In-Q-Tel : quand la CIA investit dans des #start-up françaises -
â»https://lexpansion.lexpress.fr/actualite-economique/in-q-tel-quand-la-cia-investit-dans-des-start-up-francaises_2167
MĂȘme trois mois aprĂšs, les responsables de Prophesee peinent encore Ă cacher une certaine forme de rancoeur. « On se serait bien passĂ© de cette publicitĂ©-lĂ », glisse lâun dâentre eux. En octobre dernier, la start-up parisienne qui a dĂ©veloppĂ© des technologies de vision avec des applications militaires (surveillance, dĂ©tection...) sâest retrouvĂ©e au coeur de lâactualitĂ© aprĂšs les rĂ©vĂ©lations autour de lâidentitĂ© de lâun de ses investisseurs : #In-Q-Tel. Si ce nom un brin compliquĂ© Ă prononcer ne vous dit rien, son propriĂ©taire vous parlera sĂ»rement puisquâil sâagit ni plus ni moins de lâagence centrale amĂ©ricaine de renseignement, la fameuse « #CIA ».
Pendant plusieurs jours, Ă©lus et investisseurs sont montĂ©s au crĂ©neau pour sâinquiĂ©ter du possible rachat de la pĂ©pite tricolore. « On a parlĂ© que de ça », se souvient un investisseur français. Lâaffaire a pris une telle ampleur quâelle est remontĂ©e jusquâĂ Bercy, qui nâa finalement pas donnĂ© suite. Il faut dire que In-Q-Tel nâa quâune infime part du capital de la sociĂ©tĂ©. On parle dâun « ticket » dâĂ peine 200 000 euros, autant dire une broutille qui ne leur donne aucun pouvoir. « Ils ont juste un reprĂ©sentant au conseil qui est lĂ comme observateur mais nâont aucune influence sur la stratĂ©gie de la boĂźte », rĂ©sume un proche de Prophesee qui compte Ă son capital des gĂ©ants tels quâIntel, Renault-Nissan ou le chinois Huawei.
"Un systĂšme trĂšs malin"
Mais alors pourquoi avoir mis des billes dans la pĂ©pite tricolore ? Câest justement lĂ toute la subtilitĂ© et lâobjectif du fonds de la CIA crĂ©Ă© en 1999. Car In-Q-Tel, dont les mises peuvent atteindre quelques millions de dollars, nâest pas une structure comme les autres. Son but nâest pas de gagner beaucoup dâargent comme nâimporte quel autre fonds dâinvestissement ni de prendre le contrĂŽle des sociĂ©tĂ©s dans lesquelles il a investi, mais de repĂ©rer et de suivre les projets les plus prometteurs qui pourraient servir aux intĂ©rĂȘts amĂ©ricains. Ils agissent comme des investisseurs dormants. « Câest un systĂšme trĂšs malin », souligne un proche du renseignement français. La NSA, connue pour avoir mis la planĂšte sur Ă©coute, a Ă©galement son propre fonds... Si jamais une sociĂ©tĂ© dĂ©veloppe une technologie intĂ©ressante pour la CIA ou un groupe comme Microsoft, In-Q-tel, va servir dâintermĂ©diaire. « Ils vont les rapprocher et leur permettre de faire du business ensemble », explique un bon connaisseur. Et câest lâobjectif avec Prophesee.
En un peu plus de vingt ans, le fonds dirigĂ© par Chris Darby a rĂ©alisĂ© 500 investissements dans le monde avec une enveloppe annuelle dâun peu plus de 100 millions de dollars. Jusquâen 2010, ses prises de participation se sont quasi exclusivement limitĂ©es au territoire amĂ©ricain. Puis le fonds, composĂ© essentiellement dâanciens membres du renseignement, a Ă©largi son terrain de jeu avec lâEurope en ligne de mire.
Si In-Q-tel ne communique pas Ă chaque fois sur ses prises de participation, on estime le nombre de ses investissements Ă plus de vingt sur le Vieux continent. Parmi ceux-ci, on retrouve le finlandais Iceye (microsatellites), lâespagnol CounterCraft (cybersĂ©curitĂ©), ou encore lâallemand Toposens (capteurs de son 3D). « Ils sont prĂ©sents un peu partout », explique un expert du renseignement français. En France, Prophesee est Ă lâheure actuelle, officiellement, la seule sociĂ©tĂ© tricolore dans laquelle la CIA a investi.
Si In-Q-Tel nâest pas vu comme une menace, les EuropĂ©ens surveillent tout de mĂȘme de prĂšs son activitĂ©. « Il ne faut pas ĂȘtre naĂŻf. Quand on parle de sujets sensibles, il nây a plus dâalliĂ©s », souligne un bon connaisseur du renseignement Ă©conomique. Dâautant plus que les technologies sont devenues lâun des principaux sujets de souverainetĂ©. Et quâĂ ce niveau-lĂ , lâEurope part de loin. Conscient du problĂšme, le gouvernement français a ainsi musclĂ© ses dispositifs, notamment pour surveiller les entreprises dites stratĂ©giques.
En plus de sa vingtaine de dĂ©lĂ©guĂ©s en rĂ©gion auprĂšs des prĂ©fets pour surveiller les jeunes pousses, Bercy a mis en place en 2020 un dispositif dâalerte, en cas dâachats Ă©trangers de start-up. Ces alertes remontent des ministĂšres et du renseignement. En 2021, il y en a eu prĂšs de 500. « Dans ces cas-lĂ , on regarde si la start-up est sur la liste des entreprises sensibles, on regarde qui est lâinvestisseur et combien il veut prendre. Sâil nây a pas de risque alors on ne sây oppose pas », souligne-t-on du cĂŽtĂ© de Bercy.
Des dispositifs encore trÚs défensifs
Les dispositifs financiers ont, eux aussi, Ă©tĂ© renforcĂ©s. CĂŽtĂ© public, il y a notamment le fonds « French Tech SouverainetĂ© » de Bpifrance. LancĂ© en 2020 et dotĂ© de 150 millions dâeuros, ce vĂ©hicule est censĂ© permettre dâinvestir dans toutes les start-up technologiques qui auraient besoin de fonds. Le privĂ© est Ă©galement de la partie avec des structures comme Tikehau, Ardian ou Eurazeo... « On a un vrai rĂŽle Ă jouer », explique Marwan Lahoud, qui dirige le dernier fonds aĂ©ronautique pour Tikehau Ace Capital (750 millions dâeuros), filiale de la sociĂ©tĂ© dâinvestissement Tikehau.
Reste que ces dispositifs ne suffiront pas Ă inverser le rapport de force. « On a amĂ©liorĂ© les dispositifs, mais on reste des nains », tacle le responsable dâun fonds français. LâEurope part en mĂȘme temps de beaucoup plus loin que les Etats-Unis. « La France construit son dispositif petit Ă petit. Il y a maintenant des ponts entre le privĂ© et le public. Avant, ces deux mondes ne se parlaient pas », explique un avocat, qui souligne la nĂ©cessitĂ© de passer Ă une phase plus offensive. Quels que soient les domaines, la meilleure dĂ©fense reste encore lâattaque.
]]>« Il nous faut retrouver une forme dâhygiĂšne numĂ©rique »
â»https://le1hebdo.fr/journal/silence-on-vous-surveille/298/article/il-nous-faut-retrouver-une-forme-d-hygine-numrique-3865.html
Quelles traces numĂ©riques laissons-nous au quotidien ? Elles sont de plus en plus nombreuses. Lâimage dâĂpinal de ces « traces » renvoie surtout au profil que lâon se construit sur un rĂ©seau social. On y renseigne son nom, son Ă©tat civil, son Ăąge, sa profession, ses goĂ»ts⊠Mais ces donnĂ©es personnelles ne constituent que la face la plus visible, la plus Ă©vidente du traçage numĂ©rique. Ce que lâon saisit peut-ĂȘtre moins, câest la transformation de toutes nos petites actions quotidiennes en signaux (...)
#Airbus #Clearview #Datakalab #DGSI #Google #In-Q-Tel #Microsoft #Palantir #Ring #CIA #FBI #Amazon #Facebook #Gmail #ProtonMail #algorithme #Alexa #CCTV #domotique #InternetOfThings #Navigo #Siri #technologisme #vidéo-surveillance #COVID-19 #écoutes (...)
##santé ##surveillance ##CNIL ##LaQuadratureduNet
Data giant given âemergencyâ Covid contract had been wooing NHS for months
â»https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2021-02-24/revealed-data-giant-given-emergency-covid-contract-had-been-w
Controversial tech firm Palantir now holds ÂŁ23m deal to oversee critical data store of patient records A trove of internal UK government documents disclosed to the Bureau has revealed that Palantir, the controversial US tech giant running the NHSâs Covid data store, had launched a charm offensive to sell its services to NHS chiefs as long ago as summer 2019. Palantir, once funded by the CIA and known in the US for its involvement with defence and immigration agencies, shot to prominence in (...)
#Palantir #NHS #domination #données #COVID-19 #santé #CIA #In-Q-Tel #ICE
##santé
Palantir is not our friend
â»https://aboutintel.eu/palantir-eu-independence
In recent years, controversial US big data analytics company Palantir has gained ground in European agencies and their data infrastructure. This reflects a larger naiveté within European politics towards foreign tech companies and an imbalance in EU-US relations. Not only should Palantir be kept out of our institutions and security fabric, it is high time for the EU to gain more strategic technological independence, so that it may defend and assert its status as the last bastion of privacy. (...)
#contactTracing #CapGemini #Europol #anti-terrorisme #In-Q-Tel #Paypal #Palantir #BigData #lobbying #COVID-19 #santé (...)
##santé ##[fr]RÚglement_Général_sur_la_Protection_des_Données__RGPD_[en]General_Data_Protection_Regulation__GDPR_[nl]General_Data_Protection_Regulation__GDPR_
Le ministĂšre des ArmĂ©es investit dans lâanalyse du renseignement par lâintelligence artificielle
â»http://www.opex360.com/2020/11/19/le-ministere-des-armees-investit-dans-lanalyse-du-renseignement-par-lintell
GĂ©rĂ© par Bpifrance pour le compte du ministĂšre des ArmĂ©es, Definvest vient de rĂ©aliser une nouvelle opĂ©ration en participant Ă la levĂ©e de fonds de 20 millions dâeuros que vient dâeffectuer la pĂ©pite technologique Earthcube, rebaptisĂ©e « Preligens » Ă cette occasion. Ce nouveau nom, est-il expliquĂ© dans le communiquĂ© diffusĂ© par le ministĂšre des ArmĂ©es, « reflĂšte davantage la rĂ©alitĂ© » de lâactivitĂ© de cette entreprise, qui consiste Ă « mettre Ă la disposition des analystes des technologies rĂ©volutionnaires qui (...)
#In-Q-Tel #Preligens_ #algorithme #aérien #données #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance
]]>LâarmĂ©e française sĂ©curise une pĂ©pite de la tech convoitĂ©e par la CIA
â»https://www.lefigaro.fr/societes/le-ministere-des-armees-investit-dans-la-start-up-preligens-20201119
RĂCIT - VisĂ©e par In-Q-Tel, le fonds de la CIA, Preligens, leader de lâanalyse de donnĂ©es Ă base dâIA, reste français. La France veut protĂ©ger ses pĂ©pites technologiques. La dĂ©cision du ministĂšre des ArmĂ©es dâinvestir, via son fonds DefInvest, dans la start-up tricolore Preligens (ex-Earthcube), va dans ce sens. La jeune pousse, leader dans lâanalyse de donnĂ©es satellitaires, Ă base dâIntelligence artificielle (IA), pour le compte des services de renseignement et des armĂ©es, vient de lever 20 millions (...)
#In-Q-Tel #OVH #CIA #algorithme #militaire #Preligens_
]]>Inside Palantir, Silicon Valleyâs Most Secretive Unicorn
â»https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/inside-palantir-technologies-peter-thiel-alex-karp.html
Techie Software Soldier Spy Palantir, Big Dataâs scariest, most secretive unicorn, is going public. But is its crystal ball just smoke and mirrors ? Back in 2003, John Poindexter got a call from Richard Perle, an old friend from their days serving together in the Reagan administration. Perle, one of the architects of the Iraq War, which started that year, wanted to introduce Poindexter to a couple of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who were starting a software company. The firm, Palantir (...)
#Palantir #In-Q-Tel #algorithme #migration #militaire #BigData #surveillance
]]>Google and Palantir Are Two Sides of the Same Coin
â»https://onezero.medium.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-google-for-spies-a1a472f5d3c5
Both companies leverage vast amounts of data for unprecedented surveillance If you know the name Palantir, you probably know that itâs associated with Peter Thiel, that it contracts with defense and law enforcement agencies, and that it works with data somehow, including data from surveillance systems. You might get that itâs named, creepily enough, after the magical âseeing-stonesâ in Lord of the Rings. But what exactly it is that Palantir does has not always been clear from media coverage. (...)
#Google #In-Q-Tel #Palantir #CIA #ICE #algorithme #migration #militaire #BigData #Maven (...)
]]>« Avec la cotation en Bourse de Palantir, câest la science-fiction qui entre Ă Wall Street »
â»https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2020/09/30/avec-la-cotation-en-bourse-de-palantir-c-est-la-science-fiction-qui-entre-a-
Du fait de ses performances financiĂšres, de son Ă©thique et de sa gouvernance, le spĂ©cialiste amĂ©ricain de lâanalyse de donnĂ©es ne devrait pas se retrouver sur un marchĂ© public, estime Philippe Escande, Ă©ditorialiste Ă©conomique du « Monde ». Pertes & profits. Dans le monde magique du Seigneur des anneaux, le palantir est un cristal qui permet de communiquer et de voir tous les Ă©vĂ©nements, passĂ©s et futurs. La promesse de la sociĂ©tĂ© Palantir est la mĂȘme : Ă©changer, analyser et prĂ©voir. Ses logiciels (...)
#DGSI #In-Q-Tel #Palantir #CIA #ICE #GPS #géolocalisation #migration #fiscalité #écoutes #santé #SocialNetwork #surveillance #BigData #algorithme (...)
##fiscalité ##santé ##bénéfices
Palantir Shares Up in Wall Street Debut
â»https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/technology/palantir-stock-initial-public-offering.html?action=click&block=more_in_reci
The Silicon Valley company leads a wave of tech outfits hoping to test the public markets in the busiest season for I.P.O.s in two decades. Palantir Technologies, a company that helps government agencies analyze vast amounts of digital data, saw its shares jump in its Wall Street debut on Wednesday in a sign of continued investor excitement for money-losing software companies. The companyâs shares began trading at $10 on the New York Stock Exchange, a 38 percent increase from a âreference (...)
#Airbus #In-Q-Tel #Palantir #CIA #Airbnb #DoorDash #Paypal #migration #données #bénéfices #écoutes (...)
]]>The U.S. Coast Guard Just Ordered Palantir Tech For Help With COVID-19 âReadinessâ
â»https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/04/08/the-us-coast-guard-just-ordered-palantir-tech-for-help-with-covid-19-readiness/#16cf6acf3b9e
Palantir, the $20 billion data-crunching giant funded by Peter Thiel, is working with the U.S. Coast Guard, which has found itself on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic as ships become floating incubation laboratories for deadly outbreaks of the coronavirus. According to federal procurement records, Palantirâs tools will help the U.S. Coast Guardâs âReadiness System in response to [the] COVID-19 pandemic.â The sum is smallâ just $11,250 is assigned to the orderâbut itâs a âblanket purchase (...)
#In-Q-Tel #Palantir #USDepartmentofHomelandSecurity-DHS #CIA #migration #militaire #métadonnées #BigData #santé (...)
##santé ##surveillance
CIA funnels cash to In-Q-Tel in bid to defeat Huawei - Washington Times
â»https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/8/cia-funnels-cash-q-tel-bid-defeat-huawei
Venture capital fund taps Parallel Wireless in bid to stop Chinaâs 5G dominance The CIA isnât waiting while the White House, Congress, the Justice Department and the Pentagon squabble over the best approach to combating Huaweiâs domination of the future 5G wireless network. The agency has been funneling taxpayer dollars to venture capitalists investing in a private company set up to compete with and hopefully defeat Huawei. Huawei has gained an advantage in the battle for global control (...)
â»https://twt-thumbs.washtimes.com/media/image/2020/02/27/Replacing_Huawei_44294.jpg-cc6c0_c0-125-3000-1875_s1200x700.jp
]]>« La sociĂ©tĂ© amĂ©ricaine Palantir, proche de la CIA, est toujours indispensable aux espions français »
â»https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2019/11/29/l-americain-palantir-est-toujours-indispensable-aux-espions-francais_6021016
La DGSI vient de renouveler son contrat avec la sociĂ©tĂ© amĂ©ricaine spĂ©cialisĂ©e dans lâanalyse de donnĂ©es. La France peine Ă faire Ă©merger une alternative Ă une entreprise aussi bien financĂ©e, analyse Philippe Escande, Ă©ditorialiste au « Monde ». Chronique. Branle-bas de combat Ă lâAssemblĂ©e nationale. Au son du clairon, les troupes se mobilisent au nom de la souverainetĂ© technologique dans le domaine militaire. Des Ă©lus de tous bords ont Ă©crit une lettre commune au premier ministre pour sâalarmer de la (...)
#Airbus #Atos #Huawei #In-Q-Tel #Microsoft #Nokia_Siemens #Palantir #Safran #Sony #CIA #algorithme #anti-terrorisme #firme #migration #BigData #surveillance (...)
##DGSI
Palantir, the secretive data behemoth linked to the Trump administration, expands into Europe
â»https://algorithmwatch.org/en/story/palantir-the-secretive-data-behemoth-linked-to-the-trump-administrat
The data analysis company, known in particular for running the deportation machine of the Trump administration, is expanding aggressively into Europe. Who are its clients ? Palantir was founded in 2004, in the wake of the September 11 attacks. Its founders wanted to help intelligence agencies organize the data they collected, so that they would identify threats before they could strike. It is widely rumored that its tools helped find Osama Bin Laden prior to his assassination in 2011 (...)
#NYPD #Palantir #AmericanExpress #CambridgeAnalytica #Coca-Cola #ICE #In-Q-Tel #algorithme #manipulation #élections #prédiction #BigData #data (...)
]]>FBI using Twitterâs raw âfirehoseâ data to monitor users
â»https://www.engadget.com/2016/11/15/fbi-twitter-dataminr-monitoring
Twitter has a closer relationship with Dataminr; it owns five percent of the firm and has given it a virtual monopoly on its data feed. As the FBI points out in a “limited source justification” document, “Dataminr is the only certified Official Twitter Data Partner with direct proprietary access to the full âTwitter firehoseâ which allows it to provide near real-time alerts of breaking news and events.”
]]>Comment Pokémon Go est-il lié à la CIA ?
â»https://fr.sputniknews.com/international/201607281027060121-pokemon-go-cia
Alors que PokĂ©mon Go donne le tournis Ă la planĂšte entiĂšre, les joueurs ont-ils jamais Ă quoi aussi pourrait servir ce jeu Ă priori innocent ? Sputnik a fait une petite recherche sur lâaffaire. Voici quelques faits curieux sur le jeu PokĂ©mon Go — et ce ne sont pas des ruses afin dâaugmenter son niveau de jeu mais des dĂ©tails sur le fonctionnement du projet. DĂ©tails qui peut-ĂȘtre rĂ©duiront Ă nĂ©ant votre envie de vous lancer Ă la poursuite des PokĂ©mon, ou de jouer en gĂ©nĂ©ral. Le projet PokĂ©mon Go a Ă©tĂ© (...)
#Google #In-Q-Tel #Nintendo #géolocalisation #enfants #surveillance #surveillance #jeu #CIA #Pokémon #Niantic (...)
##Keyhole
]]>The CIA Is Investing in Firms That Mine Your Tweets and Instagram Photos
âșhttps://theintercept.com/2016/04/14/in-undisclosed-cia-investments-social-media-mining-looms-large
SOFT ROBOTS THAT can grasp delicate objects, computer algorithms designed to spot an âinsider threat,â and artificial intelligence that will sift through large data sets â these are just a few of the technologies being pursued by companies with investment from In-Q-Tel, the CIAâs venture capital firm, according to a document obtained by The Intercept. Yet among the 38 previously undisclosed companies receiving In-Q-Tel funding, the research focus that stands out is social media mining and (...)
#CIA #algorithme #Ă©coutes #surveillance #Dataminr #In-Q-Tel #Geofeedia #PATHAR #TransVoyant #Instagram #Twitter (...)
#Silicon_Army : nouvelle levée de 129 millions de dollars de #Palantir
â»http://www.journaldunet.com/solutions/analytics/1169201-big-data-la-valorisation-de-palantir-atteint-20-milliards-de-d
En tout, Palantir aura rĂ©alisĂ© pas moins de 12 tours de tables. Parmi ses investisseurs notables figurent #In-Q-Tel, le fonds de la #CIA. La promesse de Palantir Ă©tait en effet dâappliquer les technologies du Big Data utilisĂ©es pour dĂ©tecter les fraudes bancaires Ă la lutte contre le #terrorisme. Palantir a par exemple pu aider les Etats-Unis Ă traquer Oussama Ben Laden. Lâentreprise sâest depuis ouverte Ă dâautres secteurs. Parmi ses rĂ©fĂ©rences, elle compte donc le gouvernement amĂ©ricain, la CIA et le #FBI, mais aussi des noms dans la #finance, lâ#Ă©nergie et la #santĂ©.
]]>DerniÚre révélation #Snowden : la #NSA (et le #GCHQ) avaient piraté le fabricant de cartes à puce (notamment cartes SIM) #Gemalto et donc peuvent potentiellement pirater tout téléphone utilisant ces cartes (Gemalto est le numéro 1 mondial)
â»https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/19/great-sim-heist
RĂ©sumĂ© par le Monde : â»http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2015/02/20/la-nsa-et-le-gchq-ont-derobe-les-cles-de-cryptage-de-cartes-sim_4580159_4408 ou par 20 minutes : â»http://www.20minutes.fr/high-tech/1545379-20150220-nsa-gchq-vole-cles-cryptage-leader-mondial-cartes-sim
]]>Palantir : Unlocking Secrets, if Not Its Own Value - NYTimes.com
â»http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/business/unlocking-secrets-if-not-its-own-value.html
Founded in 2004, in part with $2 million from the Central Intelligence Agencyâs (#CIA) venture capital arm (#IN-Q-Tel), #Palantir makes software that has illuminated terror networks and figured out safe driving routes through a war-torn Baghdad. It has also tracked car thieves, helped in disaster recovery and traced salmonella outbreaks. United States attorneys deployed its technology against the hedge fund SAC Capital, which was also an early investor in the company.
(...) Its advisers include James Carville, the Democratic strategist; Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state; George J. Tenet, the former C.I.A. director; and Michael Ovitz, the former head of Disney Studios and Hollywood superagent.
(...) difficile de faire plus #silicon_army que ça, mais ce sont quand mĂȘme des « idĂ©alistes » qui veulent « sauver le monde » :
âWhen you are saving the world, fighting fraud and slave labor, you can do great things,â Mr. Karp said. Palantir does not charge for most humanitarian work, which is a source of internal pride. âWhat concerns me,â he said, âis working with commercial entities, and non-U.S. governments.â
(...) Palantir has worked to recover from its own ethical lapses, but Mr. Karp acknowledges that it cannot control the ethics of its customers.
(...) Palantir is not the first company dealing with big data that has been conflicted between ideals and commerce.
Palantir began in the mind of Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley investor and PayPal founder
sur lâaffaire Anonymous :
In 2011, the world got a taste of what could go wrong with Palantirâs confluence of commerce and surveillance. Along with two Beltway intelligence firms, a Palantir employee had pitched a Washington law firm on ways that it could expose the workings of WikiLeaks, the group that publishes secret government and private-sector information. The pitch included the idea of using disinformation and cyberattacks.
The idea fizzled, but Anonymous, the loosely associated network of cyberactivists, posted both the pitch and emails indicating that Palantir also proposed creating misinformation about journalists, including Glenn Greenwald, who wrote in support of WikiLeaks and who recently shared a Pulitzer Prize for his articles on Edward J. Snowdenâs leaking of National Security Agency spying documents.
Mr. Karp publicly apologized to Mr. Greenwald. On the recommendation of an outside law firm, the employee was suspended for a while, but still works at Palantir.
et encore, à propos des capacités de google :
Courtney Bowman, a former Google employee, works at a Palantir as a âcivil liberties engineer,â (...): âI was a quantitative analyst at Google, doing ad auction design and targeting,â he says. âI had access to ways of deriving personal identity information without breaking any laws. It was a constant anxiety to me.â
#fichage #surveillance #privacy #data-mining et un article que @cryptome juge (Ă mon avis Ă juste titre) grotesque. En lien aussi avec Barrett Brown
]]>Dan Geer on #IoT | via @cryptome :
â»https://securityledger.com/2014/05/security-and-internet-of-things-can-we-talk
Attendees will hear an address by Dr. Dan Geer, the Chief Security
Officer at #In-Q-Tel, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agencyâs investment
arm. Dan is one of the smartest and most prescient thinkers in the
security world, who has made headlines by warning about the dangers
of our reliance of technology monocultures like Microsoftâs Windows
operating systems. Most recently, Dan has been sounding similar alarms
about an (emerging) monoculture of “small devices and the chips that run
them.” In other words: just because the network of the future doesnât
have a Windows sticker and “Intel Inside” logo on it, doesnât mean that
the same kinds of problems donât exist.
Many of you who have been following this blog know that the Security
Ledger is particularly interested in covering the (fast) evolving border
line between “traditional” IT security and the terra incognito of the
Internet of Things.
This week, weâre taking that discussion to the next level with our
first-ever event: The Security of Things Forum (or SECoT for short).
SECoT is going to be an amazing day of discussion and debate about
what I consider one of the foremost challenges facing the
technology community in the next decade: securing a rapidly
expanding population of intelligent and Internet-connected devices.
]]>The Google-Military-Surveillance Complex
FireWorks via Pando Daily | By Yasha Levine on March 7, 2014
â»http://fireworksbayarea.com/newswire/oakland-emails-give-another-glimpse-into-the-google-military-surve
â»http://pando.com/2014/03/07/the-google-military-surveillance-complex
It was a rowdy crowd, and there was a heavy police presence. Some people carried âState Surveillance No!â signs. A few had their faces covered in rags, and taunted and provoked city officials by jamming smartphones in their faces and snapping photos.
Main item on the agenda that night: The âDomain Awareness Centerâ (DAC) â a federally funded project that, if built as planned, would link up real time audio and video feeds from thousands of sensors across the city â including CCTV cameras in public schools and public housing projects, as well as Oakland Police Department mobile license plate scanners â into one high-tech control hub, where analysts could pipe the data through face recognition software, surveil the city by location and enrich its intelligence with data coming in from local, state and federal government and law enforcement agencies.
#ville #smart_city #surveillance
The details of Googleâs business relationships with the intelligence community â even the existence of these deals â are not always easy to come by. The earliest concrete example I could dig up goes back to 2003, when Google secured a $2.07-million gig to outfit the National Security Agency (NSA) with Googleâs search tech.
âThe #NSA paid #Google for a search appliance capable of searching 15 million documents in twenty-four languages,â according to Consumer Watchdog, which obtained contract documents outlining the NSA-Google partnership.
â»http://insidegoogle.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/GOOGGovfinal012411.pdf
The contract was to last only a year and apparently was never renewed by the NSA, nonetheless Google kept providing its search services for two full years â free of charge.
At exactly the same time that Google was trying to improve the NSAâs internal search capabilities, the company was in negotiations with two other intelligence agencies: the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), a close cousin of the NSA that primarily deals with geospatial/satellite intel for both combat and civilian operations.
These negotiations had to do with Googleâs purchase of Keyhole, a tiny tech startup that developed 3-D mapping technology. The companyâs main product was an application called EarthViewer, which allowed users to fly and move around a virtual globe as if they were in a video game. Google purchased Keyhole in 2004 for an undisclosed sum, and folded its technology into what later became known as Google Earth.
At the time, Googleâs acquisition of Keyhole raised serious privacy concerns. The reason was simple: In 2003, just a year before Google bought Keyhole, the company was saved from bankruptcy by #In-Q-Tel
2010 was a heady year for Google. Aside from its #NGA contract and close collaboration with the NSA, the company secured its first major non-intelligence/non-classified contract with the federal government.
The General Service Administration awarded Google a five-year contract worth $6.7 million to provide the agency with âcloud-basedâ email services.
â»https://www.evernote.com/shard/s1/sh/9f70277e-1073-4a6b-9e27-4382f4018276/0b2f3c0f23cf6be600a11a57a62db5fd
Even more valuable than the contract was the fact that Google became the first âcloud-basedâ services provider to get federal security certification for non-classified data.
With the certification, Google got the drop on its competition â mainly Microsoft and Salesforce â and now had a much needed stamp of approval that opened the door for Google to aggressively pursue other government contracts for hosting services for non-classified purposes.
By the end of 2013, Google had racked up contracts to provide IT services to a long list of federal agencies.
In February 2013, U.S. Naval Academy signed up for Google AppsâŠ
â»http://googleenterprise.blogspot.fr/2013/02/us-naval-academy-goes-mobile-with.html
In October 2013, the U.S. Army tapped Google Apps for a pilot program involving 50,000 âArmy and Department of Defense (DoD) personnelââŠ
â»http://googleenterprise.blogspot.fr/2013/10/us-army-to-cut-costs-improve.html
In 2012, Idahoâs nuclear lab went GoogleâŠ
â»http://googleenterprise.blogspot.fr/2012/09/idaho-national-lab-has-gone-google.html
In 2012, Department of the Interior awarded Google with a seven-year contract to provide email services for $35 millionâŠ
In 2011, U.S. Coast Guard Academy went with Google, tooâŠ
â»http://googleenterprise.blogspot.fr/2011/12/us-coast-guard-academy-becomes-first.html
At same time, Google began racking up a good number of state and municipal governments, including law enforcement: Los Angeles, Lake Havasu Police Department, State of Wyoming, City of North Las Vegas, Boston and 40 other agencies went over to Google Apps as of this writing.
Hell, it even launched a creepy Soviet-style âGovernment Transformersâ page paying tribute to government heroes whoâve made the switch to Google.
â»http://www.govtransformers.com
]]>CIA-backed #Palantir valued at $9bn - FT.com
â»http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/996fa9e0-5dde-11e3-b3e8-00144feabdc0.html #paywall
Palantirâs initial funding came from #In-Q-Tel, the CIAâs not-for-profit venture capital firm, and it has received several rounds of funding from the Founderâs Fund, a venture capital fund run by former PayPal chief executive and Facebook backer #Peter_Thiel. Other venture capital investors include Glenn Capital Management and Ulu Ventures.
The company raised almost $200m in a fundraising round less than three months ago, and then also would not disclose the identity of the investors. Founded by #PayPal alumni and #Stanford computer scientists in 2004, the company has raised almost $800m in total.
The CIA and the FBI use the Palantir platform to seek patterns in large amounts of disparate data which can be used to help guide their actions, for example, in the tracking of terror suspects, drug trafficking or cyber crime.
But Palantirâs work for the private sector is the fastest growing part of the business, and now makes up more than 60 per cent. It offers companies anti-fraud services, warnings about insider trading threats and programmes which promise to help accelerate the research and development process in the pharmaceuticals industry.
]]>Le complexe #militaro-informatique, câest cette alliance #NSA-#Microsoft, les joyeux brassages de personnel de haut niveau entre #Facebook et la NSA, les participations au capital. Qui saura le dĂ©crire, quantifier les contrats, dĂ©chiffrer les intĂ©rĂȘts communs ?
Quelques vieux liens qui traĂźnaient dans mes archives :
#CIA - #In-Q-Tel - Howard Cox - Greylock Partners - Facebook
« une visite sur le site dâIn-Q-Tel nous apprend que In-Q-Tel a vendu pour 2 millions des actions de #Google obtenues en Ă©change de ce qui allait devenir #Google_Maps. »
â»http://agora.qc.ca/documents/facebook--face_a_face_avec_facebook_par_jacques_dufresne
La CIA garde un oeil sur la #Silicon_Valley
SUPPLEMENT SPECIAL | 11 septembre 2002 | STEPHANE FOUCART | 479 mots
EN APPARENCE, rien de plus banal que lâactivitĂ© dâIn-Q-Tel. Comme il est dâusage pour les fonds de capital-risque de la Silicon Valley, lâentreprise ausculte les start-up du secteur des technologies de lâinformation pour investir dans les plus prometteuses.
Les jeux vidĂ©o, nouveau terrain dâentraĂźnement des armĂ©es
LE MONDE.FR | 12 octobre 2007 | Laurent Checola et David Kalfa | 605 mots
EntraĂźnement aux tirs, Ă©laboration de stratĂ©gies mais aussi prĂ©vention des conflits et apprentissage de la mĂ©decine militaire... Les « wargames » sont utilisĂ©s par les armĂ©es modernes pour faire acquĂ©rir aux officiers et soldats de nouvelles aptitudes.
La France se dote dâun dispositif pour protĂ©ger ses entreprises stratĂ©giques
LE MONDE | 12 mars 2005 | Nathalie Brafman | 561 mots
Un fonds de 200 millions dâeuros est crĂ©Ă©. LA FRANCE va pouvoir
protéger ses entreprises technologiques. Alain Juillet, haut
responsable de lâintelligence Ă©conomique auprĂšs du gouvernement, a
annoncĂ©, jeudi 10 mars, la crĂ©ation dâun fonds dâinvestissement pour
le soutien des entreprises qui opĂšrent...
Les fonds amĂ©ricains irriguent lâindustrie de dĂ©fense europĂ©enne
LE MONDE | 15 juillet 2005 | Yves Mamou | 915 mots
Le Pentagone se sert-il des capitaux privĂ©s pour sâemparer du meilleur de la technologie europĂ©enne ? Un rapport du ministĂšre français de la dĂ©fense a passĂ© au crible les mĂ©thodes des investisseurs amĂ©ricains pour choisir leurs cibles parmi les entreprises de secteurs stratĂ©giques.
Un AmĂ©ricain Ă la tĂȘte de Gemplus, leader mondial de la carte Ă puce
LE MONDE | 31 août 2002 | ALEXIS DELCAMBRE | 553 mots
LâarrivĂ©e de M. Mandl, administrateur dâun fonds financĂ© par la CIA, fait craindre aux salariĂ©s un transfert des brevets français aux Etats-Unis . VACANT depuis le 15 aoĂ»t, le fauteuil de directeur gĂ©nĂ©ral de Gemplus a un nouveau titulaire depuis jeudi 29 aoĂ»t au soir.
Naissance dâun acteur français de la sĂ©curitĂ© informatique
LE MONDE | 14 juillet 2004 | Nathalie Brafman | 592 mots
Lâobjectif dâInfrasec est dâassurer une indĂ©pendance technologique au pays. LA DATE est symbolique. Thierry #Dassault, prĂ©sident de Dassault MultimĂ©dia, la branche de capital-risque du groupe familial, devait choisir le 14 juillet pour annoncer la crĂ©ation dâun champion national de la sĂ©curitĂ©...
Alain Juillet, haut responsable de lâintelligence Ă©conomique
auprĂšs du gouvernement « LâEtat va mieux contrĂŽler les investissements Ă©trangers dans certains domaines stratĂ©giques »
LE MONDE | 7 décembre 2004 | Propos recueillis par Laure Belot et
Jacques Follorou | 811 mots
Les entreprises françaises sont, selon lui, en retard sur les
anglo-saxonnes en matiĂšre de protection. Vous avez Ă©tĂ© nommĂ© haut responsable pour lâintelligence Ă©conomique auprĂšs du gouvernement, en janvier 2004.
]]>Webâs Reach Binds N.S.A. and Silicon Valley Leaders - NYTimes.com
â»http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/technology/silicon-valley-and-spy-agency-bound-by-strengthening-web.html?pagewanted=al
When Max Kelly, the chief security officer for Facebook, left the social media company in 2010, he did not go to Google, Twitter or a similar Silicon Valley concern. Instead the man who was responsible for protecting the personal information of Facebookâs more than one billion users from outside attacks went to work for another giant institution that manages and analyzes large pools of data: the National Security Agency.
(...) The only difference is that the N.S.A. does it for intelligence, and Silicon Valley does it to make money.
(...) Silicon Valley has what the spy agency wants: vast amounts of private data and the most sophisticated software available to analyze it. The agency in turn is one of Silicon Valleyâs largest customers for what is known as data analytics, one of the valleyâs fastest-growing markets. To get their hands on the latest software technology to manipulate and take advantage of large volumes of data, United States intelligence agencies invest in Silicon Valley start-ups, award classified contracts and recruit technology experts like Mr. Kelly.
(...) Despite the companiesâ assertions that they cooperate with the agency only when legally compelled, current and former industry officials say the companies sometimes secretly put together teams of in-house experts to find ways to cooperate more completely with the N.S.A. and to make their customersâ information more accessible to the agency
(...)
#NSA #PRISM #surveillance #facebook #big_data #privacy #SKype #Paladin #In-Q-Tel #silicon_army
]]>CIA admits Full Monitoring of Facebook and other Social Networks
â»http://www.cyberwarzone.com/cia-admits-full-monitoring-facebook-and-other-social-networks
Most people use social media like Facebook and Twitter to share photos of friends and family, chat with friends and strangers about random and amusing diversions, or follow their favorite websites, bands and television shows âŠ
Source: Cyberwarzone - Bigs
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