One idea Google has been studying is how its vehicles could become part of robo-taxi systems in which a fleet of self-driving cars would pick up passengers and work commuters on demand, according to people familiar with the matter. Google believes that such systems could potentially reduce the need for people to own cars and reduce accidents.

Over the past years, the idea of how to reconcile intellectual property rights and the Internet technologies and platforms has become a pivotal point of all Internet governance discussions. With the emergence of the Internet as a means of communication, creativity, innovation and ideas and with the increasing accessibility to information, traditional concepts of intellectual property appear increasingly antiquated and inapplicable in a space where information is democratized, people become increasingly more empowered to create, exchange and distribute content and innovation and creativity proliferate.

Il nous faut d’abord situer l’affaire Snowden dans son contexte américain d’origine : après le 11 septembre 2001, George W. Bush a instrumentalisé, jusqu’à le manipuler, le traumatisme bien compréhensible de la population. Il a empoisonné la culture politique de son pays en hystérisant la vie publique. De cette façon, il s’est procuré une majorité politique non pas seulement pour mener sa guerre contre l’Irak, une guerre contraire au droit international, mais aussi pour investir l’exécutif de pleins pouvoirs, contraires à la Constitution américaine.