Demander l'interdiction de l'utilisation de la reconnaissance faciale
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C'est ce à quoi s'emploie un collectif californien. La mairie de San Francisco devrait voter sur une proposition en ce sens dans les semaines à venir.
This spring, the city of San Francisco will consider Oakland Privacy’s signature surveillance transparency regulation legislation, but with a twist.
The Stop Secret Surveillance Act, introduced on January 29, 2019 by Supervisor Aaron Peskin and Board of Supes prez Norman Yee, adds a total ban on the use of facial recognition software by city government.
This is the first time a SERO ordinance has pre-emptively declared that the use of a particular kind of surveillance tech is, ipso facto, unacceptable for use by the government.
Why facial recognition? The software has a troubled history of being wildly inaccurate and specifically inaccurate at identifying faces of people of color who are already subject to overpolicing and racial bias. In one experiment, an out of the box version of Amazon’s Rekognition software identified more than dozen sitting members of Congress as wanted criminals, the majority of them non-white.
But even if the technology improves, it remains one of the most invasive modes of surveillance and introduces almost unsolvable problems of data security. What happens if an office misplaces your face? There are no good answers for biometric data breaches ([source](This spring, the city of San Francisco will consider Oakland Privacy’s signature surveillance transparency regulation legislation, but with a twist. (source)
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À San Francisco, la proposition visant à interdire l'utilisation policière de la reconnaissance faciale et à apporter quelques garanties sur d'autres technologies de contrôle social est en bonne voie d'adoption.
San Francisco, renowned these days as a hub of technology, is about to be at the forefront of curbing its potential abuses: The city is now on track to be the first municipality in the United States to ban use of facial recognition technology by the city government. On Monday, the “Stop Secret Surveillance Ordinance” passed a committee vote. It will head to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for a final vote on May 14.
Beyond prohibiting face surveillance, the bill also requires all other types of surveillance technologies—like automatic license plate readers, predictive policing software, and cell phone surveillance towers—to only be adopted by city agencies following a public notice and vote by the Board of Supervisors. The bill also requires clear policies for how surveillance technologies will be used by the city government.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90336549/the-creeping-threat-of-facial-recognitionMais dans cet article au moins les principaux arguemnts avancés pour jsutifier cela tiennent au fait que ces te"chnologies ne seraitent pas encore bien au point et comporteraient des biais impactant les personnes de couleurs (et donc l'article donne à penser qu'une fois que ces biais résolus, alors l'usage de cette technologie sera bien moins problématique).
https://slate.com/technology/2019/05/san-francisco-first-city-ban-facial-recognition.html
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Ca vient de passer : https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2019/05/15/san-francisco-interdit-la-reconnaissance-faciale_5462287_3234.html
Je vais me mettre dessus pour bien essayer de comprendre ce qui a été adopté et sur quels arguments. Si ce n'est que sur une raison de problèmes techniques, ce n'est pas parfait. Mais ça reste une bonne nouvelle dans l'ensemble !
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@Martin Super nouvelle que ce précédent ! Et d'autres villes pourraient s'en inspirer aux États-Unis...
Similar bans are under consideration in Oakland and in Somerville, Mass., outside of Boston.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/us/facial-recognition-ban-san-francisco.htmlIl y a l'air d'avoir des choses intéressantes sur la transparence en matière de technologies policières... ça vaut sans doute le coup de creuser en effet et voir s'il y a des choses dont on peut s'inspirer.
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Portland, Oregon, has plans to ban the use of facial recognition for both the government and private businesses in the city, a move that could make Portland’s ban the most restrictive in the United States.
(...) Hardesty is unswayed by arguments that the technology can be improved enough. “Rather than going back to fix something we already know is flawed to begin with, we should stop it from taking root in the first place,” she says.
Source: https://www.fastcompany.com/90436355/portlands-proposed-facial-recognition-ban-could-be-the-strictest-yet
