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NYPD pushes back against facial recognition ban - 5 février 2020
NYPD pushes back against facial recognition ban
A state lawmaker’s call for the ban of police’s use of facial recognition is facing unsurprising public push back from New York City law enforcement — with one former NYPD top cop calling the proposed ban “asinine” on Sunday.
“That proposal up in Albany is insane,” (...)
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Rogue NYPD cops using facial recognition app Clearview - 29 janvier 2020
Rogue NYPD officers are using a sketchy facial recognition software on their personal phones that the department’s own facial recognition unit doesn’t want to touch because of concerns about security and potential for abuse, The Post has learned.
Clearview AI, which has scraped millions of photos from social media (...)
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Scandale Clearview : que pourra faire la justice contre la startup de reconnaissance faciale ? - Cyberguerre - 28 janvier 2020
Inconnue du grand public il y a encore un mois, la startup Clearview doit désormais rendre des comptes sur son application de reconnaissance faciale. De quoi ralentir son business florissant auprès des forces de l’ordre.
Elle aurait sûrement préféré rester dans l’ombre. Depuis que le New York Times a détaillé les (...)
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Clearview AI Says It Identified A Terrorism Suspect. The Cops Say That’s Not True. - 23 janvier 2020
Clearview AI has built a database of billions of photos that it says can reveal just about anyone’s true identity. But there are troubling questions about its past.
Clearview AI, a facial recognition company that says it’s amassed a database of billions of photos, has a fantastic selling point it offers up to police (...)
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Hacked Border Surveillance Firms Wants to Profile NYC Drivers - 14 janvier 2020
Just months before millions of its internal documents were stolen and dumped on the internet, the Tennessee-based surveillance company Perceptics was preparing to pitch New York’s transit authority on how it could help enforce impending “congestion pricing” rules, according to leaked documents reviewed by The (...)
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La ville du futur selon une société de surveillance | korii. - 14 janvier 2020
Une fuite de documents révèle le système qu’une entreprise de reconnaissance de véhicules souhaite mettre en place à New York.
Le 23 mai dernier, des hackers sont parvenus à entrer dans le système informatique de Perceptics, une entreprise de surveillance basée dans le Tennessee et spécialisée dans les caméras liseuses de (...)
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The Invention of “Ethical AI” - 22 décembre 2019
How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation
The irony of the ethical scandal enveloping Joichi Ito, the former director of the MIT Media Lab, is that he used to lead academic initiatives on ethics. After the revelation of his financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the financier charged with sex trafficking (...)
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Domain Awareness System - 17 décembre 2019
The Domain Awareness System is a surveillance system developed as part of Lower Manhattan Security Initiative in a partnership between the New York Police Department and Microsoft to monitor New York City.[2] It allows the NYPD to track surveillance targets and gain detailed information about them, and is overseen (...)
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De la ville intelligente à la ville capturée - 17 décembre 2019
Dès l’origine, le projet de ville intelligente a été défini de manière ambiguë : « il promet d’habiliter la planification urbaine en faisant de la ville un centre de données en temps réel sur tous les aspects de son fonctionnement et d’optimiser l’infrastructure urbaine via des capteurs reliés dans un réseau centralisé ». Son (...)
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The Captured City - 24 novembre 2019
The “smart city” makes infrastructure and surveillance indistinguishable
You can’t go about your day anymore without tripping over smart stuff — smart refrigerators, smart toothbrushes, smart locks, smart whatever. All this smartness usually amounts to equipping the previously dumb thing with sensors that collect (...)
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The NYPD Kept an Illegal Database of Juvenile Fingerprints for Years - 13 novembre 2019
For years, the New York Police Department illegally maintained a database containing the fingerprints of thousands of children charged as juvenile delinquents "” in direct violation of state law mandating that police destroy these records after turning them over to the state’s Division of Criminal Justice Services. (...)
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Palantir, the secretive data behemoth linked to the Trump administration, expands into Europe - 11 novembre 2019
The data analysis company, known in particular for running the deportation machine of the Trump administration, is expanding aggressively into Europe. Who are its clients ?
Palantir was founded in 2004, in the wake of the September 11 attacks. Its founders wanted to help intelligence agencies organize the data (...)
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La police de New York collecte l’ADN de ses citoyens contre leur gré - 20 août 2019
Les services de police de la ville de New York constituent depuis 2009 une base de données ADN de ses citoyens, rapporte le New York Times. Les échantillons sont parfois prélevés sans l’accord des personnes concernées.
Violences policières, affaires de corruption, racisme... La police de New York n’en finit pas de faire (...)
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NYPD Added Nearly 2,500 New People to Its Gang Database in the Last Year - 28 juin 2019
The New York Police Department is still listing children as young as 13 in its secret gang database, police officials told a New York City Council committee yesterday. The database is growing, currently including 18,084 people, up 2 percent from last June, when the NYPD last testified about the database. The (...)
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Police are using flawed data in facial recognition searches, study finds - 18 mai 2019
When the faces aren’t quite there, police have resorted to using celebrity doppelgangers, artist sketches and computer-generated images.
Police across the country are making facial recognition searches even when there’s barely anything to match it with.
A study from the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and (...)
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Garbage In, Garbage Out - 18 mai 2019
Face Recognition on Flawed Data
On April 28, 2017, a suspect was caught on camera reportedly stealing beer from a CVS in New York City. The store surveillance camera that recorded the incident captured the suspect’s face, but it was partially obscured and highly pixelated. When the investigating detectives (...)
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NYPD Gang Database Can Turn Unsuspecting New Yorkers into Instant Felons - 6 décembre 2018
Keith Shenery was hanging out with friends in the courtyard of a Harlem public housing project when police saw him remove a small bag from his pants. When police approached him, he told them that it was "just weed." When the officers searched him, they found a small bag of marijuana and a folding knife, a gift (...)
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IBM et New York inventent le profilage criminel racial - 11 septembre 2018
D’après le site américain The Intercept, la multinationale américaine IBM a collaboré, dès 2012, avec la police de New York pour développer un logiciel de surveillance de masse, permettant de catégoriser les individus notamment en fonction de leur couleur de peau. Aujourd’hui enterré par la municipalité, le projet n’avait (...)
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IBM Used NYPD Surveillance Footage to Develop Technology That Lets Police Search by Skin Color - 7 septembre 2018
In the decade after the 9/11 attacks, the New York City Police Department moved to put millions of New Yorkers under constant watch. Warning of terrorism threats, the department created a plan to carpet Manhattan’s downtown streets with thousands of cameras and had, by 2008, centralized its video surveillance (...)
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NYPD Attempts to Block Surveillance Transparency Law With Misinformation - 8 juillet 2017
Earlier this year, New York City Council members Vanessa Gibson and Daniel Garodnick introduced the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology Act, which would require public disclosure and dialogue on the New York Police Department’s purchase and use of surveillance equipment. The bill is in the weaker vein of (...)
