big data

The bill passed the U.S. Senate: it looks like your ISP will be allowed to just sell your browsing history. While the bill still needs to pass the House (the lower legislature in the U.S.) and the President’s signature, it seems increasingly likely to unfortunately do so. This doesn’t just mean that your privacy is commercialized – it also means that search-and-seizure is: the Police will be able to just buy your browsing history from your ISP, bypassing any privacy protections completely.

The latest dossier on our watch list is the EU ePrivacy regulation. (Aiming to replace the ePrivacy directive from 2002.)
EDRi explains…

This new regulation complements the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), adding more clarity and legal certainty for individuals and businesses – helping to protect our personal data by providing specific rules related to our freedoms in the online environment.

EDRi also list some comments…

Jag tillbringar ett par dagar på The Princeton-Fung Global Forum i Berlin, med temat "Can liberty survive the digital age?"Många spännande talare och panelister. Speciellt är det intressant är att ta temperaturen på den aktuella nätdebatten i akademiska kretsar.Fake news är ett hett tema, men debatten är förvånansvärt balanserad.

“It’s like this perfect test case,” says Andrew Ferguson, a professor of law at the University of the District of Columbia. “Alexa is only one of the smart devices in that guy’s house. I don’t know if all of them were on or recording, but if you were going to set up a hypothetical situation to decide if the internet of things could be used as an investigative tool, you’ve got this mysterious hot tub murder.”

TBL:s three points of interest:

• We’ve lost control of our personal data
• It’s too easy for misinformation to spread on the web
• Political advertising online needs transparency and understanding

The Guardian » Tim Berners-Lee: I invented the web. Here are three things we need to change to save it »

Läs min senaste bloggpost på HAX5.July.org:Zuckerbergs thoughts on how Facebook might rule the world »"Putting our democratic system in the hands of Facebook? Really? I don’t think so. (...) We simply do not want the Skynet experience."

Ten days ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote a very long policy letter, that has been nagging my mind ever since. (Link»)
The ambition is – of course – to make Facebook even bigger and more important in our lives. This also means making the totally dominant social media player even bigger and more important in our lives. I’m not sure that I’m comfortable with that.

Source : Reuters, le 04/10/2016
Yahoo a scanné secrètement des emails pour les renseignements US
Par Joseph Menn | SAN FRANCISCO
L’an dernier Yahoo a secrètement mis en service un logiciel personnalisé destiné à rechercher dans tous les emails entrants de ses clients des informations spécifiques fournies par les responsables du renseignement américain, selon des gens familiers avec le sujet.

This is a translation from the German language Swiss Magazine Das Magazin, something like the New Yorker, based in Zurich, that goes beyond another report on the campaign and victory of a fascist and would-be dictator in the U.S. The German version, by Hannes Grassegger and Mikael Krogerus was published on December 3, under the title "Ich habe nur gezeigt, dass es die Bombe gibt" ("I just showed that the bomb was there").

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