Prédire l’avenir est un des grands rêves des apprentis sorciers. Ces rêves ne sont pas sans danger lorsqu’ils concernent le futur de l’humanité. Il est urgent de réfléchir sur la dimension éthique de l’usage des « Big Data » à des fins de prédictions des comportements humains.
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At a base minimum, people should be able to walk down a public street without fear that companies they’ve never heard of are tracking their every movement –and identifying them by name –using facial recognition technology
Source : Facial-Recognition Concerns Keep Facebook ‘Moments’ From Europe – Digits – WSJ
Greetings citizens of Canada, we are Anonymous. Today, this 17th of June 2015 we launched an attack against the Canadian senate and government of Canada websites in protest against the recent passing of bill C-51.
Source : Hacker group ‘Anonymous’ claims credit for federal cyber attacks | Ottawa Citizen
The White House told Republicans in Congress yesterday that the nation’s budget should not be used to enact « unrelated ideological provisions, » including a proposal to prevent the Federal Communications Commission from enforcing its net neutrality rules.
Source : White House to Congress: Don’t use budget to kill net neutrality | Ars Technica
Elop’s big mistake was the semibold—but incorrect—move of aligning Nokia with Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform
Meanwhile, privacy, as always, will be an important issue with the cloud-based service, which went unmentioned at today’s announcement.
Source : Say Hello to Cam and Aware, Nest’s New Home Surveillance System
California’s labor commissioner has ruled that a driver for Uber Technologies Inc. should be classified as an employee of the company, a decision that marks the latest setback for the ride-hailing company’s labor model.
Source : Uber Driver Was Employee, Not Contractor, California Commission Says – WSJ
Back in the day, we had to create everything by hand
Source : The original Super Mario game was designed on graph paper – Quartz