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Amazon Alexa/NHS contract : ICO allows partial disclosure - 3 mai 2021
The Information Commissioner’s Office issued a decision on our complaint relating to the failure by the UK Department of Health and Social Care to disclose the full, unredacted contract with Amazon.
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PI obtained a decision by the ICO ordering the disclosure of a section of the contract between the (...)
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Ministers urged to give UK home-workers a ‘right to disconnect’ - 13 avril 2021
Addition to employment bill would help people switch off and protect mental health, says union
Ministers are being urged to tackle the “dark side” of remote working by giving employees a legal “right to disconnect” to improve their mental health.
After a year of disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the (...)
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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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Analysis : Digital vaccine certificates – global patchwork, little transparency - 3 avril 2021
A global debate has sparked around the idea of implementing a digital infrastructure to prove a person’s COVID-19 vaccination status across borders. But as the initiatives multiply across Europe and all over the globe, an international consensus is hard to reach — and issues still abound.
With COVID-19 vaccination (...)
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Géopolitique de la surveillance numérique - Ép. 2/4 - À l’ère de la surveillance numérique - 30 mars 2021
Depuis quelques temps, je regarde mon portable Huawei d’un œil soucieux. Et si les services secrets chinois s’en servaient pour m’espionner ? Ou bien les Américains ? Ou les services français ? Et d’ailleurs comment font-ils tous ces États pour surveiller internet ?
Depuis l’affaire Snowden, il est devenu clair que les (...)
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Gig economy workers score historic digital rights victory against Uber and Ola Cabs - 28 mars 2021
Uber & Ola ordered to provide transparency regarding the use of controversial driver surveillance systems such as Uber’s Real Time ID and Ola’s Guardian system.
Uber ordered to reveal the data used as the basis of the unfair dismissal of two drivers.
Ola has been ordered to reveal driver performance related (...)
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Facebook’s A.I. Whiz Now Faces the Task of Cleaning It Up. Sometimes That Brings Him to Tears. - 27 mars 2021
Facebook has heralded artificial intelligence as a solution to its toxic content problems. Mike Schroepfer, its chief technology officer, says it won’t solve everything.
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s chief technology officer, was tearing up.
For half an hour, we had been sitting in a conference (...)
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Couriers say Uber’s ‘racist’ facial identification tech got them fired - 21 mars 2021
BAME couriers working for Uber Eats and Uber claim that the company’s flawed identification technology is costing them their livelihoods
Uber Eats couriers say they have been fired because the company’s “racist” facial identification software is incapable of recognising their faces. The system, which Uber describes (...)
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What Google’s Privacy Sandbox Means for Internet Governance - 20 mars 2021
Under the guise of heightened user privacy, Google’s replacement for third-party cookies will build more walls in the open web.
On March 2, Google made waves in the online advertising world by introducing the beta version of its browser Chrome 89, featuring new “Web crowd and ad measurement” tools. The tools are (...)
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Statut des livreurs : partout en Europe, les plates-formes lâchent du lest - 18 mars 2021
En France, en Espagne et au Royaume-Uni, plusieurs décisions récentes ont pour effet d’améliorer les droits sociaux des livreurs. La Commission Européenne doit désormais se pencher sur le sujet.
Just-Eat annonce vouloir salarier ses coursiers en France, le gouvernement espagnol impose le salariat aux plateformes de (...)
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Uber reconnaît à ses chauffeurs britanniques un statut de travailleur salarié, une première - 17 mars 2021
Le géant américain de réservation de voitures a annoncé, mardi, que l’ensemble de ses quelque 70 000 chauffeurs au Royaume-Uni bénéficieront d’un salaire minimum et de congés payés dès mercredi.
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À Calais, la ville s’emmure - 10 mars 2021
Animée par une politique d’inhospitalité envers les exilés qui cherchent à rejoindre l’Angleterre, la ville voit se multiplier les dispositifs « anti-migrants ».
De hauts grillages blancs et tristes, surmontés de barbelés acérés comme des lames de rasoir. Voilà à quoi ressemble l’horizon dans certains coins de Calais, (...)
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How Private Security Firms Profit Off the Refugee Crisis - 10 mars 2021
The UK has pumped money to corporations turning Calais into a bleak fortress.
Tall white fences lined with barbed wire – welcome to Calais. The city in northern France is an obligatory stop for anyone trying to reach the UK across the channel. But some travellers are more welcome than others, and in recent (...)
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Zoom sees revenues soar 326% year-over-year as office life remains on hold - 5 mars 2021
Company announces revenues of $2.6bn with little sign of slowing, but vaccines could change picture
A year of working from home may have driven many of us to the brink but it’s been great news for Zoom, the video conferencing business.
On Monday, the company announced its revenues had soared 326% year-over-year (...)
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Uber accused of using ’loaded questions’ in survey of drivers - 4 mars 2021
Uber accused of using ’loaded questions’ in survey of drivers
Unions say questions are designed to help get sympathetic changes in employment law
Uber has been accused of using “loaded questions” in a consultation with drivers, after a landmark court ruling handed workers rights to improved conditions.
The firm may (...)
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Facial recognition tech stories and rights harms from around the world - 2 mars 2021
From Delhi to Detroit, Budapest to Bogota, Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) is being rapidly deployed in public and private spaces across the world.
As of 2019, 64 out of 176 countries were using facial recognition surveillance systems. In the US alone, more than 50 percent of all American adults were in a (...)
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Data giant given ‘emergency’ Covid contract had been wooing NHS for months - 24 février 2021
Controversial tech firm Palantir now holds £23m deal to oversee critical data store of patient records
A trove of internal UK government documents disclosed to the Bureau has revealed that Palantir, the controversial US tech giant running the NHS’s Covid data store, had launched a charm offensive to sell its (...)
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’Spy pixels in emails have become endemic’ - 20 février 2021
The use of "invisible" tracking tech in emails is now "endemic", according to a messaging service that analysed its traffic at the BBC’s request.
Hey’s review indicated that two-thirds of emails sent to its users’ personal accounts contained a "spy pixel", even after excluding for spam.
Its makers said that many of (...)
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Vie privée : deux tiers des emails reçus contiendraient un « pixel espion » - 20 février 2021
C’est le résultat d’une analyse demandée par la BBC à la société Hey, qui fournit pour rappel un service de messagerie qui veut « réinventer l’email ».
Le pixel espion – souvent appelé aussi « pixel invisible » – est une pratique courante dans le monde de la publicité, puisqu’il permet de fournir de nombreux renseignements par (...)
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Uber drivers are workers, UK supreme court rules - 19 février 2021
Decision means drivers will be entitled to basic rights such as paid holidays, say lawyers
The UK supreme court has dismissed Uber’s appeal against a landmark employment tribunal ruling that its drivers should be classed as workers with access to the minimum wage and paid holidays.
Six justices handed down a (...)
