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18 novembre 2015 /

For the last couple of years librarians have talked about a 20th century black hole when trying to describe the effect that copyright has on making cultural heritage available online (it appears that the concept was first used publicly by Prof. James Boyle in a 2009 column for the Financial Times).
At Europeana we are able to show the 20th century black hole in our dataset by looking at the temporal distribution of works within the dataset. We did so in a first analysis that we undertook in May 2012 and we have just repeated this exercise at the request of the European Commission which is looking for evidence to assess the impact of copyright on the online availability of cultural heritage. Just as in 2012 we are seeing the concept of the 20th century black hole confirmed in our data.

Source : The missing decades: the 20th century black hole in Europeana – Europeana Professional

18 novembre 2015 /

Taxi owners and lenders on Tuesday sued New York City and its Taxi and Limousine Commission, saying the proliferation of the popular ride-sharing business Uber was destroying their businesses and threatening their livelihoods.
The lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court accused the defendants of violating yellow cab drivers’ exclusive right to pick up passengers on the street by letting Uber drivers who face fewer regulatory burdens pick up millions of passengers who use smartphones to hail rides.
According to the complaint, the number of Uber rides in the « core » of Manhattan increased by 3.82 million from April to June 2015 compared with a year earlier, while medallion cab pickups fell by 3.83 million.
They said this had driven down the value of medallions, which yellow cab drivers need to operate, by 40 percent from a peak exceeding $1 million and caused more defaults.

Source : Taxi owners, lenders sue New York City over Uber | Reuters

18 novembre 2015 /

Outre que, contrairement à ce qui a souvent été écrit, les Anonymous n’ont pas déclaré ce jour-là la guerre à l’EI – ils l’avaient déjà fait après les attentats de janvier –, de nombreuses informations, souvent erronées, circulent sur les réseaux sociaux. Notamment concernant la publication par le collectif de plusieurs listes de comptes Twitter liés à l’EI.

Source : Riposte d’Anonymous aux attentats du 13 novembre : le vrai et le faux

18 novembre 2015 /

Tout est parti en juillet 2014, avec la plainte d’une personne qui « dénonçait la communication par téléphone de son mot de passe par la société ». Celle-ci craignait alors que ses données confidentielles soient stockées en clair dans la base de données de ce spécialiste. Moins de deux semaines plus tard, la CNIL procède à un contrôle de la société.

Source : La CNIL inflige 50 000 euros de sanction à l’encontre d’Optical Center – Next INpact

Le gouvernement ordonne à Twitter de bloquer la diffusion des photos du carnage dans le Bataclan

18 novembre 2015 /

Le ministère de l’intérieur a demandé dimanche 15 novembre au réseau social Twitter de bloquer, sur le territoire français, l’accès aux photographies prises à l’intérieur du Bataclan après l’attaque terroriste qui a fait des dizaines de morts, deux jours plus tôt.

Source : Le gouvernement ordonne à Twitter de bloquer la diffusion des photos du carnage dans le Bataclan

18 novembre 2015 /

Millions of mobile devices with SilverPush powered SDK are constantly listening to SilverPush patented audio beacons (ultrasonic) which are watermarked in Televison ad commercial. A pair is made once a SDK comes in proximity of audio beacon. The individual ID is mapped back to its audience genome and a brand-consumer journey has been started.

Source : Silverpush – Unifying people, devices and data

18 novembre 2015 /

SilverPush’s company policy is to not « divulge the names of the apps the technology is embedded, » meaning that users have no knowledge of which apps are using this technology and no way to opt-out of this practice. As of April of 2015, SilverPush’s software is used by 67 apps and the company monitors 18 million smartphones.
SilverPush’s ultrasonic cross-device tracking was publicly reported as long ago as July 2014. More recently, the company received a new round of publicity when it obtained $1.25 million in venture capital. The CDT letter appears to be the first time the privacy-invading potential of the company’s product has been discussed in detail. SilverPush officials didn’t respond to e-mail seeking comment for this article.

Source : Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone, TV, tablet, and PC | Ars Technica

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