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No more NSA spying ? Sorry, Mr Obama, but that’s not true - 30 mars 2014
An end to the ’bulk collection’ of phone records won’t stop the NSA from snooping on us online
Last week in the Hague, Barack Obama seemed to have suddenly remembered the oath he swore on his inauguration as president "“ that stuff about preserving, protecting and defending the constitution of the United States. At (...)
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NSA surveillance program reaches "˜into the past’ to retrieve, replay phone calls - 19 mars 2014
The National Security Agency has built a surveillance system capable of recording "100 percent" of a foreign country’s telephone calls, enabling the agency to rewind and review conversations as long as a month after they take place, according to people with direct knowledge of the effort and documents supplied by (...)
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Foreign Officials In the Dark About Their Own Spy Agencies’ Cooperation with NSA - 18 mars 2014
One of the more bizarre aspects of the last nine months of Snowden revelations is how top political officials in other nations have repeatedly demonstrated, or even explicitly claimed, wholesale ignorance about their nations’ cooperation with the National Security Agency, as well as their own spying activities. (...)
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NSA : une étude souligne que les métadonnées peuvent violer la vie privée - 18 mars 2014
Deux étudiants de Standford ont mis en lumière le caractère particulièrement sensible des métadonnées téléphoniques. Sans jamais espionner les appels téléphoniques, ils ont montré qu’il est possible d’aller très loin dans la vie des gens, jusqu’à connaître leur état de santé ou savoir s’ils possèdent des armes à feu.
Lorsque (...)
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On Second Thought "¦ - 18 décembre 2013
Facebook wants to know why you didn’t publish that status update you started writing.
A couple of months ago, a friend of mine asked on Facebook :
Do you think that facebook tracks the stuff that people type and then erase before hitting ? (or the "post" button)
Good question.
We spend a lot of time thinking (...)
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Big Data : pourquoi nos métadonnées sont-elles plus personnelles que nos empreintes digitales ? - 15 décembre 2013
A l’occasion du colloque "la politique des données personnelles : Big Data ou contrôle individuel " organisé par l’Institut des systèmes complexes et l’Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon qui se tenait le 21 novembre dernier, Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye (@yvesalexandre) était venu présenter ses travaux, et à travers lui, ceux (...)
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Facepalm : new program lands facial recognition software in cops’ hands - 17 novembre 2013
When San Diego police detain criminal suspects, they don’t only rely on Q&As to extract information about the person in cuffs. Using new facial recognition technology, San Diego police can now match field images with about 348,000 San Diego County arrestees "” all they need is a tablet or a smartphone. In an (...)
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C.I.A. Is Said to Pay AT&T for Call Data - 10 novembre 2013
The C.I.A. is paying AT&T more than $10 million a year to assist with overseas counterterrorism investigations by exploiting the company’s vast database of phone records, which includes Americans’ international calls, according to government officials.
The cooperation is conducted under a voluntary contract, (...)
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What Gmail Knows About You - 9 juillet 2013
A new tool visualizes the metadata Google’s mail service gathers about you — and your friends.
When Google hands over e-mail records to the government, it includes basic envelope information, or metadata, that reveals the names and e-mail addresses of senders and recipients in your account. The feds can then mine (...)
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How to run your own NSA spy program - 24 juin 2013
The U.S. government takes a big data approach to intelligence gathering. And so can you !
Everybody’s talking about PRISM, the U.S. government’s electronic surveillance program.
We don’t know all the details about PRISM (also called US-984XN). But we learned enough from a badly designed PowerPoint presentation (...)
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Germany’s Complicated Relationship With Google Street View - 23 avril 2013
Germany is one of the most privacy-sensitive countries in the world. So when Google started taking pictures of buildings and homes for its Street View maps, some people were outraged, even though it was legal.
Then, when Johannes Caspar, the data protection supervisor in Hamburg, Germany, discovered that Google (...)
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FUD flies as Raytheon reveals social media analysis tool - 11 février 2013
Privacy crisis in progress as social media tracking again found to be intrusive
Defence contractor Raytheon has developed a tool that can mine social media to track and predict individuals’ behaviour, according to The Guardian.
A global "Big Sinister Defence Company Develops ’Google For Spies’ That Your Government (...)
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Finally, a grown-up debate about communications surveillance - 12 décembre 2012
Twelve years after the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) was passed by the UK Parliament, permitting the interception of communications without a judicial warrant and allowing the police to self-authorise access to communications metadata, some parts of this dangerous law are finally being properly (...)
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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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Marius Milner, Google Wi-Fi snooping : Assessing the disturbing FCC report on the company’s Street View program. - 1er mai 2012
Inside the disturbing FCC report on the company’s Street View snooping.
Was Google’s snooping on home Wi-Fi users the work of a rogue software engineer ? Was it a deliberate corporate strategy ? Was it simply an honest-to-goodness mistake ? And which of these scenarios should we wish for—which would assuage your (...)
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Google paying users to track 100% of their Web usage via little black box - 10 février 2012
Google is working to collect information about Internet users that it can’t get from just monitoring its own browser, services, and Android devices. The company has set up a new program called Screenwise, which offers money to users who install a black box on their home network to "measure Internet use." A smaller (...)
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Datamining Twitter - 5 décembre 2011
Making sense of the Twitter noise is about to get easier
On its own, Twitter builds an image for companies ; very few are aware of this fact. When a big surprise happens, it is too late : a corporation suddenly sees a facet of its business "“ most often a looming or developing crisis "“ flare up on Twitter. As (...)
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Google Music Launched Today — Without Licenses - 11 mai 2011
Proving unable to come to an agreement with all the major labels for the music service it originally wanted, Google is going to pull an Amazon and unveil a digital music locker service without any licensing deals at all during a keynote tomorrow (May 10) at its I/O conference in San Francisco, Google execs tell (...)
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Betrayed by our own data - 30 mars 2011
Mobile phones are tracking devices that reveal much about our lives. One look at our interactive map of data provided by the Green party politician Malte Spitz shows why.
The seminal electronic band Kraftwerk was well ahead of the curve musically, but even the lyrics to their 1981 song "Computerwelt" can seem (...)
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Skyhook Sues Google Over Location Software - 15 septembre 2010
Skyhook Wireless, which makes software that shows smartphone users where they are on their phone’s maps, filed a lawsuit Wednesday claiming Google had persuaded Motorola and another phone manufacturer to break contracts with Skyhook and use Google’s competing service.
In a separate suit, also filed Wednesday, (...)
