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Racisme policier : les géants du Net font mine d’arrêter la reconnaissance faciale - 23 juin 2020
À un moment où l’institution policière est remise en question, les multinationales de la sécurité tentent de se racheter une image par des effets d’annonce : elles arrêteraient la reconnaissance faciale car la technologie ne serait pas tout à fait au point et la police l’utiliserait à mauvais escient.
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Press release : Privacy International calls for the Google/Fitbit merger to be blocked - 19 juin 2020
As Google notifies the European Commission of its proposed acquisition of the health and fitness tracker Fitbit, Privacy International calls for the merger to be blocked because of concerns over Google’s growing digital dominance.
Key points
On 15 June 2020 Google notified the European Commission of its intention (...)
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The use of social media monitoring by local authorities – who is a target ? - 17 juin 2020
In the UK, Local Authorities (Councils) are looking at people’s social media accounts, such as Facebook, as part of their intelligence gathering and investigation tactics in areas such as council tax payments, children’s services, benefits and monitoring protests and demonstrations.
This has particular consequences (...)
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What do Led Zeppelin, Cisco and Dr Oetker have in common ? Facebook says they share our data with them - 16 juin 2020
A PI investigation into advertisers we had never heard of who upload our personal data on Facebook to target us.
Key findings
100% of PI staff who downloaded their Facebook Information found that companies they had never heard of had shared their personal data with Facebook
Understanding why companies have this (...)
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Podcast : Protest surveillance : before, during, and after - 10 juin 2020
With huge numbers of people out on the streets standing up for their rights in the US and Hong Kong, and around the world - we take a look at the surveillance tools police and security forces round the world have been using to monitor people as they exercise their civil rights.
Given everything that’s happening at (...)
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Steps you can take to minimise the political ads you see online - 26 mai 2020
OPTION 1 - LIMIT TARGETED ADVERTISING
A simple step you can take is turning on strong (as possible) privacy settings on the social media platforms you use. Social media platforms play a key role in targeting ads at you – and they facilitate the use of your data in ways that you probably wouldn’t like. We’ve made (...)
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When Your Data Becomes Political - 26 mai 2020
Increasingly, political parties, political campaigns and those who work for them tap into and exploit our data to seek to influence us. It is essential that legal safeguards are in place and enforced to challenge these practices.
Have you ever wondered why you’re seeing an ad online ? In your social media feed, (...)
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Covid Contact tracing apps are a complicated mess : what you need to know - 23 mai 2020
As Governments, Apple and Google compete in proximity tracing, here’s our take on building tech in times of crisis.
Key findings
Contact tracing is an important emergency healthcare initiative, and is necessarily invasive.
Coronavirus Apps do much more and much less than manual contact tracing.
There are (...)
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Revue articles et communications autour de Stop-Covid - 12 mai 2020
Afin de garder un trace (!) des débats qui enflamèrent l’opinion publique lors de la crise sanitaire du printemps 2020, voici une revue partielle d’articles parus dans la presse et quelques communications officielles autour de l’application Stop-Covid, entre discours réalistes et solutionnisme technologique (cette liste (...)
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(Sort of) Trust but Verify : Palantir Responds to Questions about its work with NHS - 11 mai 2020
Palantir, the US data giant which works with intelligence and immigration enforcement agencies, has responded to our questions about its work on a highly sensitive National Health Service (NHS) project, providing some assurances, passing the buck to the NHS, and raising additional questions.
On 12 April 2020, (...)
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Why Does Reproductive Health Surveillance in India Need Our Urgent Attention ? | Privacy International - 8 mai 2020
CIS, PI’s partner in India, posits health monitoring as surveillance and not merely as a “data problem.”
Key findings
The unpacking of the Mother and Child Tracking System and the National Health Stack reveals the neo-liberal aspirations of the Indian state.
Assessing the reproductive healthcare framework in (...)
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Special Report : Cyber-intel firms pitch governments on spy tools to trace coronavirus - 8 mai 2020
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When law enforcement agencies want to gather evidence locked inside an iPhone, they often turn to hacking software from the Israeli firm Cellebrite. By manually plugging the software into a suspect’s phone, police can break in and determine where the person has gone and whom he or she has (...)
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COVID-19 Digital Rights Tracker - 3 mai 2020
This live tracker documents new measures introduced in response to COVID-19 that pose a risk to digital rights around the world.
In response to the outbreak of COVID-19 :
Contact Tracing Apps are being used in 29 countries
Alternative digital tracking measures are active in 30 countries
Physical surveillance (...)
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Press release : 10 questions to Palantir from privacy organisations | Privacy International - 1er mai 2020
Today Privacy International and four other UK privacy organisations have sent Palantir 10 questions about their work with the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) during the Covid-19 public health crisis.
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Privacy International, Big Brother Watch, medConfidential, Foxglove, and Open Rights Group have sent (...)
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Telco data and Covid-19 : A primer | Privacy International - 23 avril 2020
In a scramble to track, and thereby stem the flow of new cases of Coronavirus, Governments around the world are rushing to track the locations of their populace. One way to do this is to leverage the metadata held by mobile service providers in order to track the movements of a population, as seen in Italy, (...)
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Zoom is not the worst, just getting the attention software deserves | Privacy International - 23 avril 2020
The rise of scrutiny of Zoom is welcome evidence that privacy and security is valued and essential as our lives and interactions become increasingly virtual.
Key points
Zoom already had security challenges before the Coronavirus-caused lockdowns.
Massive adoption of Zoom led to more scrutiny and exposure of (...)
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A documentation of data exploitation in sexual and reproductive rights | Privacy International - 22 avril 2020
Key findings
PI has documented 10 data exploitative tactics that the opposition is using to delay or curtail access to reproductive healthcare.
We women and other subjects capable of gestating are subjects of our own lives, not living parts of a reproductive machine that produces material and spiritual richness (...)
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Big Brother in the Age of Coronavirus : 100+ Groups Warn Against Exploiting Pandemic to Permanently Expand Surveillance State | Common Dreams News - 14 avril 2020
"These are extraordinary times, but human rights law still applies."
As the number of COVID-19 cases climbed toward a million worldwide on Thursday, over 100 human rights groups issued a joint statement warning that governments’ response to the coronavirus pandemic "must not be used as a cover to usher in a new era (...)
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Fighting the Global Covid-19 Power-Grab | Privacy International - 13 avril 2020
In the rush to respond to Covid-19 and its aftermath, government and companies are exploiting data with few safeguards. PI is acting to ensure that this crisis isn’t abused.
Tech companies, governments, and international agencies have all announced measures to help contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Some (...)
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Covid-19 response : overview of data and technology | Privacy International - 7 avril 2020
Data can be essential and useful at various stages of a pandemic and public health emergency. It can also feed intelligence and policing, being highly useful for enforcement. Finally, it can be valuable for commercial exploitation. The challenge before us now is which of these do we prioritise in specific (...)
