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How the Pandemic Turned Refugees Into ‘Guinea Pigs’ for Surveillance Tech - 21 janvier 2021
An interview with Dr. Petra Molnar, who spent 2020 investigating the use of drones, facial recognition, and lidar on refugees
The coronavirus pandemic unleashed a new era in surveillance technology, and arguably no group has felt this more acutely than refugees. Even before the pandemic, refugees were subjected (...)
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The FTC Forced a Misbehaving A.I. Company to Delete Its Algorithm - 19 janvier 2021
Could Google and Facebook’s algorithms be next ?
In 2019, an investigation by NBC News revealed that photo storage app Ever had quietly siphoned billions of its users’ photos to train facial recognition algorithms.
Pictures of people’s friends and families, which they had thought were private, were in fact being (...)
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A Local Police Department Is Running Clearview AI Searches for the FBI - Dave Gershgorn - 13 janvier 2021
The FBI, which is searching for insurrectionists who stormed the U.S. Capitol last week, is working with an unlikely partner : a local police department more than 600 miles away from Washington, D.C.
An officer in Alabama named Jason Webb told the Wall Street Journal that he had used Clearview AI technology on (...)
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The Instagrammed Insurrection and the Great Deplatforming - Will Oremus - 10 janvier 2021
Booting Trump won’t solve social media’s problems. But it’s not a bad place to start.
The president of the United States is no longer allowed to post on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitch, or Shopify. Twitter said Friday night that its ban was permanent — and it was swiftly followed by suspensions of the (...)
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Claims Antifa Embedded in Capitol Riots Come From a Deeply Unreliable Facial Recognition Company - Dave Gershgorn - 7 janvier 2021
XRVision also has a track record of spreading conspiracy theories about Hunter Biden
Congressman Matt Gaetz, a Republican from Florida, took to the House floor on Wednesday night to spread an increasingly popular conspiracy theory that the pro-Trump mobs that overtook the Capitol building were in fact aligned (...)
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Covid-19 Ushered in a New Era of Government Surveillance - 30 décembre 2020
Government-mandated drone surveillance and location tracking apps could be here to stay
In early December, after finding 16 people had illegally crossed the border from Myanmar to Thailand and evaded the mandatory quarantine period, the Thai government said it would start patrolling the border with new (...)
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The Gig Economy Is Failing. Say Hello to the Hustle Economy. - 27 décembre 2020
Unemployed teachers, cooks, dancers are turning to Patreon, Twitch, and OnlyFans
Unemployed teachers, cooks, dancers are turning to Patreon, Twitch, and OnlyFans
“We have nothing to sell besides physical touch.” The thought jarred Amber Briggle awake some nights. It kept her from eating in the first week of the (...)
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Coronavirus Is Speeding Up the Amazonification of the Planet - 23 décembre 2020
As restaurants, bars, and local shops close down, platform-based monoliths are vacuuming up customers and jobs
There are always parties who profit in times of crisis, and so it goes with our ever-accelerating global pandemic. For toilet paper manufacturers and supermarket chains and, say, a pair of grifter (...)
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Why Tech’s Great Powers Are Warring - 20 décembre 2020
The feud between Apple and Facebook enters a new era
An adage of international relations holds that great powers have no permanent friends or allies, only permanent interests. (The original quote, from a 19th-century English statesman known as Lord Palmerston, is a bit less pithy.) It accounts for how the United (...)
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The Facial Recognition Backlash Is Here - 19 décembre 2020
But will the current bans last ?
The facial recognition industry has been quietly working alongside law enforcement, military organizations, and private companies for years, leveraging 40-year old partnerships originally centered around fingerprint databases.
But in 2020, the industry faced an unexpected (...)
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‘Competition Is for Losers’ : How Peter Thiel Helped Facebook Embrace Monopoly - 12 décembre 2020
The roots of Big Tech’s antitrust problem can be found in his bestselling 2014 business book, ‘Zero to One’
“Only one thing can allow a business to transcend the daily brute struggle for survival,” Peter Thiel wrote in his bestselling 2014 book, Zero to One. That one thing, Thiel stated outright, is “monopoly (...)
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Huawei Reportedly Tested a ‘Uighur Alarm’ to Track Chinese Ethnic Minorities With Facial Recognition - 9 décembre 2020
The system also identifies information such as age and sex
Chinese tech giants Huawei and Megvii have allegedly tested software that could identify Uighurs, an ethnic minority in China, according to a new report from the Washington Post and video surveillance trade publication IPVM.
The system being tested tried (...)
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Is Spotify’s Newly Patented A.I. Plagiarism Detector a Data Collection Scheme ? - 8 décembre 2020
‘Spotify wants machine-made music the same way Uber wants self-driving cars’
Spotify, the music streaming giant with a reputation for underpaying artists, has staked its claim to a technology that it says could protect musicians from plagiarism allegations, according to a patent recently granted by the European (...)
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Driver-Facing Dash Cams Now Use A.I. to Catch Truckers On Their Phones - 24 novembre 2020
‘If the truck I’m in ever gets a camera installed in it facing me… I will stop the truck and quit on the spot’
Over the last three years, hundreds of thousands of freight trucks in the United States have been equipped with machine learning algorithms to analyze drivers’ behavior. They can detect how many times per (...)
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Gig Companies Like Uber Are Now Lobbying to Change Labor Laws Nationwide - 23 novembre 2020
Prop 22 was only the beginning
Last week, a confident Dara Khosrowshahi, chief executive of Uber, told investors that Proposition 22 was only the beginning. The contentious ballot measure, which was voted into law by millions of Californians this month, allows Uber and Lyft to subvert a new state labor law that (...)
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Internal FTC Memo Announces Major Cuts Ahead of Tech Giant Action - 21 novembre 2020
Late last month, David Robbins, executive director of the Federal Trade Commission, sent a sullen memo to all staff.
The agency is at the forefront of the U.S. government’s effort to check the tech giants’ imposing power. It’s examining how Amazon uses its marketplace to squeeze suppliers. And it’s poised to bring (...)
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The Ad-Based Internet Is About to Collapse. What Comes Next ? - 12 novembre 2020
The web as we know it relies on advertising, but that model is headed for a crash. Fortunately, we can build something better from the wreckage.
Online, ads are everywhere.
They bombard you when you try to read the news. They pop up between your friends’ Facebook updates. They’re disguised to look like regular (...)
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Trump Forced Big Tech Out of ‘Neutrality,’ and There’s No Turning Back - 6 novembre 2020
Tech companies once tried to skate above the political fray. No longer.
Whenever Donald Trump walks out of the White House, he’ll leave behind a changed tech industry, one that let go of its reluctance to act politically during his administration, and will likely never go back.
Silicon Valley, for much of its (...)
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Facebook Tested a New A.I.-Powered Misinformation Detector Months Before the Election - 6 novembre 2020
It’s unclear whether the platform adopted the new approach
Months ahead of the 2020 election, Facebook revealed it had created a better way to identify bad actors on the platform. Published in August 2020, the research details a system Facebook was testing that might seem incredibly simple : Instead of just (...)
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’Those in Power Won’t Give Up Willingly’ : Veena Dubal and Meredith Whittaker on the Future of Organizing Under Prop 22 - 5 novembre 2020
Workers can build solidarity and fight back against ‘anti-democratic, corporate law-making’
California voters, overwhelmed by a deluge of gig-company-sponsored misinformation over several months, voted in favor of Proposition 22, which eradicates basic labor protections for the state’s most vulnerable workers.
The (...)
