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Comment Facebook laisse des dirigeants tromper leur population - 25 avril 2021
Un utilisateur de Facebook ne peut avoir qu’un seul compte. Mais il peut créer plusieurs pages capables de liker, commenter, partager d’autres comptes, et ainsi créer du “faux engagement”. Cette faille dans la réglementation de Facebook contribue à de vastes opérations de manipulation, révèle une enquête du quotidien (...)
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How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics : a whistleblower’s account - 16 avril 2021
The inside story of Sophie Zhang’s battle to combat rampant manipulation as executives delayed and deflected
Shortly before Sophie Zhang lost access to Facebook’s systems, she published one final message on the company’s internal forum, a farewell tradition at Facebook known as a “badge post”.
“Officially, I’m a (...)
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Control Facebook and mend broken societies... If only it were that simple - 17 janvier 2021
Social media is not to blame for all our ills. We must delve deeper into our culture
London is full of Pops. From the area around City Hall to parts of the Olympic Park, there are dozens of “privately owned public spaces”. Places that appear to be public but are owned by a private corporations and have their own (...)
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Facebook and Twitter Face International Scrutiny After Trump Ban - 15 janvier 2021
Human rights groups and activists have spent years urging the companies to do more to remove content that encouraged violence.
LONDON — In Sri Lanka and Myanmar, Facebook kept up posts that it had been warned contributed to violence. In India, activists have urged the company to combat posts by political figures (...)
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In Poland, a law made loan algorithms transparent. Implementation is nonexistent. - 11 janvier 2021
Since May 2019, and as a first in the EU, Polish consumers have the right to know in detail why a bank decided to grant or refuse them a loan, even for small amounts. But in practice, banks are still reluctant to provide such information.
– “Hello, I would like to buy an Xbox One S, a game console, and pay in (...)
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Who (really) targets you ? - 1er janvier 2021
Facebook in Polish election campaigns
INTRODUCTION
Beginning in 2018, on the heels of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, conversations about the scale and impact of political microtargeting (‘PMT’) began to significantly fuel the newscycle and shape the political agenda. The EU began its war on disinformation and (...)
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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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Automating Society Report 2020 - 30 octobre 2020
Life in the automated society : How automated decision-making systems became mainstream, and what to do about it
On a cloudy August day in London, students were angry. They flocked to Parliament Square by the hundreds, in protest – their placards emblazoned with support for unusual allies : their teachers, and an (...)
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Automated discrimination : Facebook uses gross stereotypes to optimize ad delivery - 18 octobre 2020
An experiment by AlgorithmWatch shows that online platforms optimize ad delivery in discriminatory ways. Advertisers who use them could be breaking the law.
Online platforms are well known for the refinement of their advertisement engines, which let advertisers address very specific audiences. Facebook lets you (...)
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Coronavirus is putting Europe’s privacy protectors front and centre – and they’re coming up short - 2 octobre 2020
Coronavirus is putting Europe’s privacy protectors front and centre – and they’re coming up short
Coronavirus is putting Europe’s privacy protectors front and centre – and they’re coming up short
Wojciech Wiewiórowski felt like his entire life had been leading up to the moment when Covid-19 hit Europe like a tidal wave (...)
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Les gouvernements des États membres de l'UE utilisent la crise sanitaire pour restreindre les libertés - Le rapport de Liberties et Greenpeace - 26 septembre 2020
Des restrictions sur le droit de manifester, la liberté d’expression , le droit d’accès à l’information et la liberté d’association. Voilà comment les gouvernements des pays de l’UE font un usage politique de la pandémie. Les détails dans notre rapport.
Afin de protéger la santé publique, les gouvernements ont adopté des (...)
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Bannissons la reconnaissance faciale en Europe ! - 22 septembre 2020
Cette pétition présente la campagne pour l’interdiction permanente de la reconnaissance faciale utilisée pour l’identification et le profilage dans toute l’Europe.
La technologie de reconnaissance faciale automatisée a déjà été déployée dans les États membres de l’UE sans consultation publique. Nous demandons aux membres du (...)
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ADM Systems in the COVID-19 Pandemic : A European Perspective - 1er septembre 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred the deployment of a plethora of automated decision-making (ADM) systems all over Europe. High hopes have been placed by both local administrations and national governments in applications and devices aimed at containing the outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (...)
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Europe wants to be a role model for technological responses to COVID-19. But it’s complicated. - 1er septembre 2020
Launch of our new report on ’Automated Decision-Making Systems in the COVID-19 Pandemic’…
The ongoing pandemic has spurred the deployment of a plethora of automated decision-making (ADM) systems all over Europe. In a special issue of their Automating Society Report 2020, AlgorithmWatch and Bertelsmann Stiftung (...)
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Pre-crime at the tax office : How Poland automated the fight against VAT fraud. - 27 août 2020
In their fight against fraud, Polish tax authorities use STIR, an algorithm sifting through the data of millions of entrepreneurs. The government claims success, but dozens of companies have been hit, some say wrongly.
“We have broken the group of VAT fraudsters”, “We have detected the artificial vegetable oil (...)
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Facebook algorithm found to ’actively promote’ Holocaust denial - 17 août 2020
Similar content is also readily accessible across Twitter, YouTube and Reddit, says UK-based counter-extremist group
Facebook’s algorithm “actively promotes” Holocaust denial content according to an analysis that will increase pressure on the social media giant to remove antisemitic content relating to the Nazi (...)
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The original Big Tech is working closer than ever with governments to combat coronavirus – with no scrutiny - 10 août 2020
Telecom companies are at the core of the world’s communication universe. Since the coronavirus pandemic, they’ve been passing even more sensitive data to governments. It’s time they were held as accountable as Google and Facebook.
The texts can arrive at any time. Recipients are told they’ve been exposed to the (...)
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Crowd monitoring facial recognition tech awarded Commission seal of excellence - 6 juillet 2020
The European Commission has given its ‘seal of excellence’ to a technology that provides ‘advanced video analytics, including real-time face recognition and crowd behaviour analysis,’ to be used in the bloc’s fight against another potential outbreak of the coronavirus.
The AWARE technology, developed by Spanish-based (...)
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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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Ethical guidelines for COVID-19 tracing apps - 26 juin 2020
Protect privacy, equality and fairness in digital contact tracing with these key questions.
Technologies to rapidly alert people when they have been in contact with someone carrying the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 are part of a strategy to bring the pandemic under control. Currently, at least 47 contact-tracing apps (...)
