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Location data gathered by Facebook, Google, other tech companies could be used to battle coronavirus spread - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/03/17/white-house-location-data-coronavirus

The U.S. government is in active talks with Facebook, Google and a wide array of tech companies and health experts about how they can use location data gleaned from Americans’ phones to combat the novel coronavirus, including tracking whether people are keeping one another at safe distances to stem the outbreak. Public-health experts are interested in the possibility that private-sector companies could compile the data in anonymous, aggregated form, which they could then use to map the (...)

#smartphone #géolocalisation #santé #BigData #Apple #Google #Facebook

##santé
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Secret-sharing app Whisper left users’ locations, fetishes exposed on the Web - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/03/10/secret-sharing-app-whisper-left-users-locations-fetishes-exposed-web

Hundreds of millions of users’ intimate messages, tied to their locations, were publicly viewable until after the company was contacted by The Washington Post. Whisper, the secret-sharing app that called itself the “safest place on the Internet,” left years of users’ most intimate confessions exposed on the Web tied to their age, location and other details, raising alarm among cybersecurity researchers that users could have been unmasked or blackmailed. The data exposure, discovered by (...)

#BigData #Whisper

Ring and Nest helped normalize American surveillance and turned us into a nation of voyeurs - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/02/18/ring-nest-surveillance-doorbell-camera

For all the worries about hacking, owners of Internet-connected cameras say they love watching people silently from afar — often their own family members Margaret Cudia thought her Ring doorbell camera was “the best thing since sliced bread.” She loved watching the world pass by through her suburban New Jersey neighborhood, guarding vigilantly for suspicious strangers and porch pirates from the comfort of her phone. She hadn’t expected the camera also might capture awkward moments closer to (...)

#voisinage #surveillance #vidéo-surveillance #famille #camera #Ring #Nest #Google #Amazon #sonnette (...)

##CCTV

HireVue’s AI face-scanning algorithm increasingly decides whether you deserve the job - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/22/ai-hiring-face-scanning-algorithm-increasingly-decides-whether-you-d

HireVue claims it uses artificial intelligence to decide who’s best for a job. Outside experts call it ‘profoundly disturbing.’ An artificial intelligence hiring system has become a powerful gatekeeper for some of America’s most prominent employers, reshaping how companies assess their workforce — and how prospective employees prove their worth. Designed by the recruiting-technology firm HireVue, the system uses candidates’ computer or cellphone cameras to analyze their facial movements, word (...)

#travail #recrutement #algorithme #HireVue

Google Maps redessine les frontières selon le pays d’où vous vous connectez
▻https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/cartographie-google-maps-redessine-les-frontieres-selon-le-pa

https://www.courrierinternational.com/sites/ci_master/files/styles/image_940/public/illustrations/thumbnails/rtx2mtks.jpg?itok=6NaoA9yZ

La Crimée, le Cachemire, le Sahara Occidental… Pour tous ces territoires aux frontières contestées, Google Maps adapte les cartes en fonction de la région depuis laquelle on les consulte. Le Washington Post expose les enjeux liés à de telles décisions.

Google redraws the borders on maps depending on who’s looking
The Silicon Valley firm alters maps under political pressure and the inscrutable whims of tech executives
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/02/14/google-maps-political-borders
Leur exemple de carte vue d’Ukraine ou de Russie tombe à l’eau, c’est la même !
#cartographie #google_map

How we survive the surveillance apocalypse
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/31/how-we-survive-surveillance-apocalypse

Online privacy is not dead, but you have to be angry enough to demand it. Go, go gadgets has long been the attitude in my house. Perhaps yours, too : A smartphone made it easier to stay in touch. A smart TV streamed a zillion more shows. A smart speaker let you talk to a smart thermostat without getting out of bed. That’s progress, right ? Now I’ve got a new attitude : It’s not just what I can get out of technology — I want to know what the technology gets out of me. For the past year, I’ve (...)

#Apple #GoldmanSachs #Google #MasterCard #Amazon #Facebook #algorithme #Chrome #Alexa #carte #cookies #domotique #iPhone #smartphone #thermostat #voiture #WiFi #VPN (...)

##[fr]Règlement_Général_sur_la_Protection_des_Données__RGPD_[en]General_Data_Protection_Regulation__GDPR_[nl]General_Data_Protection_Regulation__GDPR_ ##BigData ##CCPA ##data ##écoutes ##profiling ##publicité ##santé

Colleges want freshmen to use mental health apps. But are they risking students’ privacy ?
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/27/colleges-want-freshmen-use-mental-health-apps-are-they-risking-stude

As director of the University of Florida’s Counseling and Wellness Center, Sherry Benton could never keep up with the student demand for services. Adding three new positions bought the center only two waitlist-free weeks. Knowing the school could never hire its way out of the resource shortage, she and Bob Clark, a seasoned software developer and veteran health-care executive, created a wellness and mental health app for students. TAO Connect is just one of dozens of mental health apps (...)

#algorithme #data #enseignement #étudiants #santé #surveillance

##santé

Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/24/colleges-are-turning-students-phones-into-surveillance-machines-trac

When Syracuse University freshmen walk into professor Jeff Rubin’s Introduction to Information Technologies class, seven small Bluetooth beacons hidden around the Grant Auditorium lecture hall connect with an app on their smartphones and boost their “attendance points.” And when they skip class ? The SpotterEDU app sees that, too, logging their absence into a campus database that tracks them over time and can sink their grade. It also alerts Rubin, who later contacts students to ask where (...)

#smartphone #WiFi #GPS #géolocalisation #écoutes #enseignement #étudiants #surveillance

What does your car know about you ? We hacked a Chevy to find out.
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/17/what-does-your-car-know-about-you-we-hacked-chevy-find-out

Our privacy experiment found that automakers collect data through hundreds of sensors and an always-on Internet connection. Driving surveillance is becoming hard to avoid. Behind the wheel, it’s nothing but you, the open road — and your car quietly recording your every move. On a recent drive, a 2017 Chevrolet collected my precise location. It stored my phone’s ID and the people I called. It judged my acceleration and braking style, beaming back reports to its maker General Motors over an (...)

#GeneralMotors-GM #voiture #géolocalisation #écoutes #surveillance #conducteur·trice·s #BigData (...)

##data

The doorbells have eyes : The privacy battle brewing over home security cameras
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/01/31/doorbells-have-eyes-privacy-battle-brewing-over-home-security-camera

Police want to register — and even subsidize — private security cameras. That’s just the start of the ethical challenges ahead. Ding-dong, your doorbell is looking a bit creepy. Ring video doorbells, Nest Hello and other connected security cameras are the fastest-growing home improvement gadgets since garage-door openers. These cameras, often built into buzzers, alert your phone when someone is at your door and save footage online. Mine has helped me get deliveries and catch porch pirates (...)

#Google #Nest #Ring #Amazon #capteur #CCTV #Neighbors #sonnette #reconnaissance #vidéo-surveillance #mouvement #surveillance #voisinage (...)

##ACLU

FBI, ICE find state driver’s license photos are a gold mine for facial-recognition searches, TheWashingtonPost, 07 juillet 2019
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/07/07/fbi-ice-find-state-drivers-license-photos-are-gold-mine-facial-recog

A cache of records shared with The Washington Post reveals that agents are scanning millions of Americans’ faces without their knowledge or consent.

Thousands of facial-recognition requests, internal documents and emails over the past five years, obtained through public-records requests by researchers with Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy and Technology and provided to The Washington Post, reveal that federal investigators have turned state departments of motor vehicles databases into the bedrock of an unprecedented surveillance infrastructure.

YouTube under federal investigation over allegations it violates children’s privacy
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/06/19/facing-federal-investigation-youtube-is-considering-broad-changes-ch

The U.S. government is in the late stages of an investigation into YouTube for allegedly violating children’s privacy, according to four people familiar with the matter, in a probe that threatens the company with a potential fine and already has prompted the tech giant to reevaluate some of its business practices. The Federal Trade Commission launched its investigation after numerous complaints from consumer groups and privacy advocates, according to the four people, who spoke on the (...)

#Google #YouTube #TikTok #COPPA #enfants #BigData #publicité #[fr]Règlement_Général_sur_la_Protection_des_Données_(RGPD)[en]General_Data_Protection_Regulation_(GDPR)[nl]General_Data_Protection_Regulation_(GDPR) (...)

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

Is your pregnancy app sharing your intimate data with your boss ?
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/10/tracking-your-pregnancy-an-app-may-be-more-public-than-you-think/?noredirect=on

As apps to help moms monitor their health proliferate, employers and insurers pay to keep tabs on the vast and valuable data Like millions of women, Diana Diller was a devoted user of the pregnancy-tracking app Ovia, logging in every night to record new details on a screen asking about her bodily functions, sex drive, medications and mood. When she gave birth last spring, she used the app to chart her baby’s first online medical data — including her name, her location and whether there had (...)

#Ovia #santé #travailleurs #BigData #surveillance #malades

##santé

What the Myspace wipeout says about the unreliable Internet - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/03/19/what-massive-loss-old-myspace-music-means-internet-culture

the old social network’s accidental purge of 12 years’ worth of its users’ music uploads — that’s an estimated 50 million songs — is probably a close second.

The tremendous loss of digital artifacts, such as the Flickr photo annihilation, the Tumblr porn purge and the coming Google+ disintegration, highlights the impermanence of the Web, and the ease with which files and posts that helped define Internet culture and history can be so readily discarded.

#archivage #suppression #internet #histoire

Don’t want Google tracking you? You have almost no choice.
By Hayley Tsukayama, August 21, 2018, for The Washington Post ▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/22/dont-want-google-tracking-you-you-have-almost-no-choice-according-ne

The said study:
▻https://digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2018/08/21/google-data-collection-research

Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to 1
►https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/21/facebook-is-rating-trustworthiness-its-users-scale-zero-one

Facebook has begun to assign its users a reputation score, predicting their trustworthiness on a scale from zero to 1. The previously unreported ratings system, which Facebook has developed over the past year, shows that the fight against the gaming of tech systems has evolved to include measuring the credibility of users to help identify malicious actors. Facebook developed its reputation assessments as part of its effort against fake news, Tessa Lyons, the product manager who is in (...)

#Facebook #manipulation #web #surveillance

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Soon, the most beautiful people in the world may no longer be human - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/08/soon-most-beautiful-people-world-may-no-longer-be-human

https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/DPuEekP7S5fAQ1tyHBR1LkWTrqs=/1484x0/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/XOY3IFU3D4I6RKGYTNGBGKDNNM.jpg

[Cameron-James Wilson, a] 29-year-old London-based photographer is the creator of Shudu, a striking Instagram model from Africa with more than 130,000 followers.

Despite her entrancing beauty, Shudu is a purely digital being, a fact that Wilson revealed after Shudu’s image went viral, ending months of frenzied speculation about her origin this year.