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Many Facial-Recognition Systems Are Biased, Says U.S. Study - The New York Times - 1er février 2020
Algorithms falsely identified African-American and Asian faces 10 to 100 times more than Caucasian faces, researchers for the National Institute of Standards and Technology found.
The majority of commercial facial-recognition systems exhibit bias, according to a study from a federal agency released on Thursday, (...)
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Antiterrorisme : la CNCDH fait le bilan de cinq années de dérives liberticides - Page 1 | Mediapart - 31 janvier 2020
Dans une note publiée à l’occasion de l’anniversaire de l’attaque contre Charlie Hebdo, la Commission nationale consultative des droits de l’homme dénonce une inflation législative, conduisant à un grave recul des libertés publiques, ainsi qu’à une stigmatisation des musulmans.
À l’occasion des cinq ans de l’attaque contre (...)
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The Rise of the Video Surveillance Industrial Complex - 28 janvier 2020
There’s widespread concern that video cameras will use facial recognition software to track our every public move. Far less remarked upon — but every bit as alarming — is the exponential expansion of “smart” video surveillance networks.
Private businesses and homes are starting to plug their cameras into police (...)
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The Secret History of Facial Recognition | WIRED - 27 janvier 2020
Sixty years ago, a sharecropper’s son invented a technology to identify faces. Then the record of his role all but vanished. Who was Woody Bledsoe, and who was he working for ?
Woody Bledsoe was sitting in a wheelchair in his open garage, waiting. To anyone who had seen him even a few months earlier—anyone (...)
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Opinion | You Are Now Remotely Controlled - The New York Times - 26 janvier 2020
Surveillance capitalists control the science and the scientists, the secrets and the truth.
The debate on privacy and law at the Federal Trade CommissionClose X was unusually heated that day. Tech industry executives “argued that they were capable of regulating themselves and that government intervention would be (...)
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Caroline Lequesne Roth : « L’encadrement des technologies de surveillance est une condition de la démocratie » - 22 janvier 2020
La généralisation de la reconnaissance faciale à des fins de surveillance serait attentatoire aux libertés, estime, dans une tribune au « Monde », la juriste Caroline Lequesne Roth, qui plaide pour un large débat public afin de distinguer les usages acceptables ou non.
Tribune. A l’ère des technologies de surveillance, (...)
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Twitter apologises for letting ads target neo-Nazis and bigots - BBC News - 17 janvier 2020
Twitter has apologised for allowing adverts to be micro-targeted at certain users such as neo-Nazis, homophobes and other hate groups.
The BBC discovered the issue and that prompted the tech firm to act.
Our investigation found it possible to target users who had shown an interest in keywords including (...)
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Des médecins dérapent sur Facebook sous couvert d’humour carabin - 7 janvier 2020
Des contenus racistes, sexistes, grossophobes et anti-pauvres. Voici ce que révèlent des pages Facebook alimentées par des praticiens et des étudiants en médecine, dont un groupe privé qui rassemble près de 11 400 blouses blanches. Du lynchage au patient bashing, voire aux pratiques discriminatoires… Comment de tels (...)
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La Chine, leader inquiétant de la smart city - 7 janvier 2020
Quand « intelligence » rime avec « surveillance ».
Entre 1980 et aujourd’hui, la part de la population chinoise résidant en ville est passée de 18% à 58%. Ce chiffre devrait encore s’accroître de 292 millions de personnes d’ici à 2050. La Chine compte 662 villes, dont 160 dépassent le million d’habitant·es.
Les ambitions de (...)
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Comment savoir si des sujets d’étude ont réellement consenti à l’utilisation de leurs données ? - 4 janvier 2020
À la suite de révélations sur des études exploitant des données recueillies auprès de Ouïghours, des éditeurs scientifiques voudraient mettre en place de nouvelles directives éthiques.
Aux alentours de 2014, le gouvernement chinois allait intensifier sa campagne de « désextrémisation » des Ouïghours musulmans de la (...)
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The Rise — And Rise — Of Mass Surveillance - 30 décembre 2019
Eavesdropping bureaucrats have been replaced by algorithm-driven facial recognition technology. But the real impact of indiscriminate surveillance may be in our minds.
We live in a world where school cameras monitor children’s emotions, countries collect people’s DNA en masse, and no digital communication seems (...)
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In China’s Crackdown on Muslims, Children Have Not Been Spared - 28 décembre 2019
In Xinjiang the authorities have separated nearly half a million children from their families, aiming to instill loyalty to China and the Communist Party.
HOTAN, China — The first grader was a good student and beloved by her classmates, but she was inconsolable, and it was no mystery to her teacher why.
“The most (...)
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Too big to fail ? Tech’s decade of scale and impunity - 26 décembre 2019
Big tech behaves as though power absolves them of responsibility. Have we learned nothing since the financial crash ?
Towards the end of the last decade, two American social networks – Facebook and MySpace – were locked in a battle to conquer the rest of the world.
The two companies took “radically different” (...)
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The Invention of “Ethical AI” - 22 décembre 2019
How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation
The irony of the ethical scandal enveloping Joichi Ito, the former director of the MIT Media Lab, is that he used to lead academic initiatives on ethics. After the revelation of his financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the financier charged with sex trafficking (...)
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Dear Mark Zuckerberg : Facebook Is an Engine of Anti-Muslim Hate the World Over. Don’t You Care ? - 9 décembre 2019
Dear Mark Zuckerberg,
What happened to you ?
Back in December 2015, you spoke out loudly and proudly against anti-Muslim hatred. “I want to add my voice in support of Muslims in our community and around the world,” you wrote in a post on Facebook, two days after then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (...)
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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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Monetising hate : covert enterprise co-opts far-right Facebook pages to churn out anti-Islamic posts - 7 décembre 2019
Exclusive : Israel-based group has gained access to at least 21 pages, using them to launch coordinated false stories to their 1 million followers around the world
A mysterious group has used some of Facebook’s largest far-right pages to create a commercial enterprise that harvests anti-Islamic hate for profit and (...)
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China Uses DNA to Map Faces, With Help From the West - 4 décembre 2019
Beijing’s pursuit of control over a Muslim ethnic group pushes the rules of science and raises questions about consent.
In a dusty city in the Xinjiang region on China’s western frontier, the authorities are testing the rules of science.
With a million or more ethnic Uighurs and others from predominantly Muslim (...)
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« “1984” d’Orwell illustre de façon prémonitoire ce qui se passe dans la Chine de Xi Jinping » - 3 décembre 2019
A l’image du sort réservé aux minorités musulmanes en Chine, l’Etat-parti veut tout savoir de tous. Alain Frachon, éditorialiste au « Monde », s’interroge : est-ce la préfiguration d’une tyrannie 2.0 ?
Ce 20 novembre, l’éditorial du New York Times portait ce titre : « “1984” in China » ; « 1984 en Chine ». Pour comprendre ce (...)
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Exposed : China’s Operating Manuals for Mass Internment and Arrest by Algorithm - 29 novembre 2019
A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents reveals the operations manual for running the mass detention camps in Xinjiang and exposed the mechanics of the region’s system of mass surveillance.
A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents has uncovered the operations manual for (...)
