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Les enfants, chevaux de Troie de la carte d’identité numérique ? - 11 mai 2012
Les réseaux sociaux et les sites communautaires pourraient bientôt être obligés de demander une carte d’identité numérique aux internautes qui souhaitent s’y inscrire pour publier des contenus. La mesure est proposée par Bruxelles pour protéger les mineurs.
Dans le cadre de sa communication pour "un internet mieux adapté (...)
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Myspace settles with FTC over privacy "“ will Google be next ? - 9 mai 2012
Myspace agrees to submit to FTC privacy audits over the next 20 years, while Google is understood to be under investigation
Myspace, the once-mighty social network that was ultimately toppled by Facebook, has settled a privacy investigation by the powerful Federal Trade Commission in the US over its sharing of (...)
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L’écosystème Facebook - 24 avril 2012
La féroce concurrence que se livrent les géants des services en ligne pour capter l’attention des internautes peut se résumer à une bataille de "plates-formes". C’est à celle qui attirera le plus grand nombre de partenaires - éditeurs de contenus, de services - pour paraître au final, la plus attrayante.
A ce jeu-là , le (...)
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Identity Companies : Paid to Know About You - 10 mars 2012
I was at the Montgomery & Co. investor conference in Los Angeles this week, where 186 promising start-ups present their businesses to over 1000 potential investors. The companies are private, so they don’t give away too much financial information.
Instead, you see what is doing well by watching where the money (...)
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Twitter and Facebook tell Google ’Don’t be evil’, but is it necessary ? - 25 janvier 2012
Twitter and Facebook developers have taken on Google’s new personalised search results with a special tool. But Google+ is still no threat.
Developers from Twitter, Facebook and MySpace have created a new tool to re-insert their pages into Google’s new search results. Some see the move as evidence that Facebook and (...)
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Google user data to be merged across all sites under contentious plan - 25 janvier 2012
New privacy policy means Google could log browsing habits on YouTube or Google+ to sell targeted ads in Gmail or search
Google is under fire for plans to collect data on individual users across all of its websites and merge the information into a single profile that can be used to alter the person’s search results (...)
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Des ingénieurs de Facebook, Twitter et MySpace ripostent contre Google+ - 25 janvier 2012
La guerre des réseaux sociaux aura bien lieu. Des ingénieurs de Facebook, Twitter et MySpace ont lancé, lundi 23 janvier, une initiative, baptisée "Focus on the user", destinée, selon ces entreprises, à donner une image "plus pertinente" des résultats du moteur de recherche. Ces groupes accusent notamment Google de trop (...)
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MySpace surrenders to Facebook in battle of social networks - 4 novembre 2011
MySpace has finished being a social network and a direct rival to Facebook, according to its chief executive, Mike Jones.
Talking to The Telegraph at the Monaco Media Forum, Jones said the bold statement : "MySpace is a not a social network anymore. It is now a social entertainment destination."
The troubled (...)
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THE END OF THEORY - Will the Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete ? - 3 octobre 2011
Sixty years ago, digital computers made information readable. Twenty years ago, the Internet made it reachable. Ten years ago, the first search engine crawlers made it a single database. Now Google and like-minded companies are sifting through the most measured age in history, treating this massive corpus as a (...)
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App developers withdraw from US as patent fears reach ’tipping point’ - 16 juillet 2011
Growth in US software patent lawsuits means independent developers are turning away from it as a place to do business - as Indian software company sends warning to tech giants
App developers are withdrawing their products for sale from the US versions of Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market for fear of (...)
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Google fined $5m over Linux patent row - 24 avril 2011
A judgement by a Texas jury against Google could have major implications for the search giant and the open source world said experts.
The internet titan was found guilty of infringing a patent related to the Linux kernel and fined $5m (£3.2m).
The software is used by Google for its server platforms and could also (...)
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News Corp.’s Myspace Sued for Giving Away Data on Members Without Consent - 17 avril 2011
News Corp. (NWSA)’s Myspace unit was accused in a lawsuit of giving data to aggregators that are used to associate members by name with their Internet browsing history without their consent.
Myspace shares the data with aggregators despite telling members they can restrict access to their information, according to (...)
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MySpace poursuivi pour avoir transmis des données personnelles - 17 avril 2011
Une plainte a été déposée aux États-Unis contre MySpace. Le plaignant accuse le site américain d’avoir transmis des données personnelles à des tiers, sans autorisation des membres.
Voilà qui tombe au plus mal pour MySpace. Alors que News Corp essaie de se débarrasser du réseau social, acheté en 2005 pour 580 millions de (...)
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CPS under attack over BT and Phorm’s covert online monitoring - 12 avril 2011
Privacy watchdogs fear big corporations can violate UK internet users’ rights with impunity
Privacy groups have attacked the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) after it decided not to prosecute BT and Phorm for secretly tracking the online habits of 18,000 internet users.
BT and Phorm sparked a privacy backlash in (...)
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Facebook in numbers : how it dominates the competition - 2 mars 2011
Facebook announced to today that it has more than 30 million UK users, or around half the population.
The site has attracted around four million Brits in the last eight months. The breakthrough underlines that despite the success of Twitter, Facebook is by far the dominant social network.
Here are the facts : (...)
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Searching for Details Online, Lawyers Facebook the Jury - 22 février 2011
Facebook is increasingly being used in courts to decide who is"”and who isn’t"”suitable to serve on a jury, the latest way in which the social-networking site is altering the U.S. court system.
Prosecution and defense lawyers are scouring the site for personal details about members of the jury pool that could signal (...)
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News Corp veut vendre MySpace - 3 février 2011
News Corp a annoncé mercredi son intention de vendre MySpace. Acheté en 2005 pour 580 millions de dollars, le réseau social a été largement battu par Facebook. Le groupe de médias considère désormais que MySpace, dont les recettes publicitaires chutent, plombe ses résultats.
Il n’y aura donc pas eu de sursaut dans (...)
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Hot Social Networking Site Cools as Facebook Grows - 12 janvier 2011
As Facebook was negotiating a half-billion-dollar investment from Goldman Sachs recently, MySpace, once the dominant Web site for social networking, was preparing to fire nearly half its staff.
The layoffs, which cut nearly 500 employees from a payroll of close to 1,100, were announced Tuesday. The downsizing is (...)
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MySpace by numbers : how it compares to its rivals - 6 janvier 2011
MySpace has failed to stem its decline, while Facebook keeps on growing the number of its users and engagement levels. We take a look at the figures and see it how it compares to its rivals.
MySpace :
Launched in 2003.
At its peak had more than 100 million global users.
Its users have been rapidly declining (...)
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Ces données privées que les applications mobiles transmettent à votre insu - 20 décembre 2010
Localisation, âge, sexe, identifiants : la plupart des applications sur téléphone mobile envoient des données privées à des régies publicitaires sans que l’utilisateur en soit informé, selon une enquête du Wall Street Journal. Sur 101 applications populaires étudiées par le journal américain, moitié sur iPhone, moitié sur (...)
