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Saudi Arabia ramps up surveillance at holiest sites
https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/mecca-holy-sites-surveillance

A new government app threatens Mecca’s undocumented residents Aziz Ali Naeem first came to Mecca in 1948 to perform Hajj, a pilgrimage that is compulsory for all able Muslims once in their lives. Within days of his arrival, he decided he was not going back home to Hyderabad in newly independent India. Although Naeem, who died in the early 1980s, wasn’t fluent in Arabic, he managed to find work at a small company that catered to pilgrims journeying by sea from South Asia. Three years later, (...)

#algorithme #bracelet #smartphone #SmartCity #biométrie #contactTracing #géolocalisation #migration #technologisme #religion #COVID-19 #Islam #santé #surveillance (...)

##santé ##HumanRightsWatch

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How the Tech-Driven Overhaul of the UK’s Social Security System Worsens Poverty
▻https://www.hrw.org/report/2020/09/29/automated-hardship/how-tech-driven-overhaul-uks-social-security-system-worsens

How the Tech-Driven Overhaul of the UK’s Social Security System Worsens Poverty “Janet R.,” 35, a single mother who works at a college student advice center in London, suddenly found herself on the verge of financial ruin. On January 31, 2020, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the United Kingdom’s ministry for social security, transferred her to a new benefits system known as Universal Credit. In early March, she received her first monthly payment. When she saw that it would only be (...)

#algorithme #technologisme #discrimination #pauvreté #HumanRightsWatch

##pauvreté

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Interview : Don’t Fear the Machines, Fear the People Running Them
▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/09/29/interview-dont-fear-machines-fear-people-running-them

What Happens When You Take The ‘Human’ Out Of Human Rights ? Governments worldwide increasingly use automation to deliver social welfare programs to people. They claim automation helps speed up the delivery of welfare support. But losing human input can spell danger for people’s livelihoods. As new research shows, badly-designed algorithms in the UK are miscalculating the financial support people are entitled to, and plunging people – even those with jobs - into debt and poverty. Amos Toh (...)

#algorithme #technologisme #discrimination #pauvreté #HumanRightsWatch

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Data Leviathan : China’s Burgeoning Surveillance State
▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/08/16/data-leviathan-chinas-burgeoning-surveillance-state

Classical totalitarianism, in which the state controls all institutions and most aspects of public life, largely died with the Soviet Union, apart from a few holdouts such as North Korea. The Chinese Communist Party retained a state monopoly in the political realm but allowed a significant private economy to flourish. Yet today, in Xinjiang, a region in China’s northwest, a new totalitarianism is emerging—one built not on state ownership of enterprises or property but on the state’s intrusive (...)

#algorithme #CCTV #technologisme #domination #vidéo-surveillance #Islam #surveillance (...)

##HumanRightsWatch

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China : Police ‘Big Data’ Systems Violate Privacy, Target Dissent
▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/11/19/china-police-big-data-systems-violate-privacy-target-dissent

Automated Systems Track People Authorities Claim ‘Threatening’ (New York) – The Chinese government should stop building big data policing platforms that aggregate and analyze massive amounts of citizens’ personal information, Human Rights Watch said today. This abusive “Police Cloud” system is designed to track and predict the activities of activists, dissidents, and ethnic minorities, including those authorities say have “extreme thoughts,” among other functions. China has no enforceable (...)

#algorithme #CCTV #technologisme #BigData #données #surveillance #HumanRightsWatch

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Big Tech’s Heavy Hand Around the Globe
▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/09/08/big-techs-heavy-hand-around-globe

Facebook and Google’s dominance of developing-world markets has had catastrophic effects. US regulators should take note. Billions of people around the world have come to rely on the services Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google provide to exercise their basic human rights. But for many people, both within and outside the U.S., the concentration of power in these companies has meant considerable harm. It’s nearly impossible to avoid using one of these companies’ products when online. Facebook (...)

#Google #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #domination #HumanRightsWatch

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Surveillance of minority Muslims in southern Thailand is powered by Chinese-style tech
▻https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/surveillance-muslims-thailand

Mandatory biometric registration has left many Malay Muslims distrustful of the state and concerned about how new technologies will impact their lives When Arief’s cell phone service was cut off, it came as no surprise. He had refused to visit the local branch of his mobile provider and give his fingerprints and a facial scan, in order to register his SIM card. He did so as a matter of principle, to show his opposition to what many believe to be increasing intrusions into the lives of Malay (...)

#algorithme #CCTV #SIM #biométrie #génétique #racisme #données #facial #FAI #reconnaissance #vidéo-surveillance #BigData #empreintes #Islam #profiling #surveillance #discrimination #HumanRightsWatch #Mengvii (...)

##Face++

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China Is Collecting DNA From Tens of Millions of Men and Boys, Using U.S. Equipment
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/world/asia/China-DNA-surveillance.html

Even children are pressed into giving blood samples to build a sweeping genetic database that will add to Beijing’s growing surveillance capabilities, raising questions about abuse and privacy. The police in China are collecting blood samples from men and boys from across the country to build a genetic map of its roughly 700 million males, giving the authorities a powerful new tool for their emerging high-tech surveillance state. They have swept across the country since late 2017 to (...)

#ThermoFischer #algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #génétique #facial #reconnaissance #vidéo-surveillance #Islam #surveillance (...)

##HumanRightsWatch

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People in Moscow are getting wrongfully fined by a quarantine app that demands selfies
▻https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/moscow-social-monitoring-app-wrongful-demanding-selfies-2020-5

Human Rights Watch said the app is “intrusive, deeply flawed, and arbitrarily punishes law-abiding people along with actual quarantine violators.” Moscow authorities are making COVID-19 patients download a “social monitoring” app to make sure they are abiding by quarantine orders. Human Rights Watch reports the app has been dishing out wrongful fines, partly because it demands users send their selfies. The app sends push notifications to demand the selfies, but sometimes sends them in the (...)

#algorithme #smartphone #contactTracing #géolocalisation #technologisme #consentement #métadonnées #BigData #COVID-19 #santé #selfie (...)

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

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Lebanon’s LGBT People Reclaim Their Power
▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/07/lebanons-lgbt-people-reclaim-their-power

Videos, Report Highlight Coexistence, Solidarity, New Possibility for Rights (Beirut) – Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and their rights in Lebanon are part and parcel of the nationwide protests that began on October 17, 2019, Human Rights Watch said today in a web feature. The web feature, “‘If Not Now, When ?’ Queer and Trans People Reclaim Their Power in Lebanon’s Revolution,” shares stories of hope and solidarity told by queer women and transgender people who are (...)

#censure #LGBT #surveillance #HumanRightsWatch

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Big Brother in the Age of Coronavirus : 100+ Groups Warn Against Exploiting Pandemic to Permanently Expand Surveillance State | Common Dreams News
▻https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/02/big-brother-age-coronavirus-100-groups-warn-against-exploiting-pandemi

“These are extraordinary times, but human rights law still applies.” As the number of COVID-19 cases climbed toward a million worldwide on Thursday, over 100 human rights groups issued a joint statement warning that governments’ response to the coronavirus pandemic “must not be used as a cover to usher in a new era of greatly expanded systems of invasive digital surveillance.” "Now more than ever, governments must rigorously ensure that any restrictions to these rights is in line with (...)

#PrivacyInternational #EPIC #Amnesty #HumanRightsWatch #BigBrotherWatch #surveillance #santé #COVID-19 #BigData #vidéo-surveillance #reconnaissance #métadonnées #facial #géolocalisation #biométrie #smartphone (...)

##santé ##algorithme

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Coronavirus : le risque est d’entrer dans « une nouvelle ère de surveillance numérique invasive »
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2020/04/05/coronavirus-le-risque-est-d-entrer-dans-une-nouvelle-ere-de-surveillance-num

La crise sanitaire, et son lourd bilan, est-elle de nature à faire sauter les digues en matière de libertés publiques ? « Avec les bonnes applications, tous les bogues de l’humanité deviennent mineurs », écrivait, en 2013, l’essayiste Evgeny Morozov, moquant la propension des geeks à voir la technologie comme solution à tous les problèmes du monde. Face au Covid-19, cette tendance au « solutionnisme technologique » est de nouveau à l’œuvre. Comment ne la serait-elle pas, alors que la pandémie fait rage, (...)

#CNIL #Amnesty #HumanRightsWatch #surveillance #santé #COVID-19 #BigData #métadonnées #consentement #[fr]Règlement_Général_sur_la_Protection_des_Données_(RGPD)[en]General_Data_Protection_Regulation_(GDPR)[nl]General_Data_Protection_Regulation_(GDPR) #technologisme (...)

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Au nom du coronavirus, l’État met en place la société de contrôle
▻https://reporterre.net/Au-nom-du-coronavirus-l-Etat-met-en-place-la-societe-de-controle

Couvre-feux, contrôles policiers multiples, toute-puissance de l’administration, emballement de l’industrie technosécuritaire : la pandémie de Covid-19 se traduit, en France, par un contrôle accru des populations, suspectées par principe de ne pas participer à la « guerre » contre le virus. « Nous ne renoncerons à rien, surtout pas à rire, à chanter, à penser, à aimer, surtout pas aux terrasses, aux salles de concert, aux fêtes de soir d’été, surtout pas à la liberté », affirmait Emmanuel Macron le 11 (...)

#Orange #Two-I #DJI #drone #smartphone #géolocalisation #militaire #police #température #aérien #législation #violence #BigData #santé #surveillance #LDH-France (...)

##santé ##HumanRightsWatch

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Turkey/Syria: Weaponizing Water in Global Pandemic? COVID-19 Protections Rely on Adequate Supply. - Human Right Watch
#Covid-19#Turquie#Syrie#Eau#HumanRightsWatch#migrant#migration

▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/03/31/turkey/syria-weaponizing-water-global-pandemic

Twitter Users in China Face Detention and Threats in New Beijing Crackdown - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/business/china-twitter-censorship-online.html

SHANGHAI — One man spent 15 days in a detention center. The police threatened another’s family. A third was chained to a chair for eight hours of interrogation. Their offense : posting on Twitter. The Chinese police, in a sharp escalation of the country’s online censorship efforts, are questioning and detaining a growing number of Twitter users even though the social media platform is blocked in China and the vast majority of people in the country cannot see it. The crackdown is the latest (...)

#Google #Facebook #LinkedIn #Twitter #WeChat #activisme #censure #corruption #surveillance (...)

##HumanRightsWatch

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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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The Rise — And Rise — Of Mass Surveillance
▻https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/mass-surveillance-2010s

Eavesdropping bureaucrats have been replaced by algorithm-driven facial recognition technology. But the real impact of indiscriminate surveillance may be in our minds. We live in a world where school cameras monitor children’s emotions, countries collect people’s DNA en masse, and no digital communication seems truly private. In response, we use encrypted chat apps on our phones, wear masks during protests to combat facial recognition technology, and try vainly to hide our most personal (...)

#Alibaba #Google #Hikvision #Microsoft #Palantir #SenseTime #Target #Verizon #WeChat #Alibaba.com #Amazon #Facebook #Twitter #algorithme #cryptage #robotique #Bluetooth #CCTV #smartphone #activisme #biométrie #censure #génétique #journalisme (...)

##racisme ##[fr]Règlement_Général_sur_la_Protection_des_Données__RGPD_[en]General_Data_Protection_Regulation__GDPR_[nl]General_Data_Protection_Regulation__GDPR_ ##émotions ##facial ##législation ##prédiction ##reconnaissance ##religion ##vidéo-surveillance ##comportement ##discrimination ##écoutes ##enfants ##santé ##enseignement ##étudiants ##Islam ##profiling ##SocialNetwork ##surveillance ##HumanRightsWatch

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Silicon Valley’s Saudi Arabia Problem
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/opinion/silicon-valley-saudi-arabia.html

Technology companies can no longer turn a blind eye to the human rights abuses of one of their largest investors. Somewhere in the United States, someone is getting into an Uber en route to a WeWork co-working space. Their dog is with a walker whom they hired through the app Wag. They will eat a lunch delivered by DoorDash, while participating in several chat conversations on Slack. And, for all of it, they have an unlikely benefactor to thank : the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Long before (...)

#BostonDynamics #Google #Softbank #WeWork #Amazon #DoorDash #Uber #anti-terrorisme #écologie #éthique #bénéfices #lobbying (...)

##HumanRightsWatch

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Une loi sur le contrôle d’Internet entre en vigueur en Russie
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2019/11/01/une-loi-sur-le-controle-d-internet-entre-en-vigueur-en-russie_6017729_3210.h

Les autorités russes restreignent désormais le réseau Internet national, bloquant des contenus et des sites liés à l’opposition, mais aussi des services qui refusaient de coopérer avec elles. Contrôle des contenus, isolation, danger de la liberté d’expression… Une loi controversée visant à créer un « Internet souverain » isolé des grands serveurs mondiaux est entrée en vigueur vendredi 1er novembre, en Russie. Ce texte prévoit la création d’une infrastructure permettant d’assurer le fonctionnement des (...)

#législation #surveillance #web #censure #HumanRightsWatch

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Arabie saoudite : L’application pour surveiller les femmes que Apple et Google refusent de supprimer
▻https://parismatch.be/actualites/societe/266798/arabie-saoudite-lapplication-pour-surveiller-les-femmes-que-apple-et-goog

Hébergée par Apple et Google, une application saoudienne permettant de contrôler les femmes au doigt et à l’oeil est sous le feu des critiques depuis le mois de février. Human Rights Watch invite une nouvelle fois les deux sociétés à s’exprimer contre ce système qui va à l’encontre des droits des femmes. En dépit d’une série de réformes, dont celle qui permet aux Saoudiennes de conduire depuis juin 2018, l’Arabie Saoudite accorde toujours peu de droits aux femmes. Alors qu’elles ne peuvent ni étudier, ni (...)

#Apple #Google #Absher #smartphone #géolocalisation #discrimination #femmes #surveillance (...)

##HumanRightsWatch

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Des experts américains ont aidé la Chine à ficher l’ADN de millions de citoyens
▻https://usbeketrica.com/article/des-experts-americains-ont-aide-la-chine-a-ficher-l-adn-de-millions-de-

Sous prétexte de bilans de santé gratuits, le gouvernement chinois aurait collecté l’ADN de millions de membres de la minorité ouïghoure, et constitué un immense fichier génétique à des fins de surveillance. Il a pu s’appuyer sur l’expertise d’un généticien de l’université de Yale et compter sur le matériel fourni par une entreprise américaine. Quand les autorités lui ont parlé d’un « bilan de santé gratuit », Tahir Imin était sceptique. L’homme de 38 ans a accepté une prise de sang, puis son visage a été (...)

#biométrie #génétique #Islam #surveillance #HumanRightsWatch #ThermoFischer

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Google et Apple valident une appli qui piste les femmes en Arabie saoudite
▻https://usbeketrica.com/article/google-apple-application-piste-femmes-arabie-saoudite

L’application saoudienne Absher permet aux hommes de surveiller que leur femme ne quitte pas le pays. Elle est disponible sur l’App Store et le Google Play Store. Plusieurs ONG ont appelé Apple et Google à la retirer. Baptisée Absher, l’application est éditée par le gouvernement saoudien. Ses fonctionnalités administratives sont multiples. Les utilisateurs peuvent y déclarer la naissance d’un enfant, payer leur place de parking ou renouveler leur permis de conduire. Mais ils peuvent aussi y (...)

#Apple #Google #AppleStore #GooglePlayStore #smartphone #famille #surveillance #Amnesty (...)

##HumanRightsWatch

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Version censurée de Google en Chine : les ONG montent au créneau
▻https://www.numerama.com/politique/412782-version-censuree-de-google-en-chine-les-ong-montent-au-creneau.html

La possibilité d’un retour de Google en Chine, avec une version censurée de son moteur de recherche, provoque une vive indignation chez plusieurs ONG de premier plan. Elles appellent à Google à ne pas transiger sur ses principes. La pression monte contre Google. Le 28 août, une coalition de quatorze organisations non gouvernementales a signé une lettre ouverte appelant l’entreprise américaine à renoncer à fournir une version censurée de son moteur de recherche pour le marché chinois. Ce projet, (...)

#Google #GoogleSearch #Dragonfly #censure #TheGreatFirewallofChina #Amnesty #BigBrotherWatch #EFF #HumanRightsWatch #PrivacyInternational (...)

##RSF

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En Chine, les musulmans premières victimes de la surveillance de masse
▻https://usbeketrica.com/article/les-musulmans-chinois-en-premiere-ligne-de-la-surveillance

Le nationalisme religieux est dans la ligne de mire du Parti Communiste chinois. Le gouvernement cible particulièrement les minorités musulmanes du Xinjiang concentrées dans une région située à l’opposé des capitales économiques et politiques chinoises. Comme le souligne un article de The Atlantic, la région fait donc office de zone de test à grande échelle pour les technologies de contrôle dernière génération et les programmes de propagande au sein de camps de rééducation. Pendant que les oiseaux (...)

#CCTV #géolocalisation #aérien #Islam #surveillance #vidéo-surveillance #HumanRightsWatch #drone (...)

##GPS

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China Is Going to Outrageous Lengths to Surveil Its Own Citizens
▻https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/08/china-surveillance-technology-muslims/567443

China has reportedly begun deploying flocks of drones disguised as birds to surveil its citizens. The drones have wings that flap so realistically they’re difficult to distinguish from actual birds. In fact, animals on the ground often can’t make the distinction, and even real birds in the sky sometimes fly alongside the drones. One researcher involved in the project has claimed that the robotic birds can mimic 90 percent of the movements of their biological counterparts, and they’re also (...)

#CCTV #drone #GPS #géolocalisation #aérien #Islam #surveillance #vidéo-surveillance #HumanRightsWatch

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