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Amazon employees protest sale of facial recognition tech to law enforcement - 24 juin 2018
A group of Amazon employees are pressuring company leadership to stop selling its facial recognition software to law enforcement and to stop providing services to companies who work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
"We refuse to build the platform that powers ICE, and we refuse to contribute to (...)
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Les salariés d’Amazon révoltés après la révélation du nom de deux clients - 24 juin 2018
Les services d’Amazon Web Services sont notamment utilisés par les forces de l’ordre américaines dans la séparation des parents et des enfants mexicains sans papiers.
Une pétition interne vient d’être lancée au sein d’Amazon Web Services afin de réclamer la fin de la collaboration avec la police des frontières (ICE) et le (...)
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Amazon lui aussi fait face à la grogne de ses employés pour Rekognition - 22 juin 2018
Plusieurs employés d’Amazon font pression sur la direction afin que celle-ci cesse sa collaboration avec le gouvernement américain. Amazon fournit en effet sa technologie de reconnaissance faciale Rekognition aux services de l’immigration américains.
L’histoire a un sérieux goût de déjà vu pour ceux qui s’intéressent de (...)
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UE : vers l’identification biométrique des citoyen·ne·s européen·ne·s - 22 juin 2018
Il arrive que les mesures de contrôle visant les personnes étrangères soient dans un deuxième temps étendues à l’ensemble de la population. À la suite de la multiplication et de l’interconnexion des fichiers de personnes étrangères, la Commission européenne projette de rendre obligatoire l’inclusion de données biométriques (...)
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GitHub Coders to Microsoft : Cut Ties With ICE or We’ll ’Take Our Projects Elsewhere’ - 22 juin 2018
More than five dozen Github contributors on Thursday signed a letter threatening to abandon the website unless Microsoft canceled its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contract.
Microsoft, which acquired GitHub, the internet’s largest source code repository, for $7.5 billion earlier this month, is one of (...)
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Microsoft Employees Protest Work With ICE, as Tech Industry Mobilizes Over Immigration - 21 juin 2018
SAN FRANCISCO — In an open letter posted to Microsoft’s internal message board on Tuesday, more than 100 employees protested the software maker’s work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and asked the company to stop working with the agency, which has been separating migrant parents and their children at the (...)
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Fronde chez Microsoft suite à sa collaboration avec l’immigration américaine - 21 juin 2018
Des employés de Microsoft ont publié une lettre ouverte en interne faisant état de leur mécontentement suite à la découverte d’un accord de partenariat avec les services d’immigration américain. Azure est en effet utilisé par ces services qui ont très mauvaise presse ces derniers jours.
Tous les contrats ne sont pas (...)
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The Misogynistic Logic of Jeff Sessions’s Horrifying New Asylum Policy For Domestic Violence Victims - 16 juin 2018
When the United Nations adopted the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women in 1993, it gave long overdue recognition to the fact that gendered domestic violence is not a private issue, but a public health and human rights concern for the international community. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s (...)
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Des drones apprennent à repérer la violence dans une foule - 7 juin 2018
Des chercheurs travaillent sur un projet expérimental de drones qui seraient capable de repérer des comportements violents dans une foule en utilisant l’intelligence artificielle.
Les scientifiques travaillant sur le projet ont rédigé un papier intitulé « Eye in the Sky », dans lequel ils expliquent comment fonctionne (...)
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US government to use facial recognition technology at Mexico border crossing - 6 juin 2018
New camera system would record people inside vehicles as they enter and leave US, raising civil liberties concerns
The US government is deploying a new facial recognition system at the southern border that would record images of people inside vehicles entering and leaving the country.
The pilot program, (...)
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Mass ICE Raids Leave a Trail of Misery and Broken Communities - 14 mai 2018
A month after dozens of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents surrounded a meatpacking plant in Morristown, Tennessee, and detained 97 men and women who worked there, the tight-knit rural community is still reeling, but the initial shock has seeped into a quiet pain, as families adjust to lives without (...)
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Le profilage ethnique et la police - 9 mai 2018
Quand la police procède à un contrôle motivé par votre apparence et non en lien avec vos agissements, il s’agit de profilage ethnique. Des stéréotypes ou des suppositions négatifs liés à votre ethnicité, couleur de peau, nationalité ou religion sont alors l’occasion de vous contrôler, fouiller ou arrêter, au lieu d’une (...)
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How the Border Patrol Faked Statistics Showing a 73 Percent Rise in Assaults Against Agents - 30 avril 2018
Last November, reports that a pair of U.S. Border Patrol agents had been attacked with rocks at a desolate spot in West Texas made news around the country. The agents were found injured and unconscious at the bottom of a culvert off Interstate 10. Agent Rogelio Martinez soon died from his injuries. Early reports (...)
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Detained, Then Violated - 12 avril 2018
1,224 Complaints Reveal a Staggering Pattern of Sexual Abuse in Immigration Detention. Half of Those Accused Worked for ICE.
A woman held at an immigration detention center in Washington state said she was raped by a medical worker and a private facility contractor as she sought help in the center’s medical unit. (...)
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ICE Uses Facebook Data to Find and Track Suspects, Internal Emails Show - 27 mars 2018
Cambridge Analytica may have had access to the personal information of tens of millions of unwitting Americans, but a genuine debate has emerged about whether the company had the sophistication to put that data effectively to use on behalf of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
But one other organization that (...)
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Excessive Force - 4 mars 2018
ICE Shackled 92 Somalis for 40 Hours On a Failed Deportation Flight. That Was Just the Start of the Abuse.
For a brief moment in December 2017, the international spotlight shined on the case of 92 deportees who were on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement-chartered flight to Somalia. Most such flights unload (...)
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China : Police DNA Database Threatens Privacy - 9 février 2018
40 Million Profiled Includes Dissidents, Migrants, Muslim Uyghurs
China’s police are collecting DNA from individuals for a nationally searchable database without oversight, transparency, or privacy protections, Human Rights Watch said today. Evidence suggests that the regional government in Xinjiang, an ethnic (...)
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Vinci, Thales, Eamus Cork... Ces entreprises qui profitent de la situation à Calais - 19 janvier 2018
La situation à Calais fait au moins quelques heureux : les groupes privés comme Vinci ou Thales. Construction de murs, drones, sécurité privée, scanners, biométrie, gaz lacrymogène... : au moins une quarantaine de contrats ont été passés avec des firmes privées pour sécuriser la frontière franco-britannique. Les 50 millions (...)
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Private Companies Look to Cash in as Homeland Security Brings Facial Recognition to U.S. Borders - 30 novembre 2017
In a crowded conference room earlier this month in Menlo Park, California, representatives from companies around the world listened intently as officials from the Department of Homeland Security explained the bidding process for contracts to develop facial recognition capabilities at land border crossings. The (...)
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Authorities Detain Journalists Reporting on Louvre Opening in Abu Dhabi - 19 novembre 2017
Two Swiss journalists who were in Abu Dhabi to report on the opening of the Louvre were detained for two days and interrogated about their coverage of migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates, Anny Shaw of the Art Newspaper reports.
Journalist Serge Enderlin and cameraman Jon Bjorgvinsson were taken into (...)
