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Pourquoi Zoom ne proposera pas le plus haut niveau de sécurité à ses utilisateurs gratuits - 7 juin 2020
À l’occasion de la publication de ses excellents résultats financiers, Zoom a annoncé le déploiement prochain du chiffrement de bout en bout sur ses conversations vidéos. Mais cette bonne nouvelle a été modérée par une déclaration du CEO : l’option ne sera pas accessible aux comptes gratuits, car l’entreprise veut continuer à (...)
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This startup is using AI to give workers a “productivity score” - 6 juin 2020
Enaible is one of a number of new firms that are giving employers tools to help keep tabs on their employees—but critics fear this kind of surveillance undermines trust.
In the last few months, millions of people around the world stopped going into offices and started doing their jobs from home. These workers may (...)
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Zoom won’t encrypt free calls because it wants to comply with law enforcement - 3 juin 2020
If you’re a free Zoom user, and waiting for the company to roll out end-to-end encryption for better protection of your calls, you’re out of luck. Free calls won’t be encrypted, and law enforcement will be able to access your information in case of ‘misuse’ of the platform.
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan today said that the video (...)
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Facebook Says Very Little on Privacy of Messenger Rooms - 23 mai 2020
Earlier this month, Facebook debuted its group video chat offering, Messenger Rooms, to a world under widespread pandemic lockdown, one that’s in large part replaced face-to-face meetings with streamed conversations. The chief beneficiary of this shift, Zoom, has spent months as a punching bag for privacy (...)
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Zoom’s Security Woes Were No Secret to Business Partners Like Dropbox - 12 mai 2020
Dropbox privately paid top hackers to find bugs in software by the videoconferencing company Zoom, then pressed it to fix them.
One year ago, two Australian hackers found themselves on an eight-hour flight to Singapore to attend a live hacking competition sponsored by Dropbox. At 30,000 feet, with nothing but a (...)
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Uber, Lyft and Airbnb cut thousands of jobs as pandemic batters Silicon Valley - 10 mai 2020
The economic fallout from the coronavirus has come to Silicon Valley, with major tech firms announcing layoffs in recent weeks.
On Wednesday, Uber became the latest company to announce cuts, revealing in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that it will lay off 3,700 workers – roughly 14% of its (...)
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American billionaires have gotten $280 billion richer since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic - 10 mai 2020
Their net worth is rising at a time when millions and millions of people are finding themselves out of work.
Though the coronavirus itself may not discriminate in terms of who can be infected, the COVID-19 pandemic is far from a great equalizer. In the same month that 22 million Americans lost their jobs, the (...)
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’Heads we win, tails you lose’ : how America’s rich have turned pandemic into profit | World news | The Guardian - 4 mai 2020
As 26 million Americans lose their jobs, the billionaire class has added $308bn to its wealth
Never let a good crisis go to waste : as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the world, America’s 1% have taken profitable advantage of the old saying.
Some of the richest people in the US have been at the front of the queue (...)
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Antonio Casilli : I nuovi conflitti del lavoro digitale nella società virale | il manifesto - 29 avril 2020
Verso il primo Maggio 2020. Intervista al sociologo Antonio Casilli : « Economie delle app, grande distribuzione, e-commerce. Organizziamoci senza essere subalterni alla retorica dell’innovazione. A Madrid i rider hanno scioperato in quarantena. Azioni sindacali sono previste anche il primo maggio negli Stati Uniti (...)
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Messenger Rooms are Facebook’s answer to Zoom and Houseparty for the pandemic - The Verge - 26 avril 2020
Facebook is greatly expanding its video chat offerings to keep up with rising demand
Facebook is rolling out a suite of new products to expand its capabilities in video chat. The company today announced Messenger Rooms, a tool for starting virtual hangouts with up to 50 people and allowing friends to drop in on (...)
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Zoom is not the worst, just getting the attention software deserves | Privacy International - 23 avril 2020
The rise of scrutiny of Zoom is welcome evidence that privacy and security is valued and essential as our lives and interactions become increasingly virtual.
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Zoom already had security challenges before the Coronavirus-caused lockdowns.
Massive adoption of Zoom led to more scrutiny and exposure of (...)
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Zoom : pour 500 000 dollars, des hackers fournissent une faille pour espionner les conversations - Cyberguerre - 22 avril 2020
Des hackers ont trouvé une faille zero day critique sur les client Windows de Zoom. Ils vendent l’exploitation de cette vulnérabilité pour 500 000 dollars. Ce prix semble trop élevé, car si l’utilisation de la faille permet d’accéder à des informations essentielles, elle nécessite de passer un appel avec la victime pour (...)
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Privacy Versus Health Is a False Trade-Off - 18 avril 2020
As tech firms team up with governments to fight the coronavirus pandemic, we’re being asked to accept a trade-off between our digital privacy and our health. It’s a false choice : we can achieve the public health benefits of data without accepting abusive and illicit surveillance.
As the world scrambles to stop the (...)
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La grande forme d’Amazon a de quoi inquiéter | korii. - 15 avril 2020
Les méfaits de la toute-puissance de l’entreprise n’ont jamais été aussi saillants.
Dans une récente note adressée aux investisseurs, Bank of America estime qu’Amazon pourrait tirer cette année jusqu’à 4 milliards de dollars [3,64 milliards d’euros] de revenus suplémentaires grâce au Covid-19. Pour l’entreprise, virus mis à (...)
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Pourquoi l’administration française a-t-elle autant de mal à remplacer Zoom ? - Cyberguerre - 15 avril 2020
Zoom a tellement de problèmes de sécurité que les institutions déconseillent son usage. Mais la qualité de son expérience utilisateur le rend très compliqué à remplacer.
Après avoir multiplié par 20 son nombre d’utilisateurs à la faveur du confinement et de la généralisation du télétravail, Zoom a été plombé par une (...)
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Zoom Rushes to Improve Privacy for Consumers Flooding Its Service - The New York Times - 10 avril 2020
Over the last month, the Zoom videoconferencing service has emerged as the communication lifeline of the coronavirus pandemic. But the convenience fueling Zoom’s explosive popularity has come at a price.
Originally a service meant for businesses, Zoom was designed to make it easy for company employees, sales (...)
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Zoom videos exposed online, highlighting privacy risks - The Washington Post - 8 avril 2020
Many of the videos include personally identifiable information and deeply intimate conversations, recorded in people’s homes.
Thousands of personal Zoom videos have been left viewable on the open Web, highlighting the privacy risks to millions of Americans as they shift many of their personal interactions to video (...)
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La direction de Zoom a vendu des dizaines de millions de dollars d’actions | korii. - 8 avril 2020
Juste avant que les scandales n’éclatent : timing parfait.
Alors que le confinement oblige des millions de personnes à travailler à distance ou à assister à leurs cours sur internet, les logiciels de visioconférence connaissent un pic d’utilisation. La start-up Zoom a su tirer son épingle du jeu. Depuis le début du (...)
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Zoom’s Flawed Encryption Linked to China - 4 avril 2020
Meetings on Zoom, the increasingly popular video conferencing service, are encrypted using an algorithm with serious, well-known weaknesses, and sometimes using keys issued by servers in China, even when meeting participants are all in North America, according to researchers at the University of Toronto.
The (...)
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Here’s How Bird Laid Off 406 People in Two Minutes - dot.LA - 3 avril 2020
Last Friday morning, 406 Bird employees – who had been working from home for two weeks because of the coronavirus and bleary-eyed from putting in longer than usual days in an unprecedented effort to rapidly wind down global operations in cities around the world – received a generic-sounding Zoom webinar invitation (...)
