Corporate Surveillance in Everyday Life
How Companies Collect, Combine, Analyze, Trade, and Use Personal Data on Billions
☙ Posté le 12-06-2017
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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.
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Le web néguentropique
☙ Posté le 21-04-2017
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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.
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The Red Web
The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries
☙ Posté le 21-04-2017
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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.
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