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Amazon Workers Demand Jeff Bezos Cancel Face Recognition Contracts With Law Enforcement - 22 juin 2018
Following employee protests at Google and Microsoft over government contracts, workers at Amazon are circulating an internal letter to CEO Jeff Bezos, asking him to stop selling the company’s Rekognition facial recognition software to law enforcement and to boot the data-mining firm Palantir from its cloud (...)
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Google Plans Not to Renew Its Contract for Project Maven, a Controversial Pentagon Drone AI Imaging Program - 2 juin 2018
Google will not seek another contract for its controversial work providing artificial intelligence to the U.S. Department of Defense for analyzing drone footage after its current contract expires.
Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene announced the decision at a meeting with employees Friday morning, three sources told (...)
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This AI Knows Who You Are by the Way You Walk - 29 mai 2018
Our individual walking styles, much like snowflakes, are unique. With this in mind, computer scientists have developed a powerful new footstep-recognition system using AI, and it could theoretically replace retinal scanners and fingerprinting at security checkpoints, including airports.
Neural networks can find (...)
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Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract - 15 mai 2018
It’s been nearly three months since many Google employees"”and the public"”learned about the company’s decision to provide artificial intelligence to a controversial military pilot program known as Project Maven, which aims to speed up analysis of drone footage by automatically classifying images of objects and (...)
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Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones - 6 avril 2018
Google has partnered with the United States Department of Defense to help the agency develop artificial intelligence for analyzing drone footage, a move that set off a firestorm among employees of the technology giant when they learned of Google’s involvement.
Google’s pilot project with the Defense Department’s (...)
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Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones - 7 mars 2018
Google has partnered with the United States Department of Defense to help the agency develop artificial intelligence for analyzing drone footage, a move that set off a firestorm among employees of the technology giant when they learned of Google’s involvement.
Google’s pilot project with the Defense Department’s (...)
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’Bro Culture’ Led to Repeated Sexual Harassment, Former Google Engineer’s Lawsuit Says - 1er mars 2018
Loretta Lee, a software engineer who worked at Google for seven years before being fired in February 2016, is suing Google for sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination she says she experienced at the company. Lee says in her lawsuit that the company’s "bro-culture" led to continuous (...)
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How Google Maps Leads Women Seeking Abortions Astray - 14 février 2018
If you’re searching for abortion care, be careful using Google Maps"”you might end up at a crisis pregnancy center instead of a legit clinic. These facilities, where staff pressures clients to "choose life," have been gaming results at the local level using keywords and the maps function. Gizmodo and Damn Joan have (...)
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The House That Spied on Me - 14 février 2018
In December, I converted my one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco into a "smart home." I connected as many of my appliances and belongings as I could to the internet : an Amazon Echo, my lights, my coffee maker, my baby monitor, my kid’s toys, my vacuum, my TV, my toothbrush, a photo frame, a sex toy, and even my (...)
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Why Did Facebook Just Buy This Company That Verifies Government-Issued IDs ? - 24 janvier 2018
Facebook has acquired Confirm.io, a startup that verified government-issued identification for third-party businesses. In addition to ID cards, Confirm.io’s service also handled biometrics and facial recognition data.
The three-year-old, Boston-based company announced the acquisition on its site, stating that it (...)
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How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You’ve Ever Met - 21 janvier 2018
In real life, in the natural course of conversation, it is not uncommon to talk about a person you may know. You meet someone and say, "I’m from Sarasota," and they say, "Oh, I have a grandparent in Sarasota," and they tell you where they live and their name, and you may or may not recognize them.
You might (...)
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Your Face Is Part Of Australia’s ’National Security Weapon’. Should You Be Concerned ? - 16 septembre 2015
Australian government plans to increase the use of facial recognition in its counter-terrorism strategy raise concerns about privacy and how the technology will be used in everyday policing.
Details of the A$18.5 million National Facial Biometric Matching Capability were announced last week by Michael Keenan, the (...)
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WSJ : A Secret U.S. Spy Program Is Using Planes to Target Cell Phones - 14 novembre 2014
A secret U.S. spy program used fake cell phone towers attached to airplanes to scan citizens’ cell phones and collect their data, the Wall Street Journal reports.
What the hell.
The scheme, carried out by the Technical Operations Group of the U.S. Marshals, uses devices known as "dirtboxes" to mimic powerful cell (...)
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Amazon, un empire de la surveillance salariale ? - 8 janvier 2014
Amazon tient d’une main de maître sa domination sur le e-commerce. Son fondateur et actuel président, Jeff Bezos, tient la place de 13ème plus grande fortune selon le dernier classement Bloomberg et gère son empire grâce à une politique managériale à la Big Brother.
Cette année, un petit séisme a frappé la planète (...)
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Un logiciel de reconnaissance faciale dans les mains des policiers - 17 novembre 2013
Quand les policiers de San Diego en Californie retiennent un suspect, ils ne se contentent pas de la séance de questions/réponses (Interrogatoire ? Qui a parlé d’interrogatoire ?) pour obtenir des informations de la personne menottée.
A l’aide des nouvelles technologies en matière de reconnaissance faciale, la police de (...)
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Cette base de données de reconnaissance faciale massive - 18 juin 2013
Bon. Nous pensions tout de même avoir tout vu avec le PRISM qui centralise nos données, appels téléphoniques"¦ C’était déjà pas mal. Si on ajoute la reconnaissance faciale, on se dit légitimement que, on est mal.
Voici les faits, il y a déjà une base de données nationale de plus de 120 millions de visages. Cette belle (...)
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Des drones de surveillance bientôt commercialisés au Japon - 6 janvier 2013
Les drones, s’ils sont sur le devant de la scène ces dernières années, sont majoritairement réservés aux gouvernements, pour les plus performants d’entre eux tout du moins. Certaines compagnies de sécurité privée espèrent bien profiter du créneau et les commercialiser. Ce pourrait être le cas dès 2014 au Japon.
Secom (...)
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One Hundred Naked Citizens : One Hundred Leaked Body Scans - 17 novembre 2010
At the heart of the controversy over "body scanners" is a promise : The images of our naked bodies will never be public. U.S. Marshals in a Florida Federal courthouse saved 35,000 images on their scanner. These are those images.
A Gizmodo investigation has revealed 100 of the photographs saved by the Gen 2 (...)
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Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook - 5 mai 2010
After some reflection, I’ve decided to delete my account on Facebook. I’d like to encourage you to do the same. This is part altruism and part selfish. The altruism part is that I think Facebook, as a company, is unethical. The selfish part is that I’d like my own social network to migrate away from Facebook so that (...)
