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Un autre monde numérique est possible, par Evgeny Morozov - 12 mai 2021
Les défenseurs de la vie privée volent de victoire en victoire en ce début d’année 2021. Alphabet, la maison mère de Google, a ouvert le bal en annonçant en mars dernier que son moteur de recherche arrêterait de pister les utilisateurs individuels lorsqu’ils visitent des sites. Cette résolution s’inscrit dans une campagne (...)
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‘A Perfect Positive Storm’ : Bonkers Dollars for Big Tech - 2 mai 2021
The dictionary doesn’t have enough superlatives to describe what’s happening to the five biggest technology companies, raising uncomfortable questions for their C.E.O.s.
In the Great Recession more than a decade ago, big tech companies hit a rough patch just like everyone else. Now they have become unquestioned (...)
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Alphabet : revenue soars for Google owner as Covid lockdown boom continues - 28 avril 2021
Tech firm beat Wall Street forecasts with $55bn in revenue, even as it faced antitrust lawsuits
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, more than doubled its profits to a record $17.9bn (£12.9bn) in the first quarter, as the lockdown-enforced surge in the use of digital services fuels an advertising boom for the Silicon (...)
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Am I FLoCed ? - 20 avril 2021
Google is testing FLoC on Chrome users worldwide. Find out if you’re one of them.
Google is running a Chrome "origin trial" to test out an experimental new tracking feature called Federated Learning of Cohorts (aka "FLoC"). According to Google, the trial currently affects 0.5% of users in selected regions, (...)
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Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin join $100bn club - 12 avril 2021
Surge in share price of parent company Alphabet moved pair on to eight-man list
The Google founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have joined the $100bn club of super-rich people with 12-digit fortunes after a surge in the share price of the tech firm’s parent company, Alphabet.
Page and Brin, who co-founded (...)
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Google promises it won’t just keep tracking you after replacing cookies - 7 avril 2021
Google says it wants a ‘privacy-first web’
Google is slowly phasing out third-party tracking cookies, and today, it’s making it clear that it won’t just replace them with something equally invasive despite the impact the change will have on Google’s lucrative advertising business. In a blog post, Google explicitly (...)
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Les PDG de Facebook, Google et Twitter en accusation devant le Congrès américain pour leur rôle dans la désinformation - 26 mars 2021
Quatrième comparution en un an pour Mark Zuckerberg, troisième pour Sundar Pichai et Jack Dorsey : les PDG ont répondu, jeudi, aux questions des élus américains.
Quatrième comparution en un an pour Mark Zuckerberg, troisième pour Sundar Pichai et Jack Dorsey : les PDG de Facebook, Google et Twitter ont répondu, jeudi 25 (...)
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Google chante le requiem pour les cookies, mais le grand chœur du pistage résonnera encore - 22 mars 2021
Google va cesser de nous pister avec des cookies tiers ! Une bonne nouvelle, oui mais… Regardons le projet d’un peu plus près avec un article de l’EFF.
La presse en ligne s’en est fait largement l’écho : par exemple siecledigital, generation-nt ou lemonde. Et de nombreux articles citent un éminent responsable du (...)
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Platform Capitalism, Empire and Authoritarianism : Is There a Way Out ? - 21 mars 2021
The world will face more widespread and intensified surveillance, but this time it could be framed as something for our own good, for the good of humanity.
President Trump has left the building. In his final days, in one of the most symbolic moments of his short period in the White House, after his supporters had (...)
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Google’s ‘Privacy-First Web’ Is Really a Google-First Web - 7 mars 2021
Why the search giant can afford to kill the cookie
For two decades, the cookie has been an emblem of the online advertising model that powers much of the open web — and the privacy invasions that come with it. Now, the cookie as we know it is dying.
Online advertising will live on, of course, and so will privacy (...)
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US has ’moral imperative’ to develop AI weapons, says panel - 27 janvier 2021
Draft Congress report claims AI will make fewer mistakes than humans and lead to reduced casualties
The US should not agree to ban the use or development of autonomous weapons powered by artificial intelligence (AI) software, a government-appointed panel has said in a draft report for Congress.
The panel, led by (...)
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Silicon Valley Takes the Battlespace - 20 janvier 2021
Through an obscure startup named Rebellion Defense, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt attempts to buy his way into the Biden White House.
Days after winning the November election, Joe Biden announced the names of those staffing his transition. Big Tech landed prominent spots. Among the hundreds of personnel on the (...)
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Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism - 4 janvier 2021
The creation of the union, a rarity in Silicon Valley, follows years of increasing outspokenness by Google workers. Executives have struggled to handle the change.
OAKLAND, Calif. — More than 225 Google engineers and other workers have formed a union, the group revealed on Monday, capping years of growing activism (...)
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We’re Google Workers. And We’re Forming a Union - 4 janvier 2021
Our company’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil.” An organized work force will help us live up to it.
On Nov. 1, 2018, at 11:10 a.m., some 20,000 Google employees, along with employees of Waymo, Verily and other Alphabet companies, stopped working and walked off the job in cities around the world. A week earlier, The (...)
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All I want for 2021 is to see Mark Zuckerberg up in court - 4 janvier 2021
The tech giants’ law-free bonanza is coming to an end on both sides of the Atlantic, but let’s speed up the process
It’s always risky making predictions about the tech industry, but this year looks like being different, at least in the sense that there are two safe bets. One is that the attempts to regulate the tech (...)
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Géants du numérique : la fin du laisser-faire - 4 janvier 2021
Pour la première fois, les géants du numérique font face à la résistance des États. Grands bénéficiaires de la pandémie, leur puissance commence à inquiéter. Chine, États-Unis, Europe veulent s’appuyer sur les lois antitrust, longtemps délaissées, pour reprendre le contrôle. Mais est-ce suffisant ?
L’époque du laisser-faire (...)
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Facebook will move UK users to US terms, avoiding EU privacy laws - 16 décembre 2020
Company is reportedly making the change partly because the EU privacy regime is among the world’s strictest
Facebook will shift all its users in the United Kingdom into user agreements with the corporate headquarters in California, moving them out of their current relationship with Facebook’s Irish unit and out of (...)
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Aux Etats-Unis, Google accusé d’avoir surveillé et licencié abusivement deux employés protestataires - 3 décembre 2020
L’entreprise assure que ces deux personnes ont été licenciées pour avoir violé des règles de sécurité interne.
Une agence fédérale américaine a épinglé Google, mercredi 2 décembre, le géant numérique étant accusé d’avoir surveillé et licencié abusivement deux employés qui protestaient en interne contre certaines pratiques de (...)
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Google violated U.S. labor laws in clampdown on worker organizing, regulator says - 3 décembre 2020
OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - The National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint on Wednesday accusing Alphabet Inc’s Google of unlawfully monitoring and questioning several workers who were then fired for protesting against company policies and trying to organize a union.
The U.S. labor regulator found Google (...)
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Why Google Dominates Advertising Markets - 26 novembre 2020
Approximately 86% of online display advertising space in the U.S. is bought and sold in real-time on electronic trading venues, which the industry calls "advertising exchanges." With intermediaries that route buy and sell orders, the structure of the ad market is similar to the structure of electronically traded (...)
