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Hackers Attacked Two Leading Genetic Genealogy Websites
▻https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/hackers-gedmatch-dna-privacy

First GEDmatch, the DNA database that helped identify the Golden State Killer, was hacked. Then email addresses from its users were used in a phishing attack on another leading genealogy site. On July 19, genealogy enthusiasts who use the website GEDmatch to upload their DNA information and find relatives to fill in their family trees got an unpleasant surprise. Suddenly, more than a million DNA profiles that had been hidden from cops using the site to find partial matches to crime scene (...)

#GEDmatch #MyHeritage #génétique #police #données #hacking #phishing

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Many Police Departments Have Software That Can Identify People In Crowds
▻https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/police-software-briefcam?bfsource=relatedmanual

BriefCam, a facial recognition and surveillance video analysis company, sells the ability to surveil protesters and enforce social distancing — without the public knowing. As protesters demand an end to police brutality and the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the nation, police departments around the country are using software that can track and identify people in crowds from surveillance footage — often with little to no public oversight or knowledge. Dozens of cities around the country are (...)

#Briefcam #algorithme #CCTV #activisme #biométrie #facial #reconnaissance #BlackLivesMatter #comportement #masque (...)

##ACLU

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A Tech Company Spied On Police Brutality Protesters
▻https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/protests-tech-company-spying

Data company Mobilewalla used cellphone information to estimate the demographics of protesters. Sen. Elizabeth Warren says it’s “shady” and concerning. On the weekend of May 29, thousands of people marched, sang, grieved, and chanted, demanding an end to police brutality and the defunding of police departments in the aftermath of the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. They marched en masse in cities like Minneapolis, New York, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, empowered by their (...)

#Mobilewalla_ #algorithme #smartphone #GPS #activisme #anonymat #géolocalisation #BigData #BlackLivesMatter #profiling #police (...)

##violence

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Luxury Bag Factory Worker Jailed For A Facebook Post
▻https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nishitajha/michael-kors-factory-worker-prison-facebook-post

A Cambodian woman who makes bags for brands like Michael Kors and Kate Spade was jailed for two months after expressing her fears about the coronavirus. “I’m sorry if I seem distracted, I’m not fully myself yet,” Soy Sros said, pushing sweaty brown bangs off her forehead. It had been less than a day since Soy was released from prison, where she was crammed into a tiny cell with 72 other women and children, without masks, hand sanitizers, proper food, or even any room to lie down. The prison (...)

#Facebook #COVID-19 #écoutes #santé #SocialNetwork #surveillance #travail

##santé

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Police Protests : Uber Eats And Other Food Delivery Apps Will Continue Taking Orders Despite Curfew Ordinances
▻https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/protest-george-floyd-food-delivery-grubhub-ubereats

About 40 cities in the US have instituted curfews. Food delivery workers will still be on the hook for deliveries. Food delivery apps will still process orders placed after curfews begin in dozens of cities around the US, including cities where police have violently attacked people on the streets in recent days, BuzzFeed News has learned. Uber Eats, Postmates, DoorDash, and Seamless (which is owned by Grubhub) all either reported deliveries would continue in some cities with curfews or (...)

#UberEATS #DoorDash #Grubhub #Postmates #Seamless #Uber #COVID-19 #GigEconomy #santé #travail (...)

##santé ##surveillance

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Minneapolis Police Can Use Facial Recognition And License Plates Readers To Identify Protesters
▻https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/george-floyd-protests-surveillance-technology

As protesters demonstrate in Minneapolis in response to George Floyd’s death, law enforcement agencies have access to a host of surveillance tools that could make it easier to target and find them. The Minneapolis Police Department has a wide breadth of surveillance technologies that could be used to monitor and target protesters — including controversial facial recognition software Clearview AI, license plate readers, body cameras, and video analysis tools. The department and law (...)

#Clear #Clearview #Facebook #Instagram #Twitter #algorithme #activisme #biométrie #racisme #facial #reconnaissance #vidéo-surveillance #CCTV #BlackLivesMatter #immatriculation #lutte #scraping #surveillance (...)

##ACLU

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Antibody study suggests #coronavirus is far more widespread than previously thought | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/17/antibody-study-suggests-coronavirus-is-far-more-widespread-than-previou

“The idea this would be a passport to going safely back to work and getting us up and running has two constraints: we do not know if antibodies protect you and for how long, and a very small percentage of the population even has antibodies,” he said.

#immunité #asymptomatiques #létalité

Les États-Unis et la situation du travail pendant la pandémie:

10 Million Americans Lost Their Jobs In Two Weeks Because of Coronavirus
▻https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/g5xeb7/10-million-americans-lost-their-jobs-in-two-weeks-because-of-coronavirus

Postal Workers and COVID-19
▻https://rampantmag.com/2020/04/01/postal-workers-and-covid-19

After 10 Workers Get COVID-19, 1,000 Meatpackers Walk Off the Job in Colorado
▻https://paydayreport.com/1000-immigrant-meatpackers-walk-off-the-job-in-colorado

Oregon Grocery Workers Demand Safer Working Conditions During COVID-19 Pandemic
▻https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2020/03/31/28225204/oregon-grocery-workers-demand-safer-working-conditions-during-covid

‘Essential’ Farm Workers Are Putting Food on Your Table With No Insurance, No Sick Pay, and Few Safety Regulations
▻https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/akw9j5/essential-farm-workers-are-putting-food-on-your-table-with-no-insurance-no-sic

Amazon Employee Says He Was Fired for Staging Walkout to Protest Unsafe Conditions
▻https://www.theroot.com/amazon-employee-says-he-was-fired-for-staging-walkout-t-1842584349

Trader Joe’s Workers Are Terrified Not Enough Is Being Done To Keep Them And Customers Safe
▻https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/juliareinstein/coronavirus-trader-joes

Bonus avec un article sur le Canada:

Alberta government makes moves to lay off more public employees — this time provincial public service members
▻https://albertapolitics.ca/2020/03/alberta-government-makes-moves-to-lay-off-more-public-employees-this

Voir compile des effets délétères indirects de la pandémie :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/832147

#coronavirus #travail #USA #Canada

This App Warns You If You’re Entering A Sketchy Financial District
▻https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/coralewis/this-app-alerts-you-to-white-collar-wrongdoing

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To help citizens stay safe in our crime-ridden nation, programmers have developed a heat map identifying high-risk neighborhoods for a “rampant, but hidden” menace: financial wrongdoing.

The new app, released Tuesday, mocks the concept of predictive policing by applying it to the world of financial misconduct, making the results publicly available in a searchable, interactive format.

Clearview AI’s Secret Users Included A Former Trump Staffer, A Troll, And Conservative Think Tanks
▻https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/clearview-ai-trump-investors-friend-facial-recognition

CEO Hoan Ton-That said his facial recognition app is strictly for law enforcement. But he’s shared it with political connections, potential investors, and entities designated as “Friend.” On a flight to Boston in January, James, a young academic, caught the attention of an aisle mate. “Do you go to school in the area ?” the red-bearded man asked James, whose name has been changed to shield his identity, amid other small talk about technology and science. Later, as the plane taxied to its gate (...)

#police #Facebook #Softbank #Palantir #Oculus #Clearview #ICE #FBI #reconnaissance #facial #biométrie #CCTV (...)

##algorithme

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Sensor Tower Secretly Owns Ad Blocker And VPN Apps That Collect User Data
▻https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/vpn-and-ad-blocking-apps-sensor-tower

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Sensor Tower, a popular analytics platform for tech developers and investors, has been secretly collecting data from millions of people who have installed popular VPN and ad-blocking apps for Android and iOS, a BuzzFeed News investigation has found. These apps, which don’t disclose their connection to the company or reveal that they feed user data to Sensor Tower’s products, have more than 35 million downloads.

Since 2015, Sensor Tower has owned at least 20 Android and iOS apps. Four of these — Free and Unlimited VPN, Luna VPN, Mobile Data, and Adblock Focus — were recently available in the Google Play store. Adblock Focus and Luna VPN were in Apple’s App Store. Apple removed Adblock Focus and Google removed Mobile Data after being contacted by BuzzFeed News. The companies said they continue to investigate.
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Once installed, Sensor Tower’s apps prompt users to install a root certificate, a small file that lets its issuer access all traffic and data passing through a phone. The company told BuzzFeed News it only collects anonymized usage and analytics data, which is integrated into its products. Sensor Tower’s app intelligence platform is used by developers, venture capitalists, publishers, and others to track the popularity, usage trends, and revenue of apps.

Armando Orozco, an Android analyst for Malwarebytes, said giving root privileges to an app exposes a user to significant risk.

“Your typical user is going to go through this and think, Oh, I‘m blocking ads, and not really be aware of how invasive this could be,” he said.

Le «consentement» est vraiment un piège

Apple and Google restrict root certificate privileges due to the security risk to users. Sensor Tower’s apps bypass the restrictions by prompting users to install a certificate through an external website after an app is downloaded.

Luna VPN, for example, shows a notification that offers the ability to block ads on YouTube if a user adds the Adblock extension, another SensorTower product. This kick-starts a process that results in a root certificate installation.

#Analytics #Add_Blockers #Consentement

Facial Recognition Company Clearview AI Has Been Experimenting With Security Cameras
▻https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/clearview-facial-recognition-insight-camera-glasses?bfsource=relatedma

Clearview AI is operating a sister entity called Insight Camera that’s been experimenting with live facial recognition, according to documents seen by BuzzFeed News and companies that have used it. Clearview AI, the secretive company that’s built a database of billions of photos scraped without permission from social media and the web, has been testing its facial recognition software on surveillance cameras and augmented reality glasses, according to documents seen by BuzzFeed News. (...)

#Clearview #algorithme #CCTV #lunettes #biométrie #facial #reconnaissance #vidéo-surveillance #enseignement #scraping (...)

##surveillance

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Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition Tech Is Being Used By The Justice Department, ICE, And The FBI
▻https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/clearview-ai-fbi-ice-global-law-enforcement

A BuzzFeed News review of Clearview AI documents has revealed the company is working with more than 2,200 law enforcement agencies, companies, and individuals around the world. The United States’ main immigration enforcement agency, the Department of Justice, retailers including Best Buy and Macy’s, and a sovereign wealth fund in the United Arab Emirates are among the thousands of government entities and private businesses around the world listed as clients of the controversial facial (...)

#surveillance #vidéo-surveillance #reconnaissance #facial #police #biométrie #Smartcheckr #algorithme #Twitter #Facebook #CBP #FBI #ICE #US-Department-of-Justice-DoJ #Interpol #Google #Clearview (...)

##Best_Buy

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How Saudi Arabia Infiltrated Twitter
▻https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-saudi-arabia-infiltrated-twitter

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State agents pressuring Twitter employees to deliver private information wasn’t uncommon at the company, former employees tell BuzzFeed News.

A former colleague of Abouammo said US, UK, and Israeli security agencies pressed employees of Twitter’s media team for private information, including the Pentagon and CIA. “I can tell you, I’ve said no a lot,” he said. A spokesperson for the Pentagon declined to comment; a CIA spokesperson did the same.

Instagram-Scraping Clearview AI Wants To Sell Its Facial Recognition Software To Authoritarian Regimes
▻https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-authoritarian-regimes-22

Facebook confirmed to BuzzFeed News that it has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Clearview AI, asking the company to stop using information from Facebook and Instagram. As legal pressures and US lawmaker scrutiny mounts, Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that claims to have a database of more than 3 billion photos scraped from websites and social media, is looking to grow around the world. A document obtained via a public records request reveals that Clearview has been touting (...)

#Clearview #NYPD #Facebook #Instagram #Twitter #YouTube #algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #[fr]Règlement_Général_sur_la_Protection_des_Données_(RGPD)[en]General_Data_Protection_Regulation_(GDPR)[nl]General_Data_Protection_Regulation_(GDPR) #facial #reconnaissance (...)

##[fr]Règlement_Général_sur_la_Protection_des_Données__RGPD_[en]General_Data_Protection_Regulation__GDPR_[nl]General_Data_Protection_Regulation__GDPR_ ##vidéo-surveillance ##surveillance

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A Pennsylvania Court Tried To Force Ancestry.com To Open Up Its Database Of 16 Million DNA Profiles To The Police
▻https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/ancestry-dna-database-search-warrant

A Pennsylvania court’s move to issue a search warrant to Ancestry.com sets off a legal struggle that could go all the way to the Supreme Court. Ancestry.com, the largest DNA testing company in the world, was served a search warrant to give police access to its database of some 16 million DNA profiles, but the company did not comply. “Ancestry received one request seeking access to Ancestry’s DNA database through a search warrant,” the company revealed in its 2019 transparency report released (...)

#FamilyTreeDNA #Ancestry.com #23andMe #GEDmatch #génétique #criminalité #data

##criminalité

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A Ugandan Climate Activist Was Cropped Out Of A News Agency Photo Of Greta Thunberg At Davos
▻https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ikrd/vanessa-nakate-greta-thunberg-davos

#associated_press #pitoyable #MSM

Vanessa Nakate told BuzzFeed News she was heartbroken to see websites use a photo featuring four white activists but not her.

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Clearview AI Says It Identified A Terrorism Suspect. The Cops Say That’s Not True.
▻https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/clearview-ai-nypd-facial-recognition

Clearview AI has built a database of billions of photos that it says can reveal just about anyone’s true identity. But there are troubling questions about its past. Clearview AI, a facial recognition company that says it’s amassed a database of billions of photos, has a fantastic selling point it offers up to police departments nationwide : It cracked a case of alleged terrorism in a New York City subway station last August in a matter of seconds. “How a Terrorism Suspect Was Instantly (...)

#Facebook #Clearview #NYPD #Instagram #LinkedIn #algorithme #anti-terrorisme #biométrie #facial #fraude #reconnaissance #bug #police (...)

##scraping

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The Rise — And Rise — Of Mass Surveillance
▻https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/mass-surveillance-2010s

Eavesdropping bureaucrats have been replaced by algorithm-driven facial recognition technology. But the real impact of indiscriminate surveillance may be in our minds. We live in a world where school cameras monitor children’s emotions, countries collect people’s DNA en masse, and no digital communication seems truly private. In response, we use encrypted chat apps on our phones, wear masks during protests to combat facial recognition technology, and try vainly to hide our most personal (...)

#Alibaba #Google #Hikvision #Microsoft #Palantir #SenseTime #Target #Verizon #WeChat #Alibaba.com #Amazon #Facebook #Twitter #algorithme #cryptage #robotique #Bluetooth #CCTV #smartphone #activisme #biométrie #censure #génétique #journalisme (...)

##racisme ##[fr]Règlement_Général_sur_la_Protection_des_Données__RGPD_[en]General_Data_Protection_Regulation__GDPR_[nl]General_Data_Protection_Regulation__GDPR_ ##émotions ##facial ##législation ##prédiction ##reconnaissance ##religion ##vidéo-surveillance ##comportement ##discrimination ##écoutes ##enfants ##santé ##enseignement ##étudiants ##Islam ##profiling ##SocialNetwork ##surveillance ##HumanRightsWatch

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How A Massive Facebook Scam Siphoned Millions Of Dollars From Unsuspecting Boomers
▻https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-subscription-trap-free-trial-scam-ads-inc

Asher Burke built his company, Ads Inc, on the back of one of the internet’s most persistent, lucrative, and sophisticated scams — the subscription trap. And then it all fell apart. In late November 2018, Asher Burke gathered his employees in their San Diego office and laid out a vision for how Ads Inc. was going to become an e-commerce powerhouse. The tanned and muscular 27-year-old CEO detailed plans to merge the company he founded in 2015 with another e-commerce company, and hire 20 or (...)

#marketing #fraude

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