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Clearview AI, le cauchemar de la reconnaissance faciale devient réalité - 20 août 2020
Imaginée et financée par des personnalités de la droite américaine radicale, l’application de la société Clearview AI permet d’identifier une personne en comparant une photo à toutes celles, publiques, postées sur Internet. Alors que le logiciel était utilisé secrètement par des policiers et des entreprises, la société vient (...)
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ICE Guards “Systematically” Sexually Assault Detainees in an El Paso Detention Center, Lawyers Say - 15 août 2020
Allegations include guards attacking victims in camera “blind spots” and telling them that “no one would believe” them in ICE detention centers, which imprison about 50,000 immigrants each year at a taxpayer expense of $2.7 billion.
Guards in an immigrant detention center in El Paso sexually assaulted and harassed (...)
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Here’s How Professional Union Busters Talk About ‘Woke’ Tech Organizers - 9 août 2020
A law firm webinar advised employers on how to avoid becoming a target of CODE, an organizing initiative in tech and video game industries
On July 30, the employment and labor law firm Jackson Lewis put on a one-hour webinar designed to educate employers on a new threat : a wave of union organizing in the video (...)
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L’armée privée de Trump est bien plus effrayante que vous ne le pensez - 31 juillet 2020
Deux mois après la mort de George Floyd, des manifestations ont toujours lieu dans les rues de Portland. Pour y « rétablir l’ordre », le président américain a déployé sa milice d’agents fédéraux.
Nul besoin d’être juriste pour comprendre que ce qui se passe à Portland, dans l’Oregon, relève de l’abus de pouvoir caractérisé. (...)
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Thousands of contracts highlight quiet ties between Big Tech and U.S. military - 12 juillet 2020
The report offers a new window into the relationship between tech companies and the U.S. government, as well as an important detail about why such contracts are often difficult to find.
Over the past two years, thousands of tech company employees have taken a stand : they do not want their labor and technical (...)
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Defund Facial Recognition Before It’s Too Late - 11 juillet 2020
I’m a second-generation Black activist, and I’m tired of being spied on by the police.
Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. Tony McDade. George Floyd. Rayshard Brooks. Oluwatoyin Salau. Robert Forbes. As each story has emerged of a Black life violently ended by law enforcement, white nationalists, or other forms of (...)
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FBI Expands Ability to Monitor Social Media, Location Data - 28 juin 2020
The Federal Bureau of Investigation may be watching what you tweet and where people gather.
The federal law enforcement agency’s records show a growing focus on harnessing the latest private sector tools for mass surveillance, including recent contracts with companies that monitor social media posts and collect (...)
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Controversial Data-Mining Firm Palantir Vanishes From Biden Adviser’s Biography After She Joins Campaign - 27 juin 2020
In the run-up to the 2020 election, former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign is putting together a foreign policy team for a potential future administration. Among those described as being part of the team is Avril Haines, former deputy director of the CIA during the Obama administration. According to an NBC News (...)
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Many Facial-Recognition Systems Are Biased, Says U.S. Study - 16 juin 2020
Algorithms falsely identified African-American and Asian faces 10 to 100 times more than Caucasian faces, researchers for the National Institute of Standards and Technology found.
The majority of commercial facial-recognition systems exhibit bias, according to a study from a federal agency released on Thursday, (...)
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Amazon says ’Black Lives Matter’. But the company has deep ties to policing - 14 juin 2020
Activists say the company’s work, which includes commercial partnerships with law enforcement, harms communities of color
Amazon says ’Black Lives Matter’. But the company has deep ties to policing
Activists say the company’s work, which includes commercial partnerships with law enforcement, harms communities of (...)
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ICE Plans to Spend $18 Million on Thousands of New Tasers - 12 juin 2020
As protests against police brutality sweep the U.S. and demands to defund police multiply, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is seeking thousands of new “conductive energy weapons” — what the general public commonly refers to as tasers — and training at a U.S. military base on how to use them.
According to a recent (...)
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Britain gave Palantir access to sensitive medical data - 11 juin 2020
The U.K. Government gave Peter Thiel’s Palantir access to sensitive NHS patient data.
A contract published online on Friday shows that Palantir is charging the NHS just £1 for its services.
Britain’s National Health Service has given secretive U.S. tech firm Palantir access to private personal data of millions of (...)
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Amazon suspend l’utilisation de sa reconnaissance faciale par la police pendant un an - 11 juin 2020
La société basée à Seattle n’a pas dit pourquoi, mais les manifestations après la mort de George Floyd ont attiré l’attention sur l’injustice raciale aux Etats-Unis et sur la façon dont la police utilise la technologie pour suivre les personnes.
Amazon a annoncé, mercredi 10 juin, interdire pendant un an à la police (...)
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Under pressure, UK government releases NHS COVID data deals with big tech - 10 juin 2020
Hours before openDemocracy was due to sue, government releases massive data-sharing contracts with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Faculty and Palantir.
Hours before facing court proceedings from openDemocracy over its massive NHS COVID-19 data deal with private tech firms, the UK government has caved to pressure and (...)
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The Military and FBI Are Flying Surveillance Planes Over Protests - 3 juin 2020
Motherboard tracked high-tech aircraft previously used in warzones, as well as flights from other agencies above protesting cities.
On Tuesday night, more protesters marched across U.S. cities to push back against police brutality and the killing of unarmed Black man George Floyd by a white police officer. And (...)
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(Sort of) Trust but Verify : Palantir Responds to Questions about its work with NHS - 11 mai 2020
Palantir, the US data giant which works with intelligence and immigration enforcement agencies, has responded to our questions about its work on a highly sensitive National Health Service (NHS) project, providing some assurances, passing the buck to the NHS, and raising additional questions.
On 12 April 2020, (...)
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Mass Incarceration Poses Uniquely American Coronavirus Risk - 7 mai 2020
There is a fundamental flaw in the models that Trump administration officials have used to project the curve of the coronavirus outbreak as it rips across the United States. Those models were based on other countries’ experiences with the virus — from China to Italy — and do not account for a uniquely American risk (...)
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’Everyone Should Have a Moral Code’ Says Developer Who Deleted Code Sold to ICE - VICE - 6 mai 2020
Seth Vargo wrote code used in a platform called Chef. When he learned ICE was a customer, he wrestled with ICE using code he had personally written.
Technologist Seth Vargo had a moral dilemma. He had just found out that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which has faced widespread condemnation for (...)
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Tech company’s ties to white supremacism trigger debate on surveillance algorithms - 6 mai 2020
Revelations call for transparency in how artificial intelligence is used by law enforcement
The sudden suspension of a controversial multi-million dollar surveillance system used by several government agencies in Utah has opened up a debate about the lack of oversight for artificial intelligence systems in law (...)
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Urgence sanitaire, réponse sécuritaire, par Félix Tréguer (Le Monde diplomatique, mai 2020) - 29 avril 2020
À défaut de pouvoir soigner le Covid-19, les pouvoirs publics de nombreux pays ont décidé de confiner la population au prétexte de la protéger. Mais, de la protection à la surveillance, il n’y a qu’un pas, que franchissent volontiers les partisans du contrôle numérique des foules. Une aubaine pour l’industrie du secteur et (...)
