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Relevant content - Twitter’s algorithm does not seem to silence conservatives - 15 août 2020
The platform’s recommendation engine appears to favour inflammatory tweets
SINCE LAUNCHING a policy on “misleading information” in May, Twitter has clashed with President Donald Trump. When he described mail-in ballots as “substantially fraudulent”, the platform told users to “get the facts” and linked to articles that (...)
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Creating the coronopticon - Countries are using apps and data networks to keep tabs on the pandemic - 8 mai 2020
And also, in the process, their citizens
HAVING BEEN quarantined at his parents’ house in the Hebei province in northern China for a month, Elvis Liu arrived back home in Hong Kong on February 23rd. Border officials told him to add their office’s number to his WhatsApp contacts and to fix the app’s location-sharing (...)
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A pandemic of power grabs - Autocrats see opportunity in disaster | Leaders | The Economist - 25 avril 2020
The world is distracted and the public need saving. It is a strongman’s dream
ALL THE world’s attention is on covid-19. Perhaps it was a coincidence that China chose this moment to tighten its control around disputed reefs in the South China Sea, arrest the most prominent democrats in Hong Kong and tear a hole in (...)
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A crystal ball for the NHS - Palantir, a data firm loved by spooks, teams up with Britain’s health service - 31 mars 2020
The contract to help stem covid-19 will cause a stir. But if the work is done in the open, it could be a boon
PALANTIR TAKES its name from crystal ball-like artefacts in the “Lord of the Rings” novels. The secretive Silicon Valley data-analysis company is used to working with governments. It carries out (...)
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Creating the coronopticon - Countries are using apps and data networks to keep tabs on the pandemic | Briefing | The Economist - 28 mars 2020
And also, in the process, their citizens
HAVING BEEN quarantined at his parents’ house in the Hebei province in northern China for a month, Elvis Liu arrived back home in Hong Kong on February 23rd. Border officials told him to add their office’s number to his WhatsApp contacts and to fix the app’s location-sharing (...)
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Companies should take California’s new data-privacy law seriously - 20 décembre 2019
The state’s sweeping online regulations come into force on January 1st
HISTORY DOES not repeat but sometimes it rhymes. So, it seems, do efforts to protect netizens’ privacy. The European Union led the world with its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into force in May 2018. That law shook up (...)
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The vile experiences of women in tech - 5 juillet 2019
THE TECHNOLOGY industry vaunts itself as a meritocracy. Yet it is roundly criticised for being unwelcoming to women, in ways large and small. In America, women hold just 25% of jobs in computing, and leave the tech and engineering sectors at twice the rate of men. The situation is worse for women of colour : black (...)
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Regulating the internet giants - The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data | Leaders | The Economist - 6 mai 2017
The data economy demands a new approach to antitrust rules
A NEW commodity spawns a lucrative, fast-growing industry, prompting antitrust regulators to step in to restrain those who control its flow. A century ago, the resource in question was oil. Now similar concerns are being raised by the giants that deal in (...)
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Look who’s listening - 17 juin 2013
America’s National Security Agency collects more information than most people thought. Will scrutiny spur change ?
THICK and fast they came at last, and more and more and more. On June 5th the Guardian, a British newspaper, reported that America’s National Security Agency (NSA) was collecting the telephone records (...)
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The data deluge - 3 octobre 2011
Businesses, governments and society are only starting to tap its vast potential
Eighteen months ago, Li & Fung, a firm that manages supply chains for retailers, saw 100 gigabytes of information flow through its network each day. Now the amount has increased tenfold. During 2009, American drone aircraft flying (...)
