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Cinq pirates condamnés à payer plus de 1 million d’euros aux ayants droit - 26 septembre 2012
Le verdict est tombé : cinq membres de deux équipes impliquées dans le piratage de films sur Internet ont été condamnés par le tribunal correctionnel de Paris. Des peines de trois à six mois de prison ont été prononcée, ainsi que le versement de plus de 1 million d’euros de dommage et intérêts aux ayants droit.
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Facebook adds app adverts as users switch to mobile - 8 août 2012
Facebook is to allow app developers to advertise their products on its members’ mobile-device news feeds.
The network will charge a fee for every time users click on the ads to download the software from elsewhere.
Facebook had previously warned its financial health would suffer if it could not find ways to make (...)
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Social networks scan for sexual predators, with uneven results - 13 juillet 2012
On March 9 of this year, a piece of Facebook software spotted something suspicious.
A man in his early thirties was chatting about sex with a 13-year-old South Florida girl and planned to meet her after middle-school classes the next day.
Facebook’s extensive but little-discussed technology for scanning postings (...)
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Facebook Explores Giving Kids Access - 4 juin 2012
Facebook Inc. is developing technology that would allow children younger than 13 years old to use the social-networking site under parental supervision, a step that could help the company tap a new pool of users for revenue but also inflame privacy concerns.
Mechanisms being tested include connecting children’s (...)
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Les patrons sont de plus en plus des "Big Brother" - 27 mars 2012
Vidéosurveillance, fichage, consultation d’informations confidentielles... Les affaires d’entreprises s’immisçant dans la vie privée de leurs salariés abondent. Une traque de leurs employés confirmée par la Cnil.
Des travailleurs filmés, fichés voire traqués. Ces dernières semaines les affaires de surveillance illégale de (...)
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Hotfile’s digital locker service targeted by Hollywood - 8 mars 2012
Hollywood is calling on the US courts to force Hotfile, the popular file-sharing site, offline following similar action against Megaupload.
Court papers unsealed this week reveal that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has filed a motion for a summary judgement.
If approved, the move could lead to (...)
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Nationaliser les « grandes oreilles », une bonne idée ? - 2 mars 2012
Chaque jour, en France, de 4 à 4500 interceptions de données (téléphoniques, SMS, Internet) judiciaires sont confiées à une poignée d’entreprises privées. Michel Besnier, PDG de Elektron, numéro 1 français du marché avec environ 40 % du volume des écoutes en France, plaide sa cause au Nouvel Economiste (voir « A chacun son (...)
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A Clash of Media Worlds (and Generations) - 23 janvier 2012
Back in high school they always told us that brains prevail — that cool gets you only so far.
Well, last week, smarts won — at least one round. Wikipedia went dark and Google blacked out its logo, as the brainiacs of Silicon Valley tilted at the A-list media giants of Hollywood and New York.
At issue were two (...)
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Fighting Antipiracy Measure, Activist Group Posts Personal Information of Media Executives - 14 janvier 2012
The online activist group known as Anonymous, which has targeted opponents of the Occupy Wall Street movement and businesses that stopped providing services to WikiLeaks, has set its sights on a new adversary : media executives.
In protest of antipiracy legislation currently being considered by Congress, the (...)
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News Networks Ignore Controversial SOPA Legislation - 9 janvier 2012
Controversial legislation that the co-founder of Google has warned "would put us on a par with the most oppressive nations in the world" has received virtually no coverage from major American television news outlets during their evening newscasts and opinion programming. The parent companies of most of these (...)
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Twitter ramps up advertising in people’s timelines - 15 septembre 2011
Twitter has extended promoted tweets, its own form of advertising, allowing brands to advertise in a person’s timeline, whether the user follows that company or not.
Since July 2011, Twitter users have started seeing sponsored messages appear in their timelines, but only from brands and organisations that they (...)
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Will copyright extensions ever end ? - 13 septembre 2011
As copyrights for recorded music are extended, Shane Richmond argues that this is just the latest step in a campaign that is set to continue until copyright never expires.
It’s now more than a decade since the internet began killing the music industry. The situation is so much worse than the last thing to kill (...)
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Disney company fined over abuse of kids’ data - 15 mai 2011
Outfit to Coppa $3 million rap for Pony Stars trap
Disney is to shell out $3 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that one of its subsidiaries illegally collected and distributed data relating to children without parental permission.
Playdom, which owned and operated 20 ’virtual worlds’ aimed at (...)
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Une filiale de Disney utilisait illégalement des données personnelles d’enfants - 15 mai 2011
Playdom, un éditeur de jeux vidéo en ligne et de réseaux destinés au moins de 13 ans, racheté par Disney en août 2010, a conclu un accord à l’amiable avec la Federal Trade Commission (FTC), l’organisme américain chargé de la protection des consommateurs et de leur vie privée, et versera 3 millions de dollars (2 millions (...)
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Epsilon email hack : millions of customers’ details stolen - 4 avril 2011
Customers of Barclaycard US, Capital One and other companies warned after attack on marketing email provider Epsilon
Computer hackers have stolen the names and email addresses of millions of people in one of the largest internet security breaches in US history.
The names and email addresses of customers of (...)
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ISPs urged to block filesharing sites - 23 mars 2011
Music and film groups in talks with broadband providers over code that would bar access to sites such as The Pirate Bay
Rights holders from across the music and film industries have identified about 100 websites – including The Pirate Bay and "cyberlocker" sites – that they want internet service providers such as (...)
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Disney Buys HTML5 Gamers Rocketpack, Enhances Web Future for Casual Games - 4 mars 2011
Disney just bought an HTML5 gaming startup called Rocketpack before the new firm is even out of the starting blocks. Does this confirm that the race is on to make casual gaming a cross-platform web experience, versus App Store "big name" games ?
Rocketpack, based in Helsinki, just revealed that "through a merger (...)
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Disney se prend aux jeux sociaux - 4 mars 2011
L’offensive du géant du divertissement Disney dans le domaine des jeux sociaux se poursuit. Le groupe américain vient d’annoncer l’acquisition de Rocketpack, une jeune pousse du jeu vidéo, fondée il y a peine un an. D’après le site spécialisé Fast Company , le montant de la transaction est entre 10 et 20 millions de dollars (...)
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Six Tech Firms Settle Federal Hiring Probe - 26 septembre 2010
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department and six leading technology companies reached a settlement Friday over civil charges that the companies violated antitrust law by agreeing not to poach each other’s skilled employees.
The settlement prevents Google Inc., Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Adobe Systems Inc., Intuit Inc. and (...)
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US : des sites poursuivis en justice à cause des cookies de Flash - 26 août 2010
Les cookies sont utilisés pour enregistrer les sessions, les dernières recherches faites sur un site, les scores des jeux en ligne, et facilitent en général la vie des internautes. Mais ils sont aussi utilisés par les régies publicitaires pour suivre à la trace leurs cibles, analyser leurs habitudes de surf et leur (...)
