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YouTube under federal investigation over allegations it violates children’s privacy - 20 juin 2019
The U.S. government is in the late stages of an investigation into YouTube for allegedly violating children’s privacy, according to four people familiar with the matter, in a probe that threatens the company with a potential fine and already has prompted the tech giant to reevaluate some of its business practices. (...)
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Is your pregnancy app sharing your intimate data with your boss ? - 12 avril 2019
As apps to help moms monitor their health proliferate, employers and insurers pay to keep tabs on the vast and valuable data
Like millions of women, Diana Diller was a devoted user of the pregnancy-tracking app Ovia, logging in every night to record new details on a screen asking about her bodily functions, sex (...)
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Dear tech companies, I don’t want to see pregnancy ads after my child was stillborn - The Washington Post - 12 décembre 2018
Dear Tech Companies :
I know you knew I was pregnant. It’s my fault, I just couldn’t resist those Instagram hashtags — #30weekspregnant, #babybump. And, silly me ! I even clicked once or twice on the maternity-wear ads Facebook served up. What can I say, I am your ideal “engaged” user.
You surely saw my heartfelt (...)
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14 years of Mark Zuckerberg saying sorry, not sorry - 28 novembre 2018
Do you trust Mark Zuckerberg ?
From the moment the Facebook founder entered the public eye in 2003 for creating a Harvard student hot-or-not rating site, he’s been apologizing. So we collected this abbreviated history of his public mea culpas.
It reads like a record on repeat. Zuckerberg, who made "move fast and (...)
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Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to 1 - 22 août 2018
Facebook has begun to assign its users a reputation score, predicting their trustworthiness on a scale from zero to 1.
The previously unreported ratings system, which Facebook has developed over the past year, shows that the fight against the gaming of tech systems has evolved to include measuring the credibility (...)
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WhatsApp founder plans to leave after broad clashes with parent Facebook - 1er mai 2018
The billionaire chief executive of WhatsApp, Jan Koum, is planning to leave the company after clashing with its parent, Facebook, over the popular messaging service’s strategy and Facebook’s attempts to use its personal data and weaken its encryption, according to people familiar with internal discussions.
Koum, (...)
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98 personal data points that Facebook uses to target ads to you - 14 avril 2018
Say you’re scrolling through your Facebook Newsfeed and you encounter an ad so eerily well-suited, it seems someone has possibly read your brain.
Maybe your mother’s birthday is coming up, and Facebook’s showing ads for her local florist. Or maybe you just made a joke aloud about wanting a Jeep, and Instagram’s (...)
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A former Russian troll speaks : "˜It was like being in Orwell’s world’ - 19 février 2018
The indictment by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III of 13 Russians associated with a St. Petersburg online "troll factory" that allegedly interfered with the U.S. election has brought a sense of vindication to the handful of former employees who have already been speaking out about what they witnessed.
One (...)
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The struggle to conceive with frozen eggs - 14 février 2018
Brigitte Adams became the poster child for freezing your eggs. But things didn’t quite work out how she imagined.
Brigitte Adams caused a sensation four years ago when she appeared on the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek under the headline, "Freeze your eggs, Free your career." She was single and blond, a Vassar (...)
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How tech sleuths cracked the mysterious code that turns your printer into a spying tool - 12 juin 2017
You wouldn’t have noticed it unless you knew where "” and how "” to look, but the top-secret National Security Agency document leaked to the Intercept and published Monday contained a clue that may have led authorities to its source.
Spread throughout the pages were barely visible yellow dots, each less than a (...)
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Google now knows when its users go to the store and buy stuff - 29 mai 2017
Google has begun using billions of credit-card transaction records to prove that its online ads are prompting people to make purchases "“ even when they happen offline in brick-and-mortar stores, the company said Tuesday.
The advance allows Google to determine how many sales have been generated by digital ad (...)
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Russian operation hacked a Vermont utility, showing risk to U.S. electrical grid security, officials say - 31 décembre 2016
A code associated with the Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe by the Obama administration has been detected within the system of a Vermont utility, according to U.S. officials.
While the Russians did not actively use the code to disrupt operations, according to officials who spoke on the condition of (...)
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Facebook, Twitter and Instagram sent feeds that helped police track minorities in Ferguson and Baltimore, report says - 12 octobre 2016
A powerful surveillance program that police used for tracking racially charged protests in Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo., relied on special feeds of user data provided by Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, according to an ACLU report Tuesday.
The companies provided the data "” often including the locations, photos and (...)
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98 personal data points that Facebook uses to target ads to you - 21 août 2016
Say you’re scrolling through your Facebook Newsfeed and you encounter an ad so eerily well-suited, it seems someone has possibly read your brain.
Maybe your mother’s birthday is coming up, and Facebook’s showing ads for her local florist. Or maybe you just made a joke aloud about wanting a Jeep, and Instagram’s (...)
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Terrorist or pedophile ? This start-up says it can out secrets by analyzing faces - 26 mai 2016
An Israeli start-up says it can take one look at a person’s face and realize character traits that are undetectable to the human eye.
Faception said it’s already signed a contract with a homeland security agency to help identify terrorists. The company said its technology also can be used to identify everything (...)
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The British want to come to America "” with wiretap orders and search warrants - 9 février 2016
If U.S. and British negotiators have their way, MI5, the British domestic security service, could one day go directly to American companies such as Facebook or Google with a wiretap order for the online chats of British suspects in a counterÂterrorism investigation.
The transatlantic allies have quietly begun (...)
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Everyone you know will be able to rate you on the terrifying "˜Yelp for people’ "” whether you want them to or not - 28 octobre 2015
You can already rate restaurants, hotels, movies, college classes, government agencies and bowel movements online.
So the most surprising thing about Peeple "” basically Yelp, but for humans "” may be the fact that no one has yet had the gall to launch something like it.
When the app does launch, probably in late (...)
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Facial recognition technology is everywhere. It may not be legal. - 17 juin 2015
Being anonymous in public might be a thing of the past. Facial recognition technology is already being deployed to let brick-and-mortar stores scan the face of every shopper, identify returning customers and offer them individualized pricing "” or find "pre-identified shoplifters" and "known litigious (...)
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Chinese breach data of 4 million federal workers - 5 juin 2015
Hackers working for the Chinese state breached the computer system of the Office of Personnel Management in December, U.S. officials said Thursday, and the agency will notify about 4"‰million current and former federal employees that their personal data may have been compromised.
The hack was the largest breach of (...)
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A reminder that your Instagram photos aren’t really yours : Someone else can sell them for $90,000 - 26 mai 2015
The Internet is the place where nothing goes to die.
Those embarrassing photos of your high school dance you marked "private" on Facebook ? The drunk Instagram posts ? The NSFW snapchats ? If you use social media, you’ve probably heard a warning akin to "don’t post anything you wouldn’t want your employer (or (...)
