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Proposed New Internet Law in Mauritius Raises Serious Human Rights Concerns - 3 mai 2021
As debate continues in the U.S. and Europe over how to regulate social media, a number of countries—such as India and Turkey—have imposed stringent rules that threaten free speech, while others, such as Indonesia, are considering them. Now, a new proposal to amend Mauritius’ Information and Communications (...)
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Des outils existent déjà contre l’alternative aux cookies proposée par Google - 28 avril 2021
Pour remplacer les cookies tiers, Google propose une nouvelle technologie appelée FLoC. Bien qu’elle soit plus respectueuse de la vie privée (tout en permettant les expériences publicitaires personnalisées), elle est loin de faire l’unanimité.
Aujourd’hui, les cookies tiers sont considérés comme l’un des fléaux (...)
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Am I FLoCed ? - 20 avril 2021
Google is testing FLoC on Chrome users worldwide. Find out if you’re one of them.
Google is running a Chrome "origin trial" to test out an experimental new tracking feature called Federated Learning of Cohorts (aka "FLoC"). According to Google, the trial currently affects 0.5% of users in selected regions, (...)
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Forced Arbitration Thwarts Legal Challenge to AT&T’s Disclosure of Customer Location Data - 16 avril 2021
Location data generated from our cell phones paint an incredibly detailed picture of our movements and private lives. Despite the sensitive nature of this data and a federal law prohibiting cellphone carriers from disclosing it, repeated unauthorized disclosures over the last several years show that carriers will (...)
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Oklahoma Quietly Launched a Mass Surveillance Program to Track Uninsured Drivers - 8 avril 2021
Cash-strapped governments are turning to tech that converts cameras into automated license plate readers to penalize uninsured drivers
In March, the president of Rekor Systems Inc., Robert Berman, told investors that 2020 was a “transformative year.” The surveillance tech company’s platform, Rekor One, which (...)
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Dystopia Prime : Amazon Subjects Its Drivers to Biometric Surveillance - 7 avril 2021
Some high-tech surveillance is so dangerous to privacy that companies must never deploy it against a person without their voluntary opt-in consent. It comes as little surprise that Amazon, the company that brought you Ring doorbell cameras and Rekognition face surveillance, has a tenuous understanding of both (...)
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553,000,000 Reasons Not to Let Facebook Make Decisions About Your Privacy - 7 avril 2021
Another day, another horrific Facebook privacy scandal. We know what comes next : Facebook will argue that losing a lot of our data means bad third-party actors are the real problem that we should trust Facebook to make more decisions about our data to protect against them. If history is any indication, that’ll (...)
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Ethos Capital Is Grabbing Power Over Domain Names Again, Risking Censorship-For-Profit. Will ICANN Intervene ? - 5 avril 2021
Ethos Capital is at it again. In 2019, this secretive private equity firm that includes insiders from the domain name industry tried to buy the nonprofit that runs the .ORG domain. A huge coalition of nonprofits and users spoke out. Governments expressed alarm, and ICANN (the entity in charge of the internet’s (...)
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Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions of Browsers. Here’s What We Know. - 3 avril 2021
Today, Google launched an “origin trial” of Federated Learning of Cohorts (aka FLoC), its experimental new technology for targeting ads. A switch has silently been flipped in millions of instances of Google Chrome : those browsers will begin sorting their users into groups based on behavior, then sharing group (...)
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If You Care About Privacy, It’s Time to Try a New Web Browser - 2 avril 2021
A new crop of internet browsers from Brave, DuckDuckGo and others offer stronger privacy protections than what you might be used to.
Most of us use web browsers out of habit.
If you surf the web with Microsoft Edge, that may be because you use Windows. If you use Safari, that’s probably because you are an Apple (...)
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Google chante le requiem pour les cookies, mais le grand chœur du pistage résonnera encore - 22 mars 2021
Google va cesser de nous pister avec des cookies tiers ! Une bonne nouvelle, oui mais… Regardons le projet d’un peu plus près avec un article de l’EFF.
La presse en ligne s’en est fait largement l’écho : par exemple siecledigital, generation-nt ou lemonde. Et de nombreux articles citent un éminent responsable du (...)
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Les technologies de surveillance à l’assaut des campus américains - 17 mars 2021
L’analyse de l’Atlas des technologies de surveillance déployées aux États-Unis, un projet de l’Electronic Frontier Foundation, révèle qu’elles auraient tendance à se banaliser dans les campus universitaires. En France, l’initiative Technopolice de la Quadrature du Net vient de son côté de lancer un « CADATHON ».
Aux (...)
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Scholars Under Surveillance : How Campus Police Use High Tech to Spy on Students - 12 mars 2021
It may be many months before college campuses across the U.S. fully reopen, but when they do, many students will be returning to a learning environment that is under near constant scrutiny by law enforcement.
A fear of school shootings, and other campus crimes, have led administrators and campus police to install (...)
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Officials in Baltimore and St. Louis Put the Brakes on Persistent Surveillance Systems Spy Planes - 11 mars 2021
Baltimore, MD and St. Louis, MO, have a lot in common. Both cities suffer from declining populations and high crime rates. In recent years, the predominantly Black population in each city has engaged in collective action opposing police violence. In recent weeks, officials in both cities voted unanimously to spare (...)
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Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea - 8 mars 2021
The third-party cookie is dying, and Google is trying to create its replacement.
No one should mourn the death of the cookie as we know it. For more than two decades, the third-party cookie has been the lynchpin in a shadowy, seedy, multi-billion dollar advertising-surveillance industry on the Web ; phasing out (...)
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Google’s ‘Privacy-First Web’ Is Really a Google-First Web - 7 mars 2021
Why the search giant can afford to kill the cookie
For two decades, the cookie has been an emblem of the online advertising model that powers much of the open web — and the privacy invasions that come with it. Now, the cookie as we know it is dying.
Online advertising will live on, of course, and so will privacy (...)
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Google va renoncer aux cookies, ces fichiers qui traquent les internautes, une annonce qui ne convainc pas - 6 mars 2021
Le groupe américain, qui s’engage à ne pas construire d’identifiants alternatifs aux cookies tiers pour suivre les internautes, est critiqué pour atteinte à la concurrence.
Google continue de secouer le monde de la publicité. En janvier 2020, le géant américain a annoncé qu’il renoncerait d’ici 2022 aux cookies tiers, ces (...)
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LAPD Asked for Ring Surveillance Video Related to Black Lives Matter Protests - 17 février 2021
Emails show that the LAPD repeatedly asked camera owners for footage during the demonstrations, raising First Amendment concerns.
Emails obtained from the Los Angeles Police Department show that the department sought protest-related footage from Amazon’s Ring home camera systems in the wake of George Floyd’s (...)
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Some Answers to Questions About the State of Copyright in 2021 - 8 février 2021
In all the madness that made up the last month of 2020, a number of copyright bills and proposals popped up—some even became law before most people had any chance to review them. So now that the dust has settled a little and we have some better idea what the landscape is going to look like, it is time to answer a (...)
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San Francisco Takes Small Step to Establish Oversight Over Business Association Surveillance - 3 février 2021
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors last week voted unanimously in favor of requiring all special business districts—such as the Union Square Business Improvement District (USBID)—to bring any new surveillance plans to the Board before adopting new technologies.
The resolution—passed in the wake of an EFF (...)
