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China’s ‘Sharp Eyes’ Program Aims to Surveil 100% of Public Space - 5 mars 2021
The program turns neighbors into agents of the surveillance state
One of China’s largest and most pervasive surveillance networks got its start in a small county about seven hours north of Shanghai.
In 2013, the local government in Pingyi County began installing tens of thousands of security cameras across urban (...)
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Huawei Reportedly Tested a ‘Uighur Alarm’ to Track Chinese Ethnic Minorities With Facial Recognition - 9 décembre 2020
The system also identifies information such as age and sex
Chinese tech giants Huawei and Megvii have allegedly tested software that could identify Uighurs, an ethnic minority in China, according to a new report from the Washington Post and video surveillance trade publication IPVM.
The system being tested tried (...)
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The two-year fight to stop Amazon from selling face recognition to the police - 18 juin 2020
This week’s moves from Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM mark a major milestone for researchers and civil rights advocates in a long and ongoing fight over face recognition in law enforcement.
In the summer of 2018, nearly 70 civil rights and research organizations wrote a letter to Jeff Bezos demanding that Amazon stop (...)
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Many Facial-Recognition Systems Are Biased, Says U.S. Study - 16 juin 2020
Algorithms falsely identified African-American and Asian faces 10 to 100 times more than Caucasian faces, researchers for the National Institute of Standards and Technology found.
The majority of commercial facial-recognition systems exhibit bias, according to a study from a federal agency released on Thursday, (...)
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Coronoptiques (2/4) : dépister la population, rendre visible le virus | LINC - 10 avril 2020
Identifier les porteurs du virus et comptabiliser les malades sont les premières opérations de surveillance sanitaire nécessaires pour gérer une épidémie. La production de ces données est le fruit d’une longue et fragile chaîne dans laquelle interviennent de nombreux acteurs.
« Le virus nous a pris par surprise, en (...)
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Coronavirus : la Chine a franchi un nouveau cap dans la surveillance de masse de sa population - FrenchWeb.fr - 22 mars 2020
Avec l’épidémie de coronavirus qui met le pouvoir communiste à rude épreuve, le big data a le vent en poupe en Chine. L’usage des données et de l’intelligence artificielle pour surveiller la population chinoise n’est évidemment pas une nouveauté dans l’Empire du Milieu, mais le phénomène s’est considérablement accéléré avec (...)
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Many Facial-Recognition Systems Are Biased, Says U.S. Study - The New York Times - 1er février 2020
Algorithms falsely identified African-American and Asian faces 10 to 100 times more than Caucasian faces, researchers for the National Institute of Standards and Technology found.
The majority of commercial facial-recognition systems exhibit bias, according to a study from a federal agency released on Thursday, (...)
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One Month, 500,000 Face Scans : How China Is Using A.I. to Profile a Minority - 14 avril 2019
In a major ethical leap for the tech world, Chinese start-ups have built algorithms that the government uses to track members of a largely Muslim minority group.
The Chinese government has drawn wide international condemnation for its harsh crackdown on ethnic Muslims in its western region, including holding as (...)
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Discriminating algorithms : 5 times AI showed prejudice - 12 avril 2018
Artificial intelligence is supposed to make life easier for us all – but it is also prone to amplify sexist and racist biases from the real world
Modern life runs on intelligent algorithms. The data-devouring, self-improving computer programmes that underlie the artificial intelligence revolution already determine (...)
