« The Intercept, média habitué des fuites, a publié un document interne de la NSA sur les piratages russes. Quelques heures après, sa source était démasquée et arrêtée. L’agence gouvernementale avait laissé des marqueurs cachés sur les documents, ce qui a permis d’identifier la taupe en moins d’une journée ».
« 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 ».
« The beacons are frequencies from 18kHz to 20kHz, a range that is inaudible to most humans but can be reliably detected by most phone microphones. By embedding them into audio, marketers can track the whereabouts of shoppers as they move throughout a large department store.
The tracking can also be used for purposes that are decidedly less ethical. Advertisers, for example, may use the beacons with no disclosure at all to measure how often a particular TV ad is viewed. The technology can also be covertly used to perform cross-device tracking that allows marketers to tie a single person to the multiple media devices she uses. The researchers said the beacons could similarly be used to identify people using the Tor anonymity service ».
Source : More Android phones than ever are covertly listening for inaudible sounds in ads | Ars Technica
« 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
While you were searching for love on Tinder, one creepy programmer was harvesting your A-game pics and distributing them in bulk to artificial intelligence researchers experimenting with facial recognition.
Source : Brogrammer scraped and uploaded 40,000 Tinder pics of ‘hoes’ online
« 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
« The audio maker Bose, whose wireless headphones sell for up to $350, uses an app to collect the listening habits of its customers and provide that information to third parties—all without the knowledge and permission of the users, according to a lawsuit filed in Chicago on Tuesday ».
Source : Bose Headphones Secretly Collected User Data – Lawsuit | Fortune.com
« As the name suggests, « Find Friends » lets consumers quickly discover if any of their contacts are using the app too. But according to the users in the case, the app makers violated their privacy by failing to inform them that « Find Friends » would transfer user’s contact lists to company servers.The companies have fought the lawsuit for years, complaining in part that storing users’ contact lists on the server was necessary for the « Find Friends » tool to function. But U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar pushed back, saying the firms should have been more explicit about what they were doing ».
Source : Instagram, Twitter Could Pay Users $5.3 Million in Privacy Settlement | Fortune.com
« That bill was a disgusting bill, because when we use the web, we are so vulnerable » – Tim Berners-Lee
Source : Tim Berners-Lee: selling private citizens’ browsing data is ‘disgusting’ | Technology | The Guardian
« Et puis il y a la multiplication des objets qui captent vos données, notamment les assistants domestiques comme Alexa. Ces objets permettent aux publicitaires de faire ce dont ils rêvent depuis des années, à savoir construire des profils unifiés qui font la liaison entre ce que vous faites sur votre téléphone, ce que vous faites chez vous, ce que vous faites en voiture… Ces dispositifs peuvent en savoir beaucoup sur vos émotions, sur les choses que vous concevez en votre for intérieur. C’est là qu’est la vraie vie privée ».
Source : « Non, ce que vos données décrivent, ce n’est pas vous »
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