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How facial recognition is spreading in Italy : the case of Como - 25 septembre 2020
The municipality of Como, Italy, purchased a facial recognition system, which was bought, installed, and tested for months with little transparency and despite the lack of a clear legal framework. To do so it embraced a narrative of technological innovation pushed by Huawei but was forced, after the intervention (...)
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Delivery companies unveil labor deal with Italian far-right union - 24 septembre 2020
The deal could allow the likes of Uber Eats and Deliveroo to avoid additional regulation.
A coalition of food-delivery companies on Wednesday unveiled a deal with a far-right-affiliated Italian union, pushing through their version of employee protection for gig workers as an alternative to classifying them as (...)
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Les liaisons dangereuses d’Uber Eats & co avec l’extrême droite italienne - 24 septembre 2020
En signant un accord avec le syndicat minoritaire UGL, les plateformes de livraison tentent d’échapper à la régulation.
Un accord « pirate » ? Le 16 septembre, plusieurs plateformes italiennes de livraison de nourriture ont dévoilé la convention collective signée avec le syndicat minoritaire d’extrême droite UGL.
« Il (...)
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In Italy, an appetite for face recognition in football stadiums - 22 septembre 2020
Right before the pandemic, the government and top sports authorities were planning a massive deployment of face recognition and sound surveillance technologies in all Italian football stadiums. The reason ? To help fight racism.
At the beginning of 2020, just as the whole world was grappling with increasing (...)
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Europe starts testing app interoperability service to power cross-border COVID-19 exposure alerts - 14 septembre 2020
The European Commission has begun testing backend infrastructure that’s needed to make national coronavirus contacts tracing apps interoperate across the bloc’s internal borders.
It’s kicked off test runs between the backend servers of the official apps from the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy and (...)
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Les GAFA répercutent sur leurs clients les taxes sur le numérique - 4 septembre 2020
Apple, Google et Amazon ont annoncé des hausses de prix de leurs services dans plusieurs pays, dont la France, en réaction aux changements de fiscalité du numérique.
Visés par de nouvelles taxes, les géants du numérique ont choisi de les répercuter sur leurs partenaires. Apple, Google et Amazon ont, ces derniers jours, (...)
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ADM Systems in the COVID-19 Pandemic : A European Perspective - 1er septembre 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred the deployment of a plethora of automated decision-making (ADM) systems all over Europe. High hopes have been placed by both local administrations and national governments in applications and devices aimed at containing the outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (...)
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Europe wants to be a role model for technological responses to COVID-19. But it’s complicated. - 1er septembre 2020
Launch of our new report on ’Automated Decision-Making Systems in the COVID-19 Pandemic’…
The ongoing pandemic has spurred the deployment of a plethora of automated decision-making (ADM) systems all over Europe. In a special issue of their Automating Society Report 2020, AlgorithmWatch and Bertelsmann Stiftung (...)
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I costi nascosti delle nuove “guerre remote” di Stati Uniti ed Europa - 25 août 2020
Le forze occidentali sperimentano in Somalia e in Sahel un tipo di conflitto che non prevede l’invio di nutriti contingenti armati e utilizza al suo posto nuclei speciali, droni, contractors. Tra le controindicazioni un aumento delle vittime civili
Nel settembre 2019 membri di al-Shabaab, un gruppo terrorista con (...)
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Comment Venise gère les foules grâce à l’IA - 20 août 2020
En s’appuyant sur les nouvelles possibilités offertes par l’intelligence artificielle en matière de traitement des images, Axians Italie développe le « Venice Crowd Project », destiné à mieux gérer les flux de touristes dans le centre de Venise.
Le centre historique de Venise, qui compte environ 53 000 habitants, accueille (...)
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The original Big Tech is working closer than ever with governments to combat coronavirus – with no scrutiny - 10 août 2020
Telecom companies are at the core of the world’s communication universe. Since the coronavirus pandemic, they’ve been passing even more sensitive data to governments. It’s time they were held as accountable as Google and Facebook.
The texts can arrive at any time. Recipients are told they’ve been exposed to the (...)
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Coronavirus : The great contact-tracing apps mystery - 22 juillet 2020
Germany and Ireland have both trumpeted their success in rolling out contact-tracing apps.
But is there any evidence that they are doing what they are designed to do - warning people they could be infected with the virus ?
Not yet - and the privacy-conscious way in which they are designed could mean we will (...)
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Sur Doctolib, le secret médical est soigné avec beaucoup trop de légèreté - 16 juillet 2020
Doctolib, leader européen de la santé en ligne, est utilisé par 38 millions de patients en France. Alors que la start-up convoite le marché américain, est-elle en mesure d’assurer la confidentialité de nos données personnelles de santé ? En période de crise sanitaire, la question est encore plus sensible et de nombreuses (...)
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The UK spent millions on a Covid-19 tracking app and then abandoned it - 30 juin 2020
Last month, Amber Beard tested out and wrote about a new Covid-19 tracking app that the UK government was trialing on the Isle of Wight.
Beard explained how the app, named NHS Covid-19, was initially met with enthusiasm by residents and that a reported 65% downloaded it.
However, NHS Covid-19 — which used (...)
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Ethical guidelines for COVID-19 tracing apps - 26 juin 2020
Protect privacy, equality and fairness in digital contact tracing with these key questions.
Technologies to rapidly alert people when they have been in contact with someone carrying the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 are part of a strategy to bring the pandemic under control. Currently, at least 47 contact-tracing apps (...)
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Documentários sobre trabalho em plataformas - 21 juin 2020
Mais um fim de semana de quarentena e não sabe mais o que assistir ?
Mais um fim de semana de quarentena e você não sabe mais o que assistir ? Confira dicas de documentários e reportagens audiovisuais sobre trabalho em plataformas por Rafael Grohmann e Rodrigo Carelli.
Dica : você pode ver os vídeos com legendas (...)
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Facial recognition developed by Clearview AI likely illegal in Europe - 20 juin 2020
The European Data Protection Board warned on Wednesday that Clearview AI’s technology is likely to be illegal in Europe.
The warning comes after Amazon and IBM scaled back their facial recognition products.
Facial recognition technology developed by U.S. firm Clearview AI could be illegal in Europe, according to (...)
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StopCovid : selon Margrethe Vestager, l’application française ne serait pas compatible avec le reste de l’Union européenne - 18 juin 2020
La vice-présidente de la Commission européenne était hier à l’Assemblée nationale pour discuter de nombreux sujets, dont StopCovid. Elle expliquait que l’Union souhaitait mettre en place une « agrégation » des données entre les applications des différents pays, afin de suivre les déplacements en dehors des frontières, (...)
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Taxe des géants du numérique : pause dans les négociations - 18 juin 2020
Fin janvier, 137 pays s’étaient entendus pour aboutir d’ici à la fin 2020 à un accord sur la taxation des multinationales, sous l’égide de l’OCDE.
L’administration Trump, prenant acte de l’absence de progrès sur le dossier de la taxation des géants du numérique, a décidé de faire une pause dans les discussions qui se (...)
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Riconoscimento facciale, perché Como è tra le prime città a usarlo - 13 juin 2020
I sistemi di videosorveglianza stanno diventando una realtà sempre più diffusa. Anche in Italia, dove la sperimentazione con il riconoscimento facciale procede. Negli ultimi mesi Como ha spinto molto in questa direzione, diventando una delle realtà urbane più avanzate nel suo utilizzo. In particolare, il modo in cui (...)
