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Comment Ant Group, le bras financier d’Alibaba, a révolutionné la finance en Chine - 27 octobre 2020
L’entreprise s’apprête à lever 35 milliards de dollars à Hongkong et Shanghaï, soit la plus importante introduction en Bourse de l’histoire.
Jack Ma aime les records. Alibaba, le géant chinois de l’e-commerce qu’il a fondé, en avait établi un premier, en 2014, en levant 25 milliards de dollars (21 milliards d’euros) à Wall (...)
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America’s Toxic Love Affair With Technology - 26 octobre 2020
Major inventions cause major upheaval. Why don’t we take precautions ?
America has long carried on a great love affair with technological progress. But the truth is that really big inventions—the printing press, the internal-combustion engine, the internet—have both upsides and downsides. They make new things (...)
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Ukraine’s controversial cybersecurity deal with Huawei - 25 octobre 2020
From the U.S. to Europe, the Chinese telecoms giant is facing sanctions and suspicion — but Kyiv is playing a different game
Governments across Europe are showing Huawei the door, but Ukraine is following a different path, entering into a new cybersecurity deal with the Chinese telecoms giant.
The new partnership (...)
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La 5G, un gouffre énergétique programmé - 24 octobre 2020
Si le monde ultraconnecté promis par la 5G suscite un débat intense et si les doutes sur ses dangers sanitaires appellent des études approfondiees, la réalité de son coût énergétique mérite, selon l’auteur de cette tribune, une analyse détaillée.
En septembre 2019, le think-tank Idate DigiWorld, leader européen de l’économie (...)
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Data Leviathan : China’s Burgeoning Surveillance State - 22 octobre 2020
Classical totalitarianism, in which the state controls all institutions and most aspects of public life, largely died with the Soviet Union, apart from a few holdouts such as North Korea. The Chinese Communist Party retained a state monopoly in the political realm but allowed a significant private economy to (...)
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The Perfect Dictatorship - 21 octobre 2020
The Chinese system is like no other known to man, now or in history. This book explains how the system works and where it may be moving.
Drawing on Chinese and international sources, on extensive collaboration with Chinese scholars, and on the political science of state analysis, the author concludes that under (...)
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China : Police ‘Big Data’ Systems Violate Privacy, Target Dissent - 21 octobre 2020
Automated Systems Track People Authorities Claim ‘Threatening’
(New York) – The Chinese government should stop building big data policing platforms that aggregate and analyze massive amounts of citizens’ personal information, Human Rights Watch said today. This abusive “Police Cloud” system is designed to track and (...)
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Censored : Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall - 21 octobre 2020
As authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for controlling information, many observers have predicted that these controls would be ineffective because they are easily thwarted and evaded by savvy Internet users. In Censored, Margaret Roberts demonstrates that even censorship (...)
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Chine : l’intelligence artificielle, porte d’entrée de la dictature de surveillance ? - 20 octobre 2020
Dans leur livre (voir notre critique), La nouvelle guerre des étoiles, les journalistes Vincent Coquaz et Ismaël Halissat consacraient tout un chapitre a minimiser l’horizon du crédit social chinois, pour l’instant bien plus expérimental, local et fluctuant qu’on le croit souvent. Effectivement, comme le pointe l’un des (...)
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Dictature 2.0 - 20 octobre 2020
Quand la Chine surveille son peuple (et demain le monde)
Aujourd’hui naît en Chine un régime comme le monde n’en a jamais vu. Une néo-dictature entièrement remodelée par les armes du XXIe siècle, les nouvelles technologies. Il est temps de nous en inquiéter.
« Au-dessus de lui, il n’y a plus que le ciel » : Xi Jinping (...)
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‘Machines set loose to slaughter’ : the dangerous rise of military AI - 15 octobre 2020
Autonomous machines capable of deadly force are increasingly prevalent in modern warfare, despite numerous ethical concerns. Is there anything we can do to halt the advance of the killer robots ?
The video is stark. Two menacing men stand next to a white van in a field, holding remote controls. They open the (...)
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Disinformation from China floods Taiwan’s most popular messaging app - 8 octobre 2020
A messaging tool called Line has been used to spread false information about Covid-19 and downplay reports of human rights abuses in China
Back in November 2018, Taiwan was targeted by a massive disinformation campaign. The aim of this effort, widely attributed to Beijing, was to influence midterm election (...)
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Ex-Chinese Government Official Was In Charge Of TikTok’s Content Moderation Policies, Report Says - 6 octobre 2020
A former Chinese government official was in charge of making decisions on what content should be allowed on TikTok, the Financial Times reported in a development that raises questions about the company’s previous claim that the Chinese government had no influence over its operations.
Digital Media Company ByteDance (...)
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EU companies selling surveillance tools to China’s human rights abusers - 3 octobre 2020
European tech companies risk fuelling widespread human rights abuses by selling digital surveillance technology to China’s public security agencies, a new Amnesty International investigation reveals. The findings are published ahead of a crucial meeting in Brussels on 22 September where the European Parliament and (...)
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Now You Can Use Instagram to Chat With Friends on Facebook Messenger - 3 octobre 2020
Facebook began integrating its Instagram and Messenger apps, allowing users of the services to directly communicate with each other.
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook began allowing people to use the photo-sharing app Instagram and the messaging app Messenger to communicate with each other on Wednesday, as part of a (...)
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Bataille géopolitique autour de la 5G par Evgeny Morozov - 30 septembre 2020
À la veille de son déploiement, la téléphonie mobile de cinquième génération — la 5G — suscite un flot de questions liées à son impact écologique, sanitaire et, plus fondamentalement, aux développements technologiques hors de contrôle. Mais le « grand jeu » de la 5G se mène aussi sur le terrain géopolitique avec, en toile de (...)
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Huawei infiltration in Uganda - 28 septembre 2020
Unwanted Witness, our partner organisation based in Uganda, explore critical questions around Huawei’s surveillance dealings with the Ugandan government raise. While Huawei’s relationship with the government raises concerns for human rights, many of these concerns remain unaddressed.
The Uganda government has a (...)
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Les enjeux géopolitiques de la 5G - 27 septembre 2020
Le débat relatif à la 5G, qui permettrait d’échanger sans temps de latence 14 à 20 fois plus de données que l’actuelle 4G, s’enflamme. Il se cristallise, notamment, autour des problématiques environnementales que soulève cette nouvelle technologie.
Cette question, évidemment essentielle, tend à monopoliser un débat qu’elle (...)
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A Chinese city withdraws ’civility code’ following online criticism - 24 septembre 2020
Despite censorship, criticism of the plan flooded Chinese social media
Building upon the successful implementation of its “health code” system in restricting citizens’ movement during COVID-19 pandemic, Suzhou — a Chinese city near Shanghai — attempted to launch a “civility code” in early September to rank citizens’ (...)
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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 (...)
