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Exploitation des données, manipulation de l’opinion, culte du secret… La trahison des GAFA - 21 décembre 2020
Il y a encore quelques années, Mark Zuckerberg était considéré comme un génie, Google comme l’une des entreprises les plus cool au monde… et puis la confiance s’est perdue. L’avidité des géants de la tech semble avoir eu raison des valeurs des pionniers du numérique : liberté, innovation et progrès.
Deux jours d’audience de (...)
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Russian Hackers Have Been Inside Austin Network for Months - 18 décembre 2020
Russia appears to have used Austin’s network as infrastructure to stage additional cyberattacks.
State-sponsored hackers believed to be from Russia have breached the city network of Austin, Texas, The Intercept has learned. The breach, which appears to date from at least mid-October, adds to the stunning array of (...)
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Thousands of contracts highlight quiet ties between Big Tech and U.S. military - 12 juillet 2020
The report offers a new window into the relationship between tech companies and the U.S. government, as well as an important detail about why such contracts are often difficult to find.
Over the past two years, thousands of tech company employees have taken a stand : they do not want their labor and technical (...)
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I Was Google’s Head of International Relations. Here’s Why I Left. - 2 janvier 2020
The company’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil.” Things have changed.
When I walked out the door on my last day as Google’s Head of International Relations, I couldn’t help but think of my first day at the company. I had exchanged a wood-paneled office, a suit and tie, and the job of wrestling California’s bureaucracy (...)
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Silicon Valley : la révolte des tech workers est-elle possible ? - 24 décembre 2019
Habitués jusqu’alors à faire profil bas, les cadres et les employés de la Silicon Valley prennent désormais la parole pour dénoncer les dérives et le manque d’engagement de leurs entreprises. Mais ces révoltés de la tech sont-ils vraiment en mesure de transformer leurs entreprises de l’intérieur ?
20 000 employés de Google (...)
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Google fired us for organizing. We’re fighting back. - 12 décembre 2019
We come from different offices. We have different roles, managers, and life stories. What brought us all together is that we’ve stepped up to help organize our colleagues, to work together for a better, safer, fairer, and more ethical workplace.
Google explicitly encourages us to pursue exactly these goals. The (...)
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Tech Workers Now Want to Know : What Are We Building This For ? - 9 décembre 2019
Jack Poulson, a Google research scientist, recently became alarmed by reports that the company was developing a search engine for China that would censor content on behalf of the government.
While Dr. Poulson works on search technologies, he had no knowledge of the product, which was code-named Dragonfly. So in a (...)
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Google Hires Firm Known for Anti-Union Efforts - 27 novembre 2019
After nearly two years of unrest, the company appears to be cracking down on employee activism.
Google has hired an anti-union consulting firm to advise management as it deals with widespread worker unrest, including accusations that it has retaliated against organizers of a global walkout and cracked down on (...)
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Google Accused of Creating Spy Tool to Squelch Worker Dissent - 27 novembre 2019
Company says it’s an effort to curb calendar, meeting spam
Allegation underscores tensions between employees, leadership
Google employees are accusing the company’s leadership of developing an internal surveillance tool that they believe will be used to monitor workers’ attempts to organize protests and discuss (...)
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Fronde chez Google : des employés contestataires licenciés - 27 novembre 2019
Les salariés dénoncent une « escalade dans la pratique de l’intimidation » par la direction de l’entreprise.
La fin de la culture de la transparence dans une entreprise qui en avait fait son signe distinctif ? Trois jours après la manifestation de salariés de Google devant les bureaux du groupe, à San Francisco, vendredi (...)
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Jeux vidéo, cinéma, médias, réseaux sociaux : comment la Chine étend sa censure en Occident - 11 novembre 2019
Les censeurs de Pékin ont accru leurs exigences depuis l’arrivée au pouvoir de Xi Jinping. Et trouvent du répondant dans de nombreuses firmes occidentales.
C’est un exemple récent parmi des dizaines d’autres. Le 8 octobre, Blizzard, l’éditeur américain de jeux vidéo à l’origine du très populaire Hearthstone, a annoncé (...)
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Google rejects plans to fight sexual harassment and boost diversity - 20 juin 2019
Board rejects all 13 shareholder proposals to address a range of issues even as workers protest outside event
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, failed to pass several proposals to address sexual harassment, antitrust issues and diversity policies at its annual shareholder meeting, despite hundreds of (...)
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Avec les objecteurs de conscience de la « tech » - 19 juin 2019
Après Amazon, c’est au tour de Google de voir son assemblée générale perturbée par des revendications éthiques portées par certains de ses salariés. Une rébellion qui a pris une ampleur nouvelle après l’élection de Donald Trump, fin 2016.
Ingénieure chez Google, Irene Knapp devait s’exprimer, mercredi 19 juin, devant (...)
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This Chinese Artist Criticized Google and Xi Jinping. Now He’s Facing Government Harassment. - 4 juin 2019
The messages arrived suddenly and then he went quiet. "My identity is leaked," he said. "I am worried about my safety."
The Chinese dissident artist Badiucao had been busy preparing an exhibition in Hong Kong to celebrate Free Expression Week, a series of events organized by rights groups. His show was partly (...)
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Google’s Censored Search Would Help China "Be More Open," Said Ex-CEO Eric Schmidt - 15 mai 2019
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has defended the company’s plan to build a censored version of its search engine in China.
In an interview with the BBC on Monday, Schmidt said that he wasn’t involved in decisions to build the censored search platform, code-named Dragonfly. But he insisted that there were "many (...)
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Google employees call for removal of rightwing thinktank leader from AI council - 3 avril 2019
Staffers criticized the appointment of Heritage Foundation president Kay Coles James in a letter published on Monday
A group of Google employees have called for the removal of a rightwing thinktank leader from the company’s new artificial intelligence council, citing her anti-LGBT and anti-immigrant record. (...)
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Google employees are lining up to trash Google’s AI ethics council - 2 avril 2019
The independent council was meant to help Google’s public image, but the blowback shows just how fraught"”and politicized"”use of AI is becoming.
Almost a thousand Google staff, academic researchers, and other tech industry figures have signed a letter protesting the makeup of an independent council that Google (...)
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Google Employees Call on Company to Kick Heritage Foundation Ghoul Off AI Ethics Board - 2 avril 2019
Google announced the formation of a global council on technology ethics last week to some deserved trepidation. Sure, the company had amassed some highly qualified individuals to fill seats on this board"”but Google’s track record of following its own internal ethics codes is less than spotless.
What provoked the (...)
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Google Is Conducting a Secret "Performance Review" of Its Censored China Search Project - 27 mars 2019
Google executives are carrying out a secret internal assessment of work on a censored search engine for China, The Intercept has learned.
A small group of top managers at the internet giant are conducting a "performance review" of the controversial effort to build the search platform, known as Dragonfly, which (...)
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Google n’aurait pas vraiment arrêté de travailler sur son moteur de recherche censuré pour la Chine - 6 mars 2019
Des modifications récentes dans du code informatique laissent à penser que Google n’a pas tout à fait abandonné son projet controversé de moteur de recherche censuré pour la Chine.
Google a-t-il vraiment mis un terme au projet Dragonfly (libellule en anglais), nom de code donné au projet de moteur de recherche censuré (...)
