Border Police Wants Bite of Burgeoning Anti-Drone Industry
▻https://theintercept.com/2021/05/03/cbp-border-drones-military
Citing threats from drug cartels to migrants, CBP’s interest dovetails with a $487 million effort by the U.S. government to counter small drones. In April, U.S. Army officers met with representatives from Aurora Flight Sciences, a Virginia-based subsidiary of Boeing, to test whether the company’s technology could intercept and bring down an enemy drone. Aurora was one of three companies that took part in the test at the army’s Yuma Proving Ground, just 50 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border in (...)
#DHS #drone #migration #arme #frontières #surveillance #ACLU #USArmy #criminalité
]]>Starlink vise la conquête marchande de l’espace
▻https://reporterre.net/Starlink-vise-la-conquete-marchande-de-l-espace
ENQUÊTE 3/3 - Le réseau de satellites Starlink doit rendre l’accès à internet haut-débit possible partout sur la planète. Les militaires et les particuliers isolés — s’ils en ont les moyens — pourraient en bénéficier mais ce ne sera pas le cas d’une grande partie de la population mondiale. Ce déploiement servira en revanche d’appui pour les projets de conquête marchande de l’espace. « Je me sens désormais comme une personne normale, Starlink est ma bouée de sauvetage. » Sur le site de Starlink, les (...)
#GCHQ #SpaceX #Tesla #USArmy #NSA #Starlink #GPS #écologie #militaire #domination (...)
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Amazon’s New CEO Is Shaping How the Military Uses Killer Robots
▻https://onezero.medium.com/amazons-new-ceo-is-shaping-how-the-military-uses-killer-robots-9a783
Andy Jassy is a member of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence On July 1, Amazon will have a new CEO. Andy Jassy, who is replacing Jeff Bezos, helped build the company’s cloud business from scratch, cementing its servers as a cornerstone of the internet. But not all of Jassy’s work has been inside Amazon. The incoming CEO is also a commissioner on the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI), which was created by Congress in 2018 to advise on (...)
#Amazon #AmazonWebServices-AWS #militaire #CloudComputing #JEDI #robotique #HumanRightsWatch #Microsoft #USArmy (...)
]]>The FTC Forced a Misbehaving A.I. Company to Delete Its Algorithm
▻https://onezero.medium.com/the-ftc-forced-a-misbehaving-a-i-company-to-delete-its-algorithm-124
Could Google and Facebook’s algorithms be next ? In 2019, an investigation by NBC News revealed that photo storage app Ever had quietly siphoned billions of its users’ photos to train facial recognition algorithms. Pictures of people’s friends and families, which they had thought were private, were in fact being used to train algorithms that Ever then sold to law enforcement and the U.S. military. Two years later, the Federal Trade Commission has now made an example of parent company (...)
#USArmy #algorithme #biométrie #données #facial #fraude #reconnaissance #scraping #FTC
]]>Joe Biden’s Silence on Ending the Drone Wars
▻https://theintercept.com/2020/11/22/biden-drones-endless-wars
With scant comments about U.S. assassination programs, there are indications that Biden would keep the drone wars around. President-elect Joe Biden has maintained silence for years on the controversial and continued use of so-called targeted killings — lethal strikes by drones, cruise missiles, and occasionally military special operations raids. Biden has never publicly disavowed or criticized former President Barack Obama’s legacy of expanding the use of drones, nor made clear his own (...)
#USArmy #CIA #drone #anti-terrorisme #militaire #technologisme #aérien #vidéo-surveillance (...)
]]>How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps
▻https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqm5x/us-military-location-data-xmode-locate-x
A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people’s personal data to brokers, contractors, and the military. A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people’s personal data to brokers, contractors, and the military. The U.S. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from (...)
#USArmy #smartphone #religion #Islam #surveillance #écoutes #géolocalisation #données (...)
]]>Meet The Army’s Future Family Of Robot Tanks : RCV
▻https://breakingdefense.com/2020/11/meet-the-armys-future-family-of-robot-tanks-rcv
The Army has outlined draft objectives for a range of Robotic Combat Vehicles, from an expendable light scout armed with a single anti-tank missile to a 30-ton unmanned tank as tough as the 70-ton M1 Abrams. WASHINGTON : On a future battlefield, seven-ton tracked robots scout the enemy. Some of these Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) Light variants sweep paths through minefields. Others pop smoke to conceal the advance. Still others jam enemy transmissions and take potshots with anti-tank (...)
]]>The long, complicated history of “people analytics”
▻https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/19/1006365/if-then-lepore-review-simulmatics
If you work for Bank of America, or the US Army, you might have used technology developed by Humanyze. The company grew out of research at MIT’s cross-disciplinary Media Lab and describes its products as “science-backed analytics to drive adaptability.” If that sounds vague, it might be deliberate. Among the things Humanyze sells to businesses are devices for snooping on employees, such as ID badges with embedded RFID tags, near-field-communication sensors, and built-in microphones that track (...)
#BankofAmerica #Humanyze #USArmy #DoD #IBM #algorithme #capteur #RFID #militaire #compagnie #élections #prédiction #son #comportement #surveillance #travail (...)
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The military is turning to Twitch to fix its recruitment crisis
▻https://www.wired.co.uk/article/british-army-video-game-recruitment
The armed forces have a complicated relationship with video games – but as recruitment numbers fall the military can’t resist one more turn In 2002, the United States military developed and released a free-to-play video game called America’s Army, a first-person shooter designed to give gamers a taste of life as a soldier. The early versions of the game focussed more on strategic gameplay than Call of Duty or other commercial titles, centring instead on things like the rules of engagement on (...)
#USArmy #jeu #militaire #recrutement #drone
]]>Les armées recrutent à coups de jeux vidéo de guerre
▻http://www.slate.fr/story/194145/armees-recrutent-soldats-jeux-video-guerre
L’initiative avait été un franc succès en 2002 pour l’armée américaine, qui réitère l’opération pour renflouer ses rangs. Et si un jeu vidéo avait le pouvoir de convaincre des jeunes d’entrer dans l’armée ? En 2002, les États-Unis en manque de jeunes recrues pour fut au rendez-vous : en trois ans, l’institution avait enregistré près de 40% d’engagement supplémentaire. Aujourd’hui, la situation se reproduit et les forces humaines viennent à manquer. Les armées américaine et britannique relancent donc ce (...)
#USArmy #drone #jeu #militaire #recrutement
]]>#BaradleyManning, des #témoignages de hauts rangs exigés "HillaryClinton et #Obama
►http://goo.gl/C191s
Des #câbles de #Wikileaks et de l’homosexualité, un soldat met des projecteurs sur l’ #USarmy