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How the Pandemic Turned Refugees Into ‘Guinea Pigs’ for Surveillance Tech - 21 janvier 2021
An interview with Dr. Petra Molnar, who spent 2020 investigating the use of drones, facial recognition, and lidar on refugees
The coronavirus pandemic unleashed a new era in surveillance technology, and arguably no group has felt this more acutely than refugees. Even before the pandemic, refugees were subjected (...)
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Lucknow : Smart cams to read expressions of women in distress, alert cops - 21 janvier 2021
Soon, a change in facial expressions of a girl subjected to stalking, threat or eve-teasing will be enough to send an alert to police control room to nab the culprit.
The Lucknow police is set to equip public places with AI-enabled cameras that will click pictures of women in distress on the basis of facial (...)
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Bumble, Tinder and Match are banning accounts of Capitol rioters - 20 janvier 2021
Bumble, Tinder and others are freezing out rioters with help from law enforcement — and, in some cases, their own photos. Other app users have taken matters into their own hands by striking up conversations with potential rioters and relaying their information to the FBI.
Tinder, Bumble and other dating apps are (...)
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This App Claims It Can Detect ’Trustworthiness.’ It Can’t - 20 janvier 2021
Experts say an algorithm can’t determine whether you can be trusted by analyzing your face or voice. But that’s not stopping this company from trying.
“Determine how trustworthy a person is in just one minute.” That’s the pitch from DeepScore, a Tokyo-based company that spent last week marketing its facial and voice (...)
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The FTC Forced a Misbehaving A.I. Company to Delete Its Algorithm - 19 janvier 2021
Could Google and Facebook’s algorithms be next ?
In 2019, an investigation by NBC News revealed that photo storage app Ever had quietly siphoned billions of its users’ photos to train facial recognition algorithms.
Pictures of people’s friends and families, which they had thought were private, were in fact being (...)
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Vanessa Codaccioni : « L’État nous pousse à agir comme la police » - 16 janvier 2021
Promouvoir la surveillance de tous par tous. Voilà ce que veut l’État, comme l’explique Vanessa Codaccioni dans son dernier ouvrage, « La société de vigilance ». Et en plus d’appeler les citoyens à la délation, il les surveille toujours plus en renforçant les pouvoirs de la police, comme l’illustre la loi de « sécurité (...)
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The dark side of open source intelligence - 16 janvier 2021
Internet sleuths have used publicly available data to help track down last week’s Washington D.C. rioters. But what happens when the wrong people are identified ?
In May, a video of a woman flouting a national Covid-19 mask mandate went viral on social media in Singapore. In the clip, the bare-faced woman argues (...)
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The Capitol siege and facial recognition technology. - 14 janvier 2021
In a recent New Yorker article about the Capitol siege, Ronan Farrow described how investigators used a bevy of online data and facial recognition technology to confirm the identity of Larry Rendall Brock Jr., an Air Force Academy graduate and combat veteran from Texas. Brock was photographed inside the Capitol (...)
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A Local Police Department Is Running Clearview AI Searches for the FBI - Dave Gershgorn - 13 janvier 2021
The FBI, which is searching for insurrectionists who stormed the U.S. Capitol last week, is working with an unlikely partner : a local police department more than 600 miles away from Washington, D.C.
An officer in Alabama named Jason Webb told the Wall Street Journal that he had used Clearview AI technology on (...)
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Capitole : la police identifie les assaillants grâce à Clearview AI et sa reconnaissance faciale - 13 janvier 2021
Selon le PDG de Clearview AI, l’utilisation de la technologie de reconnaissance faciale de son entreprise par les forces de l’ordre a augmenté de 26% le lendemain de l’attaque du Capitole. D’abord rapporté par le New York Times, Hoan Ton-That a confirmé que Clearview avait connu une forte augmentation de l’utilisation de (...)
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Face Surveillance and the Capitol Attack - 13 janvier 2021
After last week’s violent attack on the Capitol, law enforcement is working overtime to identify the perpetrators. This is critical to accountability for the attempted insurrection. Law enforcement has many, many tools at their disposal to do this, especially given the very public nature of most of the organizing. (...)
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Civil society calls for AI red lines in the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence proposal - 13 janvier 2021
European Digital Rights together with 61 civil society organisations have sent an open letter to the European Commission demanding red lines for the applications of AI that threaten fundamental rights.
With the European Union’s AI proposal set to launch this quarter, Europe has the opportunity to demonstrate to (...)
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Sylvain Louvet et Ludovic Gaillard, prix Albert-Londres 2020 : “Avec la loi Sécurité globale, on franchit encore un cap dans la surveillance” - 12 janvier 2021
Les auteurs du documentaire “Tous surveillés, 7 milliards de suspects” ont été récompensés du prix Albert-Londres de l’audiovisuel ce 5 décembre. Une enquête remarquable sur les techniques de surveillance de masse et leurs dérives, à voir d’urgence sur Télérama.fr.
Cette année encore le prix Albert-Londres de l’audiovisuel (...)
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The facial-recognition app Clearview sees a spike in use after Capitol attack. - 10 janvier 2021
After the Capitol riot, Clearview AI, a facial-recognition app used by law enforcement, has seen a spike in use, said the company’s chief executive, Hoan Ton-That.
“There was a 26 percent increase of searches over our usual weekday search volume,” Mr. Ton-That said.
There are ample online photos and videos of (...)
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The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance - 9 janvier 2021
The security state that failed to keep DC safe doesn’t need invasive technology to meet this moment—it needs more civilian oversight.
They took our Capitol, stormed the halls, pilfered our documents, and shattered the norms of our democracy. The lasting damage from Wednesday’s attack will not come from the mob (...)
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Claims Antifa Embedded in Capitol Riots Come From a Deeply Unreliable Facial Recognition Company - Dave Gershgorn - 7 janvier 2021
XRVision also has a track record of spreading conspiracy theories about Hunter Biden
Congressman Matt Gaetz, a Republican from Florida, took to the House floor on Wednesday night to spread an increasingly popular conspiracy theory that the pro-Trump mobs that overtook the Capitol building were in fact aligned (...)
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Le monde en face - Fliquez-vous les uns les autres : le débat en streaming - 6 janvier 2021
présenté par : Marina Carrère d’Encausse
À l’issue de la diffusion du documentaire, Marina Carrère d’Encausse proposera un débat avec quatre invités :
présenté par : Marina Carrère d’Encausse
À l’issue de la diffusion du documentaire, Marina Carrère d’Encausse proposera un débat avec quatre invités :
Michel Henry, coauteur du (...)
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Technopolice, villes et vies sous surveillance - 5 janvier 2021
Depuis plusieurs années, des projets de « Smart Cities » se développent en France, prétendant se fonder sur les nouvelles technologies du « Big Data » et de l’« Intelligence Artificielle » pour améliorer notre quotidien urbain. Derrière ce vernis de ces villes soi-disant « intelligentes », se cachent des dispositifs souvent (...)
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Inside China’s unexpected quest to protect data privacy - 4 janvier 2021
A new privacy law would look a lot like Europe’s GDPR—but will it restrict state surveillance ?
Late in the summer of 2016, Xu Yuyu received a call that promised to change her life. Her college entrance examination scores, she was told, had won her admission to the English department of the Nanjing University of (...)
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Flawed Facial Recognition Leads To Arrest and Jail for New Jersey Man - 1er janvier 2021
A New Jersey man was accused of shoplifting and trying to hit an officer with a car. He is the third known Black man to be wrongfully arrested based on face recognition.
In February 2019, Nijeer Parks was accused of shoplifting candy and trying to hit a police officer with a car at a Hampton Inn in Woodbridge, (...)
