Ce n’est qu’un brevet, mais…
« Facebook aimerait s’appuyer sur la webcam ou l’appareil photo de smartphone de ses utilisateurs pour connaître leur réaction à la lecture des publications de leur fil d’actualité. Et ainsi leur proposer un contenu personnalisé en fonction des émotions visibles sur leur visage ».
Source : Facebook songe à lire vos émotions pour personnaliser votre fil d’actualité
« Chaque matin, vous regardez des décapitations, des gens qui se font massacrer, lapider, exécuter. [….] Ils auraient dû nous laisser utiliser de faux profils. Nous n’avons jamais été prévenus qu’une chose pareille risquait d’arriver ».
Source : Un bug révèle l’identité de modérateurs Facebook à des soutiens de Daech
« A lot of Instagram’s most popular users are paid to promote advertisers’ products. A lot of those same users don’t actually disclose that they’re promoting an advertisers’s products. So Instagram is asking these users, many of them celebrities or media organizations, to include a “paid partnership” label on posts that they’re being compensated to share ».
Source : Instagram wants influencers to clearly label their paid posts – Recode
« According to the Crimson, at least ten students have had their acceptance to Harvard rescinded as a result. The university has declined to comment on the « the admissions status of individual applicants. » It’s not the first time Harvard has dealt with bad-meme-posters in an incoming class of freshmen (just last year, administrators officially admonished students in the Class of 2020 via Facebook), but this might be the first time anyone’s had their acceptance revoked over memes ».
Source : Students Lose Acceptance to Harvard Over Racist Memes – Motherboard
« C’est la première fois que la Commission adopte une décision infligeant des amendes à une entreprise pour la fourniture d’un renseignement inexact ou dénaturé depuis l’entrée en vigueur du règlement sur les concentrations de 2004 ».
« A secretive division at Facebook’s California headquarters has been experimenting with mind-reading technology for several months, the company revealed.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder, has previously described telepathy as the “ultimate communication technology”, but the social network’s ambitions have been unclear.
At Facebook’s annual developer conference on Wednesday, Regina Dugan, head of the company’s experimental technologies division Building 8, said Facebook was working on “optical neuro-imaging systems” that would allow people to type words directly from their brain at 100 words per minute: five times the speed possible on a smartphone.
“It sounds impossible but it’s closer than you think,” said Ms Dugan, who joined Facebook from Google last year and previously led DARPA, the US government’s advanced defence research division. »
Source : Mark Zuckerberg confirms Facebook is working on mind-reading technology
« Je n’ai jamais compris pourquoi personne ne parle jamais des groupes Facebook ».
Source : l’An 2000 – Les groupes Facebook, lieux essentiels de la campagne présidentielle – Libération.fr
« Facebook executives promote advertising campaigns that exploit Facebook users’ emotional states—and how these are aimed at users as young as 14 years old. According to the report, the selling point of this 2017 document is that Facebook’s algorithms can determine, and allow advertisers to pinpoint, « moments when young people need a confidence boost. » If that phrase isn’t clear enough, Facebook’s document offers a litany of teen emotional states that the company claims it can estimate based on how teens use ».
Source : Facebook helped advertisers target teens who feel “worthless” | Ars Technica
« Since 2015, you could send and receive money on Messenger, but until now, these person-to-person payments have just been possible between two people. Starting today for Android and desktop, you can send or receive money between groups of people on Messenger ».
Source : Get Paid Back: Announcing Group Payments in Messenger | Facebook Newsroom
« Facing criticism, the company last year met representatives from more than 150 women’s safety organizations and decided it needed to do more, Antigone Davis, global head of safety at Facebook, said in a phone interview ».
Source : Facebook to use photo-matching to block repeat ‘revenge porn’ | Reuters
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