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How Amazon and Silicon Valley Seduced the Pentagon - 22 août 2019
Tech moguls like Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt have gotten unprecedented access to the Pentagon. And one whistleblower who raised flags has paid the price.
On Aug. 8, 2017, Roma Laster, a Pentagon employee responsible for policing conflicts of interest, emailed an urgent warning to the chief of staff of (...)
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Google Continues Investments in Military and Police AI Technology Through Venture Capital Arm - 24 juillet 2019
Last year,Google faced internal revolt from many employees over its handling of Project Maven, a secretive contract between the company and the Department of Defense to use artificial intelligence to improve the military’s drone targeting capabilities. After a series of internal, worker-led protests and (...)
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Revealed : This Is Palantir’s Top-Secret User Manual for Cops - 14 juillet 2019
Motherboard obtained a Palantir user manual through a public records request, and it gives unprecedented insight into how the company logs and tracks individuals.
Palantir is one of the most significant and secretive companies in big data analysis. The company acts as an information management service for (...)
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Google rejects plans to fight sexual harassment and boost diversity - 20 juin 2019
Board rejects all 13 shareholder proposals to address a range of issues even as workers protest outside event
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, failed to pass several proposals to address sexual harassment, antitrust issues and diversity policies at its annual shareholder meeting, despite hundreds of (...)
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Avec les objecteurs de conscience de la « tech » - 19 juin 2019
Après Amazon, c’est au tour de Google de voir son assemblée générale perturbée par des revendications éthiques portées par certains de ses salariés. Une rébellion qui a pris une ampleur nouvelle après l’élection de Donald Trump, fin 2016.
Ingénieure chez Google, Irene Knapp devait s’exprimer, mercredi 19 juin, devant (...)
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Google employees call for removal of rightwing thinktank leader from AI council - 3 avril 2019
Staffers criticized the appointment of Heritage Foundation president Kay Coles James in a letter published on Monday
A group of Google employees have called for the removal of a rightwing thinktank leader from the company’s new artificial intelligence council, citing her anti-LGBT and anti-immigrant record. (...)
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Google employees are lining up to trash Google’s AI ethics council - 2 avril 2019
The independent council was meant to help Google’s public image, but the blowback shows just how fraught"”and politicized"”use of AI is becoming.
Almost a thousand Google staff, academic researchers, and other tech industry figures have signed a letter protesting the makeup of an independent council that Google (...)
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Google Employees Call on Company to Kick Heritage Foundation Ghoul Off AI Ethics Board - 2 avril 2019
Google announced the formation of a global council on technology ethics last week to some deserved trepidation. Sure, the company had amassed some highly qualified individuals to fill seats on this board"”but Google’s track record of following its own internal ethics codes is less than spotless.
What provoked the (...)
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Google Hedges on Promise to End Controversial Involvement in Military Drone Contract - 2 mars 2019
Following months of protests from its employees, Google announced last summer that it would not renew its contract with the military on Project Maven, an initiative to use artificial intelligence to improve the targeting and surveillance capabilities of drones on the battlefield.
In an email sent this week by (...)
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Google Hired Gig Economy Workers to Improve Artificial Intelligence in Controversial Drone-Targeting Project - 5 février 2019
Millions of gig economy workers around the world now earn a living on so-called crowd worker websites "” work that falls under the umbrella of crowdsourcing, or dividing up tasks into minuscule portions to spread over a large number of people. The sites pay as little as $1 an hour for individuals to perform short, (...)
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Gafams : et si la révolution venait de l’intérieur ? - 28 novembre 2018
Présenter de vraies excuses nécessite d’apporter une modification réelle à ce qui a provoqué le problème à l’origine de son remords. Mais pour les entreprises de technologie, présenter des excuses tient plutôt du stratagème pour ne rien faire. C’est ce que dit en substance Josh Constine (@joshconstine) sur TechCrunch, qui (...)
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The Dangerous Junk Science of Vocal Risk Assessment - 25 novembre 2018
Is it possible to tell whether someone is a criminal just from looking at their face or listening to the sound of their voice ? The idea may seem ludicrous, like something out of science fiction "” Big Brother in "1984" detects any unconscious look "that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality" "” and yet, (...)
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Smart Cities sécuritaires : la CNIL forfait ? - 9 novembre 2018
Depuis plusieurs mois, La Quadrature a commencé à se pencher sur les enjeux liés aux Smart City, alors que plusieurs villes françaises invoquent ce terme pour « déguiser » leurs projets de surveillance policière dopée aux Big Data. Il y a quelques semaines, nous rencontrions la CNIL pour discuter de ces enjeux. Résumé des (...)
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Tech firms make millions from Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda, report finds - 24 octobre 2018
Amazon, Palantir and Microsoft provide tools that aid surveillance, detention and deportation, according to report
Silicon Valley technology corporations including Amazon, Palantir and Microsoft make millions from US immigration enforcement, according to a new report.
They provide tools that aid surveillance, (...)
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Palantir, l’embarrassant poisson-pilote du big data - 11 octobre 2018
L’entreprise américaine de visualisation de données travaille avec des dizaines de services de police ou de renseignement, dont la DGSI.
Une liste de clients où figurent la National Security Agency (NSA) américaine et la police de Los Angeles. Un financement initial obtenu auprès de la CIA, les services extérieurs des (...)
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Palantir : livre-t-on nos secrets à nos alliés américains ? - 21 septembre 2018
Une société américaine d’analyse de données, Palantir, travaille pour le compte des services antiterroristes français, et des entreprises stratégiques, comme Airbus. Existe-t-il des risques de fuites de données vers les États-Unis ? Enquête sur l’une des start-up les plus puissantes du monde.
23 mai 2018. Une cinquantaine (...)
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Facebook à BlackBerry : « voleurs ! » - 6 septembre 2018
Facebook accuse BlackBerry de lui avoir volé sa technologie de messagerie vocale"¦ quelques mois après avoir été accusé par ce dernier de violer sa technologie dans Messenger, Instagram et WhatsApp.
Des petits airs d’Apple Versus Qualcomm ? Facebook a en tout cas choisi la stratégie de la riposte face à BlackBerry, (...)
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Clashes Over Ethics At Major Tech Companies Are Causing Problems For Recruiters - 1er septembre 2018
Already dealing with backlash from employees who object to working with government agencies, major tech companies are now facing criticism from a new source "” prospective hires.
When Matt Meshulam, a Chicago-based software engineer, received a cold recruiting email from Amazon, he already knew he wouldn’t be (...)
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Engineers Say "No Thanks" to Silicon Valley Recruiters, Citing Ethical Concerns - 1er septembre 2018
Some engineers are turning down tech recruiters by citing concerns about corporate values
Anna Geiduschek usually has no time to respond to recruitment emails that arrive in her inbox each week. But Geiduschek, a software engineer at Dropbox, recently made a point of turning down an Amazon Web Services recruiter (...)
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Des ingénieurs publient leurs mails de refus aux offres d’embauche de la Silicon Valley - 1er septembre 2018
Vente d’un logiciel de reconnaissance faciale à des services de police, collaboration avec la société de big data Palantir ou avec les services d’immigration"¦ Les décisions prises ces derniers mois par certains géants de la tech ont créé un vent de révolte en interne, avec l’émergence au printemps de plusieurs pétitions (...)
