Étiquette : privacy (Page 17 of 46)

Le centre de supervision urbain de la ville de Nice expérimente la reconnaissance faciale, le 15 avril 2016.

“le projet Kivaou, financé par l’Agence nationale de la recherche et piloté par Sagem (désormais Safran) et le ministère de l’intérieur, a été conçu pour mettre au point un « outil de surveillance embarqué permettant d’indexer au fil de l’eau tous les passants et d’enregistrer leur biométrie faciale ». Selon nos informations, des enquêteurs ont parfois profité de ces expérimentations pour faire progresser leurs investigations.[…]
« La plus-value policière de cette technologie [reconnaissance faciale] ne fait aucun doute », peut-on lire dans une récente note du Centre de recherche de l’école des officiers de la gendarmerie. Selon son auteur, elle pourrait même « mettre fin à des années de polémiques sur le contrôle au faciès, puisque le contrôle d’identité serait permanent et général ».”

Source : Sous la pression des industriels et des forces de l’ordre, la reconnaissance faciale progresse

Pensive sad woman sitting on a bed

“Federal prosecutors have charged three men and a woman with sex trafficking charges for operating the popular porn site GirlsDoPorn. At least 22 women featured on the site have sued the site’s owners, charging that the pornographers used lies and coercion to gain their participation. The 22 women said they responded to ads for clothed modeling gigs. When they were asked to shoot porn instead, they initially resisted. But they went along with it after the company assured them that their videos would only be sold on DVD to customers outside the United States and would not be posted online. That turned out to be a lie, as their videos wound up on GirlsDoPorn, a website with plenty of American viewers.”

Source : Feds hit GirlsDoPorn owners with criminal sex trafficking charges | Ars Technica

“A former Yahoo software engineer has pleaded guilty to improperly accessing the accounts of around 6,000 Yahoo users in search of nude photos and videos. The news, outlined in a press release from the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, says programmer Reyes Daniel Ruiz used his privileges at Yahoo to crack user passwords and access the accounts of primarily younger women, including friends and co-workers.”

Source : Former Yahoo engineer pleads guilty to searching 6,000 user accounts for nudes – The Verge

Le gendarme de la vie privée réclame des « garanties » au projet de surveillance des réseaux sociaux.

“Le texte de loi ouvre la porte à des procédures d’intelligence artificielle dite « auto-apprenante », ce qui « soulève des enjeux particuliers en matière de protection des données ». En effet, ce type de mécanisme imposerait de collecter de nombreuses données pour déterminer ce qui est un comportement normal aux yeux de l’administration fiscale, afin de pouvoir détecter le comportement suspect. Il conduirait donc à l’aspiration de nombreuses données inutiles d’internautes n’ayant rien à se reprocher.”

Source : La CNIL pas du tout convaincue par le projet de surveiller les réseaux sociaux pour détecter la fraude fiscale

“For new users who install and download Firefox for the first time, Enhanced Tracking Protection will automatically be set on by default as part of the ‘Standard’ setting in the browser and will block known “third-party tracking cookies” according to the Disconnect list. We talk more about tracking cookies here. ”

Source : Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default Plus Updates to Facebook Container, Firefox Monitor and Lockwise – The Mozilla Blog

“The Wikimedia Foundation believes that, working with checkusers, stewards and vandal-fighters, it’s possible to figure out a way to protect our users’ privacy while keeping our anti-vandalism tools working at-par with how they work now. Hence, it has decided to work on shielding IP addresses from our wikis — including restricting the number of people who can see other users’ IP addresses, and reducing the amount of time IP addresses are stored in our databases and logs. It is important to note that a critical part of this work will be to ensure that our wikis still have access to the same (or better) level of anti-vandalism tooling and are not at risk of facing abuse”

Source : IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation – Meta

“Google says it has fixed an issue that allowed old owners of Nest security cameras to continue to view a feed from the device, even after deregistering it from their account. The issue could have potentially allowed an old owner of one of the cameras to continue to look through it, even after selling it to someone else. The new owner would have had no indication that a stranger could be able to look inside their home. ”

Source : Used Nest cameras had bug that let previous owners peer into homes – The Verge

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