Les autorités ont exigé le blocage ou le déréférencement de 2 700 sites Web en 2016 afin de lutter contre « la pornographie infantile et le contenu terroriste ».

Les annonces pleuvent sur les applets Java, les utilisateurs font grise mine! (billet mis à jour en Jan. 2017)

Google Chrome en septembre 2015, Mozilla Firefox en cours d’abandon, Microsoft Edge….
Chaque éditeur apporte sa pierre sur la tombe du greffon d’applets JAVA, en supprimant l’accès à la technologie NPAPI inventée par Netscape dans les années 90.

La Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL), l’autorité chargée de la protection des données personnelles, a annoncé avoir mis en demeure Facebook, lundi 8 février, lui reprochant de nombreux manquements à la loi française sur la protection des données personnelles. Un long réquisitoire, contre la manière dont Facebook collecte et exploite les données de ses 30 millions d’utilisateurs français, que la CNIL a décidé de publier.

The world was a different place when, in October 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) struck down the “Safe Harbour”

Facebook wants you and me to spend as much time as possible within Facebook. So they’ve made deals to bring as much content as possible to Facebook, rather than to distribute Facebook’s connective tissue throughout the web. Only one of those approaches would have made the world more open. But the one they’ve chosen simply rebuilds the world within Facebook. They are re-making the world within their walls, and closing it off to anyone without a username and password. That’s their prerogative — and really, there’s nothing particularly wrong with that, hubris notwithstanding — but it’s not what they say they’re doing. They are not making the world more open.

The containers feature is enabled in Firefox Nightly 50 by default with the about:config pref privacy.userContext.enabled set to true. When enabled, containers will integrate seamlessly into your current browsing experience. You will have the option to open entirely new browsing contexts, which will have their browser storage (such as cookies or localStorage) separated from other containers. Your normal tabs, which we consider to exist in the default container, will still look and act as you'd expect them to before enabling containers.

Container tabs operate just as you would expect a normal tab to, except for the fact that the sites you visit will have access to a separate slice of the browser's storage. This means your site preferences, logged in sessions, and advertising tracking data won't carry over to the new container. Likewise, any browsing you do within the new container will not affect the preferences, logged in sessions, or tracking data of your other containers.

Facebook, Google+ and Twitter supply official sharing code snippets which quietly siphon personal data from all page visitors. Shariff enables visitors to see how popular your page is on Facebook and share your content with others without needless data leaks.

Shariff (/ˈʃɛɹɪf/) is an open-source, low-maintenance, high-privacy solution maintained by German computer magazine c't and heise online.

This script will delete any items in your Facebook news feed that are "sponsored" or "suggested" (meaning an advertisement). It will continue to weed out these posts as you scroll, removing them before they appear.

The simple way to completely avoid this is to refuse to have a Facebook page. However, a compromise may be possible, one which attracts public support while not boosting Facebook's power much. This article proposes such a compromise.

Facebook is a surveillance engine, accumulating lots of personal data which is also available to the state. For your privacy and freedom's sake, it is important not to have an active Facebook account; refusing blocks Facebook's main channel for collecting information about you and, through you, about your friends and relatives. (Whatsapp, a subsidiary of Facebook, is also important to avoid.) Explaining to them why you firmly insist on routing your communications with them through some other system will strengthen your will power to resist systems that use you to harm you and others.

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The simple way to completely avoid this is to refuse to have a Facebook page. However, a compromise may be possible, one which attracts public support while not boosting Facebook's power much. This article proposes such a compromise.

Le réflexe pourtant anodin et innocent de publier des photos de ses enfants sur Internet peut avoir des conséquences insoupçonnées sur leur avenir et leur anonymat. Le manque de connaissances sur les systèmes de tag, de reconnaissance faciale et de collecte de données crée des failles non négligeables pour leur sécurité.

J’ai décidé de quitter Facebook pour 4 raisons. Je crois que toute personne un peu rationnelle devrait en faire autant — même si je n’aime pas trop me livrer à la prédication. Alors voici, en quelques mots, les raisons qui motivent ce choix, en espérant que celles-ci puissent trouver des échos chez quelques-un/e/s.

For several years, a data firm eventually hired by the Trump campaign, Cambridge Analytica, has been using Facebook as a tool to build psychological profiles that represent some 230 million adult Americans. A spinoff of a British consulting company and sometime-defense contractor known for its counterterrorism “psy ops” work in Afghanistan, the firm does so by seeding the social network with personality quizzes. Respondents — by now hundreds of thousands of us, mostly female and mostly young but enough male and older for the firm to make inferences about others with similar behaviors and demographics — get a free look at their Ocean scores. Cambridge Analytica also gets a look at their scores and, thanks to Facebook, gains access to their profiles and real names.

Elles ont nos données ; « elles », ce sont les grandes entreprises du Web : Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Amazon… et les moins grandes, toutes aussi agressives dans l’entreprise de captation de données. Nous échangeons des messages avec un ami sur des vacances hypothétiques en Crète, et nous voilà inondés de pubs pour des hôtels, des transports… pour la Crète. Certaines viennent manifestement d’une analyse des emails échangés, mais les autres ? Comment sont-ils au courant ?

J’ai décidé de quitter Facebook pour 4 raisons. Je crois que toute personne un peu rationnelle devrait en faire autant — même si je n’aime pas trop me livrer à la prédication. Alors voici, en quelques mots, les raisons qui motivent ce choix, en espérant que celles-ci puissent trouver des échos chez quelques-un/e/s.