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Algoritmes zoeken naar bijstand-fraudeurs, welke rol speelt etnisch profileren ? - 12 février 2021
"Ik weet niet waar de gemeente precies op zoekt, maar ik denk dat ik word geprofileerd op mijn buitenlandse afkomst."
Aan het woord is Miryam - niet haar echte naam. Ze krijgt een bijstandsuitkering in de gemeente Nissewaard, waar ook Spijkenisse onder valt. Die gemeente gebruikt ’slimme’ algoritmes om (...)
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Big data experiments : new powers for Europol risk reinforcing police bias - 11 février 2021
EU policing agency Europol could be given new powers to process vast quantities of personal data under proposals put forward by the European Commission in December. One objective is to train algorithms “for the development of tools” to be used by Europol and national law enforcement agencies, raising the risk of (...)
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Gig Workers’ Data Rights Should Be Prioritized in Labor’s Next Fight - 9 février 2021
In the November election, California voters delivered a blow to gig workers by passing Prop 22, a ballot initiative permitting companies like Uber and Lyft to continue treating app-based and delivery drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. The vote was widely seen as a rebuttal to AB5, a 2019 law (...)
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Dans l’Alabama, des salariés espèrent créer le premier syndicat Amazon des Etats-Unis - 8 février 2021
Les 6 000 salariés de l’entrepôt de Bessemer votent pour la création d’un syndicat, un vote qui pourrait faire basculer les rapports de force au sein du géant du numérique, aux États-Unis et ailleurs.
Quand Amazon a fait le choix de construire un entrepôt à Bessemer, la décision a été présentée par la direction comme un (...)
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This is how we lost control of our faces - 8 février 2021
The largest ever study of facial-recognition data shows how much the rise of deep learning has fueled a loss of privacy.
In 1964, mathematician and computer scientist Woodrow Bledsoe first attempted the task of matching suspects’ faces to mugshots. He measured out the distances between different facial features in (...)
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Black-Box Algorithms Shouldn’t Decide Who Gets a Vaccine - 31 janvier 2021
A failure at Stanford teaches us the limits of medical algorithms
“The algorithm did it” has become a popular defense for powerful entities who turn to math to make complex moral choices. It’s an excuse that recalls a time when the public was content to understand computer code as somehow objective. But the past few (...)
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How the LAPD and Palantir Use Data to Justify Racist Policing - 30 janvier 2021
In a new book, a sociologist who spent months embedded with the LAPD details how data-driven policing techwashes bias.
The killing of George Floyd last May sparked renewed scrutiny of data-driven policing. As protests raged around the world, 1,400 researchers signed an open letter calling on their colleagues to (...)
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How our data encodes systematic racism - 29 janvier 2021
Technologists must take responsibility for the toxic ideologies that our data sets and algorithms reflect.
I’ve often been told, “The data does not lie.” However, that has never been my experience. For me, the data nearly always lies. Google Image search results for “healthy skin” show only light-skinned women, and a (...)
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Lee Lu-da outed as AI Frankenstein’s monster - 29 janvier 2021
What they’re calling artificial intelligence these days is sounding just plain dumb.
Lee Lu-da, who’s being marketed as a virtual star of the future, is now able to answer messengers via chat services. The problem is, she seems to be sticking her virtual foot in her virtual mouth with offensive comments about (...)
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The Dutch Government’s Benefits Scandal Is Rooted in Stigma Against Welfare Recipients - 29 janvier 2021
Last Friday, the Dutch government had to resign in scandal, after thousands of parents were wrongly accused of making fraudulent childcare benefit claims. The affair was driven by racist demonization of welfare recipients deeply rooted in the country’s politics.
At least 26,000 families on the verge of bankruptcy, (...)
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Contrôles au faciès : six ONG mettent en demeure le gouvernement - 27 janvier 2021
En plein Beauvau de la sécurité, six ONG lancent une action de groupe pour obliger le gouvernement à interdire la discrimination dans les contrôles d’identité, une pratique dénoncée de longue date.
Ils sont à la fois l’effet le plus visible et le plus volatil du racisme institutionnel dans la police : les contrôles au (...)
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Oakland’s Progressive Fight to Protect Residents from Government Surveillance - 25 janvier 2021
The City of Oakland, California, has once again raised the bar on community control of police surveillance. Last week, Oakland’s City Council voted unanimously to strengthen the city’s already groundbreaking Surveillance and Community Safety Ordinance. The latest amendment, which immediately went into effect, adds (...)
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Oakland interdit la police prédictive et la surveillance biométrique - 25 janvier 2021
La ville d’Oakland, en Californie, a une fois de plus relevé la barre du contrôle communautaire de la surveillance policière, relève l’Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). La semaine dernière, son conseil municipal, qui avait déjà interdit la reconnaissance faciale, a voté à l’unanimité l’interdiction de la police (...)
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Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men From Hate Speech But Not Black Children - 25 janvier 2021
A trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression.
In the wake of a terrorist attack in London earlier this month, a U.S. congressman wrote a Facebook post in which he called for the slaughter of (...)
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Developing Algorithms That Might One Day Be Used Against You - 25 janvier 2021
Machine learning algorithms serve us the news we read, the ads we see, and in some cases even drive our cars. But there’s an insidious layer to these algorithms : They rely on data collected by and about humans, and they spit our worst biases right back out at us. For example, job candidate screening algorithms may (...)
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Sexiste, homophobe, anti-handicapés... Un chatbot sud-coréen mis hors-ligne après avoir déraillé - 19 janvier 2021
Un logiciel conversationnel disponible sur Facebook Messenger s’est imprégné des propos nauséabonds de certains internautes, avant d’être désactivé.
Un très populaire chatbot sud-coréen, un robot conversationnel permettant aux internautes de papoter avec ce qui serait une étudiante de 20 ans, a été désactivé cette semaine (...)
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« Management prédateur » : comment Huawei contrôle ses expatriés en Europe - 17 janvier 2021
Un climat de peur, de discrimination et d’exploitation, selon une enquête de The Signals Network.
C’est à vingt kilomètres de Strasbourg, dans le Business Parc de Brumath, que le géant chinois des télécoms Huawei ouvrira son usine française géante à l’horizon 2023, avec 500 emplois à la clé.
Les futurs employés feraient (...)
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„Wolf culture“ : How Huawei controls its employees in Europe - 16 janvier 2021
Former employees accuse Huawei of discrimination. How massively the company interferes in their private lives and how it keeps its staff in line is revealed by internal documents and covert audio recordings that netzpolitik.org and the media partners of The Signals Network have analysed.
The journalist with the (...)
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The dark side of open source intelligence - 16 janvier 2021
Internet sleuths have used publicly available data to help track down last week’s Washington D.C. rioters. But what happens when the wrong people are identified ?
In May, a video of a woman flouting a national Covid-19 mask mandate went viral on social media in Singapore. In the clip, the bare-faced woman argues (...)
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Police surveillance of Black Lives Matter shows the danger technology poses to democracy - 15 janvier 2021
US police forces have been turning to technology to track down Black Lives Matter protestors. Content from social media platforms and affiliated sites has been instrumental in the authorities being able to identify protestors based on photos of their faces, clothes and hair, or on the fact that they posted while (...)
