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Inside NSO, Israel’s billion-dollar spyware giant - 19 août 2020
The world’s most notorious surveillance company says it wants to clean up its act. Go on, we’re listening.
Maâti Monjib speaks slowly, like a man who knows he’s being listened to.
It’s the day of his 58th birthday when we speak, but there’s little celebration in his voice. “The surveillance is hellish,” Monjib tells (...)
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Covidsafe app overhaul compensates for ’handshakes’ only connecting 27% of the time on some iPhones - 18 août 2020
Exclusive : the most recent test data and information about changes made to the app have been released under freedom of information
The makers of the Covidsafe app have had to overhaul the algorithm for determining close contacts to improve the functionality of the app on iPhones, Guardian Australia has learned, (...)
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Big Tech Makes Inroads With the Biden Campaign - 15 août 2020
While Joe Biden has criticized the largest tech companies, his campaign and transition teams have welcomed allies of Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple onto its staff and policy groups.
WASHINGTON — Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been critical of Big Tech, admonishing Facebook for mishandling misinformation and saying (...)
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We need a full investigation into Siri’s secret surveillance campaign - 15 août 2020
The public deserves to know the extent to which Apple employees have been listening to our private conversations and intimate moments
No one wants their most private activities secretly monitored. That’s why wiretapping is strictly regulated in the US and most of the world. Federal law makes it a crime for the (...)
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From Japan to Brazil and South Africa : how countries’ ‘data cultures’ shape their response to coronavirus - 13 août 2020
Since March, The Correspondent has been tracking how countries are using surveillance technology to respond to the spread of the coronavirus. We’ve already documented how governments have turned to contact-tracing apps, telecom tracking and self-assessment apps to curb the spread of the virus. But it’s clear that (...)
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Tim Cook joins the billionaire club as Apple nears $2tn valuation - 12 août 2020
Apple has thrived under Cook’s leadership with the iPhone X and a move into subscription TV
Apple chief executive Tim Cook has joined the billionaire club as the iPhone maker is poised to become the US’s first $2tn company.
Apple’s performance has so far proved to be coronavirus-proof, crushing Wall Street (...)
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8 million people, 14 alerts : why some covid-19 apps are staying silent - 11 août 2020
Critics have rounded on contact tracing apps in France and Australia for sending out almost no virus notifications. But experts say it’s not a total failure—as long as we learn what went wrong.
When France launched its app for digital contact tracing, it looked like a possible breakthrough for the virus-ravaged (...)
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The original Big Tech is working closer than ever with governments to combat coronavirus – with no scrutiny - 10 août 2020
Telecom companies are at the core of the world’s communication universe. Since the coronavirus pandemic, they’ve been passing even more sensitive data to governments. It’s time they were held as accountable as Google and Facebook.
The texts can arrive at any time. Recipients are told they’ve been exposed to the (...)
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« Si les Etats-Unis interdisaient TikTok, ce serait le début d’une plus sérieuse balkanisation d’Internet » - 10 août 2020
Eva Galperin, membre de l’association Electronic Frontier Foundation, revient sur les actions entreprises par Donald Trump en vue d’interdire l’application chinoise sur le territoire américain.
La situation se complique encore pour TikTok aux Etats-Unis. Après avoir annoncé qu’il comptait interdire la populaire (...)
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Dopple-ganging up on Facial Recognition Systems - 9 août 2020
“Face” the Facts
There are 7.6 Billion people in the world. That’s a huge number ! In fact, if we all stood shoulder to shoulder on the equator, the number of people in the world would wrap around the earth over 86 times ! That’s just the number of living people today ; even adding in the history of all people for (...)
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How to Fight Against Big Tech’s Power - 8 août 2020
In the morning, you check email. At noon, you browse social media and message friends. In the evening, you listen to music while shopping online. Around bedtime, you curl up with an e-book.
For all of those activities, you probably used a product made or sold by Google, Amazon, Apple or Facebook. There’s no simple (...)
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The Antitrust Hearing Reveals That Tech Is Inescapable - 5 août 2020
Antitrust could break up the big players. It wouldn’t change everyday life.
Like many professional families, mine is spending most of our time at home. I watch our younger daughter while my wife works, then we swap. I cheat, though, letting my daughter watch Amazon Prime Video on her iPad while I Slack on mine. (...)
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‘This Is a New Phase’ : Europe Shifts Tactics to Limit Tech’s Power - 5 août 2020
The region’s lawmakers and regulators are taking direct aim at Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple in a series of proposed laws.
LONDON — European Union leaders are pursuing a new law to make it illegal for Amazon and Apple to give their own products preferential treatment over those of rivals that are sold on their (...)
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Big Tech Earnings Surge as Economy Slumps - 1er août 2020
Here’s what you need to know :
Amazon’s earnings double as sales surge.
Alphabet’s revenue drops, but beats Wall Street expectations.
Ford made $1.1 billion profit in the second quarter even as sales tumbled.
Apple blows past expectations with surging sales and profits.
The U.S. economy’s contraction in the (...)
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Malgré la crise, les résultats des GAFA dépassent toutes les prévisions - 31 juillet 2020
Alors que les Etats-Unis entrent en récession, les géants du numérique se renforcent. Ils pèsent désormais 4 900 milliards dollars en Bourse.
Le contraste est saisissant : avec – 32,9 %, les Etats-Unis annoncent le plus fort recul trimestriel de leur PIB en rythme annualisé depuis la seconde guerre mondiale, mais les (...)
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L’idée d’en finir avec le monopole des Gafa chemine aux Etats-Unis - 31 juillet 2020
Auditionnés mercredi par des membres du Congrès, les responsables de Google, Amazon, Facebook et Apple ont passé un mauvais moment. Les autorités, qui avaient renoncé à utiliser les lois antitrust, se disent prêtes à les moderniser pour contrer la puissance des géants du numérique et casser leur monopole.
Pendant cinq (...)
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Google a commencé à déployer un nouveau câble Internet transatlantique - 31 juillet 2020
Nommée d’après la scientifique américaine Grace Hopper, l’infrastructure annoncée par le géant du numérique vient s’ajouter à ses trois autres projets intercontinentaux.
Google a annoncé, mardi 28 juillet, qu’il allait déployer un nouveau câble transatlantique consacré au transit des données Internet. Avec une date de mise en (...)
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Why the tech giants may suffer lasting pain from their Hill lashing - 30 juillet 2020
Lawmakers investigating Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple made it clear that their allegations of antitrust abuses come with a lengthy paper trail.
Wednesday’s much-anticipated antitrust hearing subjected four of the tech industry’s most powerful CEOs to hours of aggressive questioning by Republicans and Democrats (...)
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Lawmakers, United in Their Ire, Lash Out at Big Tech’s Leaders - 30 juillet 2020
The chiefs of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook faced withering questions from Democrats about anti-competitive practices and from Republicans about anti-conservative bias.
WASHINGTON — The chief executives of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook, four tech giants worth nearly $5 trillion combined, faced withering (...)
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Google Coronavirus Apps Give it Way to Access Location Data - 30 juillet 2020
Some government agencies that use the software said they were surprised that Google may pick up the locations of certain app users. Others said they had unsuccessfully pushed Google to make a change.
When Google and Apple announced plans in April for free software to help alert people of their possible exposure (...)
