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Algorithms and the coronavirus pandemic - 15 janvier 2021
Backlash grows over governments’ use of automated decision making tools
“This year we are going to put our trust in teachers rather than algorithms,” Gavin Williamson, the British education secretary, announced on Wednesday.
The government is eager to avoid a repeat of last year’s fiasco over exams in England’s (...)
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Alex Karp, unconventional purveyor of powerful surveillance tools - 4 octobre 2020
Trained philosopher has brought controversial Silicon Valley firm Palantir to market
There is little of the conventional about Alex Karp, chief executive of Palantir, the Big Data company that has become a bête noire of privacy and civil liberties activists for its work for the national security establishment.
A (...)
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Yuval Noah Harari : the world after coronavirus | Free to read | Financial Times - 24 mars 2020
This storm will pass. But the choices we make now could change our lives for years to come
Humankind is now facing a global crisis. Perhaps the biggest crisis of our generation. The decisions people and governments take in the next few weeks will probably shape the world for years to come. They will shape not (...)
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When your boss is an algorithm - 20 février 2020
In the gig economy, companies such as Uber and Deliveroo manage workers via their phones. But is this liberating or exploitative ?
The small London side street reverberates with the growl of motorbikes and the shriek of horns. A young man yells hoarsely into a megaphone : “They’re gonna be disrupted, yeah ! (...)
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How London became a test case for using facial recognition in democracies - 7 août 2019
The police hope the software can solve and prevent crime, but can citizens ever give their consent ?
On the last day of January, few of the shoppers and office workers who hurried through Romford town centre in east London, scarves pulled tight against the chill, realised they were guinea pigs in a police (...)
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Students under surveillance - 19 janvier 2017
Universities are increasingly using personal data to predict performance. But, asks Helen Warrell, at what cost to privacy ?
A week after students begin their distance learning courses at the UK’s Open University this October, a computer program will have predicted their final grade. An algorithm monitoring how (...)
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When your boss is an algorithm - 14 octobre 2016
In the gig economy, companies such as Uber and Deliveroo manage workers via their phones. But is this liberating or exploitative ?
The small London side street reverberates with the growl of motorbikes and the shriek of horns. A young man yells hoarsely into a megaphone : "They’re gonna be disrupted, yeah ! (...)
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Skype says texts are censored by China - 30 janvier 2012
Skype, the fast-growing internet communications company that belongs to Ebay, has admitted that its partner in China has filtered text messages, defending this compliance with censorship laws as the only way to do business in the country.
In a Financial Times interview, Niklas Zennström, Skype’s chief executive, (...)
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The EC to slam Google with 400+ page SO - 4 décembre 2011
Story The European Commission (EC) is expected to issue a statement of objections (SO) spanning more than 400 pages that will spell-out allegations of Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) abuse of dominance early next year, sources close to the case told dealReporter.
The EC launched an antitrust investigation into Google’s (...)
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Companies in confusion over "˜cookie’ laws - 26 mai 2011
Companies across Europe are in a state of confusion over what they need to do to comply with new internet privacy laws that come into force on Thursday.
The way that most companies currently collect information about people who visit their websites "“ using so-called "cookies" or small pieces of tracking code "“ (...)
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Microsoft in "˜final’ antitrust fray with Brussels - 24 mai 2011
Lawyers for Microsoft were facing off against the European Commission on Tuesday in what looks likely to be the final tussle resulting from the battle over antitrust issues in Europe which have ensnared the software group for more than a decade.
Most of the issues between the US company and competition regulators (...)
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Android smartphones face data breach threat - 18 mai 2011
Owners of Android smartphones are being warned to avoid public WiFi networks after researchers found a security flaw that could affect the vast majority of devices based on Google’s software.
A trio of researchers at Ulm University in Germany found that it was "quite easy" for hackers to intercept data from (...)
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FTC surveys internet companies on Google - 1er mai 2011
The US Federal Trade Commission has approached other internet companies to ask about Google’s dominance of the internet search business, according to two people familiar with the situation.
The signal that the regulators may be weighing a fuller antitrust investigation of the search group came late this week, (...)
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Samsung sues Apple for infringement - 24 avril 2011
Samsung Electronics has shot back with a tit-for-tat lawsuit against Apple, exactly a week after the US company sued South Korea’s biggest company by sales for "slavishly" copying the iPad and iPhone.
In suits filed on Friday in South Korea, Japan and Germany, Samsung sued Apple for infringing 10 patents, in (...)
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Google faces S Korea antitrust complaint - 16 avril 2011
South Korea’s top internet providers have launched an antitrust complaint against Google, alleging that the US group is stifling competition in the domestic mobile search market.
NHN, which runs Naver, the country’s leading search engine, and Daum Communications filed a petition with the country’s Fair Trade (...)
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Google considers bowing to oversight - 8 avril 2011
Google is close to bowing to government oversight for the first time in order to win approval for a big merger, a move that would allow it to complete its controversial $700m purchase of US travel technology company ITA Software.
The development comes just as arch-rival Microsoft is on the brink of escaping the (...)
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Microsoft and Apple step up patent clashes - 22 mars 2011
The smartphone industry’s escalating patent wars spilt into new areas on Monday as Microsoft attempted to block sales of Barnes & Noble’s Nook e-reader in the US and Apple sued Amazon over the use of the phrase "app store" .
Both actions were aimed indirectly at Google’s Android operating system, whose success (...)
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Chinese battle for microblog supremacy - 14 mars 2011
In the autumn of 2009, when the Chinese web portal Sina launched its microblog, the new platform was barely noticed in the worldwide online cacophony. People were already sending more than 20m tweets a day on Twitter.
But while China may have had a late start, homegrown services resembling Twitter are now gaining (...)
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Android users hit by malware attacks - 3 mars 2011
Tens of thousands of users of Android-based smartphones have downloaded applications capable of taking over their phones with malicious software designed to steal data or send expensive messages, security experts have warned.
Google, the Android developer, has removed 55 such applications from its official (...)
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Google faces fresh search complaint - 22 février 2011
A fresh complaint accusing Google of abusing its dominant position in the online search market has been filed with the European Union’s antitrust watchdog on Tuesday morning.
The complaint comes from a French company, 1plusV, which is related to Ejustice.fr, one of the three businesses that originally filed (...)
