Monthly Shaarli
February, 2019
Facebook has been buying data on its users from third-party providers since 2012 and makes it pretty hard to opt out.
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La récolte de données par Facebook - qui a toujours existé - se fait avec des procédés toujours plus sophistiqués. Et incroyablement intrusifs.
I dug into Facebook and found everything it knows about me, and it turns out it knows more than I thought it did.
Few consumers may have heard of Acxiom, a database marketer. But it has amassed the world’s largest commercial data trove about them, analysts say.
I was reading Facebook's revised terms & "privacy" policy this morning, and it specifies that FB is allowed to collect the names of apps and the names of files on any device you log in from. Kudos to the EU for persuading FB to admit it.
Mediapost est une filiale de La Poste qui vend des données personnelles en quantité industrielle. Sous couvert d’anonymat, un ancien responsable raconte l’envers du décor. Un extrait de "Cash Investigation" diffusé sur France 2 le mardi 6 octobre à 20h55.
Un média autrichien a révélé que les données personnelles de trois millions d'Autrichiens sont revendues par l'opérateur de services postaux...
Plusieurs banques françaises envisagent de commercialiser les données de paiement de leurs clients, une pratique qui existe déjà par exemple aux Etats-Unis. Une perspective qui inquiète notamment sur la question de la sécurisation de ces informations.
Last week Threema, which claims to be "the world's favorite secure messenger," became the first-ever foreign messaging app to be added to the official Russian "Registry of Information-Dissemination Organizers." The news has been reported by Roskomsvoboda, a Russian NGO that aims to combat Internet censorship in Russia. Since 2014, the Russian authorities have managed a list of online services that "organize the dissemination of information." Today, this list includes websites like Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki (Russia's two most popular social networks), the image board 2ch.hk, the email client Mail.ru, and dozens more services. But Russia's new "anti-terrorist" legislation, which was adopted last year and should come into force in 2018 or 2019, dramatically expanded the obligations of "information-dissemination organizers." These companies will be required to store any type of content from their users' communications for a period of six months. Metadata on these communications wi
Comme dans beaucoup d’entreprises françaises, l’open source s’est taillé une place de choix dans le système d’information, mais la MAIF est allée plus loin. Celle-ci publie désormais ses propres projets au format ouvert.
If you weren’t scared of USB cables before, you should be now. The O.MG cable (or Offensive MG kit) from [MG] hides a backdoor inside the shell of a USB connector. Plug this cable into your c…
Après avoir fait plier Twitter, UFC-Que Choisir continue son combat pour la protection des données personnelles.
Pour entraîner l'IA de détection embarqués dans les caméras intelligentes Ring, des équipes visionnaient en douce les enregistrements extérieurs ou intérieurs des domiciles des utilisateurs pour taguer manuellement les événements à analyser.
Japan will attempt to access Internet-connected devices in homes and offices to find their vulnerabilities. The first-of-its-kind survey is aimed at beefing up cyber-security.
Facebook collects more information on more people than almost any other private corporation in history. And it gave dozens of companies more intrusive access to that data than it ever disclosed.
Blocking all ads faster than the blink of an eye.
I recently fell down a deep dark hole on the internet.
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Iowa researchers built an AI engine they say can spot abusive apps on Twitter months before the service itself identifies them.
The popular video streaming service Netflix posted its largest-ever U.S. profit in 2018—$845 million—on which it didn’t pay a dime in federal or state income taxes. In fact, the company reported a $22 million federal income tax rebate.
Facebook’s crack down on non-consensual ad targeting last year will finally produce results. In March, TechCrunch discovered Facebook planned to require advertisers to pledge that they had permission to upload someone’s phone number or email address for ad targeting. That tool debuted i…
For over a year, owners of a Samsung smart fridge have been unable to use their fridge’s pre-installed Google Calendar app, proving what we all suspected: the Internet of Things can quickly become an Internet of Broken Things. Apparently, the Samsung fridge depends on an old version of the Google API, and Samsung hasn’t yet pushed out necessary updates to all fridges. Before you go out and educate all your appliances, consider how smart they’ll be when their software is out of date next year.
Social media giant agreed on Tuesday that location data was ‘one of the factors’ it used but on Wednesday said no, not any more
"People You May Know" is both helpful and terrifying as hell.
Headphone manufacturer Bose has found itself in a major legal tangle for allegations of illegally collecting data from its users.
Merci le "deep learning"
Facebook recently started using face recognition in more ways.
Facebook appeared to track who Mumbrella's Tim Burrowes spoke to at an industry event, via the phone in his pocket. So on Friday I was at the Andrew Olle
le we were at the beach one day, we met a group of people and spent several hours hanging out with them. We never exchanged phone numbers or email addresses, we didn't share much information about ourselves other than our names and where we lived, and we didn't connect on social media. I didn't even have my phone on me at the time. However, when I got back to New York and checked Facebook, I saw that two of the people we met popped up in my "People You May Know" recommendations.
Dans cette nouvelle enquête inédite, l'équipe de "Cash Investigation" dévoile les méthodes de marketing agressif utilisées par les entreprises pour vendre toujours plus. Parfois à la limite de la légalité et au mépris de la santé des consommateurs.
Suite de notre entretien avec Patrice Bernard, consultant et blogueur (1) spécialiste de l'innovation bancaire. Après une première partie consacrée aux usages des « big data » dans le secteur bancaire, nous recentrons cette fois le sujet sur les données, de paiement notamment, collectées par les banques sur leurs clients.
L'autorité nous révèle scruter les activités de Lusha. Cette extension fournit des coordonnées d'internautes en visitant leur profil LinkedIn ou Twitt...
Other providers of bare-metal cloud computing might also be vulnerable to BMC hack.
A few months ago, I wrote a post on SMS logins following a wave of attacks attempting to take over Iranian Telegram accounts. Recently, there have been new confirmed cases of attacks in both Iran and Russia. Oleg Kozlovsky is an opposition activist and the director of Vision of Tomorrow Center in Moscow. In a...
I analyzed the custom protocol used by the mobile messaging application Threema and wrote a paper to summarize my results.
Internal emails also reveal plans by Facebook to pass data on single Facebook users to companies selling dating services or organisations that wanted to target single people with ‘political’ advertisements. The documents, marked confidential, reveal a secret programme by Facebook’s ‘Growth Team’ to collect and exploit data from customers with Android mobile phones. Their disclosures come only a week after a critical report by a UK parliamentary committee investigating disinformation and fake news, called for independent regulator to oversee Facebook and other social media companies.
In my years covering cybersecurity, there’s one variation of the same lie that floats above the rest. “We take your privacy and security seriously.” You might have heard the phrase here and there. It’s a common trope used by companies in the wake of a data breach — eit…
La protection des données personnelles, cinquième roue du carrosse dans l'écosystème Android ? Une étude révèle que pas moins de 17.000 applications Android recueillent des informations d'identification qui créent un profil permanent de l'activité des utilisateurs sur leurs terminaux.
Léquipe de sécurité de Facebook est en mesure de suivre les utilisateurs que la firme considère comme une menace, selon un rapport publié par CNBC. La société utilise ce service pour assurer la sécurité de ses bureaux, mais des problèmes déthique en découlent.D'une part, Facebook a le devoir de protéger ses employés contre tout préjudice, en particulier lorsque lentreprise peut obtenir des données sur la cause et l'origine du préjudice. D'autre part. Il existe une nuance supplémentaire liée a...
Police are increasingly using judge-approved "reverse location" search warrants to find cellphones near crime scenes. Civil liberties experts worry it's a digital dragnet ripe for abuse. Authorities say it's an important new crime fighting tool.
Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed.
Last week Apple made an announcement describing changes to the iCloud service for users residing in mainland China. Beginning on February 28th, all users who have specified China as their country/r…
Multinational law firm released a report about the up-to-date number of reported GDPR breaches. The Netherlands leads the table, Lithuania is at its bottom.
Google files 2018 revenues revealing that it pays $900m more in fines than it pays in taxes,Cloud and Infrastructure ,Google,Alphabet,European Commission
L’entreprise propose aux internautes d’installer un programme permettant de suivre toutes leurs activités en ligne en échange de cartes cadeaux. Mais, contrairement à Facebook, les mineurs ne sont pas directement visés.
I don't mind letting your programs see my private data as long as I get
something useful in exchange. But that's not what happens.
A forme...
The computer scientist on his new book "Digital Minimalism," why workplaces may go email-free, and why the tech backlash is about to go mainstream.
After a few odd encounters, we decided to get some answers from Facebook.
Cambridge Analytica may have used Facebook’s data to influence your political opinions. But why does least-liked tech company Facebook have all this data about its users in the first place? Let’s put aside Instagram, WhatsApp and other Facebook products for a minute. Facebook has built the world’s …
Retailers who want to know what brought people to shop in their physical retail stores have a new tool to try. Facebook has revised its analytics tools for businesses to show how user behavior online translates into brick-and-mortar purchases.
Facebook wants to make sure you know about and control the photos of you people upload, even if they don’t tag you. So today, Facebook launched a new facial recognition feature called Photo Review that will alert you when your face shows up in newly posted photos so you can tag yourself, leav…
The harvesting of our personal details goes far beyond what many of us could imagine. So I braced myself and had a look
It's not just what you tell Facebook about yourself!
‘People can choose to not be on Facebook if they want’
L’opérateur historique commercialise données et métadonnées à des collectivités locales mais aussi des entreprises via différents services.
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Facebook thrives on data, prodding users to provide it with their memories, cherished moments and relationships.
SFR est le premier opérateur français à s'engager dans la vente de données géomarketing issues des logs de son réseau mobile.
Paypal vient d'ajouter Facebook à la liste des sociétés à qui elle fait parvenir des données personnelles pour des raisons publicitaires. La Cnil lance une alerte.
Consumer Reports explains how Facebook tracks consumers across many websites, gathering data even if you who don't have a Facebook or Instagram account.
For the first time ever, Russia’s federal censor, Roskomnadzor, has added a foreign online messenger to its “Registry of Information-Dissemination Organizers,” targeting the Swiss company Threema.
For the first time ever, Russia’s federal censor, Roskomnadzor, has added a foreign online messenger to its “Registry of Information-Dissemination Organizers,” targeting the Swiss company Threema.
This is the end of era centralized communication!
The decision is seemingly a trade-off for usability across multiple devices.
Un chercheur en sécurité a découvert la preuve de la surveillance en masse dans Xinjiang, une région au nord-ouest, montrant ainsi lampleur du suivi des habitants de la Chine, pays qui est déjà connu pour son utilisation à grande échelle de lintelligence artificielle par le gouvernement pour la surveillance des minorités. Selon les révélations de Victor Gevers, chercheur en sécurité et co-fondateur de la Fondation GDI, la Chine suit de près les déplacements de près de 2,6 millions de personnes...
Millions of smartphone users confess their most intimate secrets to apps, including personal health information. Unbeknown to most people, in many cases that data is being shared with someone else: Facebook.
This post presents a crawl of the top Alexa 500K to study the use and the diversity of the canvas fingerprints on the web.
When does "delete" really mean delete? Not always, or even at all, if you're Twitter.
L'appareil vérifie la position des mains pour s'assurer que les salariés soient actifs dans les entrepôts.
Well, this sounds familiar.
Facebook et le régulateur américain du commerce, la FTC, négocieraient une amende record pour mettre fin aux enquêtes sur les pratiques du réseau social en matière de protection de la vie privée.
UK lawmakers have accused Facebook of violating data privacy and competition laws in a report on social media disinformation that also says CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed "contempt" toward parliament by not appearing before them.
If Facebook’s endless privacy scandals have shown one thing, it’s that the company has far too much data on its users, and that they can’t be trusted not to sell, barter, or abuse that data whether…
As Facebook colonized the rest of the web with its functionality in hopes of fueling user growth, it built aggressive integrations with partners that are coming under newfound scrutiny through a deeply reported New York Times investigation. Some of what Facebook did was sloppy or unsettling, includ…
A new report on the social network's data-sharing arrangements has lawmakers calling for action.
Many major companies, like Air Canada, Hollister and Expedia, are recording every tap and swipe you make on their iPhone apps. In most cases you won’t even realize it. And they don’t need to ask for permission. You can assume that most apps are collecting data on you. Some even monetize…
Early adopters of LED lighting will remember 50,000 hour or even 100,000 hour lifetime ratings printed on the box. But during a recent trip to the hardware store the longest advertised lifetime I f…
Le député Daniel Fasquelle et plusieurs de ses collègues ont déposé une proposition de loi visant à interdire l’usage des données personnelles collect...
Metropolitan Police had said people declining to be scanned would 'not necessarily be viewed as suspicious'
Move comes after Facebook exploited loophole to harvest data about apps installed on people’s iPhones