Félix Tréguer @felix@mamot.fr

L'armée française veut développer des IMSI-catchers montés sur drones. https://www.defense.gouv.fr/aid/appels-a-projets/appel-a-projets-pour-une-mini-charge-utile-d-appui-electronique-sur-drones

RT @PaulRocher10@twitter.com

Dans le cadre de son offre d’appel pour acheter 170 000 balles de #LBD40 le ministère de l'intérieur annonce vouloir acquérir 10 000 balles de défense marquante.
Qu’est-ce exactement ? Un accélérateur d’autoritarisme. Thread. [1/7]

RT @AsWalterRobin@twitter.com

"Why you'll be hearing a lot less about smart cities" Great article on @CityMonitorAI@twitter.com - Investments in smart cities are plummeting, major companies are getting out (Cisco, etc.). We might be left with smart parkings projects, traffic lights and cameras https://citymonitor.ai/government/why-youll-be-hearing-a-lot-less-about-smart-cities

RT @aboutintel@twitter.com

Another win for intelligence oversight! @DuncanJane@twitter.com explains the recent judgement on mass surveillance by South Africa’s Constitutional Court and how it compares to Germany’s BND reform ruling.

https://aboutintel.eu/south-africa-surveillance-ruling

RT @PolicyR@twitter.com

[Conference] The Digital State - Online 22-24 March 2021, organised by the Centre for Comparative Public Law (CDPC) Paris, and Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School, Rio de Janeiro. With @anjakovacs@twitter.com @carladietmair@twitter.com @FelixTreguer@twitter.com @1lucabelli@twitter.com & many more https://cyberbrics.info/digital-state-etat-digital/

100 eurodéputés écrivent à la Commission européenne pour appeler à des lignes rouges claires sur l’usage de l’IA, ntoamment afin de garantir la « possibilité d’interdire certaines applications d’IA incompatibles avec les droits fondamentaux ». https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MEP-Letter-on-AI-and-fundamental-rights-1.pdf (pdf)

RT @dinodaizovi@twitter.com

"When the FBI says it’s 'going dark' because it can’t beat encryption, what it’s really asking for is a method of breaking in that’s cheaper, easier, and more reliable than the methods they already have."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/fbi-should-stop-attacking-encryption-and-tell-congress-about-all-encrypted-phones

"Efforts by Chinese companies to sell their technology overseas mean that products designed for China’s authoritarian context could form the backbone of connectivity in a wide range of societies." https://logicmag.io/china/a-brief-history-of-the-chinese-internet/

Bilan de l'@ANCMSP@twitter.com des recrutements de maîtresses et maîtres de conférence en sciences politiques pour l'année 2020 (spoiler : c'est « alarmiste »). https://ancmsp.com/bilan-des-recrutements-mcf-2020

À lire, l’entretien de l'éditeur et penseur de la technologie Matthieu Amiech : « La gestion de la pandémie par le pouvoir des experts et la fuite en avant technologique illustrent ce renoncement à la démocratie. » https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/130321/matthieu-amiech-la-gestion-de-la-crise-sanitaire-nous-entraine-vers-une-societe-machine

RT @interchu@twitter.com

Le @Conseil_Etat@twitter.com ne suspend pas le partenariat entre @Sante_Gouv@twitter.com et @Doctolib@twitter.com

Les parties entendent faire valoir leur indignation suite à la décision intervenue ce jour

➡️Le juge considère que les données de rendez-vous ne sont pas des données de santé!
https://interhop.org/2021/03/12/communique-presse-decision-ce-rendezvous

RT @KenRoth@twitter.com

Myanmar authorities have deployed 335 Huawei surveillance cameras in the capital equipped with artificial intelligence technology that automatically scans faces and vehicle license plates to identify "wanted" people. Mandalay and Yangon are next. https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/03/12/myanmar-facial-recognition-system-threatens-rights

"With a planned 7 percent boost to research and development spending every year for five years, China’s ambition is to be beholden to no one — especially not the United States". https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/10/business/china-us-tech-rivalry.html

RT @pondswimmer@twitter.com

The Metiers art museum in Paris has an incredible collection of automated looms from the 1800s. Seeing them up close really put things in perspective. https://twitter.com/EnglishRadical/status/1369934267485151238

RT @oliviertesquet@twitter.com

Economie de la distanciation sociale, illustration : un décret publié au Journal officiel autorise le recours à la vidéosurveillance intelligente pour mesurer le taux de port du masque dans les transports.

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000043235679 (via @Bas_scordia@twitter.com)

#COINTEPRO "50 years ago, in 1971, a group of eight activists staged one of the most stunning acts of defiance of the Vietnam War era when they broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole every document they found."
https://www.democracynow.org/2021/3/9/50th_anniversary_fbi_office_cointelpro_exposure #SurveillanceArchive

"WhatsApp groups, a collectively edited Google Doc, a private Zoom meeting and several high-profile tweets, all of which have been weaponised into key pieces of alleged evidence in a state-sponsored and media-amplified activist hunt," writes @NaomiAKlein@twitter.com. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/mar/04/how-big-tech-helps-india-target-climate-activists-naomi-klein

« Quand l’affaire avait éclaté, l’agent avait prévenu ses supérieurs et leur avait demandé qu’on lui retire l’accès aux fameux fichiers, histoire de ne plus être tenté. "J’avais compris que ce n’était pas bien et que je ne devais plus le faire". » https://www.20minutes.fr/justice/2991427-20210304-seine-saint-denis-agent-dgsi-condamne-avoir-consulte-fichiers-voisins

RT @robinberjon@twitter.com

"L'utopie déchue", by @FelixTreguer@twitter.com.
An excellent history of the Internet, from 15C to today's neofeudal system. It does an excellent job going through the many events and ideologies that have led to this point, thereby making it clear that it's not over.