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WhatsApp Has Shared Your Data With Facebook for Years, Actually
▻https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-facebook-data-share-notification/#intcid=recommendations_wired-right-rail-vidi-experiment_f8d0b83d-e7e8-4c18-b

A pop-up notification has alerted the messaging app’s users to a practice that’s been in place since 2016. Since Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014, users have wondered and worried about how much data would flow between the two platforms. Many of them experienced a rude awakening this week, as a new in-app notification raises awareness about a step WhatsApp actually took to share more with Facebook back in 2016. On Monday, WhatsApp updated its terms of use and privacy policy, primarily to (...)

#Facebook #WhatsApp #cryptage #payement #consentement #données #FightfortheFuture

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The Facial Recognition Backlash Is Here
▻https://onezero.medium.com/the-facial-recognition-backlash-15b5707444f3

But will the current bans last ? The facial recognition industry has been quietly working alongside law enforcement, military organizations, and private companies for years, leveraging 40-year old partnerships originally centered around fingerprint databases. But in 2020, the industry faced an unexpected reckoning. February brought an explosive New York Times report on Clearview AI, a facial recognition company that had scraped billions of images from social media to create an (...)

#Clearview #Microsoft #Walmart #IBM #Amazon #biométrie #police #racisme #facial #reconnaissance #discrimination #empreintes #surveillance #algorithme #CCTV #vidéo-surveillance #ACLU (...)

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Facebook told my followers I was spreading misinformation about government surveillance. I wasn’t.
▻https://medium.com/@fightfortheftr/facebook-told-my-followers-i-was-spreading-misinformation-about-government-s

Calling for more censorship — or for Big Tech companies to become the arbiters of truth — will ultimately backfire. We need to address the problem of viral disinformation at its root. Okay I’ll admit it. I still use Facebook. When I logged on last night I saw something I had never seen before : a notification that read “Partly false information found in your post by independent fact checkers.” I was surprised, but figured maybe it was a glitch or related to some joke meme I had posted or (...)

#FBI #Facebook #Twitter #YouTube #bot #manipulation #censure #modération #FISA #PatriotAct #ACLU (...)

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