“Europe’s top court on Thursday rejected a key EU tool used to transfer Europeans’ personal data across the Atlantic for commercial use but upheld the validity of another tool used by hundreds of thousands of companies to transfer data worldwide.”
Source : EU top court rejects EU-U.S. data transfer tool, backs another tool – Reuters
“That would mean they transferred 700 terabytes in 50,400 seconds, for a final data rate of about 14 gigabytes per second. As Marrone said, if you’re dealing in petabytes of data, the fastest bandwidth you can buy is not the Internet—it’s putting your hard drives on an airplane and flying them to your destination.”
Source : Seeing a black hole with half a ton of hard drives – Six Colors
“This isn’t a kind of fluffy charity providing free services. It’s is a very hard-headed international business and these big tech companies are essentially the world’s biggest global advertisers, that’s where they make their billions. […] these big companies, particularly where there are monopolies, can’t frankly reform themselves. It will have to come from outside.”
Source : Facebook could threaten democracy, says former GCHQ boss – BBC News
“Google has been accused of breaking promises to patients, after the company announced it would be moving a healthcare-focused subsidiary, DeepMind Health, into the main arm of the organisation.The restructure, critics argue, breaks a pledge DeepMind made when it started working with the NHS that “data will never be connected to Google accounts or services”. The change has also resulted in the dismantling of an independent review board, created to oversee the company’s work with the healthcare sector, with Google arguing that the board was too focused on Britain to provide effective oversight for a newly global body.”
Source : Google ‘betrays patient trust’ with DeepMind Health move | Technology | The Guardian
“Le Conseil d’Etat a jugé, le 18 octobre, que le fichier des titres électroniques sécurisés (fichier TES) ne constitue pas une atteinte disproportionnée à la vie privée. Cette décision montre une fois de plus que, par nos choix, nous faisons de l’informatique la meilleure ou la pire des choses – en l’occurrence la pire. Elle illustre aussi l’incapacité du pouvoir, ici judiciaire, à tenir compte de l’avis de la communauté scientifique, mais aussi l’incroyable confiance en la sécurité des systèmes informatiques que provoque l’ignorance.”
Source : Le « mégafichier », mythe de l’infaillibilité informatique
“When we use data to create better experiences for you, we work hard to do it in a way that doesn’t compromise your privacy. One example is our pioneering use of Differential Privacy, where we scramble your data and combine it with the data of millions of others. So we see general patterns, rather than specifics that could be traced back to you. These patterns help us identify things like the most popular emoji, the best QuickType suggestions, and energy consumption rates in Safari.”
Source : Privacy – Apple
“Solid is guided by the principle of “personal empowerment through data” which we believe is fundamental to the success of the next era of the web. We believe data should empower each of us. Imagine if all your current apps talked to each other, collaborating and conceiving ways to enrich and streamline your personal life and business objectives? That’s the kind of innovation, intelligence and creativity Solid apps will generate. With Solid, you will have far more personal agency over data – you decide which apps can access it.” – Tim Berners-Lee
Source : One Small Step for the Web… — Inrupt
«The most basic problem is that researchers often don’t share their source code. At the AAAI meeting, Odd Erik Gundersen, a computer scientist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, reported the results of a survey of 400 algorithms presented in papers at two top AI conferences in the past few years. He found that only 6% of the presenters shared the algorithm’s code. Only a third shared the data they tested their algorithms on, and just half shared « pseudocode »—a limited summary of an algorithm. (In many cases, code is also absent from AI papers published in journals, including Science and Nature.)».
Source : Missing data hinder replication of artificial intelligence studies | Science | AAAS
«Une autre idée fausse : nous serions assis sur un trésor qu’il nous suffirait de ramasser. Le fait que les géants du Web tirent une manne considérable de nos données massivement, ne veut pas dire qu’elles ont une vraie valeur individuellement et qu’ils soient prêts à payer pour ces données en réduisant leurs profits. Dans les systèmes de « crowd sourcing » comme Mechanical Turk, des foules d’internautes produisent déjà sur le Web mais pour de très faibles profits. Ne rêvez pas : personne ne vous paiera une fortune pour dire que la soupe était bonne ou le lit un peu dur.»
[…] Si notre société a un problème avec la notion de propriété, c’est bien plutôt dans l’excès. La question de la liberté de photographier un panorama le prouve. Le droit de l’auteur d’un bâtiment comme la Bibliothèque nationale de France nuit à la liberté de faire des photos du quartier. Il devient nécessaire de rappeler que les paysages urbains sont des biens communs.
[…] Si on affirme la propriété des données personnelles, est-ce à dire qu’on donne le droit de s’opposer à leur accès par des chercheurs en médecine, à leur archivage pour les futures générations d’historiens ?… Nous ne savons pas quels problèmes se résolvent, mais nous voyons bien quels problèmes se créent…»
Source : « La propriété des données personnelles est une fausse bonne idée »
Alarmed that decades of crucial climate measurements could vanish under a hostile Trump administration, scientists have begun a feverish attempt to copy reams of government data onto independent servers in hopes of safeguarding it from any political interference.
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