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Au Poste #15 avec Olivier Tesquet, auteur d’« État d’urgence technologique (...) - davduf.net - 13 avril 2021
Depuis plus de 10 ans, l’homme-machine Olivier Tesquet traque nos traces, et le joyeux capitalisme de surveillance. On l’a convoqué #AuPoste. Il est resté près de deux heures et demi, passionnantes, et glaçantes.
Tesquet parle comme son livre « État d’urgence technologique » (Premier Parallèle) se déguste : avec précision (...)
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Seeing stones : pandemic reveals Palantir’s troubling reach in Europe - 10 avril 2021
Covid has given Peter Thiel’s secretive US tech company new opportunities to operate in Europe in ways some campaigners find worrying
The 24 March, 2020 will be remembered by some for the news that Prince Charles tested positive for Covid and was isolating in Scotland. In Athens it was memorable as the day the (...)
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Financing Border Wars - 10 avril 2021
The border industry, its financiers and human rights
This report seeks to explore and highlight the extent of today’s global border security industry, by focusing on the most important geographical markets—Australia, Europe, USA—listing the human rights violations and risks involved in each sector of the industry, (...)
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« Il nous faut retrouver une forme d’hygiène numérique » - 3 mars 2021
Quelles traces numériques laissons-nous au quotidien ?
Elles sont de plus en plus nombreuses. L’image d’Épinal de ces « traces » renvoie surtout au profil que l’on se construit sur un réseau social. On y renseigne son nom, son état civil, son âge, sa profession, ses goûts… Mais ces données personnelles ne constituent que (...)
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Away From Silicon Valley, the Military Is the Ideal Customer - 26 février 2021
While much has been made of tech’s unwillingness to work with the Pentagon, start-ups are still plumbing the industry’s decades-long ties to the military.
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. — Over the rolling, scrub-spotted hills of the Southern California coast, where defense contractors once tested rockets and lasers for (...)
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Data giant given ‘emergency’ Covid contract had been wooing NHS for months - 24 février 2021
Controversial tech firm Palantir now holds £23m deal to oversee critical data store of patient records
A trove of internal UK government documents disclosed to the Bureau has revealed that Palantir, the controversial US tech giant running the NHS’s Covid data store, had launched a charm offensive to sell its (...)
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How Oracle Sells Repression in China - 19 février 2021
In its bid for TikTok, Oracle was supposed to prevent data from being passed to Chinese police. Instead, it’s been marketing its own software for their surveillance work.
Police in China’s Liaoning province were sitting on mounds of data collected through invasive means : financial records, travel information, (...)
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Comment l’économie de la surveillance a profité du covid-19 - 17 février 2021
Pour le journaliste Olivier Tesquet qui publie État d’urgence technologique, la pandémie banalise la surveillance et permet aux entreprises du secteur de blanchir leur réputation en pivotant des marchés sécuritaires vers des marchés sanitaires.
En janvier 2020, Olivier Tesquet, journaliste chez Télérama, publiait À la (...)
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Palantir COO on company’s success : Pandemic has been ‘a real accelerant’ for us - 31 janvier 2021
Palantir COO Shyam Shankar joins Yahoo Finance Live to break down the tech company’s success amid pandemic and discuss what’s next for Palantir in 2021 and beyond.
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BRIAN SOZZI : Palantir shares have been on a tear this year, up 52% in part because investors are getting a little more comfortable (...)
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How the LAPD and Palantir Use Data to Justify Racist Policing - 30 janvier 2021
In a new book, a sociologist who spent months embedded with the LAPD details how data-driven policing techwashes bias.
The killing of George Floyd last May sparked renewed scrutiny of data-driven policing. As protests raged around the world, 1,400 researchers signed an open letter calling on their colleagues to (...)
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Aided by Palantir, the LAPD Uses Predictive Policing to Monitor Specific People and Neighborhoods - 4 janvier 2021
A new report details the Los Angeles Police Department’s use of algorithms to identify “hot spots” and “chronic offenders” and target them for surveillance.
Police stops in Los Angeles are highly concentrated within just a small portion of the population, and the Los Angeles Police Department has been using targeted (...)
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A year in surveillance - 31 décembre 2020
2020 has been a very turbulent year. This is also true with regards to European surveillance politics, both at the EU level and in national politics. Like most years, it was largely characterised by one central conflict, which in simple terms goes like this : a push for more and more technologically advanced (...)
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Exploitation des données, manipulation de l’opinion, culte du secret… La trahison des GAFA - 21 décembre 2020
Il y a encore quelques années, Mark Zuckerberg était considéré comme un génie, Google comme l’une des entreprises les plus cool au monde… et puis la confiance s’est perdue. L’avidité des géants de la tech semble avoir eu raison des valeurs des pionniers du numérique : liberté, innovation et progrès.
Deux jours d’audience de (...)
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The Pandemic Could Obliterate a Last Frontier in Our Privacy : Our Biological Selves - 16 décembre 2020
The world of biotech was already blossoming before murmurings of an untreatable mystery virus started to circulate at the end of last year. There are now countless companies offering everything from personalized fitness plans based on your genes to dietary advice based on the bacteria in your gut. These companies (...)
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La pandémie de COVID-19 portera-t-elle un coup fatal à notre vie privée en s’attaquant à nos données biologiques ? - 14 décembre 2020
Depuis le début de la pandémie, un bataillon d’entreprises – des géants technologiques aux start-ups relativement inconnues – s’est précipité pour participer à la lutte contre le COVID-19. La « disruption » transformatrice du secteur de la santé qu’ils espéraient est arrivée… d’une manière un peu inattendue. Néanmoins, leur (...)
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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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Google AI Tech Will Be Used for Virtual Border Wall, CBP Contract Shows - 15 novembre 2020
Google Cloud will be used in conjunction with Anduril Industries’ surveillance tech on the U.S.-Mexico border.
After years of backlash over controversial government work, Google technology will be used to aid the Trump administration’s efforts to fortify the U.S.-Mexico border, according to documents related to a (...)
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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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Palantir is not our friend - 20 octobre 2020
In recent years, controversial US big data analytics company Palantir has gained ground in European agencies and their data infrastructure. This reflects a larger naiveté within European politics towards foreign tech companies and an imbalance in EU-US relations. Not only should Palantir be kept out of our (...)
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Inside Palantir, Silicon Valley’s Most Secretive Unicorn - 6 octobre 2020
Techie Software Soldier Spy Palantir, Big Data’s scariest, most secretive unicorn, is going public. But is its crystal ball just smoke and mirrors ?
Back in 2003, John Poindexter got a call from Richard Perle, an old friend from their days serving together in the Reagan administration. Perle, one of the architects (...)
