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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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Vidéosurveillance : le principal suspect d’un vaste piratage inculpé aux Etats-Unis - 19 mars 2021
Tillie Kottmann, résidant à Lucerne en Suisse, est soupçonné d’avoir orchestré le piratage de dizaines de milliers de caméras de vidéosurveillance aux Etats-Unis au début de mars - dont celles des usines de Tesla, d’hôpitaux et de prisons.
Un grand jury américain a mis en accusation, jeudi 18 mars, le hackeur suisse Tillie (...)
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„Wolf culture“ : How Huawei controls its employees in Europe - 16 janvier 2021
Former employees accuse Huawei of discrimination. How massively the company interferes in their private lives and how it keeps its staff in line is revealed by internal documents and covert audio recordings that netzpolitik.org and the media partners of The Signals Network have analysed.
The journalist with the (...)
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Despite transparency, the Nutri-Score algorithm faces strong resistance - 15 décembre 2020
The Nutri-Score summarizes basic nutritional information on a 5-letter scale. Despite its many qualities, it faces a strong backlash that could hold a lesson for operators of automated systems.
The German government, which currently holds the rotating EU presidency, will push for EU-wide guidelines on nutrition (...)
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Health algorithms discriminate against Black patients, also in Switzerland - 6 décembre 2020
Algorithms used to assess kidney function or predict heart failure use race as a central criterion. There is no scientific basis to do so, and the results discriminate against Blacks.
Many medical algorithms require the race of the patient to be included in the calculation. The American Heart Association, for (...)
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New Swiss algorithm to desegregate schools, one block at a time - 22 novembre 2020
Two researchers from Zurich University created an algorithm that helps desegregate schools by slightly changing the boundaries of each school’s catchment area.
Ever since authorities decided to open public schools to children of all backgrounds in the course of the 20th century, elite families regrouped in select (...)
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Report : Swiss government long in dark over CIA front company - 17 novembre 2020
The Swiss intelligence service has known since at least 1993 that Switzerland-based encryption device maker Crypto AG was actually a front for the CIA and its German counterpart, according to a new report released by the Swiss Parliament, but Swiss leaders were in the dark until last year.
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Comment la CIA a espionné le monde entier depuis une petite entreprise suisse - 17 novembre 2020
Les services secrets du pays le savaient mais se sont tus.
Fondée en 1952, l’entreprise Crypto AG basée en Suisse vend des machines cryptographiques qui permettent de chiffrer des communications.
Ayant fourni les États-Unis pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, elle est devenue incontournable sur ce marché spécifique, (...)
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Automating Society Report 2020 - 30 octobre 2020
Life in the automated society : How automated decision-making systems became mainstream, and what to do about it
On a cloudy August day in London, students were angry. They flocked to Parliament Square by the hundreds, in protest – their placards emblazoned with support for unusual allies : their teachers, and an (...)
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Automated discrimination : Facebook uses gross stereotypes to optimize ad delivery - 18 octobre 2020
An experiment by AlgorithmWatch shows that online platforms optimize ad delivery in discriminatory ways. Advertisers who use them could be breaking the law.
Online platforms are well known for the refinement of their advertisement engines, which let advertisers address very specific audiences. Facebook lets you (...)
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Révision totale de la Loi fédérale sur la protection des données : enfin ! - 12 octobre 2020
Le Conseil National et le Conseil des États ont adopté aujourd’hui la nouvelle Loi fédérale sur la protection des données (LPD). Le chemin a été long puisque le projet du Conseil fédéral a été présenté le 15 septembre 2017 et que les chambres ont failli ne pas entrer en matière, puis ne pas trouver d’accord. Le texte est (...)
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ADM Systems in the COVID-19 Pandemic : A European Perspective - 1er septembre 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred the deployment of a plethora of automated decision-making (ADM) systems all over Europe. High hopes have been placed by both local administrations and national governments in applications and devices aimed at containing the outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (...)
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» Crypto AG : le coup du siècle du renseignement - 31 août 2020
Pendant plus d’un demi-siècle, les gouvernements du monde entier ont fait confiance à une seule entreprise pour garder secrètes les communications de leurs espions, soldats et diplomates.
La société, Crypto AG, a obtenu sa première chance avec un contrat pour la construction de machines de codage pour les troupes (...)
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Des algorithmes pour prédire l’impact des influenceurs - 26 août 2020
L’agence de communication lausannoise Trio propose depuis juin un service de prédiction des performances et des retombées des campagnes de marketing d’influence, qui s’appuie sur Predictor, une solution carburant à l’IA.
Depuis juin, l’agence de communication Trio dispose d’un outil carburant à l’IA et capable de (...)
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Automated Suspicion - 15 août 2020
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has raised the possibility of widespread surveillance and location tracking for the purpose of disease control, setting alarm bells ringing amongst privacy advocates and civil rights campaigners. However, EU institutions and governments have long been set on the path of more (...)
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Swiss police automated crime predictions but has little to show for it - 5 août 2020
A review of 3 automated systems in use by the Swiss police and judiciary reveals serious issues. Real-world effects are impossible to assess due to a lack of transparency.
The Swiss police and justice authorities use, by one count, over 20 different automated systems to estimate or predict inappropriate behavior. (...)
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Google Coronavirus Apps Give it Way to Access Location Data - 30 juillet 2020
Some government agencies that use the software said they were surprised that Google may pick up the locations of certain app users. Others said they had unsuccessfully pushed Google to make a change.
When Google and Apple announced plans in April for free software to help alert people of their possible exposure (...)
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Coronavirus : The great contact-tracing apps mystery - 22 juillet 2020
Germany and Ireland have both trumpeted their success in rolling out contact-tracing apps.
But is there any evidence that they are doing what they are designed to do - warning people they could be infected with the virus ?
Not yet - and the privacy-conscious way in which they are designed could mean we will (...)
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L’étau du tout-numérique se resserre, luttons contre la 5G - 15 juillet 2020
« Ce n’est pas uniquement à la 5G que nous nous opposons, mais à tout un projet de société qui ne cesse de provoquer la dévastation du vivant », écrivent les auteurs de cette tribune, qui appellent à ne pas laisser se dérouler les procès contre les saboteurs d’antennes-relais « dans l’indifférence ».
Ce jeudi 9 juillet deux (...)
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Feu vert à une procédure pénale visant la société zougoise Crypto - 4 juillet 2020
Le Ministère public de la Confédération (MPC) peut lancer une procédure pénale visant Crypto AG. Cette société zougoise a espionné pendant des années plus d’une centaine de pays pour le compte des services secrets américains et allemands.
Le Conseil fédéral a autorisé vendredi le MPC à mener un procédure pénale, indique (...)
