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Coronavirus is putting Europe’s privacy protectors front and centre – and they’re coming up short - 2 octobre 2020
Coronavirus is putting Europe’s privacy protectors front and centre – and they’re coming up short
Coronavirus is putting Europe’s privacy protectors front and centre – and they’re coming up short
Wojciech Wiewiórowski felt like his entire life had been leading up to the moment when Covid-19 hit Europe like a tidal wave (...)
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Why don’t more people say f**k the algorithm ? - 21 septembre 2020
Protest movements around the world have become inherently digital, but why are there so few protests responding to governments’ online actions ? And find out how volunteers are tracking down tourists breaking quarantine in Hawaii.
We live in a digital society. But while the internet’s relationship with protest (...)
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The pandemic will end. But in India, Tunisia and Peru, there are signs the surveillance will not - 2 septembre 2020
In India, judges make downloading a coronavirus app mandatory for suspects released on bail, Tunisia has a long history of government surveillance and in Peru, a survey system slurps personal data. In all three countries, writers fear Covid-19 surveillance could outlive the virus.
Emergencies change the rules. (...)
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From Japan to Brazil and South Africa : how countries’ ‘data cultures’ shape their response to coronavirus - 13 août 2020
Since March, The Correspondent has been tracking how countries are using surveillance technology to respond to the spread of the coronavirus. We’ve already documented how governments have turned to contact-tracing apps, telecom tracking and self-assessment apps to curb the spread of the virus. But it’s clear that (...)
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The original Big Tech is working closer than ever with governments to combat coronavirus – with no scrutiny - 10 août 2020
Telecom companies are at the core of the world’s communication universe. Since the coronavirus pandemic, they’ve been passing even more sensitive data to governments. It’s time they were held as accountable as Google and Facebook.
The texts can arrive at any time. Recipients are told they’ve been exposed to the (...)
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Algorithms that run our lives are racist and sexist. Meet the women trying to fix them - 20 juillet 2020
From insurance payments to courtroom sentencing, AI makes increasingly complex decisions about our lives. And our belief that data is neutral allows algorithms to get away with murder. The fight back is being led by those most likely to find themselves on the wrong side of a computer’s decision.
Timnit Gebru was (...)
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New corona apps : fake it till you make it - 24 juin 2020
This week, De Correspondent’s Dimitri Tokmetzis and I revisited one of the key questions in the debate about contact-tracing apps – how much data should they collect ?
While tech companies want to limit the amount of information governments can harvest from iPhone and Android users, health agencies say they need (...)
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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.
The System Risk (...)
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Black Lives Matter protesters aren’t being tracked with Covid-19 surveillance tech. Not yet - 3 juin 2020
A video posted on Twitter sparked fears that Black Lives Matter protesters could be tracked down using Covid-19 contact-tracing technology. It’s a false alarm on this occasion, but without clear protections in place, the question is ‘when’ not ‘if’ our data is misused.
Like many of the people who watched Minnesota (...)
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Keeping watch : help us track coronavirus surveillance around the world - 2 juin 2020
How you can help us track surveillance introduced in the response to coronavirus
We are Morgan and Dimitri, journalists for The Correspondent and De Correspondent. We’re looking for readers around the world to be our eyes and ears, keeping us up to date on the latest developments in pandemic surveillance from your (...)
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We were told technology would end Covid-19 lockdowns, but the truth is there’s no app for that - 1er juin 2020
In many countries, contact-tracing apps were presented as a precondition to end lockdowns. But our Track(ed) Together investigation reveals that many countries are struggling with the technology, turning instead to less high-tech solutions.
Sam Aldridge was sceptical when she first heard about Australia’s (...)
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The (non)sense of online advertising : when the numbers don’t add up - 1er juin 2020
The digital advertising industry, worth hundreds of billions of dollars annually, is often plagued by widespread fraud, dubious metrics, and adblockers. Turns out that in a world of maths and numbers, measuring anything accurately is almost impossible.
On 29 January 2017, the American online advertising world (...)
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How governments use the internet to crush online dissent - 27 novembre 2019
Manal Al-Sharif was wearing sweatpants and a Mickey Mouse T-shirt when the police arrived at 2am. They banged on the door of her home so hard that the frame shook. The previous day, at the wheel of her brother’s car, Al-Sharif had been pulled over by traffic police – it was 2011, and still illegal in Saudi Arabia (...)
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Banking on AI to fix all our problems ? Hate to disappoint you - 17 octobre 2019
Depending on who you speak to, artificial intelligence (AI) is either the answer to all our major problems – from climate change to queuing (if you talk to Jeff Bezos) – or it might just be the last invention that humankind ever makes.
I recently attended the World AI Summit here in the Netherlands, where I heard a (...)
