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A Millau, les militants verbalisés étaient bien fichés - 27 avril 2021
Le 4 mai, vingt personnes passeront au tribunal de police de Rodez à la suite de contestations d’amendes reçues après des manifestations post-confinement à Millau en mai 2020. Au cœur du dossier : le fichage politique et l’usage de la vidéosurveillance par la police.
Millau (Aveyron).– Non seulement les activistes de (...)
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La police met à nu le système d’espionnage de LVMH contre François Ruffin - 19 avril 2021
Deux récents rapports de police détaillent par le menu les dessous d’un système d’espionnage mis sur pied par l’ancien chef de services secrets français, Bernard Squarcini, au profit du géant mondial du luxe LVMH, propriété du milliardaire Bernard Arnault. Leur cible ? Le futur député François Ruffin et son journal.
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Tech Otherwise - 12 avril 2021
Now is the time to radically redirect the future of tech. To think tech otherwise is to move away from binaries of tech or not (though we may sometimes need to make that judgement), in favour of how we could make tech differently, in the service of our collective and sustainable well being.
Building on a shared (...)
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Jean-Paul Fourmentraux : antiDATA – La désobéissance numérique - 3 avril 2021
Contre l’hégémonie de l’innovation, ces derniers invitent à « mordre la machine », ré-ouvrir les boîtes noires, reprendre la main, transformer l’imaginaire technique. Leurs différentes approches – sous-veillance, médias tactiques, design spéculatif, statactivisme, archéologie des médias – explorent et expérimentent le hardware (...)
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How to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil you - 3 avril 2021
Algorithms are meaningless without good data. The public can exploit that to demand change.
Every day, your life leaves a trail of digital breadcrumbs that tech giants use to track you. You send an email, order some food, stream a show. They get back valuable packets of data to build up their understanding of (...)
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Échapper à la surveillance - Ép. 4/4 - À l’ère de la surveillance numérique - 31 mars 2021
Un maquillage anti-reconnaissance faciale, une technique de camouflage pour mes recherches sur le web, une formation en chiffrement de données, je ne recule devant rien pour échapper à la surveillance des algorithmes
La surveillance numérique a pris durant la dernière décennie des dimensions hégémoniques. Il est (...)
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China-based hackers used Facebook to target Uighurs abroad with malware - 27 mars 2021
Company says hackers used malware to infect devices and enable surveillance after setting up fake profiles to build trust
Facebook has blocked a group of hackers in China who used the platform to target Uighurs living abroad with links to malware that would infect their devices and enable surveillance.
The (...)
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Israel’s cyber-spy industry helps world dictators hunt dissidents and gays - 15 mars 2021
Haaretz investigation spanning 100 sources in 15 countries reveals Israel has become a leading exporter of tools for spying on civilians. Dictators around the world – even in countries with no formal ties to Israel – use them eavesdrop on human rights activists, monitor emails, hack into apps and record (...)
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Humanoid facial recognition arrives at German police - 9 mars 2021
When pursuing suspected criminals, some state police forces use a special ability of individual officers. Deployments often take place in major events
Police forces are increasingly using so-called super-recognisers. These are people who are particularly good at remembering faces. An estimated one to two percent (...)
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"Alibaba, c’est un monde dont nous ne voulons pas !" - 2 mars 2021
Des activistes de tous bords veulent empêcher la venue d’Alibaba à Liege Airport. Comment résistent leurs idéaux face à la réalité économique et au pragmatisme politique ?
Dans la neige qui balaye un champ inculte, quelques jeunes bravent le froid et traversent la plaine. Au loin, un chantier sort de la brume. Ce sont les (...)
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L’amour au temps de la censure : Lu Yuyu et Li Tingyu, militants chinois - 1er mars 2021
Lu Yuyu et Li Tingyu étaient en train de récupérer une plante pour Little Stinker, leur chat, lorsque leur histoire d’amour a brutalement pris fin. La police, qui les surveillait depuis le début de leur relation, trois ans plus tôt, les attendait au point de retrait.
« Jane » (Li Tingyu) est entrée pour récupérer le (...)
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En Aveyron, des amendes « sans contact » pleuvent sur les militants - 28 février 2021
Depuis l’été 2020, des dizaines de militants du département reçoivent des amendes à la suite de manifestations, sans avoir été directement verbalisés. Pire, tous n’ont même pas la possibilité de contester l’affaire devant un tribunal. Les autorités, elles, restent silencieuses.
Quel est le comble pour un militant poursuivi ? (...)
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India Targets Climate Activists With the Help of Big Tech - 27 février 2021
Tech giants like Google and Facebook appear to be aiding and abetting a vicious government campaign against Indian climate activists.
The bank of cameras that camped outside Delhi’s sprawling Tihar jail was the sort of media frenzy you would expect to await a prime minister caught in an embezzlement scandal, or (...)
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"Face control" : Russian police go digital against protesters - 26 février 2021
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Georgy Malets didn’t make it to an anti-Kremlin rally last month. He was detained on his way there by police using facial recognition technology in the Moscow metro.
The 30-year-old Russian photo blogger said the police told him he had been identified by a “Face-ID” camera system and must (...)
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Minneapolis police tapped Google to identify George Floyd protesters - 9 février 2021
The warrant ordered the search giant to turn over user account data.
Police in Minneapolis obtained a search warrant ordering Google to turn over sets of account data on vandals accused of sparking violence in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd last year, TechCrunch has learned.
The death of Floyd, a (...)
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How Your Phone Betrays Democracy - 7 février 2021
In footage from drones hovering above, the nighttime streets of Hong Kong look almost incandescent, a constellation of tens of thousands of cellphone flashlights, swaying in unison. Each twinkle is a marker of attendance and a plea for freedom. The demonstrators, some clad in masks to thwart the government’s (...)
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Navalny protesters say police are using facial recognition to track them down - 4 février 2021
Fears raised over the use of surveillance technology at demonstrations
Russian citizens claim Moscow police are using facial recognition technology to track, trace and detain protesters who have attended rallies in support of leading Putin critic Alexey Navalny. Police have responded harshly to the protests (...)
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Clouds gather over Google’s Saudi deal - 2 février 2021
Saudi dissidents accuse the tech giant of bolstering a brutal dictatorship with its plan to provide cloud computing in the kingdom
Ten days before Joe Biden’s inauguration, Abdullah Alaoudh was at his home in Washington, D.C. catching up with emails, when a warning banner flashed up on his screen.
“Google may have (...)
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Government orders internet shutdown in Delhi on India’s Republic Day - 26 janvier 2021
India’s Union Ministry of Home Affairs has issued orders directing internet shutdowns across several areas of the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi today, January 26, the nation’s Republic Day.
Reports of disrupted internet and telecom connectivity emerged earlier today as the Delhi Police clashed with (...)
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Russian Government Claims TikTok Deleted Young People’s Protest Prep Videos at Its Behest - 24 janvier 2021
The same week recently poisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was taken into police custody in Moscow, Russia’s youth and adults began preparing for unsanctioned protests that will take place across the country on Saturday, January 23. Some of this preparation has been aided by the video-sharing platform (...)
