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Microsoft waters down ’productivity score’ surveillance tool after backlash - 4 décembre 2020
Even in a world of ever-increasing employee tracking, Microsoft knows it went too far.
The company announced Tuesday that, following widespread backlash, it will scale back recently announced additions to its suite of Microsoft 365 products. They let employers track employees’ digital actions in granular detail (...)
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Facebook improperly gave users’ data to third-party developers, again - 5 juillet 2020
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before : Facebook gave user data to third-party developers, even after specifically telling users it wouldn’t.
In a Wednesday blog post, Facebook announced that (oops !) thousands of developers continued to receive updates to users’ non-public information well past the point when (...)
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Snapchat ex-employees say past editorial practices were racially biased - 9 juin 2020
Last week, Snap was praised for standing up for Black Lives Matter.
But former employees on the content team told Mashable the company didn’t always embrace the fight for racial justice so vehemently. One claimed their manager said a Men’s Fashion Week story featured too many black faces. Another said their editors (...)
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Facial and voice recognition in cars sounds like a privacy nightmare - 13 janvier 2020
At CES, software company Xperi demonstrated it’s developing different interfaces that use facial recognition. It’s building one for the car that knows who you are when you get in, then monitors your emotion state and how you’re behaving. Even your body position is tracked, so if you’re sitting in an ’unsafe’ way the (...)
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Google tells employees to stop ’raging’ about politics and fall in line - 27 août 2019
Google hired you to work, not to be a human being with independent thoughts about the hellscape world in which you now find yourself toiling away.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based tech giant known for at one time secretly developing a censored search engine for China and helping the U.S. military make drones more (...)
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Facebook faces lawsuit over facial recognition software - 8 avril 2015
Facebook is facing a lawsuit over the way it uses data for its facial recognition features.
An Illinois man claims Facebook broke state law by collecting biometric data used for the social network’s tag suggestions feature and that Facebook "secretly amassed the world’s largest privately held database of consumer (...)
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With Facial Recognition Partnership, Match.com Users Can Find Dates Based on Exes - 18 juin 2014
You might say you’re looking for a potential mate that looks like George Clooney or Scarlett Johansson, but chances are you do have a "type" and it looks a lot like your ex.
Building on this concept, popular dating site Match.com has partnered with Los Angeles-based matchmaking service Three Day Rule that uses (...)
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Google’s Position on Email Privacy Misrepresented by Media Reports - 16 août 2013
Several sites reported on Tuesday that Google believed Gmail users had no expectation of privacy in the context of their emails.
The alarming stories referred to a legal brief (embedded below) in which Google’s lawyers supposedly made the unsettling argument. But the stories "” with headlines like "Google : Gmail (...)
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LinkedIn Bans Users From Promoting Prostitution, Escort Services - 19 mai 2013
LinkedIn is used by professionals of all types, but it looks like prostitutes and escorts will have to find another social network to promote themselves.
The social network updated its user agreement terms on Monday, adding an interesting clause, which caught the attention of one of our readers. Under a section (...)
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Not a Hoax : Facebook Might Have to Give You Ten Bucks - 28 janvier 2013
Yesterday a friend told me about the very convincing bit of spam he received from someone posing as Facebook’s legal department telling him he is part of a class action lawsuit. Turns out, it’s not spam.
Facebook just settled a class action lawsuit for $20 million and is looking to pay out. There won’t be much left (...)
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Blogger Buys 1.1 Million Facebook User Emails for $5 - 27 octobre 2012
Bulgarian blogger Bogomil Shopov wrote Tuesday that he had purchased a spreadsheet containing 1.1 million Facebook user IDs and email addresses for $5. The data was allegedly scraped by third-party applications and offered for sale on a website called Gigbucks by a user named "mertem." Shopov verified that the (...)
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Facebook Monitors Your Chats for Criminal Activity - 13 juillet 2012
Facebook and other social platforms are watching users’ chats for criminal activity and notifying police if any suspicious behavior is detected, according to a report.
The screening process begins with scanning software that monitors chats for words or phrases that signal something might be amiss, such as an (...)
