Étiquette : google (Page 13 of 34)

22 mai 2018 /

“The Selfish Ledger positions Google as the solver of the world’s most intractable problems, fueled by a distressingly intimate degree of personal information from every user and an ease with guiding the behavior of entire populations. There’s nothing to suggest that this is anything more than a thought exercise inside Google, initiated by an influential executive. But it does provide an illuminating insight into the types of conversations going on within the company that is already the world’s most prolific personal data collector.”

Source : Google’s Selfish Ledger is an unsettling vision of Silicon Valley social engineering – The Verge

Facebook or Google — which should worry us more?

8 mai 2018 /

«Epstein’s group asked 661 Americans to pick one of two candidates in an Australian election. Since it was presumed they did not know much about Antipodean politics, the participants were instructed to research them with a Google-type search engine that offered the usual autocomplete suggestions when words were typed in. However, the researchers also varied the search suggestions shown beneath a candidate’s name, including a range of positive and negative words. The results were stark. When participants were later questioned about their voting preferences, changing the ratio of positive to negative suggestions in the autocomplete was shown to be capable of shifting the preferences of undecided voters by nearly 80 per cent — even though participants seemed free to search for any material they wanted».

Source : Facebook or Google — which should worry us more?

22 avril 2018 /

«Chat is a carrier-based service, not a Google service. It’s just “Chat,” not “Google Chat.” In a sign of its strategic importance to Google, the company has spearheaded development on the new standard, so that every carrier’s Chat services will be interoperable. But, like SMS, Chat won’t be end-to-end encrypted, and it will follow the same legal intercept standards. In other words: it won’t be as secure as iMessage or Signal».

Source : Exclusive: Chat is Google’s next big fix for Android’s messaging mess – The Verge

22 avril 2018 /

«Les early adopters qui peuvent démocratiser une technologie ont adopté le réflexe des messageries chiffrées de bout en bout. Apple chiffre les messages de ses clients par défaut et sur Android, WhatsApp ou Signal le font également. Le RCS est un standard aux mains des opérateurs, Google et ses partenaires n’étant que des relais, des points de réception. Cela signifie qu’un message RCS n’est pas sécurisé, peut être intercepté et reste sur le réseau des opérateurs qui ne sont pas connus pour être les derniers à plier aux demandes des autorités».

Source : Battu par Apple et Facebook, Google a un plan ambitieux pour réinventer le SMS – Tech – Numerama

17 avril 2018 /

«People are remarkably good at focusing their attention on a particular person in a noisy environment, mentally “muting” all other voices and sounds. Known as the cocktail party effect, this capability comes natural to us humans. However, automatic speech separation — separating an audio signal into its individual speech sources — while a well-studied problem, remains a significant challenge for computers. In “Looking to Listen at the Cocktail Party”, we present a deep learning audio-visual model for isolating a single speech signal from a mixture of sounds such as other voices and background noise».

Source : Research Blog: Looking to Listen: Audio-Visual Speech Separation

17 avril 2018 /

«When a ProtonMail user sends an expiring message to another ProtonMail user, it looks like a regular email in the inbox. After the message expires, it is automatically deleted from the inbox and the sender’s outbox. In Gmail’s current implementation, it sounds like Google simply generates an email with a link. The message behind the link disappears after a while, but not necessarily the intermediate email. It’s also worth noting that Google doesn’t mention end-to-end encryption anywhere. A “confidential” message doesn’t have to be encrypted. It’s likely that Google could still see the content of that message and comply with warrants».

Source : Google is testing self-destructing emails in new Gmail | TechCrunch

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