Il faudrait toutefois être fortement naïf pour y voir autre chose qu’une tentative plus ou moins subtile de prendre le contrôle du débat public sur l’intelligence artificielle, pour fixer eux-mêmes les limites éthiques à ne pas franchir, et celles qui ne poseraient pas de problèmes.
Source : IA : Pourquoi Apple ne se joint pas au lobby de Facebook, Microsoft et Google – Business – Numerama
Google has started to increase the fees that it charges for the use of Google Maps, presenting concerns about whether it might raise prices further in future.As Uber prepares to spend $500m on its mapping ambitions, the programme follows earlier investments in mapping that include the acquisition of an imagery collection team from Microsoft’s Bing last June. Last year Uber also acquired deCarta, a mapping company that developed the turn-by-turn directions behind GM’s OnStar software.
Source : Uber to pour $500m into global mapping project – FT.com
The chief executive, Tim Cook, says he hopes the easy sign-up button in the Health app will help ease a longstanding donor shortage in the US. He said that the problem hit home when Apple co-founder Steve Jobs endured an “excruciating” wait for a liver transplant in 2009. Jobs died of pancreatic cancer in October 2011, aged 56.
Source : Apple pushes organ donor registration for US iPhone users | Technology | The Guardian
Apple’s only public car product is currently its CarPlay system, which connects Apple smartphones to a car’s entertainment system. “That is what we do today in the car business, so we will have to see what the future holds,” Cook said.
Source : Apple invests $1bn in Didi Chuxing, China’s Uber rival | Technology | The Guardian
“If the government can circumvent the process merely by buying vulnerabilities, then the process becomes a farce. The FBI is not interested in cybersecurity.’’
Source : FBI Plans to Keep Apple iPhone-Hacking Method Secret – WSJ
Apple takes our commitment to protecting your data very seriously and we work incredibly hard to deliver the most secure hardware, software and services available. We also believe every customer has a right to understand how their personal information is handled.
For government information requests, we report as much detail as we are legally allowed. When we receive an account request from law enforcement requesting a customer’s personal information, we will notify the customer a request concerning their personal data was made unless we are explicitly prohibited from doing so. We are reserving the right to make exceptions, such as for extreme situations when we believe disclosing information could put a child or other person in serious danger, or where notice is not applicable to the underlying facts of the case.
When it comes to doing the right thing in difficult situations, BlackBerry’s guiding principle has been to do what is right for the citizenry, within legal and ethical boundaries. We have long been clear in our stance that tech companies as good corporate citizens should comply with reasonable lawful access requests. I have stated before that we are indeed in a dark place when companies put their reputations above the greater good.
Source : Lawful Access, Corporate Citizenship and Doing What’s Right | Inside BlackBerry
Après Yann Galut (PS) qui demande 1 million d’euros d’amende, voici Éric Ciotti qui surenchérit et demande 2 millions d’amende, et l’interdiction de la vente des téléphones, lorsque les entreprises comme Apple refusent d’apporter leur concours aux autorités pour pirater le smartphone d’un suspect.
Source : Lutte contre le chiffrement : Ciotti surenchérit et veut interdire l’iPhone – Politique – Numerama
For Google, this is a competitive necessity. Facebook has improved the speed of stories in its walled garden with Instant Articles. Apple News provides a streamlined experience on iPhones for those who use it. Google’s turf is the web, and the company doesn’t want to lose out to more user-friendly spots outside its reach on your phone. Speed matters on mobile. Google wants to make sure you know it serves up stories just as fast as everywhere else.
Google vs Facebook vs Apple against the Open Web.
Source : Google Will Now Favor Pages That Use Its Fast-Loading Tech | WIRED
Sheri Pym, the federal judge, has ordered Apple not to turn off its encryption but to make it easier for federal agents to randomly guess the suspects’ iPhone passcode. Apple has built a security feature into iPhones so that a phone slows down anyone trying to “brute force” his way into a phone by guessing passcode after passcode.
Source : Apple ordered to decrypt iPhone of San Bernardino shooter for FBI | US news | The Guardian
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