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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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Navalny protesters say police are using facial recognition to track them down - 4 février 2021
Fears raised over the use of surveillance technology at demonstrations
Russian citizens claim Moscow police are using facial recognition technology to track, trace and detain protesters who have attended rallies in support of leading Putin critic Alexey Navalny. Police have responded harshly to the protests (...)
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312 suspects belges identifiés après un échange de données ADN avec le Royaume-Uni - 18 janvier 2021
Depuis le 21 décembre dernier, la Belgique échange de façon automatique ses données ADN avec le Royaume-Uni, en matière de recherche judiciaire. Depuis lors, 312 suspects belges identifiés outre-Manche, rapportent les titres Sudpresse lundi.
Depuis la mise en connexion des deux banques de données, ce sont très (...)
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Inside China’s unexpected quest to protect data privacy - 4 janvier 2021
A new privacy law would look a lot like Europe’s GDPR—but will it restrict state surveillance ?
Late in the summer of 2016, Xu Yuyu received a call that promised to change her life. Her college entrance examination scores, she was told, had won her admission to the English department of the Nanjing University of (...)
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The Pandemic Could Obliterate a Last Frontier in Our Privacy : Our Biological Selves - 16 décembre 2020
The world of biotech was already blossoming before murmurings of an untreatable mystery virus started to circulate at the end of last year. There are now countless companies offering everything from personalized fitness plans based on your genes to dietary advice based on the bacteria in your gut. These companies (...)
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La pandémie de COVID-19 portera-t-elle un coup fatal à notre vie privée en s’attaquant à nos données biologiques ? - 14 décembre 2020
Depuis le début de la pandémie, un bataillon d’entreprises – des géants technologiques aux start-ups relativement inconnues – s’est précipité pour participer à la lutte contre le COVID-19. La « disruption » transformatrice du secteur de la santé qu’ils espéraient est arrivée… d’une manière un peu inattendue. Néanmoins, leur (...)
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Huawei Reportedly Tested a ‘Uighur Alarm’ to Track Chinese Ethnic Minorities With Facial Recognition - 9 décembre 2020
The system also identifies information such as age and sex
Chinese tech giants Huawei and Megvii have allegedly tested software that could identify Uighurs, an ethnic minority in China, according to a new report from the Washington Post and video surveillance trade publication IPVM.
The system being tested tried (...)
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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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George Orwell, Aldous Huxley : "1984" ou "Le meilleur des mondes" ? - 11 novembre 2020
Le film raconte l’histoire croisée de George Orwell et d’Aldous Huxley, les auteurs des deux grands romans d’anticipation : "1984" et "Le meilleur des mondes". Ecrits il y a plus de 70 ans, ces deux romans trouvent un écho extraordinaire dans nos sociétés d’aujourd’hui : faits alternatifs, fake news, ultra-surveillance... (...)
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Keren Weitzberg | Machine-Readable Refugees - 18 septembre 2020
Hassan (not his real name ; other details have also been changed) paused mid-story to take out his wallet and show me his ID card. Its edges were frayed. The grainy, black-and-white photo was of a gawky teenager. He ran his thumb over the words at the top : ‘Jamhuri ya Kenya/Republic of Kenya’. ‘Somehow,’ he said, (...)
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Blackstone to acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7 billion - 7 août 2020
Blackstone Group Inc (BX.N) said on Wednesday it agreed to acquire genealogy provider Ancestry.com Inc from private equity rivals for $4.7 billion, including debt, placing a big bet on family-tree chasing as well as personalized medicine.
Ancestry.com is the world’s largest provider of DNA services, allowing (...)
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EFF and ACLU Tell Federal Court that Forensic Software Source Code Must Be Disclosed - 4 août 2020
Can secret software be used to generate key evidence against a criminal defendant ? In an amicus filed ten days ago with the United States District Court of the Western District of Pennsylvania, EFF and the ACLU of Pennsylvania explain that secret forensic technology is inconsistent with criminal defendants’ (...)
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GEDmatch Just Made Big Changes To How Police Can Use Its Data To Solve Crimes - 27 juillet 2020
GEDmatch’s revamped genetic privacy policy could set off legal battles that go all the way to the US Supreme Court.
It just got harder for police to find the perpetrators of violent crimes by sleuthing in people’s family trees.
Days after BuzzFeed News revealed that the website GEDmatch had bent its published (...)
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Aux Etats-Unis, des profils ADN très peu confidentiels - 26 juillet 2020
Les résultats des tests « maison », dont raffolent les particuliers américains, forment de colossales bases de données génétiques. Si mal protégées que même la police s’en sert…
Joseph James DeAngelo et William Earl Talbott II n’avaient sans doute jamais entendu parler de GEDmatch. Située en Floride, cette entreprise de (...)
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Hackers Attacked Two Leading Genetic Genealogy Websites - 26 juillet 2020
First GEDmatch, the DNA database that helped identify the Golden State Killer, was hacked. Then email addresses from its users were used in a phishing attack on another leading genealogy site.
On July 19, genealogy enthusiasts who use the website GEDmatch to upload their DNA information and find relatives to fill (...)
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Après une faille de sécurité, un site américain laisse accessible à la police un million de profils ADN - 26 juillet 2020
En réactualisant des paramètres après une attaque informatique, le site généalogique GEDmatch a laissé en libre accès à la police l’ensemble des données génétiques de ses utilisateurs, y compris ceux qui n’y avaient pas consenti.
C’est le genre de messages que l’on n’aime pas recevoir de la part d’une entreprise. Surtout quand (...)
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Race After the Internet - Lisa Nakamura - Peter Chow-W - 16 juillet 2020
In Race After the Internet, Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White bring together a collection of interdisciplinary, forward-looking essays exploring the complex role that digital media technologies play in shaping our ideas about race. Contributors interrogate changing ideas of race within the context of an (...)
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EU data watchdog to ‘convince’ Commission to ban automated recognition tech - 6 juillet 2020
Automated recognition technologies in public spaces should be temporarily banned, the EU’s institutional data protection watchdog has said, arguing in favour of a moratorium.
Applications that should be outlawed for a limited period of time not only include facial recognition technologies but also software that (...)
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Surveillance of minority Muslims in southern Thailand is powered by Chinese-style tech - 1er juillet 2020
Mandatory biometric registration has left many Malay Muslims distrustful of the state and concerned about how new technologies will impact their lives
When Arief’s cell phone service was cut off, it came as no surprise. He had refused to visit the local branch of his mobile provider and give his fingerprints and a (...)
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China Is Collecting DNA From Tens of Millions of Men and Boys, Using U.S. Equipment - 20 juin 2020
Even children are pressed into giving blood samples to build a sweeping genetic database that will add to Beijing’s growing surveillance capabilities, raising questions about abuse and privacy.
The police in China are collecting blood samples from men and boys from across the country to build a genetic map of its (...)
