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A year in surveillance - 31 décembre 2020
2020 has been a very turbulent year. This is also true with regards to European surveillance politics, both at the EU level and in national politics. Like most years, it was largely characterised by one central conflict, which in simple terms goes like this : a push for more and more technologically advanced (...)
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Police use of facial recognition violates human rights, UK court rules - 14 août 2020
Use of the tech needs to be narrower to conform to human rights law, court held.
Privacy advocates in the UK are claiming victory as an appeals court ruled today that police use of facial recognition technology in that country has "fundamental deficiencies" and violates several laws.
South Wales Police began (...)
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Au Royaume-Uni, la justice inflige un revers à la reconnaissance faciale - 12 août 2020
La cour d’appel de Londres a jugé que l’utilisation de la reconnaissance faciale par la police galloise n’était pas suffisamment encadrée. Ils n’ont cependant pas remis en cause le recours à la technologie en soi.
Le Royaume-Uni et ses centaines de milliers de caméras de vidéosurveillance – 420 000 rien qu’à Londres – (...)
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LIBERTY WINS GROUND-BREAKING VICTORY AGAINST FACIAL RECOGNITION TECH - 11 août 2020
Victory in world-first legal challenge hailed as huge step in fight against oppressive surveillance tool
Liberty has won a ground-breaking legal challenge against police use of oppressive facial recognition technology.
In a judgment handed down today, the Court of Appeal agreed with Liberty’s submissions, on (...)
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IBM quits facial-recognition market over police racial-profiling concerns - 11 juin 2020
CEO writes to US Congress calling for ‘national dialogue’ about use in law enforcement
IBM is pulling out of the facial recognition market and is calling for “a national dialogue” on the technology’s use in law enforcement.
The abrupt about-face comes as technology companies are facing increased scrutiny over their (...)
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Rights groups join student demands to bar facial recognition at colleges - CNET - 16 février 2020
The ACLU, EFF and several other groups sign a letter of support for the student demands.
Students shouldn’t have to worry that colleges and universities are tracking their movements with facial recognition, a group of rights organizations said in an open letter Thursday. The letter supports demands by student (...)
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PI and Liberty submit a new legal challenge after MI5 admits that vast troves of personal data was held in “ungoverned spaces” | PI - 5 février 2020
Friday, January 31, 2020
Privacy International (PI) and Liberty have filed on Friday a complaint with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), the judicial body that oversees the intelligence agencies, against MI5 in relation to how they handle vast troves of personal data.
The longstanding and serious failings (...)
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81% of ’suspects’ flagged by Met’s police facial recognition technology innocent, independent report says | Science & Tech News | Sky News - 27 janvier 2020
Four out of five people identified by the Metropolitan Police’s facial recognition technology as possible suspects are innocent, according to an independent report.
Researchers found that the controversial system is 81% inaccurate - meaning that, in the vast majority of cases, it flagged up faces to police when (...)
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Met police to begin using live facial recognition cameras | Technology | The Guardian - 26 janvier 2020
Civil liberties groups condemn move as ‘a breathtaking assault on our rights’
The Metropolitan police will start using live facial recognition, Britain’s biggest force has announced.
The decision to deploy the controversial technology, which has been dogged by privacy concerns and questions over its lawfulness, was (...)
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’We are hurtling towards a surveillance state’ : the rise of facial recognition technology - 1er novembre 2019
It can pick out shoplifters, international criminals and lost children in seconds. But as the cameras proliferate, who’s watching the watchers ?
Gordon’s wine bar is reached through a discreet side-door, a few paces from the slipstream of London theatregoers and suited professionals powering towards their evening (...)
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Office worker launches UK’s first police facial recognition legal action - 23 mai 2019
Ed Bridges, from Cardiff, says "˜intrusive’ technology is used on thousands of people
An office worker who believes his image was captured by facial recognition cameras when he popped out for a sandwich in his lunch break has launched a groundbreaking legal battle against the use of the technology.
Supported by (...)
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Police face legal action over use of facial recognition cameras - 16 juin 2018
Campaigners say technology risks turning UK citizens into "˜walking ID cards’
Two legal challenges have been launched against police forces in south Wales and London over their use of automated facial recognition (AFR) technology on the grounds the surveillance is unregulated and violates privacy.
The claims are (...)
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Police to use facial-recognition cameras at Cenotaph service - 13 novembre 2017
Police are to use controversial facial recognition software to scan crowds attending the Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Cenotaph, the Observer can reveal.
The Metropolitan Police will deploy real-time biometric tracking at the event, which will be attended by about 10,000 former and current service personnel (...)
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New law to tell internet service providers to retain browsing data - 31 octobre 2015
Lobbying by police ahead of investigatory powers bill suggests ISPs will be required to keep data for 12 months
Powers to view the web browsing history of criminal suspects or missing people are likely to feature in the government’s surveillance legislation published next week.
The investigatory powers bill is (...)
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Australian intelligence revealed to have access to PRISM - 16 octobre 2015
According to Snowden documents analysed by Privacy International, the Australian Signals Directorate had access to and used PRISM, a secret US National Security Agency program which provides access to user data held by Google, Facebook and Microsoft.
This is the third spy agency of the ’Five Eyes’ alliance (...)
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In Historic Ruling, U.K. Surveillance Secrecy Declared Unlawful - 6 février 2015
The United Kingdom’s top surveillance agency has acted unlawfully by keeping details about the scope of its Internet spying operations secret, a British court ruled in an unprecedented judgment issued on Friday.
Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, was found to have breached human rights laws by (...)
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#ToddlerTerror Trends as Teachers Forced to Spy on Muslim Children - 7 janvier 2015
As if asking Muslim mothers and wives to spy on their jihadi menfolk wasn’t Gestapo enough, the Home Office is now expecting nursery school teachers and child-minders to report toddlers at risk of becoming terrorists.
This ridiculous demand was stated in a 39-page document issued by the Home Office in an attempt (...)
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Snooping errors twice led to wrongful detention, watchdog reveals - 14 juillet 2012
Mistakes in disclosure of personal communications data to police had ’very significant consequences’ in two separate cases
The police have wrongly accused and detained two people in separate cases as a result of mistakes made in the disclosure of their personal communications data, a watchdog has revealed.
The (...)
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Réseaux sociaux, applications, nouvelles technologies : la police londonienne à l’heure du 2.0 - 7 juillet 2012
Trois semaines avant le début des Jeux olympiques de Londres, la police londonienne se prépare également à gérer les éventuels débordements que pourrait engendrer le premier anniversaire des émeutes qui ont secoué Londres et d’autres villes anglaises en août 2011. Si la décision d’installer une batterie antimissiles sur le (...)
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Vie privée : Bruxelles critique le Royaume-Uni - 7 novembre 2009
Les membres de la Commission Européenne, et plus particulièrement, Viviane Reding, commissaire chargée de la société de l’information et des médias, ont accusé le Royaume-Uni de ne pas avoir suffisamment protégé la vie privée des citoyens britanniques. En effet, en 2006, certains fournisseurs d’accès à Internet locaux ont en (...)
