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Democratic Societies in the Digital Age 1 : Mass Surveillance and Facial Recognition - 14 février 2021
Do All Roads Lead to Datocracy ?
Our generation sees the development and deployment of disruptive technologies at a high rate in contexts affecting both everyday life on an individual level and the functioning of democracies. The European Union takes pride in advocating for democratic values and fundamental (...)
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This Clearview AI Patent Proposal Describes Using Facial Recognition For Dating - 14 février 2021
A Clearview AI Patent Application Describes Facial Recognition For Dating, And Identifying Drug Users And Homeless People
A patent unveiled on Thursday describes several potential uses for Clearview AI, such as creating networks for people in industries like real estate or retail to “share headshots of high-risk (...)
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Clearview AI envisage la création d’une effrayante app de reconnaissance faciale grand public - 14 février 2021
Clearview a déposé un brevet dans lequel il projette toutes sortes d’usages plus inquiétants les uns que les autres pour sa technologie de reconnaissance faciale.
Ce n’est qu’un brevet déposé au bureau américain de la propriété intellectuelle, mais il en dit long sur les ambitions inquiétantes de Clearview AI. Souvenez-vous (...)
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Facial recognition tech stories and rights harms from around the world - 12 février 2021
A new report by the International Network of Civil Liberties Organisations looks at the use and abuse of facial recognition technology by states across the globe, providing detailed case studies from the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe.
From Delhi to Detroit, Budapest to Bogota, Facial Recognition (...)
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Despite Scanning Millions With Facial Recognition, Feds Caught Zero Imposters at Airports Last Year - 10 février 2021
U.S. Customs and Border Protection scanned more than 23 million people in public places with facial recognition technology in 2020
U.S. Customs and Border Protection scanned more than 23 million people with facial recognition technology at airports, seaports, and pedestrian crossings in 2020, the agency recently (...)
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Clearview AI’s biometric photo database deemed illegal in the EU - 9 février 2021
Clearview AI is a US company that scrapes photos from websites to create a permanent searchable database of biometric profiles. US authorities use the face recognition database to find further information on otherwhise unknown persons in pictures and videos. Following legal submissions by noyb, the Hamburg Data (...)
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This is how we lost control of our faces - 8 février 2021
The largest ever study of facial-recognition data shows how much the rise of deep learning has fueled a loss of privacy.
In 1964, mathematician and computer scientist Woodrow Bledsoe first attempted the task of matching suspects’ faces to mugshots. He measured out the distances between different facial features in (...)
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How Your Phone Betrays Democracy - 7 février 2021
In footage from drones hovering above, the nighttime streets of Hong Kong look almost incandescent, a constellation of tens of thousands of cellphone flashlights, swaying in unison. Each twinkle is a marker of attendance and a plea for freedom. The demonstrators, some clad in masks to thwart the government’s (...)
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They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them. - 6 février 2021
Times Opinion was able to identify individuals from a trove of leaked smartphone location data.
In 2019, a source came to us with a digital file containing the precise locations of more than 12 million individual smartphones for several months in 2016 and 2017. The data is supposed to be anonymous, but it isn’t. (...)
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Des robots et des hommes - 5 février 2021
Les robots pourront-ils un jour remplacer l’homme, voire le dépasser ? Une enquête passionnante sur l’intelligence artificielle, ses promesses et ses risques.
Alors qu’en 1997 la victoire aux échecs d’un ordinateur face au génie Garry Kasparov a marqué un tournant dans l’histoire de l’intelligence artificielle, la (...)
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Navalny protesters say police are using facial recognition to track them down - 4 février 2021
Fears raised over the use of surveillance technology at demonstrations
Russian citizens claim Moscow police are using facial recognition technology to track, trace and detain protesters who have attended rallies in support of leading Putin critic Alexey Navalny. Police have responded harshly to the protests (...)
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Le réquisitoire de la CNIL contre le recours aux drones prévu par la loi « sécurité globale » - 3 février 2021
La présidente de la Commission nationale informatique et libertés s’inquiète notamment d’un encadrement juridique insuffisamment protecteur.
La Commission nationale informatique et libertés (CNIL) ne s’en cache pas. Elle considère qu’en l’état actuel des choses le recours aux drones par les forces de l’ordre présente un (...)
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Il faut interdire les technologies de reconnaissance faciale - 1er février 2021
Amnesty International lance le 26 janvier 2021 une campagne mondiale en vue d’interdire l’utilisation des systèmes de reconnaissance faciale, une forme de surveillance de masse qui décuple le risque de racisme lors des opérations policières et menace le droit de manifester.
La campagne Ban the Scan débute à New York et (...)
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How the LAPD and Palantir Use Data to Justify Racist Policing - 30 janvier 2021
In a new book, a sociologist who spent months embedded with the LAPD details how data-driven policing techwashes bias.
The killing of George Floyd last May sparked renewed scrutiny of data-driven policing. As protests raged around the world, 1,400 researchers signed an open letter calling on their colleagues to (...)
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Surveillance of Uyghurs Detailed in Chinese Police Database - 30 janvier 2021
Millions of Leaked Police Files Detail Suffocating Surveillance of China’s Uyghur Minority
The order came through a police automation system in Ürümqi, the largest city in China’s northwest Xinjiang region. The system had distributed a report — an “intelligence information judgment,” as local authorities called it — (...)
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Lo scontro Viminale-Garante della privacy sul riconoscimento facciale in tempo reale - 29 janvier 2021
Finanziato dall’Europa, il sistema SARI dovrebbe monitorare le operazioni di sbarco e tutte le varie attività correlate. In altri Stati questa tecnologia è stata già giudicata illegale
Mentre in tutto il mondo si discute dei rischi etici del riconoscimento facciale, della necessità di sospendere queste tecnologie (...)
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Flush with EU funds, Greek police to introduce live face recognition before the summer - 29 janvier 2021
Greek police are due to receive gear that allows for real-time face recognition during police patrols. Despite concerns that the system could seriously affect civil liberties, details about the project are scarce.
By the summer of 2021, the Greek police should receive thousands of devices allowing for live facial (...)
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Oakland’s Progressive Fight to Protect Residents from Government Surveillance - 25 janvier 2021
The City of Oakland, California, has once again raised the bar on community control of police surveillance. Last week, Oakland’s City Council voted unanimously to strengthen the city’s already groundbreaking Surveillance and Community Safety Ordinance. The latest amendment, which immediately went into effect, adds (...)
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Oakland interdit la police prédictive et la surveillance biométrique - 25 janvier 2021
La ville d’Oakland, en Californie, a une fois de plus relevé la barre du contrôle communautaire de la surveillance policière, relève l’Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). La semaine dernière, son conseil municipal, qui avait déjà interdit la reconnaissance faciale, a voté à l’unanimité l’interdiction de la police (...)
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Red Mirror - L’avenir s’écrit en Chine - Simone Pieranni - 22 janvier 2021
La Chine a longtemps été considérée comme « l’usine du monde » fabriquant pour l’Occident, grâce à sa main d’oeuvre surexploitée, les biens de consommation puis les objets technologiques conçus dans la Silicon Valley.
Cette période est révolue : en développant massivement recherche, éducation et investissements, la Chine est (...)
