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« Il nous faut retrouver une forme d’hygiène numérique » - 3 mars 2021
Quelles traces numériques laissons-nous au quotidien ?
Elles sont de plus en plus nombreuses. L’image d’Épinal de ces « traces » renvoie surtout au profil que l’on se construit sur un réseau social. On y renseigne son nom, son état civil, son âge, sa profession, ses goûts… Mais ces données personnelles ne constituent que (...)
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Amazon’s Data Dragnet - 21 février 2021
Amazon is expanding into every corner of people’s lives with its growing list of products and services. That’s allowing it to collect far more data about its users than many people realize.
Facebook, Google, and Twitter have faced hard questions about the data they collect on their users and what they do with that (...)
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Amazon Is Watching. The Internet giant is wiring homes… - 18 février 2021
The Internet giant is wiring homes, neighborhoods, and cities with cameras and microphones, and powering the nation’s intelligence services. Are we sure we can trust it ?
When you think of Amazon, you might think of comparison shopping from your couch, buying exactly what you want, for less than you’d pay at the (...)
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LAPD Asked for Ring Surveillance Video Related to Black Lives Matter Protests - 17 février 2021
Emails show that the LAPD repeatedly asked camera owners for footage during the demonstrations, raising First Amendment concerns.
Emails obtained from the Los Angeles Police Department show that the department sought protest-related footage from Amazon’s Ring home camera systems in the wake of George Floyd’s (...)
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Amazon’s Ring now has partnerships with over 2,000 police and fire departments - 13 février 2021
A hot potato : Amazon Ring’s partnerships with police and fire departments that allow them to request users’ security camera footage has brought plenty of controversies. But the company isn’t slowing down the program—quite the opposite. A new report reveals that 1,189 departments joined last year, bringing the total (...)
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Amazon : un empire tentaculaire et insoupçonné - 1er février 2021
Les acquisitions et prises de participation des Gafam offrent un aperçu de l’étendue de leur écosystème et leurs axes de développement. Qu’en est-il pour Amazon ? Sa sobriété en termes de rachats ne doit pas être confondue avec de la docilité.
Sur les 30 dernières années, près de 770 entreprises ont été acquises par les (...)
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Ring se met enfin au chiffrement de bout en bout pour ses caméras grand public - 17 janvier 2021
La filiale d’Amazon spécialisée dans les objets connectés est en train de renforcer sérieusement la sécurité de sa clientèle en déployant du chiffrement de bout en bout. Malheureusement, l’option ne sera pas active par défaut.
Il y a du mouvement en matière de sécurité informatique du côté de Ring, un fabricant d’objets (...)
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Police surveillance of Black Lives Matter shows the danger technology poses to democracy - 15 janvier 2021
US police forces have been turning to technology to track down Black Lives Matter protestors. Content from social media platforms and affiliated sites has been instrumental in the authorities being able to identify protestors based on photos of their faces, clothes and hair, or on the fact that they posted while (...)
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Dozens sue Amazon’s Ring after camera hack leads to threats and racial slurs - 23 décembre 2020
Class action claims weak security allowed hackers to take over the smart cameras used on doorbells and in homes
Dozens of people who say they were subjected to death threats, racial slurs, and blackmail after their in-home Ring smart cameras were hacked are suing the company over “horrific” invasions of privacy.
A (...)
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Holiday Tech Gift Guide : 2020’s Most Creepy Surveillance Gifts - 25 novembre 2020
Let your loved ones decide what privacy means to them
One of the best things about the holiday season is that you get to force your own privacy preferences on others.
Maybe your family member wouldn’t normally buy a watch that tells Google when they’re asleep or a doorbell that helps them inform on their (...)
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Police Will Pilot a Program to Live-Stream Amazon Ring Cameras - 4 novembre 2020
This is not a drill. Red alert : The police surveillance center in Jackson, Mississippi, will be conducting a 45-day pilot program to live stream the Amazon Ring cameras of participating residents.
Since Ring first made a splash in the private security camera market, we’ve been warning of its potential to (...)
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The Real Cost of the Ring Always Home Cam - 30 septembre 2020
A new drone from Amazon subsidiary Ring raises familiar questions
The phrase “surveillance capitalism” was coined by Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff to describe the system in which internet platforms such as Google and Facebook profit through free services that track users’ online behavior. Another company in (...)
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Drone de surveillance domestique, sonnette connectée à la police... Quand les gadgets d’Amazon flirtent avec « Black Mirror » - 30 septembre 2020
Depuis qu’Amazon s’est jeté à corps perdu en 2014 dans la création de produits électroniques, le géant de la vente en ligne a commercialisé d’étonnants, voire terrifiants gadgets. Inventaire.
En présentant un drone de surveillance domestique et un assistant personnel rotatif lors de sa conférence de presse annuelle jeudi 24 (...)
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The Ring Always Home Cam Flies Around Inside Your House - 25 septembre 2020
Look at this freaking drone.
Tech product launches in the year 2020 involve a kind of perspective whiplash that makes it more difficult than usual to decide whether or not you really need the thing.
There’s the consideration of whether the gadget fits into your life right now, at a time when our needs have (...)
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Amazon : du Gard à l’Inde, la fronde contre le géant s’organise - 21 juillet 2020
Bataille judiciaire dans le Gard contre la construction d’un gigantesque entrepôt, manifs à New Delhi, révolte de salariés à Seattle… Ils sont de plus en plus nombreux à se rebeller contre Amazon, accusé de tout détruire sur son passage : petits commerces, emplois, paysages… Jusqu’à faire vaciller ce géant de l’e-commerce, (...)
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Automatic for the Bosses - 17 juillet 2020
Workers may be more affected by robots taking their bosses’ jobs than their own
Generally speaking, the four economic sectors in the U.S. that rely most heavily on human labor are, in order of most people employed : retail, fast food, health care, and clerical office work. These are jobs that involve interacting — (...)
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A New Map Shows the Inescapable Creep of Surveillance - 17 juillet 2020
The Atlas of Surveillance shows which tech law enforcement agencies across the country have acquired. It’s a sobering look at the present-day panopticon.
Over 1,300 partnerships with Ring. Hundreds of facial recognition systems. Dozens of cell-site simulator devices. The surveillance apparatus in the United States (...)
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Now Is the Time to Dismantle Our Cities’ Invasive Surveillance Infrastructure - 30 juin 2020
Not all innovation deserves to exist — many surveillance and policing technologies should never have been created in the first place
It may have sounded radical when Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft announced they were either exiting the facial recognition market or enacting moratoriums on providing such software to (...)
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Démanteler les infrastructures de surveillance et de discrimination massives ? - 30 juin 2020
Si les annonces de moratoires dans le domaine de la reconnaissance faciale semblent soulager un certain nombre de ses opposants, il ne fait aucun doute que ces réponses des grandes entreprises de la technologie demeurent manifestement des décisions commerciales calculées et limitées qui répondent avec plus ou moins de (...)
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High-tech surveillance amplifies police bias and overreach - 21 juin 2020
Video of police in riot gear clashing with unarmed protesters in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has filled social media feeds. Meanwhile, police surveillance of protesters has remained largely out of sight.
Local, state and federal law enforcement organizations (...)
