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Le Pentagone teste des ballons de surveillance de masse dans six États
▻https://usbeketrica.com/article/le-pentagone-teste-des-ballons-de-surveillance-de-masse-dans-six-etats

L’armée américaine effectue des tests de surveillance de masse dans six États du Midwest à l’aide de ballons expérimentaux à haute altitude, selon des documents déposés à la Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Big brother is watching you ! Six états américains du Midwest sont sous « surveillance militaire » depuis mi-juillet, rapporte The Guardian. Au total, 25 ballons autonomes propulsés à l’énergie solaire survolent le Dakota du Sud, le Minnesota, l’Iowa, le Wisconsin, le Missouri et l’Illinois. Ils (...)

#CCTV #aérien #vidéo-surveillance #ACLU #SierraNevadaCorporation #ballon

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Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US
▻https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/pentagon-balloons-surveillance-midwest

Exclusive : the high-altitude balloons promise a cheap monitoring platform that could follow multiple cars and boats for extended periods Mark Harris @meharris Fri 2 Aug 2019 11.00 BST Last modified on Fri 2 Aug 2019 18.05 BST Shares 7 301 The new balloons could follow multiple cars and boats for extended periods. The new balloons could follow multiple cars and boats for extended periods. Photograph : Ron Chapple/Alamy The US military is conducting wide-area surveillance tests across six (...)

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Experts Say ’Emotion Recognition’ Lacks Scientific Foundation
▻https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/experts-say-emotion-recognition-lacks-scientific

Emotion recognition is a hot new area, with numerous companies peddling products that claim to be able to read people’s internal emotional states, and AI researchers looking to improve computers’ ability to do so. This is done through voice analysis, body language analysis, gait analysis, eye tracking, and remote measurement of physiological signs like pulse and breathing rates. Most of all, though, it’s done through analysis of facial expressions. A new study, however, strongly suggests that (...)

#algorithme #biométrie #émotions #surveillance #ACLU

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What is facial recognition - and how sinister is it ?
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/29/what-is-facial-recognition-and-how-sinister-is-it

Facial recognition technology has spread prodigiously. It’s there on Facebook, tagging photos from the class reunion, your cousin’s wedding and the office summer party. Google, Microsoft, Apple and others have built it into apps to compile albums of people who hang out together. It verifies who you are at airports and is the latest biometric to unlock your mobile phone where facial recognition apps abound. Need to confirm your identity for a £1,000 bank transfer ? Just look into the camera. (...)

#Apple #Google #Microsoft #Instagram #Amazon #Flickr #algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #Rekognition #facial #vidéo-surveillance #BigData #discrimination #surveillance #publicité (...)

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This Israeli Face-recognition Startup Is Secretly Tracking Palestinians
▻https://www.aurdip.org/this-israeli-face-recognition.html

Anyvision Interactive Technologies is one of Israel’s most curious startups. It has shown extraordinary growth, and its technology is being used by the army to monitor West Bank Palestinians at checkpoints on the way into Israel — while using a network of cameras deep inside the West Bank. The company’s co-founder and chief executive, Eylon Etshtein, told TheMarker that his company is sensitive to racial and gender bias and only sells to democracies. Anyvision is Israel’s most high-profile (...)

#Anyvision #Bosch #Microsoft #Mossad #Qualcomm #Amazon #algorithme #CCTV #smartphone #Identité #biométrie #facial #vidéo-surveillance #sécuritaire #surveillance #consommation #frontières #voyageurs (...)

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The Strange Politics of Facial Recognition
▻https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/06/democrats-and-republicans-passing-soft-regulations/592558

Everyone seems to have found common ground on the emerging technology. That’s exactly what its makers want. Your face is no longer just your face—it’s been augmented. At a football game, your face is currency, used to buy food at the stadium. At the mall, it is a ledger, used to alert salespeople to your past purchases, both online and offline, and shopping preferences. At a protest, it is your arrest history. At the morgue, it is how authorities will identify your body. Facial-recognition (...)

#Axon #Microsoft #Amazon #AWS #algorithme #CCTV #Rekognition #biométrie #facial #vidéo-surveillance #discrimination #surveillance #ACLU (...)

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Apps That Blast Out Crime Alerts Don’t Have to Rattle You
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/technology/personaltech/neighborhood-crime-apps.html

Neighborhood-watch networks are on the rise, even though crime is not. Here’s how to put the data into perspective. My phone recently buzzed with an alarming notification : Police officers were responding to a shooting about a mile away. A few hours later, another alert popped up, letting me know that two men were fighting in an alleyway nearby. Then my inbox loaded an email with a message that a neighbor had found a man trying to break into his house. The notifications arrived because of (...)

#FBI #Amazon #Nextdoor #Ring #sonnette #CCTV #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance #discrimination (...)

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An Army of Robot Surveillance Guards Is Coming
▻https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/army-robot-surveillance-guards-coming

We are surrounded by surveillance cameras that record us at every turn. But for the most part, while those cameras are watching us, no one is watching what those cameras observe or record because no one will pay for the armies of security guards that would be required for such a time-consuming and monotonous task. But imagine that all that video were being watched — that millions of security guards were monitoring them all 24/7. Imagine this army is made up of guards who don’t need to be (...)

#algorithme #CCTV #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance #ACLU

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Congress Is Debating—Again—Whether Genes Can Be Patented
▻https://www.wired.com/story/congress-is-debating-again-whether-genes-can-be-patented

In 2013, the Supreme Court unanimously struck down patents on two human genes—BRCA1 and BRCA2—associated with breast and ovarian cancers. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the court at the time that isolated DNA “is a product of nature and not patent eligible.” The historic decision invalidated patents held by Myriad Genetics, the defendant in a 2009 lawsuit brought by dozens of patients and researchers represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, breaking the company’s virtual monopoly (...)

#Google #Amazon #Facebook #génétique #législation #brevet #ACLU

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Les gènes humains peuvent-ils être brevetés ? Le débat reprend aux États-Unis
▻https://www.numerama.com/sciences/523188-les-genes-humains-peuvent-ils-etre-brevetes-le-debat-reprend-aux-et

Les États-Unis se penchent une nouvelle fois sur une question éthique : un gène humain peut-il être breveté ? Une proposition relance les débats en affirmant qu’on ne peut pas refuser une demande de brevet sur la base d’« idées abstraites ». Un gène peut-il faire l’objet d’un brevet ? Le débat est en train d’occuper un sous-comité du Sénat américain spécialisé dans la propriété intellectuelle. Sa juridiction inclut les lois encadrant les brevets. Comme l’a repéré Wired le 5 juin 2019, le comité est chargé (...)

#Google #Amazon #Facebook #génétique #législation #brevet #ACLU

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Audience contre le Privacy Shield devant le Tribunal de l’UE !
▻https://www.laquadrature.net/2019/05/23/audience-contre-le-privacy-shield-devant-le-tribunal-de-lue

Le régime de surveillance des Etats-Unis va de nouveau être examiné par les juges européens. Après 3 ans de procédure, l’audience sur notre affaire contre le « Privacy Shield » a enfin été fixée aux 1er et 2 juillet. Retour sur ces 3 années de combat. En 2000, la Commission européenne a autorisé un accord, appelé « Safe Harbor », pour faciliter le transfert de données personnelles des européens vers les États-Unis. Le 6 octobre 2015, la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne a invalidé cette autorisation, (...)

#Microsoft #PrivacyShield #législation #Safe_Harbor #GAFAM #UFC-QueChoisir #ACLU #LaQuadratureduNet

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Amazon shareholders vote down proposals on facial recognition and climate change
▻https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/22/18635632/amazon-shareholders-vote-facial-recognition-climate-change-investors-emplo

Amazon shareholders have voted down proposals meant to curb sales of the company’s controversial facial recognition tool and to limit its carbon output. The proposals, which were driven by shareholding activists and employees, were nonbinding, but represented a moment of defiance against Amazon. The company’s Rekognition tool, which is sold to law enforcement, has been criticized on civil liberties grounds, and employees have said the company could be doing more to fight climate change. Two (...)

#Amazon #Rekognition #algorithme #écologie #biométrie #facial #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance #militarisation (...)

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L’assemblée générale d’Amazon, lieu d’expression des contestations internes
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2019/05/22/l-assemblee-generale-d-amazon-lieu-d-expression-des-contestations-internes_5

Des salariés du géant de l’e-commerce présentent des résolutions portant leurs revendications. Amazon doit-il avoir une politique beaucoup plus active de lutte contre le réchauffement climatique ? L’entreprise de Jeff Bezos doit-elle s’engager à ne pas fournir sa technologie de reconnaissance faciale aux forces de l’ordre américaines ? Les actionnaires du leader mondial de la vente en ligne doivent se prononcer sur ces résolutions, mercredi 22 mai. Ces questions sont portées par des détenteurs (...)

#Amazon #écologie #biométrie #militarisation #facial #travail #ACLU

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A Vigilante Militia Defends an Imaginary Border
▻https://theintercept.com/2019/05/18/border-militia-texas-mexico-guardian-patriots

“Is that what we think it is ?” gasped a woman on the Patriot Caravan. The MAGA- and Trump-hatted group of about 25 people were on a walking tour of the U.S.-Mexico border in the desert near El Paso, Texas. It was led by a large, garrulous man named Jim Benvie, a member of the Guardian Patriots, which used to be the United Constitutional Patriots, or UCP. “Oh sh … It might be the coyotes bringing them in !” said another woman. “It is what you think it is,” said Benvie. As he lectured about (...)

#migration #surveillance #frontières #militarisation #ACLU

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26 million Americans have taken an ancestry test, and law enforcement is using this data to catch criminals
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Many companies are now offering direct to consumer genetic testing. Which means the police has now access to more DNA data than ever before. In April 2018, California police finally arrested a man suspected of being the Golden State killer, a mysterious individual accused of having raped and murdered a dozen women in the 1970s and 1980s before vanishing into thin air. The news made headlines, not only because the police had been looking for the serial killer for so long, but also because (...)

#23andMe #AncestryDNA #MyHeritage #génétique #surveillance #ACLU #FamilyTreeDNA

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Our Government Should Not Be Conducting Facial Surveillance
▻https://onezero.medium.com/our-government-should-not-be-conducting-facial-surveillance-54cc13f1

New proposals for regulating the use of face recognition technology are major victories for the legislative imagination, even if they don’t become law The debate over facial recognition technology has advanced to the point where one thing is clear : It must be regulated. Not only have civil rights groups like the ACLU made this case, but even companies like Microsoft and Amazon acknowledge that change is necessary. The question, then, is what’s the best way to respond to the dangers that (...)

#Apple #Microsoft #Amazon #FaceID #CCTV #biométrie #surveillance #vidéo-surveillance #facial (...)

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Reconnaissance faciale : des centaines de milliers de photos utilisées sans autorisation
▻https://usbeketrica.com/article/reconnaissance-faciale-des-centaines-de-milliers-de-photos-utilisees-sa

Pour entraîner son système de reconnaissance faciale, IBM a pioché dans Flickr sans obtenir au préalable le consentement des personnes photographiées, souligne NBC. Le média américain pointe un problème plus global qui serait le « vilain petit secret » des chercheurs. Le 29 janvier dernier, IBM annonçait dans un post de blog mettre à la disposition de la communauté scientifique une base de données appelée « Diversity in Faces » et constituée de méta-données associées à un million de visages humains. (...)

#Google #Microsoft #IBM #Amazon #Facebook #algorithme #CCTV #Rekognition #biométrie #facial #discrimination (...)

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Reconnaissance faciale : Amazon, Microsoft et Google sommés de ne pas vendre leur technologie aux Etats
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2019/01/16/reconnaissance-faciale-amazon-microsoft-et-google-sommes-de-ne-pas-vendre-le

Quatre-vingt-cinq ONG consacrées aux droits humains et à la défense des libertés publiques ont écrit à ces trois entreprises pour souligner les dangers que représente la reconnaissance faciale. « Cette technologie offre aux gouvernements la capacité inédite de traquer qui nous sommes, où nous allons, ce que nous faisons et qui nous fréquentons. » Mardi 15 janvier, quatre-vingt-cinq organisations non gouvernementales (ONG) américaines, menées par la puissante ACLU (Union américaine pour les libertés (...)

#Google #Microsoft #Amazon #algorithme #Rekognition #biométrie #facial #surveillance #ACLU #migration (...)

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La Maison Blanche veut s’équiper d’un système de reconnaissance faciale
▻https://usbeketrica.com/article/la-maison-blanche-veut-s-entourer-d-un-systeme-de-reconnaissance-facial

Un document publié par le Département de la sécurité intérieure américain et relayé par l’Union américaine pour les libertés civiles (ACLU) montre que la Maison Blanche a pour projet de s’équiper d’un système de reconnaissance faciale, permettant d’identifier et de suivre les déplacements d’individus potentiellement dangereux. Encore en phase de test, le système en question présente des risques importants de dérives. Sans rien pouvoir y faire, les passants qui se promènent autour de la Maison Blanche, à (...)

#algorithme #CCTV #facial #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance #ACLU

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Écoute des appels Messenger : le bras de fer secret entre Facebook et Washington bientôt dévoilé ?
▻https://www.numerama.com/politique/444037-ecoute-des-appels-messenger-le-bras-de-fer-secret-entre-facebook-et

Une organisation américaine a lancé une action en justice pour connaître les ressorts d’un bras de fer judiciaire entre Facebook et le département de la justice des USA. Au centre de l’affaire, l’écoute des appels téléphoniques d’un gang, sur Messenger. Que s’est-il passé exactement dans l’affaire judiciaire qui a opposé plus tôt cette année Facebook au département de la justice des États-Unis ? C’est ce que veut savoir l’Union américaine pour les libertés civiles (ACLU), une puissante organisation se (...)

#US_Department_of_Justice_(DoJ) #Facebook #Messenger #Skype #outlook.com #WhatsApp #écoutes #procès (...)

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The Dangerous Junk Science of Vocal Risk Assessment
▻https://theintercept.com/2018/11/25/voice-risk-analysis-ac-global

Is it possible to tell whether someone is a criminal just from looking at their face or listening to the sound of their voice ? The idea may seem ludicrous, like something out of science fiction — Big Brother in “1984” detects any unconscious look “that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality” — and yet, some companies have recently begun to answer this question in the affirmative. AC Global Risk, a startup founded in 2016, claims to be able to determine your level of “risk” as an employee (...)

#Apple #Google #Palantir #Facebook #algorithme #biométrie #voix #ACLU #RRA #GlobalRisk (...)

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What the Boston School Bus Schedule Can Teach Us About AI
▻https://www.wired.com/story/joi-ito-ai-and-bus-routes

When the Boston public school system announced new start times last December, some parents found the schedules unacceptable and pushed back. The algorithm used to set these times had been designed by MIT researchers, and about a week later, Kade Crockford, director of the Technology for Liberty Program at the ACLU of Massachusetts, emailed asking me to cosign an op-ed that would call on policymakers to be more thoughtful and democratic when they consider using algorithms to change policies (...)

#algorithme #solutionnisme #discrimination #ACLU

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L’alerte de Donald, les applis face à la police, et la marche mondiale de Facebook
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Les tweets ne lui suffisaient pas, apparemment. Le 3 octobre à 2 h 18, Donald Trump a trouvé le moyen de faire sonner 225 millions de téléphones exactement au même instant, pour signaler une “presidential alert”. Le texte, plutôt succinct, lisible et poli, n’annonçait qu’un premier essai du système d’information publique nationale, utilisable en cas de danger imminent pour la nation. Précision essentielle : le président n’est pas censé l’utiliser à loisir pour haranguer ses concitoyens, et se contente (...)

#Facebook #manipulation #domination #police #surveillance #vidéo-surveillance #ACLU (...)

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Campaigners begin action against male-targeted job ads on Facebook
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/18/facebook-sued-gender-bias-male-targeted-job-ads

Lawsuit claims that Facebook provides job ads which allows employers to choose who they want based on their age and sex Facebook and a group of 10 employers are being sued by workers for alleged gender discrimination after job adverts on the social media site targeted male users and did not appear to women. The case is being brought by three female workers and the union, the Communications Workers of America, which represents hundreds of thousands of female workers. They claim that most (...)

#Facebook #algorithme #travail #publicité #discrimination #ACLU #CommunicationsWorkersAmerica (...)

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Facebook accusé de permettre d’exclure les femmes des offres d’emplois
▻https://www.numerama.com/tech/419127-facebook-accuse-de-permettre-dexclure-les-femmes-des-offres-demploi

Facebook est accusé d’avoir mis en place un système de ciblage publicitaire qui permet de ne pas montrer ses offres d’emplois à certaines catégories de population, comme les femmes, ou les personnes de couleur. Facebook participe-t-il à discriminer les femmes et les minorités dans le monde du travail ? C’est en tout cas ce qu’affirme l’Union américaine pour les libertés civiles (ACLU). Dans un article publié le 18 septembre sur son site, l’association qui a porté plainte, explique que les techniques de (...)

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