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24 octobre 2018 /

Tim Cook - RGPD

“Modern technology has led to the creation of a “data-industrial complex” in which private and everyday information is “weaponized against us with military efficiency. Platforms and algorithms that promised to improve our lives can actually magnify our worst human tendencies. Rogue actors and even governments have taken advantage of user trust to deepen divisions, incite violence, and even undermine our shared sense of what is true and what is false. This crisis is real. It is not imagined, or exaggerated, or crazy.” – Tim Cook

Source : Tim Cook data privacy speech: Apple CEO calls for comprehensive data laws in America – The Verge

Twitter Sold Data Access to Cambridge Analytica-Linked Researcher

23 octobre 2018 /

Cela remonte à avril, mais cela m’avait échappé…

“Twitter sold data access to the Cambridge University academic who also obtained millions of Facebook users’ information that was later passed to a political consulting firm without the users’ consent. Aleksandr Kogan, who created a personality quiz on Facebook to harvest information later used by Cambridge Analytica, established his own commercial enterprise, Global Science Research (GSR). That firm was granted access to large-scale public Twitter data, covering months of posts, for one day in 2015, according to Twitter.”

Source : Twitter Sold Data Access to Cambridge Analytica-Linked Researcher – Bloomberg

23 octobre 2018 /

Vera Jourova

“La résolution préconise l’interdiction des publicités politiques ciblées : ce qui est le cas en France, mais pas dans d’autres pays de l’Union, et notamment au Royaume-Uni. Or ces publicités ciblées sont utilisées, encore aujourd’hui, et notamment par la frange la plus extrémistes des pro-Brexit. Une commission parlementaire britannique a révélé cette semaine que ces dix derniers mois, une mystérieuse organisation a dépensé des centaines de milliers d’euros pour afficher des publicités Facebook demandant un Brexit « dur » auprès de 10 à 11 millions d’électeurs britanniques. […]
« M. Zuckerberg nous a promis des changements, une sécurité renforcée pour les données personnelles, mais il y a à peine un mois, nous avons appris l’existence d’une nouvelle faille de sécurité », a déclaré le député suédois Jasenko Selimovic (Libéraux). « Combien de nouvelles excuses allons-nous devoir entendre de la part de M. Zuckerberg ? »”

Source : Au Parlement européen, l’ombre du Brexit plane sur le débat consacré à Cambridge Analytica

23 octobre 2018 /

bitcoin project syndicate

“Now that cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin have plummeted from last year’s absurdly high valuations, the techno-utopian mystique of so-called distributed-ledger technologies should be next. The promise to cure the world’s ills through « decentralization » was just a ruse to separate retail investors from their hard-earned real money.”

Source : The Big Blockchain Lie by Nouriel Roubini – Project Syndicate

23 octobre 2018 /

Tom Insel and Paul Dagum

“A startup founded in Palo Alto, California, by a trio of doctors, including the former director of the US National Institute of Mental Health, is trying to prove that our obsession with the technology in our pockets can help treat some of today’s most intractable medical problems: depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and substance abuse. Mindstrong Health is using a smartphone app to collect measures of people’s cognition and emotional health as indicated by how they use their phones. Once a patient installs Mindstrong’s app, it monitors things like the way the person types, taps, and scrolls while using other apps. This data is encrypted and analyzed remotely using machine learning, and the results are shared with the patient and the patient’s medical provider.”

Source : The smartphone app that can tell you’re depressed before you know it yourself – MIT Technology Review

23 octobre 2018 /

Google LYNA

“In both datasets, LYNA was able to correctly distinguish a slide with metastatic cancer from a slide without cancer 99% of the time. Further, LYNA was able to accurately pinpoint the location of both cancers and other suspicious regions within each slide, some of which were too small to be consistently detected by pathologists. As such, we reasoned that one potential benefit of LYNA could be to highlight these areas of concern for pathologists to review and determine the final diagnosis.”

Source : Google AI Blog: Applying Deep Learning to Metastatic Breast Cancer Detection

23 octobre 2018 /

“MIT today announced a new $1 billion commitment to address the global opportunities and challenges presented by the prevalence of computing and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). The initiative marks the single largest investment in computing and AI by an American academic institution, and will help position the United States to lead the world in preparing for the rapid evolution of computing and AI.At the heart of this endeavor will be the new MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing, made possible by a $350 million foundational gift from Mr. Schwarzman, the chairman, CEO and co-founder of Blackstone, a leading global asset manager.Headquartered in a signature new building on MIT’s campus, the new MIT Schwarzman College of Computing will be an interdisciplinary hub for work in computer science, AI, data science, and related fields”.

Source : MIT reshapes itself to shape the future | MIT News

23 octobre 2018 /

Telegeography 2018

“The internet is the wider network that allows computer networks around the world run by companies, governments, universities and other organisations to talk to one another. The result is a mass of cables, computers, data centres, routers, servers, repeaters, satellites and wifi towers that allows digital information to travel around the world. It is that infrastructure that lets you order the weekly shop, share your life on Facebook, stream Outcast on Netflix, email your aunt in Wollongong and search the web for the world’s tiniest cat.”

Source : What is the internet? 13 key questions answered | Technology | The Guardian

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