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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 (...)

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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 (...)

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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 (...)

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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

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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 (...)

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United Nations : protect rights in welfare systems’ tech overhaul
▻https://www.accessnow.org/un-protect-rights-in-welfare-systems-tech-overhaul

Automating benefits, services threatens welfare rights, privacy (New York, October 17, 2019) – Governments should heed the call of the United Nations’ leading expert on poverty to fully integrate human rights protections into their efforts to digitize and automate welfare benefits and services, seven human rights groups said today. In a report released this week, the U.N. special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, warns that the rapid digitization and automation (...)

#algorithme #pauvreté #surveillance #profiling #AccessNow

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No summer break for free expression in Europe : Facebook cases that matter for human rights
https://www.accessnow.org/no-summer-break-for-free-expression-in-europe-facebook-cases-that-matter-

The summer of 2019 was an intense period for the right to freedom of expression and information in Europe. Besides regulatory pressure on tech companies by governments and global policy initiatives such as the Christchurch Call, European courts issued multiple opinions and judgments. In this blog post, we draw attention to cases that will impact content moderation and freedom of expression online, regardless of whether efforts from the many national and international multistakeholders’ fora (...)

#Facebook #manipulation #censure #surveillance #web #activisme #AccessNow

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Les blocages d’Internet par les autorités en forte hausse dans le monde
▻https://www.01net.com/actualites/les-blocages-d-internet-par-les-autorites-en-forte-hausse-dans-le-monde-17141

Dans son rapport annuel, Acces Now, une ONG qui défend les libertés numériques, s’inquiète de l’augmentation des coupures volontaires du Web, notamment en Asie et en Afrique. Et le plus souvent lors de périodes électorales ou de protestations. 196. C’est le nombre de blocages d’internet qui ont eu lieu durant toute l’année 2018 dans 25 pays différents. L’ONG Access Now, qui coordonne une campagne pour un libre accès à internet baptisée « Keep it on » (Laissez le branché), fait état de ce chiffre (...)

#censure #filtrage #surveillance #web #AccessNow

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Internet en Afrique : Comment les gouvernements le ferment-ils ?
▻https://www.bbc.com/afrique/region-47765394

Pas de Facebook, Twitter ou WhatsApp.C’est ce qui devient de plus en plus courant dans certains pays africains, où les gouvernements ont périodiquement fermé l’Internet ou bloqué les plateformes de médias sociaux. Cela fait un an que le Tchad a bloqué l’accès aux sites de médias sociaux les plus populaires. Le Soudan en avait limité l’accès pendant les manifestations antigouvernementales, tout comme l’avaient fait les autorités du Zimbabwe. Les militants des droits numériques disent que c’est de la (...)

#VPN #filtrage #web #surveillance #AccessNow

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New Law Could Give U.K. Unconstitutional Access to Americans’ Personal Data, Human Rights Groups Warn
▻https://theintercept.com/2018/11/26/cloud-act-data-privacy-us-tech-companies

Nine human rights and civil liberties organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Justice Department today objecting to a potential agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom that would give British law enforcement broad access to data held by U.S. technology companies. The possible agreement stems from the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act, or CLOUD Act, for which Justice Department officials have lobbied since 2016 and which President Donald Trump signed into law in (...)

#Apple #Google #Microsoft #Oath #Facebook #surveillance #BigData #EFF #AccessNow

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World’s Leading Human Rights Groups Tell Google to Cancel Its China Censorship Plan
▻https://theintercept.com/2018/08/28/google-china-censorship-plan-human-rights

Leading human rights groups are calling on Google to cancel its plan to launch a censored version of its search engine in China, which they said would violate the freedom of expression and privacy rights of millions of internet users in the country. A coalition of 14 organizations — including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Reporters Without Borders, Access Now, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology, PEN (...)

#Google #GoogleSearch #algorithme #Dragonfly #censure #StateControl #voisinage #surveillance #web #TheGreatFirewallofChina #RSF #AccessNow #CDT (...)

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Google Censorship Plan Is “Not Right” and “Stupid,” Says Former Google Head of Free Expression
▻https://theintercept.com/2018/08/10/google-censorship-plan-is-not-right-and-stupid-says-former-google-head

Google’s former head of free expression issues in Asia has slammed the internet’s giant’s plan to launch a censored search engine in China, calling it a “stupid move” that would violate widely–held human rights principles. As The Intercept first reported last week, Google has been quietly developing a search platform for China that would remove content that China’s authoritarian government views as sensitive, such as information about political opponents, free speech, democracy, human rights, and (...)

#Google #GoogleSearch #algorithme #censure #TheGreatFirewallofChina #AccessNow #Amnesty #HumanRightsWatch #RSF (...)

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Union européenne. Des États font pression pour obtenir un assouplissement des règles sur l’exportation d’équipements de surveillance vers des pays portant atteinte aux droits humains
▻https://www.amnesty.fr/presse/union-europenne-des-tats-font-pression-pour-obteni

Neuf États membres de l’Union européenne (UE) tentent de bloquer les mesures visant à limiter les exportations d’équipements de surveillance vers les régimes répressifs, cette initiative rétrograde représentant une menace pour les droits humains à travers le monde, ont déclaré le 11 juin Access Now, Amnesty International, Privacy International et Reporters sans frontières (RSF). Un document de positionnement transmis aux médias révèle que Chypre, l’Estonie, la Finlande, l’Irlande, l’Italie, la Pologne, (...)

#FinSpy #écoutes #exportation #sécuritaire #activisme #journalisme #web #surveillance #RSF #Amnesty #PrivacyInternational (...)

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