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Facebook’s Secret Rules on Word “Zionist” Impede Criticism of Israel - 15 mai 2021
Obtained by The Intercept, the policies alarmed advocates, who said Facebook is silencing political speech.
Facebook’s secret internal rules for moderating the term “Zionist” let the social network suppress criticism of Israel amid an ongoing wave of Israeli abuses and violence, according to people who reviewed the (...)
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After Slamming Trump, Lawmakers Silent on Biden Drone Export Policy - 14 mai 2021
The door is open for drone sales to authoritarian countries like the United Arab Emirates.
When the Trump administration announced last July it was loosening decades-old restrictions on military drone exports, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee came out swinging. Progressive Democrats (...)
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Border Police Wants Bite of Burgeoning Anti-Drone Industry - 4 mai 2021
Citing threats from drug cartels to migrants, CBP’s interest dovetails with a $487 million effort by the U.S. government to counter small drones.
In April, U.S. Army officers met with representatives from Aurora Flight Sciences, a Virginia-based subsidiary of Boeing, to test whether the company’s technology could (...)
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Your Car Is Spying on You. A CBP Contract Shows the Risks. - 4 mai 2021
A “vehicle forensics kit” can reveal where you’ve driven, what doors you opened, and who your friends are.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection purchased technology that vacuums up reams of personal information stored inside cars, according to a federal contract reviewed by The Intercept, illustrating the serious (...)
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« Télégrèves » chez IBM et Facebook : une mobilisation syndicale d’un nouveau genre - 3 mai 2021
Pour protester contre un plan de suppression de postes, des salariés d’IBM France en télétravail se sont mis en grève depuis chez eux. Cette nouvelle forme de contestation est-elle appelée à devenir la norme ?
Lorsque les salariés se retrouvent confinés chez eux, dans l’impossibilité de se réunir physiquement, comment (...)
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‘A Perfect Positive Storm’ : Bonkers Dollars for Big Tech - 2 mai 2021
The dictionary doesn’t have enough superlatives to describe what’s happening to the five biggest technology companies, raising uncomfortable questions for their C.E.O.s.
In the Great Recession more than a decade ago, big tech companies hit a rough patch just like everyone else. Now they have become unquestioned (...)
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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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Travail à la demande - 27 avril 2021
Livraison de repas à domicile, voitures avec chauffeur, participation rémunérée à des sondages : "l’économie des petits boulots" ou "gig economy" génère un chiffre d’affaires planétaire de 5 000 milliards de dollars, en constante expansion. Des États-Unis au Nigeria, de la France à la Chine, un voyage à la rencontre des (...)
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Les nettoyeurs du Web - The Cleaners - 26 avril 2021
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Qui modère nos contenus en ligne ? Les réseaux sociaux contribuent-ils à l’accroissement de la haine ? Des Philippines à la Silicon Valley, une enquête exhaustive et brutale sur la violence à l’ère du Web.
Ignorer ou supprimer ? (...)
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Comment Facebook laisse des dirigeants tromper leur population - 25 avril 2021
Un utilisateur de Facebook ne peut avoir qu’un seul compte. Mais il peut créer plusieurs pages capables de liker, commenter, partager d’autres comptes, et ainsi créer du “faux engagement”. Cette faille dans la réglementation de Facebook contribue à de vastes opérations de manipulation, révèle une enquête du quotidien (...)
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Intelligence artificielle : l’Europe face aux apprentis sorciers - 24 avril 2021
Alors que l’intelligence artificielle ne cesse de se développer, la Commission européenne vient de présenter son projet pour réguler les technologies numériques dans “le respect de l’humain”. Mais cette volonté d’encadrement est-elle tenable face aux appétits des géants chinois et américains ?
Évoquant l’équilibre, Julien (...)
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How a Chinese Surveillance Broker Became Oracle’s “Partner of the Year” - 22 avril 2021
A network of local resellers helps funnel Oracle technology to the police and military in China.
Banners printed for the occasion read, “Build a new type of strategic partnership.” Artfully made cutouts of the two companies’ logos adorned the stage. And the frosting on the massive sheet cake curled into a red “20,” (...)
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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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Police in Ogden, Utah and small cities around the US are using these surveillance technologies - 19 avril 2021
Police departments want to know as much as they legally can. But does ever-greater surveillance technology serve the public interest ?
At a conference in New Orleans in 2007, Jon Greiner, then the chief of police in Ogden, Utah, heard a presentation by the New York City Police Department about a sophisticated new (...)
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How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics : a whistleblower’s account - 16 avril 2021
The inside story of Sophie Zhang’s battle to combat rampant manipulation as executives delayed and deflected
Shortly before Sophie Zhang lost access to Facebook’s systems, she published one final message on the company’s internal forum, a farewell tradition at Facebook known as a “badge post”.
“Officially, I’m a (...)
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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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The new lawsuit that shows facial recognition is officially a civil rights issue - 14 avril 2021
Robert Williams, who was wrongfully arrested because of a faulty facial recognition match, is asking for the technology to be banned.
On January 9, 2020, Detroit police drove to the suburb of Farmington Hill and arrested Robert Williams in his driveway while his wife and young daughters looked on. Williams, a (...)
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Au Poste #15 avec Olivier Tesquet, auteur d’« État d’urgence technologique (...) - davduf.net - 13 avril 2021
Depuis plus de 10 ans, l’homme-machine Olivier Tesquet traque nos traces, et le joyeux capitalisme de surveillance. On l’a convoqué #AuPoste. Il est resté près de deux heures et demi, passionnantes, et glaçantes.
Tesquet parle comme son livre « État d’urgence technologique » (Premier Parallèle) se déguste : avec précision (...)
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Fulfillment - Alec MacGillis - 13 avril 2021
Winning and losing in One-Click America
An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon’s impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cities across the United States.
In 1937, the famed writer and activist Upton Sinclair published a novel bearing the subtitle A Story of Ford-America. He blasted the callousness (...)
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Tech Otherwise - 12 avril 2021
Now is the time to radically redirect the future of tech. To think tech otherwise is to move away from binaries of tech or not (though we may sometimes need to make that judgement), in favour of how we could make tech differently, in the service of our collective and sustainable well being.
Building on a shared (...)
