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President of Mexico should veto the biometric mobile phone registry - 16 avril 2021
Collecting personal biometric data in exchange for a mobile SIM card is unnecessary and dangerous. Yet, this is the stark reality the Mexican Chamber of Senators has set in motion after voting yesterday, April 13, in favor of establishing a National Register of Mobile Phone Users. Access Now and Red en Defensa de (...)
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Seeing stones : pandemic reveals Palantir’s troubling reach in Europe - 10 avril 2021
Covid has given Peter Thiel’s secretive US tech company new opportunities to operate in Europe in ways some campaigners find worrying
The 24 March, 2020 will be remembered by some for the news that Prince Charles tested positive for Covid and was isolating in Scotland. In Athens it was memorable as the day the (...)
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Financing Border Wars - 10 avril 2021
The border industry, its financiers and human rights
This report seeks to explore and highlight the extent of today’s global border security industry, by focusing on the most important geographical markets—Australia, Europe, USA—listing the human rights violations and risks involved in each sector of the industry, (...)
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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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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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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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Les scanners chinois utilisés par les douanes belges pointés du doigt : "Avec ça, ils peuvent infiltrer nos aéroports" - 5 février 2021
Les douanes belges utilisent des scanners fabriqués par une société chinoise pourtant interdits dans d’autres pays pour des raisons de sécurité. Si les douanes elles-mêmes n’y voient aucun problème, les critiques se multiplient, à en croire l’édition de vendredi du journal De Standaard.
Les scanners fixes et mobiles en (...)
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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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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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The Facial Recognition Backlash Is Here - 19 décembre 2020
But will the current bans last ?
The facial recognition industry has been quietly working alongside law enforcement, military organizations, and private companies for years, leveraging 40-year old partnerships originally centered around fingerprint databases.
But in 2020, the industry faced an unexpected (...)
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Here’s how a well-connected security company is quietly building mass biometric databases in West Africa with EU aid funds - 22 novembre 2020
Documents disclosed to Privacy International reveal how the European Union has been using aid funds to finance the development of biometric identity systems in countries in Africa as part of its response to migration, and highlight urgent concerns.
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The EU is using aid funds to build mass-scale and (...)
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DHS Plans to Start Collecting Eye Scans and DNA - 18 novembre 2020
As the agency plans to collect more biometrics, including from U.S. citizens, Northrop Grumman is helping build the infrastructure.
Through a little-discussed potential bureaucratic rule change, the Department of Homeland Security is planning to collect unprecedented levels of biometric information from (...)
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Police are using fingerprint scanners to target Black Britons - 4 novembre 2020
Police use of mobile fingerprint scanners is soaring. But as with stop-and-search, stop-and-scan is disproportionately being used against ethnic minorities
Three quarters of police forces in England and Wales now have access to mobile fingerprint scanners issued by the Home Office, new data reveals. In total, 28 (...)
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Le Parlement européen dévoile un nouveau système de pointage biométrique - 16 octobre 2020
Le Parlement européen veut mettre en place un système de pointage biométrique pour les députés européens participant à des réunions dans ses locaux de Bruxelles, révèlent des documents internes consultés par EURACTIV.
Un nouveau « registre central de présence biométrique » permettant de pointer la participation des députés (...)
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Amazon introduit le paiement sans contact avec la paume de la main - 30 septembre 2020
La paume à la place de la carte bancaire : Amazon a dévoilé mardi une technologie biométrique sans contact pour permettre aux clients de payer en magasin d’un simple mouvement de la main.
Ce service, intitulé Amazon One, sera dans un premier temps déployé dans deux des supérettes Amazon Go situées à Seattle, le siège de (...)
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Big Data has allowed ICE to dramatically expand its deportation efforts. - 25 septembre 2020
A New Mexico man gets a call from federal child welfare officials. His teenage brother has arrived alone at the border after traveling 2,000 miles to escape a violent uncle in Guatemala. The officials ask him to take custody of the boy. He hesitates ; he is himself undocumented. The officials say not to worry. He (...)
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Keren Weitzberg | Machine-Readable Refugees - 18 septembre 2020
Hassan (not his real name ; other details have also been changed) paused mid-story to take out his wallet and show me his ID card. Its edges were frayed. The grainy, black-and-white photo was of a gawky teenager. He ran his thumb over the words at the top : ‘Jamhuri ya Kenya/Republic of Kenya’. ‘Somehow,’ he said, (...)
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Eight case studies on regulating biometric technology show us a path forward - 4 septembre 2020
A new report from the AI Now Institute reveals how different regulatory approaches work or fall short in protecting communities from surveillance.
Amba Kak was in law school in India when the country rolled out the Aadhaar project in 2009. The national biometric ID system, conceived as a comprehensive identity (...)
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EU data watchdog to ‘convince’ Commission to ban automated recognition tech - 6 juillet 2020
Automated recognition technologies in public spaces should be temporarily banned, the EU’s institutional data protection watchdog has said, arguing in favour of a moratorium.
Applications that should be outlawed for a limited period of time not only include facial recognition technologies but also software that (...)
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Surveillance of minority Muslims in southern Thailand is powered by Chinese-style tech - 1er juillet 2020
Mandatory biometric registration has left many Malay Muslims distrustful of the state and concerned about how new technologies will impact their lives
When Arief’s cell phone service was cut off, it came as no surprise. He had refused to visit the local branch of his mobile provider and give his fingerprints and a (...)
