“This isn’t a kind of fluffy charity providing free services. It’s is a very hard-headed international business and these big tech companies are essentially the world’s biggest global advertisers, that’s where they make their billions. […] these big companies, particularly where there are monopolies, can’t frankly reform themselves. It will have to come from outside.”
Source : Facebook could threaten democracy, says former GCHQ boss – BBC News
“Le géant américain a annoncé, vendredi 30 novembre, que le système de réservation de Starwood avait été piraté. Il s’agit d’un incident d’une ampleur rare dans l’histoire des fuites de données. Le piratage a en effet rendu accessibles pendant quatre ans les données de centaines de millions de clients. Entre 2014 et septembre 2018, les pirates avaient en effet accès à une base de données contenant des données personnelles de « 500 millions de clients qui ont fait une réservation » dans un des hôtels de l’entreprise Starwood. Cette dernière possède notamment les marques Westin, Sheraton, W Hotels ou Le Méridien.”
Source : Un piratage compromet les données de centaines de millions de clients du groupe hôtelier Marriott
“Google has been accused of breaking promises to patients, after the company announced it would be moving a healthcare-focused subsidiary, DeepMind Health, into the main arm of the organisation.The restructure, critics argue, breaks a pledge DeepMind made when it started working with the NHS that “data will never be connected to Google accounts or services”. The change has also resulted in the dismantling of an independent review board, created to oversee the company’s work with the healthcare sector, with Google arguing that the board was too focused on Britain to provide effective oversight for a newly global body.”
Source : Google ‘betrays patient trust’ with DeepMind Health move | Technology | The Guardian
“Today, Privacy International has filed complaints against seven data brokers (Acxiom, Oracle), ad-tech companies (Criteo, Quantcast, Tapad), and credit referencing agencies (Equifax, Experian) with data protection authorities in France, Ireland, and the UK. Privacy International urges the data protection authorities to investigate these companies and to protect individuals from the mass exploitation of their data. Our complaints target companies that, despite exploiting the data of millions of people, are not household names and therefore rarely have their practices challenged. In tandem with the complaints, we have today launched a campaign to seek to empower people and make it easier to demand that these companies delete our data.”
“Les ADM se nourrissent les unes les autres. Les gens pauvres ont tendance à présenter un mauvais score de crédit et à vivre dans des quartiers à forte criminalité, entourés d’autres individus pauvres. Une fois ces données digérées, le sordide univers des ADM les bombarde de publicités prédatrices pour des prêts hypothécaires de type subprime ou des écoles à but lucratif. Il déploie plus de policiers pour les arrêter et, lorsqu’ils sont condamnés, leur inflige des peines de prisons plus longues…” – Cathy O’Neil
Source : « Algorithmes, la bombe à retardement » : un cri d’alarme citoyen
“The rash of news coverage was no accident: NTK is an affiliate of Definers, sharing offices and staff with the public relations firm in Arlington, Va. Many NTK Network stories are written by staff members at Definers or America Rising, the company’s political opposition-research arm, to attack their clients’ enemies. While the NTK Network does not have a large audience of its own, its content is frequently picked up by popular conservative outlets, including Breitbart. Mr. Miller acknowledged that Facebook and Apple do not directly compete. Definers’ work on Apple is funded by a third technology company, he said, but Facebook has pushed back against Apple because Mr. Cook’s criticism upset Facebook.”
Source : Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis – The New York Times
“Le Conseil d’Etat a jugé, le 18 octobre, que le fichier des titres électroniques sécurisés (fichier TES) ne constitue pas une atteinte disproportionnée à la vie privée. Cette décision montre une fois de plus que, par nos choix, nous faisons de l’informatique la meilleure ou la pire des choses – en l’occurrence la pire. Elle illustre aussi l’incapacité du pouvoir, ici judiciaire, à tenir compte de l’avis de la communauté scientifique, mais aussi l’incroyable confiance en la sécurité des systèmes informatiques que provoque l’ignorance.”
Source : Le « mégafichier », mythe de l’infaillibilité informatique
“The biggest question surrounding the device: Why should anyone trust Facebook enough to put Facebook-powered microphones and video cameras in their living room or kitchen? Given Facebook’s year of privacy and security issues, privacy around the device — including what data Facebook collects and how it’s used — has been an important part of the story surrounding Portal.”
“When we use data to create better experiences for you, we work hard to do it in a way that doesn’t compromise your privacy. One example is our pioneering use of Differential Privacy, where we scramble your data and combine it with the data of millions of others. So we see general patterns, rather than specifics that could be traced back to you. These patterns help us identify things like the most popular emoji, the best QuickType suggestions, and energy consumption rates in Safari.”
Source : Privacy – Apple
“Under the new law, all new internet-connected devices made or sold in California with a default password will be required to make that password unique and secure for every single device. That means no more devices shipped with username/password combos of “admin/admin,” for example. It’s far from a panacea—and really, why aren’t you using a password manager already—but it’s a step towards at least a minimal baseline of security in our internet-of-things addled future.”
Source : California Is Making It Illegal for Devices to Have Shitty Default Passwords – Motherboard
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