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Le mouvement Occupy prépare un Facebook libre pour les 99% - 17 janvier 2012
« Je ne cherche pas à dire que nous créons notre propre Facebook, mais c’est pourtant ce que nous sommes en train de faire, » explique Ed Knutson, un developpeur web et applications mobiles qui a rejoint une équipe de geeks-activistes qui repensent le réseautage social pour l’ère de la contestation mondialisée.
Ils (...)
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L’EPIC attaque l’indexation de Google+ dans le moteur de recherche - 14 janvier 2012
L’Electronic privacy information center indique que les nouvelles fonctionnalités de Google vont à l’encontre d’un accord passé entre Google et la FTC.
Après avoir suscité de virulentes critiques de la part de Twitter (lire l’article "Google intègre les données de Google+ et Picasa à son moteur de recherche", du (...)
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Twitter unhappy about Google’s social search changes - 12 janvier 2012
Twitter has complained about changes made by Google to integrate its social network Google+ into search results.
The new feature, called Search plus Your World, will automatically push results from Google+ up the search rankings.
Tweeting on the news, Twitter’s lawyer Alex Macgillivray described it as a "bad day (...)
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Google and Twitter clash over search results - 12 janvier 2012
Twitter has clashed publicly with Google over changes to the dominant web search engine that promote Google+, its own social network.
Announced on Tuesday, Google’s "Your World" update means users will see more links to Google+ when they search the web, including in part of the results page usually set aside for (...)
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Google search changes are bad for the internet, says Twitter - 11 janvier 2012
Google accused of warping its search results by boosting posts from its Google+ social network
Google has angered Twitter and faces accusations of "warping" its search results and breaking antitrust rules by boosting posts from its Google+ social network in its standard search results.
The changes, which are (...)
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News Networks Ignore Controversial SOPA Legislation - 9 janvier 2012
Controversial legislation that the co-founder of Google has warned "would put us on a par with the most oppressive nations in the world" has received virtually no coverage from major American television news outlets during their evening newscasts and opinion programming. The parent companies of most of these (...)
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Congress calls on Twitter to block Taliban - 9 janvier 2012
American congressmen are calling on Twitter to block Taliban propagandists from the micro-blogging site.
Senators want to stop feeds which boast of insurgent attacks on Nato forces in Afghanistan and the casualties they inflict.
Aides for Joe Lieberman, chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said the (...)
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Le gouvernement américain veut museler Twitter - 9 janvier 2012
Ces derniers jours, nous avons assisté aux premiers coups de massue que Twitter s’est pris sut le crâne : Aussi indépendant que le service souhaite rester, il ne peut demeurer un service ouvert à tous et pour tous. Le gouvernement américain ne supporte plus que des groupes islamistes proches de la mouvance djihadiste (...)
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Company sues ex-employee for his Twitter followers - 28 décembre 2011
PhoneDog sues Noah Kravitz for $340,000, saying his 17,000 followers on Twitter constitutes a customer database
A Twitter user is being sued for £217,000 by his former employer for taking his online followers with him when he switched jobs. Noah Kravitz, a writer from Oakland, California, amassed 17,000 followers (...)
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Survey : What Was The Top #Privacy Story of 2011 ? - 27 décembre 2011
Privacy was in the news a lot in 2011. After asking for suggestions at the Twitter Privacy Chat, on Google+ and Facebook, and on a couple of mailing lists, we’ve assembled a list of 17 top privacy stories :
Pervasive use of surveillance tools : surveillance cameras, license plate scanners, TSA expands beyond (...)
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Le flicage adopte une bonne conscience - 20 décembre 2011
Le week-end dernier, l’Union européenne a ouvert la voie à l’adoption de l’Anti-conterfeinting trade agreement (Acta). De l’autre côté de l’Atlantique, les députés américains étudiaient en commission le projet de loi Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa). Deux instruments juridiques aux finalités similaires : filtrer ou bloquer les (...)
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Le Conseil de l’Europe dénonce les pressions politiques pour la censure du net - 8 décembre 2011
Le Conseil de l’Europe, qui regroupe 47 pays au delà des seules frontières de l’Union Européenne, a adopté mercredi une déclaration sur la protection de la liberté d’expression et de la liberté de réunion et d’association sur Internet. Dans ce texte, le Conseil considère que les plateformes de réseaux sociaux, les blogs, et (...)
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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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Judge orders Google, Facebook to remove fake sites - 30 novembre 2011
A US Judge has ordered Google, Yahoo, Twitter and Facebook, among others, to delist domain names linked to websites selling counterfeit goods.
It represents a significant step in the ongoing battle against the sale of fake items online.
The case was brought by luxury goods maker Chanel against 600 sites which it (...)
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There are no free lunches on the internet - 21 novembre 2011
Twitter users will eventually discover "“ as users of Facebook and Google already have "“ that there is no such thing as "free" on the web
Physics has Newton’s first law ("Every body persists in its state of being at rest or of moving uniformly straight forward, except insofar as it is compelled to change its state (...)
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Sopa condemned by web giants as ’internet blacklist bill’ - 17 novembre 2011
Google, Twitter and eBay say controversial Stop Online Piracy Act would give US authorities too much power over websites
Internet giants went on the attack on Wednesday, claiming legislation aimed at tackling online piracy would create an "internet blacklist bill" that would encourage censorship, kill jobs and (...)
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Privacy Loses in Twitter/Wikileaks Records Battle - 14 novembre 2011
Ruling Allows U.S. Government Warrantless Access to Users’ Data
San Francisco - A district court judge in Virginia ruled against online privacy today, allowing U.S federal investigators to collect private records of three Twitter users as part of its investigation related to Wikileaks. The judge also blocked the (...)
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Twitter doit fournir aux USA les données d’une députée islandaise - 14 novembre 2011
La justice américaine a confirmé l’obligation faite à Twitter de livrer des informations personnelles sur trois de ses utilisateurs, dans le cadre d’une enquête sur les informations publiées par Wikileaks. Parmi les trois personnes concernées figure une députée islandaise, qui demande aux internautes de ne plus utiliser de (...)
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CIA following Twitter, Facebook - 7 novembre 2011
In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building, the CIA is following tweets "” up to 5 million a day.
At the agency’s Open Source Center, a team known affectionately as the "vengeful librarians" also pores over Facebook, newspapers, TV news channels, local radio stations, Internet chat (...)
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La CIA surveille Facebook et Twitter - 7 novembre 2011
Les services de renseignement s’intéressent aussi aux réseaux sociaux, mais pas pour y retrouver des amis. La CIA s’en sert pour suivre les tendances mondiales et prendre le pouls de l’opinion publique. Elle observe ainsi en particulier à Facebook et Twitter, deux plates-formes très fréquentées par les internautes. (...)
