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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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How to Track President Trump - 20 décembre 2019
IF YOU OWN A MOBILE PHONE, its every move is logged and tracked by dozens of companies. No one is beyond the reach of this constant digital surveillance. Not even the president of the United States.
The Times Privacy Project obtained a dataset with more than 50 billion location pings from the phones of more than (...)
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The Defense Department Says It Needs the Encryption the FBI Wants to Break - 15 décembre 2019
A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers this week worked overtime to vilify encryption, oblivious to the fact that weakening encryption standards will put the public, and the internet, at risk.
Even the Defense Department is now pointing out that the government’s quest to weaken encryption lies somewhere between (...)
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Tech Workers Now Want to Know : What Are We Building This For ? - 9 décembre 2019
Jack Poulson, a Google research scientist, recently became alarmed by reports that the company was developing a search engine for China that would censor content on behalf of the government.
While Dr. Poulson works on search technologies, he had no knowledge of the product, which was code-named Dragonfly. So in a (...)
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Jeff Bezos says Amazon wants to work more with the Pentagon - 9 décembre 2019
Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos said it would support the U.S. Department of Defense as technology companies vie for more defense contracts and the Pentagon seeks to modernize itself.
“We are going to support the Department of Defense, this country is important,” Bezos said at an annual defense forum at the (...)
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Pourquoi Jeff Bezos tient à ce qu’Amazon travaille avec l’armée américaine - 9 décembre 2019
Pour le patron d’Amazon, il ne s’agit pas seulement de gagner de l’argent en répondant aux contrats du Pentagone. Il s’agit aussi de soutenir Washington face à certains rivaux stratégiques, à commencer par la Chine.
Les poids lourds de la technologie doivent-ils marcher main dans la main avec l’armée américaine ? Pour (...)
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Jeff Bezos says employee activists are wrong and Silicon Valley firms should feel comfortable doing business with the US military - 9 décembre 2019
Jeff Bezos says employee activists are wrong and Silicon Valley firms should feel comfortable doing business with the US military
Bezos said it was the responsibility of management to push back against employee outrage toward military contracts.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos threw his support behind the US Department (...)
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How Amazon and Silicon Valley Seduced the Pentagon - 22 août 2019
Tech moguls like Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt have gotten unprecedented access to the Pentagon. And one whistleblower who raised flags has paid the price.
On Aug. 8, 2017, Roma Laster, a Pentagon employee responsible for policing conflicts of interest, emailed an urgent warning to the chief of staff of (...)
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Google Continues Investments in Military and Police AI Technology Through Venture Capital Arm - 24 juillet 2019
Last year,Google faced internal revolt from many employees over its handling of Project Maven, a secretive contract between the company and the Department of Defense to use artificial intelligence to improve the military’s drone targeting capabilities. After a series of internal, worker-led protests and (...)
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Amazon Offered Job to Pentagon Official Involved With $10 Billion Contract It Sought - 4 juin 2019
In a federal lawsuit, the tech giant Oracle has provided new details to support its accusation that Amazon secretly negotiated a job offer with a then-Department of Defense official who helped shape the procurement process for a massive federal contract for which Amazon was a key bidder.
Amazon Web Services and (...)
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China’s hacking against U.S. on the rise : U.S. intelligence official - 18 décembre 2018
A senior U.S. intelligence official said on Tuesday that Chinese cyber activity in the United States had risen in recent months, targeting critical infrastructure in what may be attempts to lay the groundwork for future disruptive attacks.
"You worry they are prepositioning against critical infrastructure and (...)
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Des secrets de la marine américaine volés : les failles des sous-traitants de la défense - 18 décembre 2018
Selon le Wall Street Journal, la marine américaine aurait subi des attaques informatiques grave auprès de ses sous-traitants. Washington accuserait de nouveau la Chine.
Selon un rapport de Richard Spencer, secrétaire à la marine des États-Unis, des attaques informatiques ont touché la marine américaine et affecté la (...)
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Amazon is the invisible backbone of ICE’s immigration crackdown - 22 octobre 2018
Lobbying dollars and a cozy relationship with the government have given the tech giant an outsize influence in the Department of Homeland Security.
In June, when the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) began separating migrant children from their parents, several tech companies came under fire for (...)
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Google Drops Out of Pentagon’s $10 Billion Cloud Competition - 10 octobre 2018
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has decided not to compete for the Pentagon’s cloud-computing contract valued at as much as $10 billion, saying the project may conflict with its corporate values.
The project, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud, or JEDI, involves transitioning massive amounts of (...)
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L’armée américaine développe un drone capable de voler éternellement - 5 septembre 2018
L’armée américaine travaille à la mise au point d’un drone potentiellement capable de voler sans jamais atterrir, grâce à une alimentation énergétique à distance par faisceau laser. Mise en parallèle avec le blocage des discussions internationales sur l’encadrement des armes létales autonomes, la nouvelle a de quoi inquiéter (...)
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Les militaires veulent tirer parti de la numérisation - 3 juin 2018
Début avril, plus de 3000 employés de Google ont écrit une lettre commune à leur patron : "Cher Sundar, nous pensons que Google ne devrait pas être dans le business de la guerre". Cʹest que le tout puissant mastodonte californien aide lʹarmée américaine via un projet baptisé "Maven", un projet dʹentraînement (...)
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Google Won’t Renew Its Drone AI Contract, But It May Still Sign Future Military AI Contracts - 2 juin 2018
Google executives announced to company staff this morning that the tech giant won’t renew its contract to work on Project Maven, the controversial Pentagon program designed to provide the military with artificial intelligence technology used to help drone operators identify images on the battlefield. Google will (...)
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Sous la pression de ses employés, Google renonce à son projet controversé avec le Pentagone - 2 juin 2018
Face à la colère d’une partie de ses employés, Google fait marche arrière. Au cours d’une réunion interne, le moteur de recherche a annoncé, vendredi 1er juin, qu’il ne renouvellera pas son contrat avec le Pentagone, ont indiqué plusieurs sources citées par le site Gizmodo. Ce projet gouvernemental, baptisé Maven, a pour but (...)
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Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Lucrative Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially - 1er juin 2018
Following the revelation in March that Google had secretly signed an agreement with the Pentagon to provide cutting edge artificial intelligence technology for drone warfare, the company faced an internal revolt. About a dozen Google employees have resigned in protest and thousands have signed a petition calling (...)
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Maven, Rekognition : les technologies de surveillance développées Google et Amazon alarment - 30 mai 2018
Outre-Atlantique, des associations mais aussi des universitaires sont préoccupés par le développement de certains programmes technologies menés par les géants du numérique. Deux d’entre eux ont récemment provoqué une levée de boucliers : Maven, de Google, et Rekognition, d’Amazon.
Les géants du numérique devraient-ils (...)
