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After being an early adopter of Facebook and using it for over a decade, I decided to delete my account. Here’s why.
Pour accéder à Facebook, il est obligatoire de disposer d’un compte. Et donc d’accepter que la société ait un droit de regard sur nos données personnelles.
Problème, l’utilisateur sera suivi dans le moindre de ses déplacements, et sa position enregistrée – et probablement exploitée – par Facebook. Même quand l’application ne sera pas utilisée. Un véritable souci du point de vue du respect de la vie privée. Il sera fort heureusement possible de désactiver cet outil.
Judge dismisses lawsuit accusing Facebook of tracking users’ activity, saying responsibility was on plaintiffs to keep browsing history private
Facebook enregistre et stocke des informations sur la navigation de ses utilisateurs, y compris lorsque ces derniers se sont déconnectés du réseau social mais continuent d’utiliser le même navigateur. Le géant du Web explique que ce suivi est notamment nécessaire pour des raisons de sécurité. Mais de nombreuses associations d’internautes et certains régulateurs européens estiment que ce suivi est contraire aux réglementations sur la protection de la vie privée.
Les 2 milliards d'utilisateurs atteints mardi
The Financial Times reports big internet companies are paying Adblock Plus "30% of additional revenues" they would make from ads being unblocked.
Dave Winer won’t link to Facebook posts from his blog. I don’t either.
Share Lab uses flow charts and data analysis to map one of the greatest forces shaping our world - Facebook.
Sarah Roberts, chercheuse en sciences de l’information à l’université de Californie de Los Angeles, revient sur le contenu des guides de modération publiés par le « Guardian ».
The book "Chaos Monkeys"[1], while irritating in many ways, has a detailed description of how Facebook correlates its own advertising data with information from data brokers (such as credit card transaction aggregators). This kind of stuff has been happening for quite some time. (As an extra bonus, the book describes how the author's ad-tech startup got into YC and was bought by Twitter.)
There's nothing you can do about it either, as Facebook's terms of service give Facebook the right to use anything you post on the social network as if it were Facebook's own.
A couple of months ago, a friend of mine asked on Facebook: Do you think that facebook tracks the stuff that people type and then erase before hitting ...
Survey participants didn’t know that operatives hired to influence U.S. voters were harvesting “likes” and demographic data from their Facebook profiles.
A forthcoming mental-input system from Facebook assumes that if you sent a thought to the speech center of your brain, you want to share it.
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.