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About Face
▻https://www.eff.org/aboutface

Law enforcement use of face recognition technology poses a profound threat to personal privacy, political and religious expression, and the fundamental freedom to go about our lives without having our movements and associations covertly monitored and analyzed. This technology can be used for identifying or verifying the identity of an individual using photos or videos, and law enforcement and other government agencies can use it to conduct dragnet surveillance of entire neighborhoods. Face (...)

#biométrie #facial #reconnaissance #vidéo-surveillance #discrimination #erreur #surveillance #ACLU (...)

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Amazon’s Ring Planned Neighborhood “Watch Lists” Built on Facial Recognition
▻https://theintercept.com/2019/11/26/amazon-ring-home-security-facial-recognition

Ring, Amazon’s crimefighting surveillance camera division, has crafted plans to use facial recognition software and its ever-expanding network of home security cameras to create AI-enabled neighborhood “watch lists,” according to internal documents reviewed by The Intercept. The planning materials envision a seamless system whereby a Ring owner would be automatically alerted when an individual deemed “suspicious” was captured in their camera’s frame, something described as a “suspicious activity (...)

#Ring #Amazon #algorithme #CCTV #Neighbors #Ring_ #sonnette #biométrie #criminalité #facial #reconnaissance #surveillance #vidéo-surveillance #ACLU (...)

##criminalité ##voisinage

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The “smart city” makes infrastructure and surveillance indistinguishable
▻https://reallifemag.com/the-captured-city

You can’t go about your day anymore without tripping over smart stuff — smart refrigerators, smart toothbrushes, smart locks, smart whatever. All this smartness usually amounts to equipping the previously dumb thing with sensors that collect data, software for algorithmic operation, and internet capabilities so it can constantly communicate with other things and be remotely controlled by its owners, makers, and hackers. But what does it mean to apply “smart” to an entire city ? From the (...)

#Cisco #Google #Microsoft #NYPD #Palantir #DHS #CIA #Amazon #algorithme #capteur #CCTV #anti-terrorisme #technologisme #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance #urbanisme #InternetOfThings #ACLU (...)

##SmartCity

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Rekognition : le jeu des 26 erreurs du système de reconnaissance faciale d’Amazon
▻https://korii.slate.fr/tech/rekognition-reconnaissance-faciale-amazon-identifie-26-elus-californiens

Lors d’un test de l’Union américaine pour les libertés civiles, le logiciel a confondu 26 élu·es avec des criminel·les. La reconnaissance faciale est une technologie qui s’améliore très rapidement. À partir de simples images, il est désormais possible de détecter âge, genre et même émotions des personnes filmées. Il est aussi très simple de déterminer si elles se trouvent dans une base de données. Amazon en tête Dans le domaine, c’est Rekognition, un logiciel développé par Amazon, qui fait le plus parler (...)

#Amazon #algorithme #CCTV #Rekognition #biométrie #vidéo-surveillance #criminalité #facial #reconnaissance #discrimination #surveillance (...)

##criminalité ##ACLU

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Border Agents Can’t Search Smartphones And Laptops Without ‘Reasonable Suspicion,’ Court Rules
▻https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2019/11/12/border-agents-cant-search-smartphones-and-laptops-without-reasonable-suspici

A Boston federal court ruled Tuesday that U.S. federal agents can’t conduct “suspicionless” searches of international travelers’ smartphones and laptops at the border and other ports of entry, a decision hailed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) as a “major victory for privacy rights.” In a 48-page decision, U.S. district judge Denise Casper ruled that border officials need justifiable reasons to search a person’s electronic devices, which should be balanced against the privacy interests (...)

#ICE #CBP #smartphone #écoutes #surveillance #migration #ACLU

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The government keeps its use of facial recognition tech secret. The ACLU is suing.
▻https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/11/7/20953655/facial-recognition-technology-government-fbi-aclu-lawsuit-reset-podcast

The ACLU is suing the FBI to find out what the government is doing with facial recognition technology. Dive in with this Reset podcast episode The ACLU is suing the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the DEA to get documents that explain how the US government is using facial recognition technology. The lawsuit came after the government denied the ACLU’s request for information not only about how it is using this technology right now but also about how it plans to use that technology in (...)

#FBI #CCTV #biométrie #facial #reconnaissance #ACLU

Interdire la reconnaissance faciale (1/3) : la reconnaissance faciale n’est pas une technologie, c’est une idéologie !
▻http://www.internetactu.net/2019/11/05/interdire-la-reconnaissance-faciale-13-la-reconnaissance-faciale-nest-

Aux États-Unis, les initiatives d’interdiction de l’utilisation de la reconnaissance faciale par la police de quelques villes américaines (on parle de moins d’une dizaine : 4 villes ont voté une interdiction – San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley et Somerville – et autant ont des projets en ce sens) ou le projet de loi de l’État de Californie – qui vient d’être voté ! – d’interdire l’utilisation de la reconnaissance faciale dans les caméras de corps des policiers demeurent très limitées et toujours très (...)

#Microsoft #Amazon #algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #vidéo-surveillance #facial #reconnaissance #discrimination #surveillance #ACLU (...)

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The FBI Spends a Lot of Time Spying on Black Americans
▻https://theintercept.com/2019/10/29/fbi-surveillance-black-activists

The FBI has come under intense criticism after a 2017 leak exposed that its counterterrorism division had invented a new, unfounded domestic terrorism category it called “black identity extremism.” Since then, legislators have pressured the bureau’s leadership to be more transparent about its investigation of black activists, and a number of civil rights groups have filed public records requests to try to better understand who exactly the FBI is investigating under that designation. Although (...)

#FBI #BlackLivesMatter #discrimination #surveillance #activisme #ACLU #MediaJustice

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Jeff Bezos says Amazon is writing its own facial recognition laws to pitch to lawmakers
▻https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/9/25/20884427/jeff-bezos-amazon-facial-recognition-draft-legislation-regulation-rekognition

The tech giant’s hope is that federal lawmakers will adopt much of its draft legislation. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says his company is developing a set of laws to regulate facial recognition technology that it plans to share with federal lawmakers. In February, the company, which has faced escalating scrutiny over its controversial facial recognition tech, called Amazon Rekognition, published guidelines it said it hoped lawmakers would consider enacting. Now Amazon is taking another step, (...)

#Amazon #algorithme #Rekognition #biométrie #facial #législation #ACLU #lobbying

Le Pentagone teste des ballons de surveillance de masse dans six États
▻https://usbeketrica.com/article/le-pentagone-teste-des-ballons-de-surveillance-de-masse-dans-six-etats

L’armée américaine effectue des tests de surveillance de masse dans six États du Midwest à l’aide de ballons expérimentaux à haute altitude, selon des documents déposés à la Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Big brother is watching you ! Six états américains du Midwest sont sous « surveillance militaire » depuis mi-juillet, rapporte The Guardian. Au total, 25 ballons autonomes propulsés à l’énergie solaire survolent le Dakota du Sud, le Minnesota, l’Iowa, le Wisconsin, le Missouri et l’Illinois. Ils (...)

#CCTV #aérien #vidéo-surveillance #ACLU #SierraNevadaCorporation #ballon

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Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US
▻https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/pentagon-balloons-surveillance-midwest

Exclusive : the high-altitude balloons promise a cheap monitoring platform that could follow multiple cars and boats for extended periods Mark Harris @meharris Fri 2 Aug 2019 11.00 BST Last modified on Fri 2 Aug 2019 18.05 BST Shares 7 301 The new balloons could follow multiple cars and boats for extended periods. The new balloons could follow multiple cars and boats for extended periods. Photograph : Ron Chapple/Alamy The US military is conducting wide-area surveillance tests across six (...)

#SierraNevadaCorporation #ballon #CCTV #aérien #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance #ACLU

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Microsoft Slammed For Investment In Israeli Facial Recognition ‘Spying On Palestinians’
Thomas Brewster, Forbes, le 1er août 2019
▻https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/08/01/microsoft-slammed-for-investing-in-israeli-facial-recognition-spying-on-palestinians/#3747d10c6cec

It’s unclear whether investors were aware of AnyVision’s business in regions with tainted human rights records. The Israeli company is trying to grow its business in Hong Kong, where protesters this week used lasers in an attempt to stop facial recognition profiling them. In a job post for a sales position in Hong Kong, AnyVision discloses it has customers and partnerships not only in that country but also Macau, the so-called Las Vegas of Asia. In Russia, a country heavily criticized for its human rights record, the AnyVision’s tools are deployed at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport, according to a post on the company’s website.

Shankar Narayan, the director of the Technology and Liberty Project at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), told Forbes that he’d held meetings with Microsoft in Seattle last year in which the tech giant appeared receptive to ideas on holding back the spread of facial recognition. But the company has not followed through with any action, Narayan claimed.

Human Rights Groups Slam Microsoft for Investing in Israeli Face-recognition Company
Amitai Ziv, Haaretz, le 4 août 2019
▻https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/.premium-human-rights-groups-slam-microsoft-for-investing-in-israeli-face-r

Amos Toh, a senior researcher on artificial intelligence at Human Rights Watch, told Forbes that the use of such technology “in a very fraught political context, could be problematic,” referring to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank.

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#Anyvision #Anyvision_Interactive_Technologies #Microsoft #Qualcomm #Identité #Biométrie #Face-recognition #facial #vidéo-surveillance #sécuritaire #surveillance #Palestine #israel #Mossad #Armée #Cisjordanie #Occupation #Human_Rights_Watch #ACLU #Russie #Hong-Kong #Macao

Experts Say ’Emotion Recognition’ Lacks Scientific Foundation
▻https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/experts-say-emotion-recognition-lacks-scientific

Emotion recognition is a hot new area, with numerous companies peddling products that claim to be able to read people’s internal emotional states, and AI researchers looking to improve computers’ ability to do so. This is done through voice analysis, body language analysis, gait analysis, eye tracking, and remote measurement of physiological signs like pulse and breathing rates. Most of all, though, it’s done through analysis of facial expressions. A new study, however, strongly suggests that (...)

#algorithme #biométrie #émotions #surveillance #ACLU

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What is facial recognition - and how sinister is it ?
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/29/what-is-facial-recognition-and-how-sinister-is-it

Facial recognition technology has spread prodigiously. It’s there on Facebook, tagging photos from the class reunion, your cousin’s wedding and the office summer party. Google, Microsoft, Apple and others have built it into apps to compile albums of people who hang out together. It verifies who you are at airports and is the latest biometric to unlock your mobile phone where facial recognition apps abound. Need to confirm your identity for a £1,000 bank transfer ? Just look into the camera. (...)

#Apple #Google #Microsoft #Instagram #Amazon #Flickr #algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #Rekognition #facial #vidéo-surveillance #BigData #discrimination #surveillance #publicité (...)

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This Israeli Face-recognition Startup Is Secretly Tracking Palestinians
▻https://www.aurdip.org/this-israeli-face-recognition.html

Anyvision Interactive Technologies is one of Israel’s most curious startups. It has shown extraordinary growth, and its technology is being used by the army to monitor West Bank Palestinians at checkpoints on the way into Israel — while using a network of cameras deep inside the West Bank. The company’s co-founder and chief executive, Eylon Etshtein, told TheMarker that his company is sensitive to racial and gender bias and only sells to democracies. Anyvision is Israel’s most high-profile (...)

#Anyvision #Bosch #Microsoft #Mossad #Qualcomm #Amazon #algorithme #CCTV #smartphone #Identité #biométrie #facial #vidéo-surveillance #sécuritaire #surveillance #consommation #frontières #voyageurs (...)

##Identité ##voyageurs
##ACLU

The Strange Politics of Facial Recognition
►https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/06/democrats-and-republicans-passing-soft-regulations/592558

Everyone seems to have found common ground on the emerging technology. That’s exactly what its makers want. Your face is no longer just your face—it’s been augmented. At a football game, your face is currency, used to buy food at the stadium. At the mall, it is a ledger, used to alert salespeople to your past purchases, both online and offline, and shopping preferences. At a protest, it is your arrest history. At the morgue, it is how authorities will identify your body. Facial-recognition (...)

#Axon #Microsoft #Amazon #AWS #algorithme #CCTV #Rekognition #biométrie #facial #vidéo-surveillance #discrimination #surveillance #ACLU (...)

##FaceAPI

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An Army of Robot Surveillance Guards Is Coming
▻https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/army-robot-surveillance-guards-coming

We are surrounded by surveillance cameras that record us at every turn. But for the most part, while those cameras are watching us, no one is watching what those cameras observe or record because no one will pay for the armies of security guards that would be required for such a time-consuming and monotonous task. But imagine that all that video were being watched — that millions of security guards were monitoring them all 24/7. Imagine this army is made up of guards who don’t need to be (...)

#algorithme #CCTV #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance #ACLU

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Apps That Blast Out Crime Alerts Don’t Have to Rattle You
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/technology/personaltech/neighborhood-crime-apps.html

Neighborhood-watch networks are on the rise, even though crime is not. Here’s how to put the data into perspective. My phone recently buzzed with an alarming notification : Police officers were responding to a shooting about a mile away. A few hours later, another alert popped up, letting me know that two men were fighting in an alleyway nearby. Then my inbox loaded an email with a message that a neighbor had found a man trying to break into his house. The notifications arrived because of (...)

#FBI #Amazon #Nextdoor #Ring #sonnette #CCTV #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance #discrimination (...)

##ACLU

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Les gènes humains peuvent-ils être brevetés ? Le débat reprend aux États-Unis
▻https://www.numerama.com/sciences/523188-les-genes-humains-peuvent-ils-etre-brevetes-le-debat-reprend-aux-et

Les États-Unis se penchent une nouvelle fois sur une question éthique : un gène humain peut-il être breveté ? Une proposition relance les débats en affirmant qu’on ne peut pas refuser une demande de brevet sur la base d’« idées abstraites ». Un gène peut-il faire l’objet d’un brevet ? Le débat est en train d’occuper un sous-comité du Sénat américain spécialisé dans la propriété intellectuelle. Sa juridiction inclut les lois encadrant les brevets. Comme l’a repéré Wired le 5 juin 2019, le comité est chargé (...)

#Google #Amazon #Facebook #génétique #législation #brevet #ACLU

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Congress Is Debating—Again—Whether Genes Can Be Patented
▻https://www.wired.com/story/congress-is-debating-again-whether-genes-can-be-patented

In 2013, the Supreme Court unanimously struck down patents on two human genes—BRCA1 and BRCA2—associated with breast and ovarian cancers. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the court at the time that isolated DNA “is a product of nature and not patent eligible.” The historic decision invalidated patents held by Myriad Genetics, the defendant in a 2009 lawsuit brought by dozens of patients and researchers represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, breaking the company’s virtual monopoly (...)

#Google #Amazon #Facebook #génétique #législation #brevet #ACLU

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Audience contre le Privacy Shield devant le Tribunal de l’UE !
▻https://www.laquadrature.net/2019/05/23/audience-contre-le-privacy-shield-devant-le-tribunal-de-lue

Le régime de surveillance des Etats-Unis va de nouveau être examiné par les juges européens. Après 3 ans de procédure, l’audience sur notre affaire contre le « Privacy Shield » a enfin été fixée aux 1er et 2 juillet. Retour sur ces 3 années de combat. En 2000, la Commission européenne a autorisé un accord, appelé « Safe Harbor », pour faciliter le transfert de données personnelles des européens vers les États-Unis. Le 6 octobre 2015, la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne a invalidé cette autorisation, (...)

#Microsoft #PrivacyShield #législation #Safe_Harbor #GAFAM #UFC-QueChoisir #ACLU #LaQuadratureduNet

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Amazon shareholders vote down proposals on facial recognition and climate change
▻https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/22/18635632/amazon-shareholders-vote-facial-recognition-climate-change-investors-emplo

Amazon shareholders have voted down proposals meant to curb sales of the company’s controversial facial recognition tool and to limit its carbon output. The proposals, which were driven by shareholding activists and employees, were nonbinding, but represented a moment of defiance against Amazon. The company’s Rekognition tool, which is sold to law enforcement, has been criticized on civil liberties grounds, and employees have said the company could be doing more to fight climate change. Two (...)

#Amazon #Rekognition #algorithme #écologie #biométrie #facial #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance #militarisation (...)

##ACLU

L’assemblée générale d’Amazon, lieu d’expression des contestations internes
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2019/05/22/l-assemblee-generale-d-amazon-lieu-d-expression-des-contestations-internes_5

Des salariés du géant de l’e-commerce présentent des résolutions portant leurs revendications. Amazon doit-il avoir une politique beaucoup plus active de lutte contre le réchauffement climatique ? L’entreprise de Jeff Bezos doit-elle s’engager à ne pas fournir sa technologie de reconnaissance faciale aux forces de l’ordre américaines ? Les actionnaires du leader mondial de la vente en ligne doivent se prononcer sur ces résolutions, mercredi 22 mai. Ces questions sont portées par des détenteurs (...)

#Amazon #écologie #biométrie #militarisation #facial #travail #ACLU

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A Vigilante Militia Defends an Imaginary Border
▻https://theintercept.com/2019/05/18/border-militia-texas-mexico-guardian-patriots

“Is that what we think it is ?” gasped a woman on the Patriot Caravan. The MAGA- and Trump-hatted group of about 25 people were on a walking tour of the U.S.-Mexico border in the desert near El Paso, Texas. It was led by a large, garrulous man named Jim Benvie, a member of the Guardian Patriots, which used to be the United Constitutional Patriots, or UCP. “Oh sh … It might be the coyotes bringing them in !” said another woman. “It is what you think it is,” said Benvie. As he lectured about (...)

#migration #surveillance #frontières #militarisation #ACLU

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26 million Americans have taken an ancestry test, and law enforcement is using this data to catch criminals
►https://bonus.usbeketrica.com/article/26-million-americans-have-taken-an-ancestry-test-and-law-enforcem

Many companies are now offering direct to consumer genetic testing. Which means the police has now access to more DNA data than ever before. In April 2018, California police finally arrested a man suspected of being the Golden State killer, a mysterious individual accused of having raped and murdered a dozen women in the 1970s and 1980s before vanishing into thin air. The news made headlines, not only because the police had been looking for the serial killer for so long, but also because (...)

#23andMe #AncestryDNA #MyHeritage #génétique #surveillance #ACLU #FamilyTreeDNA

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