#Google advised mental health care when workers complained about racism and sexism
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-advised-mental-health-care-when-workers-complained-about-racism-n125
#Google advised mental health care when workers complained about racism and sexism
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-advised-mental-health-care-when-workers-complained-about-racism-n125
Insecure wheels : Police turn to car data to destroy suspects’ alibis
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/snitches-wheels-police-turn-car-data-destroy-suspects-alibis-n1251939
Looser privacy standards for vehicle data are a treasure chest of data for law enforcement. On June 26, 2017, the lifeless body of Ronald French, a bearded auto mechanic with once-twinkling eyes, was mysteriously found in a cornfield in Kalamazoo County, Michigan. French, a grandfather of eight who always tried to help people “down on their luck,” his daughter Ronda Hamilton told NBC affiliate WOOD of Kalamazoo, had disappeared three weeks before. According to the police report, a cord (...)
#Cellebrite #Bluetooth #capteur #smartphone #voiture #GPS #USBKey #géolocalisation #criminalité #données #écoutes #surveillance (...)
##criminalité ##FTC
How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/how-fake-persona-laid-groundwork-hunter-biden-conspiracy-deluge-n1245387
The author of the document, a self-identified Swiss security analyst named Martin Aspen, is a fabricated identity , according to analysis by disinformation researchers, who also concluded that Aspen’s profile picture was created with an artificial intelligence face generator.
c’est le #progrès
Welcome to the ’splinternet’ : Trump adds to fractures in worldwide web
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/welcome-splinternet-trump-adds-fractures-worldwide-web-n1236203
The U.S. has mostly opposed the balkanization of the internet into global factions, but experts said two new executive orders may help change that. It may not be possible to have a worldwide internet, after all. Tech policy experts said Friday that the idea of the internet as one global, unifying phenomenon was at stake after President Donald Trump took the sudden step of announcing bans on two popular Chinese apps, TikTok and WeChat, calling them security risks. It was an extreme (...)
#TikTok #WeChat #domination #lutte #AccessNow
Thousands of contracts highlight quiet ties between Big Tech and U.S. military
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/thousands-contracts-highlight-quiet-ties-between-big-tech-u-s-n1233171
The report offers a new window into the relationship between tech companies and the U.S. government, as well as an important detail about why such contracts are often difficult to find. Over the past two years, thousands of tech company employees have taken a stand : they do not want their labor and technical expertise to be used for projects with the military or law enforcement agencies. Knowledge of such contracts, however, hasn’t been easy for tech workers to come by. On Wednesday, (...)
#Dell #Google #Microsoft #HP #IBM #Amazon #Facebook #algorithme #robotique #drone #militaire #Maven #surveillance #Dragonfly #DEA #DoD (...)
##ICE
FBI trawled Facebook to arrest protesters for inciting riots, court records show
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/federal-agents-monitored-facebook-arrest-protesters-inciting-riots-court-re
Four cases offer some insight into how federal law enforcement continues to monitor online speech related to social movements. On May 27, just two days after George Floyd died at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department, an activist from St. Louis decided to drive the 540 miles north to the Twin Cities to participate in the protests there. “We promise to do our very best to be safe and not do anything to get arrested," Mike Avery wrote on Facebook. Three days later, the FBI arrested (...)
#FBI #Facebook #activisme #BlackLivesMatter #écoutes #SocialNetwork #surveillance #ACLU (...)
##EFF
House Democrats press Google over report of scaled-back diversity efforts
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/house-democrats-press-google-over-report-scaled-back-diversity-efforts-n120
“It is no secret that companies across Silicon Valley and the tech sector have struggled to increase diversity, and Google is no exception,” the representatives wrote. Ten House Democrats sent a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday demanding answers about an NBC News investigation alleging that Google has significantly decreased its diversity and inclusion initiatives since 2018, because of what sources said was a fear of being perceived as biased against conservatives. The (...)
#Google #algorithme #racisme #sexisme #discrimination #GAFAM
A facial recognition company wants to help with contact tracing. A senator has questions.
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/facial-recognition-company-wants-help-contact-tracing-senator-has-questions
Clearview CEO Hoan Ton-That said it’s in discussions with federal and state agencies to help with contact tracing of people infected with the coronavirus. Just a few months ago, Clearview AI faced outrage for scraping photos off social media sites like Facebook to create a near-universal facial recognition system that has been embraced by law enforcement agencies. Now, the company is again in the spotlight, this time after its CEO, Hoan Ton-That, said it’s in discussions with federal and (...)
#Clearview #algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #géolocalisation #facial #reconnaissance #COVID-19 #santé (...)
##santé ##scraping
▻https://media3.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2020_18/3327421/200428-ONE-TIME-USE-hoan-ton-that-clearview-ai-cs-841a_e6b4c42a3fa
In Trump’s ’LIBERATE’ tweets, extremists see a call to arms
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/trump-s-liberate-tweets-extremists-see-call-arms-n1186561
When President Donald Trump tweeted “LIBERATE MINNESOTA!” on Friday morning, some of his most fervent supporters in far-right communities — including those who have agitated for violent insurrection — heard a call to arms.
The tweet was one of three sent from the president’s account, along with “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” and “LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege!”
Trump’s tweets came after small protests by Trump supporters broke out in a handful of states, many of which were fueled by anti-vaccination and anti-government groups. Anti-government sentiment has percolated among far-right extremists in recent weeks over the stay-at-home orders governors have issued to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
Trump’s tweets, however, pushed many online extremist communities to speculate whether the president was advocating for armed conflict, an event they’ve termed “the boogaloo,” for which many far-right activists have been gearing up and advocating since last year.
Ça commence juste, les emmerdes.
A RoboCop, a park and a fight : How expectations about robots are clashing with reality
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/robocop-park-fight-how-expectations-about-robots-are-clashing-reality-n1059
When Cogo Guebara pressed a button on a robot to call the police, she was instead instructed to “step out of the way.” When a fight broke out recently in the parking lot of Salt Lake Park, a few miles south of downtown Los Angeles, Cogo Guebara did what seemed the most practical thing at the time : she ran over to the park’s police robot to push its emergency alert button. “I was pushing the button but it said, ‘step out of the way,’” Guebara said. “It just kept ringing and ringing, and I kept (...)
Facial recognition’s ’dirty little secret’ : Millions of online photos scraped without consent
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/facial-recognition-s-dirty-little-secret-millions-online-photos-scraped-n98
People’s faces are being used without their permission, in order to power technology that could eventually be used to surveil them, legal experts say. Facial recognition can log you into your iPhone, track criminals through crowds and identify loyal customers in stores. The technology — which is imperfect but improving rapidly — is based on algorithms that learn how to recognize human faces and the hundreds of ways in which each one is unique. To do this well, the algorithms must be fed (...)
#Google #IBM #Facebook #Flickr #Google_Images #Wikipedia #YouTube #algorithme #IBM_Watson #biométrie #facial (...)
En ce moment, le « number #1 bestseller » de la catégorie « Censorship & Politics » sur Amazon est un bouquin délirant intitulé « QAnon : An Invitation to The Great Awakening ». Le shithole country se surpasse (ou : les Ricains lisent des livres, et ça fait carrément plaisir)
▻https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/3825151
On Amazon, a Qanon conspiracy book climbs the charts — with an algorithmic push
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/amazon-qanon-conspiracy-book-climbs-charts-algorithmic-push-n979181
The book, “An Invitation to the Great Awakening,” is currently No. 9 in all books about politics, and No. 1 in all books about “Censorship,” one slot ahead of Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451,” and immediately followed by classics “Lord of the Flies,” “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and “Of Mice and Men.”
The paperback, which cost $17 at press time, features outlandish claims, sometimes written in rapid succession with no evidence. On one page, the book baselessly claims that the United States government created AIDS, polio, Lyme disease, some natural disasters, two Indiana Jones movies and the Pixar movie Monsters Inc.
Amazon declined to answer questions about the book’s placement in the algorithmic recommendations carousels, including about whether the book might have been recommended to users on other sections of the site.
Russian bots were used to sow divisions on vaccines, researchers say - STAT
▻https://www.statnews.com/2018/08/23/vaccines-russian-bots
An analysis of Twitter accounts previously identified as having been operated by Russian bots and trolls found they dove into the vaccine debate as early as January 2015, the researchers reported. They did not take one side or the other, but seemed to tweet pro-vaccine and anti-vaccine messages in roughly equal measure.
(…) “The more the vaccine ‘debate’… is amplified it gains an undeserved sense of legitimacy and gives vaccine-hesitant individuals a pretense to forgo vaccination for themselves and their children,” said Adalja, who was harshly critical of the use of vaccinations in efforts to turn people against each other, calling it “overtly nihilistic.”
#nihilisme #santé #vaccins #twitter #bots (russes évidemment)
Le résumé de l’étude (texte complet derrière #paywall)
Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate | AJPH | Ahead of Print
▻https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304567
Abstract
Objectives. To understand how Twitter bots and trolls (“bots”) promote online health content.
Methods. We compared bots’ to average users’ rates of vaccine-relevant messages, which we collected online from July 2014 through September 2017. We estimated the likelihood that users were bots, comparing proportions of polarized and antivaccine tweets across user types. We conducted a content analysis of a Twitter hashtag associated with Russian troll activity.
Results. Compared with average users, Russian trolls (χ2(1) = 102.0; P < .001), sophisticated bots (χ2(1) = 28.6; P < .001), and “content polluters” (χ2(1) = 7.0; P < .001) tweeted about vaccination at higher rates. Whereas content polluters posted more antivaccine content (χ2(1) = 11.18; P < .001), Russian trolls amplified both sides. Unidentifiable accounts were more polarized (χ2(1) = 12.1; P < .001) and antivaccine (χ2(1) = 35.9; P < .001). Analysis of the Russian troll hashtag showed that its messages were more political and divisive.
Conclusions. Whereas bots that spread malware and unsolicited content disseminated antivaccine messages, Russian trolls promoted discord. Accounts masquerading as legitimate users create false equivalency, eroding public consensus on vaccination.
Public Health Implications. Directly confronting vaccine skeptics enables bots to legitimize the vaccine debate. More research is needed to determine how best to combat bot-driven content.
a Twitter hashtag associated with Russian troll activity
mais encore ?
aucun #DOI ne résiste à sci-hub :)
This analysis is supplemented by a qualitative study of #VaccinateUS — a Twitter hashtag designed to promote discord using vaccination as a political wedge issue. #VaccinateUS tweets were uniquely identified with Russian troll accounts linked to the Internet Research Agency—a company backed by the Russian government specializing in online influence operations. 20
[20]. Popken B. Twitter deleted Russian troll tweets. So we published more than 200,000 of them. Available at:
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/nowavailable-more-200-000-deleted-russian-troll-tweetsn844731.
Facebook is a ’living, breathing crime scene,’ says one former tech insider - NBC News
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-living-breathing-crime-scene-says-one-former-manager-n837991
McNamee, who is one of the co-founders of investment firm Elevation Partners, alongside U2 frontman Bono, is even credited with encouraging Zuckerberg not to sell when Facebook had buyout offers in its early days.
All three insiders have written and spoken extensively about their concerns with the tech industry over the last year.
“What people don’t know about or see about Facebook is that polarization is built in to the business model,” Harris told NBC News. “Polarization is profitable.”
““Facebook is a living, breathing crime scene for what happened in the 2016 election.””
There’s a reason Facebook prioritizes user growth. The more data a person shares with Facebook, the more advertisements can target a user, which makes users that much more valuable to Facebook.
It’s not just your name and age. Facebook can also track your likes, the content you write, your purchases and your location.
McNamee said the formula simply isn’t good for democracy.