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April 12, 2022

PrivacyTests.org: open-source tests of web browser privacy

A browser comparator

Derrière d'ennuyeuses normes techniques, des enjeux stratégiques (0/1) - ege-normalisation.pdf

Concernant les Standard Development Organisation, il y en a 3 importantes sur Internet :

IEEE aux couches basses,
IETF aux couches moyennes,
W3C aux couches hautes (HTML, CSS. . .)

La normalisation est importante, elle facilite ou décourage certaines choses, elle est politique.

Creeped out: this is how much power we have given Google in exchange of comfort, convenience and pictures of cats. | by Sentinel | Medium

Reminder: Google is not a search company but a tracking one.

"I don’t care if they make money off me since the service they provide is so good."

Counter-arguments:

Google doesn’t want you to learn and grow: it wants you to keep on clicking. It’s embedded in their design.

It creates an Internet bubble for each user:

This sort of curation has spread all across the internet, creating bubbles of single individuals and an illusion of connectivity rather than actual empathy, compassion and connection to the world.

This sort of curation has spread all across the internet, creating bubbles of single individuals and an illusion of connectivity rather than actual empathy, compassion and connection to the world.

If almost literally everyone uses Google, then any project, person or company that wants to succeed must abide to Google’s rules.

From Yuval Harari writer in sapiens:

“One key rule is that if you get my data, the data should be used to help me and not to manipulate me. Another key rule, that whenever you increase surveillance of individuals you should simultaneously increase surveillance of the corporation and governments and the people at the top. And the third principle is that — never allow all the data to be concentrated in one place. That’s the recipe for a dictatorship.”

Usbek & Rica - Génération climat : « Plus la politisation écologique est forte, plus cela favorise Jean-Luc Mélenchon »

Il y a un graphique des votes au premier tour de la présidentielle 2022 par classes d'âge.

2 ans après… Les transferts de données aux Etats-Unis sont toujours illégaux | InterHop

Selon la CNIL, et sur la base de ces deux textes [FISA et Executive Order 12333], les GAFAM (notamment) sont soumis aux injonctions des services de renseignements américains qui peuvent l’obliger à tout moment à transférer l’ensemble des données hébergées.

Selon ces termes, le cloud de confiance n'est pas compatible avec les entreprises américaines.