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China has started ranking citizens with a creepy ’social credit’ system "” here’s what you can do wrong, and the embarrassing, demeaning ways they can punish you - 22 mai 2018
The Chinese state is setting up a vast ranking system system that will monitor the behaviour of its enormous population, and rank them all based on their "social credit."
The "social credit system," first announced in 2014, aims to reinforce the idea that "keeping trust is glorious and breaking trust is (...)
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Microsoft Gave Data on Charlie Hebdo Probe to FBI in 45 Minutes - 21 janvier 2015
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT:US) handed the FBI data linked to the Charlie Hebdo probe within an hour of being asked, showing that the system can work and that extra snooping should only happen if strictly regulated, the company’s top lawyer said.
"Just two weeks ago, the French Government sought the content of e-mails (...)
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Tim Cook Q&A : The Full Interview on iPhone 6 and the Apple Watch - 22 septembre 2014
Tim Cook was jubilant. It was Sept. 10, a day after the introduction of the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch at the Flint Center in Cupertino, Calif., and Apple’s (AAPL) chief executive officer couldn’t have been happier about reactions from the audience and the media. Cook sat down for an hour-long chat with Bloomberg (...)
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Privacy Watchdog Seeks "˜Urgent’ Details of Facebook Changes - 23 novembre 2012
Irish regulators are seeking "urgent" clarifications from Facebook Inc. (FB) after the social media company informed users of changes to its privacy policy overnight.
Facebook, which is overseen by Irish data protection regulators in the European Union, said that it recently proposed changes to its data-use (...)
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Pandora Subpoenaed in Probe of Mobile-App Privacy Policies - 4 mai 2011
Pandora Media Inc., the largest Internet radio company, said it’s been asked for information as part of a federal grand-jury probe into the way smartphone software developers handle personal data.
Pandora isn’t a specific target of the investigation and similar subpoenas have been issued to other publishers of apps (...)
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How Baidu Won China - 11 novembre 2010
Many CEOs have admirers. Robin Li"”the 41-year-old, American-educated chief executive officer of the Chinese search engine Baidu"”has a fan club. And each year at the Baidu (BIDU) World conference in Beijing, the members of the Robin Li fan club come out to get close to the object of their worship.
On a late (...)
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AT&T Says Google-Verizon Internet Plan "˜Reasonable’ - 13 août 2010
AT&T Inc.’s wireless chief said he largely supports a proposal from Google Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. for Internet regulation that would exclude mobile Web services from most oversight.
The proposal is a "reasonable framework" for the industry and demonstrates that carriers and Internet companies (...)
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Apple Studies User Downloads to Fine-Tune Mobile Ads - 7 juillet 2010
July 6 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc., with a storehouse of billions of music, movie and software downloads, is studying the buying habits of many of its 150 million iTunes users to show more appealing mobile ads and fuel competition with Google Inc.
Through the iAd program that began last week, Apple started placing (...)
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Google Holds On to Disk in German Street View Probe - 28 mai 2010
May 27 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., the owner of the world’s largest search engine, hasn’t fully complied with a request for information on data it said was erroneously gathered for its Street View mapping service, a German regulator said.
Google hasn’t provided a hard drive the Hamburg Privacy Data Agent Johannes (...)
