Company announces end to trial in which professional news posts were removed from users’ feeds in six countries

La Commission satisfaite des efforts de Google

Des astreintes jusqu'à 100 millions d'euros

Facebook’s (much deserved) media nightmare continued this week when it came under criticism for spamming members who signed up for two-factor authentication. This was followed by charges that its P…

Social network instructed to delete illegally collected data or face €100m in fines after it loses case over consent and tracking

The paradoxical truth I’m driving at is that today’s technologies of individualization are technologies of mass individualization. Customization can be surprisingly homogenizing. Everyone, or nearly everyone, is on Facebook: It is the most convenient way to keep track of your friends and family, who in theory should represent what is unique about you and your life. Yet Facebook seems to make us all the same. Its format and conventions strip us of all but the most superficial expressions of individuality, such as which particular photo of a beach or mountain range we select as our background image.

Ces utilisateurs se détournent de Facebook ? Pas grave puisque le géant avait justement modifié ses règles de confidentialité pour permettre les croisements de données entre ses différents services, dont Instagram, sa propriété.

La firme de Zuckerberg peut donc toujours offrir à ses clients la possibilité de cibler ces internautes. "Bien que l'utilisation de la principale application Facebook diminue chez les adolescents, les spécialistes du marketing pourront toujours les atteindre sur Instagram" notait d'ailleurs eMarketer l'année dernière.

Et la collecte de données de Facebook ne se cantonne nullement à ses seuls services et applications. Avec ses plugins sociaux intégrés dans pratiquement toutes les pages du Web, dont des forums et sites Web populaires parmi les ados, Facebook peut continuer de capter données et donc valeur.

The company is actually collecting and analyzing the data of Onavo users. Doing so allows Facebook to monitor the online habits of people outside their use of the Facebook app itself. For instance, this gave the company insight into Snapchat’s dwindling user base, even before the company announced a period of diminished growth last year.

Facebook is now pointing some users to a secure wireless networking app without disclosing it's a Facebook-owned company.

The app, Onavo Protect, also tracks users' apps, how often they're used and what websites users visit.

Privacy Risks with Facebook’s PII-based Targeting: Auditing a Data Broker’s Advertising Interface

Lettre ouverte à Mark Zuckerberg

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

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

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.

If you are a Facebook user, unless you have actively opted out of the Nielsen tracking, Nielsen can track your clicks and views for its online measurement research. Nielsen/Facebook have already been tracking online advertising that people see, beginning in 2009/2010. Going forward, the Facebook/Nielsen tracking will also measure your TV viewing on mobiles and tablets. The Nielsen/Facebook tracking occurs while you are logged in to Facebook.

Instead of reading stories that get to you because they're popular, or just happen to be in your feed at that moment, you'll read stories that get to you because you chose to go to them. Sounds simple, and insignificant, and almost too easy, right?

It's only easy, and simple to do. As for why you should do it: It's definitely not simple, nor insignificant. By choosing to be a reader of websites whose voices and ideas you're fundamentally interested in and care about, you're taking control.

And by doing that, you'll chip away at the incentive publishers have to create headlines and stories weaponized for the purpose of sharing on social media. You'll be stripping away at the motivation for websites everywhere (including this one) to make dumb hollow mindgarbage. At the same time, you'll increase the incentive for these websites to be (if nothing else) more consistent and less desperate for your attention.

We blame Walmart for decimating small businesses, but ultimately, small town shoppers chose convenience and lower prices over the more local and diverse offerings from their neighbors. And for the past several years, readers have been doing the same thing in favoring Facebook. What Kamer is arguing is that readers who value good journalism, good writing, and diverse viewpoints need to push back against the likes of the increasingly powerful and monolithic Facebook…and visiting individual websites is one way to do that.