frontières
analyse
Data et nouvelles technologies, la face cachée du contrôle des mobilités - 21 janvier 2021
Dans un rapport de juillet 2020, l’Agence européenne pour la gestion opérationnelle des systèmes d’information à grande échelle (EU-Lisa) présente l’intelligence artificielle (IA) comme l’une des « technologies prioritaires » à développer. Le rapport souligne les avantages de l’IA en matière migratoire et aux frontières, grâce, (...)
analyse
Frontex to expand cooperation with Operation IRINI - 21 janvier 2021
Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency and Operation EUNAVFOR MED IRINI have agreed last Friday to expand their cooperation to address challenges and threats to EU security in the Central Mediterranean region.
Under a new working arrangement, Frontex will be supporting Operation IRINI with (...)
analyse
Texas Deploys Virtual Border Patrol - 17 janvier 2021
Texas has started broadcasting live images of the U.S. border on the Internet in a security program that asks the public to report signs of illegal immigration or drug crimes.
A test Web site went live Thursday at texasborderwatch.com with views from eight cameras and ways for viewers to e-mail reports of (...)
analyse
Artificial intelligence : Frontex improves its maritime surveillance – Matthias Monroy - 16 janvier 2021
Frontex wants to use a new platform to automatically detect and assess „risks“ on the seas of the European Union. Suspected irregular activities are to be displayed in a constantly updated „threat map“ with the help of self-learning software.
The EU border agency has renewed a contract with Israeli company Windward (...)
analyse
Texas Virtual Border Watch - 16 janvier 2021
The Texas Virtual Border Watch is a pilot program created by the State of Texas that allows individuals with internet access to observe and report on the Texas–Mexico border via their computers. On June 1, 2006, Texas Governor Rick Perry announced 5 million dollars to be used with the voluntary participation of (...)
analyse
Covid-19 Ushered in a New Era of Government Surveillance - 30 décembre 2020
Government-mandated drone surveillance and location tracking apps could be here to stay
In early December, after finding 16 people had illegally crossed the border from Myanmar to Thailand and evaded the mandatory quarantine period, the Thai government said it would start patrolling the border with new (...)
analyse
Facial recognition systems are getting better at recognizing masked faces - 5 décembre 2020
New data from NIST shows significant improvement since July
Facial recognition algorithms are getting better at recognizing faces in masks, according to data published on Tuesday by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). Drawing on independent testing of more than 150 separate facial (...)
analyse
Google AI Tech Will Be Used for Virtual Border Wall, CBP Contract Shows - 15 novembre 2020
Google Cloud will be used in conjunction with Anduril Industries’ surveillance tech on the U.S.-Mexico border.
After years of backlash over controversial government work, Google technology will be used to aid the Trump administration’s efforts to fortify the U.S.-Mexico border, according to documents related to a (...)
analyse
UN warns of impact of smart borders on refugees : ‘Data collection isn’t apolitical’ - 12 novembre 2020
Special rapporteur on racism and xenophobia believes there is a misconception that biosurveillance technology is without bias
Robotic lie detector tests at European airports, eye scans for refugees and voice-imprinting software for use in asylum applications are among new technologies flagged as “troubling” in a (...)
Lire
Frontières de fer - 7 novembre 2020
Du mur que Donald Trump érige à la frontière avec le Mexique au mur de séparation édifié par Israël dans le cadre de son projet colonial en passant par les multiples murs de l’Europe forteresse, tout indique que nous assistons à un « nouveau cloisonnement du monde ».
Ces « murs » représentent aujourd’hui plus de 10 % des (...)
Lire
Géographies en mouvement - Le business meurtrier des frontières - 7 novembre 2020
Le 21ème siècle sera-t-il celui des barrières ? Probable, au rythme où les frontières nationales se renforcent. Dans un livre riche et documenté, publié aux éditions Syllepse, le géographe Stéphane Rosière dresse un indispensable état des lieux.
Une nuit du mois de juin, dans un centre de rétention de l’île de Rhodes, la (...)
analyse
DHS Admits Facial Recognition Photos Were Hacked, Released on Dark Web - 26 septembre 2020
Traveler’s faces, license plates, and care information were hacked from a subcontractor called Perceptics and released on the dark web.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) finally acknowledged Wednesday that photos that were part of a facial recognition pilot program were hacked from a Customs and Border (...)
analyse
Indigenous Activists Arrested, Held Incommunicado After Border Wall Protest - 19 septembre 2020
Two O’odham women arrested at the border were taken to a private prison where they were denied access to the outside world.
Two Indigenous women who were arrested by federal agents while attempting to block border wall construction in southern Arizona last week say they were chained and held incommunicado by the (...)
analyse
Keren Weitzberg | Machine-Readable Refugees - 18 septembre 2020
Hassan (not his real name ; other details have also been changed) paused mid-story to take out his wallet and show me his ID card. Its edges were frayed. The grainy, black-and-white photo was of a gawky teenager. He ran his thumb over the words at the top : ‘Jamhuri ya Kenya/Republic of Kenya’. ‘Somehow,’ he said, (...)
analyse
UN experts report highlights role of private military and security companies in immigration management - 13 septembre 2020
A new UN experts report shines light on the role of private military and security services in immigration and border management and their impact to the rights of all migrants.
Key points
The report highlights the responsibilities of private actors in human rights abuses a well as lack of oversight and, (...)
analyse
Border Patrol Has Used Facial Recognition to Scan More Than 16 Million Fliers — and Caught Just 7 Imposter - 5 septembre 2020
A new report lays out CBP’s shoddy implementation of facial recognition technology
The agency that runs the United States’ airport and border facial recognition program has failed to properly tell the public about how it works, a new report has found. In whole, the report reads like a major red flag : The U.S. (...)
analyse
Palantir filed to go public. The firm’s unethical technology should horrify us - 4 septembre 2020
Palantir powers Ice immigration raids, the defense sector and police surveillance. It is the big tobacco of the tech world
In 2017, the Trump administration first set its sights on a target it would return to repeatedly in the coming years : immigrant children.
Thousands of kids were crossing the border alone, (...)
analyse
Deportation Union : Rights, accountability and the EU’s push to increase forced removals - 25 août 2020
Deportation Union provides a critical examination of recently-introduced and forthcoming EU measures designed to increase the number of deportations carried out by national authorities and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex. It focuses on three key areas : attempts to reduce or eliminate rights (...)
analyse
Eurotunnel - 14 août 2020
Description
Eurotunnel (devenu Getlink en 2017) est la compagnie privée européenne concessionnaire de l’infrastructure du tunnel sous la Manche jusqu’en 2086 (ce qui comprend le ferroviaire et le ferry).
La compagnie possède 650 hectares de terrain sur la commune de Coquelles, et met les grands moyens pour interdire (...)
analyse
Roborder - 11 juillet 2020
ROBORDER aims at developing and demonstrating a fully-functional autonomous border surveillance system with unmanned mobile robots including aerial, water surface, underwater and ground vehicles which will incorporate multimodal sensors as part of an interoperable network. Our intention is to implement a (...)
