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Ten billionaires reap $400bn boost to wealth during pandemic - 20 décembre 2020
Covid-19 pushed many into poverty but brought huge benefits for some of the wealthiest, renewing calls for fairer taxes
Ten of the richest people in the world have boosted their already vast wealth by more than $400bn (£296bn) since the coronavirus pandemic began as their businesses were boosted by lockdowns and (...)
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Que reproche-t-on à Amazon ? - 29 novembre 2020
La multinationale et plus grosse entreprise mondiale de e-commerce est sous le feu de vives critiques depuis quelques semaines en France. Associations et personnalités politiques n’ont pas manqué de donner pointer du doigt l’entreprise que les Françaises et les Français utilisent très largement lors des fêtes de fin (...)
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Victory ! ICANN Rejects .ORG Sale to Private Equity Firm Ethos Capital - 6 mai 2020
In a stunning victory for nonprofits and NGOs around the world working in the public interest, ICANN today roundly rejected Ethos Capital’s plan to transform the .ORG domain registry into a heavily indebted for-profit entity. This is an important victory that recognizes the registry’s long legacy as a mission-based, (...)
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Change.org supprime 105.000 signatures contre la 5G - 11 avril 2020
La pétition en ligne « Pas de 5G » adressée au gouvernement belge a été supprimée par le site hébergeur Change.org.
Le 31 mars, en plein confinement, Proximus crée la surprise. L’opérateur de télécommunication, dont l’État belge est le principal actionnaire, annonce le déploiement d’une 5G light sur des fréquences inutilisées (...)
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Gafam : vers la fin du monopole ? - 5 janvier 2020
Les récentes dérives des GAFA rappellent que la constitution de monopoles représente une menace pour l’économie et la société.
C’est ce que souligne Nicolas Baverez dans le FigaroVox : « les Gafa se sont érigés en une hyperpuissance technologique hors de tout contrôle, que ce soit celui de l’État, du droit ou des citoyens. (...)
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La Belgique conservera-t-elle son rôle honteux de locomotive de l’ACTA en Europe ? - 14 février 2012
Désormais ouvert à la ratification en Europe, l’inacceptable traité ACTA entame son parcours législatif. Écoutant les inquiétudes légitimes de leurs populations, de leurs acteurs civils et économiques, la Pologne et la République tchèque ont décidé de geler sa ratification. Alors que l’Allemagne et la Lettonie ont annoncé (...)
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ACTA : Commissioner De Gucht Lies to the EU Parliament - 1er février 2012
The EU Commission "Trade" Directorate-General is lobbying the EU Parliament, presenting a one-sided and plainly distorted view of ACTA to face the growing citizen opposition. The EU’s executive branch, which negotiated ACTA behind citizens’ backs, is now shamelessly relaying the copyright industries’ lobbying pitch, (...)
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ACTA : Letter to the EU Parliament Development Committee - 25 janvier 2012
Today, La Quadrature du Net sent a letter to the Members of the Development committee of the European Parliament. All citizens should also call on the committee to carefully consider the many serious issues raised by ACTA, the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement aimed at establishing extremist standards in (...)
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After SOPA/PIPA in the US, ACTA Makes Its Way to the EU Parliament - 23 janvier 2012
After the huge online protests against the extremist SOPA and PIPA copyright bills discussed in the United States, the EU Parliament starts working on their global counterpart : ACTA, the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement. Citizens across Europe must push back against this illegitimate agreement bound to (...)
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Plutonian Striptease X : Constant - 2 novembre 2010
Plutonian Striptease is a series of interviews with experts, owners, users, fans and haters of social media, to map the different views on this topic, outside the existing discussions surrounding privacy.
Constant is a non-profit association, an interdisciplinary arts-lab based and active in Brussels since 1997. (...)
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What is ACTA ? - 14 avril 2010
ACTA is an international trade agreement currently negociated by the European Union, the United States, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Australia as well as a few other countries, whose aim is to enforce copyright and tackle counterfeited goods (hence its acronym : Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement).
The main (...)
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ACTA aura un impact sur Internet, mais de quelle ampleur ? - 24 février 2010
ACTA - acronyme de Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement - est un projet d’accord international portant sur la protection de la propriété intellectuelle et la lutte contre la contrefaçon.
Cet accord est en négociation depuis 2007 entre les représentants des gouvernements de : l’Australie, du Canada, de la Corée du Sud, (...)
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Secret plans to criminalize generic medicines could hurt poor countries and people - 24 février 2010
International agency Oxfam fears that companies producing affordable generic medicines for poor people could be subject to criminal prosecutions and have their medicines seized on orders from big drug companies under plans being drawn up by a closed group of mainly rich countries.
Negotiators working towards a (...)
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Phorm - 16 décembre 2009
Phorm, formerly known as 121Media, is a Delaware, United States-based digital technology company known for its advertising software. Founded in 2002, the company originally distributed programs that were considered spyware, from which they made millions of dollars in revenue. It has since stopped distributing (...)
