I originally wrote this for my friends and family in 2015, to explain why the latest Facebook privacy policy is really harmful. It’s since been read by over a million people, and I updated it earlier thise year. External references – and steps to get off properly – at the bottom. Oh, and if you’re interested in a privacy-friendly way to stay in touch with friends, I’m looking into making a simple phone app for easy sharing.

Researchers have detected a new worm that is spreading via SMB, but unlike the worm component of the WannaCry ransomware, this one is using seven NSA tools instead of two.

The short version: I'm loading over 1 billion breached accounts into HIBP. These are from 2 different "combo lists", collections of email addresses and passwords from all sorts of different locations. I've verified their accuracy (including my own record in one of them) and many hundreds of millions of the

Un énorme fichier de comptes utilisateurs volés

So it's not really about speed. As with anything that eschews standards for its own modified version thereof, it's about lock-in. Tons of pages in Google AMP markup mean tons of pages that are optimized specifically for Google and indexed primarily by Google and shown primarily to Google users. It's Google's attempt to match Facebook's platform. And yes, Facebook is far worse than AMP, but that doesn't make Google AMP a good idea. At least Facebook doesn't try to pretend like it's open.

A shadowy operation involving big data, billionaire friends of Trump and the disparate forces of the Leave campaign heavily influenced the result of the EU referendum. Is our electoral process still fit for purpose?

Du grand banditisme à une échelle jamais vue. Le résultat : une élection historique volée.

Les suspects sont connus, les cerveaux, les financiers, les hommes de main…

Il y a Nigel Farage, agent de change devenu politicien malgré lui, fondateur du parti politique UKIP contre l'euro, l'Union Européenne et l'immigration.

Il y a Steve Bannon, à la tête de Breitbart News, une plateforme mé ...

It's no wonder that privacy activists are up in arms.

Aider les TPE/PME à réussir la mutation numérique

Since Wednesday night, Twitter users have been gre

As a consumer, you'd think that the meaning of "Do Not Track" is pretty clear. But the big data-collecting companies that are behind this standard seem intent on making sure it does nothing at all.

The web platform running the winning campaign of the next President of France, Emmanuel Macron, is made with Symfony and is open source.

Is this the end for 'Do Not Track', the web-tracking privacy service?

Temporary censorship of Matthew Caruana Galizia – who worked on the Panama Papers – raises concern over Facebook’s power to shape the news

Google Home does not work unless you give Google your browser and app history.