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Bumble, Tinder and Match are banning accounts of Capitol rioters - 20 janvier 2021
Bumble, Tinder and others are freezing out rioters with help from law enforcement — and, in some cases, their own photos. Other app users have taken matters into their own hands by striking up conversations with potential rioters and relaying their information to the FBI.
Tinder, Bumble and other dating apps are (...)
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Why T-Shirts Promoting the Capitol Riot Are Still Available Online - 19 janvier 2021
Merchandise with phrases like “Battle for Capitol Hill Veteran” could still be purchased on major e-commerce sites, a sign of how the platforms have struggled to remove the goods.
The day after the violent attack on the Capitol, Shopify declared that it had removed e-commerce sites affiliated with President Trump, (...)
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How Facebook Profits from the Insurrection - 19 janvier 2021
Facebook suspended President Trump and announced other actions after the U.S. Capitol riot. But it continued to push ads for military gear next to insurrection posts.
Facebook has been serving up ads for weapons accessories and body armor alongside election misinformation and insurrection talk in “patriot” and (...)
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Une hackeuse a archivé l’intégralité de Parler grâce aux faiblesses du réseau social - 17 janvier 2021
Avec l’appui de tout un groupe, une hackeuse a pu télécharger près de 57 To de contenus publiés sur Parler, le réseau de la droite dure américaine, avant qu’ils soient mis hors ligne. Dans cette base de données se trouvent des vidéos, photos et données de géolocalisation. Elle pourrait être grandement utile pour les (...)
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The dark side of open source intelligence - 16 janvier 2021
Internet sleuths have used publicly available data to help track down last week’s Washington D.C. rioters. But what happens when the wrong people are identified ?
In May, a video of a woman flouting a national Covid-19 mask mandate went viral on social media in Singapore. In the clip, the bare-faced woman argues (...)
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Police surveillance of Black Lives Matter shows the danger technology poses to democracy - 15 janvier 2021
US police forces have been turning to technology to track down Black Lives Matter protestors. Content from social media platforms and affiliated sites has been instrumental in the authorities being able to identify protestors based on photos of their faces, clothes and hair, or on the fact that they posted while (...)
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The Capitol siege and facial recognition technology. - 14 janvier 2021
In a recent New Yorker article about the Capitol siege, Ronan Farrow described how investigators used a bevy of online data and facial recognition technology to confirm the identity of Larry Rendall Brock Jr., an Air Force Academy graduate and combat veteran from Texas. Brock was photographed inside the Capitol (...)
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Capitole : la police identifie les assaillants grâce à Clearview AI et sa reconnaissance faciale - 13 janvier 2021
Selon le PDG de Clearview AI, l’utilisation de la technologie de reconnaissance faciale de son entreprise par les forces de l’ordre a augmenté de 26% le lendemain de l’attaque du Capitole. D’abord rapporté par le New York Times, Hoan Ton-That a confirmé que Clearview avait connu une forte augmentation de l’utilisation de (...)
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Face Surveillance and the Capitol Attack - 13 janvier 2021
After last week’s violent attack on the Capitol, law enforcement is working overtime to identify the perpetrators. This is critical to accountability for the attempted insurrection. Law enforcement has many, many tools at their disposal to do this, especially given the very public nature of most of the organizing. (...)
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Parler Users Video GPS Data Shows Involvement in Capitol Attack - 13 janvier 2021
At least several users of the far-right social network Parler appear to be among the horde of rioters that managed to penetrate deep inside the U.S. Capitol building and into areas normally restricted to the public, according to GPS metadata linked to videos posted to the platform the day of the insurrection in (...)
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Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users’ Location Data, Has Been Archived - 12 janvier 2021
In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free speech” — but which ultimately (...)
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The Instagram Insurrection - 11 janvier 2021
The first inkling I had that something was very wrong on Wednesday was when my wife said, “Oh shit, is this real ?” as we were en route to Trader Joe’s after spending a few hours on the cold, sun-drenched beaches of Long Island for a winter walk on our last day of a vacation. A friend had texted about the Capitol. (...)
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The facial-recognition app Clearview sees a spike in use after Capitol attack. - 10 janvier 2021
After the Capitol riot, Clearview AI, a facial-recognition app used by law enforcement, has seen a spike in use, said the company’s chief executive, Hoan Ton-That.
“There was a 26 percent increase of searches over our usual weekday search volume,” Mr. Ton-That said.
There are ample online photos and videos of (...)
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EFF’s Response to Social Media Companies’ Decisions to Block President Trump’s Accounts - 10 janvier 2021
Like most people in the United States and around the world, EFF is shocked and disgusted by Wednesday’s violent attack on the U.S. Capitol. We support all those who are working to defend the Constitution and the rule of law, and we are grateful for the service of policymakers, staffers, and other workers who (...)
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How QAnon Conspiracy Theories Spread in My Hometown - 10 janvier 2021
During the pandemic, some of the people I grew up with got sucked into QAnon and the Q-adjacent “Save the Children” movement.
Earlier this summer, I noticed this alarming shift in my Facebook feed. Childhood friends and old high school acquaintances began plastering my timeline with posts referring to a satanic (...)
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Suspension des comptes de Donald Trump : les plates-formes numériques entre opportunisme et aveu d’échec - 10 janvier 2021
Twitter, Facebook, Google et d’autres acteurs ont pris des mesures pour limiter la portée de la parole du président des Etats-Unis. Tardives, ces réactions ne doivent pas faire oublier leur part de responsabilité dans l’émergence d’un terreau propice aux théories complotistes, ni leur difficulté à mettre en place des (...)
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The Instagrammed Insurrection and the Great Deplatforming - Will Oremus - 10 janvier 2021
Booting Trump won’t solve social media’s problems. But it’s not a bad place to start.
The president of the United States is no longer allowed to post on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitch, or Shopify. Twitter said Friday night that its ban was permanent — and it was swiftly followed by suspensions of the (...)
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The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance - 9 janvier 2021
The security state that failed to keep DC safe doesn’t need invasive technology to meet this moment—it needs more civilian oversight.
They took our Capitol, stormed the halls, pilfered our documents, and shattered the norms of our democracy. The lasting damage from Wednesday’s attack will not come from the mob (...)
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’Four years of propaganda’ : Trump social media bans come too late, experts say - 9 janvier 2021
Platforms have long let his dangerous posts stand – and researchers say the Capitol attack is ‘exactly what we expected’
In the 24 hours since the US Capitol in Washington was seized by a Trump-supporting mob disputing the results of the 2020 election, American social media companies have barred the president from (...)
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Twitter and Facebook Lock Trump’s Accounts After Violence on Capitol Hill - 7 janvier 2021
The moves came after critics and even some allies of the social media companies said they had failed to prevent the misinformation that led to chaos on Wednesday.
Update : Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, said on Thursday that President Trump would be blocked from its platforms “at least” through the end (...)
