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Key to government’s monitoring power lies in war, technology - 8 juin 2013
Expanded government surveillance was cast as a price of war in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Yet nearly a dozen years later, the war on terrorism is showing signs of ebbing while the surveillance systems created to fight it continue unabated.
If anything, they are becoming more powerful.
That’s (...)
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Tech Companies Concede to Surveillance Program - 8 juin 2013
When government officials came to Silicon Valley to demand easier ways for the world’s largest Internet companies to turn over user data as part of a secret surveillance program, the companies bristled. In the end, though, many cooperated at least a bit.
Twitter declined to make it easier for the government. But (...)
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U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program - 7 juin 2013
The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets, according to a top-secret document obtained by The (...)
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NSA Is Wired Into Top Internet Companies’ Servers, Including Google and Facebook - 7 juin 2013
As if news of the National Security Agency collecting phone records on millions of Americans wasn’t enough, a new report reveals that the NSA and FBI are directly tapped into central servers at nine U.S. internet firms, in order to provide constant monitoring of audio, video, photos, emails and documents as well as (...)
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Documents : U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms ; companies deny knowledge - 7 juin 2013
The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets, according to a top-secret document obtained by The (...)
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Mobile location data ’present anonymity risk’ - 27 mars 2013
Scientists say it is remarkably easy to identify a mobile phone user from just a few pieces of location information.
Whenever a phone is switched on, its connection to the network means its position and movement can be plotted.
This data is given anonymously to third parties, both to drive services for the user (...)
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George W. Bush piraté : secrets diffusés - 11 février 2013
Un mystérieux pirate informatique diffuse des courriels et des photos volés à l’ancien président des Etats-Unis, G.W. Bush. Un pirate informatique a réussi à mettre la main sur plusieurs comptes emails de G. W Bush Family. Comment, via des mots de passe très faible des comptes AOL de la fille de l’ancien président (...)
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Ouverture d’une enquête sur le piratage des messageries de la famille Bush - 11 février 2013
Le "Secret Service", chargé de la protection des présidents américains, enquête actuellement sur le piratage de comptes mails AOL appartenant à six membres de la famille Bush, rapporte l’agence Reuters et des sites américains comme The New York Times et The Houston Chronicle.
L’agence AP a précisé que le FBI avait (...)
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Les dépenses de Google en lobbying continuent de grimper - 25 octobre 2012
Soucieux de défendre ses intérêts, Google mobilise beaucoup d’argent pour plaider sa cause auprès de la classe politique américaine. Cette année, le groupe devrait atteindre de nouveaux sommets en dépensant plus de 14 millions de dollars. Mais les domaines dans lesquels Google s’investit sont nombreux.
Jamais Google n’a (...)
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Online Analytics Firm Settles Suit Over Unstoppable User Tracking - 23 octobre 2012
KISSmetrics, a popular tool for websites to monitor who is using their site, has agreed to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of using shady techniques to recreate cookies after users deleted them and track users who blocked cookies.
The company was sued in August 2011, just after Wired.com reported on (...)
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Tech Giants Form Internet-Freedom Lobby to Counter MPAA, RIAA Clout - 22 septembre 2012
Another lobbying group hit Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. But think again before you start screaming that it’s just another lobby representing the 1%.
The Internet Association, backed by behemoths Amazon, Google, Facebook and others "” 14 groups in all "” is focused on internet freedom "” something that’s easy in (...)
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The Facebook Fallacy - 14 août 2012
For all its valuation, the social network is just another ad-supported site. Without an earth-changing idea, it will collapse and take down the Web.
Facebook not only is on course to go bust but will take the rest of the ad-supported Web with it.
Given its vast cash reserves and the glacial pace of business (...)
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Vers un Nouveau Monde de données - 15 juillet 2012
Nous sommes passés d’un web de l’information et de la connaissance à un web de données. "Les données sont le nouveau pétrole de l’économie", expliquait le consultant Clive Humby dès 2006. Tim O’Reilly et John Battelle ne disaient pas autre chose quand ils imaginaient le concept de Web² devenu depuis (et il serait (...)
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Yahoo Breach Extends Beyond Yahoo to Gmail, Hotmail, AOL Users - 13 juillet 2012
Another month, another major security breach.
Yahoo confirmed Thursday that about 400,000 user names and passwords to Yahoo and other companies were stolen on Wednesday.
A group of hackers, known as the D33D Company, posted online the user names and passwords for what appeared to be 453,492 accounts belonging to (...)
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Here’s Why Google and Facebook Might Completely Disappear in the Next 5 Years - 10 juin 2012
We think of Google and Facebook as Web gorillas. They’ll be around forever. Yet, with the rate that the tech world is moving these days, there are good reasons to think both might be gone completely in 5 "“ 8 years. Not bankrupt gone, but MySpace gone. And there’s some academic theory to back up that view, along (...)
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Patent Peace : Yahoo and Facebook in Advanced Negotiations to Settle Fractious Infringement Lawsuits - 4 juin 2012
Top execs at Yahoo and Facebook have been hammering out the outlines of a deal over the last several days to end their contentious patent infringement litigation, according to multiple sources close to the situation.
While that could change, sources said a settlement could come within the next weeks and that the (...)
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Facebook, Microsoft strike a patent deal - 23 avril 2012
Facebook and Microsoft announced Monday that they have struck a deal for over 1,000 patents, including some of the patents Microsoft recently acquired from AOL.
According to the release, Facebook will pay around $550 million in cash for the patents. Microsoft and AOL announced their patent deal on April 9, with (...)
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Microsoft revend à Facebook des brevets fraîchement achetés à AOL - 23 avril 2012
En rachetant il y a 15 jours des brevets d’AOL, Microsoft semble avoir joué les hommes de paille pour Facebook. La firme de Redmond vient en effet de revendre une partie importante des brevets au réseau social, et récupère déjà plus la moitié de la somme investie dans l’opération.
Etrange scénario qui pourrait faire du (...)
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Samsung and RIM sued for infringing lol-worthy emoticon patent - 20 mars 2012
In an apparent quest to make the patent system look even more ridiculous, a firm on Thursday sued Samsung and Research in Motion for allegedly infringing a patent titled "emoticon input method and apparatus."
"It is known that for many users, their email and instant messaging communications... often involve the (...)
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Tech giants support Obama administration’s plan to issue voluntary guidelines and commit to ’Do Not Track’ technology - 24 février 2012
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL say they will sign up to a "consumer privacy bill of rights", announced on Thursday by the Obama administration in a move that would bring US law closer to European data protection principles.
The idea would bring stronger privacy protections for consumers, as mobile gadgets, (...)
