virginia-based subsidiary of Boeing, to test whether the company’s technology could (...)
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Your Car Is Spying on You. A CBP Contract Shows the Risks. - 4 mai 2021
A “vehicle forensics kit” can reveal where you’ve driven, what doors you opened, and who your friends are.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection purchased technology that vacuums up reams of personal information stored inside cars, according to a federal contract reviewed by The Intercept, illustrating the serious (...)
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How a Chinese Surveillance Broker Became Oracle’s “Partner of the Year” - 22 avril 2021
A network of local resellers helps funnel Oracle technology to the police and military in China.
Banners printed for the occasion read, “Build a new type of strategic partnership.” Artfully made cutouts of the two companies’ logos adorned the stage. And the frosting on the massive sheet cake curled into a red “20,” (...)
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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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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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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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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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Verizon’s NFL Covid-19 Screening Cameras Are Based on Bad Science - 6 mars 2021
Verizon’s 5G-powered fever-detecting cameras appear to be sourced from a company under State Department sanctions and probably don’t work.
Technology companies have spent the past year in a manic sprint to reimagine (or at least re-market) their wares as coronavirus response tools, with often less than stellar (...)
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India Targets Climate Activists With the Help of Big Tech - 27 février 2021
Tech giants like Google and Facebook appear to be aiding and abetting a vicious government campaign against Indian climate activists.
The bank of cameras that camped outside Delhi’s sprawling Tihar jail was the sort of media frenzy you would expect to await a prime minister caught in an embezzlement scandal, or (...)
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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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How Oracle Sells Repression in China - 19 février 2021
In its bid for TikTok, Oracle was supposed to prevent data from being passed to Chinese police. Instead, it’s been marketing its own software for their surveillance work.
Police in China’s Liaoning province were sitting on mounds of data collected through invasive means : financial records, travel information, (...)
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LAPD Asked for Ring Surveillance Video Related to Black Lives Matter Protests - 17 février 2021
Emails show that the LAPD repeatedly asked camera owners for footage during the demonstrations, raising First Amendment concerns.
Emails obtained from the Los Angeles Police Department show that the department sought protest-related footage from Amazon’s Ring home camera systems in the wake of George Floyd’s (...)
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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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ICE Threatened Asylum-Seekers With Covid-19 Exposure - 7 février 2021
Amid a rush of deportations, four detainees at two different ICE detention centers said that guards threatened to put them in Covid-19 wards.
Three Cameroonian asylum-seekers locked up at the Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center in Louisiana say that a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement guard threatened to (...)
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Intercepted : Inside China’s Police State Tactics Against Muslims - 3 février 2021
A new report from The Intercept provides a raw glimpse into the persecution and sweeping internment of Muslims in northwest China’s Xinjiang region.
A massive police database obtained by The Intercept provides groundbreaking insight into the pervasive surveillance state operated by the Chinese government to (...)
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Robinhood Is a Perfect Example of Fintech’s Insidious Power - 1er février 2021
Biden’s team enters the regulatory fight with one hand already tied behind its back.
This past week, we saw a perfect illustration of financial technology’s power.
To spite “hedge fund bros,” retail investors led a surge in GameStop’s stock price largely through the trading app Robinhood. While progressives relished (...)
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How the LAPD and Palantir Use Data to Justify Racist Policing - 30 janvier 2021
In a new book, a sociologist who spent months embedded with the LAPD details how data-driven policing techwashes bias.
The killing of George Floyd last May sparked renewed scrutiny of data-driven policing. As protests raged around the world, 1,400 researchers signed an open letter calling on their colleagues to (...)
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Surveillance of Uyghurs Detailed in Chinese Police Database - 30 janvier 2021
Millions of Leaked Police Files Detail Suffocating Surveillance of China’s Uyghur Minority
The order came through a police automation system in Ürümqi, the largest city in China’s northwest Xinjiang region. The system had distributed a report — an “intelligence information judgment,” as local authorities called it — (...)
