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Un juge fédéral américain ordonne la libération de Chelsea Manning - Page 1 | Mediapart - 13 mars 2020
L’ancienne analyste militaire, à l’origine des révélations de Wikileaks sur les exactions américaines en Irak et en Afghanistan, était en prison pour avoir refusé de témoigner dans le cadre d’une instruction judiciaire secrète menée sur le site de Julian Assange.
Un juge fédéral de Virginie a ordonné vendredi la libération de (...)
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AI can read your emotions. Should it ? | Technology | The Guardian - 19 février 2020
Advertisers, tech giants and border forces are using face tracking software to monitor our moods – whether we like it or not
It is early July, almost 30C outside, but Mihkel Jäätma is thinking about Christmas. In a co-working space in Soho, the 39-year-old founder and CEO of Realeyes, an “emotion AI” startup which (...)
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U.S. Senators propose facial recognition moratorium for federal government | VentureBeat - 15 février 2020
Two Democratic U.S. Senators today proposed legislation that requires a moratorium on facial recognition use by federal agencies, government employees, and law enforcement without a warrant until a Congressional commission can act to recommend guidelines and place limits on use of the technology.
The bill, named (...)
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Opinion | The Government Uses ‘Near Perfect Surveillance’ Data on Americans - The New York Times - 8 février 2020
Congressional hearings are urgently needed to address location tracking.
“When the government tracks the location of a cellphone it achieves near perfect surveillance, as if it had attached an ankle monitor to the phone’s user,” wrote John Roberts, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, in a 2018 ruling that (...)
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MONITORYOU : the MilliONs beIng spenT by the eu on develOping surveillance tech to taRget YOU | PI - 31 janvier 2020
The European Union (EU) spends billions on research and development aimed at driving economic growth and jobs, as well as furthering the bloc’s broader agenda. Within the current budget, known as Horizon 2020 and covering the years 2014-2020, some €80 billion has been made available for research in a huge number of (...)
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Black-Boxed Politics : - Katarzyna Szymielewicz - Medium - 24 janvier 2020
Artificial intelligence captures our imagination like almost no other technology : from fears about killer robots to dreams of a fully-automated, frictionless future. As numerous authors have documented, the idea of creating artificial, intelligent machines has entranced and scandalized people for millennia. (...)
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The EU is funding dystopian Artificial Intelligence projects – EURACTIV.com - 24 janvier 2020
Despite its commitment to ‘trustworthy’ artificial intelligence, the EU is bankrolling AI projects that are questionable, write Fieke Jansen and Daniel Leufer.
Fieke Jansen is a PhD candidate at the Data Justice Lab and Mozilla Foundation Fellow 2019-2020. Daniel Leufer, PhD, is a Mozilla Foundation Fellow (...)
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Comment les géants de la tech manipulent la recherche sur l’éthique des IA | korii. - 24 janvier 2020
Après le greenwashing, l’ethicalwashing ? Un ancien chercheur du MIT Media Lab témoigne.
Dès 2018, il est devenu difficile de suivre les nombreux scandales liés à l’IA sur fond de contrats controversés : entre Facebook et Cambridge Analytica ; entre Google et le Pentagone sur les drones ; entre Amazon, IBM et la police (...)
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La reconnaissance faciale se déploie discrètement - 21 décembre 2019
Pour soutenir les industriels français, le gouvernement veut faciliter le déploiement de la reconnaissance faciale. Au grand dam de la Cnil et des associations de défense des libertés.
Notre identité numérique est-elle en train de prendre un nouveau visage ? Les techniques de reconnaissance faciale se développent (...)
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FOLDOUT Through Foliage Detection of Illegal Cross-Border Activities - 11 décembre 2019
FOLDOUT focus is on through foliage detection in the inner and outermost regions of the EU. Foliage penetration is an unsolved important part of border surveillance. By solving the problem of unreliable detections in such harsh environments border guards’ workloads are reduced, costs are reduced and, last but not (...)
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Jeff Bezos says employee activists are wrong and Silicon Valley firms should feel comfortable doing business with the US military - 9 décembre 2019
Jeff Bezos says employee activists are wrong and Silicon Valley firms should feel comfortable doing business with the US military
Bezos said it was the responsibility of management to push back against employee outrage toward military contracts.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos threw his support behind the US Department (...)
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Facial recognition : A solution in search of a problem ? - 7 décembre 2019
“Be water”. This is the evocative and enigmatic phrase of the current mask-wearing protestors in Hong-Kong. It seems to represent the fight of citizens for the right to be shapeless and anonymous among the crowd, including when exercising the right to protest, versus surveillance by the state authorities.
It is (...)
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Agencies test border patrol technologies - 7 décembre 2019
U.S. Border Patrol and the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) conducted 11 days of exercises and demonstrations in August in Sweetgrass, Mont.
The field test simulated illegal border crossings and evaluated portable, surveillance technologies that provide situational (...)
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DEEP DIVE : EFF to DHS : Stop Mass Collection of Social Media Information - 1er décembre 2019
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently released a proposed rule expanding the agency’s collection of social media information on key visa forms and immigration applications. Earlier this month, EFF joined over 40 civil society organizations that signed on to comments drafted by the Brennan Center for (...)
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#PrivacyWins : EU Border Guards Cancel Plans to Spy on Social Media (for now) - 21 novembre 2019
As any data protection lawyer and privacy activist will attest, there’s nothing like a well-designed and enforced data protection law to keep the totalitarian tendencies of modern Big Brother in check.
While the EU’s data protection rules aren’t perfect, they at least provide some limits over how far EU bodies, (...)
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Spanish-Moroccan borders upgraded with new cameras, facial recognition and a barbed wire ’swap’ - 3 octobre 2019
The Spanish government is seeking a 50% reduction in illegal immigration and to achieve this goal is deploying new surveillance cameras and facial recognition technology at its borders with Morocco in Ceuta and Melilla. The Spanish government also plans to remove the barbed wire fences at those borders - but the (...)
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How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age - 2 octobre 2019
After two officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear — a testament to the agency’s quiet embrace of big data.
The winter after Donald Trump was elected president, strangers began appearing in a parking lot on southern Washington State’s Long Beach Peninsula, at the port (...)
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Halt the use of facial-recognition technology until it is regulated - 30 septembre 2019
Until appropriate safeguards are in place, we need a moratorium on biometric technology that identifies individuals, says Kate Crawford.
Earlier this month, Ohio became the latest of several state and local governments in the United States to stop law-enforcement officers from using facial-recognition databases. (...)
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Le fichage Un outil sans limites au service du contrôle des frontières ? - 29 septembre 2019
CONTEXTE "“L’ÉVOLUTION DES FICHIERS A L’AUNE DU RENFORCEMENT DES POLITIQUES MIGRATOIRES
Si le droit international proclame le droit de chaque personne de quitter tout pays, y compris le sien, et d’y revenir, il protège également toute personne en migration contre les mauvais traitements et violations de ses droits (...)
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Surveillance & Society - 11 septembre 2019
Surveillance & Society is the premier journal of surveillance studies, and publishes rigorously peer-reviewed academic work of the highest quality in a free-to-access electronic journal.
