Opacité, exonération de responsabilité, diffusion : les trois fléaux des réseaux sociaux.
Mois : mars 2014 (Page 3 of 13)
« Observatoire indépendant, créé en 2007 par Martine Bidegain et Thierry Happe, sous le haut patronage du Sénat, Netexplo cultive une démarche innovante et singulière pour étudier la société numérique en l’approchant par les nouveaux usages. »
Notre société se rapproche de la pensée du philosophe anglais Jeremy Bentham qui, au XVIIIe siècle, avant l’ère victorienne, estimait que le secret favorisait les comportements coupables alors que la transparence est garante de vertu.
« On Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, people are increasingly concerned about Twitter’s slowing user growth, and signs that those who do use the service are using it less ». (via Why people quit Twitter – Quartz)
Game theory suggests the rules governing Bitcoin may need to be updated if the currency is to endure.
« Photos of the Gehry model that will become Facebook’s new HQ have been floating around for a couple of years. But with the building slated for completion next year, Facebook provided these new, exclusive images to Business Insider of what the world can expect from Gehry’s latest design ». (via Photos Of Facebook’s Frank Gehry Designed HQ – Business Insider)
All of the big web companies have detailed privacy policies, but they generally give themselves broad rights to access customer email if they’re protecting their own rights, says Nicole Ozer, technology and civil liberties policy director at the ACLU. “This situation should be a bit of a wakeup call,” she says of the Microsoft incident. “These email services are not free. We’re playing a high price for these email services when we click, ‘I agree.’”
The Walt Disney Company said it had completed a deal to pay $500 million to acquire Maker Studios, a YouTube-based video supplier that generates more than 5.5 billion views a month from a subscriber base of 380 million. The purchase, by far the largest for what Hollywood calls a multichannel network, calls for Disney to pay another $450 million if aggressive growth targets are met.
In a speech in January, President Obama said he wanted to get the N.S.A. out of the business of collecting call records in bulk while preserving the program’s abilities. He acknowledged, however, that there was no easy way to do so, and had instructed Justice Department and intelligence officials to come up with a plan by March 28 — Friday — when the current court order authorizing the program expires.
We always believe that Internet communication technology should be employed for a country’s social-economic development, rather than Internet espionage and monitoring,” said Hong Lei, a spokesman for the ministry. “China has also consistently advocated that the international community should work together to draw up relevant regulations to build a peaceful, secure, open and cooperative cyberspace.