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NYPD Refuses to Disclose Information About Its Face Recognition Program, So Privacy Researchers Are Suing - 4 mai 2017
Researchers at Georgetown University law school filed a Freedom of Information lawsuit against the New York City Police Department today for the agency’s refusal to disclose documents about its longstanding use of face recognition technology. The NYPD’s face recognition system, which has operated in the department’s (...)
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New Bill Would Force NYPD to Disclose Its Surveillance Tech Playbook - 2 mars 2017
Legislation introduced today by New York City council members Dan Garodnick and Vanessa Gibson would finally compel the NYPD "” one of the most technology-laden police forces in the country "” to make public its rulebook for deploying its controversial surveillance arsenal.
The bill, named the Public Oversight of (...)
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A Walking Tour of New York’s Massive Surveillance Network - 25 septembre 2016
Earlier this month, on the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the lower tip of Manhattan was thronged with soldiers in uniform, firefighters marching with photos of lost friends pinned to their backpacks, and tourists bumbling around the new mall at the World Trade Center. Firetrucks and police cars ringed (...)
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Etats-Unis : la police new-yorkaise accusée d’espionner les musulmans - 26 août 2016
Selon un rapport publié le 23 août 2016 par le Département des investigations (DOI) de New York, la police de l’Etat aurait violé plusieurs réglementations concernant la surveillance de groupes politiques. De plus, elle aurait ciblé les groupes musulmans à 95%.
« Cette enquête a démontré une faille de la police (...)
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Court Reinstates Lawsuit Against NYPD Muslim Spying, Citing History of Racist Scares - 14 octobre 2015
In a stunning legal decision issued today, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Muslim-Americans who had been subjected to blanket mass-surveillance by the NYPD Intelligence Division have grounds to sue the department for discrimination. The ruling reverses a 2014 decision by the United States District (...)
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Des policiers infiltrés ont espionné des militants de Black Lives Matter à New York - 20 août 2015
Black Lives Matter. Trois mots apparus comme un slogan sur Twitter en juillet 2013 après l’acquittement de George Zimmerman, ce policier qui avait abattu Trayvon Martin en février 2012. Le hashtag est depuis devenu mouvement et ce mouvement intéresse fortement les autorités américaines.
Le magazine en ligne The (...)
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Undercover Police Have Regularly Spied On Black Lives Matter Activists in New York - 19 août 2015
Documents obtained by The Intercept confirm that undercover police officers attended numerous Black Lives Matter protests in New York City between December 2014 and February 2015. The documents also show that police in New York have monitored activists, tracking their movements and keeping individual photos of (...)
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UAE Gave $1 Million to NYC Police Foundation ; Money Aided "˜Investigations’ - 13 avril 2015
The New York City Police Foundation received a $1 million donation from the government of the United Arab Emirates, according to 2012 tax records, the same amount the foundation transferred to the NYPD Intelligence Division’s International Liaison Program that year, according to documents obtained by The Intercept. (...)
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How the NYPD is using social media to put Harlem teens behind bars - 10 décembre 2014
The untold story of Jelani Henry, who says Facebook likes landed him in Rikers
The Henry brothers, Asheem and Jelani, were born exactly one year apart to the day, in the warm Junes of 1991 and "˜92. "I always felt there was something special about that," says their mother Alethia. "A little bit of magic." The (...)
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New York met fin à la surveillance des musulmans - 17 avril 2014
"Le département de la police de New York a abandonné un programme secret qui consistait à envoyer des détectives en civil dans des quartiers musulmans pour espionner les conversations et collecter des informations sur les endroits où leurs habitants mangeaient, priaient ou faisaient du shopping", annonce le quotidien (...)
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La surveillance des Musulmans par la police de New York déclarée anticonstitutionnelle - 6 mai 2013
Circulez, y’a rien à voir ! La police de New York (NYPD) a longtemps été dans le déni de Big Brother, démentant à qui voulait l’entendre que, pendant six longues années, elle n’a eu de cesse de quadriller les quartiers musulmans de la mégapole américaine, dans le cadre d’une surveillance de tous les instants, riche en écoutes (...)
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Alleged Cannibal Cop Faces Hacking Charge "” The Computer Kind - 26 octobre 2012
A New York City cop arrested Thursday for being part of a conspiracy to kidnap, rape, cook and eat women is being charged, in part, with violating computer crime laws for using a federal law enforcement database to track a potential victim.
Active-duty New York City police officer Gilberto Valle is accused of (...)
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NYPD secret police spying of Muslims ends New Jersey surveillance - 6 septembre 2012
The secret demographics unit’s controversial surveillance practices turned up no leads or cases in more than six years
New Jersey’s attorney general has assured a group of Muslim leaders that a New York police department unit that conducted surveillance of Muslims is no longer operating in the state.
A spokesman (...)
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NYPD : Muslim spying led to no leads, terror cases - 22 août 2012
In more than six years of spying on Muslim neighborhoods, eavesdropping on conversations and cataloguing mosques, the New York Police Department’s secret Demographics Unit never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation, the department acknowledged in court testimony unsealed late Monday.
The (...)
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Summary of the AP Reports Detailing NYPD Surveillance of Muslim Communities - 22 août 2012
Beginning August of 2011, the Associated Press released a series of reports documenting NYPD surveillance programs targeting Muslims. Since new articles continued to reveal more details about these programs and their impacts, we have organized a list below of the most illuminating articles and a brief explanation (...)
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La surveillance des musulmans à New York n’a abouti à rien - 22 août 2012
En plus de six ans de surveillance des quartiers musulmans de New York, d’écoutes et de fichage des mosquées, l’Unité secrète de démographie de la Police de New York (NYPD) n’a obtenu aucune piste ni de quoi déclencher une enquête terroriste.
L’Unité démographique se trouvait au coeur d’un programme d’espionnage policier mis (...)
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Your car, tracked : the rapid rise of license plate readers - 21 août 2012
Largely unregulated, cameras now collect millions of travel records every day.
Tiburon, a small but wealthy town just northeast of the Golden Gate Bridge, has an unusual distinction : it was one of the first towns in the country to mount automated license plate readers (LPRs) at its city borders"”the only two (...)
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Microsoft et la police de New York ont élaboré un système anti-terroriste - 9 août 2012
Un système de lutte contre le terrorisme et la criminalité a été co-développé par Microsoft et le NYPD (police de New York). Le DAS recoupe les données récupérées par les équipements de surveillance publics avec les renseignements détenus sur les suspects et la localisation cartographique des délits. Des défenseurs de la vie (...)
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Microsoft et la police de New York associés pour vendre Big Brother - 9 août 2012
La police de New York (NYPD) a révélé avoir déployé avec Microsoft un outil informatique géant de "prévention du crime" qui se base sur la surveillance automatisée des voies publiques et d’alerte des éventuelles menaces détectées. Microsoft reversera au NYPD une commission de 30 % à chaque fois que le système sera vendu (...)
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NYPD and Microsoft launch advanced citywide surveillance system - 9 août 2012
System has live video feeds, huge databases of recent crime patterns and can take input direct from the field in real time
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has unveiled a new crime-fighting system developed with Microsoft "“ and revealed that the city will take a cut of the profits if it is sold to other (...)
