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WhatsApp Doesn’t Read Your Messages, It Doesn’t Need To - Pen Magnet - 11 janvier 2021
As of this writing, WhatsApp released a newer version of its privacy policy on Jan 4, 2021.
Among other things, it mentions :
We are one of the Facebook Companies. You can learn more further below in this Privacy Policy about the ways in which we share information across this family of companies.
When I (...)
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Internet access deal allows Chinese government censorship in our UK university (virtual) classrooms - 2 novembre 2020
1. Introduction
We are a group of academics with many years of experience of teaching on China, including Hong Kong, in the fields of law, political sociology, labour relations, human rights, and gender politics. We are deeply concerned that, in their eagerness to maintain fee income from Chinese international (...)
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Community Technology — Narrative Adventures and Adaptations - 22 octobre 2020
AKA footnotes for fellows :)
Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak with Cassie Robinson about a few things that are on her mind, and the minds of many of us, for part of a session this week with the Community Tech Fellowship Programme. Our conversation reminded me of one I’d had with Immy Kaur a few months back (...)
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Abolish the #TechToPrisonPipeline - 26 juin 2020
Crime prediction technology reproduces injustices and causes real harm
RE : A Deep Neural Network Model to Predict Criminality Using Image Processing
June 22, 2020
Dear Springer Editorial Committee,
We write to you as expert researchers and practitioners across a variety of technical, scientific, and humanistic (...)
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A Single Company Will Now Operate Facial Recognition for Nearly 800 Million People - 6 juin 2020
Idemia just scored a major new contract with the EU
Idemia, a French company specializing in facial, fingerprint, and iris recognition, just scored a new contract with the European Union that will include processing images attached to more than 400 million people’s identities. The company’s algorithms will verify (...)
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Facebook’s New Remote Salary Policy is “Barbaric” - 31 mai 2020
Why Facebook should pay remote employees more, not less
In a recent town hall meeting, Mark Zuckerberg shared Facebook’s lessons and strategy for transitioning to remote work in the coronavirus era. But although he spoke of creating a “thoughtful and responsible” work-from-home culture, the company’s new salary (...)
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Inside Twitter’s Decision to Fact-Check Trump’s Tweets - 30 mai 2020
‘We knew from a comms perspective that all hell would break loose,’ says Twitter’s vice president of global communications
At 8:17 a.m. on Tuesday, Donald Trump sent a characteristically aggrieved tweet claiming that mail-in ballots were “fraudulent,” and that ballots would be stolen and forged, leading to a “rigged (...)
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Facebook told my followers I was spreading misinformation about government surveillance. I wasn’t. - 25 mai 2020
Calling for more censorship — or for Big Tech companies to become the arbiters of truth — will ultimately backfire. We need to address the problem of viral disinformation at its root.
Okay I’ll admit it. I still use Facebook. When I logged on last night I saw something I had never seen before : a notification that (...)
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How Bias Ruins A.I. - 18 mai 2020
In wake of Banjo CEO revelations, bias in A.I. comes under new scrutiny
Bias in artificial intelligence is everywhere. At one point, when you Googled “doctor,” the algorithm that powers Google’s namesake product returned 50 images of white men. But when biased algorithms are used by governments to dispatch police or (...)
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Silencing of Whistleblowers in the Workplace is a Threat to Public Health - 1er mai 2020
Given the immediate public health risks, we are calling for an urgent expansion and improved enforcement of legal protections for workers who speak out and take collective action against dangerous workplace conditions that risk exacerbating the spread of COVID-19 in communities. Workers themselves are in the best (...)
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How Tech Algorithms Become Infected With the Biases of Their Creators - 1er mai 2020
In wake of Banjo CEO revelations, bias in A.I. comes under new scrutiny
Bias in artificial intelligence is everywhere. At one point, when you Googled “doctor,” the algorithm that powers Google’s namesake product returned 50 images of white men. But when biased algorithms are used by governments to dispatch police or (...)
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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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StopCovid : le double risque de la “signose” et du “glissement” - 11 avril 2020
L’application StopCovid sera donc basée sur le volontariat et le respect des données personnelles, comme l’expliquaient le ministre de la Santé, Olivier Véran, et le secrétaire d’État au numérique, Cédric O, au Monde. Très bien ! C’est la loi !, a rappelé la CNIL. L’application de pistage massif des Français sera chiffrée et (...)
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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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Traçage des données mobiles dans la lutte contre le Covid-19 - 8 avril 2020
LE NUMÉRIQUE AU SERVICE DE LA SANTÉ ET DES LIBERTÉS
Le monde compte désormais plus de 3,4 milliards de personnes confinées. Bien que coupées physiquement de leur famille, de leurs proches et de leurs collègues, elles n’en demeurent pas moins connectées à leurs communautés. Les liens sociaux et le sentiment d’appartenance (...)
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NEC Is the Most Important Facial Recognition Company You’ve Never Heard Of - 20 février 2020
The company supplies its software to everyone from Carnival Cruises to your local police department
In July 2018, the mayor of Irving, Texas, signed a contract that would dramatically expand how the city’s police department could investigate crimes using facial recognition.
The police department agreed to port its (...)
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Why Google made the NSA - INSURGE intelligence - Medium - 11 février 2020
This exclusive is being released for free in the public interest, and was enabled by crowdfunding. I’d like to thank my amazing community of patrons for their support, which gave me the opportunity to work on this in-depth investigation. Please support independent, investigative journalism for the global commons. (...)
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Amazon Employees Share Our Views on Company Business - 27 janvier 2020
357 Amazon employees gave one or more quotes below.
“Amazon participates in the global economy, where it has a substantial impact on many issues. Expecting its employees to maintain silence on these issues, and Amazon’s impact on them, is really a reprehensible overreach, and I am proud to take this opportunity (...)
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Black-Boxed Politics : - Katarzyna Szymielewicz - Medium - 24 janvier 2020
Artificial intelligence captures our imagination like almost no other technology : from fears about killer robots to dreams of a fully-automated, frictionless future. As numerous authors have documented, the idea of creating artificial, intelligent machines has entranced and scandalized people for millennia. (...)
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Suspicious passers-by and rabbits : the daily practices of WhatsApp neighbourhood crime prevention - 9 janvier 2020
In the following blog post, Anouk Mols and Jason Pridmore share the underlying ideas behind their article titled “When Citizens Are “Actually Doing Police Work” : The Blurring of Boundaries in WhatsApp Neighbourhood Crime Prevention Groups in The Netherlands,” which was recently published in the journal Surveillance (...)
