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Google’s Complicity in Israeli Apartheid: How Google Weaponizes “Diversity” to Silence Palestinians and Palestinian Human Rights Supporters | by Ariel Koren | Aug, 2022 | Medium
►https://medium.com/@arielkoren/googles-complicity-in-israeli-apartheid-how-google-weaponizes-diversity-to-s

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My name is Ariel Koren. I am a Jewish Google worker who has worked at Google for over seven years. I feel so grateful to over 700 Googlers (alongside 25,000 people externally) who recently signed a petition calling on Google to rescind its act of retaliation against me for protesting Google’s Project Nimbus—a $1.2 billion dollar contract between Google, Amazon, and the Israeli government and military.

Due to retaliation, a hostile environment, and illegal actions by the company, I cannot continue to work at Google and have no choice but to leave the company at the end of this week. Instead of listening to employees who want Google to live up to its ethical principles, Google is aggressively pursuing military contracts and stripping away the voices of its employees through a pattern of silencing and retaliation towards me and many others. Google is weaponizing its DEI* and ERG* systems to justify the behavior, so it is no coincidence that retaliation has disproportionately impacted women, queer, and BIPOC employees. *[DEI = Diversity, Equity, Inclusion; ERG = Employee Resource Group].

I have consistently witnessed that instead of supporting diverse employees looking to make Google a more ethical company, Google systematically silences Palestinian, Jewish, Arab, and Muslim voices concerned about Google’s complicity in violations of Palestinian human rights — to the point of formally retaliating against workers and creating an environment of fear. In my experience, silencing dialogue and dissent in this way has helped Google protect its business interests with the Israeli military and government. I encourage Googlers to read up on Project Nimbus and to take action at go/Drop-Nimbus.

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Oklahoma Quietly Launched a Mass Surveillance Program to Track Uninsured Drivers
▻https://onezero.medium.com/oklahoma-quietly-launched-a-mass-surveillance-program-to-track-unins

Cash-strapped governments are turning to tech that converts cameras into automated license plate readers to penalize uninsured drivers In March, the president of Rekor Systems Inc., Robert Berman, told investors that 2020 was a “transformative year.” The surveillance tech company’s platform, Rekor One, which converts regular cameras into automated license plate readers (ALPR), had proven alluring to cash-strapped state governments during the Covid-19 pandemic. Oklahoma, which has seen its (...)

#CCTV #conducteur·trice·s #immatriculation #surveillance #EFF

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3G Could End This Year. For People Who Rely on Basic Phones, That’s a Big Problem.
▻https://onezero.medium.com/3g-could-end-this-year-for-people-who-rely-on-basic-phones-thats-a-b

Some rural residents, religious communities, and people who just like simple phones are still reliant on the vanishing network Over the years, Mia Lipsit has innovated a number of tech workarounds to avoid buying a smartphone : She’s hacked her Kindle Fire to download Google Play (so she can use the Whole Foods app), listens to podcasts on an old iPod, and stays in touch with friends using a flip phone. But in October, the fiftysomething New York City resident realized her days of (...)

#5G #technologisme #discrimination

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The Soft Corruption of Big Tech’s Antitrust Defense
▻https://onezero.medium.com/the-soft-corruption-of-big-techs-antitrust-defense-abf226aaa124

Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are paying third parties millions to make their case. Sometimes we know about the money, sometimes we don’t. When New York State Senator Michael Gianaris called a hearing last September to discuss his new Big Tech antitrust bill, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft all declined to appear. But as he sorted the schedule, the Progressive Policy Institute, a “radically pragmatic” think tank, asked to send a representative. Alec Stapp, that (...)

#Apple #Google #Amazon #Facebook #corruption #GAFAM #lobbying

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The Algorithmic Auditing Trap.
▻https://onezero.medium.com/the-algorithmic-auditing-trap-9a6f2d4d461d

‘Bias audits’ for discriminatory tools are a promising idea, but current approaches leave much to be desired This op-ed was written by Mona Sloane, a sociologist and senior research scientist at the NYU Center for Responsible A.I. and a fellow at the NYU Institute for Public Knowledge. Her work focuses on design and inequality in the context of algorithms and artificial intelligence. We have a new A.I. race on our hands : the race to define and steer what it means to audit algorithms. (...)

#HireVue #algorithme #racisme #recrutement #biais #discrimination #pauvreté #travail

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How Google’s ’Privacy Sandbox’ Will Target Ads Without Singling Users Out
▻https://onezero.medium.com/how-google-will-target-ads-without-singling-users-out-a83123d5c92c

A handful of new standards will personalize ads without the privacy violations of today The internet is about to experience a dramatic shift toward privacy. Today, advertisers like Facebook and Google use cookies to track people as they interact with different websites, building profiles for the sake of targeted marketing. But on Wednesday, Google — a giant in the global digital ad market — announced that it would stop using this kind of system to track individuals across the web. Instead, (...)

#Apple #Google #Chrome #cookies #consentement #microtargeting #profiling #publicité

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The Shoddy Science Behind Emotional Recognition Tech
▻https://onezero.medium.com/the-shoddy-science-behind-emotional-recognition-tech-2e847fc526a0

People’s facial expressions line up with their emotions less than half the time Facial recognition isn’t just for verifying a person’s identity. In recent years, researchers and startups have focused on other ways to apply the technology, like emotion recognition, which tries to read facial expressions to understand what a person is feeling. For instance, Find Solution AI, a company based in Hong Kong that was recently featured in CNN Business, is selling its technology to schools and (...)

#algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #émotions #facial #reconnaissance #vidéo-surveillance #enseignement #surveillance (...)

##ACLU

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The A.I. Industry Is Exploiting Gig Workers Around the World — Sometimes for Just $8 a Day
▻https://onezero.medium.com/the-a-i-industry-is-exploiting-gig-workers-around-the-world-sometime

A new paper sheds light on the industry’s troubling relationship with the global gig economy Modern artificial intelligence relies on algorithms processing millions of examples or images or text. A picture of a bird in an A.I. dataset would be manually tagged “bird” so that the algorithm associated aspects of that image with the category “bird.” The process of tagging this data, by hand, scaled to the millions, is time-consuming and mind-numbingly monotonous. Much of this work is done outside (...)

#AmazonMechanicalTurk #Amazon #algorithme #BigData #GigEconomy #travail

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Amazon’s New CEO Is Shaping How the Military Uses Killer Robots
▻https://onezero.medium.com/amazons-new-ceo-is-shaping-how-the-military-uses-killer-robots-9a783

Andy Jassy is a member of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence On July 1, Amazon will have a new CEO. Andy Jassy, who is replacing Jeff Bezos, helped build the company’s cloud business from scratch, cementing its servers as a cornerstone of the internet. But not all of Jassy’s work has been inside Amazon. The incoming CEO is also a commissioner on the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI), which was created by Congress in 2018 to advise on (...)

#Amazon #AmazonWebServices-AWS #militaire #CloudComputing #JEDI #robotique #HumanRightsWatch #Microsoft #USArmy (...)

##algorithme

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How Amazon Swindled Its Own Drivers, Got Caught, and Ended Up Richer
▻https://onezero.medium.com/how-amazon-swindled-its-own-drivers-got-caught-and-ended-up-richer-e

The company’s $62 million FTC settlement shows ‘corporate crime pays’ One of the world’s richest companies was accused of systematically shortchanging some of its lowest-paid, most precarious workers. It got sued by the U.S. government. It eventually agreed to pay back the money it had pocketed. And it came out billions richer in the end. That’s the ugly bottom line of Tuesday’s news that Amazon has agreed to pay $62 million to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to settle charges that it (...)

#Amazon #procès #fraude #bénéfices #GigEconomy #travail #FTC

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Black-Box Algorithms Shouldn’t Decide Who Gets a Vaccine
▻https://onezero.medium.com/black-box-algorithms-shouldnt-decide-who-gets-a-vaccine-492be4bbae3c

A failure at Stanford teaches us the limits of medical algorithms “The algorithm did it” has become a popular defense for powerful entities who turn to math to make complex moral choices. It’s an excuse that recalls a time when the public was content to understand computer code as somehow objective. But the past few years have demonstrated conclusively that technology is not neutral and instead reflects the values of those who design it, and it is fraught with all the usual shortcomings and (...)

#algorithme #technologisme #COVID-19 #discrimination #santé #racisme #pauvreté

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Anatomy of a Facebook Privacy Scandal
▻https://onezero.medium.com/anatomy-of-a-facebook-privacy-scandal-aef705d6de4

How Facebook reacts to privacy scandals on the inside and why they persist It had been a turbulent few weeks for Facebook when Mark Zuckerberg addressed his employees last Thursday. WhatsApp, the crown jewel of Facebook’s messaging empire, was under fire. A poorly worded privacy update had sent its users flocking elsewhere. Millions downloaded competitors like Signal, a messaging alternative that jumped from 20 million users to 40 million just this month. Zuckerberg’s weekly internal (...)

#Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #données #publicité

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On Nextdoor, the Homeless Are the Enemy
▻https://onezero.medium.com/how-nextdoor-encourages-hate-of-the-homeless-9200475cda43

The platform built for neighborhood news often scapegoats the most disadvantaged communities On August 14, a man broke into a home in the Shafter neighborhood in Oakland, California. According to the resident of the home, the alleged thief entered through a locked gate in the backyard, stole a laptop, jewelry, small electronics, and a shovel. Then he left. After the robbery, the resident took photos of the thief that were snapped by their home surveillance network and uploaded them onto (...)

#Nextdoor #technologisme #pauvreté #voisinage #discrimination

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Nextdoor Is Quietly Replacing the Small-Town Paper
▻https://onezero.medium.com/nextdoor-is-quietly-replacing-the-small-town-paper-ca583962c15a

While Facebook and Twitter get the scrutiny, Nextdoor is reshaping politics one neighborhood at a time One year ago, Delaware’s second-largest school district was in trouble. A failed referendum in 2019, on the heels of state funding cuts two years prior, had left it staring down a $10 million deficit that raised the specter of teacher layoffs, the end of sports and extracurriculars, and the demise of a promising magnet-school program. For a district already pummeled by an exodus of (...)

#Nextdoor #algorithme #manipulation #SocialNetwork #voisinage

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How the Pandemic Turned Refugees Into ‘Guinea Pigs’ for Surveillance Tech
▻https://onezero.medium.com/how-the-pandemic-turned-refugees-into-guinea-pigs-for-surveillance-t

An interview with Dr. Petra Molnar, who spent 2020 investigating the use of drones, facial recognition, and lidar on refugees The coronavirus pandemic unleashed a new era in surveillance technology, and arguably no group has felt this more acutely than refugees. Even before the pandemic, refugees were subjected to contact tracing, drone and LIDAR tracking, and facial recognition en masse. Since the pandemic, it’s only gotten worse. For a microcosm of how bad the pandemic has been for (...)

#algorithme #drone #biométrie #migration #facial #reconnaissance #vidéo-surveillance #COVID-19 #santé #surveillance (...)

##santé ##EuropeanDigitalRights-EDRi

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The FTC Forced a Misbehaving A.I. Company to Delete Its Algorithm
▻https://onezero.medium.com/the-ftc-forced-a-misbehaving-a-i-company-to-delete-its-algorithm-124

Could Google and Facebook’s algorithms be next ? In 2019, an investigation by NBC News revealed that photo storage app Ever had quietly siphoned billions of its users’ photos to train facial recognition algorithms. Pictures of people’s friends and families, which they had thought were private, were in fact being used to train algorithms that Ever then sold to law enforcement and the U.S. military. Two years later, the Federal Trade Commission has now made an example of parent company (...)

#USArmy #algorithme #biométrie #données #facial #fraude #reconnaissance #scraping #FTC

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Covid-19 Ushered in a New Era of Government Surveillance
▻https://onezero.medium.com/covid-19-ushered-in-a-new-era-of-government-surveillance-414afb7e422

Government-mandated drone surveillance and location tracking apps could be here to stay In early December, after finding 16 people had illegally crossed the border from Myanmar to Thailand and evaded the mandatory quarantine period, the Thai government said it would start patrolling the border with new surveillance equipment like drones and ultraviolet cameras. In 2020, this kind of surveillance, justified by the coronavirus pandemic, has gone mainstream. Since March, more than 30 (...)

#algorithme #AarogyaSetu_ #Bluetooth #CCTV #drone #smartphone #biométrie #contactTracing #géolocalisation #migration #température #facial #reconnaissance #vidéo-surveillance #COVID-19 #frontières #santé (...)

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Coronavirus Is Speeding Up the Amazonification of the Planet
▻https://onezero.medium.com/coronavirus-is-speeding-up-the-amazonification-of-the-planet-21cb20d

As restaurants, bars, and local shops close down, platform-based monoliths are vacuuming up customers and jobs There are always parties who profit in times of crisis, and so it goes with our ever-accelerating global pandemic. For toilet paper manufacturers and supermarket chains and, say, a pair of grifter brothers hawking Purell at an obscene markup, the coronavirus has been good for business. But the biggest beneficiaries in the long term may be Amazon and the tech companies that follow (...)

#Walmart #Amazon #DoorDash #Lyft #Uber #instacart #technologisme #domination #COVID-19 #FoodTech #GigEconomy #santé (...)

##santé ##travail

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The Facial Recognition Backlash Is Here
▻https://onezero.medium.com/the-facial-recognition-backlash-15b5707444f3

But will the current bans last ? The facial recognition industry has been quietly working alongside law enforcement, military organizations, and private companies for years, leveraging 40-year old partnerships originally centered around fingerprint databases. But in 2020, the industry faced an unexpected reckoning. February brought an explosive New York Times report on Clearview AI, a facial recognition company that had scraped billions of images from social media to create an (...)

#Clearview #Microsoft #Walmart #IBM #Amazon #biométrie #police #racisme #facial #reconnaissance #discrimination #empreintes #surveillance #algorithme #CCTV #vidéo-surveillance #ACLU (...)

##FightfortheFuture

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‘Competition Is for Losers’ : How Peter Thiel Helped Facebook Embrace Monopoly
▻https://onezero.medium.com/competition-is-for-losers-how-peter-thiel-helped-facebook-embrace-mo

The roots of Big Tech’s antitrust problem can be found in his bestselling 2014 business book, ‘Zero to One’ “Only one thing can allow a business to transcend the daily brute struggle for survival,” Peter Thiel wrote in his bestselling 2014 book, Zero to One. That one thing, Thiel stated outright, is “monopoly profits.” In the book, which was embraced as a business bible in Silicon Valley and beyond, Thiel made the case for monopoly as the ultimate goal of capitalism. Indeed, “monopoly is the (...)

#Palantir #Facebook #domination

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