An ethical crisis in the digital forensics industry came to a head last week with the release of new details on Microsoft’s undocumented “Activities” API. A previously unknown trove of access and activity logs held by Microsoft allows investigators to track Office 365 mailbox activity in minute detail. Following a long period of mystery and rumors... View Article

While we're at it, might as well include the links of the other privacy suggested addons collected here:

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HTTPS Everywhere, Cookie AutoDelete, Don't touch my tabs, Link Cleaner, CanvasBlocker and MixedContentHunter. Edit: Links for uBlock Origin, Decentraleyes, privacy badger

We analyze the information content of the digital footprint – information that people leave online simply by accessing or registering on a website – for predict

Pour moins répéter "OK Google"

<p>Today, June 4, 2018 at approximately 1pm EST, MyHeritage’s Chief Information Security Officer received a message from a security researcher that he had found a file named myheritage containing email addresses and hashed passwords, on …</p>

A l’instar de Casino avec RelevanC ou d’Amazon avec Amazon Marketing Services (AMS), Auchan monétise ses données via l’outil Data Shopper de Temelio et aide les marques industrielles à mieux cibler leurs campagnes média.

If you're ready to start using Google alternatives, this guide will provide you with all your options. We cover alternatives for every Google product.

Des mesures de protection jugées insuffisantes

A probe into human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar holds Facebook to account.

Le 16 Juillet, Google Maps change ses pricings.
On ne parle pas d’une augmentation de 10%.
On parle d’un changement d’ordre de grandeur. Des quotas gratuits divisés par 30, des prix Pay-as-you-Go qui flambent (x14 sur le géocodage par exemple), bref, c’est la Mapocalypse.

Après quelques semaines d’échanges avec de nombreuses personnes, je m’essaye à écrire pour partager notre analyse de ce qu’il s’est passé, et vous aider à répondre à la question: Quelle alternative?

Google continues to stymie competition in online shopping despite a record fine from European authorities and an order to modify its behavior, rivals say.

The company formed data-sharing partnerships with Apple, Samsung and dozens of other device makers, raising new concerns about its privacy protections.

The scandal erupted after one company claimed to be able to track any cell phone in the US "within seconds."

So-called ultrasonic beacons are becoming even more popular with marketers. Here's how to shut them out.

If you are concerned about privacy, then ghostery still isn't ideal, as it still seems to collect data on the user and has an 'opt-in' ad service which will put adds in.

As others have recommended, for android other browsers are better. As for extensions, there are better ones as well (privacy badger + ublock origins will do what it does, but better).

Another critical code injection vulnerability found in Signal Desktop app lets remote hackers steal your chats in plaintext

chrome-utm-stripper - Browser extension that strips Google Analytics (UTM) tokens from URL query strings

Gary King, Jennifer Pan, and Margaret E. Roberts. 2017. “How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, not Engaged Argument.” American Political Science Review, 111, 3, Pp. 484-501.

Would you wait five minutes to save $5?

The irony is that what makes open source work—and differ from commercial software—is that only a few developers do the major work on any project

Un cran supplémentaire dans la surveillance ?

This week Microsoft is integrating its Streetside imagery for the United States in to iD, a popular web-based editor for contributing to OpenStreetMap. This is the same imagery currently visible on Bing Maps now embedded in to a popular editing application initially developed and now maintained by Mapbox.

This application allows you to block unwanted calls and/or SMS in a variety of ways: blacklists, whitelists, contacts-only.

A <em>New York Times</em> exposé of a “black market” for online fame diagnoses the symptom of social-media despair, but misses its cause.

That’s according to research firm eMarketer.

After a long dispute over how to produce more revenue with ads and data, the messaging app’s creators are walking away leaving about $1.3 billion on the table.​

A titan of tech and industrial innovation has been laid low by a mere speck of dust. Last week, Apple quietly announced that they were extending the warranty on their flagship laptop’s keyboard by four years. As it turns out, the initial run of these keyboards, described by Jony Ive as thin, precise, and “sturdy,” has been magnificently prone to failure.

In our eyes, the new design was a repairability flop. We downgraded Apple from a seven-out-of-ten to a two. The subsequent 2013 update sent the MacBook line into a freefall, earning a mere 1/10—the lowest a notebook had ever earned at that point. They haven’t recovered since.

We had a hunch that no one ever actually wins those mall car giveaways. But we had no idea how deep the rabbit hole went…

Nation-sponsored Slingshot is one of the most advanced attack platforms ever.

On May 16th, I found a vulnerability in the LocationSmart website which allowed anyone, with no prior authentication or consent, to obtain the realtime location of any cellphone in the US to within…

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

Des mots de passe facilement piratés

The social network has been ordered by a UK judge to reveal who told it to delete the profile of a jazz musician

Home of the Blender project - Free and Open 3D Creation Software

Concerns that surveillance technology could be used to target activists, immigrants and people of colour

The wonder of the web is that it is not subject to the whims of chaotic corporate management.

Unlisted Links Aren’t Quite as Private as YouTube Promised

Pocket CEO Nate Weiner on how local data processing is the future of personalized recommendations.

Zuckerberg said that both Buddhists and the Rohingya were being incited towards violence in messages sent on the website.

La Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (Cnil) a annoncé jeudi avoir infligé une amende de 250.000 euros à Optical Center, pour atteinte à la sécurité des données des clients du site internet www.optical-center.fr.

It’s an "intentionally broad" policy aimed at stopping scammers.

The next versions of the iOS and the Mac operating systems will block the social network's trackers.

Among them is Huawei, which some U.S. officials have called a national security threat.