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President of Mexico should veto the biometric mobile phone registry
▻https://www.accessnow.org/mexicos-new-biometric-mobile-phone-registry

Collecting personal biometric data in exchange for a mobile SIM card is unnecessary and dangerous. Yet, this is the stark reality the Mexican Chamber of Senators has set in motion after voting yesterday, April 13, in favor of establishing a National Register of Mobile Phone Users. Access Now and Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D) call on the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to veto the alarming new biometric mobile phone registry. “The president must be consistent (...)

#smartphone #SIM #biométrie #criminalité #données #reconnaissance #empreintes #AccessNow

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Automatic gender recognition tech is dangerous, say campaigners : it’s time to ban it
▻https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/14/22381370/automatic-gender-recognition-sexual-orientation-facial-ai-analysis-ban-cam

Simplistic gender binaries infringe on the right to self-expression Dangers posed by facial recognition like mass surveillance and mistaken identity have been widely discussed in recent years. But digital rights groups say an equally insidious use case is currently sneaking under the radar : using the same technology to predict someone’s gender and sexual orientation. Now, a new campaign has launched to ban these applications in the EU. Trying to predict someone’s gender or sexuality from (...)

#Microsoft #Amazon #algorithme #biométrie #facial #reconnaissance #discrimination #LGBT #surveillance (...)

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Ban Automated Recognition of Gender and Sexual Orientation
▻https://act.accessnow.org/page/79916/action/1

Automated recognition of gender and sexual orientation is scientifically flawed and puts LGBT+ lives at risk. The European Union has the opportunity to ban this technology and prevent such tools from being exported around the world. A growing number of governments and companies use artificial intelligence (AI) systems to identify and track citizens and consumers. Faster check-ins at airports using facial recognition or a seamless and personalized shopping experience are just two of the (...)

#algorithme #biométrie #facial #reconnaissance #sexisme #discrimination #LGBT #AccessNow

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Government orders internet shutdown in Delhi on India’s Republic Day
▻https://www.accessnow.org/internet-shutdown-in-delhi-on-indias-republic-day

India’s Union Ministry of Home Affairs has issued orders directing internet shutdowns across several areas of the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi today, January 26, the nation’s Republic Day. Reports of disrupted internet and telecom connectivity emerged earlier today as the Delhi Police clashed with farming groups taking part in a planned protest in Delhi. People in several parts of the city received messages from telecom providers stating that services had been disrupted (...)

#activisme #censure #surveillance #AccessNow

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Facebook and Twitter Face International Scrutiny After Trump Ban
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/technology/trump-facebook-twitter.html

Human rights groups and activists have spent years urging the companies to do more to remove content that encouraged violence. LONDON — In Sri Lanka and Myanmar, Facebook kept up posts that it had been warned contributed to violence. In India, activists have urged the company to combat posts by political figures targeting Muslims. And in Ethiopia, groups pleaded for the social network to block hate speech after hundreds were killed in ethnic violence inflamed by social media. “The offline (...)

#Facebook #Instagram #Twitter #WhatsApp #manipulation #modération #violence #discrimination #LGBT #SocialNetwork #censure #HumanRightsWatch (...)

##AccessNow

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Human rights organizations respond to NSO : victims’ voices will not be silenced
▻https://www.accessnow.org/nso-victims-voices-will-not-be-silenced

Today, January 7, Access Now, along with seven other human rights organizations, filed a reply to NSO Group’s opposition to the coalition’s amicus brief in the case of WhatsApp v. NSO in the U.S. Federal 9th Circuit Court. In their opposition, NSO argued that the court should reject the brief on the grounds that it duplicates other amici briefs and introduces allegedly impermissible facts about NSO and its customers. In reply, Access Now argues that the brief meets the Federal Rules of (...)

#Microsoft #NSO #WhatsApp #Pegasus #spyware #écoutes #surveillance #AccessNow #Amnesty (...)

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Facebook Joined by Human Rights Groups to Fight Spyware Maker
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-23/facebook-joined-by-human-rights-groups-to-fight-spyware-maker

A coalition of human rights and press freedom groups have filed a brief supporting Facebook Inc.’s lawsuit against the Israeli surveillance technology company NSO Group, arguing that the “very core of the principles that America represents” are at stake in the case. Facebook last year initiated the lawsuit against NSO Group, accusing the company of reverse-engineering WhatsApp and using the popular chat service to send spyware to the devices of approximately 1,400 people, including attorneys, (...)

#Cisco #Google #Microsoft #NSO #Facebook #WhatsApp #Pegasus #hacking #surveillance #écoutes #AccessNow #Amnesty (...)

##RSF

NSO Group WhatsApp hack victims speak out, from India to Rwanda
▻https://www.accessnow.org/nso-whatsapp-hacking-victims-stories

Around the world, governments are using surveillance tools they have purchased from Israeli spyware firm NSO Group — the infamous creator of Pegasus — to monitor and crack down on human rights defenders. Access Now and our partners have repeatedly called on NSO Group and its investors to stop providing its products to countries who use them as tools of oppression, but the company has failed to take any meaningful steps to address these harms. Since 2016 — when UAE human rights activist Ahmed (...)

#NSO #WhatsApp #Pegasus #smartphone #spyware #activisme #écoutes #surveillance #AccessNow (...)

##CitizenLab

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Iran internet shutdowns : human rights consequences
▻https://www.accessnow.org/iran-internet-shutdowns

Iranians may soon lose their capacity to access global internet services just when they need it most : during protests when security forces violently crack down on demonstrators, and they need to broadcast the events to help their fellow citizens and alert the international media and human rights organizations. They could also see their every move tracked by the Iranian government, as their only option will be to use regime-friendly digital services. That is because Iran has been building (...)

#censure #écoutes #surveillance #AccessNow

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Apple accuses Facebook of ’disregard for user privacy’
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/20/apple-accuses-facebook-of-disregard-for-user-privacy

Criticism made as Apple pushes ahead with transparency feature disliked by advertisers Apple has criticised Facebook for trying to “collect as much data as possible” from users, saying it will push ahead with its planned launch of a new privacy feature despite objections from the advertising industry. The company’s director of global privacy, Jane Horvath, made the criticism in a letter to a coalition of privacy groups, reassuring them that the feature, which will require users to actively (...)

#Apple #Facebook #algorithme #iPad #iPhone #smartphone #consentement #domination #BigData #marketing #publicité #microtargeting #AccessNow #Amnesty (...)

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Security for All
▻https://securetheinternet.org

An open letter to the leaders of the world’s governments SIGNED by organizations, companies, and individuals : We encourage you to support the safety and security of users, companies, and governments by strengthening the integrity of communications and systems. In doing so, governments should reject laws, policies, or other mandates or practices, including secret agreements with companies, that limit access to or undermine encryption and other secure communications tools and (...)

#législation #surveillance #AccessNow #Amnesty #EPIC #LaQuadratureduNet #cryptage

Coronavirus is putting Europe’s privacy protectors front and centre – and they’re coming up short
▻https://thecorrespondent.com/718/coronavirus-is-putting-europes-privacy-protectors-front-and-centre-and-theyre-coming-up-short/865511736518-1582bd69?pk_campaign=collection-notifier&pk_source=em

Coronavirus is putting Europe’s privacy protectors front and centre – and they’re coming up short Coronavirus is putting Europe’s privacy protectors front and centre – and they’re coming up short Wojciech Wiewiórowski felt like his entire life had been leading up to the moment when Covid-19 hit Europe like a tidal wave back in March. His youth in Soviet Poland. His doctorate in constitutional law. His four-year stint as Poland’s data protection authority. “It was all there to prepare me for the (...)

#algorithme #smartphone #Smittestopp #contactTracing #température #[fr]Règlement_Général_sur_la_Protection_des_Données_(RGPD)[en]General_Data_Protection_Regulation_(GDPR)[nl]General_Data_Protection_Regulation_(GDPR) #données #COVID-19 #santé #surveillance #travail (...)

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

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Future EU-US data transfers ? EU must push back on the US’s surveillance game
▻https://www.accessnow.org/future-eu-us-data-transfers-eu-must-push-back-on-the-uss-surveillance-gam

Brussels & Washington DC — Access Now and the American Civil Liberties Union are calling on the European Commission to press the United States to reform its surveillance laws, so that any future instrument for EU-US data transfers complies with EU law and withstands judicial scrutiny. The groups are set to meet with Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders tomorrow, October 2, together with other civil society partners, to discuss the way forward for EU-US data transfers after the (...)

#données #FISA #PrivacyShield #surveillance #AccessNow #ACLU

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La justice européenne consacre « la neutralité du Net » dans l’UE
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2020/09/15/la-justice-europeenne-consacre-la-neutralite-du-net-dans-l-ue_6052269_440899

L’arrêt de la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne consacre mardi le principe d’égalité de traitement et d’accès des contenus en ligne. La Cour de justice de l’Union européenne a consacré dans un arrêt, mardi 15 septembre, le principe d’égalité de traitement et d’accès des contenus en ligne, dit de « neutralité du Net ». La cour considère dans sa décision qu’un fournisseur d’accès ne peut pas privilégier certaines applications ou certains services en leur accordant un accès illimité, quand les services (...)

#Telenor #neutralité #AccessNow #CJUE

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Human rights groups ask U.N. to intervene in U.S. crackdown on racial justice protesters
▻https://www.accessnow.org/human-rights-groups-ask-u-n-to-intervene-in-u-s-crackdown-on-racial-justi

This week, Access Now and the USC Gould School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic (USC IHRC) – with the support of the international law firm Foley Hoag LLP (on behalf of Access Now) – submitted an Urgent Appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedoms of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, Mr. Clement Nyaletossi Voule. The Urgent Appeal – an emergency U.N. Human Rights Council’s Special Procedures mechanism that raises attention to human rights violations by (...)

#ICE #CBP #CCTV #smartphone #activisme #racisme #militaire #aérien #vidéo-surveillance #BlackLivesMatter #écoutes #surveillance (...)

##AccessNow

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Welcome to the ’splinternet’ : Trump adds to fractures in worldwide web
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/welcome-splinternet-trump-adds-fractures-worldwide-web-n1236203

The U.S. has mostly opposed the balkanization of the internet into global factions, but experts said two new executive orders may help change that. It may not be possible to have a worldwide internet, after all. Tech policy experts said Friday that the idea of the internet as one global, unifying phenomenon was at stake after President Donald Trump took the sudden step of announcing bans on two popular Chinese apps, TikTok and WeChat, calling them security risks. It was an extreme (...)

#TikTok #WeChat #domination #lutte #AccessNow

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Facial recognition on trial : emotion and gender “detection” under scrutiny in a court case in Brazil
▻https://www.accessnow.org/facial-recognition-on-trial-emotion-and-gender-detection-under-scrutiny-i

We are seeing AI-powered facial recognition systems deployed in increasingly sensitive environments around the world, and often without people’s knowledge or consent. It is critical to ensure these systems do not facilitate human rights violations, in particular of people and communities who are already at risk. When they are put in place on the basis of pseudoscientific claims that enable discriminatory inferences, it hurts human rights and destroys public trust. The Brazilian Institute of (...)

#algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #technologisme #données #émotions #facial #reconnaissance #sexisme #vidéo-surveillance #LGBT #surveillance # (...)

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Les Applications de traçage numérique pour la lutte contre le COVID-19 dans la région MENA : un cauchemar pour les données personnelles
▻https://www.accessnow.org/les-applications-de-tracage-numerique-pour-la-lutte-contre-le-covid-19-da

En réponse à la pandémie mondiale de COVID-19, un certain nombre de pays de la région MENA ont fait appel à la technologie dans le but de détecter et limiter la propagation du virus, que ce soit avec applications, des drones, ou des robots pour suivre le mouvement des citoyens en quarantaine. Maintenant que les pays cherchent à revenir peu à peu à la normale et de lever les mesures de confinement, de plus en plus de pays se mettent à développer leurs propres applications de traçage numérique comme (...)

#Bluetooth #smartphone #GPS #AccessNow #algorithme #Wizzlabs #E7mi #BeAware #Tatamman #Wiqaytna #EHTERAZ #contactTracing #technologisme #consentement #métadonnées #BigData #COVID-19 #hacking (...)

##santé

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COVID-19 contact-tracing apps in MENA : a privacy nightmare
▻https://www.accessnow.org/covid-19-contact-tracing-apps-in-mena-a-privacy-nightmare

At the outbreak of the COVID-19 global pandemic, a number of countries in the MENA region turned to technology to help track and prevent the spread of the virus, using apps, drones, and even robots to monitor the movement of citizens under quarantine. Now, as countries are looking to slowly return to life and lift lockdown measures, more are jumping on the bandwagon, including developing their own contact-tracing apps, as seen most recently in Morocco and Tunisia. While contact-tracing (...)

#algorithme #Bluetooth #E7mi #EHTERAZ #smartphone #Wizzlabs #GPS #Wiqaytna #BeAware #Tatamman #contactTracing #technologisme #consentement #métadonnées #BigData #COVID-19 #hacking #santé (...)

##santé ##AccessNow

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Emotion, Gender Prediction Tech Should Be Banned from Brazil’s Metro : NGO Testifies
▻https://sociable.co/technology/emotion-gender-prediction-tech-should-be-banned-brazils-metro-ngo-testifies

Access Now, a non-profit that defends the digital rights of citizens around the world, presents an expert opinion in a lawsuit against São Paulo metro operator ViaQuatro and its use of facial categorization software to predict the age, gender and emotional state of passengers for advertisement purposes. ViaQuatro is a public-private concessionary responsible for the operation, maintenance and investments into Line 4 of São Paulo’s metro, which runs through some of the city’s busiest stations. (...)

#algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #consentement #émotions #facial #prédiction #reconnaissance #sexisme #vidéo-surveillance #biais #discrimination #profiling #publicité #surveillance #LGBT # (...)

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COVID-19 Digital Rights Tracker
▻https://www.top10vpn.com/research/investigations/covid-19-digital-rights-tracker

This live tracker documents new measures introduced in response to COVID-19 that pose a risk to digital rights around the world. In response to the outbreak of COVID-19 : Contact Tracing Apps are being used in 29 countries Alternative digital tracking measures are active in 30 countries Physical surveillance technologies are in use in 9 countries COVID-19-related censorship has been imposed by 15 governments Internet shutdowns continue in 3 countries despite the outbreak Introduction (...)

#Google #Vodafone #GooglePlay #WeChat #algorithme #contactTracing #bracelet #Bluetooth #drone #smartphone #TraceTogether #biopolitique #géolocalisation #technologisme #métadonnées #vidéo-surveillance #BigData #censure #COVID-19 #santé #surveillance #AccessNow (...)

##santé ##CitizenLab ##PrivacyInternational

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Zoom’s Flawed Encryption Linked to China
▻https://theintercept.com/2020/04/03/zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to

Meetings on Zoom, the increasingly popular video conferencing service, are encrypted using an algorithm with serious, well-known weaknesses, and sometimes using keys issued by servers in China, even when meeting participants are all in North America, according to researchers at the University of Toronto. The researchers also found that Zoom protects video and audio content using a home-grown encryption scheme, that there is a vulnerability in Zoom’s “waiting room” feature, and that Zoom (...)

#Zoom #cryptage #SSL/TLS #BigData #AccessNow #CitizenLab

##SSL/TLS

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World Report 2020 : Shutting Down the Internet to Shut Up Critics | Human Rights Watch
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/shutting-down-the-internet-to-silence-critics

From Caracas to Khartoum, protesters are leveraging the internet to organize online and stand up for their rights offline. In response, in the past year governments in Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Myanmar and Zimbabwe shut down the internet in all or some parts of their countries—perhaps with the hope that doing so would shut off their problems. Governments are increasingly resorting to shutdowns in times of crisis, arguing they (...)

#manipulation #censure #surveillance #web #AccessNow #HumanRightsWatch

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It’s not the first time Iran has shut down the internet, but this time, it’s different
▻https://www.accessnow.org/its-not-the-first-time-iran-has-shut-down-the-internet-but-this-time-its-

A rushed decision by the Iranian government to raise fuel prices by 50%, after years of political and economic instability and threats to human rights, has forced Iranians across the country into the streets to demand change. According to Amnesty International, at least a dozen protesters have been killed, many injured and more than a thousand have been arrested. As more people joined demonstrations, the government responded by imposing a blanket internet shutdown starting on November 16, (...)

#contrôle #censure #surveillance #AccessNow #web

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New report shows 100+ members of civil society targeted as NSO Group continues to evade scrutiny
▻https://www.accessnow.org/new-report-shows-100-members-of-civil-society-targeted-as-nso-group-conti

In May this year, we published an article detailing a WhatsApp breach where the secure messaging app was found to be vulnerable to a specific type of attack by malicious actors. Today, on the back of a lengthy investigation by WhatsApp and our friends at Citizen Lab, we are finally learning more about who the targets of those attacks were and how they were carried out. The joint investigation revealed that a total of 1400+ individuals were targeted, out of whom over 100 have already been (...)

#NSO #Facebook #WhatsApp #smartphone #Pegasus #spyware #activisme #journalisme #écoutes #hacking #surveillance (...)

##AccessNow

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