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Hacked Surveillance Camera Firm Shows Staggering Scale of Facial Recognition - 18 mars 2021
Hackers have broken into Verkada, a popular surveillance and facial recognition camera company, and managed to access live feeds of thousands of cameras across the world, as well as siphon a Verkada customer list. The breach shows the astonishing reach of facial recognition-enabled cameras in ordinary workplaces, (...)
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Cars Have Your Location. This Spy Firm Wants to Sell It to the U.S. Military - 17 mars 2021
15 billion car locations. Nearly any country on Earth. ‘The Ulysses Group’ is pitching a powerful surveillance technology to the U.S. government.
A surveillance contractor that has previously sold services to the U.S. military is advertising a product that it says can locate the real-time locations of specific cars (...)
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À Calais, la ville s’emmure - 10 mars 2021
Animée par une politique d’inhospitalité envers les exilés qui cherchent à rejoindre l’Angleterre, la ville voit se multiplier les dispositifs « anti-migrants ».
De hauts grillages blancs et tristes, surmontés de barbelés acérés comme des lames de rasoir. Voilà à quoi ressemble l’horizon dans certains coins de Calais, (...)
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How Private Security Firms Profit Off the Refugee Crisis - 10 mars 2021
The UK has pumped money to corporations turning Calais into a bleak fortress.
Tall white fences lined with barbed wire – welcome to Calais. The city in northern France is an obligatory stop for anyone trying to reach the UK across the channel. But some travellers are more welcome than others, and in recent (...)
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Spot is a Cop - 4 mars 2021
A new report shows that Boston Dynamics loaned its Spot robot to the Massachusetts State Police, and civil liberties groups are concerned.
Cops are already using Boston Dynamics’ creepy Spot robot, and they’re not being very transparent about what the four-legged mechanical hellhound is getting up to while it’s in (...)
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Is This Beverly Hills Cop Playing Sublime’s ‘Santeria’ to Avoid Being Live-Streamed ? - 9 février 2021
Police officers in Beverly Hills have been playing music while being filmed, seemingly in an effort to trigger Instagram’s copyright filters.
Last Friday, a man entered the Beverly Hills police department, only to be treated to a mini DJ set that could potentially get his Instagram account banned.
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This App Claims It Can Detect ’Trustworthiness.’ It Can’t - 20 janvier 2021
Experts say an algorithm can’t determine whether you can be trusted by analyzing your face or voice. But that’s not stopping this company from trying.
“Determine how trustworthy a person is in just one minute.” That’s the pitch from DeepScore, a Tokyo-based company that spent last week marketing its facial and voice (...)
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Facebook and Instagram Are Censoring Protests Against Police Violence in Nigeria - 15 janvier 2021
As activists tried to upload images of Nigeria’s #EndSARS protests, the social media companies blocked their posts.
Facebook and Instagram are falsely tagging content linked to peaceful anti-police brutality demonstrators in Nigeria as fake news.
The issue was flagged Wednesday by multiple social media users who (...)
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Court Rules Deliveroo Used ’Discriminatory’ Algorithm - 5 janvier 2021
An Italian court determined that companies can be held liable even if an algorithm unintentionally discriminates against a protected group.
An algorithm used by the popular European food delivery app Deliveroo to rank and offer shifts to riders is discriminatory, an Italian court ruled late last week, in what (...)
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Students Have To Jump Through Absurd Hoops To Use Exam Monitoring Software - 24 novembre 2020
Last month, as students at Wilfrid Laurier University, in Ontario, Canada, began studying for their midterm exams, many of them had to memorize not just the content on their tests, but a complex set of instructions for how to take them.
The school has a student body of nearly 18,500 undergraduates, and is one of (...)
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How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps - 18 novembre 2020
A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people’s personal data to brokers, contractors, and the military.
A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that (...)
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Leaked Audio : Facebook Moderators Terrified to Return to Office During Covid Outbreak - 30 octobre 2020
Internal documents and audio show that Facebook is requiring moderators to come back to work to deal with content related to child abuse, self harm, and terrorism.
CORK, Ireland — At the beginning of August, Facebook announced that it would be allowing all its staff to remain working from home until at least the (...)
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Gig Workers’ Only Chance to Pee Is Apparently an App - 28 octobre 2020
Gig workers have nowhere to pee and it’s only gotten worse during COVID-19. Instead of a societal solution, there is the Whizz app.
Nowhere has COVID-19’s tendency to accelerate the worst trends in our economic order been more clear than in the gig economy.
Before the pandemic, gig workers—already forced to demean (...)
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Students Are Rebelling Against Eye-Tracking Exam Surveillance Tools - 14 octobre 2020
Invasive test-taking software has become mandatory in many places, and some companies are retaliating against those who speak out.
As a privacy-minded computer science student preparing to start his first year at Miami University, Erik Johnson was concerned this fall when he learned that two of his professors (...)
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Gig Economy Company Launches Uber, But for Evicting People - 27 septembre 2020
A company called Civvl says evicting people is the "FASTEST GROWING MONEY MAKING GIG DUE TO COVID-19."
"SINCE COVID-19 MANY AMERICANS FELL BEHIND IN ALL ASPECTS," reads the website copy. The button below this statement is not for a GoFundMe, or a petition for calling for rent relief. Instead, it is the following (...)
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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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This Company Wants to Help Your Boss Monitor Your Brainwaves at Work - 26 septembre 2020
Critics doubt that Emotiv’s earphone-style sensors can reliably track things like stress and attention—and some worry the technology will become yet another form of workplace surveillance.
The MN8 electroencephalography device looks like any set of sleek wireless earphones. Its buds can rest unobtrusively in the (...)
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Surveillance Company Explains How to Keep Facebook From Detecting Fake Accounts in Leaked Manual - 25 septembre 2020
A leaked manual from Blackdot Solutions, a British company that offers social media monitoring services, included a step-by-step guide on how to create fake profiles on Facebook and LinkedIn.
A company that markets an online investigations platform for government agencies, banks, and other businesses says (...)
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Facebook Says it Will Stop Operating in Europe If Regulators Don’t Back Down - 23 septembre 2020
European regulators are cracking down on Facebook’s ability to transfer data across the Atlantic. Now the tech giant is threatening to pull its services from more than 400 million European users.
Facebook has threatened to pack up its toys and go home if European regulators don’t back down and let the social (...)
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European Police Malware Could Harvest GPS, Messages, Passwords, More - 18 septembre 2020
A document obtained by Motherboard provides more detail on the malware law enforcement deployed against Encrochat devices.
The malware that French law enforcement deployed en masse onto Encrochat devices, a large encrypted phone network using Android phones, had the capability to harvest "all data stored within (...)
