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Le policier lanceur d’alerte qui a révélé les maltraitances au tribunal de Paris sanctionné par sa hiérarchie - 14 janvier 2021
En juillet 2020, le brigadier-chef Amar Benmohamed révélait sur StreetPress des centaines de cas de maltraitance et de racisme dans les cellules du tribunal de Paris. Six mois après, c’est lui qui est sanctionné par un « avertissement » !
Tribunal de grande instance de Paris (75) – Il est minuit passé ce mardi 12 (...)
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Sommes-nous entrés dans une société de vigilance ? - 13 janvier 2021
Elle analyse la répression sous un angle autre que celui, habituel, des dispositifs punitifs : celui de l’association des populations à la traque des ennemis publics. Vanessa Codaccioni est spécialiste de la justice pénale et de la répression, maîtresse de conférences HDR au département de science politique de (...)
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Capitole : la police identifie les assaillants grâce à Clearview AI et sa reconnaissance faciale - 13 janvier 2021
Selon le PDG de Clearview AI, l’utilisation de la technologie de reconnaissance faciale de son entreprise par les forces de l’ordre a augmenté de 26% le lendemain de l’attaque du Capitole. D’abord rapporté par le New York Times, Hoan Ton-That a confirmé que Clearview avait connu une forte augmentation de l’utilisation de (...)
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Face Surveillance and the Capitol Attack - 13 janvier 2021
After last week’s violent attack on the Capitol, law enforcement is working overtime to identify the perpetrators. This is critical to accountability for the attempted insurrection. Law enforcement has many, many tools at their disposal to do this, especially given the very public nature of most of the organizing. (...)
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Civil society calls for AI red lines in the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence proposal - 13 janvier 2021
European Digital Rights together with 61 civil society organisations have sent an open letter to the European Commission demanding red lines for the applications of AI that threaten fundamental rights.
With the European Union’s AI proposal set to launch this quarter, Europe has the opportunity to demonstrate to (...)
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Le Havre : une employée de McDonald’s licenciée après avoir dénoncé un harcèlement sexuel - 10 janvier 2021
Une salariée d’un McDonald’s du Havre (Seine-Maritime), qui avait dénoncé des faits de harcèlement et d’agression sexuels, avant d’être licenciée, va saisir les prud’hommes.
Une salariée d’un McDonald’s du Havre (Seine-Maritime), qui avait dénoncé des faits de harcèlement et d’agression sexuels, avant d’être licenciée, va (...)
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The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance - 9 janvier 2021
The security state that failed to keep DC safe doesn’t need invasive technology to meet this moment—it needs more civilian oversight.
They took our Capitol, stormed the halls, pilfered our documents, and shattered the norms of our democracy. The lasting damage from Wednesday’s attack will not come from the mob (...)
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NYPD Cops Accused of Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia Cost the City $500,000 Over Four Years - 7 janvier 2021
One lawsuit the city settled for $70,000 alleged that a cop said, “Shut the fuck up, you Black bitch,” while making an arrest.
The New York City Police Department is notorious for its culture of impunity. Officers face virtually no serious consequences for accusations of sexual assault and violent attacks that (...)
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Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism - 4 janvier 2021
The creation of the union, a rarity in Silicon Valley, follows years of increasing outspokenness by Google workers. Executives have struggled to handle the change.
OAKLAND, Calif. — More than 225 Google engineers and other workers have formed a union, the group revealed on Monday, capping years of growing activism (...)
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We’re Google Workers. And We’re Forming a Union - 4 janvier 2021
Our company’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil.” An organized work force will help us live up to it.
On Nov. 1, 2018, at 11:10 a.m., some 20,000 Google employees, along with employees of Waymo, Verily and other Alphabet companies, stopped working and walked off the job in cities around the world. A week earlier, The (...)
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Aided by Palantir, the LAPD Uses Predictive Policing to Monitor Specific People and Neighborhoods - 4 janvier 2021
A new report details the Los Angeles Police Department’s use of algorithms to identify “hot spots” and “chronic offenders” and target them for surveillance.
Police stops in Los Angeles are highly concentrated within just a small portion of the population, and the Los Angeles Police Department has been using targeted (...)
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Algorithms Behaving Badly - 1er janvier 2021
Computers are being asked to make more and more weighty decisions, even as their performance reviews are troubling
The perils of leaving important decisions to computer algorithms are pretty easily imagined (see, e.g., “Minority Report,” “I, Robot,” “War Games”). In recent years, however, algorithms’ job descriptions (...)
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My Data Rights - 1er janvier 2021
A feminist review of AI, privacy and data protection to enhance digital rights
Are we all equal in the eyes of AI ? What are the opportunities and challenges for marginalised groups in Society with Artificial Intelligence ? What control do we have over our data as personal information is collected, stored and (...)
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Flawed Facial Recognition Leads To Arrest and Jail for New Jersey Man - 1er janvier 2021
A New Jersey man was accused of shoplifting and trying to hit an officer with a car. He is the third known Black man to be wrongfully arrested based on face recognition.
In February 2019, Nijeer Parks was accused of shoplifting candy and trying to hit a police officer with a car at a Hampton Inn in Woodbridge, (...)
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A year in surveillance - 31 décembre 2020
2020 has been a very turbulent year. This is also true with regards to European surveillance politics, both at the EU level and in national politics. Like most years, it was largely characterised by one central conflict, which in simple terms goes like this : a push for more and more technologically advanced (...)
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China : Big Data Program Targets Xinjiang’s Muslims - 30 décembre 2020
Leaked List of Over 2,000 Detainees Demonstrates Automated Repression
(New York) – A big data program for policing in China’s Xinjiang region arbitrarily selects Turkic Muslims for possible detention, Human Rights Watch said today. A leaked list of over 2,000 detainees from Aksu prefecture provided to Human Rights (...)
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Why 2020 was a pivotal, contradictory year for facial recognition - 29 décembre 2020
The racial justice movement pushed problems with the technology into public consciousness—but despite scandals and bans, its growth isn’t slowing.
America’s first confirmed wrongful arrest by facial recognition technology happened in January 2020. Robert Williams, a Black man, was arrested in his driveway just (...)
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Tech platforms vowed to address racial equity : how have they fared ? - 28 décembre 2020
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google and Amazon issued statements in response to Black Lives Matter this year but did they follow through ?
Following the death of George Floyd and nationwide protests against police brutality and racial inequality, some of the largest technology corporations waded into the (...)
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Use cases : Impermissable AI and fundamental rights breaches - 25 décembre 2020
This briefing has been compiled to assist policymakers in the context of the EU’s regulation on artificial intelligence. It outlines several cases studies across Europe where artificial intelligence is being used in a way that compromises EU law and fundamental rights, and therefore requires a legal prohibition or (...)
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Dozens sue Amazon’s Ring after camera hack leads to threats and racial slurs - 23 décembre 2020
Class action claims weak security allowed hackers to take over the smart cameras used on doorbells and in homes
Dozens of people who say they were subjected to death threats, racial slurs, and blackmail after their in-home Ring smart cameras were hacked are suing the company over “horrific” invasions of privacy.
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