Monthly Shaarli
March, 2020
The hotel group is sending emails to guests affected by the breach.
The video conferencing service can access conversations on its platform.
L’étude des différentes stratégies de communication des géants du web montre comment ils s’adaptent et tirent profit, chacun différement, du confinement qui touche désormais un milliard d’humains.
Sa logistique est indispensable à 64% des boutiques de sa marketplace: la dépendance est totale. Alors que le nombre de pays où la population est placée en quarantaine s'accroît chaque jour un peu plus, les entreprises de livraison sont inondées de commandes et forcées de s'adapter...
Nombreux sont les gouvernements du monde entier qui utilisent déjà des mesures de surveillance high-tech dans le combat contre la pandémie de Covid-19. À Singapour par exemple, les personnes susceptibles d'avoir fait lobjet dexposition au nouveau coronavirus (en particulier celles qui revenaient de l'étranger) ont été soumises à des périodes d'isolement à domicile de 14 jours. Les patients confirmés pour leur part ont été hospitalisés. Le contrôle du respect des périodes disolement prescrites...
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As quarantined millions gather virtually on conferencing platforms, the best of those, Zoom, is doing very well. Hats off. But Zoom is also—correctly—taking a lot of heat for its privacy policy, wh…
Zoom's privacy policy isn't explicit about the data transfer to Facebook at all.
Here’s how you might be able to get yours
Google announced its decision to drop support for the User-Agent string in its Chrome browser. Instead, Chrome will offer a new API called Client Hints that will give the user greater control over which information is shared with websites.
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A research paper suggests the data Microsoft Edge sends to its back-end servers has a persistent hardware-based identifier which could be used to find a user's identity.
The federal government is in talks with Facebook, Google and other tech companies about ways to use smartphone location data to tackle the coronavirus,
There could be a method to Purism's madness, because the Librem 5 mobile device proves one very important thing.
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A comprehensive study of user-chosen 4- and 6-digit smartphone unlock PINs.
New Mexico AG claims the company uses its dominance in educational software to track millions of future customers.
Gael Duval, the head of the /e/ mobile OS, shares the progress on his mission to create an open source Android fork that is free from Google.
Federal agencies have big contracts with Virginia-based Babel Street. Depending on where you've traveled, your movements may be in the company's data.
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Yodlee, America’s largest financial data broker, says the data it sells it is anonymous. A confidential document obtained by Motherboard shows people could be unmasked in the data.
Afin de contrôler les déplacements, de nombreux pays mettent en place des applications ou exploitent les données mobiles. Une pratique polém
Télétravail, relations sociales ou actes citoyens: il est impossible d’échapper aux solutions proposées par les grands acteurs technologiques américains. En temps de crise, cela peut se révéler dangereux
Depuis des années, Orange cherche à commercialiser la mine d'or que sont nos données de géolocalisation (la liste des antennes-relais auxquelles nos téléphones se connectent au fil la journée). La pandémie semble être pour l'entreprise une bonne occasion d'ouvrir son marché.
Flux Vision
En 201
App users will get a random request for a selfie and they have 20 minutes to upload it or else the police will pay them a visit
Une app israélienne transformée en mouchard servait à observer la croissance du service de messagerie. Quand Facebook a déboursé 19 milliards de dollars (17,5 milliards d'euros) pour acheter WhatsApp en février 2014, beaucoup se sont demandés si Mark Zuckerberg n'avait pas perdu...
Now that a lot of people are working from home because of the corona crisis, many companies organize their meetings through video calling. Apps such as Google Hangouts, Skype and Zoom are very popular services right now. However, Zoom might not be the best option for your privacy. Many people are also using similar apps …
The FBI suggested that people stuck indoors during the coronavirus pandemic download its workout app, but users questioned why it collected so much data.
https://news.northeastern.edu/2014/10/23/ecommerce-study/
The actual paper: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/cbw/static/pdf/imc151-hannak.pdf...
"As shown in Figure 11, Travelocity alters hotel search results for users who browse from iOS devices." (In particular, alters the prices shown to the user).
Verizon Media’s search engines promises “unbiased” search results, but serves results clearly favoring the parent company’s media websites.
As people are staying home to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, Amazon is seeing an increase in demand as small businesses suffer.
The French competition authority said Apple and two wholesalers agreed not to compete on prices and distribution, "thereby sterilizing the wholesale market for Apple products."
What the United States’ children’s privacy law does and doesn’t do
Encryption flaws in a common anti-theft feature expose vehicles from major manufacturers.
Today Huawei published a video explaining the concept of "backdoors" in telco equipment. Many are criticizing the video for being tone deaf....
HiddenVM — Use any desktop OS without leaving a trace. - aforensics/HiddenVM
The mailing list brokers of the mid-century spawned political junk mail and today’s Big Brother digital marketing.
Bypass Paywalls Clean for Firefox (lot of updates and bug-fixes) - magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
L'application de visioconférence Zoom transmet automatiquement certaines de vos données personnelles à Facebook. Quelles informations sont concernées ?
Avec l'aide d'Orange, le principal opérateur de téléphonie mobile français, l'Inserm entend conduire une étude statistique basée sur la géolocalisation des smartphones. Un projet qui a soulevé des inquiétudes, que l'institut public entend lever.
Tracking entire populations to combat the pandemic now could open the doors to more invasive forms of government snooping later.
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Yelp faced backlash from those it was trying to help
Who’s Really Behind That “Death of the Techlash” Narrative? One of my least favorite kinds of journalism is the easy win. It’s the kind of story that just lands in yo…
Governments around the world are using high-tech coronavirus surveillance measures to combat the outbreak. But are they worth it?
Apple will delete your data if you don’t use an app for seven days. This effectively kills offline web apps.
From protecting privacy to saving the free press, it may be the single best way to fix the internet.
Hey Alexa, stop listening to my client’s information.
"Google will never sell any personal information to third parties; and you get to decide how your information is used." - Sundar Pichai Sound familiar? Although big tech companies like Google keep the lights on by harvesting and monetizing your personal data, they can be quick to mince words and deny the strawman scenario of exchanging hard drives full of your data for a suitcase of money. Now California law has given them another reason to deny and deflect.
Brave has filed a GDPR complaint v Google for infringing the GDPR “purpose limitation” principle. Enforcement would be tantamount to a functional separation of Google’s business.
The European Union is seeking to help consumers fix or upgrade devices, rather than replace them, as part of a 30-year push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Katrina Gulliver considers how we have acquiesced to losing our privacy
"I was using an app to see how many miles I rode my bike and now it was putting me at the scene of the crime," the man said.
Here’s a bird’s eye view of six state-backed information operations on Twitter, and how they evolved over the last decade. This research…
Watchdog Which? wants Google to be more transparent about security updates for old phones
Some months after a failed Kickstarter campaign with an ambitious €350k goal, German startup Volla has managed to raise more than €20k in a new campaign (still open for the next few hours) for their first Volla Phone. Volla Phone in German woods.This new smartphone aims at several niches,
If Amazon Go cameras seem squiggy, shouldn’t online tracking be too?
In the most recent issue of the prestigious American Economic Review, a group of well-known economists published a paper titled "The Welfare Effects of Social