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La science des jeux sociaux - 13 mars 2012
Les jeux sur réseaux sociaux, qui réunissent des centaines de millions d’utilisateurs chaque mois, constituent une mine de données pour les concepteurs. D’après le site spécialisé App Data, près de 246 millions de joueurs s’adonnaient en février aux applications ludiques de Zynga ; les concurrents Wooga et Electronic Arts (...)
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Worst But First : Yahoo Uses Words of Facebook’s Zuckerberg to Poke Him in Patent Lawsuit - 13 mars 2012
On the sixth page of its just-filed patent lawsuit against Facebook, Yahoo quotes the social networking company’s CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg :
"Getting there first is not what it’s all about."
The quote, which Yahoo contends shows Zuckerberg has "conceded that the design of Facebook is not novel and based (...)
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« Utiliser Google implique des contreparties » - 13 mars 2012
Olivier Laurelli, alias Bluetouff, est blogueur, cofondateur du webzine Reflets.info et spécialiste en réseaux et sécurité informatique au sein de Bearstech. Il s’est ému sur son blog Bluetouff.com de la naïveté de certains utilisateurs de Google.
Pourquoi si peu d’internautes se soucient des informations que Google (...)
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Google’s privacy policy ’too vague’ - 9 mars 2012
UK data protection boss David Smith concerned how Google is sharing information between mail, calendar, call logs and searches
Google’s privacy policy is too vague for users to control how their information is shared, according to Britain’s data protection boss.
In his first public comments since Google’s revised (...)
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Nos tweets vendus. De quel droit ? - 8 mars 2012
Twitter permet la vente des messages partagés par ses utilisateurs. En autorisant des sociétés privées à les exploiter, l’entreprise pose la question du statut juridique de nos tweets. Un imbroglio juridique éclairci ici.
La semaine dernière, tombait cette nouvelle consternante que le chant des oiseaux pouvait être (...)
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As Google acts, the question is : have we lost our privacy to the internet ? - 5 mars 2012
Google unveiled its new policy on protecting personal information, to a chorus of disapproval last week. As
alarm grows over how much data we are handing over to large companies that mine it for profit, Joss Wright and
Tom Chatfield lock horns over how worried we should be
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Facebook in new row over sharing users’ data with moderators - 3 mars 2012
New information about Facebook’s outsourced moderation process shows that the social network shares more personal information with moderators than it has so far acknowledged.
The social network was criticized last week after gossip site Gawker exposed it as employing third-party content moderators in the (...)
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Google met en place ses nouvelles règles de confidentialité - 2 mars 2012
Le groupe du moteur de recherche Google met en application, jeudi 1er mars, les nouvelles règles de confidentialité pour l’ensemble de ses services en ligne. La firme de Mountain View a suscité l’inquiétude des autorités de protection de la vie privée en Europe et du Congrès américain, après l’annonce de cette refonte, (...)
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EU justice chief warns Google over ’sneaking’ citizens’ privacy away - 2 mars 2012
Viviane Reding says there are ’doubts’ over legality of internet giant’s move as French authorities open EU-wide investigation
The European commissioner of justice, Viviane Reding, has delivered a stinging rebuke to Google over changes to its privacy policy, warning that "we aren’t playing games here" and pointing (...)
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Google ’sneaking away citizens’ privacy’ says EU commissioner - 2 mars 2012
Google is "sneaking" citizens’ privacy away with its new policies and appears to be ignoring data protection treaties, the European commissioner of justice has said.
Viviane Reding delivered a stinging rebuke to Google over changes to its privacy policy, saying she had doubt over whether it was legal.
Warning (...)
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Thoughts on Google’s Policy changes - 1er mars 2012
Last month, within thirty seconds of the BBC publishing a quotation from me on the latest round of the nymwars and Google+, my phone rang. Caller ID indicated that it was someone I know who works at Google. "Had I said something wrong ?" was my first thought. I quickly retraced in my mind what it was that I had (...)
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Google privacy changes ’in breach of EU law’ - 1er mars 2012
Changes made by Google to its privacy policy are in breach of European law, the EU’s justice commissioner has said.
Viviane Reding told the BBC that authorities found that "transparency rules have not been applied".
The policy change, implemented on Thursday, means private data collected by one Google service can (...)
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Google Android users ’must accept new privacy policy’ - 1er mars 2012
Millions of Britons who use Google smartphones are unable to avoid radical and "invasive" changes to the firm’s privacy policy, it has emerged.
The news has prompted a privacy campaigner to sue for the £400 cost of his device. Alex Hanff, from Lancaster, has filed a test claim at the small claims court in the hope (...)
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Google ’fails to meet EU rules’ on new privacy policy - 29 février 2012
Google’s new privacy policy may violate the European Union’s data protection laws, according to the French data regulator.
The search giant plans to unify 60 different privacy policies across its products from 1 March.
But EU regulators had urged a "pause" so they could analyse the changes.
The French regulator, (...)
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Google privacy overhaul ’unlawful’, say regulators - 28 février 2012
Google new privacy policy, which comes into force tomorrow, may be illegal and should be suspended, European privacy regulators have said.
The European Commission’s data protection advisors expressed "strong doubts" about the lawfulness of Google’s new privacy policy. Google said last month it will introduce a new, (...)
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France Says Google Privacy Plan Likely Violates European Law - 28 février 2012
The French data protection authority said Tuesday that Google’s new privacy policy appeared to violate European Union law, raising the stakes in a showdown with the company only days before it planned to put the new system into effect.
Google announced the new policy last month, billing it as a way to streamline (...)
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Les nouvelles règles de confidentialité de Google soulèvent des inquiétudes - 28 février 2012
La CNIL a été désignée par les CNIL européennes pour mener l’analyse des nouvelles règles de confidentialité de Google. L’analyse préliminaire montre que ces nouvelles règles ne respectent pas les exigences de la Directive européenne sur la protection des données (95/46/CE) en termes d’information des personnes concernées. De (...)
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Facebook angrily denies spying on Android texts - 27 février 2012
Facebook has angrily denied claims that it spies on smartphone users’ text messages and accused a Sunday newspaper of "creative conspiracy theorizing" .
A report in The Sunday Times said Facebook had "admitted reading text messages" via its Android app.
Today Facebook countered that the terms and conditions of (...)
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Inside Facebook’s Outsourced Anti-Porn and Gore Brigade, Where "˜Camel Toes’ are More Offensive Than "˜Crushed Heads’ - 22 février 2012
Amine Derkaoui, a 21-year-old Moroccan man, is pissed at Facebook. Last year he spent a few weeks training to screen illicit Facebook content through an outsourcing firm, for which he was paid a measly $1 an hour. He’s still fuming over it.
"It’s humiliating. They are just exploiting the third world," Derkaoui (...)
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Les règles de modération de Facebook révélées - 22 février 2012
Où se situe la limite entre art et pornographie, entre discours politique et apologie de la violence, entre une plaisanterie et une menace d’attentat ? Pour Facebook, ces questions ont une importance primordiale : le premier réseau social au monde procède en effet à une modération des contenus qui lui sont signalés par (...)
