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Police Will Pilot a Program to Live-Stream Amazon Ring Cameras
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/police-will-pilot-program-live-stream-amazon-ring-cameras

This is not a drill. Red alert : The police surveillance center in Jackson, Mississippi, will be conducting a 45-day pilot program to live stream the Amazon Ring cameras of participating residents. Since Ring first made a splash in the private security camera market, we’ve been warning of its potential to undermine the civil liberties of its users and their communities. We’ve been especially concerned with Ring’s 1,000+ partnerships with local police departments, which facilitate bulk footage (...)

#Ring #Amazon #CCTV #police #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance #voisinage #EFF

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Congress Fails to Ask Tech CEOs the Hard Questions
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/congress-fails-ask-tech-ceos-hard-questions

The Big Internet Companies Are Too Powerful, But Undermining Section 230 Won’t Help The Senate Commerce Committee met this week to question the heads of Facebook, Twitter, and Google about Section 230, the most important law protecting free speech online. Section 230 reflects the common-sense principle that legal liability for unlawful online speech should rest with the speaker, not the Internet services that make online speech possible. Section 230 further protects Internet companies’ (...)

#Google #Facebook #Twitter #censure #domination #surveillance #EFF

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San Francisco Supervisors Must Rein In SFPD’s Abuse of Surveillance Cameras
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/san-francisco-supervisors-must-reign-sfpds-abuse-surveillance-cameras

Black, white, or indigenous ; well-resourced or indigent ; San Francisco residents should be free to assemble and protest without fear of police surveillance technology or retribution. That should include Black-led protesters of San Francisco who took to the streets in solidarity and protest, understanding that though George Floyd and Breonna Taylor were not neighbors in the most literal sense, their deaths resulted from police violence and racism experienced across geographic and (...)

#CCTV #activisme #racisme #sexisme #vidéo-surveillance #discrimination #LGBT #surveillance #ACLU #EFF #FBI #BlackLivesMatter (...)

##SFPD

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Activists Sue San Francisco for Wide-Ranging Surveillance of Black-Led Protests Against Police Violence
▻https://www.eff.org/press/releases/activists-sue-san-francisco-wide-ranging-surveillance-black-led-protests-agains

Violating San Francisco’s Surveillance Technology Ordinance, SFPD Secretly Used Camera Network to Spy on People Protesting Police Killing of George Floyd San Francisco—Local activists sued San Francisco today over the city police department’s illegal use of a network of more than 400 non-city surveillance cameras to spy on them and thousands of others who protested as part of the Black-led movement against police violence. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the ACLU of Northern (...)

#CCTV #activisme #police #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance #ACLU

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NSA Spying
▻https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/faq#38

What is the NSA domestic spying program ? In October 2001, President Bush issued a secret presidential order authorizing the NSA to conduct a range of surveillance activities inside of the United States without statutory authorization or court approval, including electronic surveillance of Americans’ telephone and Internet communications. This program of surveillance continues through today, although the legal justifications have changed over time, and works with the major (...)

#algorithme #NSA #AT&T #anti-terrorisme #écoutes #FISA #PatriotAct #surveillance #EFF

##AT&T

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Workplace Surveillance in Times of Corona
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/workplace-surveillance-times-corona

With numbers of COVID-19 infections soaring again in the United States and around the world, we have to learn how to manage its long-term ramifications for our economies. As people adjust to minimizing the risk of infections in everyday settings, one critical context is work. Even though millions have shifted to working from home during the past months, remote work is not possible for every industry. While the pandemic has had a critical disruptive effect on work and employment virtually (...)

#Microsoft #Amazon #algorithme #Bluetooth #CCTV #smartphone #GPS #contactTracing #géolocalisation #vidéo-surveillance #[fr]Règlement_Général_sur_la_Protection_des_Données_(RGPD)[en]General_Data_Protection_Regulation_(GDPR)[nl]General_Data_Protection_Regulation_(GDPR) #COVID-19 (...)

##[fr]Règlement_Général_sur_la_Protection_des_Données__RGPD_[en]General_Data_Protection_Regulation__GDPR_[nl]General_Data_Protection_Regulation__GDPR_ ##santé ##surveillance ##travail ##EFF

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Exposing Your Face Isn’t a More Hygienic Way to Pay
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/exposing-your-face-isnt-more-hygienic-way-pay

A company called PopID has created an identity-management system that uses face recognition. Their first use case is as a system for in-store, point of sale payments using face recognition as authorization for payment. They are promoting it as a tool for restaurants, claiming that it is pandemic-friendly because it is contactless. Nonetheless, the PopID payment system is less secure than alternatives, unfriendly to privacy, and is likely riskier than other payment alternatives for anyone (...)

#Starbucks #Walmart #Paypal #algorithme #CCTV #payement #biométrie #température #facial #reconnaissance #vidéo-surveillance #COVID-19 #pauvreté #santé #surveillance #EFF #FoodTech (...)

##pauvreté ##santé ##PopID

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Things to Know Before Your Neighborhood Installs an Automated License Plate Reader
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/flock-license-plate-reader-homeowners-association-safe-problems

Every week EFF receives emails from members of homeowner’s associations wondering if their Homeowner’s Association (HOA) or Neighborhood Association is making a smart choice by installing automated license plate readers (ALPRs). Local groups often turn to license plate readers thinking that they will protect their community from crime. But the truth is, these cameras—which record every license plate coming in and out of the neighborhood—may create more problems than they solve. The False (...)

#CCTV #géolocalisation #vidéo-surveillance #immatriculation #surveillance #EFF

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Technology Can’t Predict Crime, It Can Only Weaponize Proximity to Policing
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/technology-cant-predict-crime-it-can-only-weaponize-proximity-policing

In June 2020, Santa Cruz, California became the first city in the United States to ban municipal use of predictive policing, a method of deploying law enforcement resources according to data-driven analytics that supposedly are able to predict perpetrators, victims, or locations of future crimes. Especially interesting is that Santa Cruz was one of the first cities in the country to experiment with the technology when it piloted, and then adopted, a predictive policing program in 2011. That (...)

#Palantir #Predpol #algorithme #racisme #criminalité #justice #prédiction #discrimination #EFF (...)

##criminalité ##technologisme

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COVID-19 Tracking Technology Will Not Save Us
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/covid-19-tracking-technology-will-not-save-us

Technology may be part of the solution to stopping the spread of COVID-19, but apps alone will not save us. As more states develop COVID exposure notification apps, institutions and the people they serve should remain skeptical and remember the bigger picture. This is still experimental, unproven technology, both in terms of how it works under the hood and how humans will interact with it. And even the best-designed app will be no substitute for public health basics like widespread testing (...)

#Apple #Google #algorithme #Bluetooth #smartphone #contactTracing #technologisme #santé #COVID-19 (...)

##santé ##EFF

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EFF and ACLU Tell Federal Court that Forensic Software Source Code Must Be Disclosed
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/eff-and-aclu-tell-federal-court-forensic-software-source-code-must-be-disclosed

Can secret software be used to generate key evidence against a criminal defendant ? In an amicus filed ten days ago with the United States District Court of the Western District of Pennsylvania, EFF and the ACLU of Pennsylvania explain that secret forensic technology is inconsistent with criminal defendants’ constitutional rights and the public’s right to oversee the criminal trial process. Our amicus in the case of United States v. Ellis also explains why source code, and other aspects of (...)

#algorithme #génétique #justice #[fr]Règlement_Général_sur_la_Protection_des_Données_(RGPD)[en]General_Data_Protection_Regulation_(GDPR)[nl]General_Data_Protection_Regulation_(GDPR) #santé #surveillance #ACLU #EFF #TrueAllele (...)

##[fr]Règlement_Général_sur_la_Protection_des_Données__RGPD_[en]General_Data_Protection_Regulation__GDPR_[nl]General_Data_Protection_Regulation__GDPR_ ##santé ##Cybergenetics

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Your Objections to the Google-Fitbit Merger
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/your-objections-google-fitbit-merger

When Google announced its intention to buy Fitbit in April, we had deep concerns. Google, a notoriously data-hungry company with a track record of reneging on its privacy policies, was about to buy one of the most successful wearables company in the world —after Google had repeatedly tried to launch a competing product, only to fail, over and over. Fitbit users give their devices extraordinary access to their sensitive personal details, from their menstrual cycles to their alcohol (...)

#Fitbit #Google #bracelet #géolocalisation #domination #BigData #santé #sport #EFF #Android #smartphone (...)

##santé ##iOS

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Inside the Invasive, Secretive “Bossware” Tracking Workers
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/inside-invasive-secretive-bossware-tracking-workers

COVID-19 has pushed millions of people to work from home, and a flock of companies offering software for tracking workers has swooped in to pitch their products to employers across the country. The services often sound relatively innocuous. Some vendors bill their tools as “automatic time tracking” or “workplace analytics” software. Others market to companies concerned about data breaches or intellectual property theft. We’ll call these tools, collectively, “bossware.” While aimed at helping (...)

#algorithme #CCTV #smartphone #spyware #GPS #géolocalisation #vidéo-surveillance #clavier #COVID-19 #écoutes #santé #surveillance #télétravail #travail #EFF (...)

##santé ##bossware

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Our EU Policy Principles : Interoperability
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/our-eu-policy-principles-interoperability

As the EU is gearing up for a major reform of key Internet regulation, we are introducing the principles that will guide our policy work surrounding the Digital Services Act. In this post, we take a closer look at what we mean when we talk about interoperability obligations, and at some of the principles that should guide interoperability measures to make sure they serve users, not corporations. New Rules for Online Platforms The next years will be decisive for Internet regulation in the (...)

#interopérabilité #domination #EFF #[fr]Règlement_Général_sur_la_Protection_des_Données_(RGPD)[en]General_Data_Protection_Regulation_(GDPR)[nl]General_Data_Protection_Regulation_(GDPR)

##interopérabilité ##[fr]Règlement_Général_sur_la_Protection_des_Données__RGPD_[en]General_Data_Protection_Regulation__GDPR_[nl]General_Data_Protection_Regulation__GDPR_

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Victory ! French High Court Rules That Most of Hate Speech Bill Would Undermine Free Expression
▻https://www.eff.org/press/releases/victory-french-high-court-rules-most-hate-speech-bill-would-undermine-free-expr

Paris, France—In a victory for the free speech rights of French citizens, France’s highest court today struck down core provisions of a bill meant to curb hate speech, holding they would unconstitutionally sweep up legal speech. The decision comes as some governments across the globe, in seeking to stop hateful, violent, and extremist speech online, are considering overbroad measures that would silence legitimate speech. The French Supreme Court said the bill’s requirements—that online posts, (...)

#bot #censure #LoiAvia #SocialNetwork #EFF

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Stopping the Google-Fitbit Merger : Your Stories Needed !
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/05/stopping-google-fitbit-merger-your-stories-needed

There’s a dirty secret in the incredible growth of Silicon Valley’s tech giants : it’s a cheat. Historically, US antitrust regulators would be deeply concerned about mergers with major competitors in concentrated markets ("mergers to monopoly") and acquisitions of small companies to neutralize future competitive threats ("catch and kill"). And while often permitted, vertical integration ("platform monopolies" where the company that owns a key service competes with its own customers) would at (...)

#Apple #Fitbit #Google #Microsoft #Amazon #bracelet #domination #BigData #GAFAM #santé (...)

##santé ##EFF

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California Cops Can No Longer Pass the Cost of Digital Redaction onto Public Records Requesters
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/california-cops-can-no-longer-pass-cost-digital-redaction-public-records

At a dark time when the possibility of police accountability seems especially bleak, there is a new glimmer of light courtesy of the California Supreme Court. Under a new ruling, government agencies cannot pass the cost of redacting police body-camera footage and other digital public records onto the members of the public who requested them under the California Public Records Act (CPRA). The case, National Lawyers Guild vs. Hayward was brought by civil rights groups against the City of (...)

#EFF #surveillance #vidéo-surveillance #CCTV

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California Prisons Block AI Researchers from Examining Parole Denials
▻https://www.eff.org/press/releases/california-prisons-block-ai-researchers-examining-parole-denials

EFF Clients Want Access to Public Records on Race and Ethnicity in Parole Hearings San Francisco - A team of researchers who want to develop a machine learning platform to help analyze and detect any patterns of bias in California parole-suitability decisions has been blocked for years by the state’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). In a lawsuit filed today by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the researchers argue that the state’s public records law requires the (...)

#racisme #prédiction #BigData #discrimination #prison #EFF

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Understandable But Nonetheless Troubling : Facebook’s Ban On In-Person Events
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/05/understandable-nonetheless-troubling-facebooks-ban-person-events

We’re closely watching how Facebook enforces its newly-announced policy that limits speech by users who are organizing public protests. This policy is deserving of special attention since it effects free expression on two levels : the organization of the protest itself, and the speech about it. This new policy adds to Facebook’s overall content moderation burden at a time when the company is already unable to keep up with user reports and appeals. One of the great benefits of Facebook is that (...)

#Facebook #activisme #COVID-19 #santé #surveillance #EFF

##santé

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Street-Level Surveillance
▻https://www.eff.org/sls

A Guide to Law Enforcement Spying Technology EFF’s “Street-Level Surveillance” project shines light on the advanced surveillance technologies that law enforcement agencies routinely deploy in our communities. These resources are designed for members of the public, advocacy organizations, journalists, defense attorneys, and policymakers who often are not getting the straight story from police representatives or the vendors marketing this equipment. Whether it’s sophisticated location tracking, (...)

#algorithme #bracelet #CCTV #drone #biométrie #aérien #facial #reconnaissance #son #tatouage #vidéo-surveillance #iris #forme #immatriculation #surveillance (...)

##EFF

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