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Application installed on students’ devices does not track personal information : MOE - 16 février 2021
SINGAPORE : A device management application (DMA) installed on students’ devices does not track personal information such as their location, identification numbers or passwords, said the Ministry of Education (MOE).
In response to queries from CNA, the ministry said the application will, however, capture data on (...)
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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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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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Singapore’s police now have access to contact tracing data - 5 janvier 2021
Contact tracing apps and systems around the world have faced longstanding questions about privacy and trust.
The news : Police will be able to access data collected by Singapore’s covid-19 contact tracing system for use in criminal investigations, a senior official said on Monday. The announcement contradicts the (...)
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Singapore Police Force can obtain TraceTogether data for criminal investigations : Desmond Tan - 5 janvier 2021
SINGAPORE : The Singapore Police Force (SPF) can obtain TraceTogether data for criminal investigations, said Minister of State for Home Affairs Desmond Tan in Parliament on Monday (Jan 4).
The SPF is empowered under the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) to obtain any data, and that includes the TraceTogether data, (...)
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Singapore police can access COVID-19 contact tracing data for criminal investigations - 5 janvier 2021
Under the country’s Criminal Procedure Code, the Singapore Police Force can obtain any data — including information gathered by the contact tracing TraceTogether app and wearable token — to facilitate criminal probes, confirms cabinet minister.
Singapore has confirmed its law enforcers will be able to access the (...)
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Reconnaissance faciale, un remède miracle ? - 18 novembre 2020
Depuis quelques temps déjà, un débat autour de la reconnaissance faciale s’érige auprès des sphères politico-industrielles ainsi qu’au sein des organisations de défense des libertés, un développement technologique qui fascine autant qu’il inquiète. Vendue par ses promoteurs comme la solution miracle aux problèmes sécuritaires, (...)
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Spain’s largest bus terminal deployed live face recognition four years ago, but few noticed - 14 août 2020
Madrid South Station’s face recognition system automatically matches every visitor’s face against a database of suspects, and shares information with the Spanish police.
Around 20 million travellers transited last year through Madrid’s South bus terminal, known as Méndez Álvaro Station to locals. Those 20 million (...)
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Tracing : le grand foutoir (décodage) - 17 juillet 2020
En plus des call centers, la Belgique va se doter d’une appli pour tracer les personnes potentiellement infectées par le coronavirus. Pour quand, pourquoi, par qui ? Qu’adviendra-t-il de nos données personnelles ? Comment susciter l’indispensable adhésion ? Décryptage d’une stratégie critiquée, et dont certains rouages (...)
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The Microsoft Police State : Mass Surveillance, Facial Recognition, and the Azure Cloud - 15 juillet 2020
Nationwide protests against racist policing have brought new scrutiny onto big tech companies like Facebook, which is under boycott by advertisers over hate speech directed at people of color, and Amazon, called out for aiding police surveillance. But Microsoft, which has largely escaped criticism, is knee-deep in (...)
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Why Coronavirus Contact-Tracing Apps Aren’t Ending the Pandemic - 4 juillet 2020
High hopes that technology would help supplement the traditional, labor-intensive approach to contact tracing have been dashed.
As Covid-19 spread, sending almost every country into some form of lockdown, governments began to wonder how best to keep track of the deadly virus. Contact-tracing apps seemed a (...)
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Ethical guidelines for COVID-19 tracing apps - 26 juin 2020
Protect privacy, equality and fairness in digital contact tracing with these key questions.
Technologies to rapidly alert people when they have been in contact with someone carrying the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 are part of a strategy to bring the pandemic under control. Currently, at least 47 contact-tracing apps (...)
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Football was slow to embrace data. Now AI is eating the beautiful game - 17 juin 2020
Acronis is storing the data of the best and brightest of European football. Now, it wants to use that to help them win games
Acronis has convinced Europe’s most prestigious football clubs to trust it with their data – now, it plans to use that information to help them win more games. Founded by Serguei Beloussov, a (...)
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New Facebook Tool Allows Employers to Suppress “Unionize” in Workplace Chat - 16 juin 2020
During an internal presentation at Facebook on Wednesday, the company debuted features for Facebook Workplace, an intranet-style chat and office collaboration product similar to Slack.
On Facebook Workplace, employees see a stream of content similar to a news feed, with automatically generated trending topics (...)
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Coronavirus et surveillance de masse : entretien avec Olivier Tesquet - 13 juin 2020
La surveillance de masse est-elle en train de se répandre sur la planète à la faveur de la pandémie de coronavirus ? Pour en discuter, L’Atelier des médias a reçu Olivier Tesquet, journaliste à Télérama, spécialiste des questions liées au numérique.
Olivier Tesquet observe minutieusement, depuis une dizaine d’années, les (...)
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De fausses applications de traçage cherchent à voler des données personnelles - 10 juin 2020
Au moins une douzaine de fausses applications de traçage de contacts, conçues pour ressembler à des outils officiels de lutte contre la pandémie, ont été déployées mondialement pour répandre des virus informatiques et dérober des données d’utilisateurs, ont révélé mercredi des chercheurs en cybersécurité.
Une fois installées (...)
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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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Après l’échec de son « StopCovid », Singapour veut fournir des bracelets connectés à toute sa population - 6 juin 2020
Faute pour l’application de traçage des contacts d’avoir été décisive face à l’épidémie, Singapour imagine une autre stratégie : des bracelets connectés distribués à toute sa population.
Téléchargée 1,5 million de fois dans un pays qui compte 6,2 millions d’habitants, l’application TraceTogether n’a pas réussi à aider Singapour à (...)
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Singapore plans wearable virus contact tracing device for all - 5 juin 2020
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore plans to give a wearable device that will identify people who had interacted with carriers of coronavirus to all of its 5.7 million residents, in what could become one of the most comprehensive contact tracing efforts globally.
The small device, which can be worn on the end of a (...)
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La stratégie du choc pandémique : comment les entreprises du numérique conquièrent de nouveaux marchés - 4 juin 2020
Si, malgré la récession qui s’amorce, le secteur du numérique se prépare à la croissance et recrute à tout-va, c’est au prix d’une lutte pour la survie, les entreprises les plus grandes et agressives s’accaparant la majorité des marchés et absorbant les plus petites, dans une nouvelle phase de sélection et de compétitivité (...)
