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Bumble, Tinder and Match are banning accounts of Capitol rioters - 20 janvier 2021
Bumble, Tinder and others are freezing out rioters with help from law enforcement — and, in some cases, their own photos. Other app users have taken matters into their own hands by striking up conversations with potential rioters and relaying their information to the FBI.
Tinder, Bumble and other dating apps are (...)
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Unreliable algorithms could be deciding who gets a covid vaccine first - 30 décembre 2020
When front-line workers at Stanford Health Care were passed over for the first wave of coronavirus vaccines, officials at the hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., blamed the “very complex algorithm” it had built to decide employees’ place in line.
But unlike the sophisticated machine-learning algorithms that underpin the (...)
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EFF’s Eva Galperin says stalkerware can be used by abusers to stalk their victims - 26 décembre 2020
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, but it also marks the start of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Electronic Frontier Foundation Director of Cybersecurity Eva Galperin, who works with abuse victims, says these victims can also be the targets of stealth software that can be used to track their every move. (...)
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Amazon’s Halo Band wearable tracks your voice and body fat, but isn’t helpful - 10 décembre 2020
The Halo Band asks you to strip down and strap on a microphone so that it can make 3-D scans of your body fat and monitor your tone of voice. After all that, it still isn’t very helpful.
Amazon has a new health-tracking bracelet with a microphone and an app that tells you everything that’s wrong with you.
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Apple will pay $113 million for batterygate slowing of iPhones - 19 novembre 2020
Apple will pay $113 million to settle an investigation by nearly three dozen states into the tech giant’s past practice of slowing customers’ old iPhones in an attempt to preserve their batteries.
The company’s much maligned throttling efforts drew nationwide scorn when they came to light in 2017, stunning consumers (...)
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Cyber Command has sought to disrupt the world’s largest botnet, hoping to reduce its potential impact on the election - 15 octobre 2020
In recent weeks, the U.S. military has mounted an operation to temporarily disrupt what is described as the world’s largest botnet — one used also to drop ransomware, which officials say is one of the top threats to the 2020 election.
U.S. Cyber Command’s campaign against the Trickbot botnet, an army of at least 1 (...)
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Reddit shuts down r/The_Donald after years of problems with racism, anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories - 30 juin 2020
Moderators, participants fled the subreddit months ago over complaints that Reddit was too strict on speech
Reddit shut down its popular but controversial forum devoted to supporting President Trump on Monday, following years in which the social media company tried but often failed to control the racism, (...)
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As big corporations say ‘black lives matter,’ their track records raise skepticism - 25 juin 2020
Corporate America — including Wall Street and Silicon Valley giants — is now pledging to play a bigger role in combating systemic racism across the United States, but an examination of companies’ track records shows that they have repeatedly stopped short of major overhauls during prior opportunities for change.
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Opinion | I was wrongfully arrested because of facial recognition. Why are police allowed to use it ? - 25 juin 2020
Robert Williams is a resident of Farmington Hills, Mich., and client of the American Civil Liberties Union.
I never thought I’d have to explain to my daughters why Daddy got arrested. How does one explain to two little girls that a computer got it wrong, but the police listened to it anyway ?
While I was leaving (...)
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On Facebook and YouTube, musicians are getting blocked or muted - 22 mai 2020
A few Sundays ago, Camerata Pacifica artistic director Adrian Spence, aided by his tech-savvy son Keiran, went live on Facebook to broadcast a previously recorded performance of Mozart’s Trio in E flat (K. 498), a.k.a. the “Kegelstatt” trio. At least they tried to.
The recorded performance was one of many that (...)
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Thermal scanner technology may not detect covid-19 infections - 12 mai 2020
As they scrambled last month to find a way to pinpoint infections from the novel coronavirus, officials in Georgia’s Gwinnett County sought help from an unusual source : an Illinois-based seller of red-light traffic cameras.
RedSpeed USA had begun advertising a “fever detector” that it described as fast and (...)
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Washington Post-University of Maryland poll finds a problem for Apple-Google coronavirus app - The Washington Post - 2 mai 2020
Nearly 3 in 5 Americans say they are either unable or unwilling to use the infection-alert system under development by Google and Apple, suggesting that it will be difficult to persuade enough people to use the app to make it effective against the coronavirus pandemic, a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll (...)
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Singapore’s coronavirus outbreak is spinning out of control, and migrant workers are bearing the brunt - The Washington Post - 26 avril 2020
Shekor arrived in Singapore a decade ago at age 17, one of many low-income migrant workers who have powered the city’s growth, building hospitals, subway lines and the Marina Bay Sands resort.
In his years working in aluminum production and on construction sites, the Bangladeshi national has suffered various (...)
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Be very wary of Trump’s health surveillance plans - The Washington Post - 17 avril 2020
Early in the Trump presidency, senior officials pursued an “Extreme Vetting Initiative,” an automated system that would scour social media data to predict whether an immigrant would commit crimes. The project drew fire as soon as it became public : Computer scientists said such a predictive system was impossible, (...)
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South Korea’s coronavirus ’travel log’ pits public health concerns against privacy - The Washington Post - 13 avril 2020
SEOUL — The novel coronavirus outbreak has produced at least one new star in South Korea : the "virus patient travel log."
The South Korean government is publishing the movements of people before they were diagnosed with the virus — retracing their steps using tools such as GPS phone tracking, credit card records, (...)
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Zoom videos exposed online, highlighting privacy risks - The Washington Post - 8 avril 2020
Many of the videos include personally identifiable information and deeply intimate conversations, recorded in people’s homes.
Thousands of personal Zoom videos have been left viewable on the open Web, highlighting the privacy risks to millions of Americans as they shift many of their personal interactions to video (...)
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The coronavirus is expanding the surveillance state. How will this play out ? - 1er avril 2020
Improvised tech solutions today may be permanent policies tomorrow.
Governments around the world are responding to the coronavirus public health emergency with an unprecedented array of surveillance tools, designed to identify and track anyone who may be infectious.
These measures have dramatically escalated (...)
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This employee ID badge monitors and listens to you at work — except in the bathroom - The Washington Post - 29 mars 2020
Do you hog office conversations ? Or not talk enough ? Does your voice squeal ?
Do you sit very still at your desk all day ? Or do you fidget under stress ? Where do you go in the office ? How much time do you spend there ? To whom do you talk ?
An employee badge can now measure all this and more, all with the (...)
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Smartphone data reveal which Americans are social distancing (and not) - 25 mars 2020
D.C. gets an ’A’ while Wyoming earns an ’F’ for following coronavirus stay-at-home advice, based on the locations of tens of millions of phones
If you have a smartphone, you’re probably contributing to a massive coronavirus surveillance system.
And it’s revealing where Americans have — and haven’t — been practicing (...)
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Location data gathered by Facebook, Google, other tech companies could be used to battle coronavirus spread - The Washington Post - 22 mars 2020
The U.S. government is in active talks with Facebook, Google and a wide array of tech companies and health experts about how they can use location data gleaned from Americans’ phones to combat the novel coronavirus, including tracking whether people are keeping one another at safe distances to stem the outbreak. (...)
