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Vie privée : les applis smartphone d’Obama et Romney sont trop curieuses | L’Amérique dans la peau | Rue89 Les blogs
http://blogs.rue89.com/amerique-dans-la-peau/2012/08/21/vie-privee-les-applis-smartphone-dobama-et-romney-sont-trop-0

Tout y est : le nom, le prénom, l’âge et, évidemment, l’adresse. Le but est évident : permettre aux volontaires de rameuter les troupes (le « canvassing » ou démarchage) et, le cas échéant, de convaincre les indécis qui seraient assez nombreux parmi les démocrates électeurs d’Obama en 2008. Cette année-là, justement, les volontaires disposaient déjà de cette information, mais sur des fastidieux listings qui ralentissaient leur travail de fourmi. http://news.techworld.com/personal-tech/3376907/obama-romney-election-apps-suck-up-personal-data-research-finds

Obama’s #Data Advantage
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77213.html

CHICAGO — On the sixth floor of a sleek office building here, more than 150 techies are quietly peeling back the layers of your life. They know what you read and where you shop, what kind of work you do and who you count as friends. They also know who your mother voted for in the last election.

#data-mining

François Hollande dévoile son véritable programme à la City : nos commentaires | François Ruffin (Partie 2/2)
http://www.fakirpresse.info/Francois-Hollande-devoile-son,322.html

Le Bourget contre The Guardian : choisissez votre François Hollande. Tant qu’à faire, on préfère la version du quotidien britannique, qui a le mérite de l’honnêteté : finance protégée, traités européens à peine retouchés, aucune conquête sociale à attendre… Demandez le programme ! (...) Source : Partie 2/2

Latvians reject Russian as official language | World news | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/19/latvians-reject-russian-official-language

Latvian voters have resoundingly rejected a proposal to give official status to Russian, the mother tongue of their former Soviet occupiers and a large chunk of the population.

Russian is the first language for about a third of the Baltic country’s 2.1 million people, and many of them would like it to be a national language to reverse what they claim has been 20 years of discrimination.

But for ethnic Latvians the referendum was an attempt to encroach on Latvia’s independence, which was restored two decades ago after half a century of occupation by the Soviet Union since the second world war.

According to the current law anyone who moved to Latvia during the Soviet occupation, or was born to parents who moved there, is considered a non-citizen and must pass the Latvian language exam in order to be naturalised.

There are approximately 300,000 non-citizens in Latvia.

#Lettonie #Langue #Russie #référendum

As Libya celebrates a year of freedom, evidence grows of its disintegration
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/19/libya-government-absent-revolution-anniversary

The decision of the NTC to hold its meetings in private and rule by decree has left diplomats dismayed, and the country is fragmenting under its feet.Misrata, Libya’s third city, will tomorrow hold its own elections, unsanctioned by the NTC, a final step towards what is independence in all but name. Its militias control a 300-mile-long corridor stretching across central Libya, policing it according to the city’s own leadership, rather than that of the NTC.

To the east, tribal leaders are meeting to consider a similar step, dismayed, as are the Misratans, by rumours that the NTC may delay June’s promised national elections. Nor are the government’s critics impressed by the declaration by NTC chairman Mustafa Abdul Jalil last week that it will form a political party, which seems an aberration of its promise to withdraw from politics once democracy is established.

And then there are the militias: Libya has more than 500 armed groups, each following their own orders. The wonder is not how bad the violence and armed clashes are – the latest being intertribal violence in the southern town of Kufra that has left more than 20 dead – but how tranquil the country is.

Intervention occidentale en faveur de la démocratie, déferlement de mercenaires et de milices dans le pays, puis désintégration du pays. Scénario connu.

’Plot to kill pope’ sparks Italian media storm | World news | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/10/plot-kill-pope-italian-media

The Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano published the sensational “mordkomplott” letter detailing an alleged plot against the pope on its front page on Friday. Despite a Vatican spokesman’s claiming it was “nonsense not to be taken seriously”, the content of the anonymous warning letter, dated 30 December 2011, was reported widely in Italian and German media.

#religion

Church of England reaches compromise on women bishops | World news | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/08/church-of-england-compromise-women-bishops

In spite of four days of tortuous debate, the synod agreed that its bishops could instead tinker with legislation that would allow the ordination of women as bishops, before returning it to the synod for final approval in July. If that legislation is passed, women bishops could be ordained in 2014.

#religion

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2012/2/8/1328736389374/Right-Rev-Kay-Goldsworthy-007.jpg

Intéressants ces cours du soir où les grandes personnes apprennent apparemment à distinguer les formes élémentaires.

Hacked emails allege Russian youth group Nashi paying bloggers | World news | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/07/hacked-emails-nashi-putin-bloggers

Pro-Kremlin organisation reportedly pays hundreds of thousands of pounds to network of internet users to help political cause

#manipulation #internet #russie

RAF helicopter death revelation leads to secret Iraq detention camp
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/07/iraq-death-secret-detention-camp

Later it became clear that this was not correct: they were being transported to an altogether more secret location. The truth about the mission raises some searching questions about the legality of some of the British forces’ operations carried out in close co-operation with US allies.

#H1 #secret_prison

Augmentation du coût de la mort // Church of England votes to increase marriage and funeral fees | World news | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/07/church-of-england-marriage-funeral

The General Synod, which is meeting in London this week, agreed to push funeral service fees up from £102 to £160 and wedding ceremony fees from £296 to £415 in an attempt to standardise costs across the country’s 16,000 churches. The increase includes lighting and administration, but not heating, and comes into effect next year.

#religion

Google and Facebook block content in India after court warns of crackdown | World news | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/06/google-facebook-india

Google and Facebook have removed content from some Indian websites after a court warned that India would crack down “like China” if they did not take steps to protect religious sensibilities.

The two are among 21 companies ordered to develop a mechanism to block material considered religiously offensive after private petitioners took them to court over images deemed offensive to Hindus, Muslims and Christians.

#religion