Tech Transparency Project

Amazon’s Data Dragnet
▻https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/amazons-data-dragnet

Amazon is expanding into every corner of people’s lives with its growing list of products and services. That’s allowing it to collect far more data about its users than many people realize. Facebook, Google, and Twitter have faced hard questions about the data they collect on their users and what they do with that information. Often lost in this justifiable alarm over online privacy, however, is a platform that knows a staggering amount about its customers’ home lives, spending habits, and (...)

#WholeFoods #Amazon #Ring #AmazonWebServices-AWS #AmazonsPrime #algorithme #Alexa #cookies #domotique #Echo #InternetOfThings #Kindle #famille #géolocalisation #domination #données #émotions #BigData #CloudComputing #domicile #écoutes #finance (...)

##surveillance ##publicité ##voisinage ##voix ##consommation

https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/sites/default/files/dotface_0.jpg

How Facebook Profits from the Insurrection
▻https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/how-facebook-profits-insurrection

Facebook suspended President Trump and announced other actions after the U.S. Capitol riot. But it continued to push ads for military gear next to insurrection posts. Facebook has been serving up ads for weapons accessories and body armor alongside election misinformation and insurrection talk in “patriot” and militia groups, according to research by the Tech Transparency Project (TTP), revealing an alarming blind spot in Facebook’s moderation efforts just days before an inauguration (...)

#Facebook #algorithme #manipulation #élections #arme #bénéfices #extrême-droite #modération

https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/sites/default/files/Wire%202021-01-18%20at%2012_42%20PM_0.png

How the NRA Lines Big Tech’s Pockets After Mass Shootings
▻https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/profiting-from-tragedy

Facebook and Google executives have expressed horror at gun massacres. But their companies continued to reap the benefits of NRA advertising. Facebook and Google have earned millions of dollars from advertising by the National Rifle Association since the Parkland school massacre, according to an analysis by the Tech Transparency Project, which found that the gun lobby’s spending on tech platforms surged after mass shootings. Even as their top executives publicly expressed horror at gun (...)

#Google #NRA #arme #bénéfices #publicité #lobbying

##publicité

https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/sites/default/files/parkwood.jpg

Tech Transparency Project
▻https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/about-us

The Tech Transparency Project seeks to hold large technology companies accountable. TTP is an information and research hub for journalists, academics, policymakers and members of the public interested in exploring the influence of the major technology platforms on politics, policy, and our lives. TTP launched in 2016 as the Google Transparency Project, then a lonely critical voice of Big Tech. GTP’s in-depth research and analysis has drawn significant attention to Google’s self-serving (...)

#Apple #Google #Amazon #Facebook #domination #GAFAM

Facebook Ran Recruitment Ads for Militia Groups
▻https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/facebook-ran-recruitment-ads-militia-groups

For years, Facebook profited from militia group ads looking to attract new recruits. The messages reached tens of thousands of users. Facebook has allowed dangerous militia groups to run recruiting ads that reached tens of thousands of users and is still enabling such groups to organize on the platform, according to a Tech Transparency Project (TTP) investigation that highlights deep flaws in the company’s handling of domestic extremists. The investigation—which follows news of a thwarted (...)

#Facebook #milice #extrême-droite #publicité

##publicité

https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/sites/default/files/101520-feature.jpg

Google’s European Revolving Door
▻https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/googles-european-revolving-door

Analysis finds 80 revolving door moves between Google and European governments The Google Transparency Project has identified at least 80 revolving door moves between Google and European governments over the past decade as the company seeks to boost its influence in the region and head-off antitrust action and privacy regulation. Google, now part of Alphabet Inc., has hired at least 65 government officials from all over the European Union since 2005. Those included Tomas Gulbinas, a (...)

#Google #lobbying

https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/sites/default/files/Screen%20Shot%202016-06-06%20at%2010.40.18%20AM_0.png

Members of Facebook Boogaloo Groups Arrested on Terrorism-Related Charges
▻https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/members-facebook-boogaloo-groups-arrested-terrorism-related

Facebook took no action against the groups after TTP identified them in an April report. Now three of their members are accused of planning violence at a Las Vegas protest. Three members of private “boogaloo” Facebook groups identfied by the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) have been arrested on terrorism-related charges in what authorities say was an effort to spark a second civil war by launching Molotov cocktails at a Las Vegas protest against police brutality. The Justice Department’s (...)

#Facebook #violence #extrême-droite #BlackLivesMatter #FBI #manipulation

https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/sites/default/files/060420-feature.jpg