The Web never forgets: Persistent tracking mechanisms in the wild is the first large-scale study of three advanced web tracking mechanisms - canvas fingerprinting, evercookies and use of "cookie syncing" in conjunction with evercookies.

Everyone wants to be popular online. Some even pay for it. Inside social media’s black market.

Web Transparency & Accountability Project @ Princeton

24% of the population currently cares deeply enough about their online privacy to take significant actions to try to protect it.

Berlin, January 31, 2018 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.0, a major release and a dramatically improved free office suite, which celebrates the 7th anniversary of the availability of the very first version of LibreOffice. Today LibreOffice is more powerful, simple and secure, and offers superior interoperability with Microsoft Office documents.

LibreOffice 6.0 is immediately ...

Google, Facebook hidden trackers follow users around the web at alarming rates, says DuckDuckGo's CEO Gabriel Weinberg.

Federal and state authorities are investigating the sellers of artificial followers and other fraudulent social media engagement.

Personal details from your Internet profile—from your professional history to how many friends you have—are being collected, analyzed, and sold.

This report focuses on government use of commercial data brokers, the implications for that usage, and what needs to be done to address privacy problems. The government must bring itself fully to heel in the area of privacy. If it is going to outsource its data needs to commercial data brokers, it needs to attach the privacy standards it would have been held to if it had collected the data itself. Outsourcing is not an excuse for evading privacy obligations.

This report discusses the issue of cloud computing and outlines its implications for the privacy of personal information as well as its implications for the confidentiality of business and governmental information. The report finds that for some information and for some business users, sharing may be illegal, may be limited in some ways, or may affect the status or protections of the information shared. The report discusses how even when no laws or obligations block the ability of a user to disclose information to a cloud provider, disclosure may still not be free of consequences. The report finds that information stored by a business or an individual with a third party may have fewer or weaker privacy or other protections than information in the possession of the creator of the information. The report, in its analysis and discussion of relevant laws, finds that both government agencies and private litigants may be able to obtain information from a third party more easily than from the creator of the information. A cloud provider’s terms of service, privacy policy, and location may significantly affect a user’s privacy and confidentiality interests.

New forms of sophisticated digital signage networks are being deployed widely by retailers and others in both public and private spaces. From simple people-counting sensors mounted on doorways to sophisticated facial recognition cameras mounted in flat video screens and end-cap displays, digital signage technologies are gathering increasing amounts of detailed information about consumers, their behaviors, and their characteristics.

Computer scientists have recently undermined our faith in the privacy-protecting power of anonymization, the name for techniques for protecting the privacy of individuals in large databases by deleting information like names and social security numbers. These scientists have demonstrated they can often 'reidentify' or 'deanonymize' individuals hidden in anonymized data with astonishing ease. By understanding this research, we will realize we have made a mistake, labored beneath a fundamental misunderstanding, which has assured us much less privacy than we have assumed. This mistake pervades nearly every information privacy law, regulation, and debate, yet regulators and legal scholars have paid it scant attention. We must respond to the surprising failure of anonymization, and this Article provides the tools to do so.

Facebook devrait être considéré comme d'autres entreprises qui fabriquent des produits addictifs et potentiellement dangereux. C'est l'avis du PDG de la société Salesforce, Marc Benioff, l'un des dirigeants les plus influents de la Sillicon Valley, qui estime qu'il est temps que le gouvernement américain s'empare du sujet et impose une régulation des réseaux sociaux, comme c'est déjà le cas pour l'industrie du tabac.

L'utilisation des algorithmes permet à la fois de mieux connaître ses clients, mais aussi de rendre leur plateforme addictive, voire d'influencer les goûts des internautes. Étrangement, comme l’avait déjà remarqué Mashable, la plateforme fait presque toujours en sorte de mener progressivement ses abonnés à consommer une série Marvel, donc une création originale de Netflix, les deux sociétés ayant conclu un deal historique fin 2013. Même si vous détestez les comics, vous finirez peut-être par découvrir l'histoire de l'un de ces super-héros.

Dans un article publié sur Medium, plusieurs ingénieurs de l'entreprise expliquent comment ils s'y prennent pour personnaliser les images d'illustration des séries, films, ou documentaires en fonction des préférences de chaque utilisateur. Au menu : algorithme et machine learning.

Netflix est fière de ses algorithmes de recommandation. La plateforme américaine de vidéo en ligne communique régulièrement sur la façon dont elle s’y prend pour nous faire consommer le maximum de contenu

Google for the first time spent more than any other company in 2017 to influence Washington, highlighting both the sprawling reach of the country's thriving tech industry and the rising concern by regulators and lawmakers of its ascendance.

All told, the search giant broke its own record by allocating more than $18 million to lobby Congress, federal agencies and the White House on issues such as immigration, tax reform, and antitrust. It also spent money to weigh in on an effort by lawmakers and regulators to regulate online advertising, which is at the core of Google's business, according to disclosures filed to the Senate Office of Public Records.