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Haiti : President Abinader announces the construction of a double fence at the border - 19 mars 2021
On Saturday February 27, 2021, Dominican President Luis Abinader announced during his speech on the occasion of the 177th anniversary of the country’s independence that in the second half of 2021, the construction of a double fence on the line will begin at the border separating the Dominican Republic and Haiti in (...)
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Hacked Surveillance Camera Firm Shows Staggering Scale of Facial Recognition - 18 mars 2021
Hackers have broken into Verkada, a popular surveillance and facial recognition camera company, and managed to access live feeds of thousands of cameras across the world, as well as siphon a Verkada customer list. The breach shows the astonishing reach of facial recognition-enabled cameras in ordinary workplaces, (...)
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Les technologies de surveillance à l’assaut des campus américains - 17 mars 2021
L’analyse de l’Atlas des technologies de surveillance déployées aux États-Unis, un projet de l’Electronic Frontier Foundation, révèle qu’elles auraient tendance à se banaliser dans les campus universitaires. En France, l’initiative Technopolice de la Quadrature du Net vient de son côté de lancer un « CADATHON ».
Aux (...)
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Les Jeux olympiques ouvrent la voie aux technologies sécuritaires - 16 mars 2021
Les Jeux olympiques de Paris 2024 ont prévu l’usage d’une débauche de technologies sécuritaires. Mais qui ont besoin d’être légalisées. C’est ce que commence à faire la proposition de loi sécurité globale, examinée par les sénateurs à partir de ce mardi 16 mars. Autant de mesures susceptibles de porter atteinte aux libertés (...)
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The big wall - 12 mars 2021
An ActionAid investigation into how Italy tried to stop migration from Africa, using EU funds, and how much money it spent
There are satellites, drones, ships, cooperation projects, police posts, repatriation flights, training centers. They are the bricks of an invisible but tangible and often violent wall. (...)
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Humanoid facial recognition arrives at German police - 9 mars 2021
When pursuing suspected criminals, some state police forces use a special ability of individual officers. Deployments often take place in major events
Police forces are increasingly using so-called super-recognisers. These are people who are particularly good at remembering faces. An estimated one to two percent (...)
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CADATHON - 8 mars 2021
Les dispositifs de surveillance sont nombreux et déployés de manière très opaque. La demande CADA est un outil permettant – théoriquement – d’avoir accès à des informations les concernant. Sauf que régulièrement, les administrations ne répondent pas ou à moitié, sous prétexte de « secret commercial ». Afin de lutter contre la (...)
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‘They track every move’ : how US parole apps created digital prisoners - 5 mars 2021
Is smartphone tracking a less intrusive reward for good behaviour or just a way to enrich the incarceration industry ?
In 2018, William Frederick Keck III pleaded guilty in a court in Manassas, Virginia, to possession with intent to distribute cannabis. He served three months in prison, then began a three-year (...)
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Affectiva raises $14 million to bring apps, robots emotional intelligence - 5 mars 2021
Affectiva, a startup developing “emotion recognition technology” that can read people’s moods from their facial expressions captured in digital videos, raised $14 million in a Series D round of funding led by Fenox Venture Capital.
According to co-founder Rana el Kaliouby, the Waltham, Mass.-based company wants its (...)
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China’s ‘Sharp Eyes’ Program Aims to Surveil 100% of Public Space - 5 mars 2021
The program turns neighbors into agents of the surveillance state
One of China’s largest and most pervasive surveillance networks got its start in a small county about seven hours north of Shanghai.
In 2013, the local government in Pingyi County began installing tens of thousands of security cameras across urban (...)
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Smile for the camera : the dark side of China’s emotion-recognition tech - 3 mars 2021
Xi Jinping wants ‘positive energy’ but critics say the surveillance tools’ racial bias and monitoring for anger or sadness should be banned
Ordinary people here in China aren’t happy about this technology but they have no choice. If the police say there have to be cameras in a community, people will just have to live (...)
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Sécurité Globale : la droite appelle à la reconnaissance faciale - 2 mars 2021
Demain 3 mars, la commission des lois du Sénat examinera la loi Sécurité Globale, déjà adoptée en novembre par l’Assemblée nationale (relire notre réaction). Alors que le texte était déjà largement contraire à la Constitution et au droit européen (relire notre analyse), les sénateurs et sénatrices de droite et du centre (...)
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Facial recognition tech stories and rights harms from around the world - 2 mars 2021
From Delhi to Detroit, Budapest to Bogota, Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) is being rapidly deployed in public and private spaces across the world.
As of 2019, 64 out of 176 countries were using facial recognition surveillance systems. In the US alone, more than 50 percent of all American adults were in a (...)
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Clearview AI Is Taking Facial Recognition Privacy to the Supreme Court - 27 février 2021
International regulators have found Clearview AI’s technology breaches their privacy laws
Clearview AI plans to challenge an Illinois law guarding against private facial recognition databases in the Supreme Court, according to Bloomberg Law.
The Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has been a thorn (...)
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"Face control" : Russian police go digital against protesters - 26 février 2021
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Georgy Malets didn’t make it to an anti-Kremlin rally last month. He was detained on his way there by police using facial recognition technology in the Moscow metro.
The 30-year-old Russian photo blogger said the police told him he had been identified by a “Face-ID” camera system and must (...)
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The Shoddy Science Behind Emotional Recognition Tech - 19 février 2021
People’s facial expressions line up with their emotions less than half the time
Facial recognition isn’t just for verifying a person’s identity. In recent years, researchers and startups have focused on other ways to apply the technology, like emotion recognition, which tries to read facial expressions to understand (...)
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In Hong Kong, this AI reads children’s emotions as they learn - 18 février 2021
Before the pandemic, Ka Tim Chu, teacher and vice principal of Hong Kong’s True Light College, looked at his students’ faces to gauge how they were responding to classwork. Now, with most of his lessons online, technology is helping Chu to read the room. An AI-powered learning platform monitors his students’ (...)
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Reclaim Your Face - 17 février 2021
C’est à nous de façonner le futur.
La reconnaissance faciale peut être et sera utilisée par les gouvernements et les entreprises contre chacun et chacunes d’entre nous - en fonction de ce que nous sommes et de ce à quoi nous ressemblons.
Reprenons le contrôle de nos espaces publics. Interdisons la surveillance (...)
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Drones With Facial Recognition Are Primed To Fly—But The World Isn’t Ready Yet - 16 février 2021
Some of the first drones with advanced facial recognition capabilities are being developed by Israeli surveillance companies, as American police consider whether they will soon be adding the controversial technology to their unmanned flying machines.
As a sign of the imminent arrival of biometric identification (...)
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Sécurité globale : nos arguments juridiques - 16 février 2021
L’année 2020 s’était finie en apothéose : après une série de manifestations prodigieuses contre la loi sécurité globale, alors adoptée par l’Assemblée nationale, nous obtenions une victoire décisive devant le Conseil d’État contre les drones. Si le début de l’année 2021 est douloureux, entre un hiver sanitaire qui n’en finit (...)
