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noyb files complaints against Apple’s tracking code "IDFA" - 16 novembre 2020
IDFA (Apple’s Identifier for Advertisers) allows Apple and all apps on the phone to track a user and combine information about online and mobile behaviour. Just like for cookies, this would require the users’ consent under EU law. Apple places these tracking codes without the knowledge or agreement of the users. (...)
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Big Tech Continues Its Surge Ahead of the Rest of the Economy - 31 octobre 2020
Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Alphabet reported the latest in a string of enormous quarterly profits on Thursday.
While the rest of the U.S. economy languished earlier this year, the tech industry’s biggest companies seemed immune to the downturn, surging as the country worked, learned and shopped from home.
On (...)
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Now You Can Use Instagram to Chat With Friends on Facebook Messenger - 3 octobre 2020
Facebook began integrating its Instagram and Messenger apps, allowing users of the services to directly communicate with each other.
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook began allowing people to use the photo-sharing app Instagram and the messaging app Messenger to communicate with each other on Wednesday, as part of a (...)
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One Way to Prevent Police From Surveilling Your Phone - 29 septembre 2020
Use Signal and add a PIN code to your phone’s SIM card to help protect against spying.
Federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department used “a sophisticated cell phone cloning attack—the details of which remain classified—to intercept protesters’ phone communications” in Portland (...)
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Sidestepping disaster, UK’s coronavirus app launches - 22 septembre 2020
In May, we wrote about a new Covid-19 tracking app that the UK government was trialing on the Isle of Wight. The app’s launch has been plagued with problems after the government initially spent $13.5 million building a product earlier in the summer, only to find it didn’t work properly on iPhones.
The UK government (...)
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Apple’s New Privacy Settings Could Protect Us From Trackers. But Do We Care ? - 15 septembre 2020
Protecting our personal info is a lifestyle choice many of us aren’t making
“I am currently reading an article titled ‘10 Ways to Keep Sweaty Hands From Holding You Back,’” a man shouts from a toilet cubicle in Apple’s latest iPhone video. The ad is about a new feature in iOS 14 that blocks tracking cookies : bits of (...)
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Apple bloque une mise à jour de Facebook visant à informer les utilisateurs de la « taxe Apple » - 28 août 2020
L’entreprise de Cupertino, qui impose depuis des années une taxe de 30 % sur tous les achats réalisés au sein des applications iOS, fait face à une gronde grandissante depuis plusieurs semaines.
Epic n’est plus seul dans sa guerre contre la « taxe Apple ». En faisant bannir d’iOS son jeu-phare Fortnite, pour avoir tenté (...)
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Israeli phone hacking company faces court fight over sales to Hong Kong - 28 août 2020
"The workers inside the company didn’t join to help the Chinese dictatorship," says one human rights lawyer.
Human rights advocates filed a new court petition against the Israeli phone hacking company Cellebrite, urging Israel’s ministry of defense to halt the firm’s exports to Hong Kong, where security forces have (...)
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Cops Don’t Need GPS Data to Track Your Phone at Protests - 27 août 2020
For the thousands of people protesting and reporting on George Floyd’s death at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department—or even for bystanders caught up in the demonstrations—arrests, injuries, and even death are becoming commonplace in this moment. And just like protests we’ve experienced within the past (...)
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Facebook Says Apple’s New iPhone Update Will Disrupt Online Advertising - 26 août 2020
The social-media company says Apple’s privacy changes will affect its Audience Network business, which connects users’ Facebook identities with their off-platform activities
Facebook Inc. said privacy changes in Apple Inc.’s AAPL -0.64% latest operating system would cripple its ability to place personalized ads and (...)
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Inside NSO, Israel’s billion-dollar spyware giant - 19 août 2020
The world’s most notorious surveillance company says it wants to clean up its act. Go on, we’re listening.
Maâti Monjib speaks slowly, like a man who knows he’s being listened to.
It’s the day of his 58th birthday when we speak, but there’s little celebration in his voice. “The surveillance is hellish,” Monjib tells (...)
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Covidsafe app overhaul compensates for ’handshakes’ only connecting 27% of the time on some iPhones - 18 août 2020
Exclusive : the most recent test data and information about changes made to the app have been released under freedom of information
The makers of the Covidsafe app have had to overhaul the algorithm for determining close contacts to improve the functionality of the app on iPhones, Guardian Australia has learned, (...)
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8 million people, 14 alerts : why some covid-19 apps are staying silent - 11 août 2020
Critics have rounded on contact tracing apps in France and Australia for sending out almost no virus notifications. But experts say it’s not a total failure—as long as we learn what went wrong.
When France launched its app for digital contact tracing, it looked like a possible breakthrough for the virus-ravaged (...)
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Dopple-ganging up on Facial Recognition Systems - 9 août 2020
“Face” the Facts
There are 7.6 Billion people in the world. That’s a huge number ! In fact, if we all stood shoulder to shoulder on the equator, the number of people in the world would wrap around the earth over 86 times ! That’s just the number of living people today ; even adding in the history of all people for (...)
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Big Tech Earnings Surge as Economy Slumps - 1er août 2020
Here’s what you need to know :
Amazon’s earnings double as sales surge.
Alphabet’s revenue drops, but beats Wall Street expectations.
Ford made $1.1 billion profit in the second quarter even as sales tumbled.
Apple blows past expectations with surging sales and profits.
The U.S. economy’s contraction in the (...)
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Why the tech giants may suffer lasting pain from their Hill lashing - 30 juillet 2020
Lawmakers investigating Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple made it clear that their allegations of antitrust abuses come with a lengthy paper trail.
Wednesday’s much-anticipated antitrust hearing subjected four of the tech industry’s most powerful CEOs to hours of aggressive questioning by Republicans and Democrats (...)
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Lawmakers, United in Their Ire, Lash Out at Big Tech’s Leaders - 30 juillet 2020
The chiefs of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook faced withering questions from Democrats about anti-competitive practices and from Republicans about anti-conservative bias.
WASHINGTON — The chief executives of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook, four tech giants worth nearly $5 trillion combined, faced withering (...)
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Une audition inédite pour les PDG de Google, Amazon, Facebook et Apple - 29 juillet 2020
Les patrons des GAFA passent un grand oral en visioconférence, mercredi, devant des parlementaires américains. Ils devront répondre à des questions portant sur d’éventuels abus de position dominante.
L’événement est sans précédent. A plusieurs égards. Jamais les quatre PDG des « GAFA » – l’acronyme désignant Google, Amazon, (...)
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The FBI Is Secretly Using A $2 Billion Travel Company As A Global Surveillance Tool - 27 juillet 2020
American border patrol already has significant surveillance powers and collects vast amounts of data on who is flying into and out of the country. But the U.S. has another tool to watch over travellers across the world thanks to a little-known but influential Texan business called Sabre. As the biggest of three (...)
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Comment le FBI utilise une entreprise de gestion des réservations pour surveiller les voyageurs dans le monde entier - 27 juillet 2020
Un document publié par le magazine « Forbes » révèle que les autorités américaines ont utilisé l’entreprise Sabre, qui traite près d’un tiers de l’ensemble des réservations aériennes mondiales, pour obtenir des informations sur les clients.
C’est un outil très utile pour les autorités américaines, dont Forbes vient de révéler (...)
