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Drones With Facial Recognition Are Primed To Fly—But The World Isn’t Ready Yet - 16 février 2021
Some of the first drones with advanced facial recognition capabilities are being developed by Israeli surveillance companies, as American police consider whether they will soon be adding the controversial technology to their unmanned flying machines.
As a sign of the imminent arrival of biometric identification (...)
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Microsoft’s New ‘Productivity Score’ Lets Your Boss Monitor How Often You Use Email And Attend Video Meetings - 2 décembre 2020
At Microsoft’s MSFT +1% annual Ignite conference in October, the company previewed a slick new tool called Productivity Score. During the virtual presentation, a senior product manager said the feature provides “insights that transform how work gets done” by showing employers how workers use Microsoft 365 services (...)
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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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Ex-Chinese Government Official Was In Charge Of TikTok’s Content Moderation Policies, Report Says - 6 octobre 2020
A former Chinese government official was in charge of making decisions on what content should be allowed on TikTok, the Financial Times reported in a development that raises questions about the company’s previous claim that the Chinese government had no influence over its operations.
Digital Media Company ByteDance (...)
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Jeff Bezos Becomes The First Person Ever Worth $200 Billion - 30 août 2020
The world’s richest person, Jeff Bezos, is wealthier than he’s ever been. Early Wednesday he crossed a milestone previously unseen in the nearly four decades Forbes has been tracking net worths : With Amazon stock edging up 2% as of Wednesday afternoon, Bezos’ net worth is up by $4.9 billion, making the 56-year-old (...)
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Real Time Billionaires - 14 août 2020
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Billionaires 2020 - 13 août 2020
The richest people on Earth are not immune to the coronavirus. As the pandemic tightened its grip on Europe and America, global equity markets imploded, tanking many fortunes. As of March 18, when we finalized this list, Forbes counted 2,095 billionaires, 58 fewer than a year ago and 226 fewer than just 12 days (...)
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CBP Flew A Predator Drone Over Minneapolis Amid George Floyd Protests - 3 août 2020
Customs and Border Protection flew a Predator drone, which is commonly used in overseas military operations, over Minneapolis today, drawing criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union and others. Protests against police brutality have broken out in the city in recent days following the death of George (...)
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The FBI Is Secretly Using A $2 Billion Travel Company As A Global Surveillance Tool - 27 juillet 2020
American border patrol already has significant surveillance powers and collects vast amounts of data on who is flying into and out of the country. But the U.S. has another tool to watch over travellers across the world thanks to a little-known but influential Texan business called Sabre. As the biggest of three (...)
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Black Lives Matter : U.S. Protesters Tracked By Secretive Phone Location Technology - 27 juin 2020
Following Black Lives Matter protests in cities across the U.S., a marketing company that uses AI to categorize phone users by race, gender and even religion, has now published a report using phone location data secretly collected during those protests. In a presentation titled “George Floyd Protester Demographics (...)
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The U.S. Coast Guard Just Ordered Palantir Tech For Help With COVID-19 ‘Readiness’ - 9 avril 2020
Palantir, the $20 billion data-crunching giant funded by Peter Thiel, is working with the U.S. Coast Guard, which has found itself on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic as ships become floating incubation laboratories for deadly outbreaks of the coronavirus.
According to federal procurement records, (...)
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Twitter’s Jack Dorsey Has A New Nemesis : Hedge Fund Billionaire Paul Singer - 7 mars 2020
A battle of the billionaires may be starting at Twitter.
Hedge funder Paul Singer has taken in a stake in the social media company—and now wants to replace Jack Dorsey as Twitter CEO and grab four board seats.
Dorsey is an unconventional CEO, splitting his time running both $26 billion (market cap) Twitter and (...)
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Ashley Madison Hack Returns To ‘Haunt’ Its Victims : 32 Million Users Now Watch And Wait - 1er février 2020
So-called sextortion campaigns are on the rise. The usual methods are simple and highly effective. Spice a threatening email with some personal details—usually an email address, username and password from a random data breach, then claim to have videos or photos which will be emailed to friends, family and (...)
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The Iran Cyber Warfare Threat : Everything You Need To Know - 9 janvier 2020
When news emerged that Iranian general Qassem Soleimani had been killed in a U.S. airstrike on January 3, speculation about an imminent cyberattack was rife. It quickly led to warnings that Iran would retaliate by hitting the U.S. and its allies with a combination of physical and cyber warfare.
And for a short (...)
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UK Government Hands NHS Data To Amazon For Free - 13 décembre 2019
The British government is coming under fire for a deal to hand over NHS healthcare information to Amazon for free.
Following a series of FOI requests from Privacy International and other organisations, the contract has now been released, revealing that it goes far further than had previously been admitted.
Back (...)
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Border Agents Can’t Search Smartphones And Laptops Without "˜Reasonable Suspicion,’ Court Rules - 13 novembre 2019
A Boston federal court ruled Tuesday that U.S. federal agents can’t conduct "suspicionless" searches of international travelers’ smartphones and laptops at the border and other ports of entry, a decision hailed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) as a "major victory for privacy rights."
In a 48-page (...)
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Amazon Owns Nearly Half Of The Public-Cloud Infrastructure Market Worth Over $32 Billion : Report - 2 août 2019
The main key takeaway from Gartner’s latest annual report on the public-cloud computing infrastructure market, published earlier this week, is that its adoption trend is not slowing down—au contraire.
Amazon owns nearly half of the world’s public-cloud infrastructure market
According to the Stamford, (...)
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London Police Facial Recognition "˜Fails 80% Of The Time And Must Stop Now’ - 25 juillet 2019
London’s Metropolitan Police’s controversial trial of facial recognition technology to spot suspects failed to work 80% of the time and could be ruled illegal, according to researchers.
The researchers from the University of Essex said the problems were so bad that the use of facial recognition by the Met should be (...)
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Feds Force Suspect To Unlock An Apple iPhone X With Their Face - 3 octobre 2018
It finally happened. The feds forced an Apple iPhone X owner to unlock their device with their face.
A child abuse investigation unearthed by Forbes includes the first known case in which law enforcement used Apple Face ID facial recognition technology to open a suspect’s iPhone. That’s by any police agency (...)
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Intelligence Émotionnelle : Les Robots Plus Forts Que L’Homme ? - 12 juin 2018
Et si l’intelligence artificielle était en passe de surpasser l’homme sur le terrain de l’émotion ? L’association entre intelligence artificielle et émotion n’est pas forcement évidente, tant les deux concepts semblent éloignés l’un de l’autre. Pourtant cela pourrait être une conclusion étonnante si l’on prenait la peine d’y (...)
