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L’âge du capitalisme de surveillance : vers un capitalisme et une surveillance sans limites ? - 24 janvier 2021
Le livre de la psychologue, économiste et philosophe Shoshana Zuboff (@shoshanazuboff), L’âge du capitalisme de surveillance paru en 2019 aux États-Unis, vient d’être traduit en français (Editions Zulma, 2020). Cette somme de 700 pages a fait très vite référence. C’est le signe effectivement que son analyse est importante, (...)
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We Should Be Very Worried About Joe Biden’s “Domestic Terrorism” Bill - 16 janvier 2021
Joe Biden used to brag that he practically wrote the Patriot Act, the Bush-era law that massively increased government surveillance powers. Now he’s hoping to pass a further “domestic terrorism” law once in office. The danger is real that the January 6 Capitol attack will be used as an excuse to severely curtail our (...)
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NSA Spying - 5 octobre 2020
What is the NSA domestic spying program ?
In October 2001, President Bush issued a secret presidential order authorizing the NSA to conduct a range of surveillance activities inside of the United States without statutory authorization or court approval, including electronic surveillance of Americans’ telephone and (...)
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Court Approves Warrantless Surveillance Rules While Scolding F.B.I. - 7 septembre 2020
The release of a newly declassified ruling follows a separate decision by an appeals court that a defunct National Security Agency program was illegal.
WASHINGTON — The nation’s surveillance court found that the F.B.I. had committed “widespread violations” of rules intended to protect Americans’ privacy when analysts (...)
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Scores de santé, bracelets mouchards : la surveillance anti-Covid s’installe - 28 mai 2020
Les autorités profitent de la pandémie pour ancrer les outils de traçage des populations dans le quotidien.
Lorsqu’un État ou une autorité obtient un moyen d’étendre son pouvoir, il y a beaucoup de réticence à y renoncer. Le Patriot act, une loi antiterroriste votée après le 11 septembre 2001, a largement servi à espionner (...)
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Left-Right Alliance Takes Aim At Surveillance Bill - 28 mai 2020
President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued a rare veto threat, promising to reject a renewal of his surveillance authorities if approved by the House of Representatives.
If the FISA Bill is passed tonight on the House floor, I will quickly VETO it. Our Country has just suffered through the greatest political (...)
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Mitch McConnell is pushing the Senate to pass a law that would let the FBI collect Americans’ web browsing history without a warrant - 27 mai 2020
The Senate is expected to vote Wednesday to renew the 2001 PATRIOT Act, and Mitch McConnell is pushing an amendment to the law that would expand the FBI’s surveillance powers.
An amendment proposed by McConnell would, for the first time ever, let the FBI collect records on Americans’ web browsing and search (...)
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Facebook told my followers I was spreading misinformation about government surveillance. I wasn’t. - 25 mai 2020
Calling for more censorship — or for Big Tech companies to become the arbiters of truth — will ultimately backfire. We need to address the problem of viral disinformation at its root.
Okay I’ll admit it. I still use Facebook. When I logged on last night I saw something I had never seen before : a notification that (...)
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Like after 9/11, governments could use coronavirus to permanently roll back our civil liberties - 22 mai 2020
The ’emergency’ laws brought in after terrorism in 2001 reshaped the world — and there’s evidence that it could happen again
With over a million confirmed cases and a death toll quickly approaching 100,000, Covid-19 is the worst pandemic in modern history by many orders of magnitude. That governments were unprepared (...)
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Face au virus, « un arsenal techno-sécuritaire démesuré et absurde » - 5 mai 2020
Depuis sa création en 2008, l’association La Quadrature du Net joue un rôle essentiel dans la dénonciation des dérives en matière de technologie – sur Internet et ailleurs. Elle a récemment lancé une campagne intitulée Technopolice, visant à documenter les visages inquiétants de la ville dite « intelligente », où tous les (...)
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The Machine Never Blinks : A Graphic History of Spying and Surveillance - 2 mai 2020
An eye-opening book about the myriad eyes on all of us.
We used to call it the Information Age, an era of technological innovation that made our lives more convenient. But since the idealistic early days of the Internet, we’ve learned that seemingly benign technology, from debit cards to social media, is being (...)
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Yes, Section 215 Expired. Now What ? | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 18 avril 2020
On March 15, 2020, Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act—a surveillance law with a rich history of government overreach and abuse—expired. Along with two other PATRIOT Act provisions, Section 215 lapsed after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on a broader set of reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (...)
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« Les mesures de surveillance high-tech contre l’épidémie de Covid-19 survivront au virus et pourront devenir permanentes », prévient Snowden à propos de méthodes comme le traçage de smartphones - 27 mars 2020
Nombreux sont les gouvernements du monde entier qui utilisent déjà des mesures de surveillance high-tech dans le combat contre la pandémie de Covid-19.
À Singapour par exemple, les personnes susceptibles d’avoir fait l’objet d’exposition au nouveau coronavirus (en particulier celles qui revenaient de l’étranger) ont été (...)
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Smartphones could help us track the coronavirus – but at what cost ? | John Naughton | Opinion | The Guardian - 22 mars 2020
It’s wise to be wary of the government adopting intrusive apps that monitor the effectiveness of public health measures
As we confront the pandemic, we’re flying blind, like pilots in 1930s aeroplanes flying through fog. That, at any rate, is what I take away from reading John Ioannidis, a Stanford professor who is (...)
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Coronavirus Spending Bill Could Be Used to Cement Spying Authorities - 14 mars 2020
The congressional effort to rein in the government’s surveillance powers before a looming deadline on March 15 could run up against a new opponent : a new coronavirus.
House Democrats have been working on plans to further amend a provision of the Patriot Act, which as of 2015 provides a way for the government to (...)
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N.S.A. Phone Program Cost $100 Million, but Produced Only Two Unique Leads - The New York Times - 26 février 2020
A disputed program that allowed the National Security Agency to gain access to logs of Americans’ domestic calls and texts yielded only one significant investigation, according to a newly declassified study.
WASHINGTON — A National Security Agency system that analyzed logs of Americans’ domestic phone calls and text (...)
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Congress must decide whether to renew a key part of the USA Freedom Act. - 29 janvier 2020
It’s highly intrusive and ineffective—but some insist Congress should reauthorize it anyway.
Remember the Snowden disclosures ? It may seem like an eternity ago, but it was in 2013 that Edward Snowden revealed to the public the government’s extensive warrantless domestic surveillance program. After he disclosed that (...)
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« L’Utopie déchue » : comment Internet est devenu un instrument de contrôle social - 28 novembre 2019
En replaçant le combat pour la liberté d’expression dans la longue histoire des médias, depuis l’invention de l’imprimerie jusqu’à l’avènement de notre monde connecté, le sociologue et activiste Félix Tréguer raconte dans son livre L’utopie déchue (Fayard, 2019) que l’État a toujours su s’adapter aux changements technologiques (...)
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Le capitalisme de surveillance, maître des marionnettes - 3 mars 2019
Pour l’économiste Shoshana Zuboff, dont le livre L’Âge du capitalisme de surveillance vient de paraître aux États-Unis, le danger que font courir les géants du Web est bien plus grand qu’on ne l’imagine généralement. En siphonnant les données personnelles pour modifier à leur insu les comportements de leurs utilisateurs, ils (...)
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N.S.A. Purges Hundreds of Millions of Call and Text Records - 2 juillet 2018
The National Security Agency has purged hundreds of millions of records logging phone calls and texts that it had gathered from American telecommunications companies since 2015, the agency has disclosed. It had realized that its database was contaminated with some files the agency had no authority to receive.
The (...)
