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Campagnes de dissuasion massive, par Antoine Pécoud & Julia Van Dessel - 27 avril 2021
Pour contraindre à l’immobilité les candidats à la migration, jugés indésirables, les gouvernements occidentaux ne se contentent pas depuis les années 1990 de militariser leurs frontières et de durcir leur législation. Aux stratégies répressives s’ajoutent des méthodes d’apparence plus consensuelle : les campagnes (...)
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France’s police bill : surveillance for the long haul - 15 avril 2021
The French government seems not to be interested in tackling systemic police violence. Instead, one of the most defining features of Macron’s first term as France’s head of state lies in the fast-paced expansion of state surveillance powers. A case in point is Parliament’s impending adoption of the “Bill on Global (...)
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The new lawsuit that shows facial recognition is officially a civil rights issue - 14 avril 2021
Robert Williams, who was wrongfully arrested because of a faulty facial recognition match, is asking for the technology to be banned.
On January 9, 2020, Detroit police drove to the suburb of Farmington Hill and arrested Robert Williams in his driveway while his wife and young daughters looked on. Williams, a (...)
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Coded Bias : Algorithmes et discrimination - 11 avril 2021
Ce documentaire enquête sur les biais algorithmiques dévoilés par la découverte de failles dans la reconnaissance faciale par Joy Buolamwini, chercheuse au MIT Media Lab.
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Europeans can’t talk about racist AI systems. They lack the words. - 11 avril 2021
In Europe, several automated systems, either planned or operational, actively contribute to entrenching racism. But European civil society literally lacks the words to address the issue.
In February, El Confidencial revealed that Renfe, the Spanish railways operator, published a public tender for a system of (...)
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Clearview AI Offered Thousands Of Cops Free Trials - 9 avril 2021
A BuzzFeed News investigation has found that employees at law enforcement agencies across the US ran thousands of Clearview AI facial recognition searches — often without the knowledge of the public or even their own departments.
A controversial facial recognition tool designed for policing has been quietly (...)
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Threats in the usage of facial recognition technologies for authenticating transgender identities - 3 avril 2021
Our partner Coding Rights summarise the findings of their research on the impact of facial recognition on trans people.
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SERPRO is the main provider of Facial Recognition technologies to the Brazilian government. It is a public company with access to the database of all Brazilians drivers licenses, (...)
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Couriers say Uber’s ‘racist’ facial identification tech got them fired - 21 mars 2021
BAME couriers working for Uber Eats and Uber claim that the company’s flawed identification technology is costing them their livelihoods
Uber Eats couriers say they have been fired because the company’s “racist” facial identification software is incapable of recognising their faces. The system, which Uber describes (...)
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The Algorithmic Auditing Trap. - 18 mars 2021
‘Bias audits’ for discriminatory tools are a promising idea, but current approaches leave much to be desired
This op-ed was written by Mona Sloane, a sociologist and senior research scientist at the NYU Center for Responsible A.I. and a fellow at the NYU Institute for Public Knowledge. Her work focuses on design (...)
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Timnit Gebru was fired from Google — then the harassers arrived - 12 mars 2021
Even three months after Gebru’s controversial termination from the AI Ethics team, the sustained campaign of aggressive tweets and emails keeps coming
TimnitTimnit Gebru had expected her colleagues to rally around her when she was abruptly fired from Google on December 2nd. She was a well-respected AI ethics (...)
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Facebook faces US investigation for ’systemic’ racial bias in hiring - 9 mars 2021
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission indicates it suspects company policies may fuel broad discrimination
A US agency investigating Facebook for racial bias in hiring and promotions has designated its inquiry as “systemic”, meaning it suspects company policies may be contributing to widespread discrimination. (...)
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Lois souples vs algorithmes rigides - 8 mars 2021
Pour Marlies van Eck (@marliesEck), avocate et chercheuse à la Radboud Université (Pays-Bas), l’utilisation d’algorithmes pour détecter la fraude sociale suppose une forte interdépendance des systèmes entre eux, sans offrir de garanties suffisantes en cas de défaillances.
Couverture du livre The Algorithmic SocietyEn (...)
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Origen étnico, sexo o vestimenta : el polémico sistema de Renfe para vigilar a sus viajeros - 4 mars 2021
La compañía publica un anuncio de licitación para el desarrollo de un ’software’ de análisis de vídeo que pretende implementar en 25 estaciones de Madrid, Cataluña, Valencia, País Vasco y Málaga
Mientras usted deambula por el andén esperando el próximo tren, esa cámara de seguridad a la que nunca presta atención ha podido (...)
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« Le baby-foot, c’est cool, mais le droit du travail, c’est encore mieux » : dans les start-up, des salariés dénoncent un management toxique - 3 mars 2021
Depuis deux mois, une page Instagram recueille des témoignages accablants sur les conditions de travail dans ces petites entreprises.
« L’un des patrons appelait un manager “mon toutou” devant tout le monde, alors qu’il faisait juste bien son travail, raconte au Monde Vincent (les prénoms ont été modifiés), un ancien (...)
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Smile for the camera : the dark side of China’s emotion-recognition tech - 3 mars 2021
Xi Jinping wants ‘positive energy’ but critics say the surveillance tools’ racial bias and monitoring for anger or sadness should be banned
Ordinary people here in China aren’t happy about this technology but they have no choice. If the police say there have to be cameras in a community, people will just have to live (...)
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Automated racism : How tech can entrench bias - 2 mars 2021
Dutch benefits scandal highlights need for EU scrutiny.
In the run-up to parliamentary elections in the Netherlands this month, center-right and extreme right parties are outdoing one another in calling for a surveillance state that will come down on marginalized and minority groups in all its might.
This should (...)
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Fichage racial chez Adecco : une procédure interminable malgré des aveux accablants - 25 février 2021
La chambre de l’instruction de la cour d’appel de Paris doit rendre jeudi son jugement concernant les suites à donner aux mises en examen de la société d’intérim Adecco et de ses dirigeants de l’agence Paris Restauration Montparnasse. Ils sont accusés d’avoir établi un système de fichages racial permettant d’écarter les (...)
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Google fires Margaret Mitchell, another top researcher on its AI ethics team - 22 février 2021
The dismissal comes after prominent Black researcher Timnit Gebru was fired in December ; both had called for more diversity among research staff
Google has fired one of its top artificial intelligence researchers, Margaret Mitchell, escalating internal turmoil at the company following the departure of Timnit (...)
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Facial recognition tech stories and rights harms from around the world - 12 février 2021
A new report by the International Network of Civil Liberties Organisations looks at the use and abuse of facial recognition technology by states across the globe, providing detailed case studies from the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe.
From Delhi to Detroit, Budapest to Bogota, Facial Recognition (...)
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Where Do Vaccine Doses Go, and Who Gets Them ? The Algorithms Decide - 12 février 2021
Health agencies and hospitals are using different formulas to allocate the coronavirus shots, exacerbating disparities in vaccine access.
Faced with the daunting task of parceling out a limited supply of coronavirus vaccines, Trump administration officials came up with a seemingly simple formula last year to (...)
