“La liste est donc sans fin, Xplain ayant des contrats avec d’innombrables services de sécurité en Suisse. Des questions fondamentales se posent: comment se fait-il que la société informatique ait gardé sur son infrastructure informatique autant de données opérationnelles de ses clients? Et pourquoi la Confédération n’a pas surveillé de près ce prestataire externe si important?”
Source : Des données ultrasensibles sur la sécurité de la Suisse sont en ligne sur le darknet – Le Temps
“The proposed Article 35 of the Military Planning Law gives ANSSI the authority to install “technical markers” — hardware and software enabling the collection of user data on the networks of electronic communications operators and data center operators. This provision would grant ANSSI the authority to install surveillance capabilities in private data centers without due process, posing a grave risk to the civil liberties of both French and global Internet users. This appears to be in conflict not only with EU law but also with the OECD Declaration on Government Access to Personal Data Held by Private Sector Entities, which seeks to ensure that “government access should be carried out in a manner that is not excessive in relation to the legitimate aims and in accordance with legal standards of necessity, proportionality, reasonableness and other standards that protect against the risk of misuse and abuse, as set out in and interpreted within the country’s legal framework.””
Source : Concerns over DNS Blocking. June 23, 2023 | by vinton cerf | Jun, 2023 | Medium
“L’article 7 du projet de loi est représentatif de la tendance inquiétante des gouvernements à étendre leurs pouvoirs de surveillance dans le cadre de mesures d’urgence prises au nom de la sécurité. Or il est rare que ces mesures dites « d’exception » soient levées rapidement. En lieu et place, les mesures de surveillance et de contrôle deviennent la norme. Souvent, elles ne s’accompagnent pas de garanties suffisantes et de mécanismes de responsabilité, elles manquent de transparence et ne font l’objet d’aucun dialogue avec les parties intéressées. Cette tendance a été amplement constatée en ce qui concerne les mesures de surveillance prises au cours des deux dernières décennies sous le couvert de la lutte contre le terrorisme et, plus récemment, avec les solutions numériques adoptées dans le contexte de la pandémie de Covid-19. Nous avons également observé par le passé que les Jeux olympiques peuvent servir de terrain d’expérimentation pour doter l’Etat de pouvoirs renforcés qui sont ensuite maintenus lorsqu”
“Spécialisée dans la biométrie et notamment la reconnaissance faciale, l’entreprise française Idemia vient de remporter le concours international Face Recognition Vendor Test, organisé par les États-Unis. Elle a devancé 270 concurrents européens, chinois ou américains comme Microsoft.
Le concours consistait à montrer la photo d’un visage à notre algorithme pour qu’il la retrouve au milieu d’une base de plus d’un million d’autres. Notre technologie, qui s’appuie sur une expérience de plusieurs décennies, s’est révélé la meilleure, avec un taux d’erreur ridiculement faible. Nous sommes très fiers de ce résultat obtenu par nos équipes de recherche et développement.”
Source : Nouveau monde. Une entreprise française remporte un concours mondial de la reconnaissance faciale
“Gilbert said his team had been alerted by the new Apple feature three times before, though rescuers weren’t needed in the earlier instances, which included an accidental activation and a routine car crash. But Gilbert knew the coordinates from Fields’s phone were inside the canyon, meaning the phone’s owner was likely in danger. Without the alert from the phone, Gilbert said Fields and Zelada may have been stranded. “It’s going to be a game changer,” Gilbert said. “There are many incidents where we’re an hour to an hour-and-a half behind the original emergency before we’re even notified.””
Source : New iPhone emergency feature helped save California couple after crash – The Washington Post
“Le texte du projet de loi précise en l’occurrence qu’il s’agit, avec ces traitements algorithmiques, de procéder « exclusivement à un signalement d’attention, strictement limité à l’indication du ou des événements qu’ils ont été programmés pour détecter ». L’utilisation de cet outil ne pourra déboucher sur « aucune décision individuelle ou acte de poursuite ». Si Mme Oudéa-Castéra a assuré que ces dispositifs devront être examinés par la Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés et le Conseil d’Etat, ils apparaissent tout aussi « graves » que la reconnaissance faciale, en matière de libertés publiques, aux yeux de certains spécialistes de ce sujet.”
“San Francisco’s police will be allowed to use remote-controlled robots to kill suspects. The city’s board of supervisors last night approved a controversial policy that lets police robots “be used as a deadly force option when risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers is imminent and outweighs any other force option available.”
The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) said it does not own any pre-armed robots and has no plans to arm its current machines, reports Sky News. As SFPD spokesperson Allison Maxie explained in a statement, the department’s robots can now be equipped with explosives “to contact, incapacitate, or disorient violent, armed, or dangerous suspect” in “extreme circumstances to save or prevent further loss of innocent lives.””
Source : San Francisco approves use of remote-controlled robots to kill suspects – The Verge
“As part of Intel’s Responsible AI work, the company has productized FakeCatcher, a technology that can detect fake videos with a 96% accuracy rate. Intel’s deepfake detection platform is the world’s first real-time deepfake detector that returns results in milliseconds.
Most deep learning-based detectors look at raw data to try to find signs of inauthenticity and identify what is wrong with a video. In contrast, FakeCatcher looks for authentic clues in real videos, by assessing what makes us human— subtle “blood flow” in the pixels of a video. When our hearts pump blood, our veins change color. These blood flow signals are collected from all over the face and algorithms translate these signals into spatiotemporal maps. Then, using deep learning, we can instantly detect whether a video is real or fake. ”
“A $450 million investment from Apple’s Advanced Manufacturing Fund provides the critical infrastructure that supports Emergency SOS via satellite for iPhone 14 models. Available to customers in the US and Canada beginning later this month, the new service will allow iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro models to connect directly to a satellite, enabling messaging with emergency services when outside of cellular and Wi-Fi coverage. A majority of the funding goes to Globalstar, a global satellite service headquartered in Covington, Louisiana, with facilities across the US. Apple’s investment provides critical enhancements to Globalstar’s satellite network and ground stations, ensuring iPhone 14 users are able to connect to emergency services when off the grid. At Globalstar, more than 300 employees support the new service.”
Source : Emergency SOS via satellite made possible by $450M Apple investment – Apple
“Google has yanked dozens of apps from its Google Play store after determining that they include a software element that surreptitiously harvests data.The Panamanian company that wrote the code, Measurement Systems S. de R.L., is linked through corporate records and web registrations to a Virginia defense contractor that does cyberintelligence, network-defense and intelligence-intercept work for U.S. national-security agencies.The code ran on millions of Android devices and has been found inside several Muslim prayer apps that have been downloaded more than 10 million times, as well as a highway-speed-trap detection app, a QR-code reading app and a number of other popular consumer apps, according to two researchers who discovered the behavior of the code in the course of auditing work they do searching for vulnerabilities in Android apps. They shared their findings with Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., federal privacy regulators and The Wall Street Journal.”
Source : Google Bans Apps With Hidden Data-Harvesting Software – WSJ
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