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As Predicted, Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo

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“The central problem with Google’s search preference menu is that it is a pay-to-play auction in which only the highest bidders are on the menu. This auction format incentivizes bidders to bid what they can expect to profit per user selection. The long-term result is that the participating Google alternatives must give most of their preference menu profits to Google! Google’s auction further incentivizes search engines to be worse on privacy, to increase ads, and to not donate to good causes, because, if they do those things, then they could afford to bid higher. ”

Source : As Predicted, Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo

Amazon débranche Parler, le réseau social d’extrême droite : trop tard ?

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“Et si l’exode passe aujourd’hui de plateforme en plateforme, où il est facile de constater quel contenu est publié, qu’en sera-t-il demain, quand ces groupes dangereux dont le danger pour la société n’est plus à prouver, s’organiseront sur des messageries chiffrées ? Amazon, Apple et Google pourront-ils affirmer qu’ils ne tolèrent pas un service qui ne peut pas modérer les propos de ses clients, quand, technologiquement, il est impossible de savoir ce que ses clients racontent ? On peut craindre, dans les semaines qui viennent, qu’il s’agisse d’un nouvel argument parlementaire pour amoindrir le chiffrement de ces outils, pourtant si précieux — comme cela revient parfois en Europe ou aux États-Unis.”

Source : Amazon débranche Parler, le réseau social d’extrême droite : trop tard ?

Odysee : le « YouTube des complotistes » accueille désormais Donald Trump

“Il suffit de regarder les chaînes les plus populaires d’Odysee pour se rendre compte que les utilisateurs de la plateforme sont majoritairement pro-Trump : en dehors des chaînes officielles Lbry (du nom de la maison mère d’Odysee), LbryCast et LbryNomics, la page la plus populaire est celle de Tim Cast, un journaliste pro-Trump qui a publiquement soutenu Kyle Rittenhouse, un adolescent qui a tué des manifestants afro-américains lors du mouvement Black Lives Matter aux États-Unis. La plateforme est également noyautée par les complotistes français : la chaîne anti-vaccin VivreSainement arrive en 7e position, le conspirationniste Silvano Trotta est 12e, la chaîne d’Alain Soral ERTV est à la 20e place, et la chaîne francophone dédiée à QAnon, les Déqodeurs, est la 40e chaîne la plus populaire.”

Source : Odysee : le « YouTube des complotistes » accueille désormais Donald Trump

Atteinte à l’honneur – Peut-on impunément insulter une journaliste?

“Quant au sexisme en tant que tel, «il ne constitue pas, comme le racisme et, depuis peu, l’orientation sexuelle, un cas de discrimination spécifique au sens du Code pénal». En clair, on sera plus sévèrement puni si l’on traite une femme de «sale lesbienne», ce qui relève de l’homophobie, que de «mal baisée», ce qui relève du sexisme. L’Alliance des sociétés féminines suisses (Alliance F) œuvre justement à faire entrer le sexisme dans le Code pénal – plus précisément dans l’article 261 bis, qui punit la discrimination et l’incitation à la haine. Sophie Achermann, directrice d’Alliance F, n’est pas surprise par le cas que nous lui soumettons. «Des études ont montré que les femmes journalistes sont bien plus attaquées que les hommes, sauf si ces derniers sont noirs ou homosexuels. Or, en cas d’insultes racistes ou homophobes, n’importe qui peut déposer une plainte. En cas de sexisme, seule la personne attaquée peut le faire, et doit avancer tous les frais de procédure.»”

Source : Atteinte à l’honneur – Peut-on impunément insulter une journaliste? | 24 heures

How Alexa’s new Live Translation for conversations works

“Today, Amazon launched Alexa’s new Live Translation feature, which allows individuals speaking in two different languages to converse with each other, with Alexa acting as an interpreter and translating both sides of the conversation. With this new feature, a customer can ask Alexa to initiate a translation session for a pair of languages. Once the session has commenced, customers can speak phrases or sentences in either language. Alexa will automatically identify which language is being spoken and translate each side of the conversation. ”

Source : How Alexa’s new Live Translation for conversations works

Mozilla Foundation – Apple’s anti-tracking plans for iPhone

“In 2019, Mozilla called on Apple to increase user privacy by automatically resetting the Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) on iPhones. The IDFA lets advertisers track the actions users take when they use apps – kind of like a salesperson that follows you from store to store while you shop, recording every item you look at. Creepy, right?
Early 2020, Apple went even further than what Mozilla supporters had asked for when it announced that it will give consumers the option to opt-out of tracking in each app, essentially turning off IDFA and giving millions of consumers more privacy online. Apple’s announcement also made a loud statement: mass data collection and invasive advertising don’t have to be the norm online.
Unfortunately, as you might imagine, a lot of advertisers, notably Facebook, were not happy with Apple. Facebook, which uses IDFA to track users’ activity across different apps and match them to advertising profiles, says that its advertising partners will be hit hard by this change.”

Source : Mozilla Foundation – Apple’s anti-tracking plans for iPhone

Google AI Blog: Portrait Light: Enhancing Portrait Lighting with Machine Learning

“Professional portrait photographers are able to create compelling photographs by using specialized equipment, such as off-camera flashes and reflectors, and expert knowledge to capture just the right illumination of their subjects. In order to allow users to better emulate professional-looking portraits, we recently released Portrait Light, a new post-capture feature for the Pixel Camera and Google Photos apps that adds a simulated directional light source to portraits, with the directionality and intensity set to complement the lighting from the original photograph.”

Source : Google AI Blog: Portrait Light: Enhancing Portrait Lighting with Machine Learning

The Smoking Gun in the Facebook Antitrust Case

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“The most revealing insight comes from the summer of 2011, when the company was gearing up to fend off the threat of Google’s rival platform, Google+. The complaint quotes an email in which Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg wrote, “For the first time, we have real competition and consumers have real choice … we will have to be better to win.” At the time, Facebook had been planning to remove users’ ability to untag themselves in photos. One unnamed executive suggested pumping the brakes. “If ever there was a time to AVOID controversy, it would be when the world is comparing our offerings to G+,” they wrote. Better, they suggested, to save such changes “until the direct competitive comparisons begin to die down.” This is close to a smoking gun: evidence that, as Srinivasan hypothesized, Facebook preserves user privacy when it fears competition and degrades privacy when it doesn’t.”

Source : The Smoking Gun in the Facebook Antitrust Case | WIRED

Facebook Isn’t Listening Through Your Phone’s Microphone. It Doesn’t Have To

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“The harsh truth is that Facebook doesn’t need to perform technical miracles to target you via weak signals. It’s got much better ways to do so already. Not every spookily accurate ad you see is a pure figment of your cognitive biases. Remember, Facebook can find you on whatever device you’ve ever checked Facebook on. It can exploit everything that retailers know about you, and even sometimes track your in-store, cash-only purchases; that loyalty discount card is tied to a phone number or email for a reason. Before you stoke your Facebook rage too much, know that Twitter and LinkedIn do this as well, and that Facebook copied the concept of ‘data onboarding’ from the greater ad tech world, which in turn drafted off of decades of direct-mail consumer marketing. It’s hard to escape the modern Advertising Industrial Complex.”

Source : Facebook Isn’t Listening Through Your Phone’s Microphone. It Doesn’t Have To | WIRED

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