Apple
analyse
Exploitation des données, manipulation de l’opinion, culte du secret… La trahison des GAFA - 21 décembre 2020
Il y a encore quelques années, Mark Zuckerberg était considéré comme un génie, Google comme l’une des entreprises les plus cool au monde… et puis la confiance s’est perdue. L’avidité des géants de la tech semble avoir eu raison des valeurs des pionniers du numérique : liberté, innovation et progrès.
Deux jours d’audience de (...)
analyse
Why Tech’s Great Powers Are Warring - 20 décembre 2020
The feud between Apple and Facebook enters a new era
An adage of international relations holds that great powers have no permanent friends or allies, only permanent interests. (The original quote, from a 19th-century English statesman known as Lord Palmerston, is a bit less pithy.) It accounts for how the United (...)
analyse
Should We Use Search History for Credit Scores ? IMF Says Yes - 19 décembre 2020
With more services than ever collecting your data, it’s easy to start asking why anyone should care about most of it. This is why. Because people start having ideas like this.
In a new blog post for the International Monetary Fund, four researchers presented their findings from a working paper that examines the (...)
analyse
The Future of the Map Isn’t a Map at All - It’s Information - 18 décembre 2020
Google’s vision for geospatial information : "We don’t want a monoculture where there is just one map of the world. There never has been ; there never will be."
Google Maps can be beautiful, interesting, and, of course, useful, but there are a lot of questions we address to maps — and these days, Google Maps (...)
analyse
How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything - 18 décembre 2020
An exclusive look inside Ground Truth, the secretive program to build the world’s best accurate maps
Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that’s the key to your queries but hidden from your view. The deep map contains the logic of places : their no-left-turns and freeway on-ramps, speed limits (...)
analyse
Amazon Wins Without Even Trying - 17 décembre 2020
Three months ago, the Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos effectively declared that his company would try to lose money. Instead, Amazon declared on Thursday the largest profit in its history.
It was a bit awkward.
Companies are supposed to make money, for sure. But this comes at a moment when politicians and the (...)
analyse
Une usine de fabrication d’iPhone saccagée en Inde, des employés affirment ne pas avoir été payés - 16 décembre 2020
Ce week-end, des milliers de salariés de Wistron, un des principaux fournisseurs d’Apple, se sont regroupés pour manifester sur le site de leur usine en Inde, dans la région de Bengaluru. Ils réclament des salaires impayés et de meilleures conditions de travail, comme le rapporte Reuters. Lorsque la police est arrivée (...)
analyse
Apple supplier Wistron puts India plant damage at up to $7 million - 16 décembre 2020
TAIPEI (Reuters) - The ransacking of an iPhone manufacturing facility in India caused up to T$200 million ($7.12 million) in damage though production facilities were not as badly hit as reported, its Taiwan-based operator Wistron Corp said on Tuesday.
Thousands of contract workers gathered on the grounds of the (...)
analyse
Amazon’s Halo Band wearable tracks your voice and body fat, but isn’t helpful - 10 décembre 2020
The Halo Band asks you to strip down and strap on a microphone so that it can make 3-D scans of your body fat and monitor your tone of voice. After all that, it still isn’t very helpful.
Amazon has a new health-tracking bracelet with a microphone and an app that tells you everything that’s wrong with you.
You (...)
analyse
L’aliénation du télétravail c’est aussi celle de nos données, Emma Kraak - 7 décembre 2020
Beaucoup d’encre aura coulé sur les aléas du télétravail depuis le début de la crise sanitaire. Il est tantôt brandi par les employeurs comme une agilité numérique désirable, tantôt revendiqué par les travailleurs eux-mêmes. D’autres, à distance, soulignent les problématiques du management invasif et de l’atomisation des (...)
plainte
Apple faces lawsuits in Europe over slowing down older iPhones - 2 décembre 2020
London (CNN Business) Apple is facing new legal action in Europe over its controversial practice of slowing down older iPhones.
Euroconsumers, the advocacy group bringing the action, said in a statement Wednesday that the class-action lawsuits cover up to 2 million iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6S and 6S Plus devices in (...)
analyse
Amazon, Apple stay away from new French initiative to set principles for Big Tech - 30 novembre 2020
PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. tech giants Amazon and Apple have not signed up to a new French initiative to get global tech companies to publicly commit to principles including paying their fair share of taxes, government officials said on Monday.
French President Emmanuel Macron has sought for the past three years to (...)
analyse
Extraction des données par les GAFAM : aller au-delà de l’indignation - Par Evgeny Morozov - 27 novembre 2020
Chaque jour, des milliards de données sont extraites de nos outils digitaux et réutilisées par les géants du numérique à des fins de ciblage publicitaire. La critique de ce capitalisme de surveillance a été popularisé dans les médias, notamment par Shoshana Zuboff, professeur émérite à la Harvard Business School, et auteur (...)
analyse
Amazon and Apple ’not playing their part’ in tackling electronic waste - 27 novembre 2020
Global retailers should help collect, recycle and repair tech products, say MPs
Global giants such as Amazon and Apple should be made responsible for helping to collect, recycle and repair their products to cut the 155,000 tonnes of electronic waste being thrown away each year in the UK, MPs say.
An (...)
analyse
Part human, part machine : is Apple turning us all into cyborgs ? - 26 novembre 2020
With its iPhones, watches and forthcoming smart glasses, Apple’s gadgets are increasingly becoming extensions of our minds and bodies. It’s the big tech dream – but could it turn into a nightmare ?
At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Apple engineers embarked on a rare collaboration with Google. The goal was (...)
analyse
Tech Transparency Project - 24 novembre 2020
The Tech Transparency Project seeks to hold large technology companies accountable.
TTP is an information and research hub for journalists, academics, policymakers and members of the public interested in exploring the influence of the major technology platforms on politics, policy, and our lives.
TTP launched in (...)
plainte
« La justice américaine s’attaque au cœur du fonctionnement de Google » - 21 novembre 2020
L’étau se resserre sur les Gafa (sigle pour Google, Amazon, Facebook et Apple). Le 20 octobre, le ministère américain de la Justice a ouvert une enquête contre Google, accusant le géant d’avoir maintenu et développé un monopole illégal avec son moteur de recherche. Cette procédure pourrait, théoriquement, déboucher sur un (...)
analyse
Apple accuses Facebook of ’disregard for user privacy’ - 21 novembre 2020
Criticism made as Apple pushes ahead with transparency feature disliked by advertisers
Apple has criticised Facebook for trying to “collect as much data as possible” from users, saying it will push ahead with its planned launch of a new privacy feature despite objections from the advertising industry.
The (...)
plainte
Apple will pay $113 million for batterygate slowing of iPhones - 19 novembre 2020
Apple will pay $113 million to settle an investigation by nearly three dozen states into the tech giant’s past practice of slowing customers’ old iPhones in an attempt to preserve their batteries.
The company’s much maligned throttling efforts drew nationwide scorn when they came to light in 2017, stunning consumers (...)
plainte
Apple, U.S. states reach $113 million settlement on iPhone throttling - 19 novembre 2020
OAKLAND, Calif., Nov 18 (Reuters) - Apple Inc will pay $113 million to settle allegations from 33 U.S. states and the District of Columbia that it slowed down iPhones to mask battery issues and get users to purchase new devices, state officials announced on Wednesday.
The deal with a coalition led by Arizona, (...)
