Websites that detect ad-blockers to stop their users from reading webpages could be illegal under European law.
Source : Ad-blocker blocking websites face legal peril at hands of privacy bods • The Register
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Facebook can promote or block any material that it wants,” UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh told Gizmodo. “Facebook has the same First Amendment right as the New York Times. They can completely block Trump if they want. They can block him or promote him.
Source : Facebook Employees Asked Mark Zuckerberg If They Should Try to Stop a Donald Trump Presidency
Margrethe Vestager, the EU competition chief, said the European commission had taken the preliminary view that Google had abused its dominant position, following an initial one-year investigation. “What we found is that Google pursues an overall strategy on mobile devices to protect and expand its dominant position in internet search,” Vestager said.
Source : EU accuses Google of using Android to skew market against rivals | Technology | The Guardian
Unlike other forms of Google search, Google does not display advertising to book searchers, nor does it receive payment if a searcher uses Google’s link to buy a copy. Google’s book scanning project started in 2004. Working with major libraries like Stanford, Columbia, the University of California, and the New York Public Library, Google has scanned and made machine-readable more than 20 million books. Many of them are nonfiction and out of print.
Source : Fair use prevails as Supreme Court rejects Google Books copyright case | Ars Technica
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
C’est une semaine très chargée qui se termine pour le monde judiciaire. Le Sénat examine notamment depuis mardi deux projets de loi de Christiane Taubira autour des magistrats et de la justice du 21e siècle. Reportage multimédia d’Abdelhak El Idrissi, ponctué par de très nombreuses réactions.
Source : Quels moyens pour la Justice ? France Culture – Pixel
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
This was a minor crash with serious implications: Google’s autonomous vehicles have been in accidents before, but the tech giant was always quick to note that its technology was never at fault (the cars tend to get rear-ended at red lights). It may not be able to say that anymore.
Source : Google’s Self-Driving Car Caused Its First Crash | 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