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Verizon’s NFL Covid-19 Screening Cameras Are Based on Bad Science - 6 mars 2021
Verizon’s 5G-powered fever-detecting cameras appear to be sourced from a company under State Department sanctions and probably don’t work.
Technology companies have spent the past year in a manic sprint to reimagine (or at least re-market) their wares as coronavirus response tools, with often less than stellar (...)
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Explainer : Advertising executives point to five ways Google stifles business - 1er octobre 2020
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. authorities investigating Alphabet Inc’s GOOGL.O Google for anticompetitive behavior have recently begun probing the company’s $116 billion-a-year advertising business.
Attorneys general for 50 U.S. states and territories along with the U.S. Department of Justice appear to be (...)
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One Way to Prevent Police From Surveilling Your Phone - 29 septembre 2020
Use Signal and add a PIN code to your phone’s SIM card to help protect against spying.
Federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department used “a sophisticated cell phone cloning attack—the details of which remain classified—to intercept protesters’ phone communications” in Portland (...)
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AT&T’s current 5G is slower than 4G in nearly every city tested by PCMag - 9 septembre 2020
AT&T phones often get just 5MHz of 5G spectrum, slowing them down in speed tests.
AT&T smartphone users who see their network indicators switch from "4G" to "5G" shouldn’t necessarily expect that they’re about to get faster speeds. In PCMag’s annual mobile-network testing, released today, 5G phones connected (...)
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» L’essor des réseaux de caméras intelligentes, et pourquoi nous devrions les interdire - 31 août 2020
La reconnaissance faciale inquiète un peu partout. Qu’on puisse, par caméra, suivre nos moindres mouvements en public préoccupe beaucoup plus que l’existence et la prévalence exponentielle des réseaux de vidéosurveillance « intelligents », alors qu’il s’agit d’un sujet tout aussi inquiétant.
Les ménages et les sociétés (...)
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The original Big Tech is working closer than ever with governments to combat coronavirus – with no scrutiny - 10 août 2020
Telecom companies are at the core of the world’s communication universe. Since the coronavirus pandemic, they’ve been passing even more sensitive data to governments. It’s time they were held as accountable as Google and Facebook.
The texts can arrive at any time. Recipients are told they’ve been exposed to the (...)
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How Cops Can Secretly Track Your Phone - 31 juillet 2020
A guide to stingray surveillance technology, which may have been deployed at recent protests.
Since May, as protesters around the country have marched against police brutality and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, activists have spotted a recurring presence in the skies : mysterious planes and (...)
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« Le boycott de Facebook par les annonceurs rebat les cartes de l’industrie publicitaire » - 3 juillet 2020
L’économiste Rémi Devaux montre, dans une tribune au « Monde », que la suspension des publicités sur le réseau social signe la revanche du contenu des médias sur le ciblage et l’hyperpersonnalisation publicitaire.
Tribune. Le 26 juin, dix-neuf annonceurs majeurs, dont Coca-Cola, Honda, Ben & Jerry’s et Verizon, ont (...)
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Haine en ligne : le boycottage d’annonceurs oblige Facebook à fléchir - 29 juin 2020
Des entreprises telles les multinationales Unilever, Verizon ou Coca-Cola estiment que la plate-forme n’en fait pas assez contre les discours haineux.
Il est rare qu’une entreprise prévienne les journalistes moins de vingt minutes avant une prise de parole publique de son PDG. Les annonces de Mark Zuckerberg, (...)
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Coca-Cola et Unilever suspendent leurs publicités sur les réseaux sociaux aux Etats-Unis - 27 juin 2020
Sous pression pour mieux réguler les contenus haineux, Facebook a annoncé vendredi qu’il allait durcir sa politique de modération des contenus.
Coca-Cola, l’une des marques les plus connues du monde qui dépense des sommes énormes en publicité, a annoncé, vendredi 26 juin, qu’elle suspendait pendant au moins trente jours (...)
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Verizon pulls ads from Facebook over inaction on hate speech - 27 juin 2020
Company is the biggest yet to join growing movement, which includes Ben & Jerry’s and Patagonia, to boycott the social network
Verizon is pulling its advertising from Instagram and Facebook, the biggest name so far in a growing movement to boycott the social network for not doing enough to stop hate speech on (...)
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The (non)sense of online advertising : when the numbers don’t add up - 1er juin 2020
The digital advertising industry, worth hundreds of billions of dollars annually, is often plagued by widespread fraud, dubious metrics, and adblockers. Turns out that in a world of maths and numbers, measuring anything accurately is almost impossible.
On 29 January 2017, the American online advertising world (...)
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Government Tracking How People Move Around in Coronavirus Pandemic - 29 mars 2020
WASHINGTON—Government officials across the U.S. are using location data from millions of cellphones in a bid to better understand the movements of Americans during the coronavirus pandemic and how they may be affecting the spread of the disease.
The federal government, through the Centers for Disease Control and (...)
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Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon Should Suspend Data Caps Because of Coronavirus - VICE - 23 mars 2020
ISPs have spent years imposing unnecessary and expensive broadband caps to make an extra buck. With a looming public health crisis, telecom experts say it’s time to suspend them.
For years, US broadband providers have taken advantage of a lack of US competition by imposing arbitrary and expensive broadband usage (...)
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The Rise of the Video Surveillance Industrial Complex - 28 janvier 2020
There’s widespread concern that video cameras will use facial recognition software to track our every public move. Far less remarked upon — but every bit as alarming — is the exponential expansion of “smart” video surveillance networks.
Private businesses and homes are starting to plug their cameras into police (...)
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Verizon Launches ’Private’ Search Engine After Years of Violating Its Customers’ Privacy - VICE - 17 janvier 2020
Verizon spied on consumers for decades—then lobbied fiercely to prevent the government from doing anything about it. Now it wants you to trust it with your web searches.
Verizon has spent the better part of the last decade mired in privacy scandals and lobbying the government to ignore or legalize its bad (...)
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The Rise — And Rise — Of Mass Surveillance - 30 décembre 2019
Eavesdropping bureaucrats have been replaced by algorithm-driven facial recognition technology. But the real impact of indiscriminate surveillance may be in our minds.
We live in a world where school cameras monitor children’s emotions, countries collect people’s DNA en masse, and no digital communication seems (...)
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Secret F.B.I. Subpoenas Scoop Up Personal Data From Scores of Companies - 14 décembre 2019
The F.B.I. has used secret subpoenas to obtain personal data from far more companies than previously disclosed, newly released documents show.
The requests, which the F.B.I. says are critical to its counterterrorism efforts, have raised privacy concerns for years but have been associated mainly with tech (...)
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They Know What You Watched Last Night - 26 octobre 2019
A spate of streaming services are on their way from major tech and entertainment companies, promising viewers a trove of binge-worthy new shows and movies.
There’s something for advertisers, too : your personal data.
Recent deals involving the media conglomerate AT&T, the streaming device seller Roku, the (...)
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5G : « Les États-Unis ont peur de perdre leur prééminence technologique » - 21 octobre 2019
Objet d’une rivalité exacerbée entre les États-Unis et la Chine depuis plusieurs mois, la technologie 5G se retrouve au cœur d’enjeux géopolitiques majeurs et parfois complexes à décrypter. À l’occasion des Assises de la Sécurité, rendez-vous annuel des experts de la cybersécurité qui s’est tenu du 9 au 12 octobre à Monaco, (...)
