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Inside Palantir, Silicon Valley’s Most Secretive Unicorn - 6 octobre 2020
Techie Software Soldier Spy Palantir, Big Data’s scariest, most secretive unicorn, is going public. But is its crystal ball just smoke and mirrors ?
Back in 2003, John Poindexter got a call from Richard Perle, an old friend from their days serving together in the Reagan administration. Perle, one of the architects (...)
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Google and Palantir Are Two Sides of the Same Coin - 5 octobre 2020
Both companies leverage vast amounts of data for unprecedented surveillance
If you know the name Palantir, you probably know that it’s associated with Peter Thiel, that it contracts with defense and law enforcement agencies, and that it works with data somehow, including data from surveillance systems. You might (...)
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Alex Karp, unconventional purveyor of powerful surveillance tools - 4 octobre 2020
Trained philosopher has brought controversial Silicon Valley firm Palantir to market
There is little of the conventional about Alex Karp, chief executive of Palantir, the Big Data company that has become a bête noire of privacy and civil liberties activists for its work for the national security establishment.
A (...)
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« Avec la cotation en Bourse de Palantir, c’est la science-fiction qui entre à Wall Street » - 2 octobre 2020
Du fait de ses performances financières, de son éthique et de sa gouvernance, le spécialiste américain de l’analyse de données ne devrait pas se retrouver sur un marché public, estime Philippe Escande, éditorialiste économique du « Monde ».
Pertes & profits. Dans le monde magique du Seigneur des anneaux, le palantir est (...)
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Dark Data - 1er octobre 2020
A practical guide to making good decisions in a world of missing data
In the era of big data, it is easy to imagine that we have all the information we need to make good decisions. But in fact the data we have are never complete, and may be only the tip of the iceberg. Just as much of the universe is composed of (...)
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Palantir Expected to Be Valued at Nearly $22 Billion in Trading Debut - 28 septembre 2020
Bankers have told investors stock could start trading at around $10, sources say
Palantir Technologies Inc. is expected to fetch a lofty valuation in its transition to a public company despite an unusually aggressive governance structure, in the latest sign of investors’ voracious appetite for new shares.
The (...)
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The Social Dilemma - 26 septembre 2020
The world has long recognized the positive applications of social media, from its role in empowering protesters to speak out against oppression during the Arab Spring uprisings almost a decade ago, to serving an instrumental role in fighting for equity and justice today. And in 2020, during an astonishing global (...)
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« Derrière nos écrans de fumée » : repenser le modèle économique des GAFAM - 26 septembre 2020
Le documentaire "Derrière nos écrans de fumée" décrypte la façon dont nos vies sont constamment surveillées et contrôlées par les géants de la technologie. Le modèle économique fondé sur la surveillance mis en place par Facebook et Google est par nature incompatible avec le droit à la vie privée et représente une menace (...)
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Big Data has allowed ICE to dramatically expand its deportation efforts. - 25 septembre 2020
A New Mexico man gets a call from federal child welfare officials. His teenage brother has arrived alone at the border after traveling 2,000 miles to escape a violent uncle in Guatemala. The officials ask him to take custody of the boy. He hesitates ; he is himself undocumented. The officials say not to worry. He (...)
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Internet : de la Pangée à la balkanisation - Ép. 4/4 - La gouvernance mondiale dans la tourmente - 24 septembre 2020
Pourquoi la régulation internationale d’Internet est-elle si diluée ? Qu’est-ce qui distingue les conceptions américaine et chinoise du réseau ? Sont-elles si diamétralement opposées ? Comment l’Europe peut-elle trouver sa place dans cette fragmentation ?
La souveraineté numérique. Cette expression, employée par Bruno Le (...)
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Facebook says it may quit Europe over ban on sharing data with US - 23 septembre 2020
EU court in July ruled there were insufficient safeguards against snooping by US intelligence agencies
Facebook has warned that it may pull out of Europe if the Irish data protection commissioner enforces a ban on sharing data with the US, after a landmark ruling by the European court of justice found in July (...)
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Facebook Says it Will Stop Operating in Europe If Regulators Don’t Back Down - 23 septembre 2020
European regulators are cracking down on Facebook’s ability to transfer data across the Atlantic. Now the tech giant is threatening to pull its services from more than 400 million European users.
Facebook has threatened to pack up its toys and go home if European regulators don’t back down and let the social (...)
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Données de santé : nouveau recours contre le Health Data Hub devant le Conseil d’Etat - 20 septembre 2020
Le Health Data Hub, lancé en décembre dernier, est une plate-forme regroupant des données de santé de Français à des fins de recherche. Il suscite depuis certaines craintes.
Le controversé projet Health Data Hub, cette plate-forme rassemblant des données de santé de Français à des fins de recherche, est à nouveau attaqué. (...)
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Le monde selon Zuckerberg - Portraits et préjudices - 19 septembre 2020
Rimbaud écrivait : « On n’est pas sérieux quand on a 17 ans ». Le web a trente ans, Facebook en a quinze. Les choses sérieuses commencent.
Qu’a-t-il pu se passer pour que tourne au cauchemar un ensemble de technologies et d’usages initialement pensés par leurs concepteurs comme autant de promesses émancipatrices ?
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Technoféodalisme - 19 septembre 2020
Au début des années 2020, le consensus de la Silicon Valley se délite. Inégalités folles, stagnation de la productivité, instabilité endémique… la nouvelle économie n’est pas advenue. Les algorithmes sont omniprésents, mais ce n’est pas pour autant que le capitalisme s’est civilisé. Au contraire.
La thèse de ce livre est (...)
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Algorithmic Governmentality and the Death of Politics - 19 septembre 2020
In recent years, the likes of the Cambridge Analytica scandal together with regulatory steps such as the EU’s GDPR data law have contributed to a swell in public awareness on the potential risks of big data and artificial intelligence. Privacy, however, is only the tip of the iceberg. We sat down with legal (...)
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Digital Contact Tracing is The New “Smart” Frontier of Urban Surveillance - 18 septembre 2020
As one of the most widely touted solutions for the coronavirus era, digital contact tracing has prompted intense praise and pushback alike, leading critics to warn of an impending "surveillance state". But this surveillance state is already here.
The ongoing pandemic, coupled with economic chaos and a (...)
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Apple’s New Privacy Settings Could Protect Us From Trackers. But Do We Care ? - 15 septembre 2020
Protecting our personal info is a lifestyle choice many of us aren’t making
“I am currently reading an article titled ‘10 Ways to Keep Sweaty Hands From Holding You Back,’” a man shouts from a toilet cubicle in Apple’s latest iPhone video. The ad is about a new feature in iOS 14 that blocks tracking cookies : bits of (...)
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Palantir filed to go public. The firm’s unethical technology should horrify us - 4 septembre 2020
Palantir powers Ice immigration raids, the defense sector and police surveillance. It is the big tobacco of the tech world
In 2017, the Trump administration first set its sights on a target it would return to repeatedly in the coming years : immigrant children.
Thousands of kids were crossing the border alone, (...)
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Technology has codified structural racism – will the EU tackle racist tech ? - 3 septembre 2020
The EU is preparing its ‘Action Plan’ to address structural racism in Europe. With digital high on the EU’s legislative agenda, it’s time we tackle racism perpetuated by technology, writes Sarah Chander.
Sarah Chander is a senior policy adviser at European Digital Rights (EDRi), a network of 44 digital rights (...)
