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Holiday Tech Gift Guide : 2020’s Most Creepy Surveillance Gifts - 25 novembre 2020
Let your loved ones decide what privacy means to them
One of the best things about the holiday season is that you get to force your own privacy preferences on others.
Maybe your family member wouldn’t normally buy a watch that tells Google when they’re asleep or a doorbell that helps them inform on their (...)
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L’armée américaine rachèterait les données privées d’une application de prière musulmane - 18 novembre 2020
Muslim Pro a été téléchargée par plus de 95 millions de croyant·es dans le monde.
La maxime « Quand c’est gratuit, c’est vous le produit » n’a jamais été aussi vraie qu’à l’ère d’internet, où le marché de la « big data » représente des milliards et des milliards de dollars. Certes, Facebook et Amazon collectent une infinité de (...)
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How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps - 18 novembre 2020
A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people’s personal data to brokers, contractors, and the military.
A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that (...)
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Saudi Arabia ramps up surveillance at holiest sites - 17 novembre 2020
A new government app threatens Mecca’s undocumented residents
Aziz Ali Naeem first came to Mecca in 1948 to perform Hajj, a pilgrimage that is compulsory for all able Muslims once in their lives.
Within days of his arrival, he decided he was not going back home to Hyderabad in newly independent India. Although (...)
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Chinese government biometric surveillance intensifying amid pandemic response - 6 novembre 2020
China’s use of biometrics in surveillance is continuing to increase, according to a report by Chinafile, a non-profit organization, published following analysis of over 76,000 Chinese government documents.
These documents detail the recent intensification of China’s surveillance regime amid the pandemic, aiming to (...)
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Israel seeks to give police unrestricted access to COVID contact tracing data - 27 octobre 2020
Proposed legislation would allow information on patients’ movement and contacts, as collected by the Health Ministry and army, and possibly the Shin Bet security service, to be used for criminal investigations
The cabinet wants to give the police unrestricted access to the information it collects from the contact (...)
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Keylogger, enregistrement audio : votre employeur a-t-il le droit de vous surveiller en télétravail ? - 24 octobre 2020
La popularité des logiciels de surveillance des employés a augmenté drastiquement avec le recours massif au télétravail. Pourtant, certaines des fonctionnalités qu’ils proposent ne sont pas toutes légales. Numerama fait le point.
En juin 2020, le cabinet de consultants ISG publiait une étude aux résultats inquiétants : (...)
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Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show - 13 octobre 2020
Court records in an arson case show that Google gave away data on people who searched for a specific address.
There are few things as revealing as a person’s search history, and police typically need a warrant on a known suspect to demand that sensitive information. But a recently unsealed court document found (...)
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« Avec la cotation en Bourse de Palantir, c’est la science-fiction qui entre à Wall Street » - 2 octobre 2020
Du fait de ses performances financières, de son éthique et de sa gouvernance, le spécialiste américain de l’analyse de données ne devrait pas se retrouver sur un marché public, estime Philippe Escande, éditorialiste économique du « Monde ».
Pertes & profits. Dans le monde magique du Seigneur des anneaux, le palantir est (...)
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COVID, confinement et grande conversion numérique, avec Antonio Casilli - 29 septembre 2020
Depuis le début de cette épidémie de COVID, je me dis qu’elle a un rapport avec le numérique. Un rapport profond. Mais je n’arrive pas vraiment à en cerner les contours. J’ai voulu essayer de comprendre si ce moment que nous avons vécu a changé quelque chose à nos vies numériques, à notre rapport à Internet.
Par exemple, la (...)
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Workplace Surveillance in Times of Corona - 28 septembre 2020
With numbers of COVID-19 infections soaring again in the United States and around the world, we have to learn how to manage its long-term ramifications for our economies. As people adjust to minimizing the risk of infections in everyday settings, one critical context is work. Even though millions have shifted to (...)
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Things to Know Before Your Neighborhood Installs an Automated License Plate Reader - 21 septembre 2020
Every week EFF receives emails from members of homeowner’s associations wondering if their Homeowner’s Association (HOA) or Neighborhood Association is making a smart choice by installing automated license plate readers (ALPRs). Local groups often turn to license plate readers thinking that they will protect their (...)
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European Police Malware Could Harvest GPS, Messages, Passwords, More - 18 septembre 2020
A document obtained by Motherboard provides more detail on the malware law enforcement deployed against Encrochat devices.
The malware that French law enforcement deployed en masse onto Encrochat devices, a large encrypted phone network using Android phones, had the capability to harvest "all data stored within (...)
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To Surveil and Predict - 14 septembre 2020
This report examines algorithmic technologies that are designed for use in criminal law enforcement systems. Algorithmic policing is an area of technological development that, in theory, is designed to enable law enforcement agencies to either automate surveillance or to draw inferences through the use of mass (...)
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Schools Are Buying Up Surveillance Technology to Fight COVID-19 - 9 septembre 2020
But will it actually prevent an outbreak ?
Fayette County Public Schools, a 24-school district in Georgia, reopened its classroom doors last month. As at many schools around the country, officials in Fayette have concerns about safely bringing students back to school amid a pandemic—and they’re turning to (...)
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The Pandemic Is No Excuse for Colleges to Surveil Students - 8 septembre 2020
Trying to do so is all but useless.
In Michigan, a small liberal-arts college is requiring students to install an app called Aura, which tracks their location in real time, before they come to campus. Oakland University, also in Michigan, announced a mandatory wearable that would track symptoms, but, facing a (...)
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Tout comprendre aux publicités ciblées qui s’invitent peu à peu à la télévision - 5 septembre 2020
Depuis cet été, les chaînes de télévisions ont le droit de diffuser des publicités en utilisant, le cas échéant, des données personnelles pour s’adresser à certains segments de la population.
Un tabou est tombé au cœur de l’été dans le monde de la télévision. Avant le 5 août, les publicités télévisées étaient les mêmes pour tout (...)
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Dijon – OnDijon - 1er septembre 2020
Le projet
OnDijon est un projet dit de « Smart city », inauguré en avril 2019, par François Rebsamen – le maire et le président de la métropole – qui résulte d’un partenariat avec 4 entreprises (Bouygues, Suez, Capgemini et Citelum (EDF). Il est présenté sur le site internet de la métropole de la manière suivante : « La (...)
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Episode 3 : V for Violated : GeoFence Warrants and Checkpoints - 27 août 2020
This week on Surveillance And The City, we talk about Mayor Bill de Blasio’s controversial COVID-19 checkpoints, the NYPD’s arrest of activist Nikki Stone, and the scary world of geofence warrants which give cops a blank check to track nearly anyone at any time. To round things out we look back at the Graphic Novel (...)
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Cops Don’t Need GPS Data to Track Your Phone at Protests - 27 août 2020
For the thousands of people protesting and reporting on George Floyd’s death at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department—or even for bystanders caught up in the demonstrations—arrests, injuries, and even death are becoming commonplace in this moment. And just like protests we’ve experienced within the past (...)
