industryterm:telecom giant

China accuses US of suppressing its high-tech companies
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/17/chinas-huawei-reportedly-targeted-in-us-criminal-investigation

US said to be in ‘advanced’ stages of inquiry over alleged Huawei theft of trade secrets China has accused the US of trying to suppress its high-tech companies, as US prosecutors reportedly investigate allegations that the company stole trade secrets from US businesses. Adding to pressure on the Chinese telecom giant, US lawmakers have proposed a ban on selling US chips or components to the company. “The real intent of the United States is to employ its state apparatus in every conceivable (...)

#concurrence #spyware

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This Japanese AI security camera shows the future of surveillance will be automated
▻https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/26/17479068/ai-guardman-security-camera-shoplifter-japan-automated-surveillance

The world of automated surveillance is booming, with new machine learning techniques giving CCTV cameras the ability to spot troubling behavior without human supervision. And sooner or later, this tech will be coming to a store near you — as illustrated by a new AI security cam built by Japanese telecom giant NTT East and startup Earth Eyes Corp. The security camera is called the “AI Guardman” and is designed to help shop owners in Japan spot potential shoplifters. It uses open source (...)

#Nest #algorithme #CCTV #sécuritaire #surveillance #vidéo-surveillance #comportement

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AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal
▻http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/25/at-t-is-spying-on-americans-for-profit.html

The telecom giant is doing NSA-style work for law enforcement—without a warrant—and earning millions of dollars a year from taxpayers. On Nov. 11, 2013, Victorville, California, sheriff’s deputies and a coroner responded to a motorcyclist’s report of human remains outside of town. They identified the partially bleached skull of a child, and later discovered the remains of the McStay family who had been missing for the past three years. Joseph, 40, his wife Summer, 43, Gianni, 4, and Joseph (...)

#AT&T #écoutes #métadonnées #web #surveillance #Hemisphere

##AT&T

Deep Cables — Disruption Network Lab
►http://www.disruptionlab.org/deep-cables

Uncovering the Wiring of the World
June 17-18 · 2016
The 8th event of the #Disruption Network Lab at Kunstquartier Bethanien, Studio 1, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin. Directed by Tatiana Bazzichelli.

Funded by: Der Regierende Bürgermeister von Berlin, Senatskanzlei, Kulturelle Angelegenheiten / City Tax.
In partnership with: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
In cooperation with Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien.
Pre-Lab 1.6 at SPEKTRUM, Bürknerstraße 12, Berlin-Kreuzberg.

In collaboration with: NOME, Wau Holland Stiftung, Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE), Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG). With the support of the Free Chelsea Manning Initiative Berlin.

Entrance 5€ / day. In English language.

In August 2015 Henrik Moltke and a team of journalists from Pro Publica and the New York Times revealed intimate details of the National Security Agency’s decades-long partnership with the telecom giant AT&T. A seemingly innocuous detail in a random document allowed the team to pin down the elusive collaboration, referred to by codename in the documents leaked by Edward Snowden. A cable severed by the 2011 earthquake in Japan caused an outage, after which NSAs ‘collection’ - or tap - on the cable resumed. The date matched the repair on the northern leg of the Japan-US Cable, one of a handful of main arteries connecting Asia and the US. At the end of the cable is an anonymous looking industrial building, far off on the Mendocino coast of Northern California. The cable station is operated by AT&T. Under the motto “Follow the cables”, Henrik Moltke recounts how he retraces the physical footprint of deep state secrets.

In this presentation, Henrik Moltke and Trevor Paglen will trace a link between the imaginary concept of “The Internet” and the present configuration of geopolitical wired structures, where big data, cloud computing, mass surveillance, and the monopolies of big corporations are intertwined. By disclosing through photography the development of transatlantic and undersea fibre-optic cables, and reconnecting the past with the present by charting the hidden infrastructure of information technology, this event will expose the inner functioning of the modern business of cable infrastructures, showing the global dimension, as well as the invisible sites of the physical Internet.

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#Berlin #événement #réseaux

Bennett urges Israelis not to punish local operator for Orange CEO’s remarks
Partner Communications is ’the victim, not the aggressor,’ education minister says after telecom giant’s CEO says would withdraw from Israel ’tomorrow’ if it could.
By Haaretz | Jun. 4, 2015 | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
►http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.659539

Education Minister Naftali Bennett urged Israelis not to punish the Israeli mobile company Partner, which operates under the Orange brand name, after the French telecom giant said Wednesday that it intends to withdraw the Orange brand name from Israel as soon as possible.

The Israeli government is currently examining its next step facing Orange, Bennett said in a Facebook post, urging Israelis who might seek to boycott Partner due to its connection to Orange not to hurt the livelihood of thousands of Israelis.

“Partner is the victim, not the aggressor,” Bennett said.

French human rights organizations have been pushing their government, which has a quarter stake in Orange, and the company itself, to end the relationship because Partner provides services to Israeli settlements. The settlements, built on land the Palestinians want for a future state, are seen as illegitimate by the international community.

Simultaneously, an international grassroots organization is calling for boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel over its treatment of the Palestinians. Israel says the BDS movement is not about the occupation of Palestinian territory, but rather a campaign to delegitimize the Jewish state.

Orange’s CEO Stephane Richard, speaking at a news conference in Cairo to lay out plans for the years ahead in Egypt, said that would have ended its relationship with Partner “tomorrow” if it could, but to do so would be a “huge risk” in terms of penalties.

Partner said in response that it regrets Richard’s comments. “We wish to highlight that Partner Communications is an Israeli company owned by Saban Capital Group, which is owned by Haim Saban, and not by France Telecom (Orange). The company is holding the Orange brand name since 1998, and the only connection between us and France Telecom is the brand name.”

Haim Saban said in response: “I am proud to be to controlling shareholder of the Partner company, which is an Israeli owned company, which operates under the Orange brand name. I won’t be deterred by threats. I will continue to operate in Israel and lead the international struggle for Israel.”

#BDS

Qatar’s Signal Dropped in North Africa Telecom Deal | Al Akhbar English
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/qatar%E2%80%99s-signal-dropped-north-africa-telecom-deal

Des divergences entre la France et le Qatar ?

Nouakchott – Indicating a rift between the two allies, France stood in the way of Qatar’s purchase of the company Vivendi Africa, a telecom giant active in North and West Africa. The obstruction of the sale occurred after word emerged that Qatar is possibly supporting jihadi groups in Mali.

French President François Hollande asked the French conglomerate Vivendi to delay the sale of its Maroc Telecom share until the end of the war in Mali. Vivendi had placed its 53 percent stake in Maroc Telecom on the market months ago at the price of $7.13 billion.