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Aided by Palantir, the LAPD Uses Predictive Policing to Monitor Specific People and Neighborhoods - 4 janvier 2021
A new report details the Los Angeles Police Department’s use of algorithms to identify “hot spots” and “chronic offenders” and target them for surveillance.
Police stops in Los Angeles are highly concentrated within just a small portion of the population, and the Los Angeles Police Department has been using targeted (...)
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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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Use cases : Impermissable AI and fundamental rights breaches - 25 décembre 2020
This briefing has been compiled to assist policymakers in the context of the EU’s regulation on artificial intelligence. It outlines several cases studies across Europe where artificial intelligence is being used in a way that compromises EU law and fundamental rights, and therefore requires a legal prohibition or (...)
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Should We Use Search History for Credit Scores ? IMF Says Yes - 19 décembre 2020
With more services than ever collecting your data, it’s easy to start asking why anyone should care about most of it. This is why. Because people start having ideas like this.
In a new blog post for the International Monetary Fund, four researchers presented their findings from a working paper that examines the (...)
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The Future of the Map Isn’t a Map at All - It’s Information - 18 décembre 2020
Google’s vision for geospatial information : "We don’t want a monoculture where there is just one map of the world. There never has been ; there never will be."
Google Maps can be beautiful, interesting, and, of course, useful, but there are a lot of questions we address to maps — and these days, Google Maps (...)
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La société automatisée au risque de l’opacité - 29 novembre 2020
L’association européenne et militante Algorithm Watch (@algorithmwatch) vient de publier son rapport annuel sur la société automatisée. Son constat est sévère : les systèmes de prise de décision automatisés se généralisent dans la plus grande opacité.
Fabio Chiusi (@fabiochiusi) dans son introduction revient sur le fiasco de (...)
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Shoshana Zuboff : « Larry Page, cofondateur de Google, a découvert rien de moins que le capitalisme de surveillance » - 27 novembre 2020
Dans un entretien au « Monde », l’universitaire américaine montre comment, au début du nouveau millénaire, Google et consorts ont fait de nos « informations personnelles » la marchandise suprême, et bâti des empires sur leur collecte et leur commerce.
Shoshana Zuboff est professeure émérite à la Harvard Business School. (...)
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Belgium - Automating Society Report 2020 - 30 octobre 2020
Contextualization
As a result of the different governments, and the different levels of government, in Belgium (Federal and Regional), several different strategies dealing with digitization emerged in 2018. In Flanders, this strategy is called Vlaanderen Radicaal Digitaal, while in the Walloon region, it is known (...)
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Automating Society Report 2020 - 30 octobre 2020
Life in the automated society : How automated decision-making systems became mainstream, and what to do about it
On a cloudy August day in London, students were angry. They flocked to Parliament Square by the hundreds, in protest – their placards emblazoned with support for unusual allies : their teachers, and an (...)
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« La surveillance est un mode du capitalisme » - Entretien avec Christophe Masutti - 5 octobre 2020
Dans le monde informatisé que nous habitons, chacune de nos conversations, de nos recherches et de nos rencontres est enregistrée, analysée et ses données sont exploitées pour prédire et influencer nos choix. Plus encore, c’est l’espace d’interaction lui-même, ce sont nos formes de sociabilité qui sont organisées de sorte à (...)
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Algorithmic Governmentality and the Death of Politics - 19 septembre 2020
In recent years, the likes of the Cambridge Analytica scandal together with regulatory steps such as the EU’s GDPR data law have contributed to a swell in public awareness on the potential risks of big data and artificial intelligence. Privacy, however, is only the tip of the iceberg. We sat down with legal (...)
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Défense de l’algovernance : pour une cogestion des systèmes algorithmiques qui impactent les travailleurs - 15 septembre 2020
Sur Social Europe (@socialeurope), un média qui milite pour le retour d’une Europe sociale lancé par le sociologue et politologue britannique Colin Crouch, Christina Colclough (@Cjclough) – spécialiste des effets de la numérisation sur le travail et les travailleurs, initiatrice du Why Not Lab, qui défend la nécessité (...)
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To Surveil and Predict - 14 septembre 2020
This report examines algorithmic technologies that are designed for use in criminal law enforcement systems. Algorithmic policing is an area of technological development that, in theory, is designed to enable law enforcement agencies to either automate surveillance or to draw inferences through the use of mass (...)
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Why policing is not predictable - 14 septembre 2020
Jurisdictions continue to roll out predictive policing methods that use AI-based analytics. So far, trials of these systems – especially those utilising facial recognition – have demonstrated extreme lack of effectiveness. Even more worrying is the risk of fundamental rights violations and the lack of attention paid (...)
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Targeted - 13 septembre 2020
Pasco’s sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens.
It monitors and harasses families across the county.
Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011 with a bold plan : to create a cutting-edge intelligence program that could stop crime before it happened.
What he actually built (...)
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If Then : How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future - 9 septembre 2020
The Simulmatics Corporation, launched during the Cold War, mined data, targeted voters, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge—decades before Facebook, Google, and Cambridge Analytica. Jill Lepore, best-selling author of These Truths, came across the company’s papers in MIT’s archives (...)
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The Anti-Democratic Origins of Voter Prediction - 9 septembre 2020
How the Simulmatics Corporation tried to engineer an election—and paved the way for the Cambridge Analytica scandal
I’m always a bit relieved when a tech company’s algorithm seems to fall short of mind reading. It’s somewhat reassuring when a so-called smart ad displays hideous shoes I would never buy just because I (...)
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The long, complicated history of “people analytics” - 9 septembre 2020
If you work for Bank of America, or the US Army, you might have used technology developed by Humanyze. The company grew out of research at MIT’s cross-disciplinary Media Lab and describes its products as “science-backed analytics to drive adaptability.”
If that sounds vague, it might be deliberate. Among the things (...)
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Technology has codified structural racism – will the EU tackle racist tech ? - 3 septembre 2020
The EU is preparing its ‘Action Plan’ to address structural racism in Europe. With digital high on the EU’s legislative agenda, it’s time we tackle racism perpetuated by technology, writes Sarah Chander.
Sarah Chander is a senior policy adviser at European Digital Rights (EDRi), a network of 44 digital rights (...)
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Technology Can’t Predict Crime, It Can Only Weaponize Proximity to Policing - 3 septembre 2020
In June 2020, Santa Cruz, California became the first city in the United States to ban municipal use of predictive policing, a method of deploying law enforcement resources according to data-driven analytics that supposedly are able to predict perpetrators, victims, or locations of future crimes. Especially (...)
