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Rite Aid deployed facial recognition system in hundreds of U.S. stores - 6 août 2020
In the hearts of New York and metro Los Angeles, Rite Aid installed facial recognition technology in largely lower-income, non-white neighborhoods, Reuters found. Among the technology the U.S. retailer used : a state-of-the-art system from a company with links to China and its authoritarian government.
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Big Tech Earnings Surge as Economy Slumps - 1er août 2020
Here’s what you need to know :
Amazon’s earnings double as sales surge.
Alphabet’s revenue drops, but beats Wall Street expectations.
Ford made $1.1 billion profit in the second quarter even as sales tumbled.
Apple blows past expectations with surging sales and profits.
The U.S. economy’s contraction in the (...)
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Lisbon Airbnb : Portugal Pushes Affordable Housing Plan - 30 juillet 2020
Lisbon City Council is introducing measures to turn Airbnb-style homes into affordable housing. But with many short-term rental owners holding out for tourism to return, the city’s new program has yet to attract many owners.
Under the so-called “Safe Rent” program, Lisbon is offering to pay as much as three years of (...)
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Lisbonne entre en guerre contre Airbnb - 30 juillet 2020
Un programme ambitieux prévoit de transformer les locations de courte durée en logements abordables pour les Lisboètes.
Pour la capitale portugaise, la pandémie de Covid-19, qui entraîne une chute vertigineuse du tourisme, est l’occasion de repenser la question des locations à courte durée –notamment celles effectuées (...)
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The Radical AI Project - 12 juillet 2020
Radical AI begins with a shared understanding that society distributes power unevenly — pushing People of Color, Black, Indigenous, Womxn, Queer, Poor, Disabled, and many other communities to the margins.
Growing from these roots, Radical AI examines how AI rearranges power and critically engages with the radical (...)
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Automating Inequality - Virginia Eubanks - 11 juillet 2020
A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity
The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years—because a new computer system interprets any mistake as “failure to (...)
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The answer to police violence is not ’reform’. It’s defunding. Here’s why - 4 juillet 2020
Bias training, body cameras, community dialogues – Minneapolis has tried them all. We need a better response
Every time protests erupt after yet another innocent black person is killed by police, “reform” is meekly offered as the solution. But what if drastically defunding the police – not reform – is the best way to (...)
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Court Corrects Flaw in UK’s Automated Benefits System - 4 juillet 2020
Ruling a Victory for Claimants’ Rights, but Problems Remain
When Rachelle, 35, a single working mother in London, received her first Universal Credit payment in March, she had a panic attack. It was far short of what she needed to pay the rent and support her two children, one of whom has a disability. “I am living (...)
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California city bans predictive policing in U.S. first - 28 juin 2020
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As officials mull steps to tackle police brutality and racism, California’s Santa Cruz has become the first U.S. city to ban predictive policing, which digital rights experts said could spark similar moves across the country.
“Understanding how predictive policing and facial (...)
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IBM (not) ending facial recognition - our quick thoughts - 23 juin 2020
On June 9th, in light of the global debate against racial injustices, the company IBM announced they would stop selling facial recognition. Here are 4 quick-fire thoughts we have on this.
Key points
This latest announcement is a PR stunt to distract from the reality : IBM has been profitting from the sale of (...)
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« En envoyant des individus armés pour gérer les problèmes sociaux, on augmente le risque de blessures ou de morts » - 21 juin 2020
À travers le monde les mobilisations pour dénoncer les brutalités policières ne faiblissent pas et lancent aux institutions le même appel : ce système, malade de son impunité, doit cesser. Alors comment réduire les violences policières ? Réponses de Magda Boutros, sociologue à l’Université Northwestern, près de Chicago, qui (...)
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The use of social media monitoring by local authorities – who is a target ? - 17 juin 2020
In the UK, Local Authorities (Councils) are looking at people’s social media accounts, such as Facebook, as part of their intelligence gathering and investigation tactics in areas such as council tax payments, children’s services, benefits and monitoring protests and demonstrations.
This has particular consequences (...)
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Automated Systems Trapping Citizens in Bureaucratic Limbo - 5 juin 2020
Lindsay Perry was 30 weeks pregnant and on bedrest when her husband Justin was accused of unemployment fraud and fined $10,000 after losing his job as a chef in 2014. The couple, who disputed the charges, tried calling the state unemployment agency, sending messages online, and even repeatedly showing up in (...)
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Désubériser, reprendre le contrôle - 4 juin 2020
Parce que l’ubérisation n’est pas une fatalité, des solutions pour un nouveau contrat social à l’heure du numérique.
L’ubérisation est devenue un symbole : celui des transformations que le numérique impose à notre modèle social, remis en cause jusque dans ses fondements.
Le salariat est-il en danger ? Faut-il au contraire (...)
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An algorithm was taken to court – and it lost (which is great news for the welfare state) - 3 juin 2020
As governments and big tech team up to target poorer citizens, we risk stumbling zombie-like into an AI welfare dystopia. But a landmark case ruled that using people’s personal data without consent violates their human rights.
An algorithm was taken to court in the Netherlands last week.
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Crise du Covid-19 : la technopolice profite de la stratégie du choc - 2 juin 2020
Ce texte a été publié au sein de l’œuvre collective « Résistons ensemble, pour que renaissent des jours heureux », (Télécharger au format epub et PDF) qui vise à faire le point sur la situation politique actuelle et à mettre en avant des propositions pour une société plus juste. Benoît Piédallu, membre de La Quadrature du (...)
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Jeff Bezos Shouldn’t Be a Billionaire, Much Less a Trillionaire - 29 mai 2020
Jeff Bezos is reportedly on pace to be the world’s first trillionaire. That’s a grotesque indictment of our society — and the only way to change it is to organize Amazon workers to wrest back the extraordinary power and wealth that Bezos is hoarding.
Jeff Bezos may become the world’s first trillionaire. The Amazon (...)
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Les milliardaires américains ont gagné 398 milliards pendant la pandémie de Covid-19 - 23 mai 2020
Jeff Bezos est toujours l’homme le plus riche du monde, mais avec 34,6 milliards de dollars en plus.
Si la crise du coronavirus a porté un coup à l’économie mondiale, elle profite au moins à quelques-un·es. Entre le 18 mars et le 19 mai 2020, la valeur nette des 600 plus grosses fortunes américaines a augmenté de 434 (...)
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India was already a surveillance state. Its Covid-19 app goes even further - 16 mai 2020
Concerns about the government’s new contact-tracing software stretch back more than a decade, to its controversial biometric data scheme
Critics warn that India’s new national contact tracing app, downloaded by over 100 million people, is just the latest move in the country’s drive to establish an increasingly (...)
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Le coopérationisme ou comment en finir avec cette peste économique - 13 mai 2020
Alors que trente millions d’Américains se sont inscrits au chômage depuis le début de la pandémie, les marchés boursiers américains ont enregistré en avril leur meilleur mois depuis 1987. Il devient donc urgent de repenser notre modèle économique et remplacer notre système de dirigisme de gladiateurs par une éthique de la (...)
