Monthly Shaarli
December, 2018
Some of the approved projects include KeePass, 7-zip, VLC Media Player, Drupal, and FileZilla.
As the year draws to a close, so has EFF’s long-running Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Drug Enforcement Agency about the mass phone surveillance program infamously known as “Hemisphere.” We won our case and freed up tons of records. (So did the Electronic Privacy Information Center...
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, an investigative reporter for The Times, explains how reporters discovered some of the information mobile apps collect.
Microsoft baffles Windows 10 users by apparently collecting data about recently opened websites and apps when users have opted against sharing that information.
Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it’s anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is.
Les données personnelles de millions d'utilisateurs de sites de rencontre comme Tinder, OkCupid ou M
Un lobby de la société Monsanto a créé des groupes de "faux agriculteurs" chargés de se prononcer en faveur du glyphosate, révèle la cellule d’investigation de Greenpeace et du quotidien britannique "The Independent".
Des chercheurs pointent du doigt les caméras connectées du constructeur chinois Foscam, qui intègrent en dur un mot de passe, exploitable évidemment à...
Internal emails between Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg lay bare the fact that Facebook has long sought to leverage user data to turn a profit.
C’est le nouveau scandale Facebook : comment les patrons du réseau social ont tout fait pour ne pas porter le chapeau suite aux multiples scandales dans lesquels la firme était
Bombe à retardement pour la démocratie. Il est urgent que Facebook trouve des outils efficaces pour encadrer le marketing idéologique sur sa plateforme.
Forget about Quora's security breach. Their ongoing efforts to block access to their content, including a multi-year ban on the Internet Archive, are reason enough to never use them.
Four companies dominate our daily lives unlike any other in human history. The only logical conclusion? We must bust up big tech.
Depuis l'entrée en vigueur de la nouvelle législation européenne en matière de protection des données personnelles, les plaintes contre les Gafam s’accumulent. [...]
Début mai, Google a annoncé une refonte complète de son offre cartographique à destination des professionnels. Ces changements, qui impliquent de renseigner obligatoirement un code de carte bleue, se traduisent par une explosion des prix pour les usages professionnels avec une réduction drastique du volume daffichages gratuits autorisés.Le quota gratuit de 25 000 cartes affichées par jour sur un site web passe maintenant à 28 000, mais par mois (soit en moyenne moins de 1000 par jour). C'est-à-...
Download I don't care about cookies for Firefox. Get rid of annoying cookie warnings from almost all 'infected' websites!
Since Privacy International ranked Google worst in the world for Privacy in its 2007 privacy survey for its unique “comprehensive consumer surveillance & entrenched hostility to privacy,” Google has had at least 24 more public scandals/controversies over privacy/security.
Foreign propagandists are getting a strong foothold in France, and the traditional media can’t fight it
Auto thefts are on the rise across the Greater Toronto Area, by 30 per cent in the city alone, and wireless key fobs may have a role to play.
Sponsored ads on Amazon’s baby registries are leading the family and friends of new parents to make purchases of unwanted gifts.
Yes, even the Tor browser can be spied on by this nasty code
Under fire for stirring up distrust and violence, the social network has vowed to police its users. But leaked documents raise serious questions about its approach.
Someone finally realized this was a potentially catastrophic idea.
The long read: We knew that being connected had a price – our data. But we didn’t care. Then it turned out that Google’s main clients included the military and intelligence agencies
Smartphone apps track a staggering amount of data about our whereabouts every day. That data has become a hot commodity.
Group breaches SMS-protected accounts. It's still testing attacks against 2fa apps.
Recently, a patent application from Amazon became public that would pair face surveillance — like Rekognition, the product that the company is aggressively marketing to police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement — with Ring, a doorbell camera company that Amazon bought earlier this year.
A RETENIR CETTE SEMAINE : Nouveau scandale chez Facebook dont les dirigeants auraient tout fait pour cacher l’implication russe dans les élections. Le modus operandi de Facebook dans la crise : re…
If you’ve ever used a Sennheiser headset or speakerphone device with your Mac (or Windows PC), the accompanying HeadSetup app has left your machine wide open to attack. In what has been descr…
Le règlement général pour la protection des données est entré en vigueur en France il y a quelques mois déjà. Les sites ont commencé à s'adapter, mais...
En vedette : pourquoi Mark Zuckerberg est-il invirable ? Le New York Times explique pourquoi il va être difficile de virer Mark Zuckerberg de Facebook. Pourtant, les arguments ne
Hundreds of social media accounts linked to Russia have sought to amplify the street protests that have rocked France, according to analysis seen by The Times. The network of accounts has...
Les gilets jaunes manifestent à Avignon par Sébastien Huette — licence CC-BY-NC-ND Ces derniers jours, j’ai parlé de 3 articles passionnants pris séparément. Mais pris ensemble,
Google wants to know what you buy and Mastercard is here to help.
Votre enceinte connectée, qu’il s’agisse d’Amazon Echo, de Google Home ou du Homepod d’Apple, n’est pas qu’un gentil petit assistant personnel à domicile, mais aussi un espion potentiel. Car ne l’oubliez jamais : ces appareils sont constamment à l’écoute. [...]
Six clichés qui vous empêchent de vous mettre au logiciel libre4.9 (98.18%) 11 votes Un article de Nicolas Boeuf Publié le jeudi 23 janvier 2014 à 07h01 sur Miroir Mag Encore Continuer la lecture
L'UFC-Que Choisir se tourne vers la CNIL pour lui signaler les tactiques de Google, Facebook et Microsoft pour orienter l'usager quand il se trouve dans les réglages des paramètres de confidentialité. [...]
New court documents in the Roundup litigation allege Monsanto paid internet trolls to post comments on social media to counter bad publicity. Details here.
Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google that don't track you
In July, we shared our views about the need for government regulation and responsible industry measures to address advancing facial recognition technology. As we discussed, this technology brings important and even exciting societal benefits but also the potential for abuse. We noted the need for broader study and discussion of these issues. In the ensuing...
More than 200 pages of confidential emails are shared online by Parliament's fake news inquiry.
Christina Farr used to spend 5 hours a week posting and interacting with friends on Instagram. She quit cold this summer, and her life changed dramatically for the better.
Tools for capturing and analysing keyboard input paired with microphone capture - ggerganov/kbd-audio
Google executives ignored internal warnings about their censored China search plan and threatened that employees would be fired if they spoke out.
A popular smart security system maker has ignored warnings from security researchers that its flagship device has several serious vulnerabilities, including allowing anyone access to the company’s central store of customer-uploaded video recordings. The researchers at 0DayAllDay found that Gu…
Facebook isn't responsible for government decisions to clamp down on free expression. But the question remains: How can companies stop assisting authoritarian governments, inadvertently or otherwise?
I’m on Team Firefox.
Plus: Are your Google results really that different from your neighbor's?
Windows 10 collects an “Activity History” of applications you launch on your PC and sends it to Microsoft. Even if you disable or clear this, Microsoft’s Privacy Dashboard still shows an “Activity History” of applications you’ve launched on your PCs.
Amazon won't sell Nest's connected cameras and security products. Meanwhile, it bought the smart home company Ring for $1 billion to compete with Google.
Quelle est la différence entre un étudiant en architecture une heure avant son diplôme et un jeune architecte une heure après son inscription à l’Ordre ? Il s’agit du montant que représentent les licences de logiciels. Le logiciel libre présente une véritable alternative.
Tout ça à cause de Streams, une application utilisée par les médecins anglais. DeepMind, une société d’intelligence artificielle vient de transférer le contrôle de son application de santé, Streams, à Google. Une décision critiquée, car elle va à l’encontre d’une promesse de...
Code for the QookieFix extension. Contribute to vtoubiana/QookieFix development by creating an account on GitHub.
Messages released publicly on Wednesday suggest the idealistic image the company promoted for years was a carefully cultivated smoke screen.
Les services de renseignements français ont lancé des vérifications après la multiplication de faux comptes pro-gilets jaunes sur les réseaux sociaux.
A widely cited result says that 87% of Americans can be uniquely identified by their zip code, sex & birth date. We do a simulation to show this is plausible.
Nouvelle année, nouvelle édition des logiciels libres recommandés par les services de l'État. Une liste globalement similaire à celle publiée l'année dernière, mais avec quelques changements.
Au regard de la surface financière acquise par Google, l’amende que vient de lui infliger l’Union européenne, pour record qu’elle soit, a tout d’une goutte...
Face au changement de politique de Google sur la cartographie, le département de Maine-et-Loire a choisi de faire appel au service dOpenstreet.
Après être passé en 2006 de Solaris à Linux, le land allemand de Basse-Saxe veut à présent migrer 13.000 postes de travail d'OpenSuse vers Windows, vraisemblablement Windows 10. Justification avancée : la standardisation des OS.
Pretty much every day, I get a reminder from someone about how little people know about their exposure in data breaches. Often, it's after someone has searched Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) and found themselves pwned somewhere or other. Frequently, it's some long-forgotten site they haven't even thought about in
Bypass Paywalls for Firefox. Contribute to iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox development by creating an account on GitHub.
Mostly blogging about web development and Open Data
A mysterious (and fake) Chrome extension. A clever data exfiltration scheme. They would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those meddling security analysts using ExtraHop Reveal(x)! Follow along as we go from threat detection to response in this real-life threat hunt with network traffic analysis.
How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
Don't Skype & Type! Keyboard acoustic eavesdropping tool. - SPRITZ-Research-Group/Skype-Type
The hotel chain says details of up to 500 million guests may have been accessed in a database breach.