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Exploitation des données, manipulation de l’opinion, culte du secret… La trahison des GAFA - 21 décembre 2020
Il y a encore quelques années, Mark Zuckerberg était considéré comme un génie, Google comme l’une des entreprises les plus cool au monde… et puis la confiance s’est perdue. L’avidité des géants de la tech semble avoir eu raison des valeurs des pionniers du numérique : liberté, innovation et progrès.
Deux jours d’audience de (...)
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UE, Le programme de lutte antiterroriste porte un coup terrible aux droits fondamentaux - 21 décembre 2020
« Le postulat sur lequel repose cette proposition est vicié. Elle avance à tort qu’un renforcement de la surveillance et des restrictions supplémentaires de notre liberté d’expression sont le prix à payer pour notre sécurité, alors qu’en réalité nos droits fondamentaux sont encore plus importants en temps de crise. Le (...)
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New report highlights the risks of AI on fundamental rights - 20 décembre 2020
The European watchdog for fundamental rights published a report on Artificial Intelligence. AlgorithmWatch welcomes some of the recommendations, and encourages a bolder approach.
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), which supports European institutions and members states on related issues, (...)
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The Facial Recognition Backlash Is Here - 19 décembre 2020
But will the current bans last ?
The facial recognition industry has been quietly working alongside law enforcement, military organizations, and private companies for years, leveraging 40-year old partnerships originally centered around fingerprint databases.
But in 2020, the industry faced an unexpected (...)
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Pinterest verse des millions pour éviter un procès pour sexisme - 17 décembre 2020
Le réseau social Pinterest a préféré payer 22,5 millions de dollars dans une affaire de discrimination de genre vis-à-vis de son ancienne directrice générale, licenciée au printemps.
22,5 millions de dollars (18,5 millions d’euros), c’est la somme qu’a accepté de payer Pinterest pour éviter le procès que lui faisait son (...)
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Huawei Reportedly Tested a ‘Uighur Alarm’ to Track Chinese Ethnic Minorities With Facial Recognition - 9 décembre 2020
The system also identifies information such as age and sex
Chinese tech giants Huawei and Megvii have allegedly tested software that could identify Uighurs, an ethnic minority in China, according to a new report from the Washington Post and video surveillance trade publication IPVM.
The system being tested tried (...)
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NYPD Cops Cash In on Sex Trade Arrests With Little Evidence, While Black and Brown New Yorkers Pay the Price - 9 décembre 2020
Some NYPD officers who police the sex trade, driven by overtime pay, go undercover to round up as many “bodies” as they can with little evidence. Almost no one they arrest is white.
One summer night in 2015, a community college student was driving home through East New York in Brooklyn when two women on a street (...)
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Health algorithms discriminate against Black patients, also in Switzerland - 6 décembre 2020
Algorithms used to assess kidney function or predict heart failure use race as a central criterion. There is no scientific basis to do so, and the results discriminate against Blacks.
Many medical algorithms require the race of the patient to be included in the calculation. The American Heart Association, for (...)
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Covid-19 has made ending online abuse even more urgent - 5 décembre 2020
Seyi Akiwowo started Glitch ! to hold tech platforms to account when it comes to online abuse – a mission that is more important than ever
When the Covid-19 pandemic forced countries into lockdown and more of our lives moved online, alarm bells rang for Seyi Akiwowo, founder and executive director of UK charity (...)
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Dealing With Bias in Artificial Intelligence - 5 décembre 2020
Three women with extensive experience in A.I. spoke on the topic and how to confront it.
This article is part of our Women and Leadership special section, which focuses on approaches taken by women, minorities or other disadvantaged groups challenging traditional ways of thinking.
Bias is an unavoidable feature (...)
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Google se sépare d’une chercheuse spécialiste des biais de l’IA : que s’est-il passé ? - 5 décembre 2020
Une vive polémique est en train d’agiter le monde universitaire aux États-Unis, et plus particulièrement la recherche dans l’intelligence artificielle. Google s’est séparé d’une informaticienne spécialisée dans les biais algorithmiques, mais les conditions de ce départ sont controversées.
C’est une affaire qui est en train (...)
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Google Employees Say Scientist’s Ouster Was ’Unprecedented Research Censorship’ - 4 décembre 2020
Hundreds of Google employees have published an open letter following the firing of a colleague who is an accomplished scientist known for her research into the ethics of artificial intelligence and her work showing racial bias in facial recognition technology.
That scientist, Timnit Gebru, helped lead Google’s (...)
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Podcast Episode : From Your Face to Their Database - 2 décembre 2020
Abi Hassen joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they discuss the rise of facial recognition technology, how this increasingly powerful identification tool is ending up in the hands of law enforcement, and what that means for the future of public protest and the right to assemble and associate in public (...)
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‘Tokenized’ : Inside Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase - 28 novembre 2020
Coinbase, the most valuable U.S. cryptocurrency company, has faced many internal complaints about discriminatory treatment.
SAN FRANCISCO — One by one, they left. Some quit. Others were fired. All were Black.
The 15 people worked at Coinbase, the most valuable U.S. cryptocurrency start-up, where they represented (...)
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Facebook condemned for hosting neo-Nazi network with UK links - 26 novembre 2020
Tech giant criticised for failing to act after being told two years ago about extremist activity on its platform
A white supremacist network with more than 80,000 followers and links to the UK far right, including a student charged with terrorist offences, is being hosted by Facebook and Instagram, putting the (...)
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AI Can Run Your Work Meetings Now - 25 novembre 2020
A new wave of startups is trying to optimize meetings, from automated scheduling tools to facial recognition that measures who’s paying attention.
Julian Green was explaining the big problem with meetings when our meeting started to glitch. The pixels of his face rearranged themselves. A sentence came out as (...)
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Video Analytics User Manuals Are a Guide to Dystopia - 22 novembre 2020
A few years ago, when you saw a security camera, you may have thought that the video feed went to a VCR somewhere in a back office that could only be accessed when a crime occurs. Or maybe you imagined a sleepy guard who only paid half-attention, and only when they discovered a crime in progress. In the age of (...)
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Robots, scans, et novlangue : j’ai travaillé un mois dans un entrepôt Amazon - 18 novembre 2020
Dans l’immense plateforme logistique de Senlis, dans l’Oise, les travailleurs ne sont pas nommés salariés, mais « associés ». Récit d’une immersion d’un mois dans une usine où les humains fonctionnent comme des robots. Le slogan d’Amazon : « Make History », faites l’histoire.
Senlis (Oise), reportage
Le tapis convoyeur (...)
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Defending Black Lives Means Banning Facial Recognition - 13 novembre 2020
What’s happening in Detroit should be a wakeup call for the nation. We can’t stop police violence without ending police surveillance.
Uprisings for racial justice are sweeping the country. Following the police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others, named and unnamed, America has finally (...)
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UN warns of impact of smart borders on refugees : ‘Data collection isn’t apolitical’ - 12 novembre 2020
Special rapporteur on racism and xenophobia believes there is a misconception that biosurveillance technology is without bias
Robotic lie detector tests at European airports, eye scans for refugees and voice-imprinting software for use in asylum applications are among new technologies flagged as “troubling” in a (...)
