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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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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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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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UN warns of impact of smart borders on refugees : ‘Data collection isn’t apolitical’ - 12 novembre 2020
Special rapporteur on racism and xenophobia believes there is a misconception that biosurveillance technology is without bias
Robotic lie detector tests at European airports, eye scans for refugees and voice-imprinting software for use in asylum applications are among new technologies flagged as “troubling” in a (...)
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Regulating Biometrics - 7 septembre 2020
Although the terminology varies, we use the phrase biometric recognition technologies to describe systems that “fix” official identities to bodily, physiological, or behavioral traits, providing new ways for individuals to identify themselves, and also to be identified or tracked. While fingerprints have the longest (...)
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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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A Single Company Will Now Operate Facial Recognition for Nearly 800 Million People - 6 juin 2020
Idemia just scored a major new contract with the EU
Idemia, a French company specializing in facial, fingerprint, and iris recognition, just scored a new contract with the European Union that will include processing images attached to more than 400 million people’s identities. The company’s algorithms will verify (...)
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Street-Level Surveillance - 13 mai 2020
A Guide to Law Enforcement Spying Technology
EFF’s “Street-Level Surveillance” project shines light on the advanced surveillance technologies that law enforcement agencies routinely deploy in our communities. These resources are designed for members of the public, advocacy organizations, journalists, defense (...)
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Les outils numériques de l’humanitaire sont-ils compatibles avec le respect de la vie privée des réfugiés ? – Institut des Migrations - 8 février 2020
Pour gérer les opérations humanitaires dans le camp de réfugiés syriens de Zaatari en Jordanie, les ONG ont mis en place des outils numériques, mais l’innovation a un impact sur le personnel humanitaire comme sur les réfugiés. Travailler sur ce camp ouvert en 2012, où vivent 76 000 Syriens et travaillent 42 ONG, permet de (...)
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Interdire la reconnaissance faciale (2/3) : quelles discriminations notre société est-elle prête à accepter ? | InternetActu.net - 24 janvier 2020
La reporter Tech du New York Times, Kashmir Hill (@kashhill), vient de publier une longue enquête sur Clearview, une entreprise spécialiste de la surveillance, financée par le multimilliardaire libertarien Peter Thiel – qui est déjà à l’origine de Palantir (Wikipédia), un autre géant de la surveillance qui travaille pour (...)
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We’re Banning Facial Recognition. We’re Missing the Point. - 24 janvier 2020
The whole point of modern surveillance is to treat people differently, and facial recognition technologies are only a small part of that.
Communities across the United States are starting to ban facial recognition technologies. In May of last year, San Francisco banned facial recognition ; the neighboring city of (...)
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Données biométriques : menace ou sécurité ? - 30 octobre 2019
Reconnaissance faciale, empreinte digitale, reconnaissance vocale"¦ Quels risques représentent vraiment les données biométriques ? Comment les prévenir ? Et la biométrie pourrait-elle être utilisée à des fins de sécurité dans un cadre protégé ? À l’occasion des Assises de la Sécurité, rendez-vous annuel des experts de la (...)
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Reconnaissance faciale : les autorités françaises lanceront Alicem dès le mois de novembre - 8 octobre 2019
Technologie : Le lancement de l’outil de reconnaissance faciale des autorités françaises Alicem était attendu pour la fin d’année, il sera finalement lancé dès le mois de novembre, malgré les critiques de la Cnil et des associations.
Bon gré, mal gré, la France deviendra à compter du mois de novembre prochain le premier (...)
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AI "˜emotion recognition’ can’t be trusted - 5 octobre 2019
The belief that facial expressions reliably correspond to emotions is unfounded, says a new review of the field
As artificial intelligence is used to make more decisions about our lives, engineers have sought out ways to make it more emotionally intelligent. That means automating some of the emotional tasks that (...)
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DHS to store tens of thousands of refugee biometric records from UNHCR - 2 septembre 2019
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) began sharing records including fingerprints, iris scans, and facial biometrics of refugees it is recommending for resettlement consideration in the U.S. with the country’s Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS), Nextgov reports.
The UNHCR sends tens of (...)
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Prison visitors get face recognition scans in drug crackdown - 9 mars 2019
Facial recognition and eye scanning have been deployed at prisons to prevent drug smuggling.
The Ministry of Justice said the biometric scans for visitors were designed to help staff identify people bringing in contraband.
At one prison, there were more "no shows" from visitors than usual after they learned the (...)
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Des prisons britanniques testent la reconnaissance faciale et oculaire - 9 mars 2019
Pendant six semaines, en décembre et janvier dernier, les visiteurs de trois prisons du Yorkshire, au Royaume-Uni, ont été forcés de faire analyser leurs visage, yeux ou papiers d’identité à l’entrée. L’objectif : lutter contre les trafics de drogue et autres objets de contrebande.
En 2018, le personnel des prisons (...)
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Le FBI force un suspect à déverrouiller un iPhone X avec la reconnaissance faciale - 3 octobre 2018
Aux Etats-Unis, les forces de l’ordre ne peuvent pas forcer un suspect à fournir un mot de passe. Mais la fonction FaceID de l’iPhone X permet de déverrouiller un iPhone juste en le regardant.
C’est le premier cas connu du genre. En août, le FBI a forcé un suspect à déverrouiller son iPhone avec la reconnaissance faciale, (...)
