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China : Big Data Program Targets Xinjiang’s Muslims - 30 décembre 2020
Leaked List of Over 2,000 Detainees Demonstrates Automated Repression
(New York) – A big data program for policing in China’s Xinjiang region arbitrarily selects Turkic Muslims for possible detention, Human Rights Watch said today. A leaked list of over 2,000 detainees from Aksu prefecture provided to Human Rights (...)
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Interview : Don’t Fear the Machines, Fear the People Running Them - 2 novembre 2020
What Happens When You Take The ‘Human’ Out Of Human Rights ?
Governments worldwide increasingly use automation to deliver social welfare programs to people. They claim automation helps speed up the delivery of welfare support. But losing human input can spell danger for people’s livelihoods. As new research shows, (...)
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How the Tech-Driven Overhaul of the UK’s Social Security System Worsens Poverty - 2 novembre 2020
How the Tech-Driven Overhaul of the UK’s Social Security System Worsens Poverty
“Janet R.,” 35, a single mother who works at a college student advice center in London, suddenly found herself on the verge of financial ruin. On January 31, 2020, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the United Kingdom’s ministry (...)
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Data Leviathan : China’s Burgeoning Surveillance State - 22 octobre 2020
Classical totalitarianism, in which the state controls all institutions and most aspects of public life, largely died with the Soviet Union, apart from a few holdouts such as North Korea. The Chinese Communist Party retained a state monopoly in the political realm but allowed a significant private economy to (...)
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China : Police ‘Big Data’ Systems Violate Privacy, Target Dissent - 21 octobre 2020
Automated Systems Track People Authorities Claim ‘Threatening’
(New York) – The Chinese government should stop building big data policing platforms that aggregate and analyze massive amounts of citizens’ personal information, Human Rights Watch said today. This abusive “Police Cloud” system is designed to track and (...)
Big Tech’s Heavy Hand Around the Globe - 12 septembre 2020
Facebook and Google’s dominance of developing-world markets has had catastrophic effects. US regulators should take note.
Billions of people around the world have come to rely on the services Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google provide to exercise their basic human rights. But for many people, both within and (...)
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Court Corrects Flaw in UK’s Automated Benefits System - 4 juillet 2020
Ruling a Victory for Claimants’ Rights, but Problems Remain
When Rachelle, 35, a single working mother in London, received her first Universal Credit payment in March, she had a panic attack. It was far short of what she needed to pay the rent and support her two children, one of whom has a disability. “I am living (...)
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Lebanon’s LGBT People Reclaim Their Power - 7 mai 2020
Videos, Report Highlight Coexistence, Solidarity, New Possibility for Rights
(Beirut) – Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and their rights in Lebanon are part and parcel of the nationwide protests that began on October 17, 2019, Human Rights Watch said today in a web feature.
The web feature, (...)
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World Report 2020 : Shutting Down the Internet to Shut Up Critics | Human Rights Watch - 17 janvier 2020
From Caracas to Khartoum, protesters are leveraging the internet to organize online and stand up for their rights offline. In response, in the past year governments in Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Myanmar and Zimbabwe shut down the internet in all or (...)
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China’s Algorithms of Repression | Reverse Engineering a Xinjiang Police Mass Surveillance App - 1er mai 2019
Since late 2016, the Chinese government has subjected the 13 million ethnic Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang to mass arbitrary detention, forced political indoctrination, restrictions on movement, and religious oppression. Credible estimates indicate that under this heightened repression, up to one (...)
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Chine : Recours à une application pour la surveillance de masse au Xinjiang - 1er mai 2019
La technique de « rétro-ingénierie » employée par Human Rights Watch a révélé les stratégies de profilage extrême utilisées par la police dans cette région
(New York) – Les autorités chinoises se servent d’une application mobile pour se livrer à une surveillance massive illégale et à la détention arbitraire de musulmans dans la (...)
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China : Big Data Fuels Crackdown in Minority Region - 12 mars 2018
Predictive Policing Program Flags Individuals for Investigations, Detentions
Chinese authorities are building and deploying a predictive policing program based on big data analysis in Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch said today. The program aggregates data about people "“ often without their knowledge "“ and flags those (...)
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China : Police DNA Database Threatens Privacy - 9 février 2018
40 Million Profiled Includes Dissidents, Migrants, Muslim Uyghurs
China’s police are collecting DNA from individuals for a nationally searchable database without oversight, transparency, or privacy protections, Human Rights Watch said today. Evidence suggests that the regional government in Xinjiang, an ethnic (...)
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China : Voice Biometric Collection Threatens Privacy - 25 octobre 2017
Police, AI Giant Collaboration in Legal Gray Area
The Chinese government is collecting "voice pattern" samples of individuals to establish a national voice biometric database, Human Rights Watch said today.
Authorities are collaborating with iFlytek, a Chinese company that produces 80 percent of all speech (...)
