Uber wants access to a rider’s location from the moment she requests a ride until five minutes after the driver drops her off, even if the app is not in the foreground of her phone.
Source : Uber begins background collection of rider location data | TechCrunch
« The AI vastly outperformed a professional lip-reader who attempted to decipher 200 randomly selected clips from the data set. The professional annotated just 12.4 per cent of words without any error. But the AI annotated 46.8 per cent of all words in the March to September data set.
The AI system was trained using some 5000 hours from six different TV programmes, including Newsnight, BBC Breakfast and Question Time. In total, the videos contained 118,000 sentences ».
Source : Google’s DeepMind AI can lip-read TV shows better than a pro | New Scientist
Telegram vient de dévoiler Telegraph, un service de blog anonyme. Problème : c’est un clone de Medium qui facilite l’usurpation d’identité.
Misterfox va étendre sa gamme de services et ainsi devenir une plateforme universelle, proactive et gratuite de réclamation client.
Foxintelligence va introduire la transaction-based market intelligence en Europe, permettant ainsi aux entreprises d’accéder à des chiffres d’une précision et d’une fiabilité inégalées sur leur secteur d’activité online.
Dit autrement : donnez un accès total à vos correspondances privées pour éviter de remplir un formulaire de remboursement SNCF et en contrepartie, on peut les vendre. Et pas d’inquiétude, rien de personnel là-dedans… Non, pas d’inquiétude, tout cela sera « anonyme » !
Source : FoxIntelligence lève 1 million d’euros avec CleanFox et MisterFox – Business – Numerama
“The UK has just legalised the most extreme surveillance in the history of western democracy. It goes further than many autocracies.”
Source : ‘Extreme surveillance’ becomes UK law with barely a whimper | World news | The Guardian
The Chinese company that wrote the software, Shanghai Adups Technology Company, says its code runs on more than 700 million phones, cars and other smart devices. One American phone manufacturer, BLU Products, said that 120,000 of its phones had been affected and that it had updated the software to eliminate the feature.
Source : Secret Back Door in Some U.S. Phones Sent Data to China, Analysts Say – The New York Times
Friend Finder Network Inc is a company that operates a wide range of 18+ services and was hacked in October of 2016 for over 400 million accounts representing 20 years of customer data which makes it by far the largest breach we have ever seen — MySpace gets 2nd place at 360 million. This event also marks the second time Friend Finder has been breached in two years, the first being around May of 2015.
- Adultfriendfinder.com : 339,774,493 users
- Cams.com : 62,668,630 users
- Penthouse.com : 7,176,877 users
- Stripshow.com : 1,423,192 users
- iCams.com : 1,135,731 users
Last week, an investigative report by journalists at the Hamburg-based German television broadcaster, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), revealed that Web of Trust Services (WoT) had been harvesting netizens’ web browsing histories through its browser add-on and then selling them to third parties.
Source : Browsers nix add-on after Web of Trust is caught selling users’ browsing histories • The Register
« Je ne crois pas que les utilisateurs aient reçu suffisamment d’informations sur ce que Facebook comptait faire de leurs données, et je ne pense pas que WhatsApp a obtenu de leur part un consentement valable pour utiliser ces informations. »
Source : Au Royaume-Uni, Facebook épinglé pour l’exploitation des données des utilisateurs de WhatsApp
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