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A Short History of U.S. Law Enforcement Infiltrating Protests - 7 juin 2020
When Harry, George, Tom, and Joe showed up at a warehouse outside Philadelphia rented by protesters, organizers were immediately suspicious. The men claimed to be “union carpenters” from the Scranton, Pennsylvania, area who built stages — just the kind of help the protesters needed. They were preparing for the (...)
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Why Banjo Is the Most Important Social Media Company You’ve Never Heard Of - 6 mai 2020
After Inc. published this story in 2015, new outside reporting emerged in 2020 indicating that, as a juvenile, Damien Patton was affiliated with a hate group and pleaded guilty to a drive-by shooting at a synagogue. In response, Patton has said, "I did terrible things and said despicable and hateful things, (...)
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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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Le passé nazi du boss de Banjo, la firme à la « Minority Report » | korii. - 30 avril 2020
Un exemple supplémentaire des liens entre l’extrême droite et le secteur de la surveillance aux États-Unis.
Depuis l’arrivée de Banjo, l’Utah n’a plus grand-chose à envier à la Chine. Comme l’a révélé Motherboard début mars, l’entreprise a désormais accès aux flux de la plupart des caméras de surveillance de l’État, ainsi qu’à (...)
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Banjo CEO Damien Patton Was Once Tied to KKK and Neo-Nazis | OneZero - 30 avril 2020
Documents reveal Damien Patton, CEO of SoftBank-backed Banjo, admitted to being a Neo-Nazi skinhead in his youth
In magazine profiles and on conference stages, Damien Patton, the 47-year-old co-founder and CEO of the surveillance startup Banjo, often recounts a colorful autobiography. He describes how he ran away (...)
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This Small Company Is Turning Utah Into a Surveillance Panopticon - 30 avril 2020
Banjo is applying artificial intelligence to government-owned surveillance and traffic cameras across the entire state of Utah to tell police about "anomalies."
The state of Utah has given an artificial intelligence company real-time access to state traffic cameras, CCTV and “public safety” cameras, 911 emergency (...)
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White nationalists are openly operating on Facebook. The company won’t act - 21 novembre 2019
Guardian analysis finds VDare and Red Ice TV among several outlets that are still on the platform despite Facebook’s promised ban
White supremacist racist organization Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members are seen during a rally in Madison, Indiana, United States on August 31, 2019.
On 7 November, Lana Lokteff, an American (...)
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How Arnold Mesches Turned His FBI Surveillance Files Into Eerily Prescient Works of Art - 1er octobre 2017
On August 6, 1956, Arnold Mesches had over 200 paintings stolen. When he returned to his Los Angeles art studio that day, the building’s glass front door was shattered. Someone had broken in. The paintings were gone, including a thirty-painting set dedicated to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, whose trial and execution (...)
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Inside Facebook’s Outsourced Anti-Porn and Gore Brigade, Where "˜Camel Toes’ are More Offensive Than "˜Crushed Heads’ - 22 février 2012
Amine Derkaoui, a 21-year-old Moroccan man, is pissed at Facebook. Last year he spent a few weeks training to screen illicit Facebook content through an outsourcing firm, for which he was paid a measly $1 an hour. He’s still fuming over it.
"It’s humiliating. They are just exploiting the third world," Derkaoui (...)
