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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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Recours contre le renseignement : compte-rendu de notre audience devant la Cour de Justice de l’Union européenne - 16 octobre 2019
Les 9 et 10 septembre, La Quadrature était aux côtés de Privacy International, FDN, FFDN, igwan.net, et le Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) pour plaider devant la Cour de Justice de l’Union européenne (CJUE), contre le régime français de conservation généralisée des données de connexion et loi Renseignement. (...)
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What You Don’t Know About How Facebook Uses Your Data - 11 avril 2018
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, went to Capitol Hill this week to explain to members of Congress how the detailed personal information of up to 87 million Facebook users ended up in the hands of a voter-profiling company called Cambridge Analytica.
What Mr. Zuckerberg got instead, as he testified (...)
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Parents don’t want children’s information collected on the Internet, poll finds - 6 décembre 2012
Parents overwhelmingly say they object to the collection of personal information on children over the Internet, according to a new poll released just before federal officials are set to vote on a controversial proposal to strengthen child privacy laws.
According to a survey released Thursday by child-advocacy (...)
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Privacy groups call for Facebook changes U-turn - 27 novembre 2012
Two US privacy groups have asked Facebook to reconsider proposed changes to its terms of service that they say violate commitments to protect users.
The social network plans to end user voting on its privacy policy, and allow the sharing of information across its services.
Facebook is also planning to get rid of (...)
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Your Online Attention, Bought in an Instant - 18 novembre 2012
You can be sold in seconds.
No, wait : make that milliseconds.
The odds are that access to you "” or at least the online you "” is being bought and sold in less than the blink of an eye. On the Web, powerful algorithms are sizing you up, based on myriad data points : what you Google, the sites you visit, the ads (...)
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FTC Complaints Accuse McDonald’s, General Mills and Others of Collecting Kids’ Data - 23 août 2012
A coalition of advocacy groups filed complaints to the Federal Trade Commission claiming that a number of marketers’ websites are violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. But some of the accused marketers said that the coalition doesn’t understand the law.
The groups contend that the marketers are (...)
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FTC Asked to Stop Viral Advertising Promotions Aimed at Kids - 23 août 2012
Children’s health and privacy groups asked the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to investigate what they called the "commercial exploitation" of youths through well-known companies’ online, viral advertising promotions.
At issue are the so-called "tell-a-friend" features embedded in child-focused advertising (...)
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Groups ask FTC to investigate McDonald’s, General Mills over kids’ privacy law - 22 août 2012
Several privacy and children’s advocacy groups have written to the Federal Trade Commission asking the agency to investigate large companies such as McDonald’s and General Mills for using marketing techniques they say violate the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The letter also names Doctor’s (...)
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Web Sites Accused of Collecting Data on Children - 22 août 2012
A coalition of nearly 20 children’s advocacy, health and public interest groups plans to file complaints with the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday, asserting that some online marketing to children by McDonald’s and four other well-known companies violates a federal law protecting children’s privacy.
The law, (...)
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You for Sale : Mapping, and Sharing, the Consumer Genome - 16 juin 2012
It knows who you are. It knows where you live. It knows what you do.
It peers deeper into American life than the F.B.I. or the I.R.S., or those prying digital eyes at Facebook and Google. If you are an American adult, the odds are that it knows things like your age, race, sex, weight, height, marital status, (...)
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U.S. Agency Seeks Tougher Consumer Privacy Rules - 27 mars 2012
The government’s chief consumer protection agency said on Monday that it intended to take direct aim at the vast industry that has grown up around the buying and selling of information about American consumers.
The agency, the Federal Trade Commission, called on Congress to enact legislation regulating so-called (...)
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La Federal Trade Commission veut améliorer la confidentialité sur le Web - 27 mars 2012
La Federal Trade Commission (FTC), régulateur états-unien du commerce, s’est prononcée dans un rapport, publié lundi 26 mars, pour des mesures qui permettent plus facilement aux internautes qui le souhaitent que leurs données personnelles ne soient pas "tracées".
Par trois voix contre une, la FTC a recommandé aux (...)
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Google user data to be merged across all sites under contentious plan - 25 janvier 2012
New privacy policy means Google could log browsing habits on YouTube or Google+ to sell targeted ads in Gmail or search
Google is under fire for plans to collect data on individual users across all of its websites and merge the information into a single profile that can be used to alter the person’s search results (...)
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Facebook : la FTC sommée d’enquêter sur la Timeline - 10 janvier 2012
Aux USA, l’Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) a envoyé un courrier à la Federal Trade Commission (FTC) pour demander à l’organisme d’enquêter sur une possible violation de la vie privée liée à la nouvelle Timeline de Facebook, qui fait remonter des informations jusque-là enfuies dans le compte de l’utilisateur.
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Consumer Groups Welcome Bipartisan Privacy Effort, But Warn Kerry-McCain Bill Insufficient to Protect Consumers’ Online Privacy - 13 avril 2011
A coalition of consumer groups and privacy advocates welcomed the bipartisan effort by Senators John Kerry and John McCain to craft online privacy legislation today, but said their bill needs to be significantly strengthened if it is to effectively protect consumer privacy rights in today’s digital marketplace.
In (...)
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Kerry et McCain proposent une loi sur la vie privée en ligne - 13 avril 2011
Deux des plus influents sénateurs américains, les anciens candidats à la présidentielle John Kerry et John McCain, ont présenté mardi un projet de loi visant à créer une charte du droit à la confidentialité des internautes.
"Protéger les informations personnelles et privées des Américains est vital pour que l’ère de (...)
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Obama Internet kill switch plan approved by US Senate - 25 juin 2010
President could get power to turn off Internet
A US Senate committee has approved a wide-ranging cybersecurity bill that some critics have suggested would give the US president the authority to shut down parts of the Internet during a cyberattack.
Senator Joe Lieberman and other bill sponsors have refuted the (...)
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Facebook va devoir s’expliquer devant la justice américaine - 19 décembre 2009
Aux Etats-Unis, des associations de défense des libertés sur Internet accuse Facebook de violation de la vie privée. Et ce, malgré les récentes mesures prises censées protéger les données personnelles sur le réseau social.
Facebook a récemment modifié les règles de confidentialité pour ses membres, provoquant quelques (...)
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Google se met à la publicité comportementale sans vraiment donner le choix - 13 mars 2009
Google teste sur Youtube et sur les sites de ses partenaires une technologie qui permet de personnaliser les messages publicitaires en fonction des sites visités par les internautes. Bémol : pour échapper au ciblage, l’utilisateur devra lui-même désactiver ses cookies.
Google lance en version bêta une technologie qui (...)
