industryterm:internet users

“Geography of hate” looks at use of racist terms against Latinos, blacks on Twitter
http://nbclatino.com/2013/05/13/geography-of-hate-looks-at-use-of-racist-terms-against-latinos-blacks-on-

It’s no secret that internet users have always been able to get away with saying things online that they probably wouldn’t say in person, and a new map by Floating Sheep, a group of geography academics, takes the idea a step further by analyzing the use of racist and homophobic terms on Twitter across the United States.

Hate Map
http://users.humboldt.edu/mstephens/hate/hate_map.html#

Les start-ups chinoises : la ruée vers l’or - Steve Blank
http://steveblank.com/2013/04/14/china-startups-the-gold-rush

De retour de #chine, Steve Blank, l’auteur du manuel de créateur de start-ups, revient sur le potentiel des sociétés innovantes chinoises.  Tags : internetactu fing internetactu2net chine économie #innovation

#économie

الداخلية السعودية : استخدام شبكات التواصل الاجتماعي يخضع لنظام مكافحة جرائم المعلومات
http://www.alquds.co.uk/index.asp?fname=latest/data/2013-03-29-11-50-44.htm

الداخلية السعودية: استخدام شبكات التواصل الاجتماعي يخضع لنظام مكافحة جرائم المعلومات

Dans la lignée des précédentes menaces, le ministère de l’Intérieur d’Arabie saoudite rappelle que « l’utilisation des réseaux sociaux est soumise au code de la répression des délits d’information ».

#tic_arabe

Pouvoir et internet
►http://www.internetactu.net/2013/03/21/pouvoir-et-internet

Le spécialiste de la sécurité informatique, Bruce Schneier (@Bruce_Schneier), vient de livrer sur son blog un texte très pertinent sur comment l’internet transforme les rapports de pouvoir. Il y explique que la technologie amplifie la puissance non seulement des internautes, mais aussi – et de plus en plus – des pouvoirs en place. “Toutes les technologies de rupture bouleversent (...)

#guerre #sécurité #surveillance

Digital Music Consumption on the Internet: Evidence from Clickstream Data
http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/publications/pub.cfm?id=6084

This paper analyses the behaviour of digital music consumers on the Internet. Using clickstream data on a panel of more than 16,000 European consumers, we estimate the effects of illegal downloading and legal streaming on the legal purchases of digital music. Our results suggest that Internet users do not view illegal downloading as a substitute for legal digital music.

#partage

Une très jolie faille de sécurité, à la fois dans les AC #X.509 et dans le programme ICANN de nouveaux gTLD.

« SAC057 - SSAC Advisory on Internal Name Certificates » http://www.icann.org/en/groups/ssac/documents/sac-057-en.pdf

En gros, plusieurs AC acceptent d’émettre des certificats pour des noms d’un seul composant (par exemple « local » ou « prive »), afin que des employés d’une boîte puissent accéder à des services internes, qui utilisent ces noms (ce qui est une mauvaise idée : http://www.bortzmeyer.org/pourquoi-le-tld-local-n-est-pas-une-bonne-idee.html et
►http://www.bortzmeyer.org/domaines-d-un-seul-label.html). Le problème est que, si l’ICANN crée ensuite un TLD ayant ce même nom, le certificat limité à un usage interne devient soudainement valable pour un domaine existant sur l’Internet...

Le problème a été étudié en examinant les certificats repérés par le « SSL observatory » de l’EFF. Le premier article a déjà deux ans : https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/04/unqualified-names-ssl-observatory

Unreported Side Effects of Drugs Are Found Using Internet Search Data, Study Finds - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/science/unreported-side-effects-of-drugs-found-using-internet-data-study-finds.html

Using automated software tools to examine queries by six million Internet users taken from Web search logs in 2010, the researchers looked for searches relating to an antidepressant, paroxetine, and a cholesterol lowering drug, pravastatin. They were able to find evidence that the combination of the two drugs caused high blood sugar.

The study, which was reported in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association on Wednesday, is based on data-mining techniques similar to those employed by services like Google Flu Trends, which has been used to give early warning of the prevalence of the sickness to the public.

L’article original ( abstract seulement) Web-scale pharmacovigilance: listening to signals from the crowd http://jamia.bmj.com/content/early/2013/02/05/amiajnl-2012-001482.abstract

He turned to computer scientists at Microsoft, who created software for scanning anonymized data collected from a software toolbar installed in Web browsers by users who permitted their search histories to be collected. The scientists were able to explore 82 million individual searches for drug, symptom and condition information.

The researchers first identified individual searches for the terms paroxetine and pravastatin, as well as searches for both terms, in 2010. They then computed the likelihood that users in each group would also search for hyperglycemia as well as roughly 80 of its symptoms — words or phrases like “high blood sugar” or “blurry vision.”

They determined that people who searched for both drugs during the 12-month period were significantly more likely to search for terms related to hyperglycemia than were those who searched for just one of the drugs. (About 10 percent, compared with 5 percent and 4 percent for just one drug.)

(…)

The researchers said they were surprised by the strength of the “signal” that they detected in the searches and argued that it would be a valuable tool for the F.D.A. to add to its current system for tracking adverse effects.

(…)

“I think there are tons of drug-drug interactions — that’s the bad news,” Dr. Altman said. “The good news is we also have ways to evaluate the public health impact.

Pouvoir et #internet - Schneier
►https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/01/power_and_the_i.html

Le spécialiste de la sécurité informatique vient de livrer un texte très pertinent sur comment l’internet transforme les rapports de pouvoir. Il y explique que la technologie amplifie la puissance non seulement des internautes mais aussi - et de plus en plus - des pouvoirs en place. Les intérêts des puissants en reprennent les rennes, et la réalité s’avère bien plus compliquée que ne le chantait les louanges de la déclaration d’indépendance du cyberspace de John Perry Barlow. Nous avons cru que la (...)

« Torture continues » in post-Gaddafi Libya
http://observers.france24.com/content/20121228-pro-gaddafi-torture-videos-libya

What particularly shocked Libyan Internet users was that those accused of torture were not simple militiamen but national security officers, that is, former rebel fighters who are now attached to the Interior Ministry.

Now Learners Don’t Need An Internet Connection To Watch Khan Academy Lessons
http://singularityhub.com/2012/12/21/now-learners-dont-need-an-internet-connection-to-watch-khan-academy-

It’s easy in this day and age to get the impression that everyone in the world is connected to the web, but that’s far from the case. In fact, statistics from the International Telecommunication Union show that only 35 percent of the world are considered Internet users. That’s 4.5 billion people who are not online (...)

KA Lite currently works by syncing data between devices and a central server that stores all the content. The server can be set up via a web app once and then cloned to other devices offline (although making this smoother is in the works). Using Wi-Fi or cellular networks, transmitted data are tagged with an anonymous key that acts as a signature for each device. (...) it is an open source project.

#cccp #mesh #éducation

Companies abuse a loophole in data protection law | EDRI
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number10.24/data-protection-law-loophole

Personal data of internet users are often processed on a legal basis too weak to provide a real protection of the users’ right to privacy. On 11 December 2012, EDRi member Bits of Freedom published a report about the flaws of the so-called “legitimate interest” ground as a basis for data processing.
This ground is the last of six grounds included in article 7 of the Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC). Data controllers are free to choose on which of these six grounds they base the processing of personal data, provided the data does not fall under a specific consent-regime (such as sensitive data or location data). Processing based on legitimate interest allows data controllers to process personal data without the consent of their users, provided that the interests of the data controller or third parties are weighed against the interests and rights of these users.
In practice, this legal ground creates a loophole in the data protection regime. Bits of Freedoms report demonstrates that the use of the “legitimate interest” ground by companies such as #Facebook and #Google leads to the over-collection of personal data as such companies often let their own interests prevail over the interests of their users. The balance test is not subject to any authorization and the users are not in a position to effectively challenge the test. This means that in practice, a company is free to collect a lot of personal information without the users’ consent.

y a pas que le #fisc qu’Eric Schmidt peut être « fier » de contourner, il y a aussi les lois sur la #vie_privée #privacy #europe #cnil…

How The #Internet Has Spread Around The World [Infographic] | Popular Science
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-12/widening-world-web-internet-infographic

By 2010, more than 2 billion people—or about one-third of the global population—had access to the internet, up from something like .05 percent in 1990, and less than 10 percent of users worldwide now reside in the U.S

http://thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com/worldwide-internet-users_50c1f5f869b1d_w989.png

#visualisation via @karenbastien ; étrange tout de même de faire des courbes descendantes pour un phénomène qui croît…
#web #mobile #chine

France convicts first person under anti-piracy law (even though he didn’t do it)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/france-convicts-first-person-under-anti-piracy-law-even-though-he-didnt

A 40-year-old Frenchman living in rural eastern France has become the first person ordered to pay a fine under France’s controversial anti-piracy three-strikes law known as Hadopi.

Merci Hadopi ! Grâce à toi, le rayonnement international de la France atteint des sommets !
#hadopi

Signez la déclaration de l’Internet libre et ouvert | Korben
http://korben.info/signez-la-declaration-de-linternet-libre-et-ouvert.html

Plusieurs organisations, sites et sociétés de poids comme l’EFF, Access, Free Press, Mozilla, le réseau Cheezburger et Reddit, viennent de publier et signer la première « Declaration of Internet Freedom » (Déclaration de la liberté sur Internet) à laquelle chaque acteur du net peut se rallier.

The Netocracy is coming (you better be ready) | David Dusa
http://reflets.info/the-netocracy-is-coming-you-better-be-ready

We are in the middle of a social revolution spawned by the possibilities of the Internet and its democratization that gives 2 billion humans the possibility to obtain information, interact and develop ideas. This process has given birth to a collaborative web (2.0) as people realized they could get connected to each other as much as to websites. Today the Internet has changed our relationships to almost everything from work (the possibility to work from anywhere and to co-work with anyone, virtual workspaces), the economy (Internet economy, online consumption, crowd funding) culture (collaborative creation and sharing of artworks in P2P networks) knowledge (we are readers AND editors of Wikipedia), human relations (social networks, chats and VoIP), politics (citizen journalism, blogs, hacktivism, Wikileaks), etc. The unlimited and virtually free access to information as well as the possibility to communicate, to develop new ideas and to organize social change has empowered the citizen to the point that governments and corporations have grown nervous, rightfully feeling that their importance and power are being undermined. Through laws like ACTA, SOPA or PIPA, they have tried to limit this empowerment. Thus many Internet users have become politicized, feeling the intrusion of political and economic interests (...)

#A_la_Une #Hackers #Hacktivistes #Netocrates #Netocratie

Former ICANN CEO calls on #hackers to keep the #Internet free from regulation | VentureBeat
http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/28/icann-hackers-regulation

former ICANN chief executive Rod Beckstrom called for the hacker community to protect the Internet from regulation.

“It’s not merely that everybody should be able to communicate with everybody else at any time, it’s that people actually want to,” said Dan Kamisky at the Def Con conference in Las Vegas. “It’s not just a reconfiguration of government, it’s a reconfiguration of human social behavior.”

WCIT will be a seminal moment for the Internet. There, the International Telecommunications Regulations will be decided — a document that will touch all Internet users whether they know it or not. According to Beckstrom, the Internet needs to be an organized chaos. And to keep the Internet free and open for all, hackers across the world need to start talking to their lawmakers.

“We should not move our nation of the Internet from a multi-stakeholder model, which includes all voices, to a process that only includes one,” said Beckstrom at Def Con.

#régulation

Quelques données intéressantes sur l’Iran

Census : Iran young, urbanised and educated | Egypt Independent
http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/census-iran-young-urbanised-and-educated

Iran is a very urbanized society with a largely educated, young Muslim population that ranks as the Middle East’s second-biggest, its latest census figures, published on Sunday, show.

The snapshot, issued on the website of the presidency’s planning and strategic supervision department (www.amar.org.ir), also corrected some misconceptions about the country, notably by reporting fewer than expected Jews and Internet users.

Voici quelques chiffres :

Iranians accounted for 73.5 million of the total, with 1.5 million Afghans making up the biggest minority living in the country. Other minorities included Iraqis (51,500), Pakistanis (17,700) and Turks (1,600).

An overwhelming proportion of the population — 71 percent — lived in urban areas, and Tehran and its satellite towns are home to 12.2 million inhabitants.

The literacy rate for those aged between 10 and 49 was 93 percent.

Most of the population is young, with 55 percent aged under 30.

Le nombre de juifs vivant dans le pays est revu à la baisse par rapport à la plupart des estimations données jusque-là :

There are 8,756 Jews in the country, according to the census. That was fewer than the 20,000 figure previously estimated.

Enfin, le nombre de personnes connectées à Internet est de 11,2 millions, alors que les chiffres officiels étaient de 36 millions.

Des tas de gens l’avaient déjà constaté mais voici une étude scientifique : la #censure ne respecte pas toujours les frontières. En raison des interconnexions entre opérateurs Internet, la censure dans un pays peut bloquer le même contenu dans un autre pays (dans le cas de l’article, l’Inde censure Oman, en plus de la propre censure de ce dernier).

L’article original, avec tous les détails techniques :
https://citizenlab.org/2012/07/routing-gone-wild

Un résumé : http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/internet-content-blocking-travels-downstream-affects-unwary-users

#BGP

Do Not Track (enfin pas moi, les autres on peut) | Carnet de notes
http://n.survol.fr/n/do-not-track-enfin-pas-moi-les-autres-on-peut

Mozilla a choisi d’implémenter DNT en le laissant désactivé par défaut pour ne pas déclencher cette bombe atomique et tout casser.

Oui, pas bête. Ils marchent sur des œufs et font plaisir aux seuls (et rares) inquiets conscients des problèmes.

#dnt #donottrack #vie-privée

China’s Biggest Challenge Is Aerospace | Wired
http://www.wired.com/business/2012/06/st_essay_china_aerospace

China would very much like a piece of this—to have Boeings, NASAs, Cessnas, and fully fledged GPS systems of its own. The 12th Five-Year Plan lists aerospace as a symbol and target of China’s “high-value” ambition. Over the next few years, the country will attempt to re-create all of America’s 100-year aerospace history (...) [they are] trying to do it all, with 100 airports under construction, several airliner models being developed, and a business-jet culture taking hold.

#avion #chine

Lancement de la 2ème enquête « Toile de fond technologique » #Afnic

Répondez à notre #enquete sur :

http://www.afnic.fr/fr/l-afnic-en-bref/actualites/actualites-generales/5979/show/lancement-de-la-2eme-edition-de-l-enquete-toile-de-fond-technologique-afnic.ht

#sondage #futur #internet #Ipv6 #technologie #DNSSEC #cloud

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Launch of the second edition of AFNIC’s "Technology Backdrop" survey

Answer our #survey in english on :

http://www.afnic.fr/en/about-afnic/news/general-news/5980/show/launch-of-the-second-edition-of-afnic-s-technology-backdrop-survey.html

#Future #Technology

Why politicians don’t get the Internet: http://cabalamat.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/why-politicians-dont-get-the-internet - the very definition of a culture gap... Required reading !

L’AFNIC tire un premier bilan de l’ouverture des IDN

Le 3 mai, 30 nouveaux caractères sont disponibles à l’enregistrement pour les 6 ccTLD opérés par l’AFNIC (.fr, .re, .yt, .pm, .wf et .tf). Premier bilan et infographie sur les trois premières heures disponible sur :

http://www.afnic.fr/fr/l-afnic-en-bref/actualites/actualites-generales/5938/show/l-afnic-tire-un-premier-bilan-de-l-ouverture-des-idn-2.html

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AFNIC makes an initial assessment after opening the registration of IDNs

The 3rd May, 30 new characters have been available to register domain names under the 6 ccTLDs operated by AFNIC (.fr, .re, .yt, .pm, .wf and .tf). Results and infographic on the three first hours available on :

http://www.afnic.fr/en/about-afnic/news/general-news/5939/show/afnic-makes-an-initial-assessment-after-opening-the-registration-of-idns-2.htm

Clampdown on Palestinian media spreads to the Web
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=478726

The Palestinian Authority has quietly instructed Internet providers to block access to news websites whose reporting is critical of President Mahmoud Abbas, according to senior government officials and data analyzed by network security experts.

[…]

The decision this year to begin blocking websites marks a major expansion of the government’s online powers. Experts say it is the biggest shift toward routine Internet censorship in the Palestinian Authority’s history. Aside from one incident in 2008, Palestinians have generally been free to read whatever they wanted.

China’s #internet users temporarily blocked from foreign websites | World news | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/12/china-internet-users-foreign-websites

#censure ou #panne : un petit glitch dans le grand #firewall de #Chine

China relies on cables running from three points, making it easy for access to be choked off intentionally or by accident.
(...) Li Kaifu, the former boss of Microsoft and then Google in China, told his 12 million microblog followers: “All foreign websites are inaccessible!” adding emoticons to show disappointment, surprise and curiosity.
(...) Internet users’ suspicions were increased by the fact that the problems came amid a crackdown on “internet rumours”.
Xinhua reported on Thursday that the authorities had removed more than 210,000 online posts and shut down 42 websites since March.