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Facebook and Twitter Face International Scrutiny After Trump Ban - 15 janvier 2021
Human rights groups and activists have spent years urging the companies to do more to remove content that encouraged violence.
LONDON — In Sri Lanka and Myanmar, Facebook kept up posts that it had been warned contributed to violence. In India, activists have urged the company to combat posts by political figures (...)
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L’Inde, nouveau terrain de bataille des GAFA - 14 janvier 2021
Les patrons des géants du Net américains, Google, Apple, Facebook et Amazon, investissent des sommes colossales dans les entreprises high-tech indiennes, le plus gros marché du monde hors de Chine. Mais cette conquête ne va pas toujours de soi.
« La plus grande communauté d’utilisateurs de Facebook et de WhatsApp est en (...)
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WhatsApp Doesn’t Read Your Messages, It Doesn’t Need To - Pen Magnet - 11 janvier 2021
As of this writing, WhatsApp released a newer version of its privacy policy on Jan 4, 2021.
Among other things, it mentions :
We are one of the Facebook Companies. You can learn more further below in this Privacy Policy about the ways in which we share information across this family of companies.
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FANG and Faust : Reimagining Capitalism For a Stake in Our Data Profits - 4 janvier 2021
There’s a Faustian bargain to make from Covid-19 that could increase our ownership of the 21st century.
From interest rates to fashion, pandemics in the past — like the Black Death in the 14th century — have left deep imprints on economic life. This time may be no different. In the aftermath of the coronavirus, (...)
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Covid-19 Ushered in a New Era of Government Surveillance - 30 décembre 2020
Government-mandated drone surveillance and location tracking apps could be here to stay
In early December, after finding 16 people had illegally crossed the border from Myanmar to Thailand and evaded the mandatory quarantine period, the Thai government said it would start patrolling the border with new (...)
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NSO Group WhatsApp hack victims speak out, from India to Rwanda - 19 décembre 2020
Around the world, governments are using surveillance tools they have purchased from Israeli spyware firm NSO Group — the infamous creator of Pegasus — to monitor and crack down on human rights defenders. Access Now and our partners have repeatedly called on NSO Group and its investors to stop providing its products (...)
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Une usine de fabrication d’iPhone saccagée en Inde, des employés affirment ne pas avoir été payés - 16 décembre 2020
Ce week-end, des milliers de salariés de Wistron, un des principaux fournisseurs d’Apple, se sont regroupés pour manifester sur le site de leur usine en Inde, dans la région de Bengaluru. Ils réclament des salaires impayés et de meilleures conditions de travail, comme le rapporte Reuters. Lorsque la police est arrivée (...)
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Apple supplier Wistron puts India plant damage at up to $7 million - 16 décembre 2020
TAIPEI (Reuters) - The ransacking of an iPhone manufacturing facility in India caused up to T$200 million ($7.12 million) in damage though production facilities were not as badly hit as reported, its Taiwan-based operator Wistron Corp said on Tuesday.
Thousands of contract workers gathered on the grounds of the (...)
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Twitter accused of censoring Indian critic of Hindu nationalism - 7 décembre 2020
Writers including Salman Rushdie express anger after journalist Salil Tripathi has account suspended
Twitter has been accused of censoring the prominent Indian journalist Salil Tripathi by suspending his account, after he tweeted on subjects including the anniversary of the demolition of the Babri mosque and his (...)
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Kashmiris Interrogated, Tortured by Cyber Police for Tweeting - 7 décembre 2020
The crackdown on social media users in Kashmir is part of a sharp escalation of the Indian government’s censorship efforts.
Ahmed was nervous as he approached the fortified police station, its walls covered with barbed wire and gun-toting cops guarding the entrances. The college student had received a phone call (...)
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Comment la CIA a espionné le monde entier depuis une petite entreprise suisse - 17 novembre 2020
Les services secrets du pays le savaient mais se sont tus.
Fondée en 1952, l’entreprise Crypto AG basée en Suisse vend des machines cryptographiques qui permettent de chiffrer des communications.
Ayant fourni les États-Unis pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, elle est devenue incontournable sur ce marché spécifique, (...)
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Géographies en mouvement - Le business meurtrier des frontières - 7 novembre 2020
Le 21ème siècle sera-t-il celui des barrières ? Probable, au rythme où les frontières nationales se renforcent. Dans un livre riche et documenté, publié aux éditions Syllepse, le géographe Stéphane Rosière dresse un indispensable état des lieux.
Une nuit du mois de juin, dans un centre de rétention de l’île de Rhodes, la (...)
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Legal backlash and user hacks compromise India’s Covid-19 app - 28 octobre 2020
A high court has ruled that individuals do not have to download the contact tracing platform to access public services, while some who have just turn it off
When India’s government launched its Covid-19 app in April, the stated aim was to inform people about the virus, help them to report symptoms and issue (...)
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Hyderabad to double number of surveillance cameras - 14 octobre 2020
This week, state authorities in Telangana announced a ramping up of surveillance across Hyderabad. On Monday, in a meeting with government and police officials, K. T. Rama Rao, the minister of Municipal Administration and Urban Development, tasked the police department with doubling the city’s surveillance cameras (...)
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Bataille géopolitique autour de la 5G par Evgeny Morozov - 30 septembre 2020
À la veille de son déploiement, la téléphonie mobile de cinquième génération — la 5G — suscite un flot de questions liées à son impact écologique, sanitaire et, plus fondamentalement, aux développements technologiques hors de contrôle. Mais le « grand jeu » de la 5G se mène aussi sur le terrain géopolitique avec, en toile de (...)
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Amnesty to halt work in India due to government ’witch-hunt’ - 29 septembre 2020
Authorities froze bank accounts after criticism of government’s human rights record
Amnesty International has been forced to shut down operations in India and lay off all staff after the Indian government froze its bank accounts.
The Indian enforcement directorate, an agency that investigates economic crimes, (...)
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Dénonçant une « chasse aux sorcières » contre les ONG, Amnesty suspend ses activités en Inde - 29 septembre 2020
Les ONG assurent subir un harcèlement de la part de l’administration du premier ministre nationaliste, en raison de leur dénonciation des violations des droits humains, notamment au Cachemire.
Amnesty International dénonce une « chasse aux sorcières » contre les groupes de défense des droits humains en Inde. L’ONG a (...)
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Workplace Surveillance in Times of Corona - 28 septembre 2020
With numbers of COVID-19 infections soaring again in the United States and around the world, we have to learn how to manage its long-term ramifications for our economies. As people adjust to minimizing the risk of infections in everyday settings, one critical context is work. Even though millions have shifted to (...)
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Twitter still failing women over online violence and abuse - 23 septembre 2020
Twitter is still not doing enough to protect women from online violence and abuse, despite repeated promises to do so, new analysis by Amnesty International reveals.
Twitter is still not doing enough to tackle the deluge of abuse women face on the platform.
Rasha Abdul Rahim, Co-Director of Amnesty Tech. (...)
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Twitter n’est toujours pas à la hauteur s’agissant de protéger les femmes contre les violences et les abus en ligne - 23 septembre 2020
Twitter n’en fait toujours pas assez pour protéger les femmes contre les violences et les abus en ligne, malgré de multiples promesses, révèle la nouvelle analyse d’Amnesty International.
Twitter n’agit pas suffisamment pour faire barrage au déluge de violence que subissent les femmes sur la plateforme.
Rasha (...)
