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Apple’s Plan to “Think Different” About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life | Electronic Frontier Foundation
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-different-about-encryption-opens-backdoor-your-private-life

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Proposed New Internet Law in Mauritius Raises Serious Human Rights Concerns
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/proposed-new-internet-law-mauritius-raises-serious-human-rights-concerns

As debate continues in the U.S. and Europe over how to regulate social media, a number of countries—such as India and Turkey—have imposed stringent rules that threaten free speech, while others, such as Indonesia, are considering them. Now, a new proposal to amend Mauritius’ Information and Communications Technologies Act (ICTA) with provisions to install a proxy server to intercept otherwise secure communications raises serious concerns about freedom of expression in the country. Mauritius, (...)

#législation #censure #surveillance #EFF

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Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea
By Bennett Cyphers, March 3, 2021

The third-party cookie is dying, and Google is trying to create its replacement.

No one should mourn the death of the cookie as we know it. For more than two decades, the third-party cookie has been the lynchpin in a shadowy, seedy, multi-billion dollar advertising-surveillance industry on the Web; phasing out tracking cookies and other persistent third-party identifiers is long overdue. However, as the foundations shift beneath the advertising industry, its biggest players are determined to land on their feet.

Google is leading the charge to replace third-party cookies with a new suite of technologies to target ads on the Web. And some of its proposals show that it hasn’t learned the right lessons from the ongoing backlash to the surveillance business model. This post will focus on one of those proposals, Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), which is perhaps the most ambitious—and potentially the most harmful.

FLoC is meant to be a new way to make your browser do the profiling that third-party trackers used to do themselves: in this case, boiling down your recent browsing activity into a behavioral label, and then sharing it with websites and advertisers. The technology will avoid the privacy risks of third-party cookies, but it will create new ones in the process. It may also exacerbate many of the worst non-privacy problems with behavioral ads, including discrimination and predatory targeting.

Google’s pitch to privacy advocates is that a world with FLoC (and other elements of the “privacy sandbox”) will be better than the world we have today, where data brokers and ad-tech giants track and profile with impunity. But that framing is based on a false premise that we have to choose between “old tracking” and “new tracking.” It’s not either-or. Instead of re-inventing the tracking wheel, we should imagine a better world without the myriad problems of targeted ads.

We stand at a fork in the road. Behind us is the era of the third-party cookie, perhaps the Web’s biggest mistake. Ahead of us are two possible futures.

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▻https://www.eff.org/fr/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea

#google #floc #cookies #privacy #eff #vieprivee #cnil @PMO #quadraturedunet #R2R

Update, April 9, 2021 : We’ve launched ▻https://amifloced.org “Am I FLoCed”, a new site that will tell you whether your Chrome browser has been turned into a guinea pig for Federated Learning of Cohorts or FLoC, Google’s latest targeted advertising experiment.

Other Links :
– ▻https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/143465?hl=en
– ▻https://www.pnas.org/content/117/30/17680

Supprimer Chrome devient une nécessité. #Google utilise sa position exceptionnellement puissante pour que son navigateur analyse votre comportement de navigation et le serve sur un plateau sous forme de “cohortes” à toute personne intéressée. Ils ont transformé Chrome en un outil d’enregistrement et analyse de votre historique de navigation. Si vous vous souciez un tant soit peu de votre liberté intellectuelle, vous devez supprimer #Chrome dès que possible et aider les autres à faire de même. Voir ci-dessous l’article de l’EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
►https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/google-testing-its-controversial-new-ad-targeting-tech-millions-browsers-heres

Forced Arbitration Thwarts Legal Challenge to AT&T’s Disclosure of Customer Location Data
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/forced-arbitration-thwarts-legal-challenge-atts-disclosure-customer-location-da

Location data generated from our cell phones paint an incredibly detailed picture of our movements and private lives. Despite the sensitive nature of this data and a federal law prohibiting cellphone carriers from disclosing it, repeated unauthorized disclosures over the last several years show that carriers will sell this sensitive information to almost any willing buyer. With cellphone carriers brazenly violating their customers’ privacy and the Federal Communication Commission moving (...)

#AT&T #smartphone #géolocalisation #EFF #FCC #procès

##AT&T

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Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions of Browsers. Here’s What We Know. | Electronic Frontier Foundation
►https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/google-testing-its-controversial-new-ad-targeting-tech-millions-browsers-heres

Dystopia Prime : Amazon Subjects Its Drivers to Biometric Surveillance
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/dystopia-prime-amazon-subjects-its-drivers-biometric-surveillance

Some high-tech surveillance is so dangerous to privacy that companies must never deploy it against a person without their voluntary opt-in consent. It comes as little surprise that Amazon, the company that brought you Ring doorbell cameras and Rekognition face surveillance, has a tenuous understanding of both privacy and consent. Earlier this week, Motherboard revealed the company’s cruel “take it or leave” demand to its 75,000 delivery drivers : submit to biometric surveillance or lose your (...)

#Amazon #algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #consommation #consentement #facial #reconnaissance #vidéo-surveillance #conducteur·trice·s #surveillance #EFF #GigEconomy (...)

##travail

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553,000,000 Reasons Not to Let Facebook Make Decisions About Your Privacy
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/553000000-reasons-not-let-facebook-make-decisions-about-your-privacy

Another day, another horrific Facebook privacy scandal. We know what comes next : Facebook will argue that losing a lot of our data means bad third-party actors are the real problem that we should trust Facebook to make more decisions about our data to protect against them. If history is any indication, that’ll work. But if we finally wise up, we’ll respond to this latest crisis with serious action : passing America’s long-overdue federal privacy law (with a private right of action) and (...)

#Facebook #données #hacking #EFF

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Ethos Capital Is Grabbing Power Over Domain Names Again, Risking Censorship-For-Profit. Will ICANN Intervene ?
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/ethos-capital-grabbing-power-over-domain-names-again-risking-censorship-profit

Ethos Capital is at it again. In 2019, this secretive private equity firm that includes insiders from the domain name industry tried to buy the nonprofit that runs the .ORG domain. A huge coalition of nonprofits and users spoke out. Governments expressed alarm, and ICANN (the entity in charge of the internet’s domain name system) scuttled the sale. Now Ethos is buying a controlling stake in Donuts, the largest operator of “new generic top-level domains.” Donuts controls a large swathe of the (...)

#censure #DNS #EFF #ICANN_

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Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions of Browsers. Here’s What We Know.
►https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/google-testing-its-controversial-new-ad-targeting-tech-millions-browsers-heres

Today, Google launched an “origin trial” of Federated Learning of Cohorts (aka FLoC), its experimental new technology for targeting ads. A switch has silently been flipped in millions of instances of Google Chrome : those browsers will begin sorting their users into groups based on behavior, then sharing group labels with third-party trackers and advertisers around the web. A random set of users have been selected for the trial, and they can currently only opt out by disabling third-party (...)

#Google #algorithme #Chrome #cookies #tracker #consentement #FLoC #microtargeting #publicité (...)

##publicité ##EFF

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Scholars Under Surveillance : How Campus Police Use High Tech to Spy on Students
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/scholars-under-surveillance-how-campus-police-use-high-tech-spy-students

It may be many months before college campuses across the U.S. fully reopen, but when they do, many students will be returning to a learning environment that is under near constant scrutiny by law enforcement. A fear of school shootings, and other campus crimes, have led administrators and campus police to install sophisticated surveillance systems that go far beyond run-of-the-mill security camera networks to include drones, gunshot detection sensors, and much more. Campuses have also (...)

#algorithme #CCTV #drone #biométrie #immatriculation #vidéo-surveillance #arme #enseignement #surveillance (...)

##EFF

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Officials in Baltimore and St. Louis Put the Brakes on Persistent Surveillance Systems Spy Planes
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/officials-baltimore-and-st-louis-put-brakes-persistent-surveillance-systems-spy

Baltimore, MD and St. Louis, MO, have a lot in common. Both cities suffer from declining populations and high crime rates. In recent years, the predominantly Black population in each city has engaged in collective action opposing police violence. In recent weeks, officials in both cities voted unanimously to spare their respective residents from further invasions on their privacy and essential liberties by a panoptic aerial surveillance system designed to protect soldiers on the (...)

#CCTV #criminalité #vidéo-surveillance #aérien #panopticon #surveillance #ACLU #EFF

##criminalité

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Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea
►https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea

The third-party cookie is dying, and Google is trying to create its replacement. No one should mourn the death of the cookie as we know it. For more than two decades, the third-party cookie has been the lynchpin in a shadowy, seedy, multi-billion dollar advertising-surveillance industry on the Web ; phasing out tracking cookies and other persistent third-party identifiers is long overdue. However, as the foundations shift beneath the advertising industry, its biggest players are determined (...)

#cookies #bénéfices #microtargeting #profiling #EFF #FLoC #publicité #surveillance

##publicité

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Google va renoncer aux cookies, ces fichiers qui traquent les internautes, une annonce qui ne convainc pas
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2021/03/05/fin-des-cookies-les-annonces-de-google-font-grincer-des-dents_6072134_3234.h

Le groupe américain, qui s’engage à ne pas construire d’identifiants alternatifs aux cookies tiers pour suivre les internautes, est critiqué pour atteinte à la concurrence. Google continue de secouer le monde de la publicité. En janvier 2020, le géant américain a annoncé qu’il renoncerait d’ici 2022 aux cookies tiers, ces petits fichiers qui résumaient le comportement des internautes en ligne. Mercredi 3 mars, Google est allé plus loin en s’engageant à « ne pas construire d’identifiants alternatifs (...)

#Apple #Google #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #cookies #marketing #microtargeting #profiling #publicité (...)

##publicité ##EFF

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Some Answers to Questions About the State of Copyright in 2021
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/some-answers-questions-about-state-copyright-2021

In all the madness that made up the last month of 2020, a number of copyright bills and proposals popped up—some even became law before most people had any chance to review them. So now that the dust has settled a little and we have some better idea what the landscape is going to look like, it is time to answer a few frequently asked questions. What Happened ? In December 2020, Congress was rushing to pass a massive spending bill and coronavirus relief package. This was “must-pass” (...)

#législation #CASEAct #copyright #EFF

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San Francisco Takes Small Step to Establish Oversight Over Business Association Surveillance
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/san-francisco-takes-small-step-establish-oversight-over-business-association

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors last week voted unanimously in favor of requiring all special business districts—such as the Union Square Business Improvement District (USBID)—to bring any new surveillance plans to the Board before adopting new technologies. The resolution—passed in the wake of an EFF investigation, a lawsuit brought by local activists, and a sustained local coalition effort—challenging police use of the USBID camera network to monitor last summer’s protests - is (...)

#CCTV #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance #ACLU #EFF

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Oakland’s Progressive Fight to Protect Residents from Government Surveillance
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/oaklands-progressive-fight-protect-residents-government-surveillance

The City of Oakland, California, has once again raised the bar on community control of police surveillance. Last week, Oakland’s City Council voted unanimously to strengthen the city’s already groundbreaking Surveillance and Community Safety Ordinance. The latest amendment, which immediately went into effect, adds prohibitions on Oakland’s Police Department using predictive policing technology—which has been shown to amplify existing bias in policing—as well as a range of privacy-invasive (...)

#algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #racisme #facial #reconnaissance #vidéo-surveillance #discrimination #surveillance (...)

##EFF

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So-called “Consent Searches” Harm Our Digital Rights
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/so-called-consent-searches-harm-our-digital-rights

Imagine this scenario : You’re driving home. Police pull you over, allegedly for a traffic violation. After you provide your license and registration, the officer catches you off guard by asking : “Since you’ve got nothing to hide, you don’t mind unlocking your phone for me, do you ?” Of course, you don’t want the officer to copy or rummage through all the private information on your phone. But they’ve got a badge and a gun, and you just want to go home. If you’re like most people, you grudgingly (...)

#smartphone #consentement #données #écoutes #surveillance #EFF

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It’s Business As Usual At WhatsApp
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/its-business-usual-whatsapp

WhatsApp users have recently started seeing a new pop-up screen requiring them to agree to its new terms and privacy policy in order to keep using the app. At first users were required to agree by February 8th, but after widespread controversy WhatsApp has announced it will delay that date to May 15. The good news is that, overall, this update does not make any extreme changes to how WhatsApp shares data with its parent company Facebook. The bad news is that those extreme changes actually (...)

#Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #données #EFF

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Face Surveillance and the Capitol Attack
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/face-surveillance-and-capitol-attack

After last week’s violent attack on the Capitol, law enforcement is working overtime to identify the perpetrators. This is critical to accountability for the attempted insurrection. Law enforcement has many, many tools at their disposal to do this, especially given the very public nature of most of the organizing. But we object to one method reportedly being used to determine who was involved : law enforcement using facial recognition technologies to compare photos of unidentified (...)

#algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #racisme #facial #reconnaissance #vidéo-surveillance #discrimination #extrême-droite #surveillance #EFF (...)

##Clearview

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