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FBI Expands Ability to Monitor Social Media, Location Data - 28 juin 2020
The Federal Bureau of Investigation may be watching what you tweet and where people gather.
The federal law enforcement agency’s records show a growing focus on harnessing the latest private sector tools for mass surveillance, including recent contracts with companies that monitor social media posts and collect (...)
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New Report Reveals Demographics of Black Lives Matter Protesters Shows Vast Majority Are White, Marched Within Their Own Cities - 28 juin 2020
ATLANTA, June 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Mobilewalla, a consumer data and analytics company, today released a new report detailing the demographic breakdown of the George Floyd protesters in four major cities : Atlanta, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and New York. The data provides insights into the age, race, gender and (...)
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Monde : Le rapport démographique sur les manifestations montre la quantité d’informations que nos téléphones donnent - 28 juin 2020
Si vous avez participé à de récentes manifestations Black Lives Matter à Atlanta, Los Angeles, Minneapolis ou New York, il est possible que la société d’analyse mobile Mobilewalla ait glané des données démographiques sur votre utilisation du téléphone portable. La semaine dernière, Mobilewalla a publié un rapport détaillant (...)
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George Floyd Protester Demographics : Insights Across 4 Major US Cities - 27 juin 2020
Methodology
ALL DATA IS BASED ON OBSERVED MOBILE DEVICES IN SPECIFIED LOCATIONS
• Devices were observed for geographic areas around specific protest locations in New York, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Atlanta
• Device data was collected on May 29th, 30thand 31st
• “Day” data was collected during non-curfew hours
• (...)
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Black Lives Matter : U.S. Protesters Tracked By Secretive Phone Location Technology - 27 juin 2020
Following Black Lives Matter protests in cities across the U.S., a marketing company that uses AI to categorize phone users by race, gender and even religion, has now published a report using phone location data secretly collected during those protests. In a presentation titled “George Floyd Protester Demographics (...)
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A Tech Company Spied On Police Brutality Protesters - 27 juin 2020
Data company Mobilewalla used cellphone information to estimate the demographics of protesters. Sen. Elizabeth Warren says it’s “shady” and concerning.
On the weekend of May 29, thousands of people marched, sang, grieved, and chanted, demanding an end to police brutality and the defunding of police departments in (...)
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Firm That Tracked Protesters Targeted Evangelicals During 2016 Election - 27 juin 2020
The CEO of data broker Mobilewalla, which worked with Republican SuperPACs, says it tracked Evangelicals’ cell phone locations for six months.
A data broker that tracked Black Lives Matter protesters also tracked the locations of Evangelical Christians on election day 2016 using their cell phones and used that (...)
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What do Led Zeppelin, Cisco and Dr Oetker have in common ? Facebook says they share our data with them - 16 juin 2020
A PI investigation into advertisers we had never heard of who upload our personal data on Facebook to target us.
Key findings
100% of PI staff who downloaded their Facebook Information found that companies they had never heard of had shared their personal data with Facebook
Understanding why companies have this (...)
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Stop Covid et Health Data Hub : Données de santé en danger - 14 juin 2020
La mise en place de ces nouvelles plateformes remet directement en cause le secret médical, le consentement éclairé et la sécurité numérique. Des données de santé qui pourraient fuiter aux États-Unis aux dangers de la surveillance généralisée, 12 minutes pour comprendre les enjeux de « l’e-santé ». (...)
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Comment l’usage de vos données peut influencer les élections - 13 juin 2020
L’opinion publique n’existe pas écrivait Pierre Bourdieu dans un texte fondateur publié en 1973. Cet intitulé questionnait le fonctionnement, la pertinence et le degré de représentativité des sondages apparus au cours du XXe siècle.
En effet dès la fin du XIXe siècle, l’évolution des démocraties libérales et l’organisation (...)
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Les hackers de l’avocat de Madonna et Lady Gaga lancent un « eBay des données volées » - 8 juin 2020
Le groupe de rançonneurs Sodinokibi ouvre un équivalent d’eBay pour les données qu’ils ont volées. Pour en faire la promotion, ils comptent profiter du hack du cabinet d’avocat des stars, Brubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks, qui contient des affaires impliquant Lady Gaga, Madonna et de dizaines d’autres célébrités.
Le 2 (...)
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Steps you can take to minimise the political ads you see online - 26 mai 2020
OPTION 1 - LIMIT TARGETED ADVERTISING
A simple step you can take is turning on strong (as possible) privacy settings on the social media platforms you use. Social media platforms play a key role in targeting ads at you – and they facilitate the use of your data in ways that you probably wouldn’t like. We’ve made (...)
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When Your Data Becomes Political - 26 mai 2020
Increasingly, political parties, political campaigns and those who work for them tap into and exploit our data to seek to influence us. It is essential that legal safeguards are in place and enforced to challenge these practices.
Have you ever wondered why you’re seeing an ad online ? In your social media feed, (...)
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L’acquisition de Giphy sur Facebook déclenche une alarme antitrust au Congrès - 16 mai 2020
Vendredi, un groupe bipartite de sénateurs a sonné l’alarme sur l’application des lois antitrust sur l’acquisition récemment annoncée de Facebook de Giphy, un site Web de création et de partage de GIF.
Vendredi, Facebook a annoncé qu’il allait acquérir Giphy pour le prix annoncé de 400 millions de dollars. Giphy est l’un (...)
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Giphy chez Facebook : inquiétudes sur la confidentialité et la gestion des données - 16 mai 2020
L’acquisition surprise de Giphy par Facebook sonne comme une mauvaise nouvelle aux oreilles des amateurs de GIF qui ne supportent pas les manières du réseau social. Impossible de donner le bénéfice du doute à l’entreprise de Mark Zuckerberg, tant on ne compte plus le nombre de coups de canif qu’elle a donnés dans la (...)
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Buying Giphy Could Help Facebook Monetize its Messaging Services — And Others - 16 mai 2020
Giphy monetizes its GIF and sticker-sharing platform via sponsored GIFs that can be shared on Facebook’s apps, as well as on third-party platforms such as Twitter and iMessage.
Facebook’s deal to buy Giphy should serve as one more example of how cash-rich tech firms are using their balance sheets to strengthen (...)
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India was already a surveillance state. Its Covid-19 app goes even further - 16 mai 2020
Concerns about the government’s new contact-tracing software stretch back more than a decade, to its controversial biometric data scheme
Critics warn that India’s new national contact tracing app, downloaded by over 100 million people, is just the latest move in the country’s drive to establish an increasingly (...)
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Revealed by mobile - 14 mai 2020
This is Stavanger. The lights you see are the positions of hundreds of mobile phones.
One of the mobiles belongs to Karl Bjarne Bernhardsen (30).
Over the past year, his cellphone has revealed where he has been for almost 24 hours. This information is for sale.
Karl didn’t know a thing.
Nor do tens of thousands of (...)
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Facebook : l’amende record de 5 milliards de dollars validée par un juge - 26 avril 2020
L’amende, la plus importante jamais imposée par le régulateur américain, est bien légale, a confirmé la justice.
L’amende de 5 milliards de dollars imposée l’été 2019 par l’agence américaine de protection des consommateurs, la FTC, à Facebook pour ne pas avoir su protéger les données personnelles de ses utilisateurs, a été (...)
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Zoom is not the worst, just getting the attention software deserves | Privacy International - 23 avril 2020
The rise of scrutiny of Zoom is welcome evidence that privacy and security is valued and essential as our lives and interactions become increasingly virtual.
Key points
Zoom already had security challenges before the Coronavirus-caused lockdowns.
Massive adoption of Zoom led to more scrutiny and exposure of (...)
