big data

Cambridge Analytica are a big data marketing firm who, according to numerous media commentators, were the critical factor in the election of Donald Trump. They are the subject of many officially-endorsed, fully-mainstreamed conspiracy theories proposed by different segments of the political-media spectrum. This week we take a critical look at these theories and ask whether those who believe in them are confusing technological sophistication with real-world effectiveness.

Leaked documents from JTRIG (the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group) show that GCHQ's operations are not only bigger, more invasive and more manipulative than previously realised, but also that they name their tools and techniques after films, TV shows and even genres of music. (Read more...)

Pour bien commencer l’année, une brève vision de l’avenir “Big Brother”

Source : Framablog, 25-10-2017
Vous croyez tout savoir déjà sur l’exploitation de nos données personnelles ? Parcourez plutôt quelques paragraphes de ce très vaste dossier…
Il s’agit du remarquable travail d’enquête procuré par Craked Labs, une organisation sans but lucratif qui se caractérise ainsi :

Source : Simon Denyer, 22-10-2016
DERRIÈRE LE PARE-FEU : Comment la Chine a apprivoisé l’Internet. Ceci fait partie d’une série qui examine l’impact du Grand pare-feu de la Chine, un mécanisme de censure et de surveillance d’Internet qui affecte près de 700 millions d’utilisateurs.
(Rachel Orr/The Washington Post ; iStock)
Par Simon Denyer 22 octobre 2016

Reality Winner is a former Air Force language specialist who was working for an NSA contractor when she stole a single document and sent it to The Intercept. The document described supposed Russian attempts to ‘hack the US election’ and so this one act of whistleblowing or espionage, however you want to see it, fits […](Read more...)

Source : Vimeo, Marc Meillassoux, 06-09-2017
NOTHING TO HIDE (Oct. 2016) est un documentaire qui s’intéresse à la place de la surveillance dans la société et à son acceptation dans l’opinion à travers l’argument “je n’ai rien à cacher”.
Il est à présent disponilbe en ligne sous licence Creative Commons* (Oct. 2017).

So… Google just fired an employee for… not agreeing with the company’s diversity policy. The irony. It also raises – once again – the issue of possible political bias at the worlds leading search engine. • Gizmodo: Here’s The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google » • TechCrunch: There’s a manifesto criticizing Google’s […]

EDRi on EU public consultations on Internet and Big Brother issues: Public consultations are an opportunity to influence policy-making at an early stage, and to help to shape a brighter future for your digital rights. Below you can find the public consultations which EDRi finds relevant in 2017. (…) We will update the list on […]

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