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L’ère du féodalisme digital - 15 août 2020
Selon Ramon Blecua, la réaction à la pandémie pourrait accélérer l’apparition d’un nouveau féodalisme où les citoyens seraient en proie à l’arbitraire anarchique de nouveaux pouvoirs numériques, véritables seigneurs de guerre qui prospèrent sur la crise des États et du système multilatéral.
Le philosophe Dariush Shayegan a (...)
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Big Tech Makes Inroads With the Biden Campaign - 15 août 2020
While Joe Biden has criticized the largest tech companies, his campaign and transition teams have welcomed allies of Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple onto its staff and policy groups.
WASHINGTON — Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been critical of Big Tech, admonishing Facebook for mishandling misinformation and saying (...)
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An Unelected Monarch Is Shaping Our Public Life. His Name Is Mark Zuckerberg - 13 août 2020
The most important election this year has only one voter
If it’s not the single most powerful individual position in the world, it only has a few rivals. Think general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Or the Pope. Or chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Or maybe the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.
It’s a (...)
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The Trump campaign app is tapping a "gold mine" of data about Americans - 10 août 2020
President Trump’s campaign app is targeted to his most fervent supporters, but it is able to collect data about a swath of the American public far larger than his base.
The app requests access to significantly more information from each user’s phone than Joe Biden’s, and is on as many as 1.4 million devices, (...)
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Big Tech Earnings Surge as Economy Slumps - 1er août 2020
Here’s what you need to know :
Amazon’s earnings double as sales surge.
Alphabet’s revenue drops, but beats Wall Street expectations.
Ford made $1.1 billion profit in the second quarter even as sales tumbled.
Apple blows past expectations with surging sales and profits.
The U.S. economy’s contraction in the (...)
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Why the tech giants may suffer lasting pain from their Hill lashing - 30 juillet 2020
Lawmakers investigating Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple made it clear that their allegations of antitrust abuses come with a lengthy paper trail.
Wednesday’s much-anticipated antitrust hearing subjected four of the tech industry’s most powerful CEOs to hours of aggressive questioning by Republicans and Democrats (...)
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Lawmakers, United in Their Ire, Lash Out at Big Tech’s Leaders - 30 juillet 2020
The chiefs of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook faced withering questions from Democrats about anti-competitive practices and from Republicans about anti-conservative bias.
WASHINGTON — The chief executives of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook, four tech giants worth nearly $5 trillion combined, faced withering (...)
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If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention - 28 juillet 2020
Facebook and America are now indivisible, says the Observer journalist who broke the Cambridge Analytica scandal – and the world is a sicker place for it
In 2016, we didn’t know. We were innocent. We still believed social media connected us and that connections were good. That technology equalled progress. And (...)
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Down the rabbit hole : how QAnon conspiracies thrive on Facebook - 25 juillet 2020
Guardian investigation finds more than 3m aggregate followers and members support QAnon on Facebook, and their numbers are growing
In early May, QAnon braced for a purge. Facebook had removed a small subset – five pages, six groups and 20 profiles – of the community on the social network, and as word of the bans (...)
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Tous exposés après le “Grand Hack de Twitter” - 22 juillet 2020
Ce n’était qu’une petite arnaque au bitcoin. Mais le piratage de comptes de célébrités, hommes d’affaires et politiciens dans la soirée du 15 juillet a révélé notre immense vulnérabilité numérique, analyse le Financial Times.
Ce n’est peut-être pas le piratage du siècle mais le détournement des comptes d’Elon Musk, Bill Gates, (...)
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How Facebook’s Political Unit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda - 19 juillet 2020
Some of unit’s clients stifle opposition, stoke extremism.
Under fire for Facebook Inc.’s role as a platform for political propaganda, co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has punched back, saying his mission is above partisanship. “We hope to give all people a voice and create a platform for all ideas,” Zuckerberg wrote in (...)
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Brad Parscale, le sorcier numérique de Trump - 19 juillet 2020
Donald Trump, en chute dans les sondages depuis le printemps 2020 après sa gestion catastrophique de la pandémie, s’est séparé de son directeur de campagne Brad Parscale quatre mois avant l’élection de novembre. Au centre du système Trump, il a été celui qui a tout misé sur le numérique et la puissance de Facebook dans la (...)
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Technology Theatre - 17 juillet 2020
When the public is focusing on a technology instead of a holistic solution to address complex policy issues, technology theatre is working.
On June 18, 2020, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada would join the ranks of governments launching a mobile contact-tracing application as part of the (...)
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Cambridge Analytica, big data et gros dégâts - 16 juillet 2020
L’entreprise britannique spécialisée dans le marketing politique promet monts, merveilles et prospérité aux politiques, grâce au microciblage de leurs électeurs, via les données personnelles. Donald Trump et les brexiters en auraient profité.
Jusqu’à la fin de l’année 2016, seuls les familiers du « big data » (traitement (...)
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Gates, Musk and Other Top Tech Figures Get Twitter Accounts Hacked - 16 juillet 2020
In a major show of force, hackers breached some of the site’s most prominent accounts, a Who’s Who of Americans in politics, entertainment and tech.
It was about 4 in the afternoon on Wednesday on the East Coast when chaos struck online. Dozens of the biggest names in America — including Joseph R. Biden Jr., Barack (...)
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Piratage massif au bitcoin de comptes Twitter aux Etats-Unis - 16 juillet 2020
Des personnalités, parmi les plus influentes au monde, ont été visées mercredi par un piratage massif et inédit aux cryptomonnaies de leurs comptes Twitter.
Piratage massif au bitcoin de comptes Twitter aux Etats-Unis
Le message est apparu en fin d’après-midi, mercredi, sur le compte Twitter de l’ancien (...)
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Data and Elections - 5 juillet 2020
Democratic engagement is increasingly mediated by digital technology, from campaigning to election results transmission. These technologies rely on collecting, storing, and analysing personal information to operate. They raise novel issues and challenges for all electoral stakeholders on how to protect our data (...)
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« Le boycott de Facebook par les annonceurs rebat les cartes de l’industrie publicitaire » - 3 juillet 2020
L’économiste Rémi Devaux montre, dans une tribune au « Monde », que la suspension des publicités sur le réseau social signe la revanche du contenu des médias sur le ciblage et l’hyperpersonnalisation publicitaire.
Tribune. Le 26 juin, dix-neuf annonceurs majeurs, dont Coca-Cola, Honda, Ben & Jerry’s et Verizon, ont (...)
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There’s a War Going On Over Kamala Harris’s Wikipedia Page, with Unflattering Elements Vanishing - 3 juillet 2020
California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris is widely seen as a frontrunner for a spot on the ticket with presumptive nominee Joe Biden, with vetting well underway.
Presidential vetting operations have entire teams of investigators, but for the public, when the pick is announced, the most common source for (...)
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Why we’re concerned about profiling and micro-targeting in elections. - 30 juin 2020
There is now an ecosystem that drives voter profiling and targeted messages, often known as micro-targeting, that accompany modern political campaigning globally. The targeted ad-supported internet is made up of thousands of companies that track and profile us all 24 hours a day- not just during election time. (...)
