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Big Data has allowed ICE to dramatically expand its deportation efforts. - 25 septembre 2020
A New Mexico man gets a call from federal child welfare officials. His teenage brother has arrived alone at the border after traveling 2,000 miles to escape a violent uncle in Guatemala. The officials ask him to take custody of the boy. He hesitates ; he is himself undocumented. The officials say not to worry. He (...)
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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 (...)
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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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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, (...)
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Palantir, le géant de la surveillance aux profits fantômes. - 15 septembre 2020
L’introduction en bourse de la firme fondée par Peter Thiel approche, mais les investisseurs doutent.
Proche de la CIA, en relation avec la DGSI, fondée par un soutien de Donald Trump, l’entreprise Palantir s’est forgé une réputation sulfureuse en signant des contrats de surveillance avec les armées et polices du monde (...)
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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, (...)
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Eight case studies on regulating biometric technology show us a path forward - 4 septembre 2020
A new report from the AI Now Institute reveals how different regulatory approaches work or fall short in protecting communities from surveillance.
Amba Kak was in law school in India when the country rolled out the Aadhaar project in 2009. The national biometric ID system, conceived as a comprehensive identity (...)
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Forget TikTok. China’s Powerhouse App Is WeChat. - 4 septembre 2020
A vital connection for the Chinese diaspora, the app has also become a global conduit of Chinese state propaganda, surveillance and intimidation. The United States has proposed banning it.
Just after the 2016 presidential election in the United States, Joanne Li realized the app that connected her to fellow (...)
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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, (...)
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Technology has codified structural racism – will the EU tackle racist tech ? - 3 septembre 2020
The EU is preparing its ‘Action Plan’ to address structural racism in Europe. With digital high on the EU’s legislative agenda, it’s time we tackle racism perpetuated by technology, writes Sarah Chander.
Sarah Chander is a senior policy adviser at European Digital Rights (EDRi), a network of 44 digital rights (...)
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Palantir Says Faulty AI and Privacy Regulation Are a Risk to the Company - 28 août 2020
Palantir has never made a profit, and according to its S-1 filing, may never make a profit. But it has no plans to stop now.
Palantir, a Denver-based surveillance firm that contracts with commercial firms and government agencies such as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, published its public filing (...)
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Home Office hands IBM £7m police database deal without competitive tender - 26 août 2020
The Home Office has handed IBM a £7m contract to support the development of a controversial police ‘mega-database’ that has been beset by costly delays and privacy concerns.
The deal, which controversially did not go to competitive tender, was disclosed in an award notice last week that analysts said was light on (...)
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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 (...)
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ICE just signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI - 22 août 2020
The contract comes after months of scrutiny of Clearview’s privacy practices
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI this week for “mission support,” government contracting records show (as first spotted by the tech accountability nonprofit Tech (...)
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Clearview AI, le cauchemar de la reconnaissance faciale devient réalité - 20 août 2020
Imaginée et financée par des personnalités de la droite américaine radicale, l’application de la société Clearview AI permet d’identifier une personne en comparant une photo à toutes celles, publiques, postées sur Internet. Alors que le logiciel était utilisé secrètement par des policiers et des entreprises, la société vient (...)
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ICE Guards “Systematically” Sexually Assault Detainees in an El Paso Detention Center, Lawyers Say - 15 août 2020
Allegations include guards attacking victims in camera “blind spots” and telling them that “no one would believe” them in ICE detention centers, which imprison about 50,000 immigrants each year at a taxpayer expense of $2.7 billion.
Guards in an immigrant detention center in El Paso sexually assaulted and harassed (...)
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Automated Suspicion - 15 août 2020
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has raised the possibility of widespread surveillance and location tracking for the purpose of disease control, setting alarm bells ringing amongst privacy advocates and civil rights campaigners. However, EU institutions and governments have long been set on the path of more (...)
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We won ! Home Office to stop using racist visa algorithm - 14 août 2020
We are delighted to announce that the Home Office has agreed to scrap its ’visa streaming’ algorithm, in response to legal action we launched with tech-justice group Foxglove.
From Friday, 7 August, Home Secretary Priti Patel will suspend the “visa streaming” algorithm “pending a redesign of the process,” which will (...)
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Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Others Sign on to Fight Trump’s Immigration Freeze - 11 août 2020
52 companies are now united against a proclamation from the Trump administration that suspends temporary work visas
Technology companies are throwing their weight behind lawsuits that accuse the Trump administration of harming the U.S. economy in suspending temporary work visas. On Monday, 52 companies including (...)
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Werkwijze Belastingdienst in strijd met de wet en discriminerend - 5 août 2020
Afdeling Toeslagen van de Belastingdienst had de (dubbele) nationaliteit van aanvragers van kinderopvangtoeslag niet zo mogen verwerken als jarenlang gebeurde. Deze verwerkingen waren onrechtmatig, discriminerend en daarmee onbehoorlijk – zware overtredingen van de privacywet, de Algemene verordening (...)
