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Border Police Wants Bite of Burgeoning Anti-Drone Industry - 4 mai 2021
Citing threats from drug cartels to migrants, CBP’s interest dovetails with a $487 million effort by the U.S. government to counter small drones.
In April, U.S. Army officers met with representatives from Aurora Flight Sciences, a Virginia-based subsidiary of Boeing, to test whether the company’s technology could (...)
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Police Want Your Smart Speaker—Here’s Why - 25 décembre 2020
Requests are rising from law enforcement for information on the devices, which can include internet queries, food orders, and overheard conversations.
In July 2019, police rushed to the home of 32-year-old Silvia Galva. Galva’s friend, also in the home, called 911, claiming she overheard a violent argument between (...)
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DHS Plans to Start Collecting Eye Scans and DNA - 18 novembre 2020
As the agency plans to collect more biometrics, including from U.S. citizens, Northrop Grumman is helping build the infrastructure.
Through a little-discussed potential bureaucratic rule change, the Department of Homeland Security is planning to collect unprecedented levels of biometric information from (...)
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Homeland Security Wants to Erase Its History of Misconduct - 7 octobre 2020
U.S. Customs and Border Protection wants to destroy thousands of complaint records it claims have no historical value.
Agencies under the Department of Homeland Security have been accused of performing forced hysterectomies on detained immigrants, deporting witnesses to systemic sexual abuse in immigration (...)
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Palantir Contracts Raise Human Rights Concerns before Direct Listing - 30 septembre 2020
In advance of the direct listing of Palantir Technologies, Inc. on the New York Stock Exchange on September 29, Amnesty International released today a new briefing, Failing to Do Right : The Urgent Need for Palantir to Respect Human Rights, where the organization concludes that Palantir is failing to conduct human (...)
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One Way to Prevent Police From Surveilling Your Phone - 29 septembre 2020
Use Signal and add a PIN code to your phone’s SIM card to help protect against spying.
Federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department used “a sophisticated cell phone cloning attack—the details of which remain classified—to intercept protesters’ phone communications” in Portland (...)
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DHS Admits Facial Recognition Photos Were Hacked, Released on Dark Web - 26 septembre 2020
Traveler’s faces, license plates, and care information were hacked from a subcontractor called Perceptics and released on the dark web.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) finally acknowledged Wednesday that photos that were part of a facial recognition pilot program were hacked from a Customs and Border (...)
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Whistleblower : There Were Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility - 15 septembre 2020
The full statement : U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does not comment on matters presented to the Office of the Inspector General, which provides independent oversight and accountability within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. ICE takes all allegations seriously and defers to the OIG (...)
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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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How Cops Can Secretly Track Your Phone - 31 juillet 2020
A guide to stingray surveillance technology, which may have been deployed at recent protests.
Since May, as protesters around the country have marched against police brutality and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, activists have spotted a recurring presence in the skies : mysterious planes and (...)
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L’armée privée de Trump est bien plus effrayante que vous ne le pensez - 31 juillet 2020
Deux mois après la mort de George Floyd, des manifestations ont toujours lieu dans les rues de Portland. Pour y « rétablir l’ordre », le président américain a déployé sa milice d’agents fédéraux.
Nul besoin d’être juriste pour comprendre que ce qui se passe à Portland, dans l’Oregon, relève de l’abus de pouvoir caractérisé. (...)
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BlueLeaks Hack Exposes Personal Data of 700,000 Cops - 17 juillet 2020
After failing to prevent the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S. government realized it had an information sharing problem. Local, state and federal law enforcement agencies had their own separate surveillance databases that possibly could have prevented the attacks, but they didn’t communicate any of (...)
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From RealPlayer to Toshiba, Tech Companies Cash in on the Facial Recognition Gold Rush - 2 juin 2020
At least 45 companies now advertise real-time facial recognition
More than a decade before Spotify, and years before iTunes, there was RealPlayer, the first mainstream solution to playing and streaming media to a PC. Launched in 1995, within five years RealPlayer claimed a staggering 95 million users.
But it was (...)
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The U.S. Coast Guard Just Ordered Palantir Tech For Help With COVID-19 ‘Readiness’ - 9 avril 2020
Palantir, the $20 billion data-crunching giant funded by Peter Thiel, is working with the U.S. Coast Guard, which has found itself on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic as ships become floating incubation laboratories for deadly outbreaks of the coronavirus.
According to federal procurement records, (...)
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Announcing Who Has Your Face | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 20 mars 2020
The government and law enforcement should not be scanning your photos with face recognition technology. But right now, at least half of Americans are likely in government face recognition databases—often thanks to secretive agreements between state and federal government agencies—without any of us having opted in. (...)
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Who Has Your Face ? - 20 mars 2020
A majority of Americans are in face recognition databases in use by the government. Photos you provide for identification are often shared, without your consent, with law enforcement, the FBI, ICE, and others. Those agencies use flawed facial recognition technology to compare your face with those in mugshots, (...)
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Clearview AI, Facial Recognition Company That Works With Law Enforcement, Says Entire Client List Was Stolen - 1er mars 2020
Clearview AI, which contracts with law enforcement after reportedly scraping 3 billion images from the web, now says someone got “unauthorized access” to its list of customers.
A facial-recognition company that contracts with powerful law-enforcement agencies just reported that an intruder stole its entire client (...)
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How Clearview AI is using facial recognition - Vox - 13 février 2020
Clearview AI built a massive database of faces that it’s making available to law enforcement, and nobody’s stopping it.
Your Instagram pictures could be part of a facial recognition database that’s been made available to law enforcement agencies. That’s thanks to Clearview AI, a mysterious startup that has scraped (...)
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Apps are selling your location data. The U.S. government is buying. - 9 février 2020
AMERICANS HAVE lately been learning that the apps they use to check whether they need an umbrella, or follow their favorite sports team, or hurl one animated animal at another for points are sucking up their location data and selling it. Now it turns out that it’s not only advertising companies and other private (...)
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Rogue NYPD cops using facial recognition app Clearview - 29 janvier 2020
Rogue NYPD officers are using a sketchy facial recognition software on their personal phones that the department’s own facial recognition unit doesn’t want to touch because of concerns about security and potential for abuse, The Post has learned.
Clearview AI, which has scraped millions of photos from social media (...)
