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Police in Ogden, Utah and small cities around the US are using these surveillance technologies - 19 avril 2021
Police departments want to know as much as they legally can. But does ever-greater surveillance technology serve the public interest ?
At a conference in New Orleans in 2007, Jon Greiner, then the chief of police in Ogden, Utah, heard a presentation by the New York City Police Department about a sophisticated new (...)
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The NYPD used Clearview’s controversial facial recognition tool. Here’s what you need to know - 12 avril 2021
Newly-released emails show New York police have been widely using the controversial Clearview AI facial recognition system—and making misleading statements about it.
It’s been a busy week for Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition company that uses 3 billion photos scraped from the web to power a search (...)
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Il faut interdire les technologies de reconnaissance faciale - 1er février 2021
Amnesty International lance le 26 janvier 2021 une campagne mondiale en vue d’interdire l’utilisation des systèmes de reconnaissance faciale, une forme de surveillance de masse qui décuple le risque de racisme lors des opérations policières et menace le droit de manifester.
La campagne Ban the Scan débute à New York et (...)
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NYPD Cops Accused of Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia Cost the City $500,000 Over Four Years - 7 janvier 2021
One lawsuit the city settled for $70,000 alleged that a cop said, “Shut the fuck up, you Black bitch,” while making an arrest.
The New York City Police Department is notorious for its culture of impunity. Officers face virtually no serious consequences for accusations of sexual assault and violent attacks that (...)
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NYPD Cops Cash In on Sex Trade Arrests With Little Evidence, While Black and Brown New Yorkers Pay the Price - 9 décembre 2020
Some NYPD officers who police the sex trade, driven by overtime pay, go undercover to round up as many “bodies” as they can with little evidence. Almost no one they arrest is white.
One summer night in 2015, a community college student was driving home through East New York in Brooklyn when two women on a street (...)
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Sentiment Mapping Litigation - 8 octobre 2020
S.T.O.P. and our co-counsel are pursuing litigation under New York’s Freedom of Information Law (“FOIL") to compel the NYPD to produce documents requested about their use of the “Sentiment Meter,” Orwellian technology developed with private surveillance vendor Elucd that tracks, block by block, what New Yorkers think (...)
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NYPD’s 75th Precinct Has Most Lawsuits and Civilian Complaints - 25 août 2020
There has been little to no accountability for the staggering number of lawsuits and substantiated civilian complaints against the troubled precinct.
On a cloudy night in mid-December 2015, Justin McClarin was asleep in his basement apartment when New York Police Department Officers David Grieco and Michael (...)
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Did you protest recently ? Your face might be in a database | Facial recognition - 19 août 2020
In the United States, at least one in four law enforcement agencies are able to use facial recognition technology. The implications are troubling
In recent weeks, millions have taken to the streets to oppose police violence and proudly say : “Black Lives Matter.” These protests will no doubt be featured in history (...)
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NYPD Used Facial Recognition Technology In Siege Of Black Lives Matter Activist’s Apartment - 19 août 2020
The NYPD deployed facial recognition technology in its hunt for a prominent Black Lives Matter activist, whose home was besieged by dozens of officers and police dogs last week, a spokesperson confirmed to Gothamist.
Derrick Ingram, the 28-year-old co-founder of Warriors in the Garden, was targeted by officers in (...)
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The NYPD Is Withholding Evidence From Investigations Into Police Abuse - 17 août 2020
The NYPD has regularly failed to turn over key records and videos to police abuse investigators at New York’s Civilian Complaint Review Board. “This just seems like contempt,” said the now-retired judge who ordered the NYPD to use body cameras.
Last summer, New York City police officers drove by two friends sitting (...)
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We’re Publishing Thousands of Police Discipline Records That New York Kept Secret for Decades - 3 août 2020
ProPublica obtained these police records from New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board. NYPD unions are suing to halt the city from making the data public.
Until last month, New York state prohibited the release of police officers’ disciplinary records. Civilians’ complaints of abuse by officers were a (...)
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Curfew Gave NYPD Excuse to Attack Residents - 30 juin 2020
How the NYPD Weaponized a Curfew Against Protesters and Residents
Husan Blue, his family, and his neighbors were having a cookout on the patio outside their apartment in Crown Heights. It was a warm summer night in Brooklyn. Little kids were running around and playing. People were talking and celebrating. Blue’s (...)
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IDemia - 18 juin 2020
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Idemia est une entreprise française qui se présente comme le « leader de l’identité augmentée ». Elle est née en 2017 de la fusion de Morpho (Safran), considéré comme chef de file mondial d’identification biométrique et d’Oberthur Technologies, spécialisé dans la fabrication de carte à puce et de documents (...)
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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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Privacy Versus Health Is a False Trade-Off - 18 avril 2020
As tech firms team up with governments to fight the coronavirus pandemic, we’re being asked to accept a trade-off between our digital privacy and our health. It’s a false choice : we can achieve the public health benefits of data without accepting abusive and illicit surveillance.
As the world scrambles to stop the (...)
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Citizen App Again Lets Users Report Crimes — and Experts See Big Risks - 4 mars 2020
Citizen, a mobile app that alerts people to nearby emergencies, is testing the reintroduction of a controversial feature that lets users report crimes and incidents on their own by live streaming video.
Created by New York-based startup sp0n, Citizen first launched under the name “Vigilante” in 2016 in New York (...)
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New York Schools Gang Unit Criminalizes Children - 17 février 2020
An obscure unit of the New York City Department of Education tasked with addressing “gang and youth violence” in the city’s public schools has been promoting a set of guidelines that reveal serious ignorance of adolescent behavior and perpetuate false and racist stereotypes.
The guidelines, which youth advocates (...)
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2014 Bloomberg Hoped the NSA Was “Reading Every Email” - 17 février 2020
In October 2014, on a stage in San Francisco in front of a live audience, Katie Couric asked Mike Bloomberg whether he had ever “sexted on Snapchat.” The former New York City mayor, speaking alongside Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit, joked that he “couldn’t answer the (...)
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Police surveillance is more invasive and more mysterious than ever - Vox - 7 février 2020
Despite a growing number of high-tech tools, law enforcement agencies don’t seem to want to disclose what they’re using.
There are a host of artificial intelligence and algorithm-based technologies that the New York Police Department could be using, but few know exactly what’s in the NYPD’s arsenal. As multiple (...)
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Instagram-Scraping Clearview AI Wants To Sell Its Facial Recognition Software To Authoritarian Regimes - 7 février 2020
Facebook confirmed to BuzzFeed News that it has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Clearview AI, asking the company to stop using information from Facebook and Instagram.
As legal pressures and US lawmaker scrutiny mounts, Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that claims to have a database of more than 3 (...)
