Corporate Surveillance in Everyday Life | How Companies Collect, Combine, Analyze, Trade, and Use Personal Data on Billions
Résumé / 4e couv.
How thousands of companies monitor, analyze, and influence the lives of billions. Who are the main players in today’s digital tracking? What can they infer from our purchases, phone calls, web searches, and Facebook likes? How do online platforms, tech companies, and data brokers collect, trade, and make use of personal data?
In recent years, a wide range of companies has started to monitor, track and follow people in virtually every aspect of their lives. The behaviors, movements, social relationships, interests, weaknesses and most private moments of billions are now constantly recorded, evaluated and analyzed in real-time. The exploitation of personal information has become a multi-billion industry. Yet only the tip of the iceberg of today’s pervasive digital tracking is visible; much of it occurs in the background and remains opaque to most of us.
This report by Cracked Labs examines the actual practices and inner workings of this personal data industry. Based on years of research and a previous 2016 report, the investigation shines light on the hidden data flows between companies. It maps the structure and scope of today’s digital tracking and profiling ecosystems and explores relevant technologies, platforms and devices, as well as key recent developments.
Christl, Wolfie, et CrackedLab. Corporate Surveillance in Everyday Life. How Companies Collect, Combine, Analyze, Trade, and Use Personal Data on Billions. Cracked Labs, 2017.
Lien vers le site : http://crackedlabs.org/en/corporate-surveillance.
Résumé / 4e couv.
Depuis son origine, et sous la pression d’un secteur économique désormais hégémonique, le web a évolué en un sens qui l’a profondément dénaturé, au point d’en faire un instrument d’hypercontrôle et d’imposition d’une gouvernance purement computationnelle de toutes choses. Privilégiant à outrance l’automatisation mise au service de modèles économiques devenus la plupart du temps ravageurs pour les structures sociales, cette évolution a affaibli toujours plus gravement les conditions d’une pratique réflexive, délibérative, outre les aspects révélés par Edward Snowden. Cet ouvrage présente les principaux aspects théoriques et pratiques d’une refondation indispensable du web, dans lequel et par lequel aujourd’hui nous vivons. L’automatisation du web ne peut être bénéfique que si elle permet d’organiser des plateformes contributives et des processus délibératifs, notamment à travers la conception d’un nouveau type de réseaux sociaux. Bernard Stiegler, Julian Assange, Paul Jorion, Dominique Cardon, Evgeny Morozov, François Bon,Thomas Bern, Bruno Teboul, Ariel Kyrou, Yuk Hui, Harry Halpin, Pierre Guéhénneux, David Berry, Christian Claude, Giuseppe Longo, balayent les aspects et les enjeux économiques, politiques, militaires et épistémologiques de cette rénovation nécessaire et avance des hypothèses pour l’élaboration d’un avenir meilleur.
Jorion, Paul, et Stiegler, Bernard et al. La toile que nous voulons. Le web néguentropique. Édité par Bernard Stiegler, FYP éditions, 2017.
Lien vers le site de l’éditeur : https://www.fypeditions.com/toile-voulons-bernard-stiegler-evgeny-morozov-julian-assange-dominique-cardon/
The Red Web | The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries
Résumé / 4e couv.
After the Moscow protests in 2011-2012, Vladimir Putin became terrified of the internet as a dangerous means for political mobilization and uncensored public debate. Only four years later, the Kremlin used that same platform to disrupt the 2016 presidential election in the United States. How did this transformation happen?
The Red Web is a groundbreaking history of the Kremlin’s massive online-surveillance state that exposes just how easily the internet can become the means for repression, control, and geopolitical warfare. In this bold, updated edition, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan offer a perspective from Moscow with new and previously unreported details of the 2016 hacking operation, telling the story of how Russia came to embrace the disruptive potential of the web and interfere with democracy around the world.
Soldatov, Andrei, et Irina Borogan. The Red Web. The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries. Public Affairs, 2017.
Lien vers le site de l’éditeur : https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/andrei-soldatov/the-red-web/9781610395748/