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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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LexisNexis to Provide Giant Database of Personal Data to ICE - 3 avril 2021
The company signed a contract with an ICE division that plays a key role in deportations.
The popular legal research and data brokerage firm LexisNexis signed a $16.8 million contract to sell information to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to documents shared with The Intercept. The deal is (...)
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‘They track every move’ : how US parole apps created digital prisoners - 5 mars 2021
Is smartphone tracking a less intrusive reward for good behaviour or just a way to enrich the incarceration industry ?
In 2018, William Frederick Keck III pleaded guilty in a court in Manassas, Virginia, to possession with intent to distribute cannabis. He served three months in prison, then began a three-year (...)
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Data giant given ‘emergency’ Covid contract had been wooing NHS for months - 24 février 2021
Controversial tech firm Palantir now holds £23m deal to oversee critical data store of patient records
A trove of internal UK government documents disclosed to the Bureau has revealed that Palantir, the controversial US tech giant running the NHS’s Covid data store, had launched a charm offensive to sell its (...)
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Le New York Times a identifié des envahisseurs du Capitole, mais ce n’est pas une bonne nouvelle - 12 février 2021
Le New York Times a récupéré une base de données issue d’applications, qui s’échange dans les milieux publicitaires et financiers. En quelques clics, le journal a pu identifier plus d’une centaine de supporters de Trump qui ont pénétré le Capitole.
Grâce à une base de données envoyée par une ou un anonyme, le New York Times (...)
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ICE Threatened Asylum-Seekers With Covid-19 Exposure - 7 février 2021
Amid a rush of deportations, four detainees at two different ICE detention centers said that guards threatened to put them in Covid-19 wards.
Three Cameroonian asylum-seekers locked up at the Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center in Louisiana say that a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement guard threatened to (...)
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Exploitation des données, manipulation de l’opinion, culte du secret… La trahison des GAFA - 21 décembre 2020
Il y a encore quelques années, Mark Zuckerberg était considéré comme un génie, Google comme l’une des entreprises les plus cool au monde… et puis la confiance s’est perdue. L’avidité des géants de la tech semble avoir eu raison des valeurs des pionniers du numérique : liberté, innovation et progrès.
Deux jours d’audience de (...)
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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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Google AI Tech Will Be Used for Virtual Border Wall, CBP Contract Shows - 15 novembre 2020
Google Cloud will be used in conjunction with Anduril Industries’ surveillance tech on the U.S.-Mexico border.
After years of backlash over controversial government work, Google technology will be used to aid the Trump administration’s efforts to fortify the U.S.-Mexico border, according to documents related to a (...)
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Trump Forced Big Tech Out of ‘Neutrality,’ and There’s No Turning Back - 6 novembre 2020
Tech companies once tried to skate above the political fray. No longer.
Whenever Donald Trump walks out of the White House, he’ll leave behind a changed tech industry, one that let go of its reluctance to act politically during his administration, and will likely never go back.
Silicon Valley, for much of its (...)
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Google and Palantir Are Two Sides of the Same Coin - 5 octobre 2020
Both companies leverage vast amounts of data for unprecedented surveillance
If you know the name Palantir, you probably know that it’s associated with Peter Thiel, that it contracts with defense and law enforcement agencies, and that it works with data somehow, including data from surveillance systems. You might (...)
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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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Palantir Contracts Raise Human Rights Concerns before Direct Listing - 30 septembre 2020
In advance of the direct listing of Palantir Technologies, Inc. on the New York Stock Exchange on September 29, Amnesty International released today a new briefing, Failing to Do Right : The Urgent Need for Palantir to Respect Human Rights, where the organization concludes that Palantir is failing to conduct human (...)
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Big Data has allowed ICE to dramatically expand its deportation efforts. - 25 septembre 2020
A New Mexico man gets a call from federal child welfare officials. His teenage brother has arrived alone at the border after traveling 2,000 miles to escape a violent uncle in Guatemala. The officials ask him to take custody of the boy. He hesitates ; he is himself undocumented. The officials say not to worry. He (...)
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Whistleblower : ICE Prison Does Hysterectomies at High Rates - 19 septembre 2020
“People ask you why I got a hysterectomy. I couldn’t explain it. The only thing I have to say is that I’m sorry.”
A whistleblower complaint filed this week with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General alleges that high rates of hysterectomies — sometimes without what the complaint called (...)
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Whistleblower : There Were Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility - 15 septembre 2020
The full statement : U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does not comment on matters presented to the Office of the Inspector General, which provides independent oversight and accountability within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. ICE takes all allegations seriously and defers to the OIG (...)
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Human rights groups ask U.N. to intervene in U.S. crackdown on racial justice protesters - 11 septembre 2020
This week, Access Now and the USC Gould School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic (USC IHRC) – with the support of the international law firm Foley Hoag LLP (on behalf of Access Now) – submitted an Urgent Appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedoms of Peaceful Assembly and of (...)
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Palantir filed to go public. The firm’s unethical technology should horrify us - 4 septembre 2020
Palantir powers Ice immigration raids, the defense sector and police surveillance. It is the big tobacco of the tech world
In 2017, the Trump administration first set its sights on a target it would return to repeatedly in the coming years : immigrant children.
Thousands of kids were crossing the border alone, (...)
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Palantir Says Faulty AI and Privacy Regulation Are a Risk to the Company - 28 août 2020
Palantir has never made a profit, and according to its S-1 filing, may never make a profit. But it has no plans to stop now.
Palantir, a Denver-based surveillance firm that contracts with commercial firms and government agencies such as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, published its public filing (...)
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Secret Service Bought Phone Location Data from Apps, Contract Confirms - 21 août 2020
An internal Secret Service document describes the purchase of Locate X, a product that uses location data harvested from ordinary apps.
The Secret Service paid for a product that gives the agency access to location data generated by ordinary apps installed on peoples’ smartphones, an internal Secret Service (...)
