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How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics : a whistleblower’s account - 16 avril 2021
The inside story of Sophie Zhang’s battle to combat rampant manipulation as executives delayed and deflected
Shortly before Sophie Zhang lost access to Facebook’s systems, she published one final message on the company’s internal forum, a farewell tradition at Facebook known as a “badge post”.
“Officially, I’m a (...)
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Facebook condemned for hosting neo-Nazi network with UK links - 26 novembre 2020
Tech giant criticised for failing to act after being told two years ago about extremist activity on its platform
A white supremacist network with more than 80,000 followers and links to the UK far right, including a student charged with terrorist offences, is being hosted by Facebook and Instagram, putting the (...)
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Ukraine’s controversial cybersecurity deal with Huawei - 25 octobre 2020
From the U.S. to Europe, the Chinese telecoms giant is facing sanctions and suspicion — but Kyiv is playing a different game
Governments across Europe are showing Huawei the door, but Ukraine is following a different path, entering into a new cybersecurity deal with the Chinese telecoms giant.
The new partnership (...)
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Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation - 14 septembre 2020
A 6,600-word internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist details how the social network knew leaders of countries around the world were using their site to manipulate voters — and failed to act.
Facebook ignored or was slow to act on evidence that fake accounts on its platform have been undermining elections (...)
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Comment les vendeurs de logiciels espions se cachent et attirent leurs clients - 1er avril 2020
Des éditeurs de logiciels, établis pour la plupart dans des paradis fiscaux, ont recours à des méthodes de marketing agressives pour vendre des services à la légalité discutable.
Si vous tapez dans un moteur de recherche « localiser un téléphone » ou « espionner ma femme », impossible de les manquer. Une quinzaine (...)
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When Disease Comes, Rulers Grab More Power - The Atlantic - 25 mars 2020
On March 13—Friday the 13th, as it happened—my husband was driving down a Polish highway when he turned on the news and learned that the country’s borders would shut down in 24 hours. He pulled over and called me. I bought a ticket from London to Warsaw minutes later. I don’t live there all of the time, but my husband (...)
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Rançongiciel, les nouveaux maîtres-chanteurs - 17 mars 2020
L’entreprise de lingerie Lise Charmel a été placée en redressement judiciaire après avoir été victime d’un rançongiciel. Ces programmes informatiques qui verrouillent les données de leurs victimes et réclament une rançon, peuvent avoir des effets plus ou moins dévastateurs, et parfois inattendus.
Victime d’une cyberattaque (...)
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Instagram-Scraping Clearview AI Wants To Sell Its Facial Recognition Software To Authoritarian Regimes - 7 février 2020
Facebook confirmed to BuzzFeed News that it has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Clearview AI, asking the company to stop using information from Facebook and Instagram.
As legal pressures and US lawmaker scrutiny mounts, Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that claims to have a database of more than 3 (...)
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Amazon Engineer : ’Ring should be shut down immediately and not brought back’ - 4 février 2020
An Amazon software engineer named Max Eliaser is calling for the shutdown of Ring, the doorbell camera company Amazon paid $2 billion for in 2018.
Hundreds of Amazon employees recently banded together to form Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, an organization dedicated to holding the company’s feet to the fire (...)
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Why Amazon’s Ring and facial recognition technology are a clear and present danger to society - 3 février 2020
“The deployment of connected home security cameras that allow footage to be queried centrally are simply not compatible with a free society.” Amazon engineer Max Eliaser
The greatest threat posed to democracy in any free nation is that of ubiquitous government surveillance. Many countries today are struggling to (...)
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Ring Ukraine News Suppressed at Amazon’s Request - 25 janvier 2020
Ring Ukraine News Suppressed at Amazon’s Request, Journalists Say
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On November 21, the Ukrainian business publication Vector published a genuine regional success story : An Amazon research lab in Kyiv, affiliated with the company’s Ring home security division, was receiving a “rebrand” makeover and a (...)
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Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’ - 8 janvier 2020
Company’s work in 68 countries laid bare with release of more than 100,000 documents
An explosive leak of tens of thousands of documents from the defunct data firm Cambridge Analytica is set to expose the inner workings of the company that collapsed after the Observer revealed it had misappropriated 87 million (...)
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Amazon’s Ring Planned Neighborhood “Watch Lists” Built on Facial Recognition - 28 novembre 2019
Ring, Amazon’s crimefighting surveillance camera division, has crafted plans to use facial recognition software and its ever-expanding network of home security cameras to create AI-enabled neighborhood “watch lists,” according to internal documents reviewed by The Intercept.
The planning materials envision a (...)
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Surprised about Mark Zuckerberg’s secret meeting with Trump ? Don’t be - 24 novembre 2019
What are Mark Zuckerberg’s politics ? Based on recent events, one might assume the young billionaire favors American conservatism, even explicit Republican positions.
On Thursday, NBC News revealed that the CEO of Facebook had a secret dinner at the White House in October with President Donald Trump. Zuckerberg (...)
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Senators Press Amazon for Answers on Ring’s Sloppy Security Practices - 20 novembre 2019
This past year has been chock full of uncomfortable revelations about Ring, the surveillance social network and home security hardware company acquired by Amazon for a reported $800 million, including reports of potentially disastrous internal security practices, an apparent disregard for user privacy, and wave (...)
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Une cyberattaque pourrait faire « autant de dégâts qu’une attaque nucléaire » - 25 août 2019
C’est ce qu’affirme Jeremy Straub, chercheur américain en informatique, dans un article publié sur The Conversation. De nombreux systèmes de services vitaux pour les populations seraient déjà infiltrés par des logiciels malveillants, prêts à causer des dégâts majeurs en cas d’éclatement d’une cyberguerre.
En 2016, des (...)
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Fake news, contrôle des données"¦ Retour sur la face sombre de nos vies numériques. Aujourd’hui, un ver informatique dans les rouages ukrainiens. - 31 juillet 2019
Kiev (Ukraine), 27 juin 2017. Ce matin-là , Vlad Styran, directeur des opérations de Berezha Security, une petite entreprise de sécurité informatique, est chez un client. Il est 11 heures environ lorsqu’un de ses collègues l’avertit qu’un logiciel malveillant circule et a été repéré notamment dans une banque de la ville. (...)
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FOR OWNERS OF AMAZON’S RING SECURITY CAMERAS, STRANGERS MAY HAVE BEEN WATCHING TOO - 15 février 2019
THE "SMART HOME" of the 21st century isn’t just supposed to be a monument to convenience, we’re told, but also to protection, a Tony Stark-like bubble of vigilant algorithms and internet-connected sensors working ceaselessly to watch over us. But for some who’ve welcomed in Amazon’s Ring security cameras, there have (...)
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Comment les caméras Amazon Ring sont devenues intelligentes en vous espionnant - 15 février 2019
Pour entraîner l’IA de détection embarqués dans les caméras intelligentes Ring, des équipes visionnaient en douce les enregistrements extérieurs ou intérieurs des domiciles des utilisateurs pour taguer manuellement les événements à analyser.
Les particuliers qui ont acheté des caméras de surveillance Amazon Ring se sentent (...)
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Facebook removes hundreds of pages ’linked to Russian site’ - 21 janvier 2019
Social network says it has taken down 289 pages connected to Kremlin-backed news website
Facebook has removed hundreds of pages believed to be connected to the Kremlin-backed Sputnik news website for allegedly breaching its rules.
The Facebook pages, which were targeted at individuals in former Soviet satellite (...)
