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January 28, 2019

A thread written by @SarahJamieLewis

Facebook are going to monetize encrypted messaging by consolidating metadata analysis of 3 key platforms (Messenger, Whatsapp & Instagram). They will make money by tracking your relationships and social groups. They will make that information easily accessible to law enforcement.

affordance.info: Si c'est pourri c'est que t'es pas le bon produit (ma réponse à Mark Zuckerberg).

Mark Zuckerberg vient de se lancer dans une grosse campagne de communication en publiant une tribune simultanément dans plusieurs très grands journaux dont Le Monde ou le Wall Street Journal. Elle est intitulée : "Je souhaite clarifier la manière dont...

Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility | Scientific Reports

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Google’s Sidewalk Labs Plans to Package and Sell Location Data on Millions of Cellphones

Google's sibling company Sidewalk Labs offers planning agencies the ability to model an entire city's patterns of movement.

We value your privacy now, but maybe not later | raimue.blog
Privacy: We Can't Just Assume that Facebook Will Do Its Best | ZEIT ONLINE

Being treated as lab rats for algorithms is not an option, says the German justice minister in a response to Mark Zuckerberg and explains how Facebook must be regulated.

Pourquoi Google, Amazon et Facebook dépensent toujours plus d'argent dans le lobbying

En 2018, le budget de lobbying aux Etats-Unis de Google, Amazon et Facebook a augmenté de 13%. Depuis 2013, les montants ont évolué de 69% pour l'ensemble des géants de la tech, Microsoft et Apple compris.

An Intentional Mistake: The Anatomy of Google's Wi-Fi Sniffing Debacle | WIRED

Google's public version of events of how it came to secretly intercept Americans' data sent on unencrypted Wi-Fi routers over a two-year period doesn't quite mesh with what the search giant told federal regulators. And if Google had its way, the public would have never learned the software on Google's Street View mapping cars was "intended" to collect payload data from open Wi-Fi networks.

Facebook: The Normalization Of What Should Never Have Been Accepted As Normal
MacBook Pro : un problème à 6 dollars, mais une facture de 600 $ - ZDNet

Les câbles d'affichage cassés sur les modèles MacBook Pro fabriqués en 2016 ou plus tard nécessitent de remplacer totalement l’écran. Et cela ne satisfait pas du tout les clients Apple concernés.

Smart TVs Are Dumb - The Atlantic
Google and IAB ad category lists show ‘massive leakage of highly intimate data,’ GDPR complaint claims | TechCrunch

Male impotence, substance abuse, right-wing politics, left-wing politics, sexually transmitted diseases, cancer, mental health. Those are just a few of the advertising labels that Google’s adtech infrastructure routinely sticks to Internet users as it watches and tracks what they do online in…

How switching my parents over to Linux saved me a lot of headache and support calls — Simon Frey

During me being at my parents over the holidays (Christmas 2017) I had the usual IT-support stuff to do, that always happens to tech sa...