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Insecure wheels : Police turn to car data to destroy suspects’ alibis - 28 décembre 2020
Looser privacy standards for vehicle data are a treasure chest of data for law enforcement.
On June 26, 2017, the lifeless body of Ronald French, a bearded auto mechanic with once-twinkling eyes, was mysteriously found in a cornfield in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
French, a grandfather of eight who always tried (...)
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Uber made big promises in Kenya. Drivers say it’s ruined their lives. - 1er décembre 2020
"When you have a family to feed, kids to pay school fees for, rents to pay, a loan to pay and your work is too much and exploitative, what happens ?" a driver said.
NAIROBI, Kenya — At first, work as an Uber driver seemed to offer Harrison Munala everything he’d hoped for when he moved from a town in the western (...)
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Welcome to the ’splinternet’ : Trump adds to fractures in worldwide web - 14 août 2020
The U.S. has mostly opposed the balkanization of the internet into global factions, but experts said two new executive orders may help change that.
It may not be possible to have a worldwide internet, after all.
Tech policy experts said Friday that the idea of the internet as one global, unifying phenomenon was (...)
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Thousands of contracts highlight quiet ties between Big Tech and U.S. military - 12 juillet 2020
The report offers a new window into the relationship between tech companies and the U.S. government, as well as an important detail about why such contracts are often difficult to find.
Over the past two years, thousands of tech company employees have taken a stand : they do not want their labor and technical (...)
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Man wrongfully arrested due to facial recognition software talks about ’humiliating’ experience - 28 juin 2020
A Black man in Detroit spent over a day in custody in January after an incorrect facial recognition match led to his wrongful arrest.
Robert Williams spent more than a day in custody at a Detroit detention center in January after an incorrect facial recognition match led to his wrongful arrest, in what the (...)
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FBI trawled Facebook to arrest protesters for inciting riots, court records show - 20 juin 2020
Four cases offer some insight into how federal law enforcement continues to monitor online speech related to social movements.
On May 27, just two days after George Floyd died at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department, an activist from St. Louis decided to drive the 540 miles north to the Twin Cities to (...)
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House Democrats press Google over report of scaled-back diversity efforts - 19 mai 2020
"It is no secret that companies across Silicon Valley and the tech sector have struggled to increase diversity, and Google is no exception," the representatives wrote.
Ten House Democrats sent a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday demanding answers about an NBC News investigation alleging that Google has (...)
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Current and ex-employees allege Google drastically rolled back diversity and inclusion programs - 15 mai 2020
One well-liked diversity training program at Google called Sojourn was cut entirely, according to seven former and current employees.
Google has significantly rolled back its diversity and inclusion initiatives in an apparent effort to avoid being perceived as anti-conservative, according to eight current and (...)
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Uber to use facial recognition tech to determine if drivers are wearing masks - 14 mai 2020
Riders and drivers on the Uber platform will have to verify they are abiding by new COVID-19 safety guidelines, including wearing a mask or face cover and regularly washing or sanitizing their hands, the company said Wednesday.
Uber drivers will have to take a selfie with their mask on and submit it within the (...)
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A facial recognition company wants to help with contact tracing. A senator has questions. - 3 mai 2020
Clearview CEO Hoan Ton-That said it’s in discussions with federal and state agencies to help with contact tracing of people infected with the coronavirus.
Just a few months ago, Clearview AI faced outrage for scraping photos off social media sites like Facebook to create a near-universal facial recognition system (...)
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How facial recognition became a routine policing tool in America - 2 mai 2020
The technology is proliferating amid concerns that it is prone to errors and allows the government to expand surveillance without much oversight.
In August 2017, a woman contacted the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office in Colorado with what seemed like a simple case : After a date at a bowling alley, she’d discovered (...)
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COVID-19 tracking data and surveillance risks are more dangerous than their rewards - 2 avril 2020
We must guard against surveillance opportunists who will endanger public health and the health of our democracy.
We all know now how badly underequipped America was to fight a public health battle on the scale of COVID-19. But as we struggle to catch up with countries that have successfully pushed back on the (...)
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Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect. - 8 mars 2020
"I was using an app to see how many miles I rode my bike and now it was putting me at the scene of the crime," the man said.
The email arrived on a Tuesday afternoon in January, startling Zachary McCoy as he prepared to leave for his job at a restaurant in Gainesville, Florida.
It was from Google’s legal (...)
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A RoboCop, a park and a fight : How expectations about robots are clashing with reality - 10 janvier 2020
When Cogo Guebara pressed a button on a robot to call the police, she was instead instructed to "step out of the way."
When a fight broke out recently in the parking lot of Salt Lake Park, a few miles south of downtown Los Angeles, Cogo Guebara did what seemed the most practical thing at the time : she ran over (...)
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Leaked documents show Facebook leveraged user data to fight rivals and help friends - 7 novembre 2019
NBC News is releasing almost 7,000 pages of leaked documents showing how Facebook treated user data as a bargaining chip with external app developers.A cache of leaked Facebook documents shows how the company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, oversaw plans to consolidate the social network’s power and control competitors by (...)
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Facial recognition’s ’dirty little secret’ : Millions of online photos scraped without consent - 13 mars 2019
People’s faces are being used without their permission, in order to power technology that could eventually be used to surveil them, legal experts say.
Facial recognition can log you into your iPhone, track criminals through crowds and identify loyal customers in stores.
The technology "” which is imperfect but (...)
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’Pushout’ Aims to Stop Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools - 8 mars 2017
Monique Morris grew up with the mindset that education is a tool and she intends to teach girls the same. As women across the globe celebrate International Women’s Day, she wants people to remember that Women’s and Girl’s lives matter.
Morris aims to stop the trend of girls being pushed out and she is empowering (...)
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The real source of Apple device IDs leaked by Anonymous last week - 11 septembre 2012
A small Florida publishing company says the million-record database of Apple gadget identifiers released last week by the hacker group Anonymous was stolen from its servers two weeks ago. The admission, delivered by the company’s CEO exclusively to NBC News, contradicts Anonymous’ claim that the hacker group stole (...)
