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Facial recognition tech stories and rights harms from around the world - 2 mars 2021
From Delhi to Detroit, Budapest to Bogota, Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) is being rapidly deployed in public and private spaces across the world.
As of 2019, 64 out of 176 countries were using facial recognition surveillance systems. In the US alone, more than 50 percent of all American adults were in a (...)
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Uber made big promises in Kenya. Drivers say it’s ruined their lives. - 1er décembre 2020
"When you have a family to feed, kids to pay school fees for, rents to pay, a loan to pay and your work is too much and exploitative, what happens ?" a driver said.
NAIROBI, Kenya — At first, work as an Uber driver seemed to offer Harrison Munala everything he’d hoped for when he moved from a town in the western (...)
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Coronavirus is putting Europe’s privacy protectors front and centre – and they’re coming up short - 2 octobre 2020
Coronavirus is putting Europe’s privacy protectors front and centre – and they’re coming up short
Coronavirus is putting Europe’s privacy protectors front and centre – and they’re coming up short
Wojciech Wiewiórowski felt like his entire life had been leading up to the moment when Covid-19 hit Europe like a tidal wave (...)
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Keren Weitzberg | Machine-Readable Refugees - 18 septembre 2020
Hassan (not his real name ; other details have also been changed) paused mid-story to take out his wallet and show me his ID card. Its edges were frayed. The grainy, black-and-white photo was of a gawky teenager. He ran his thumb over the words at the top : ‘Jamhuri ya Kenya/Republic of Kenya’. ‘Somehow,’ he said, (...)
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The problems AI has today go back centuries - 30 août 2020
Algorithmic discrimination and “ghost work” didn’t appear by accident. Understanding their long, troubling history is the first step toward fixing them.
In March of 2015, protests broke out at the University of Cape Town in South Africa over the campus statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes, a mining (...)
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Big brother watching : New CCTV plan set to nab offenders, ease city traffic - 30 août 2020
The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure is planning new measures to ease traffic congestion in Nairobi County.
The measures are also expected to reduce accidents, air pollution and eliminate fraud using intelligent video surveillance cameras to be installed at 300 major junctions.
In the plan, the cameras (...)
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Manipulations numériques en Afrique, par André-Michel Essoungou - 26 août 2020
Début juin, Facebook a fermé 446 pages, 96 groupes et plus de 200 comptes Instagram administrés par la société franco-tunisienne URéputation. Celle-ci aurait cherché à influencer, par la diffusion de fausses informations, des élections en Afrique francophone. Laboratoire mondial des manipulations numériques, le continent (...)
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A Bird ? A Plane ? No, It’s a Google Balloon Beaming the Internet - 10 juillet 2020
A commercial deal in Kenya marks the first application of balloon-powered internet in Africa, the region with the lowest percentage of internet users globally.
NAIROBI, Kenya — A fleet of high-altitude balloons started delivering internet service to Kenya on Tuesday, extending online access to tens of thousands of (...)
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Covid Contact tracing apps are a complicated mess : what you need to know - 23 mai 2020
As Governments, Apple and Google compete in proximity tracing, here’s our take on building tech in times of crisis.
Key findings
Contact tracing is an important emergency healthcare initiative, and is necessarily invasive.
Coronavirus Apps do much more and much less than manual contact tracing.
There are (...)
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COVID-19 Digital Rights Tracker - 3 mai 2020
This live tracker documents new measures introduced in response to COVID-19 that pose a risk to digital rights around the world.
In response to the outbreak of COVID-19 :
Contact Tracing Apps are being used in 29 countries
Alternative digital tracking measures are active in 30 countries
Physical surveillance (...)
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WhatsApp à l’assaut du marché indien du paiement mobile - 23 avril 2020
Depuis près d’un an, l’application américaine de messagerie détenue par Facebook teste un outil de transaction sur téléphone portable dans le sous-continent.
Féru de technologies numériques, Sumit s’est démené pour faire partie des Indiens qui expérimentent, depuis février 2018, le nouveau service de paiement mobile de (...)
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In Kenya, thousands face an uncertain future without ID cards - Coda Story - 17 avril 2020
A government program for citizens and refugees highlights the pitfalls of humanitarian biometrics
Amina Ali Adan was born in the Kenyan town of Garissa, 65 miles away from Dadaab, one of the world’s largest refugee camps, situated near the Somali border. She is just one of tens of thousands of Kenyan citizens who (...)
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Opinion | Surveillance Won’t Stop the Coronavirus - The New York Times - 17 avril 2020
Access to adequate health care, including protective equipment and sufficient testing, will do more good than another hackathon.
In the Moria refugee camp in Greece, one tap is shared among 1,300 people. Social distancing is difficult to do. Refugee communities from Kenya to Bangladesh, Lebanon and Syria are (...)
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La collecte de données, nouvel outil de la manipulation politique - Vidéo - Play RTS - 14 avril 2020
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We Mapped How the Coronavirus Is Driving New Surveillance Programs Around the World - 10 avril 2020
At least 28 countries are ramping up surveillance to combat the coronavirus
In an attempt to stem the tide of the coronavirus pandemic, more than 25 governments around the world have instituted temporary or indefinite efforts to single out infected individuals or maintain quarantines. Many of these efforts, in (...)
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Experts warn of privacy risk as US uses GPS to fight coronavirus spread | Technology | The Guardian - 4 avril 2020
Mobile advertising companies can collect detailed data about Americans’ movements
A transatlantic divide on how to use location data to fight coronavirus risks highlights the lack of safeguards for Americans’ personal data, academics and data scientists have warned.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (...)
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Responsible Coronavirus Surveillance Is Possible, Privacy Experts Say - 3 avril 2020
In less than a decade, whistleblowers like the NSA’s Edward Snowden and Cambridge Analytica’s Christopher Wylie helped spur a global sea change in the public’s attitude toward privacy and global data dragnets. We may now be in the midst of another seismic moment in the history of digital privacy : Mass surveillance (...)
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The Global Expansion of AI Surveillance - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - 30 mars 2020
A growing number of states are deploying advanced AI surveillance tools to monitor, track, and surveil citizens. Carnegie’s new index explores how different countries are going about this.
Executive Summary
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is rapidly proliferating around the world. Startling developments (...)
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Kenyan Court Ruling on Huduma Namba Identity System : the Good, the Bad and the Lessons | Privacy International - 18 mars 2020
PI presents its analysis of the Huduma Numba judgment in three parts : the clear wins, the parts that make some small steps forward but could have been better and the dissapointing losses.
Kenya’s National Integrated Identity Management Scheme (NIIMS) is a biometric database of the Kenyan population, that will (...)
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The Second Wave of Algorithmic Accountability « Law and Political Economy - 2 mars 2020
Over the past decade, algorithmic accountability has become an important concern for social scientists, computer scientists, journalists, and lawyers. Exposés have sparked vibrant debates about algorithmic sentencing. Researchers have exposed tech giants showing women ads for lower-paying jobs, discriminating (...)
