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How the arms industry drives Fortress Europe’s expansion - 28 juin 2020
In March, April, and May of this year, multiple European countries deployed military forces to their national borders. This was done to assist with controls and patrols in the wake of border closures and other movement restrictions due to the Covid-19 crisis. Poland deployed 1,460 soldiers to the border to support (...)
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Reconnaissance faciale : face au renoncement d’IBM, Amazon et Microsoft, qu’envisage l’Europe ? - 18 juin 2020
IBM, Amazon et Microsoft abandonnent la vente de systèmes de reconnaissance faciale aux forces de police, admettant qu’elles posent des problèmes de discrimination et de libertés publiques. En Europe, malgré des réglementations de l’Union qui devraient mettre à mal l’utilisation de cette technologie, de nombreuses (...)
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IDemia - 18 juin 2020
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Idemia est une entreprise française qui se présente comme le « leader de l’identité augmentée ». Elle est née en 2017 de la fusion de Morpho (Safran), considéré comme chef de file mondial d’identification biométrique et d’Oberthur Technologies, spécialisé dans la fabrication de carte à puce et de documents (...)
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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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Armement : la Belgique, premier client export de la France - 2 juin 2020
La baisse des commandes du Moyen-Orient est compensée par une politique volontariste en Europe.
Sur fond de tensions géopolitiques et de repli des nations, que la crise du Covid-19 devrait encore intensifier, le monde s’arme. La France, troisième exportateur mondial de matériel militaire avec 8 % de parts de marché, y (...)
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UAS on Leading Edge in Homeland Security - 31 mai 2020
Presented by Michael C. Kostelnik Assistant Commissioner
Customs and Border Protection
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Face matching and digital avatars coming to the EU’s borders - 30 mai 2020
Across Europe, leaders have been desperately seeking new ways to secure borders. Concerns over migration have contributed to the evolution of new forms of authoritarian technology
On the outskirts of Vienna, staff at the Austrian Institute of Technology are working on a project that could radically change border (...)
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Silent Talker : Intelligent Systems - 29 mai 2020
FAST. ADAPTIVE. INTELLIGENT.
Silent Talker is a pioneering adaptive psychological profiling system which was developed by the UK’s leading experts in Behavioural Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence.
Designed for use in natural conversation, Silent Talker combines image processing and artificial intelligence (...)
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Coronavirus Monitoring Bracelets Flood the Market, Ready to Snitch on People Who Don’t Distance - 25 mai 2020
Surveillance firms around the world are licking their lips at a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to cash in on the coronavirus by repositioning one of their most invasive products : the tracking bracelet.
Body monitors are associated with criminality and guilt in the popular imagination, the accessories of Wall (...)
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Appel à l’annulation d’un contrat entre l’UE et des entreprises israéliennes pour la surveillance des migrants par drones - 25 mai 2020
Les contrats de l’UE de 59 millions d’euros avec des entreprises militaires israélienne pour s’équiper en drones de guerre afin de surveiller les demandeurs d’asile en mer sont immoraux et d’une légalité douteuse.
L’achat de #drones_israéliens par l’UE encourage les violations des droits de l’homme en Palestine occupée, (...)
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Politie wil opnieuw aan gezichtsherkenning doen - 22 mai 2020
Na een negatief advies van de privacywaakhond moest de politie vorig jaar stoppen met automatische gezichtsherkenning op de luchthaven in Zaventem. Nu wil de politie dat opnieuw doen op tal van plaatsen.
In september raakte bekend dat de federale politie moest stoppen met automatische gezichtsherkenning op (...)
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’Everyone Should Have a Moral Code’ Says Developer Who Deleted Code Sold to ICE - VICE - 6 mai 2020
Seth Vargo wrote code used in a platform called Chef. When he learned ICE was a customer, he wrestled with ICE using code he had personally written.
Technologist Seth Vargo had a moral dilemma. He had just found out that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which has faced widespread condemnation for (...)
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Under Surveillance - 2 mai 2020
In 2010, European Digital Rights, a Brussels based non-profit that campaigns on issues relating to privacy and freedom of expression, published “Under Surveillance,” which deals with the subjects of data protection, counter-terror measures and (...)
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Monitoring being pitched to fight Covid-19 was tested on refugees — The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - 1er mai 2020
The pandemic has given a boost to controversial data-driven initiatives to track population movements
In Italy, social media monitoring companies have been scouring Instagram to see who’s breaking the nationwide lockdown. In Israel, the government has made plans to “sift through geolocation data” collected by the (...)
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Bordering under the corona virus pandemic (Georgie Wemyss and Nira Yuval-Davis) – Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment - 21 avril 2020
In our recent book Bordering (Yuval-Davis, Wemyss & Cassidy, 2019), we discuss the paradoxical phenomenon that, under neoliberal globalisation, borders did not disappear but rather proliferated off-and in-shore, from consulates across the globe to everyday spaces like railways and places of work. We described (...)
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Non aux drones tueurs israéliens pour contrôler les frontières européennes - 2 avril 2020
A l’occasion de la journée de la Terre et des 2 ans du début de la Grande Marche du Retour à Gaza, une large coalition européenne d’ONG, syndicats, associations de migrants etc. lancent ce lundi 30 mars une pétition pour dire STOP aux drones israéliens pour surveiller les frontières de l’Union européenne et contrôler (...)
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Microsoft to divest AnyVision stake, end face recognition investing - Reuters - 29 mars 2020
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp on Friday said it would sell its stake in AnyVision, an Israeli facial recognition startup, and said it no longer would make minority investments in companies that sell the controversial technology.
The decision marks a policy change for the Redmond, Washington-based software maker, (...)
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La militarisation de la quarantaine | Agence Media Palestine - 27 mars 2020
Eyal Weizman est le directeur fondateur de Forensic Architecture, une agence de recherche interdisciplinaire qui utilise des techniques et des technologies architecturales pour enquêter sur des cas de violence d’État et de violations des droits humains. Weizman, professeur de Cultures spatiales et visuelles à (...)
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In fight against coronavirus, governments embrace surveillance – POLITICO - 26 mars 2020
Chinese-style surveillance is coming to a neighborhood near you.
From drones barking orders at park-goers to tracing people’s movements through cellphones, Western governments are rushing to embrace sophisticated surveillance tools that would have been unthinkable just a few weeks ago.
In the European Union, home (...)
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When Disease Comes, Rulers Grab More Power - The Atlantic - 25 mars 2020
On March 13—Friday the 13th, as it happened—my husband was driving down a Polish highway when he turned on the news and learned that the country’s borders would shut down in 24 hours. He pulled over and called me. I bought a ticket from London to Warsaw minutes later. I don’t live there all of the time, but my husband (...)
