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Outsourcing oppression - 16 avril 2021
How Europe externalises migrant detention beyond its shores
This report seeks to address the gap and join the dots between Europe’s outsourcing of migrant detention to third countries and the notorious conditions within the migrant detention centres. In a nutshell, Europe calls the shots on migrant detention (...)
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Des militaires français compromettent la sécurité de leurs opérations sur les réseaux sociaux - 10 décembre 2020
Alors que l’armée interdit à ses militaires de poster des informations sensibles en ligne, Mediapart a retrouvé, via différentes applications, plus de 800 profils de soldats français déployés à l’étranger et plus de 200 profils de membres des forces spéciales. L’état-major reste évasif sur les mesures prises pour endiguer un (...)
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L’armée française arme ses drones, mais le débat est confisqué - 7 septembre 2020
Officiellement, un drone de l’armée française a frappé pour la première fois le 21 décembre 2019 au Mali. Depuis, cela ne s’arrête pas. Mais on ne connaît jamais les cibles visées, ni le bilan exact des frappes.
Au centre du Mali, dans les villages les plus reculés du Gourma, plus personne, y compris ceux qui sont (...)
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The problems AI has today go back centuries - 30 août 2020
Algorithmic discrimination and “ghost work” didn’t appear by accident. Understanding their long, troubling history is the first step toward fixing them.
In March of 2015, protests broke out at the University of Cape Town in South Africa over the campus statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes, a mining (...)
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I costi nascosti delle nuove “guerre remote” di Stati Uniti ed Europa - 25 août 2020
Le forze occidentali sperimentano in Somalia e in Sahel un tipo di conflitto che non prevede l’invio di nutriti contingenti armati e utilizza al suo posto nuclei speciali, droni, contractors. Tra le controindicazioni un aumento delle vittime civili
Nel settembre 2019 membri di al-Shabaab, un gruppo terrorista con (...)
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A recipe for hypocrisy : democracies export surveillance tech without human rights - 28 juillet 2020
As is, global trade in surveillance technology is a race to the bottom, in which liberal democratic governments continue to criticise the behaviour of others while using it to justify their own. In a twisted consequence of profits over human rights, democracies also continue to be the primary exporters of (...)
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How the arms industry drives Fortress Europe’s expansion - 28 juin 2020
In March, April, and May of this year, multiple European countries deployed military forces to their national borders. This was done to assist with controls and patrols in the wake of border closures and other movement restrictions due to the Covid-19 crisis. Poland deployed 1,460 soldiers to the border to support (...)
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COVID-19 Digital Rights Tracker - 3 mai 2020
This live tracker documents new measures introduced in response to COVID-19 that pose a risk to digital rights around the world.
In response to the outbreak of COVID-19 :
Contact Tracing Apps are being used in 29 countries
Alternative digital tracking measures are active in 30 countries
Physical surveillance (...)
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Monitoring being pitched to fight Covid-19 was tested on refugees — The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - 1er mai 2020
The pandemic has given a boost to controversial data-driven initiatives to track population movements
In Italy, social media monitoring companies have been scouring Instagram to see who’s breaking the nationwide lockdown. In Israel, the government has made plans to “sift through geolocation data” collected by the (...)
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Facebook désactive plus de 250 pages politiques trompeuses gérées par une entreprise israélienne - 16 mai 2019
Les pages, qui pour certaines usurpaient l’identité de candidats, visaient majoritairement l’Afrique subsaharienne.
La société de Mark Zuckerberg a annoncé jeudi 16 mai avoir supprimé 265 comptes, pages et groupes, sur Facebook et Instagram, faisant tous partie d’un même réseau utilisé pour diffuser de fausses (...)
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The U.S. Is Building a Drone Base in Niger That Will Cost More Than $280 Million by 2024 - 22 août 2018
A U.S. drone base in a remote part of West Africa has garnered attention for its $100 million construction price tag. But according to new projections from the Air Force, its initial cost will soon be dwarfed by the price of operating the facility "” about $30 million a year. By 2024, when the 10-year agreement for (...)
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Drones in the Sahara - 19 février 2018
A Massive U.S. Drone Base Could Destabilize Niger "” and May Even Be Illegal Under Its Constitution
Late in the morning of October 4 last year, a convoy of Nigerien and American special forces soldiers in eight vehicles left the village of Tongo Tongo. As they made their way between mud-brick houses with thatched (...)
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Fitness Tracker Data Highlights Sprawling U.S. Military Footprint in Africa - 30 janvier 2018
In Strava’s heat map, neon paths in remote parts of Africa likely signal Western troops and humanitarian workers wearing fitness trackers, such as Fitbit.
Out in the cocoa-colored wastes of north-central Niger, people have been running around in circles. Exactly who has been jogging or walking around this compound (...)
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How a Grad Student Found Spyware That Could Control Anybody’s iPhone from Anywhere in the World - 28 mars 2017
Last summer, Bill Marczak stumbled across a program that could spy on your iPhone’s contact list and messages"”and even record your calls. Illuminating shadowy firms that sell spyware to corrupt governments across the globe, Marczak’s story reveals the new arena of cyber-warfare.
The night it happened, right after (...)
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Les Africains sur écoute - 3 septembre 2015
Les révélations de Julian Assange et d’Edward Snowden ont mis au jour l’omniprésence de la surveillance planétaire américaine. Gouvernements mais aussi particuliers en sont les cibles privilégiées. Des documentaires comme Citizenfour montrent qu’aucune personne qu’elle soit chancelière de la République fédérale d’Allemagne (...)
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Millions of Facebook users have no idea they’re using the internet - 9 février 2015
It was in Indonesia three years ago that Helani Galpaya first noticed the anomaly.
Indonesians surveyed by Galpaya told her that they didn’t use the internet. But in focus groups, they would talk enthusiastically about how much time they spent on Facebook. Galpaya, a researcher (and now CEO) with LIRNEasia, a think (...)
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Biométrie, sécurité et démocratie - 31 août 2014
À cause de Facebook et de Google, le sort de nos données personnelles nous importe de plus en plus. Pourtant, ces questions sont loin d’être nouvelles dans beaucoup de pays d’Afrique ou les bases de données sur les citoyens existent depuis des années. Ce système fonctionne grâce à la biométrie, c’est à dire l’archivage de (...)
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For sale : Systems that can secretly track where cellphone users go around the globe - 26 août 2014
Makers of surveillance systems are offering governments across the world the ability to track the movements of almost anybody who carries a cellphone, whether they are blocks away or on another continent.
The technology works by exploiting an essential fact of all cellular networks : They must keep detailed, (...)
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U.S. Says It Built Digital Programs Abroad With an Eye to Politics - 29 avril 2014
The United States built Twitter-like social media programs in Afghanistan and Pakistan, like one in Cuba, that were aimed at encouraging open political discussion, Obama administration officials said Friday. But like the program in Cuba, which was widely ridiculed when it became public this month, the services in (...)
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Following the money : How States are funding surveillance technologies - 26 mars 2014
Surveillance companies selling mass and intrusive spy technologies to human rights-abusing governments often are benefitting from the financial and institutional support from their home government, revealing a more closely-linked relationship between the sector and the State than previously believed.
Recent (...)
