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Facebook’s ad algorithms are still excluding women from seeing jobs - 12 avril 2021
Its ad-delivery system is excluding women from opportunities without regard to their qualifications. That would be illegal under US employment law.
Facebook is withholding certain job ads from women because of their gender, according to the latest audit of its ad service.
The audit, conducted by independent (...)
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How beauty filters took over social media - 3 avril 2021
The most widespread use of augmented reality isn’t in gaming : it’s the face filters on social media. The result ? A mass experiment on girls and young women.
Veronica started using filters to edit pictures of herself on social media when she was 14 years old. She remembers everyone in her middle school being (...)
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Intercepted : Inside China’s Police State Tactics Against Muslims - 3 février 2021
A new report from The Intercept provides a raw glimpse into the persecution and sweeping internment of Muslims in northwest China’s Xinjiang region.
A massive police database obtained by The Intercept provides groundbreaking insight into the pervasive surveillance state operated by the Chinese government to (...)
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Bouguenais : l’élu chargé de la vidéosurveillance condamné pour le harcèlement de son ex-compagne - 30 janvier 2021
Coup de tonnerre au conseil municipal de Bouguenais, au sud-ouest de Nantes. Le conseiller municipal délégué à la « vidéo-protection » a été condamné ce jeudi 28 janvier 2021 à quatre mois de prison avec sursis par le tribunal correctionnel de Nantes pour le « harcèlement » d’une ex-compagne, rencontrée en 2016. Il devra lui (...)
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Comment fait-on pour que les hommes cessent de violer ? - 27 janvier 2021
C’est le dernier shitstorm en date sur Twitter. Les comptes (initialement militants et féministes) qui ont publié cette phrase se sont trouvés bloqués ou suspendus.
En suspens la phrase : "Comment fait-on pour que les hommes cessent de violer ?"
Pourtant cette phrase n’est pas agressive, pourtant elle n’est pas (...)
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Lucknow : Smart cams to read expressions of women in distress, alert cops - 21 janvier 2021
Soon, a change in facial expressions of a girl subjected to stalking, threat or eve-teasing will be enough to send an alert to police control room to nab the culprit.
The Lucknow police is set to equip public places with AI-enabled cameras that will click pictures of women in distress on the basis of facial (...)
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India’s Aadhaar identity system is eroding the rights of pregnant women - 20 janvier 2021
From the denial of maternity benefits to a lack of access to reproductive health services, the negative effects of this sweeping program are being felt across the country
Pooja Devi Kol lives in Dabhaura, a small village in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, and is expecting her first child in four (...)
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We asked five menstruation apps for our data and here is what we found... - 27 décembre 2020
We asked five menstruation apps to give us access to our data. We got a dizzying dive into the most intimate information about us.
Key findings
Out of the five apps we surveyed, two apps responded well and fully to our DSAR, one app did not give us our data, one never responded, and one is refusing to let us (...)
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EFF’s Eva Galperin says stalkerware can be used by abusers to stalk their victims - 26 décembre 2020
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, but it also marks the start of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Electronic Frontier Foundation Director of Cybersecurity Eva Galperin, who works with abuse victims, says these victims can also be the targets of stealth software that can be used to track their every move. (...)
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Eva Galperin de l’EFF affirme que les stalkerwares peuvent être utilisés par des abuseurs pour traquer leurs victimes - 26 décembre 2020
Octobre est non seulement le Mois de la sensibilisation à la cybersécurité, mais il marque aussi le début du Mois de la sensibilisation à la violence conjugale. Eva Galperin, Directrice de la cybersécurité chez Electronic Frontier Foundation, travaille avec des victimes d’abus et affirme que ces victimes peuvent aussi (...)
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Menstruation apps store excessive information, privacy charity says - 21 décembre 2020
Privacy International finds apps collect information on birth control habits or how hard it is for women to reach orgasm
Menstruation apps are unnecessarily storing personal data such as what medication women are on, their birth control habits and how hard women find it to reach orgasm, privacy campaigners have (...)
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Accusations de harcèlement sexuel, comportements toxiques, démissions... Les salariés d’Ubisoft usés par une année de scandales - 25 novembre 2020
Cinq mois après le début d’une vague d’accusations de harcèlement sexuel et sexiste, le numéro un du jeu vidéo français multiplie les initiatives pour corriger son image.
Watch Dogs : Legion le 29 octobre, Assassin’s Creed : Valhalla le 10 novembre, Immortals : Fenyx Rising prévu pour le 3 décembre… En apparence, (...)
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How FaceApp reveals a scary truth about female beauty standards - 1er novembre 2020
In the viral craze to age ourselves with FaceApp, one thing went unmentioned : it was almost exclusively men who were posting the results online. For women, finds Sirin Kale, it’s just another anxiety-inducing reminder of the expiry date society puts on female beauty
Lina Slim was at work one day when she heard (...)
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Twitter still failing women over online violence and abuse - 23 septembre 2020
Twitter is still not doing enough to protect women from online violence and abuse, despite repeated promises to do so, new analysis by Amnesty International reveals.
Twitter is still not doing enough to tackle the deluge of abuse women face on the platform.
Rasha Abdul Rahim, Co-Director of Amnesty Tech. (...)
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Twitter n’est toujours pas à la hauteur s’agissant de protéger les femmes contre les violences et les abus en ligne - 23 septembre 2020
Twitter n’en fait toujours pas assez pour protéger les femmes contre les violences et les abus en ligne, malgré de multiples promesses, révèle la nouvelle analyse d’Amnesty International.
Twitter n’agit pas suffisamment pour faire barrage au déluge de violence que subissent les femmes sur la plateforme.
Rasha (...)
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Female historians and male nurses do not exist, Google Translate tells its European users - 20 septembre 2020
An experiment shows that Google Translate systematically changes the gender of translations when they do not fit with stereotypes. It is all because of English, Google says.
If you were to read a story about male and female historians translated by Google, you might be forgiven for overlooking the females in the (...)
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Whistleblower : ICE Prison Does Hysterectomies at High Rates - 19 septembre 2020
“People ask you why I got a hysterectomy. I couldn’t explain it. The only thing I have to say is that I’m sorry.”
A whistleblower complaint filed this week with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General alleges that high rates of hysterectomies — sometimes without what the complaint called (...)
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Whistleblower : There Were Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility - 15 septembre 2020
The full statement : U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does not comment on matters presented to the Office of the Inspector General, which provides independent oversight and accountability within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. ICE takes all allegations seriously and defers to the OIG (...)
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L’intelligence artificielle, pas sans elles ! - 10 septembre 2020
Les algorithmes sont machistes !
Pourquoi le traducteur de Google propage-t-il les stéréotypes sexistes : “il” est médecin, “elle” est infirmière ? Et pourquoi les applications d’orientation professionnelle associent-elles toujours l’empathie et les compétences littéraires aux femmes, le charisme et les compétences (...)
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Egypt’s TikTok crackdown targets young female influencers - 17 août 2020
A vaguely defined cybercrime bill has seen the government convict Egyptian social media stars with millions of followers
When Mawada Eladhm began posting videos on TikTok, she had no idea that being an online influencer in Egypt was so perilous. Despite having three million followers, she became the target of (...)
