Bicicletia

Long untouchable, web giants now know what it feels like to be hunted
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/10/long-untouchable-web-giants-know-now-what-it-feels-like-to-be-hunted

Governments, after years of indulgence, are rightly getting tough on social media sites The key question to ask when a shocking tragedy comes to light is this : does it signify a scandal or a crisis ? Scandals happen all the time in societies. They generate a lot of heat, outrage and public angst. But, eventually, the media caravan moves on and nothing much changes. When in 2011, for example, the Guardian printed shocking revelations of tabloid phone-hacking and, particularly, the news (...)

#Google #Facebook #algorithme #manipulation #domination #écoutes #publicité #hacking (...)

##publicité ##profiling

« On ne devrait pas mourir en 2019 en France dans le cadre d’un job étudiant »
▻https://www.bastamag.net/On-ne-devrait-pas-mourir-en-2019-en-France-dans-le-cadre-d-un-job-etudiant

Franck Page est décédé alors qu’il livrait une commande pour Uber Eats dans la banlieue bordelaise. En hommage à cet étudiant de 18 ans, sa famille et de nombreux livreurs à vélo se sont joints lors d’une marche blanche le 27 janvier à Bordeaux. L’accident, qui a eu lieu aux abords d’une bretelle de rocade, questionne sur la dangerosité croissante d’un travail déjà décrié pour sa précarité. Un reportage vidéo publié en partenariat avec la société de production associative Spread Media. Franck Page, étudiant (...)

#Témoignages

/ #Conditions_de_travail, #Luttes_sociales, #Syndicalisme

La deuxième Rencontre Internationale des Femmes en Lutte n’aura pas lieux.
La faute au Capitalisme et à tous ces mâles-gouvernements qui imposent les megas-projets de tous leurs potes mâles-multinationales.
Et ça nous défait Terre.
Et ça nous tue.
¡ Puès !
Que cela nous soulève, par toutes !

¡ Soy una de las #MujeresQueLuchan !

Animo compañeras 💚

Carta de las zapatistas a las mujeres que luchan en el mundo | Enlace Zapatista
▻http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2019/02/11/carta-de-las-zapatistas-a-las-mujeres-que-luchan-en-el-mund #ezln #sexta

La VOC et les #GAFA

peut-on comparer les « conquérants du cyberespace » avec les méga-compagnies commerciales du 18e siècle ? Recrutement, colonisation, organisation commerciale du monde…

>> liens compilés par Patrice R. :

How today’s tech giants compare to the massive companies of empires past
▻https://www.businessinsider.com/how-todays-tech-giants-compare-to-massive-companies-of-empires-past

Dutch East India Company (VOC), established in the early 17th century, would be worth $7.9 trillion in today’s dollars.

▻https://www.want.nl/de-redenen-waarom-de-voc-nog-steeds-het-meest-waardevolle-bedrijf-aller-tijden-

▻https://www.visualcapitalist.com/most-valuable-companies-all-time

Would love to see calls across the aisle for government action on toxic masculinity, or at least a committee study...

And while Perry said she’s tracked 120 instances of alt-right violence in the last 30 years in Canada, during the same period there were seven incidents of Islamist-inspired extremism.

▻https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/incel-threat-canadians-fifth-estate-1.4992184

#incels #violence #Canada #gender #masculinity

Les géants du net sont-ils intouchables ?
▻https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/entendez-vous-leco/les-geants-du-net-sont-ils-intouchables

Le 21 janvier dernier, la CNIL impose à Google une sanction record de 50 millions d’euros pour non-respect du RGDP. Alors que les GAFA semblaient intouchables, l’arsenal juridique qui s’est peu à peu mis à en place semble enfin porter ses fruits.

#Google #Facebook #algorithme #bot #données #[fr]Règlement_Général_sur_la_Protection_des_Données_(RGPD)[en]General_Data_Protection_Regulation_(GDPR)[nl]General_Data_Protection_Regulation_(GDPR) #surveillance #web #BigData #CNIL #LaQuadratureduNet

##[fr]Règlement_Général_sur_la_Protection_des_Données__RGPD_[en]General_Data_Protection_Regulation__GDPR_[nl]General_Data_Protection_Regulation__GDPR_

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’The goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism | Technology | The Guardian
►https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-google-facebook

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hoshana Zuboff’s new book is a chilling exposé of the business model that underpins the digital world. Observer tech columnist John Naughton explains the importance of Zuboff’s work and asks the author 10 key questions

#surveillance #controle #capitalisme

Faking it: how selfie dysmorphia is driving people to seek surgery | Life and style | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jan/23/faking-it-how-selfie-dysmorphia-is-driving-people-to-seek-surgery?CMP=s

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The phenomenon of people requesting procedures to resemble their digital image has been referred to – sometimes flippantly, sometimes as a harbinger of end times – as “Snapchat dysmorphia”. The term was coined by the cosmetic doctor Tijion Esho, founder of the Esho clinics in London and Newcastle. He had noticed that where patients had once brought in pictures of celebrities with their ideal nose or jaw, they were now pointing to photos of themselves.

@beautefatale

A+ for thinking beyond the gender binary AND picking such a badass name.

And although his one-year-old, Sojourner Wildfire, is still too young to understand the concept of gender, McCullough hopes they are learning that they can be whoever they want to be, and that their parents will respect and support them.

▻https://www.cbc.ca/radio/outintheopen/whither-gender-1.4973533/i-used-to-think-that-babies-were-born-a-girl-or-a-boy-why-some-parents-are-raisi

#gender #genderbinary #canada

Gagner en #vitesse, est-ce perdre du #temps ?
▻https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-grande-table-2eme-partie/gagner-en-vitesse-est-ce-perdre-du-temps

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En dépit d’une modernité tournée vers la vitesse, l’individu manque de temps. On analyse ce paradoxe avec Vincent de Gaulejac, sociologue, contributeur de l’ouvrage « @ la recherche du temps. Individus hyperconnectés, société accélérée : tensions et transformations » (Éditions Erès, octobre 2018).

Afrique : Gilets Jaunes depuis 150 ans ? - Interview de Aminata Dramane Traoré
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4M8kBp23Fs

More important, no one would see them there, said François Huvé, a carpenter and restorer of old houses.

“The traffic circles gave a certain visibility, a momentum and a unity,” he said.

For most it brought companionship into otherwise marginal lives.

▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/20/world/europe/yellow-vests-future.html

When the gig economy become a public health issue - The Globe and Mail
▻https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-when-the-gig-economy-become-a-public-health-issue

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data for nearly 4,000 individuals in the United States starting from the age of 23 through to 35. Looking at income levels five times over that span, they also monitored individuals’ medical records during the same period. Their findings showed that individuals with the biggest fluctuations in personal income had nearly twice the risk of death and more than twice the risk of heart problems such as strokes and cardiac arrest as compared with those with more stable incomes. Their conclusion: The trend toward fluctuating incomes poses a threat to public health.

#travail #revenu #précarité #santé_publique #uberisation

Revealed : Google’s ’two-tier’ workforce training document
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/11/google-tvc-full-time-employees-training-document

Exclusive : internal document shows how Google employees are trained to treat temps, vendors and contractors Google staff are instructed not to reward certain workers with perks like T-shirts, invite them to all-hands meetings, or allow them to engage in professional development training, an internal training document seen by the Guardian reveals. The guide instructs Google employees on the ins and outs of interacting with its tens of thousands of temps, vendors and contractors – a class (...)

#Google #travail #journalisme #surveillance #travailleurs #discrimination

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“We want to make traveling a more seamless, cultural experience using an extensive database of local knowledge.”

But Explorest is just an app-shaped version of something tourists already do: flit from attraction to attraction to take the same photos they’ve already seen of Buckingham Palace, the Golden Gate Bridge or even Brussels’ Peeing Boy. That script, staged again and again by countless visitors, reflects how photography has always shaped the travel experience—for good or bad.

▻https://www.wired.com/story/why-all-travel-photos-are-the-same

#travel #social_media #modernity

Douek, speculating as to why a “Supreme Court of Facebook” might be appealing to the company, argues, “Content-moderation decisions on Facebook are hard, and any call is likely to upset a proportion of Facebook users. By outsourcing the decision and blame, Facebook can try to wash its hands of controversial decisions.” If that’s part of the motivation, it doesn’t make the underlying idea better or worse.

But consumers should be aware that Facebook may prefer to manipulate distribution rather than impose an outright ban. A Supreme Court of Facebook with no control of the algorithm, in a context where Facebook wasn’t transparent about what content it penalizes and why, wouldn’t necessarily remove Facebook’s control over free expression and the most important censorship decisions after all.

▻https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/facebook-punish-censorship/577654

#facebook #content_moderation #open_internet #politics_of_social_media

Try sharing this link on Facebook itself, it’s funny to see what happens.

The FTC should spin off Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger into competing networks, require interoperability, so we have the freedom to communicate across social networks, and impose strong privacy rules that empower and protect us. IT’S TIME TO MAKE FACEBOOK SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY.

▻https://freedomfromfb.com

#Facebook #oversight #monopoly #internet #1984

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said most female migrants in Morocco travelled to the North African country without family members.

It adds that more than half of them are single mothers, the majority of them became pregnant on their way to Morocco.

▻https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/raped-abused-harassed-tale-female-migrants-morocco-181129112830538.html

#women #gender #migration #morocco

Australia’s war on encryption : the sweeping new powers rushed into law
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/08/australias-war-on-encryption-the-sweeping-new-powers-rushed-into-law

Australia has made itself a global guinea pig in testing a regime to crack encrypted communication Telecommunications providers have argued that compromising a messaging system, website or cloud storage system to get at a targeted user may put others at risk. Photograph : Alamy Stock Photo In the hit US TV series The Wire police are initially baffled when the criminal suspects they are investigating begin to communicate through photographic messages of clock faces. After several seasons (...)

#cryptage #surveillance

Generation Hate

Dans le cadre d’une enquête, Al Jazeera s’est infiltré dans l’extrême droite française et démontre les liens entre des extrémistes violents de GI et le FN/RN ou la police. Entre comm’ publique lissée et nazisme larvé, la nausée monte...
Et ce n’est que la première partie.

Le reportage :
▻https://youtu.be/Il2GbD4mrrk

La parité s’arrête encore aux portes du pouvoir local

Malgré de nets progrès depuis le début des années 2000, les #hommes monopolisent toujours le #pouvoir (présidence, délégations) au sein des institutions locales. La preuve ? En France, en 2018, 84% des #maires sont encore des hommes. Des données que s’est procuré Mediacités confirment l’ampleur du problème, a fortiori dans les #métropoles et #intercommunalités.

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Collecte secrète de données, concurrence écrasée : ce que révèlent les documents confidentiels de Facebook
▻http://www.lefigaro.fr/secteur/high-tech/2018/12/06/32001-20181206ARTFIG00134-collecte-secrete-de-donnees-concurrence-ecrasee-c

Le Parlement britannique a publié 250 pages de documents appartenant au premier réseau social mondial, au nom de « l’intérêt du public ». Ils sont riches d’enseignements sur son exploitation des données et la façon dont il assure sa domination sur le marché. La série noire continue pour Facebook. Après les révélations du scandale Cambridge Analytica, après s’être expliqué devant les Parlements américain et européen, après avoir subi un piratage informatique de grande ampleur et vu la légitimité de ses deux (...)

#Facebook #algorithme #données #BigData #domination #profiling

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A lovely English translation of Édouard Louis on the gilet jaunes.

“You must really never have experienced poverty, if you think that graffiti on a historic monument is worse than the impossibility of being able to take care of yourself, of living, of feeding yourself or your family.”

▻https://jacobinmag.com/2018/12/france-yellow-vests-gilets-jaunes-austerity-macron

#giletjaunes #poverty #discourse #france

What explains variations in journey to work mode shares between and within Australian cities? | Charting Transport
▻https://chartingtransport.com/2018/12/06/what-explains-variations-in-journey-to-work-mode-shares-between-a

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Private and public transport journey to work mode shares vary considerably both between Australian cities and within them. Are these differences related to factors such as population density, motor vehicle ownership, employment density, proximity to train stations, proximity to busway stations, jobs within walking distance of homes, and distance from the city centre?

#transport #urban_matter

“Stop hunting us like animals. If you can’t help us, let us live in peace”

▻https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/forest-sheltering-african-migrants-morocco-181119112954378.html