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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 (...)

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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 (...)

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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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Les « BlueLeaks », immense fuite de documents montrant les rouages internes de dizaines d’agences de police des Etats-Unis
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2020/06/30/les-blueleaks-269-go-de-donnees-policieres-americaines-publiees-par-une-orga

Un collectif a mis en ligne 269 Go d’archives dans le but d’informer sur ce que la police « fait et a fait légalement ». Une fuite impressionnante de par son volume, et aux effets potentiellement lourds de conséquence aux Etats-Unis en raison de son contenu. C’est ainsi qu’on peut résumer les « BlueLeaks », un ensemble de données et de documents pesant près de 269 gigaoctets, publiés en libre accès alors qu’ils sont issus des rouages internes de dizaines d’agences de police réparties sur tout le (...)

#police #données #hacking #surveillance #ACLU #BlueLeaks

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Man wrongfully arrested due to facial recognition software talks about ’humiliating’ experience
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/man-wrongfully-arrested-due-facial-recognition-software-talks-about-humilia

A Black man in Detroit spent over a day in custody in January after an incorrect facial recognition match led to his wrongful arrest. Robert Williams spent more than a day in custody at a Detroit detention center in January after an incorrect facial recognition match led to his wrongful arrest, in what the American Civil Liberties Union alleges is the first such case in the United States. It’s an experience that has stayed with him. “I felt empty, I guess,” Williams told NBC News in a (...)

#algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #criminalité #police #facial #reconnaissance #biais #discrimination #prison (...)

##criminalité ##ACLU

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California city bans predictive policing in U.S. first
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-police-tech-trfn/california-city-bans-predictive-policing-in-u-s-first-idUSKBN23V2XC

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As officials mull steps to tackle police brutality and racism, California’s Santa Cruz has become the first U.S. city to ban predictive policing, which digital rights experts said could spark similar moves across the country. “Understanding how predictive policing and facial recognition can be disportionately biased against people of color, we officially banned the use of these technologies in the city of Santa Cruz,” Mayor Justin Cummings said on (...)

#algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #facial #prédiction #reconnaissance #vidéo-surveillance #biais #pauvreté #surveillance #police (...)

##pauvreté ##ACLU

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Many Police Departments Have Software That Can Identify People In Crowds
▻https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/police-software-briefcam?bfsource=relatedmanual

BriefCam, a facial recognition and surveillance video analysis company, sells the ability to surveil protesters and enforce social distancing — without the public knowing. As protesters demand an end to police brutality and the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the nation, police departments around the country are using software that can track and identify people in crowds from surveillance footage — often with little to no public oversight or knowledge. Dozens of cities around the country are (...)

#Briefcam #algorithme #CCTV #activisme #biométrie #facial #reconnaissance #BlackLivesMatter #comportement #masque (...)

##ACLU

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Opinion | I was wrongfully arrested because of facial recognition. Why are police allowed to use it ?
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/24/i-was-wrongfully-arrested-because-facial-recognition-why-are-police-allowed-use-this-technology/?campaign_id=158&emc=edit_ot_20200625&instance_id=19710&nl=on-tech-w

Robert Williams is a resident of Farmington Hills, Mich., and client of the American Civil Liberties Union. I never thought I’d have to explain to my daughters why Daddy got arrested. How does one explain to two little girls that a computer got it wrong, but the police listened to it anyway ? While I was leaving work in January, my wife called and said a police officer had called and said I needed to turn myself in. I told her it was probably a prank. But as I pulled up to my house, a (...)

#algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #police #criminalité #facial #reconnaissance #biais #discrimination #ACLU (...)

##criminalité ##racisme

A.C.L.U. Warns Against Fever-Screening Tools for Coronavirus
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/health/coronavirus-aclu-fever.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article

A report by the civil liberties group contends that reliance on thermal cameras and temperature-sensing guns to resume work at factories and offices and to encourage travel is flawed and intrusive. Airports, office buildings, warehouses and restaurant chains are rushing to install new safety measures like fever-scanning cameras and infrared temperature-sensing guns. But the American Civil Liberties Union warned on Tuesday against using the tools to screen people for possible coronavirus (...)

#CCTV #technologisme #température #travail #bug #surveillance #vidéo-surveillance #ACLU (...)

##FDA

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FBI trawled Facebook to arrest protesters for inciting riots, court records show
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/federal-agents-monitored-facebook-arrest-protesters-inciting-riots-court-re

Four cases offer some insight into how federal law enforcement continues to monitor online speech related to social movements. On May 27, just two days after George Floyd died at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department, an activist from St. Louis decided to drive the 540 miles north to the Twin Cities to participate in the protests there. “We promise to do our very best to be safe and not do anything to get arrested," Mike Avery wrote on Facebook. Three days later, the FBI arrested (...)

#FBI #Facebook #activisme #BlackLivesMatter #écoutes #SocialNetwork #surveillance #ACLU (...)

##EFF

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The two-year fight to stop Amazon from selling face recognition to the police
▻https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/12/1003482/amazon-stopped-selling-police-face-recognition-fight/?truid=e240178e6fc656e71bbee1dbf6ce3de7

This week’s moves from Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM mark a major milestone for researchers and civil rights advocates in a long and ongoing fight over face recognition in law enforcement. In the summer of 2018, nearly 70 civil rights and research organizations wrote a letter to Jeff Bezos demanding that Amazon stop providing face recognition technology to governments. As part of an increased focus on the role that tech companies were playing in enabling the US government’s tracking and (...)

#Megvii #Microsoft #Ring #IBM #Amazon #Flickr #algorithme #CCTV #Rekognition #sonnette #biométrie #police #racisme #consentement #facial #reconnaissance #sexisme #vidéo-surveillance #BlackLivesMatter #discrimination #scraping #surveillance (...)

##ACLU

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Why Big Tech’s new face recognition bans don’t go far enough
▻https://www.fastcompany.com/90516450/ibm-microsoft-and-amazons-face-recognition-bans-dont-go-far-enough

While these tech giants may have stepped back from facial recognition, their bans don’t encompass other technology they supply for police or square with their past lobbying and legislative efforts. Advocates against flawed facial recognition systems have pushed for limits or bans on the use of these controversial technologies by law enforcement for at least four years. Now, amid a global reckoning around racial injustice spurred by the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, IBM, (...)

#Microsoft #Ring #IBM #USDepartmentofDefense-DoD #Amazon #algorithme #casque #CCTV #Rekognition #sonnette #biométrie #police #racisme #facial #prédiction #reconnaissance #CCPA #discrimination (...)

##ACLU

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Many Facial-Recognition Systems Are Biased, Says U.S. Study
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/technology/facial-recognition-bias.html?campaign_id=158&emc=edit_ot_20200609&instance_

Algorithms falsely identified African-American and Asian faces 10 to 100 times more than Caucasian faces, researchers for the National Institute of Standards and Technology found. The majority of commercial facial-recognition systems exhibit bias, according to a study from a federal agency released on Thursday, underscoring questions about a technology increasingly used by police departments and federal agencies to identify suspected criminals. The systems falsely identified (...)

#ACLU #discrimination #reconnaissance #facial #racisme #biométrie #algorithme #Facebook #Amazon #ICE #FBI #Microsoft #Megvii #Google #Cognitec (...)

##Apple

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Auditer les algorithmes : de la difficulté de passer des principes aux applications concrètes
▻http://www.internetactu.net/a-lire-ailleurs/auditer-les-algorithmes-de-la-difficulte-de-passer-des-principes-aux-a

Des chercheurs de Google AI (dont Andrew Smart, responsable de l’équité de l’apprentissage automatisé chez Google, Rebecca N. White et Timnit Gebru qui codirigent l’équipe chargée de l’éthique de l’IA chez Google, Margaret Mitchell et Ben Hutchinson chercheurs au groupe de recherche de Google sur l’intelligence des machines, et d’autres chercheurs de Google Research), et du Partenariat sur l’IA (Inioluwa Deborah Raji) ont créé un référentiel pour aider les entreprises et les ingénieurs à auditer les (...)

#Google #algorithme #éthique #racisme #sexisme #discrimination #ACLU #AlgorithmWatch (...)

##technologisme
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Amazon says ’Black Lives Matter’. But the company has deep ties to policing
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/09/amazon-black-lives-matter-police-ring-jeff-bezos

Activists say the company’s work, which includes commercial partnerships with law enforcement, harms communities of color Amazon says ’Black Lives Matter’. But the company has deep ties to policing Activists say the company’s work, which includes commercial partnerships with law enforcement, harms communities of color Amazon on Monday became the latest tech company to face criticism for sharing public-facing statements supporting police reform and the Black Lives Matter movement while (...)

#Ring #ICE #Amazon #algorithme #Neighbor #Rekognition #sonnette #activisme #biométrie #police #racisme #facial #reconnaissance #discrimination #ACLU #BlackLivesMatter (...)

##bug
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IBM quits facial-recognition market over police racial-profiling concerns
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/09/ibm-quits-facial-recognition-market-over-law-enforcement-concerns

CEO writes to US Congress calling for ‘national dialogue’ about use in law enforcement IBM is pulling out of the facial recognition market and is calling for “a national dialogue” on the technology’s use in law enforcement. The abrupt about-face comes as technology companies are facing increased scrutiny over their contracts with police amid violent crackdowns on peaceful protest across America. In a public letter to Congress, IBM chief executive, Arvind Krishna, explained the company’s (...)

#Liberty #Amnesty #ACLU #surveillance #discrimination #vidéo-surveillance #reconnaissance #police #facial #racisme #biométrie #CCTV #sonnette #Ring #Rekognition #algorithme #AmazonWebServices-AWS #Amazon #MetropolitanPolice (...)

##IBM
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Facial Recognition’s Many Controversies, From Stadium Surveillance to Racist Software
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/business/facial-recognition-software-controversy.html?campaign_id=158&emc=edit_ot_20

The long-raging debate around facial recognition software, with all the privacy worries it brings with it, has taken on new urgency as the technology has improved and spread by leaps and bounds. On Tuesday, San Francisco became the first major American city to block police and other law enforcement agencies from using the software. Here is a look back at some of the many controversies over facial recognition and its use. The 2001 Super Bowl In January 2001, the city of Tampa, Fla., used (...)

#ACLU #surveillance #sport #Islam #discrimination #BigData #vidéo-surveillance #sexisme #reconnaissance #facial #racisme #biométrie #Rekognition #CCTV #algorithme #Amazon #NSA #SenseTime #Microsoft (...)

##Google

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IBM will no longer offer, develop, or research facial recognition technology
▻https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21284683/ibm-no-longer-general-purpose-facial-recognition-analysis-software

IBM will no longer offer general purpose facial recognition or analysis software, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said in a letter to Congress today. The company will also no longer develop or research the technology, IBM tells The Verge. Krishna addressed the letter to Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Reps. Karen Bass (D-CA), Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), and Jerrold Nadler (D-NY). “IBM firmly opposes and will not condone uses of any [facial recognition] technology, including facial (...)

#Clearview #IBM #Amazon #Facebook #Flickr #algorithme #CCTV #Rekognition #biométrie #consentement #facial #reconnaissance #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance #bug #racisme #discrimination (...)

##ACLU