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Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them
Ajouté le 30-01-2019, publié le 31-01-2019, via TechCrunch, dans High-Tech & Internet
Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a 'Facebook Research' VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user's phone and web activity, similar to Facebook's Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed in August. Facebook...
Facebook : retour sur les 10 scandales de l'année 2018
Ajouté le 21-12-2018, via BDM, dans High-Tech & Internet
L'année 2018 sera un grand cru pour Facebook. La plateforme cumule depuis le mois de février des frasques toutes plus scandaleuses les unes que les autres. Même aux portes de 2019, il semblerait que la firme soit encore en train d'essuyer de nouvelles révélations qui pourrait bien ternir son...
Facebook : 75% des utilisateurs américains ignorent que leurs comportements sont trackés
Ajouté le 17-01-2019, via BDM, dans High-Tech & Internet
Selon une étude de Pew Research Center (PRC), les trois quarts des utilisateurs américains de Facebook ne savent pas que le réseau social collecte des informations personnelles sur eux à des fins publicitaires. Pour répondre à cette étude intitulée « Les algorithmes de Facebook et les...
Facebook is secretly building LOL, a cringey teen meme hub
Ajouté le 18-01-2019, via TechCrunch, dans High-Tech & Internet
How do you do, fellow kids? After Facebook Watch, Lasso and IGTV failed to become hits with teens, the company has been quietly developing another youthful video product. Multiple sources confirm that Facebook has spent months building LOL, a special feed of funny videos and GIF-like clips. It's...
Facebook pivots to what it wishes it was
Ajouté le 02-05-2019, via TechCrunch, dans High-Tech & Internet
In Facebook's dreams, it's a clean and private place. People spend their time having thoughtful discussions in 'meaningful' Groups, planning offline meetups with Events, or laughing together in a Facebook Watch party. In reality, Facebook is a cluttered mess of features that seem to constantly leak...
Facebook talked privacy, Google actually built it
Ajouté le 08-05-2019, via TechCrunch, dans High-Tech & Internet
Mark Zuckerberg: 'The future is private'. Sundar Pichai: ~The present is private~. While both CEO's made protecting user data a central theme of their conference keynotes this month, Facebook's product updates were mostly vague vaporware while Google's were either ready to ship or ready to demo....
Facebook pourrait écoper d'une amende de plusieurs milliards
Ajouté le 15-02-2019, via Journal du Geek, dans High-Tech & Internet
Une amende en négociation Le scandale Cambridge Analytica continue de tourmenter le réseau social. Facebook est en négociation avec la Federal Trade Commission (FTC) pour définir le montant de l'amende qui lui sera infligée. Selon le Washington Post, la firme détenue par Mark Zuckerberg...
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Facebook contro tutti (intervista in Jacobin Italia, 14 dic. 2018)
Ajouté le 14-12-2018, via Antonio A. Casilli, dans Écologie
Non faccio spesso interviste in italiano, ma quando le faccio passo svariate ore a parlare con il giornaliste Giuliano Santoro. Il risultato è questa intervista-fiume per Jacobin Italia che esplora le relazioni fra Facebook, i mercati, la società e gli stati-nazione. Facebook e gli altri...
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Facebook quietly hired Republican strategy firm Targeted Victory
Ajouté le 30-11-2018, via TechCrunch, dans High-Tech & Internet
Facebook is still reeling from the revelation that it hired an opposition research firm with close ties to the Republican party, but its relationship with Definers Public Affairs isn't the company's only recent contract work with deeply GOP-linked strategy firms. While that work alone isn't cause...
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Facebook is not equipped to stop the spread of authoritarianism
Ajouté le 24-12-2018, via TechCrunch, dans High-Tech & Internet
Yael Grauer Contributor Share on Twitter Yael Grauer is an independent tech journalist and investigative reporter based in Phoenix. She's written for The Intercept, Ars Technica, Breaker, Motherboard, WIRED, Slate and more. After the driver of a speeding bus ran over and killed two college students...
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