L’ami Gee continue à nous dessiner les frasques des GAFAM et passe un peu de temps, cette fois-ci, à expliquer les danger des appareils connectés qui « écoutent »… une énième raison d’essayer d’organiser une autre société où, peut-être, les humains s’écouteraient entre eux au lieu de se faire volontairement espionner par des boîtes noires.

Oh, they definitely do keep tabs and actively participate in places like HN.

You must have missed seeing this a few years ago...

Members of Apple PR seek tabloid photos of celebrities holding iPhones, while others read Apple-focused blogs actively, and keep tabs on prominent Apple beat writers using anonymized social media accounts. A former Apple PR employee notes that the team enjoys being an “overall watchdog,” monitoring what the media is saying about the company every day.

https://9to5mac.com/2014/08/29/part-3-strategies-the-art-of-deep-background-and-controlling-the-press/

Have you ever written a comment, or Facebook status, before deciding not to post it? According to new Facebook research, 70 per cent of us do this regularly.

The study found that men are more likely to 'self-censor' their social network posts, compared to women, and this is especially the case if they have a lot of male friends.

More surprising, however, is the reason why the site knows this information - because it can track what you type, even if you never post it.

L’article qui suit n’est pas une traduction intégrale mais un survol aussi fidèle que possible de la conférence TED effectuée par la sociologue des technologies Zynep Tufecki. Cette conférence intitulée : « Nous créons une dystopie simplement pour obliger les gens à cliquer sur des publicités »

Multiple online user reports claim that the MantisTek GK2 mechanical keyboard's configuration software is sending data to an Alibaba server. One of the reports even includes an analysis of the software’s traffic, which seems to include how many times keys have been pressed.