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Twitter stores full iPhone contact list for 18 months, after scan - 16 février 2012
Twitter Inc. has acknowledged that after mobile users tap the "Find friends" feature on its smartphone app, the company downloads users’ entire address book, including email addresses and phone numbers, and keeps the data on its servers for 18 months. The company also said it plans to update its apps to clarify (...)
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Des applications téléchargent le carnet d’adresses de l’iPhone - 16 février 2012
Quel est le point commun entre les applications iPhone de Facebook, Twitter ou Instagram ? Ces services "“ comme plusieurs autres "“ enregistrent l’ensemble des données contenues dans le carnet de contacts du téléphone et les envoient sur les serveurs de ces entreprises : noms, prénoms, numéros de téléphone, adresses (...)
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Facebook and Twitter do not need anti-piracy software, says court - 16 février 2012
European court rules social networking sites do not require filtering system in copyright case brought by music royalties firm
Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter cannot be required to install an anti-piracy filtering system, the European court of justice has ruled.
Europe’s top court has made the ruling (...)
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What does Twitter know about its users ? #NOLOGS - 16 février 2012
Inspired by the Europe v. Facebook campaign and further motivated by revelations that individuals associated with WikiLeaks and the #occupy movements in Boston and New York have had their Twitter data disclosed to American law enforcement authorities, Privacy International is launching a campaign to encourage (...)
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The Age of Big Data - 12 février 2012
Good with numbers ? Fascinated by data ? The sound you hear is opportunity knocking.
Mo Zhou was snapped up by I.B.M. last summer, as a freshly minted Yale M.B.A., to join the technology company’s fast-growing ranks of data consultants. They help businesses make sense of an explosion of data "” Web traffic and (...)
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The Piracy Problem : How Broad ? - 10 février 2012
When Fred Wilson, a prominent New York venture capitalist who has backed Twitter and Zynga, wanted to watch the Knicks game last month, he got an unpleasant surprise. Time Warner Cable was not showing the game because of a contract dispute.
Frustrated, he turned to the Internet for help. Within minutes he was (...)
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Can an algorithm be wrong ? Twitter Trends, the specter of censorship, and our faith in the algorithms around us - 4 février 2012
The interesting question is not whether Twitter is censoring its Trends list. The interesting question is, what do we think the Trends list is, what it represents and how it works, that we can presume to hold it accountable when we think it is "wrong ?" What are these algorithms, and what do we want them to be ? (...)
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Réseaux sociaux (3/3) : ces algorithmes qui nous gouvernent - 4 février 2012
Les algorithmes peuvent-ils se tromper ?
Tarleton Gillespie professeur associé à l’université Cornell devait conclure ces deux jours, mais il n’a pu être présent. Il semblait néanmoins intéressant de jeter un oeil sur son propos qu’il a notamment développé sur CultureDigitally : est-ce que les algorithmes peuvent se tromper (...)
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Facebook aimerait confirmer Pékin comme ami - 2 février 2012
Facebook, qui s’apprête à réaliser la plus grosse introduction en Bourse jamais effectuée par la net-économie, souhaiterait s’implanter à nouveau en Chine, immense réservoir d’internautes où il est censuré. Mais les analystes doutent que cela se fasse dans un avenir proche. « Il y a plus de deux milliards d’utilisateurs de (...)
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Google aussi se met à la géocensure - 1er février 2012
Google redirige progressivement les internautes vers des versions locales des blogs hébergés sur sa plateforme Blogger, pour y appliquer les lois nationales spécifiques de régulation des contenus. C’est ainsi la loi du lecteur qui prime sur la loi de l’auteur. Mais le géant américain livre lui-même une astuce pour (...)
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Caution on Twitter urged as tourists barred from US - 1er février 2012
Holidaymakers have been warned to watch their words after two friends were refused entry to the US on security grounds after a tweet.
Before his trip, Leigh Van Bryan wrote that he was going to "destroy America".
He insisted he was referring to simply having a good time - but was sent home.
Trade association (...)
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FBI releases plans to monitor social networks - 30 janvier 2012
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has quietly released details of plans to continuously monitor the global output of Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, offering a rare glimpse into an activity that the FBI and other government agencies are reluctant to discuss publicly. The plans show that the (...)
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FBI plans social network map alert mash-up application - 30 janvier 2012
The FBI is seeking to develop an early-warning system based on material "scraped" from social networks.
It says the application should provide information about possible domestic and global threats superimposed onto maps "using mash-up technology".
The bureau has asked contractors to suggest possible solutions (...)
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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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In Fight Over Piracy Bills, New Economy Rises Against Old - 19 janvier 2012
When the powerful world of old media mobilized to win passage of an online antipiracy bill, it marshaled the reliable giants of K Street "” the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Recording Industry Association of America and, of course, the motion picture lobby, with its new chairman, former Senator Christopher (...)
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New, Old Media Battle Over Net Rules - 18 janvier 2012
The passage of antipiracy legislation affecting the Internet, long considered likely, is no longer so certain.
Showing a strategic ability worthy of the best political campaigns, some of the Internet’s most popular sites are about to unleash a splashy weapon "“ Internet blackout day "“ to block proposed antipiracy (...)
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Web Piracy Bill Faces Fiercer Fight - 17 janvier 2012
Media Companies Lose Ground as White House Sides With Internet Firms ; Wikipedia Plans Protest
Supporters of controversial antipiracy legislation face a struggle to regain momentum after the White House sided with irate Internet companies and users over the weekend and complained that the proposal could hurt (...)
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Google+ scruté par le régulateur de la concurrence américain - 17 janvier 2012
La Federal Trade Commission, le régulateur de la concurrence aux Etats-Unis, devrait étendre l’enquête qu’elle a déjà ouverte sur les pratiques de Google à son service social Google+, affirme l’agence Bloomberg, qui cite plusieurs sources proches du dossier.
Google a étroitement intégré la semaine dernière son réseau (...)
