Here’s what China wants from its next space station | MIT Technology Review
▻https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/04/30/1024371/china-space-station-tianhe-1-iss
“From my perspective, the Chinese government’s number one goal is its own survival,” says Hines. “And so these projects are very much aligned with those domestic interests, even if they don’t make a ton of sense in broader geopolitical considerations or have much in the way of scientific contributions.”
Police in Ogden, Utah and small cities around the US are using these surveillance technologies | MIT Technology Review
▻https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/04/19/1022893/police-surveillance-tactics-cameras-rtcc/?truid=a497ecb44646822921c70e7e051f7f1a
Police departments want to know as much as they legally can. But does ever-greater surveillance technology serve the public interest?
At a conference in New Orleans in 2007, Jon Greiner, then the chief of police in Ogden, Utah, heard a presentation by the New York City Police Department about a sophisticated new data hub called a “real time crime center.” Reams of information rendered in red and green splotches, dotted lines, and tiny yellow icons appeared as overlays on an interactive map of New York City: Murders. Shootings. Road closures.
In the early 1990s, the NYPD had pioneered a system called CompStat that aimed to discern patterns in crime data, since widely adopted by large police departments around the country. With the real time crime center, the idea was to go a step further: What if dispatchers could use the department’s vast trove of data to inform the police response to incidents as they occurred?
In 2021, it might be simpler to ask what can’t be mapped. Law enforcement agencies today have access to powerful new engines of data processing and association. Police agencies in major cities are already using facial recognition to identify suspects—sometimes falsely—and deploying predictive policing to define patrol routes.
Around the country, the expansion of police technology has followed a similar pattern, driven more by conversations between police agencies and their vendors than between police and the public they serve. The question is: where do we draw the line? And who gets to decide?
Police in Ogden, Utah and small cities around the US are using these surveillance technologies
▻https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/04/19/1022893/police-surveillance-tactics-cameras-rtcc
Police departments want to know as much as they legally can. But does ever-greater surveillance technology serve the public interest ? At a conference in New Orleans in 2007, Jon Greiner, then the chief of police in Ogden, Utah, heard a presentation by the New York City Police Department about a sophisticated new data hub called a “real time crime center.” Reams of information rendered in red and green splotches, dotted lines, and tiny yellow icons appeared as overlays on an interactive map (...)
#NYPD #algorithme #CCTV #police #criminalité #prédiction #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance
The new lawsuit that shows facial recognition is officially a civil rights issue
▻https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/04/14/1022676/robert-williams-facial-recognition-lawsuit-aclu-detroit-police
Robert Williams, who was wrongfully arrested because of a faulty facial recognition match, is asking for the technology to be banned. On January 9, 2020, Detroit police drove to the suburb of Farmington Hill and arrested Robert Williams in his driveway while his wife and young daughters looked on. Williams, a Black man, was accused of stealing watches from a luxury store. He was held overnight in jail. During questioning, an officer showed Williams a picture of a suspect. His response, he (...)
#algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #procès #racisme #facial #reconnaissance #biais #discrimination (...)
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The new lawsuit that shows facial recognition is officially a civil rights issue | MIT Technology Review
▻https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/04/14/1022676/robert-williams-facial-recognition-lawsuit-aclu-detroit-police/?truid=a497ecb44646822921c70e7e051f7f1a
Robert Williams, who was wrongfully arrested because of a faulty facial recognition match, is asking for the technology to be banned.
The news: On January 9, 2020, Detroit Police wrongfully arrested a Black man named Robert Williams due to a bad match from their department’s facial recognition system. Two more instances of false arrests have since been made public. Both are also Black men, and both have taken legal action to try rectifying the situation. Now Williams is following in their path and going further—not only by suing the Detroit Police for his wrongful arrest, but by trying to get the technology banned.
The details: On Tuesday, the ACLU and the University of Michigan Law School’s Civil Rights Litigation Initiative filed a lawsuit on behalf of Williams, alleging that his arrest violated Williams’s Fourth Amendment rights and was in defiance of Michigan’s civil rights law. The suit requests compensation, greater transparency about the use of facial recognition, and that the Detroit Police Department stop using all facial recognition technology, either directly or indirectly.
The significance: Racism within American law enforcement makes the use of facial recognition, which has been proven to misidentify Black people at much higher rates, even more concerning.
#Reconnaissance_faciale #Racisme #Droits_humains #Intelligence_artificielle
Facebook’s ad algorithms are still excluding women from seeing jobs
▻https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/04/09/1022217/facebook-ad-algorithm-sex-discrimination
Its ad-delivery system is excluding women from opportunities without regard to their qualifications. That would be illegal under US employment law. Facebook is withholding certain job ads from women because of their gender, according to the latest audit of its ad service. The audit, conducted by independent researchers at the University of Southern California (USC), reveals that Facebook’s ad-delivery system shows different job ads to women and men even though the jobs require the same (...)
#Facebook #sexisme #algorithme #biais #discrimination #femmes #travail
The NYPD used Clearview’s controversial facial recognition tool. Here’s what you need to know
▻https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/04/09/1022240/clearview-ai-nypd-emails
Newly-released emails show New York police have been widely using the controversial Clearview AI facial recognition system—and making misleading statements about it. It’s been a busy week for Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition company that uses 3 billion photos scraped from the web to power a search engine for faces. On April 6, Buzzfeed News published a database of over 1,800 entities—including state and local police and other taxpayer-funded agencies such as health-care (...)
#Clearview #algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #police #facial #reconnaissance #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance (...)
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How beauty filters took over social media
▻https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/04/02/1021635/beauty-filters-young-girls-augmented-reality-social-media
The most widespread use of augmented reality isn’t in gaming : it’s the face filters on social media. The result ? A mass experiment on girls and young women. Veronica started using filters to edit pictures of herself on social media when she was 14 years old. She remembers everyone in her middle school being excited by the technology when it became available, and they had fun playing with it. “It was kind of a joke,” she says. “People weren’t trying to look good when they used the filters.” (...)
#TikTok #Facebook #Instagram #MySpace #Snapchat #algorithme #technologisme #beauté #femmes #jeunesse #selfie (...)
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