«The European Commission is drafting a new regulation specifically targeting online platforms such as e-commerce sites, app stores and search engines that will require the companies to be more transparent about how they rank search results and why they delist some services. The proposal seeks to address potentially harmful trading practices by online platforms and a lack of effective redress mechanisms for smaller businesses that use them to reach consumers».
Étiquette : governance (Page 4 of 6)
«Bien que la désinformation soit clairement un problème, son échelle et son influence, ainsi que ceux qui la propagent et l’amplifient n’ont pas été suffisamment étudiés ou examinés. Sans cette base empirique, aucune action concrète ne devrait être prise au-delà d’autres initiatives de recherche et d’éducation, à condition qu’elles soient clairement évaluées».
Source : Six points clés du rapport de la Commission européenne sur la désinformation
«Les apprentis sorciers seraient mieux avisés de continuer à s’entraîner sur des crapauds plutôt que sur des entreprises qui augmentent le bien-être du consommateur.Cela ne veut pas dire que les GAFA doivent être exemptées de tout examen au titre du droit de la concurrence. Mais les démanteler n’est pas la bonne réponse, tant les effets d’une telle action seraient incontrôlés et risqueraient de mettre en péril des technologies dont certains prédisent qu’elles sont vouées à doubler la production mondiale toutes les deux semaines» – Thibault Schrepel.
Source : « Diaboliser les GAFA est politiquement porteur, mais éloigné de toute démarche scientifique »
«Two myths currently limit our collective imagination: the myth that advertising is the only possible business model for online companies, and the myth that it’s too late to change the way platforms operate. On both points, we need to be a little more creative. While the problems facing the web are complex and large, I think we should see them as bugs: problems with existing code and software systems that have been created by people — and can be fixed by people» – Tim Berners-Lee.
Source : The web is under threat. Join us and fight for it. – World Wide Web Foundation
«These dominant platforms are able to lock in their position by creating barriers for competitors. They acquire startup challengers, buy up new innovations and hire the industry’s top talent. Add to this the competitive advantage that their user data gives them and we can expect the next 20 years to be far less innovative than the last. What’s more, the fact that power is concentrated among so few companies has made it possible to weaponise the web at scale» – Tim Berners-Lee.
Source : The web is under threat. Join us and fight for it. – World Wide Web Foundation
«One of Andrew Keen most intriguing arguments compares the power of the US tech giants today and the motor industry in the 1950s. At that time, the big three US manufacturers, Ford, GM and Chrysler, were busily churning out flashy and popular cars and controlled 96 per cent of the US market between them. Then in 1965 a young lawyer named Ralph Nader wrote Unsafe at Any Speed, assailing the car manufacturers for turning out lethal products that prioritised style over safety and created carnage on the country’s roads».
Source : The utopia project: can Silicon Valley fix the future?
«Gates pointed to the companies’ ‘enthusiasm about making financial transactions anonymous and invisible, and their view that even a clear mass-murdering criminal’s communication should never be available to the government. […] There’s no question of ability; it’s the question of willingness.’»
Source : Bill Gates: tech companies inviting government intervention – Axios
«I cannot believe I have to write this out, but: do not eat Tide Pods. They are literal poison».
Source : Despite YouTube and Amazon’s efforts, record numbers of teens are still eating Tide Pods – The Verge
«Algorithms choose the information we see when we go online, the jobs we get, the colleges to which we’re admitted and the credit cards and insurance we are issued. It goes without saying that when computers are making decisions, a lot can go wrong. Our lawmakers desperately need this explained to them in an unbiased way so they can appropriately regulate, and tech companies need to be held accountable for their influence over all elements of our lives. But academics have been asleep at the wheel, leaving the responsibility for this education to well-paid lobbyists and employees who’ve abandoned the academy».
Source : The Ivory Tower Can’t Keep Ignoring Tech – The New York Times
«Les adversaires de la proposition savant qu’ils ont peu de chances de parvenir à empêcher une dérégulation. Les républicains dominent la commission qui sera chargée du vote, et ont déjà adopté ces dernières semaines une série de mesures de dérégulation, notamment en annulant fin novembre une mesure de l’administration Obama qui limitait la concentration dans les groupes de médias locaux.
Les défenseurs de la neutralité du Net n’ont pas été véritablement surpris par les annonces de M. Pai, qui n’avait pas caché, à son entrée en fonction, son hostilité face aux régulations héritées de l’administration Obama. Ultralibéral convaincu, qui estime que les « monopoles n’existent plus », M. Pai a occupé plusieurs postes au ministère de la justice et à la FCC, mais a aussi travaillé pour le service de politiques publiques du géant des télécoms Verizon».
Via Le Monde