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Officials in Baltimore and St. Louis Put the Brakes on Persistent Surveillance Systems Spy Planes - 11 mars 2021
Baltimore, MD and St. Louis, MO, have a lot in common. Both cities suffer from declining populations and high crime rates. In recent years, the predominantly Black population in each city has engaged in collective action opposing police violence. In recent weeks, officials in both cities voted unanimously to spare (...)
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Amazon Is Watching. The Internet giant is wiring homes… - 18 février 2021
The Internet giant is wiring homes, neighborhoods, and cities with cameras and microphones, and powering the nation’s intelligence services. Are we sure we can trust it ?
When you think of Amazon, you might think of comparison shopping from your couch, buying exactly what you want, for less than you’d pay at the (...)
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Sylvain Louvet et Ludovic Gaillard, prix Albert-Londres 2020 : “Avec la loi Sécurité globale, on franchit encore un cap dans la surveillance” - 12 janvier 2021
Les auteurs du documentaire “Tous surveillés, 7 milliards de suspects” ont été récompensés du prix Albert-Londres de l’audiovisuel ce 5 décembre. Une enquête remarquable sur les techniques de surveillance de masse et leurs dérives, à voir d’urgence sur Télérama.fr.
Cette année encore le prix Albert-Londres de l’audiovisuel (...)
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Coincés dans Zoom (4/4) : pourquoi allons-nous y rester ? - 20 décembre 2020
Alors que nous voilà plus ou moins déconfinés, notre expérience de Zoom est appelée à s’alléger. Pas si sûr !… Car même si la seule évocation de son nom vous provoque des crises d’urticaire, il est probable que Zoom soit là pour rester. Pourquoi allons-nous devoir nous habituer à cohabiter avec ce nouvel « ogre » de nos (...)
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Crise du coronavirus : "La surveillance généralisée fait partie d’une logique de fabrication de vérité" - 28 mai 2020
Professeur de philosophie politique à l’université de Columbia, spécialiste de renom du philosophe Michel Foucault et auteur de "La Société d’exposition" (Le Seuil, 2020), Bernard E. Harcourt défend la pertinence des grilles d’analyse foucauldiennes pour décrypter la crise sanitaire.
Marianne : L’œuvre de Michel Foucault (...)
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(PDF) De la société disciplinaire à la société algorithmique : considérations éthiques autour de l’enjeu du Big data | Julie Paquette - 8 mai 2020
C’est en reprenant les écrits de Michel Foucault (1975) et de Gilles Deleuze (1990) sur le passage observé d’une société disciplinaire à une société de contrôle que nous démontrerons la nécessité de penser la singularité des dispositifs qui surveillent et punissent à une époque où le développement de la (...)
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Creating the coronopticon - Countries are using apps and data networks to keep tabs on the pandemic - 8 mai 2020
And also, in the process, their citizens
HAVING BEEN quarantined at his parents’ house in the Hebei province in northern China for a month, Elvis Liu arrived back home in Hong Kong on February 23rd. Border officials told him to add their office’s number to his WhatsApp contacts and to fix the app’s location-sharing (...)
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Why Banjo Is the Most Important Social Media Company You’ve Never Heard Of - 6 mai 2020
After Inc. published this story in 2015, new outside reporting emerged in 2020 indicating that, as a juvenile, Damien Patton was affiliated with a hate group and pleaded guilty to a drive-by shooting at a synagogue. In response, Patton has said, "I did terrible things and said despicable and hateful things, (...)
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This Small Company Is Turning Utah Into a Surveillance Panopticon - 30 avril 2020
Banjo is applying artificial intelligence to government-owned surveillance and traffic cameras across the entire state of Utah to tell police about "anomalies."
The state of Utah has given an artificial intelligence company real-time access to state traffic cameras, CCTV and “public safety” cameras, 911 emergency (...)
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DNA Collection at the Border Threatens the Privacy of All Americans - 24 janvier 2020
We’re one step closer to the “genetic panopticon” that Antonin Scalia warned us about.
What if the United States government took the DNA of vast numbers of Americans for use without their consent ? The Trump administration has just brought us one step closer to that dystopia. On January 6, the federal government (...)
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Domino’s turns Pizza Checker AI into workplace surveillance tool - 27 novembre 2019
To augment less profitable franchisees.
Australian pizza empire Domino’s might tout its AI driven “pizza checker” as a big win for customers, but on the floor of the kitchen the device that scans toppings and matches them to orders has become a powerful surveillance tool to keep staff and product on spec.
After a (...)
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The Pregnancy Panopticon - 24 août 2017
Women’s health is big business. There are a staggering number of applications for Android and iOS which claim to help people keep track of their monthly cycle, know when they may be fertile, or track the status of their pregnancy. These apps entice the user to input the most intimate details of their lives, such as (...)
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What does the panopticon mean in the age of digital surveillance ? - 23 juillet 2015
The parallel between Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon and CCTV may be clear, but what happens when you step into the world of data capture ?
The philosopher Jeremy Bentham famously requested in his will that his body be dissected and put on public display. This came to pass, and his skeleton now sits in a glass case at (...)
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Your Cellphone Is Spying on You - 5 novembre 2014
Big Brother has been outsourced. The police can find out where you are, where you’ve been, even where you’re going. All thanks to that handy little human tracking device in your pocket : your cellphone.
There are 331 million cellphone subscriptions"”about 20 million more than there are residents"”in the United (...)
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"Google vous connaît mieux que vous-même" - 12 novembre 2009
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, professeur en politique publique et directeur du centre de recherche en politique d’information et d’innovation à l’université nationale de Singapour, est l’auteur de Delete : The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age (Princeton University Press 2009). Il est spécialiste du droit à l’oubli. (...)
