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Forced Arbitration Thwarts Legal Challenge to AT&T’s Disclosure of Customer Location Data - 16 avril 2021
Location data generated from our cell phones paint an incredibly detailed picture of our movements and private lives. Despite the sensitive nature of this data and a federal law prohibiting cellphone carriers from disclosing it, repeated unauthorized disclosures over the last several years show that carriers will (...)
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Big Tech Critics Alarmed at Direction of Biden Antitrust Personnel - 19 janvier 2021
Renata Hesse, who has worked for Google and Amazon, is the leading candidate to run the Justice Department’s antitrust division.
A last-minute campaign by a coalition of groups working to check monopoly is being launched to stave off what they worry could be a series of calamitous antitrust appointments by (...)
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Lobbyists Hired for Top Jobs in Congress Yet Again - 13 janvier 2021
Special interests and corporations will see familiar voices when visiting legislators.
Beyond the headlines around the unprecedented storming of Capitol Hill by rampagers and violent extremists, a more mundane group of Washington, D.C., insiders is trickling into the halls of government.
The newly elected (...)
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The Long, Unhappy History of Working From Home - 10 décembre 2020
As the coronavirus keeps spreading, employers are convinced remote work has a bright future. Decades of setbacks suggest otherwise.
Three months after the coronavirus pandemic shut down offices, corporate America has concluded that working from home is working out. Many employees will be tethered to Zoom and (...)
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NSA Spying - 5 octobre 2020
What is the NSA domestic spying program ?
In October 2001, President Bush issued a secret presidential order authorizing the NSA to conduct a range of surveillance activities inside of the United States without statutory authorization or court approval, including electronic surveillance of Americans’ telephone and (...)
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Portland’s Face-Recognition Ban Is a New Twist on ‘Smart Cities’ - 28 septembre 2020
The first big US city to prohibit private businesses from using the technology reflects rising skepticism of new tools and concerns about fairness.
Portland’s 2016 entry for a $50 million federal contest called the Smart City Challenge described a Pacific Northwest tech-topia. It promised autonomous shuttles, (...)
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AT&T’s current 5G is slower than 4G in nearly every city tested by PCMag - 9 septembre 2020
AT&T phones often get just 5MHz of 5G spectrum, slowing them down in speed tests.
AT&T smartphone users who see their network indicators switch from "4G" to "5G" shouldn’t necessarily expect that they’re about to get faster speeds. In PCMag’s annual mobile-network testing, released today, 5G phones connected (...)
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Court Approves Warrantless Surveillance Rules While Scolding F.B.I. - 7 septembre 2020
The release of a newly declassified ruling follows a separate decision by an appeals court that a defunct National Security Agency program was illegal.
WASHINGTON — The nation’s surveillance court found that the F.B.I. had committed “widespread violations” of rules intended to protect Americans’ privacy when analysts (...)
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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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The (non)sense of online advertising : when the numbers don’t add up - 1er juin 2020
The digital advertising industry, worth hundreds of billions of dollars annually, is often plagued by widespread fraud, dubious metrics, and adblockers. Turns out that in a world of maths and numbers, measuring anything accurately is almost impossible.
On 29 January 2017, the American online advertising world (...)
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Government Tracking How People Move Around in Coronavirus Pandemic - 29 mars 2020
WASHINGTON—Government officials across the U.S. are using location data from millions of cellphones in a bid to better understand the movements of Americans during the coronavirus pandemic and how they may be affecting the spread of the disease.
The federal government, through the Centers for Disease Control and (...)
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Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon Should Suspend Data Caps Because of Coronavirus - VICE - 23 mars 2020
ISPs have spent years imposing unnecessary and expensive broadband caps to make an extra buck. With a looming public health crisis, telecom experts say it’s time to suspend them.
For years, US broadband providers have taken advantage of a lack of US competition by imposing arbitrary and expensive broadband usage (...)
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Grindr and OkCupid Spread Personal Details, Study Says - 14 janvier 2020
Popular dating services like Grindr, OkCupid and Tinder are spreading user information like dating choices and precise location to advertising and marketing companies in ways that may violate privacy laws, according to a new report that examined some of the world’s most downloaded Android apps.
Grindr, the world’s (...)
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« Data brokers », la main invisible du marché - 10 janvier 2020
Quelles sont les conséquences en matière de contrôle social quand votre nom se retrouve dans une base de données informatiques ?
Le chapitre qui suit est issu du livre du journaliste Olivier Tesquet, « À la trace-Enquête sur les nouveaux territoires de la surveillance », qui paraît ce 9 janvier 2020 aux éditions Premier (...)
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They Know What You Watched Last Night - 26 octobre 2019
A spate of streaming services are on their way from major tech and entertainment companies, promising viewers a trove of binge-worthy new shows and movies.
There’s something for advertisers, too : your personal data.
Recent deals involving the media conglomerate AT&T, the streaming device seller Roku, the (...)
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GAFA : « Rendre la propriété et le contrôle de leurs données aux clients » - 22 octobre 2019
Pas plus puissants que les stars boursières du XXe siècle, les mastodontes du numérique se distinguent par leur usage extensif des données des utilisateurs, leur principal carburant. C’est donc sur ce levier qu’il est le plus urgent d’agir, estime Philippe Escande, éditorialiste économique au « Monde ».
Pertes et (...)
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Face à la domination des GAFA, les défis du démantèlement - 22 octobre 2019
De Washington à la Silicon Valley, les appels à « casser » Google, Amazon, Facebook et Apple se multiplient. Mais un tel découpage pose de nombreuses questions juridiques, politiques... et pratiques.
« Break them up ! », « Démantelons-les » : le mot d’ordre se répand. Si l’Union européenne (UE) a imposé aux géants (...)
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Pourquoi Google est dans le collimateur de 50 procureurs américains - 10 septembre 2019
Les procureurs ont annoncé l’ouverture d’une enquête antitrust contre l’entreprise, accusée de dominer tous les aspects de la publicité et de la recherche sur Internet.
La mise en scène a été soignée. Les procureurs des Etats fédérés se tenaient, lundi 9 septembre, à Washington, devant les colonnes de la Cour suprême des (...)
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Thanks to Facebook, Your Cellphone Company Is Watching You More Closely Than Ever - 21 mai 2019
Among the mega-corporations that surveil you, your cellphone carrier has always been one of the keenest monitors, in constant contact with the one small device you keep on you at almost every moment. A confidential Facebook document reviewed by The Intercept shows that the social network courts carriers, along (...)
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Dix ans de prison pour avoir volé des millions de dollars en usurpant des numéros de téléphone - 8 février 2019
En 2018, les autorités américaines ont arrêté plusieurs hommes suspectés d’avoir volé des millions de dollars en s’appuyant sur le « SIM swapping », une forme d’usurpation d’identité.
La pratique est connue depuis longtemps, mais elle va être condamnée par la justice pour la première fois. Fin janvier, le citoyen américain (...)
