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Whistleblowers : Software Bug Keeping Some Inmates In Prisons Beyond Release Dates - 19 mars 2021
According to Arizona Department of Corrections whistleblowers, hundreds of incarcerated people who should be eligible for release are being held in prison because the inmate management software cannot interpret current sentencing laws.
KJZZ is not naming the whistleblowers because they fear retaliation. The (...)
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‘They track every move’ : how US parole apps created digital prisoners - 5 mars 2021
Is smartphone tracking a less intrusive reward for good behaviour or just a way to enrich the incarceration industry ?
In 2018, William Frederick Keck III pleaded guilty in a court in Manassas, Virginia, to possession with intent to distribute cannabis. He served three months in prison, then began a three-year (...)
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Smile for the camera : the dark side of China’s emotion-recognition tech - 3 mars 2021
Xi Jinping wants ‘positive energy’ but critics say the surveillance tools’ racial bias and monitoring for anger or sadness should be banned
Ordinary people here in China aren’t happy about this technology but they have no choice. If the police say there have to be cameras in a community, people will just have to live (...)
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Intercepted : Inside China’s Police State Tactics Against Muslims - 3 février 2021
A new report from The Intercept provides a raw glimpse into the persecution and sweeping internment of Muslims in northwest China’s Xinjiang region.
A massive police database obtained by The Intercept provides groundbreaking insight into the pervasive surveillance state operated by the Chinese government to (...)
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Russian Government Claims TikTok Deleted Young People’s Protest Prep Videos at Its Behest - 24 janvier 2021
The same week recently poisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was taken into police custody in Moscow, Russia’s youth and adults began preparing for unsanctioned protests that will take place across the country on Saturday, January 23. Some of this preparation has been aided by the video-sharing platform (...)
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A prison video visitation service exposed private calls between inmates and their attorneys - 15 janvier 2021
Thousands of calls were spilling from an unprotected server.
Fearing the spread of coronavirus, jails and prisons remain on lockdown. Visitors are unable to see their loved ones serving time, forcing friends and families to use prohibitively expensive video visitation services that often don’t work.
But now the (...)
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China’s Camps Have Forced Labor And Growing US Market - 6 janvier 2021
Observers have long warned of rising forced labor in Xinjiang. Satellite images show factories built just steps away from cell blocks.
ALMATY — China has built more than 100 new facilities in Xinjiang where it can not only lock people up, but also force them to work in dedicated factory buildings right on site, (...)
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Enquête vidéo : ce que les réseaux sociaux chinois révèlent des camps d’internement et du travail forcé des Ouïgours - 6 janvier 2021
Malgré la censure et les dénégations de Pékin, l’analyse des réseaux sociaux chinois par « Le Monde » expose la politique de répression menée contre les musulmans ouïgours, au Xinjiang.
Près de 400 camps d’internement, plus d’un million de détenus et des centaines de milliers de travailleurs forcés… Depuis 2018, l’ampleur de (...)
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Benefitting whom ? An overview of companies profiting from “digital welfare” - 27 novembre 2020
Could private companies be the only ones really profitting from digital welfare ? This overview looks at the big players.
Key findings
Companies like IBM, MasterCard and credit scoring agencies are developping programmes that reshape our access to welfare.
A particular example is the case of the London Counter (...)
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Inside the World’s ‘Most Sophisticated’ Surveillance System, With BuzzFeed News’ Megha Rajagopalan - 20 septembre 2020
A leading China reporter talks to Alex Kantrowitz about surveillance, internet censorship, and the internment of Muslims in Xinjiang
China’s mass internment of Muslims in its Xinjiang region is one of the world’s most under-covered stories. The country has detained 1 million people there, putting them through a (...)
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En effaçant les camps de Ouïghours sur Baidu Maps, la Chine les a rendus visibles. - 8 septembre 2020
Privées d’accès au Xinjiang, des journalistes du site BuzzFeed se tournent en 2018 vers l’imagerie satellite du site chinois Baidu Maps pour localiser les 1.200 camps de concentration où sont détenu·es des Ouïghour·es, dans le cadre d’un génocide qui a commencé en 2014.
Avec les progrès de la technologie, cette technique (...)
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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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Blanked-Out Spots On China’s Maps Helped Us Uncover Xinjiang’s Camps - 31 août 2020
China’s Baidu blanked out parts of its mapping platform. We used those locations to find a network of buildings bearing the hallmarks of prisons and internment camps in Xinjiang. Here’s how we did it.
In the summer of 2018, as it became even harder for journalists to work effectively in Xinjiang, a far-western (...)
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Kids May Be Using Laptops Made With Forced Labor This Fall - 23 août 2020
The Lenovo computers were manufactured under a Chinese government program to provide cheap labor from persecuted Uyghurs.
The ongoing persecution by the Chinese government of Uyghur Muslims is far from a distant problem. Recent reporting has identified Uyghur forced labor in the supply chain of major global (...)
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Investors pressured to cut ties to Xinjiang - 19 août 2020
Campaign groups are calling for individuals and corporations to ensure that the brands they support have no links to Beijing’s ongoing abuses of Uyghur human rights
Investors are being urged to pull their money out of companies that have links with China’s ongoing campaign of detention and forced labor in the (...)
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Antiterrorisme : le Conseil constitutionnel censure les « mesures de sûreté » - 8 août 2020
L’essentiel de la loi adoptée par le Parlement le 27 juillet a été déclaré contraire à la Constitution. Pour la majorité LREM, le gouvernement en général et son ministre de la justice en particulier, c’est un désaveu cinglant.
Vendredi 7 août, le Conseil constitutionnel a censuré la quasi-totalité de la loi instaurant « des (...)
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Swiss police automated crime predictions but has little to show for it - 5 août 2020
A review of 3 automated systems in use by the Swiss police and judiciary reveals serious issues. Real-world effects are impossible to assess due to a lack of transparency.
The Swiss police and justice authorities use, by one count, over 20 different automated systems to estimate or predict inappropriate behavior. (...)
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View of Digital inequalities in time of pandemic : COVID-19 exposure risk profiles and new forms of vulnerability - 1er août 2020
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In this article, we argue that new kinds of risk are emerging with the COVID-19 virus, and that these risks are unequally distributed. As we expose to view, digital inequalities and social inequalities are rendering certain subgroups significantly more vulnerable to exposure to COVID-19. Vulnerable (...)
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Inégalités numériques face à l’épidémie : profil de risque d’exposition au Covid-19 et nouvelles formes de vulnérabilités - 1er août 2020
Cet article a été écrit collectivement par 17 chercheur·ses : Laura Robinson, Jeremy Schulz, Aneka Khilnani, Hiroshi Ono, Shelia R. Cotten, Noah McClain, Lloyd Levine, Wenhong Chen, Gejun Huang, Antonio A. Casilli, Paola Tubaro, Matías Dodel, Anabel Quan-Haase, Maria Laura Ruiu, Massimo Ragnedda, Deb Aikat, et Natalia (...)
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Accusations de maltraitances au tribunal de Paris : "Les officiers ont leur carrière en ligne de mire" et "étouffent" des affaires, selon le policier qui dénonce les faits - 28 juillet 2020
Le brigadier-chef Amar Benmohamed s’est confié sur franceinfo, il raconte en détails les insultes racistes, les vols et la maltraitance infligés aux personnes retenues en cellule au tribunal de Paris.
"Les officiers, les gradés ne sont pas racistes. Par contre, ils ont tous leur carrière en ligne de mire. Pour des (...)
