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Spot is a Cop
▻https://www.vice.com/en/article/d3amew/boston-dynamics-spot-robot-police

A new report shows that Boston Dynamics loaned its Spot robot to the Massachusetts State Police, and civil liberties groups are concerned. Cops are already using Boston Dynamics’ creepy Spot robot, and they’re not being very transparent about what the four-legged mechanical hellhound is getting up to while it’s in their care. According to a report by Boston news station WBUR, documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts show that the state’s bomb squad had Spot on (...)

#BostonDynamics #robotique #police #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance #ACLU

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Police Drones Are Starting to Think for Themselves
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/technology/police-drones.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article

In one Southern California city, flying drones with artificial intelligence are aiding investigations while presenting new civil rights questions. CHULA VISTA, Calif. — When the Chula Vista police receive a 911 call, they can dispatch a flying drone with the press of a button. On a recent afternoon, from a launchpad on the roof of the Chula Vista Police Department, they sent a drone across the city to a crowded parking lot where a young man was asleep in the front seat of a stolen car with (...)

#algorithme #drone #criminalité #aérien #vidéo-surveillance #discrimination #surveillance (...)

##criminalité ##ACLU

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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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Minneapolis police tapped Google to identify George Floyd protesters
▻https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/06/minneapolis-protests-geofence-warrant

The warrant ordered the search giant to turn over user account data. Police in Minneapolis obtained a search warrant ordering Google to turn over sets of account data on vandals accused of sparking violence in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd last year, TechCrunch has learned. The death of Floyd, a Black man killed by a white police officer in May 2020, prompted thousands to peacefully protest across the city. But violence soon erupted, which police say began with a masked (...)

#Google #activisme #géolocalisation #police #violence #ACLU

San Francisco Takes Small Step to Establish Oversight Over Business Association Surveillance
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/san-francisco-takes-small-step-establish-oversight-over-business-association

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors last week voted unanimously in favor of requiring all special business districts—such as the Union Square Business Improvement District (USBID)—to bring any new surveillance plans to the Board before adopting new technologies. The resolution—passed in the wake of an EFF investigation, a lawsuit brought by local activists, and a sustained local coalition effort—challenging police use of the USBID camera network to monitor last summer’s protests - is (...)

#CCTV #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance #ACLU #EFF

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We Should Be Very Worried About Joe Biden’s “Domestic Terrorism” Bill
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/01/joe-biden-domestic-terrorism-bill-capitol-building

Joe Biden used to brag that he practically wrote the Patriot Act, the Bush-era law that massively increased government surveillance powers. Now he’s hoping to pass a further “domestic terrorism” law once in office. The danger is real that the January 6 Capitol attack will be used as an excuse to severely curtail our civil liberties. Nearly two decades since its initial passage in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the Patriot Act has continued to linger in our collective memory. Though few (...)

#FBI #anti-terrorisme #BlackLivesMatter #PatriotAct #surveillance #ACLU

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A prison video visitation service exposed private calls between inmates and their attorneys
▻https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/10/prison-visitation-homewav-leak/?guccounter=1

Thousands of calls were spilling from an unprotected server. Fearing the spread of coronavirus, jails and prisons remain on lockdown. Visitors are unable to see their loved ones serving time, forcing friends and families to use prohibitively expensive video visitation services that often don’t work. But now the security and privacy of these systems are under scrutiny after one St Louis-based prison video visitation provider had a security lapse that exposed thousands of phone calls between (...)

#données #écoutes #prison #surveillance #ACLU

Oakland Privacy and the People of Vallejo Prevail in the Fight For Surveillance Accountability
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/oakland-privacy-and-people-vallejo-prevail-fight-surveillance-accountability

Just as the 2020 holiday season was beginning in earnest, Solano Superior Court Judge Bradley Nelson upheld the gift of surveillance accountability that the California State legislature had provided state residents when they passed 2015’s Senate Bill 741 (Cal. Govt. Code § 53166). Judge Bradley’s order brought positive closure to a battle that began last March when Electronic Frontier Alliance member Oakland Privacy notified the Vallejo City Council, and Mayor, that their police department’s (...)

#smartphone #vidéo-surveillance #écoutes #surveillance #ACLU #EFF

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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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As Cities Curb Surveillance, Baltimore Police Took to the Air
▻https://www.wired.com/story/cities-curb-surveillance-baltimore-police-took-air/#intcid=_wired-bottom-recirc_b9b99c19-de31-4412-8816-a67c6a3308e7_text2vec1

In a program that overcame three court challenges this year, planes with high-tech cameras circled the city up to 40 hours a week. In August 2016, a Bloomberg report revealed a secret aerial surveillance program in Baltimore led by the city’s police department. Over eight months, planes equipped with cameras collected over 300 hours of footage, used by the police to investigate alleged crimes. Hardly anyone outside police department leadership and the vendor, Persistent Surveillance (...)

#CCTV #aérien #criminalité #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance #ACLU

##criminalité

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From RealPlayer to Toshiba, Tech Companies Cash in on the Facial Recognition Gold Rush
▻https://onezero.medium.com/from-realplayer-to-toshiba-tech-companies-cash-in-on-the-facial-reco

At least 45 companies now advertise real-time facial recognition More than a decade before Spotify, and years before iTunes, there was RealPlayer, the first mainstream solution to playing and streaming media to a PC. Launched in 1995, within five years RealPlayer claimed a staggering 95 million users. But it was a brief moment of glory for RealPlayer. Amid the dot-com bust and mounting pressure from Microsoft’s Windows Media Player, by March 2001 RealPlayer’s stock had dropped to $21 from (...)

#NEC #biométrie #facial #reconnaissance #FBI #DHS #RealNetworks #Toshiba #Clearview #Microsoft #Amazon #algorithme #CCTV #drone #FindFace #militaire #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance (...)

##ACLU

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San Francisco Supervisors Must Rein In SFPD’s Abuse of Surveillance Cameras
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/san-francisco-supervisors-must-reign-sfpds-abuse-surveillance-cameras

Black, white, or indigenous ; well-resourced or indigent ; San Francisco residents should be free to assemble and protest without fear of police surveillance technology or retribution. That should include Black-led protesters of San Francisco who took to the streets in solidarity and protest, understanding that though George Floyd and Breonna Taylor were not neighbors in the most literal sense, their deaths resulted from police violence and racism experienced across geographic and (...)

#CCTV #activisme #racisme #sexisme #vidéo-surveillance #discrimination #LGBT #surveillance #ACLU #EFF #FBI #BlackLivesMatter (...)

##SFPD

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Activists Sue San Francisco for Wide-Ranging Surveillance of Black-Led Protests Against Police Violence
▻https://www.eff.org/press/releases/activists-sue-san-francisco-wide-ranging-surveillance-black-led-protests-agains

Violating San Francisco’s Surveillance Technology Ordinance, SFPD Secretly Used Camera Network to Spy on People Protesting Police Killing of George Floyd San Francisco—Local activists sued San Francisco today over the city police department’s illegal use of a network of more than 400 non-city surveillance cameras to spy on them and thousands of others who protested as part of the Black-led movement against police violence. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the ACLU of Northern (...)

#CCTV #activisme #police #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance #ACLU

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Homeland Security Wants to Erase Its History of Misconduct
▻https://theintercept.com/2020/10/06/homeland-security-dhs-misconduct-records-erasure

U.S. Customs and Border Protection wants to destroy thousands of complaint records it claims have no historical value. Agencies under the Department of Homeland Security have been accused of performing forced hysterectomies on detained immigrants, deporting witnesses to systemic sexual abuse in immigration detention, and defying federal court orders to halt deportations. They have separated children from their families at the border, used the Covid-19 pandemic as justification to turn them (...)

#DHS #CBP #migration #violence #ACLU

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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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How San Francisco police surveillance closed in on Black Lives Matter protests
▻https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/san-francisco-protests-surveillance

Activists and privacy advocates say police use of indiscriminate monitoring erodes fundamental freedoms When Marquise Rosier joined hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters on May 31 in downtown San Francisco, he knew that the police would have their eyes on him. “My thought process going in was ‘Yeah, I know for sure they’re watching,” said the 25-year-old software engineer. Still, he felt compelled to take the risk and attend the demonstration. “I’d rather fight to feel human than live (...)

#CCTV #activisme #police #vidéo-surveillance #BlackLivesMatter #surveillance #ACLU #EFF

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Operation Legend Is Bringing Surveillance Tech to Cities
▻https://theintercept.com/2020/09/13/police-surveillance-technology-operation-legend

Using federal grants, cities are contracting with companies that hack smartphones and detect gunshots. In August, 40 federal agents arrived in Memphis. Some were already on the ground by the time U.S. Attorney Michael Dunavant announced the onset of Operation Legend and the city became, along with St. Louis, the seventh to be targeted by the Justice Department’s heavy-handed initiative to reduce violent crime. Many of the agents are on temporary assignment, working in collaboration with (...)

#FBI #algorithme #CCTV #capteur #technologisme #police #ACLU #activisme #BlackLivesMatter (...)

##surveillance

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When should a tech company refuse to build tools for the government ?
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/26/tech-government-contracts-worker-revolt-microsoft-amazon-google

Silicon Valley workers are revolting against lucrative contracts with US immigration and defense agencies During the second world war, IBM supplied the Nazis with technology used to help transport millions of people to their deaths in the concentration camps. The American technology company leased punch-card machines through a German subsidiary for the purpose of tabulating a population census, which allowed the Nazis to identify and track the movements of Jews all the way to the gas (...)

#IBM #Google #Microsoft #Amazon #AmazonWebServices-AWS #algorithme #Rekognition #CCTV #biométrie #migration #facial #reconnaissance #vidéo-surveillance #CloudComputing #extrême-droite #Maven #surveillance #voix (...)

##ACLU
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Facial Recognition Start-Up Mounts a First Amendment Defense
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/technology/clearview-floyd-abrams.html

Clearview AI has hired Floyd Abrams, a top lawyer, to help fight claims that selling its data to law enforcement agencies violates privacy laws. Floyd Abrams, one of the most prominent First Amendment lawyers in the country, has a new client : the facial recognition company Clearview AI. Litigation against the start-up “has the potential of leading to a major decision about the interrelationship between privacy claims and First Amendment defenses in the 21st century,” Mr. Abrams said in a (...)

#Clearview #Instagram #LinkedIn #algorithme #biométrie #police #procès #consentement #données #facial #législation #reconnaissance #DataBrokers #scraping (...)

##ACLU

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Police use of facial recognition violates human rights, UK court rules
▻https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/police-use-of-facial-recognition-violates-human-rights-uk-court-rules

Use of the tech needs to be narrower to conform to human rights law, court held. Privacy advocates in the UK are claiming victory as an appeals court ruled today that police use of facial recognition technology in that country has “fundamental deficiencies” and violates several laws. South Wales Police began using automated facial recognition technology on a trial basis in 2017, deploying a system called AFR Locate overtly at several-dozen major events such as soccer matches. Police (...)

#algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #facial #reconnaissance #sport #bug #procès #Liberty #ACLU #IBM #Amazon #Rekognition #activisme #BlackLivesMatter #racisme #biais (...)

##discrimination

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EFF and ACLU Tell Federal Court that Forensic Software Source Code Must Be Disclosed
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/eff-and-aclu-tell-federal-court-forensic-software-source-code-must-be-disclosed

Can secret software be used to generate key evidence against a criminal defendant ? In an amicus filed ten days ago with the United States District Court of the Western District of Pennsylvania, EFF and the ACLU of Pennsylvania explain that secret forensic technology is inconsistent with criminal defendants’ constitutional rights and the public’s right to oversee the criminal trial process. Our amicus in the case of United States v. Ellis also explains why source code, and other aspects of (...)

#algorithme #génétique #justice #[fr]Règlement_Général_sur_la_Protection_des_Données_(RGPD)[en]General_Data_Protection_Regulation_(GDPR)[nl]General_Data_Protection_Regulation_(GDPR) #santé #surveillance #ACLU #EFF #TrueAllele (...)

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

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CBP Flew A Predator Drone Over Minneapolis Amid George Floyd Protests
▻https://www.forbes.com/sites/krisholt/2020/05/29/cbp-predator-drone-minneapolis-george-floyd-aclu/#13d4fa5540fa

Customs and Border Protection flew a Predator drone, which is commonly used in overseas military operations, over Minneapolis today, drawing criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union and others. Protests against police brutality have broken out in the city in recent days following the death of George Floyd, in which law enforcement officers were involved. The use of the MQ-9 Reaper drone, which took off from Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, was first noted by Jason (...)

#CBP #capteur #CCTV #drone #activisme #aérien #vidéo-surveillance #BlackLivesMatter #surveillance (...)

##ACLU

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We’re Publishing Thousands of Police Discipline Records That New York Kept Secret for Decades
▻https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-civilian-complaint-review-board-editors-note

ProPublica obtained these police records from New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board. NYPD unions are suing to halt the city from making the data public. Until last month, New York state prohibited the release of police officers’ disciplinary records. Civilians’ complaints of abuse by officers were a secret. So were investigators’ conclusions. The public couldn’t even know if an officer was punished. The New York City police officer whose use of a prohibited chokehold led to the death (...)

#NYPD #police #violence #racisme #ACLU

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You Are Being Tracked
▻https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/location-tracking/you-are-being-tracked

How License Plate Readers Are Being Used To Record Americans’ Movements A little noticed surveillance technology, designed to track the movements of every passing driver, is fast proliferating on America’s streets. Automatic license plate readers, mounted on police cars or on objects like road signs and bridges, use small, high-speed cameras to photograph thousands of plates per minute. The information captured by the readers – including the license plate number, and the date, time, and (...)

#algorithme #CCTV #activisme #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance # #conducteur·trice·s #ACLU

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Dataminr Helped Police Use Tweets To Surveil BLM Protests
▻https://theintercept.com/2020/07/09/twitter-dataminr-police-spy-surveillance-black-lives-matter-protests

Leveraging close ties to Twitter, controversial artificial intelligence startup Dataminr helped law enforcement digitally monitor the protests that swept the country following the killing of George Floyd, tipping off police to social media posts with the latest whereabouts and actions of demonstrators, according to documents reviewed by The Intercept and a source with direct knowledge of the matter. The monitoring seems at odds with claims from both Twitter and Dataminr that neither (...)

#Dataminr_ #FBI #CIA #Twitter #BlackLivesMatter #écoutes #SocialNetwork #surveillance #ACLU

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