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Follow-up : When surveillance tech has ties to white supremacy
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Banjo’s contract with the state gave the company live access to an unprecedented number of government data streams, including 911 calls, traffic and CCTV cameras. The real time access to this vast amount of information used artificial intelligence to alert first responders across Utah to crimes and other public safety threats as they happened. Banjo CEO Damien Patton resigned from the company days after the revelations surfaced and the Utah Attorney General’s office is moving forward with an (...)

#surveillance #Banjo #algorithme #CCTV #racisme #vidéo-surveillance #BigData #discrimination (...)

##extrême-droite

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Scaled-up surveillance : the EU builds a massive biometric database
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An upcoming biometrics repository will hold the records of 300 million people and could hand a potentially powerful surveillance tool to its member states At its headquarters in the Estonian capital of Tallinn, on the Baltic Coast, a little-known European Union body is building one of the world’s largest biometric identity databases. The Central Identity Repository (CIR) is designed to hold the records of 300 million people and will be the centerpiece of a new, integrated system that (...)

#CentralIdentityRepository-CIR #empreintes #BigData #facial #migration

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Chinese citizens fight coronavirus censorship with emojis and ancient languages
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After an article about a Wuhan doctor was blocked, thousands of people have used a variety of innovative means to keep sharing it Last week, an article published by China’s popular Ren Wu magazine was scrubbed from the country’s internet. In the piece, Ai Fen, director of Wuhan Central Hospital’s emergency department, claimed that she was the first person to alert fellow medical professionals to the emergence of a new kind of virus, back in December. She added that she was quickly admonished (...)

#WeChat #Weibo #censure #COVID-19 #santé

##santé

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How TikTok opened a window into China’s police state
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Uyghurs are gaming TikTok’s algorithm to find a loophole in Xinjiangs’s information lockdown Every evening after getting back from his studies, Alip Erkin sits at home in Sydney, Australia, and opens up the video-sharing app TikTok on his Android phone. He’s looking for something in particular : videos from Xinjiang in northwest China, which he left for the last time in 2012. Since then, Xinjiang has been rapidly transformed into a vast police state, where Uyghurs, the mostly Muslim ethnic (...)

#TikTok #algorithme #CCTV #vidéo-surveillance #Islam #SocialNetwork #surveillance #ByteDance #Amnesty (...)

##TheGreatFirewallofChina

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Follow-up : Data protection during the Covid-19 pandemic in Pakistan
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We don’t just follow stories, we follow up. Last month, Coda Story’s Ramsha Jahangir wrote about Pakistan’s use of Covid-19 tracking technology and its implications for the right to privacy. Our story examined a host of potential privacy concerns related to the country’s newly launched Covid-19 tracking technology, including the government’s use of a system originally developed to combat terrorism. Authorities are also using a national biometric data center that has, in the past, been subject (...)

#algorithme #anti-terrorisme #technologisme #BigData #COVID-19 #hacking #publicité #santé (...)

##publicité ##santé ##DigitalRightsFoundation

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Russia’s Internet, already dim, gets darker
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Censorship and new laws block online information and stifle digital life The Russian internet is becoming less free, more isolated from the rest of the world, and on a path resembling countries with strictly controlled online spaces like in Iran. A recent report by a leading digital rights group in Russia paints a bleak picture of state censorship of the country’s internet. The research, published by Roskomsvoboda, a Moscow-based group that advocates for internet freedom and the protection (...)

#activisme #surveillance #censure #DeepPacketInspection-DPI #VPN #Roskomnadzor

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I tested the UK’s coronavirus app. Here’s what I found.
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The British government is testing a tracking and tracing app on a small island off the coast of England. Its success could determine how the coronavirus pandemic is contained elsewhere When the British government announced last month that it would trial its new coronavirus app on the Isle of Wight, the small island off the south coast of England where I live, there were immediate concerns about our privacy and data protection. In our local newspaper, the County Press, Isle of Wight (...)

#NHS #algorithme #Bluetooth #smartphone #contactTracing #technologisme #BigData #COVID-19 #santé (...)

##santé ##surveillance

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Arrested for two tweets in Croatia
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The case of a journalist arrested for criticizing the government provides a grim example of a global trend which sees social media users increasingly criminalized It is Gordan Duhaček’s job to write about corruption and government inaction. But when the journalist started to report on the looming environmental disaster in a national park in Croatia, the story hit a nerve. Duhaček’s had always felt an affinity with Plitvice National Park’s UNESCO-protected lakes that squat between the jagged (...)

#journalisme #SocialNetwork #surveillance #Twitter

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India was already a surveillance state. Its Covid-19 app goes even further
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Concerns about the government’s new contact-tracing software stretch back more than a decade, to its controversial biometric data scheme Critics warn that India’s new national contact tracing app, downloaded by over 100 million people, is just the latest move in the country’s drive to establish an increasingly draconian surveillance state. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government launched the app, named Aarogya Setu — Hindi for “Bridge to Healthcare” — on April 2. The app is designed to (...)

#algorithme #AarogyaSetu_ #Bluetooth #smartphone #biométrie #biopolitique #contactTracing #consentement #Aadhaar #BigData #COVID-19 #hacking #DataBrokers #pauvreté #santé #surveillance (...)

##pauvreté ##santé ##_

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Tech company’s ties to white supremacism trigger debate on surveillance algorithms
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Revelations call for transparency in how artificial intelligence is used by law enforcement The sudden suspension of a controversial multi-million dollar surveillance system used by several government agencies in Utah has opened up a debate about the lack of oversight for artificial intelligence systems in law enforcement. Last week, the Utah Attorney General’s office suspended a $20.7 million contract with Banjo — a technology firm using government surveillance data to develop crime (...)

#Banjo #Clearview #Palantir #Facebook #algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #géolocalisation #racisme #antisémitisme #automobile #facial #reconnaissance #vidéo-surveillance #discrimination #extrême-droite #surveillance #ICE (...)

##KKK

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“I became a pariah.” Coronavirus victims’ data is leaked on social media in Pakistan - Coda Story
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Using cellphone tracking and mobile apps to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the government is surveilling millions of ordinary citizens On February 26, hours before Pakistan’s health authorities confirmed the country’s first coronavirus case, the patient’s photograph and personal details, including his home address, were leaked on social media. Yahyah Jaffery eventually recovered and wrote a newspaper column about his experience. “My photo was all over social media and I became a pariah,” (...)

#Google #Facebook #Messenger #WhatsApp #algorithme #contactTracing #smartphone #GPS #biométrie #géolocalisation #consentement #FAI #COVID-19 #santé #surveillance #délation #BigData (...)

##santé ##NADRA

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Coronavirus tests Germans’ devotion to privacy - Coda Story
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New initiatives to limit the spread of Covid-19 have sparked a debate over how far the government can go to control the pandemic Last week, a hand-written poster appeared on a fence in my Berlin neighborhood. It bore the slogan : “Fight digital totalitarianism” and appeared to be signed “The Analogs.” Just days earlier, the German government had proposed mass data collection to trace the spread of the new coronavirus. The Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in the central German city of Halle (...)

#COVID-19 #smartphone #métadonnées #géolocalisation #anonymat #BigData #algorithme #surveillance #santé #contactTracing #DeutscheTelekom (...)

##santé ##Telefonica

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In Kenya, thousands face an uncertain future without ID cards - Coda Story
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A government program for citizens and refugees highlights the pitfalls of humanitarian biometrics Amina Ali Adan was born in the Kenyan town of Garissa, 65 miles away from Dadaab, one of the world’s largest refugee camps, situated near the Somali border. She is just one of tens of thousands of Kenyan citizens who have been registered as refugees — many while children. Now in her 30s and a mother of three, her life is defined by her lack of a Kenyan national ID. Adan is a victim of what is (...)

#bug #surveillance #empreintes #fraude #migration #biométrie #SIM #passeport

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How the UK government replaced disability services with surveillance tech - Coda Story
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From ‘telecare’ systems for people with disabilities to online-only social services, technology is having a profound impact on the lives of socially excluded people in the UK When Ruth Cherry goes to bed at night, she’s watched by a camera system. Motion sensors track her every move. Microphones listen to her breathing. If she wakes up and makes a noise, the system activates. A government-employed responder, watching several miles away from Ruth’s home in Glasgow, will ask her what she wants (...)

#algorithme #capteur #technologisme #santé

##santé

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Italy looks to tech to limit the spread of the coronavirus - Coda Story
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A national task force exploring how data from mobile phones could limit the spread of Covid-19 has sparked a debate over privacy and data protection One month after the introduction of Italy’s national lockdown, the government’s bid to find data-driven solutions to limit the spread of the coronavirus has sparked a debate over privacy rights and data protection. Last week, the Ministry of Innovation announced that it had assembled a multi-disciplinary task force of scientists and experts to (...)

#tampon #GPS #surveillance #santé #COVID-19 #BigData #métadonnées #géolocalisation #PEPP-PT #smartphone #drone #algorithme #Facebook (...)

##santé ##Amazon

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Marseille’s fight against AI surveillance - Coda Story
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The southern French city, once synonymous with urban crime, now encapsulates the spread of AI surveillance driven by Chinese companies In 2016, Netflix launched its first European production – a twisty political drama titled “Marseille.” Set in the historic port city, the series starred Gerard Depardieu and was supposed to be France’s answer to the hit U.S. TV show House of Cards. Instead ‘Marseille’ was widely panned for amplifying stereotypes about the city and reheating its former notoriety (...)

#Engie #Huawei #ZTE #algorithme #backdoor #CCTV #Predpol #SmartCity #biométrie #criminalité #émotions #facial #prédiction #reconnaissance #vidéo-surveillance #BigData #surveillance #discrimination #LaQuadratureduNet (...)

##criminalité ##LDH-France

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