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How Google’s New Face Recognition Tech Could Change The Web’s Future - 8 juillet 2012
Google just bought a high-tech face recognition unit called Pitt Patt. Built into Google products, it could change everything about the web. Yes, everything.
Pitt Patt was founded in 2004 as a spin-off firm built upon a decade of research into object recognition by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University. Now (...)
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Do Not Track : la tentation de Microsoft de cadenasser le marché de la publicité en ligne ? - 11 juin 2012
Avocat spécialisé en droit de l’informatique pour K&L Gates LLP, Etienne Drouard revient pour ZDNet.fr sur les implications de l’activation par défaut de la fonction Do Not Track dans Internet Explorer 10. Il émet une mise en garde contre un possible détournement à des fins commerciales par Microsoft, et plus (...)
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Google accuse Facebook de prendre ses utilisateurs en otage - 24 mai 2012
Interrogé par le journaliste Charlie Rose, lundi 21 mai, sur sa position face à Facebook, le PDG de Google, Larry Page, s’est montré inquiet. Il a particulièrement fustigé l’attitude du réseau social concernant l’utilisation des données de contacts. En effet, lors de l’inscription à Facebook, les utilisateurs déjà inscrits (...)
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L’Iran restreint l’utilisation des messageries étrangères - 15 mai 2012
Le ministère des télécommunications iranien a interdit aux banques, aux compagnies d’assurances et aux opérateurs téléphoniques tout recours à des messageries étrangères pour leurs échanges de courriers électroniques, a rapporté l’hebdomadaire spécialisé dans les télécommunications Asr Ertebatat, samedi 12 mai. "Le ministre des (...)
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Facebook’s Purchases May Hint at Its Future - 14 mai 2012
Facebook’s billion-dollar purchase of Instagram made a lot of noise "” so much noise that few people noticed when the company snapped up two more start-ups just a few days later.
The shopping spree that snagged Tagtile and Glancee was just business as usual for Facebook. It buys small companies on a regular basis (...)
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Les liens entre Google et la NSA peuvent rester secrets - 12 mai 2012
Ni Google ni la NSA n’ont l’obligation de dévoiler la nature précise des liens qui les unissent. La justice a considéré que les statuts spéciaux de l’agence de renseignement américaine couvraient également le partenariat tissé avec le moteur de recherche peu après les cyberattaques chinoises ayant visé plusieurs entreprises (...)
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Google et les services secrets américains n’auront pas à dévoiler leurs liens - 12 mai 2012
L’agence de renseignement ultra-secrète américaine NSA n’a pas l’obligation de révéler la nature de ses liens avec Google, a confirmé vendredi la justice américaine. La cour d’appel de Washington a jugé que les statuts spéciaux de l’Agence de sécurité nationale (NSA) lui permettaient de garder secret tout arrangement avec le (...)
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Google place son réseau social au cœur de sa stratégie - 11 mai 2012
Il ne se passe plus une journée sans que Google ne fasse parler de son réseau social. Depuis le mercredi 9 mai, les utilisateurs du réseau peuvent répondre aux commentaires en envoyant une réponse au mail de notification de Google+ ou ajouter un +1 à un commentaire directement depuis leur boîte mail. Jeudi, c’est une (...)
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Google’s problem is that it now believes itself above others even governments - 1er mai 2012
The FCC revelations showing that Google’s engineer knew that Street View would collect data, followed by the company’s obstructive behaviour to the investigation, show that it has grown too big for its management
It’s never the offence ; it’s the cover-up. And if there’s one thing that the last few years have taught (...)
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Web surveillance - who’s got your data ? - 4 avril 2012
The government’s plans to extend surveillance of our communications to cover email, the web and social networking have provoked quite a storm, with MPs from across the political spectrum joining with privacy campaigners to express concern.
I’ll leave coverage of that to my political colleagues - but let’s turn to (...)
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Google in New Privacy Probes - 16 mars 2012
Regulators in the U.S. and European Union are investigating Google Inc. for bypassing the privacy settings of millions of users of Apple Inc.’s Safari Web browser, according to people familiar with the investigations. Google stopped the practice last month after being contacted by The Wall Street Journal.
For (...)
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Users : ’Personalized internet ? Fuggedaboutit !’ - 11 mars 2012
A new research report will make worrying reading for Google and social media companies, as it shows that most consumers don’t want their online activity used to personalize search results or advertising.
The study of 2,253 adults, conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life, found that 73 per cent of (...)
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Google’s privacy policy ’too vague’ - 9 mars 2012
UK data protection boss David Smith concerned how Google is sharing information between mail, calendar, call logs and searches
Google’s privacy policy is too vague for users to control how their information is shared, according to Britain’s data protection boss.
In his first public comments since Google’s revised (...)
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Google met en place ses nouvelles règles de confidentialité - 2 mars 2012
Le groupe du moteur de recherche Google met en application, jeudi 1er mars, les nouvelles règles de confidentialité pour l’ensemble de ses services en ligne. La firme de Mountain View a suscité l’inquiétude des autorités de protection de la vie privée en Europe et du Congrès américain, après l’annonce de cette refonte, (...)
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EU justice chief warns Google over ’sneaking’ citizens’ privacy away - 2 mars 2012
Viviane Reding says there are ’doubts’ over legality of internet giant’s move as French authorities open EU-wide investigation
The European commissioner of justice, Viviane Reding, has delivered a stinging rebuke to Google over changes to its privacy policy, warning that "we aren’t playing games here" and pointing (...)
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Google ’sneaking away citizens’ privacy’ says EU commissioner - 2 mars 2012
Google is "sneaking" citizens’ privacy away with its new policies and appears to be ignoring data protection treaties, the European commissioner of justice has said.
Viviane Reding delivered a stinging rebuke to Google over changes to its privacy policy, saying she had doubt over whether it was legal.
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Thoughts on Google’s Policy changes - 1er mars 2012
Last month, within thirty seconds of the BBC publishing a quotation from me on the latest round of the nymwars and Google+, my phone rang. Caller ID indicated that it was someone I know who works at Google. "Had I said something wrong ?" was my first thought. I quickly retraced in my mind what it was that I had (...)
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Google privacy changes ’in breach of EU law’ - 1er mars 2012
Changes made by Google to its privacy policy are in breach of European law, the EU’s justice commissioner has said.
Viviane Reding told the BBC that authorities found that "transparency rules have not been applied".
The policy change, implemented on Thursday, means private data collected by one Google service can (...)
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Google Android users ’must accept new privacy policy’ - 1er mars 2012
Millions of Britons who use Google smartphones are unable to avoid radical and "invasive" changes to the firm’s privacy policy, it has emerged.
The news has prompted a privacy campaigner to sue for the £400 cost of his device. Alex Hanff, from Lancaster, has filed a test claim at the small claims court in the hope (...)
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Google privacy overhaul ’unlawful’, say regulators - 28 février 2012
Google new privacy policy, which comes into force tomorrow, may be illegal and should be suspended, European privacy regulators have said.
The European Commission’s data protection advisors expressed "strong doubts" about the lawfulness of Google’s new privacy policy. Google said last month it will introduce a new, (...)
