Deux textes historiques conservés aux Archives nationales, la Déclaration des droits de l’homme et celle des droits de la femme, rédigée par Olympe de Gouges en 1791, ont été encodés sur ADN, grâce à une nouvelle technologie qui promet un stockage plus durable et moins volumineux que le numérique classique.
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L’enjeu est tellement important que Facebook a décidé d’embaucher 10 000 personnes pour y travailler, et envisage même de changer de nom pour mieux refléter l’importance qu’il y accorde. Le métavers (de l’anglais metaverse, contraction de meta universe) est un univers numérique, aux contours encore flous, promettant d’être l’Internet de demain.
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Alors que la directive européenne pour la protection des lanceurs d’alerte (1) doit être transposée avant la fin de l’année, une coalition de 29 organisations déplore le manque d’empressement du gouvernement et des parlementaires. Parmi elles, des associations de défense de l’environnement, de la liberté de la presse, de lutte
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Les risques majeurs posés par la désinformation sont aujourd’hui largement connus : fragilisation des démocraties, baisse de confiance dans les institutions, manipulation des citoyens, polarisation des opinions… La rumeur et la propagande ont toujours existé, et continuent de se propager « hors-ligne ». Cependant, l’utilisation de technologies ultraperfectionnées et addictives,
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Le directeur général de Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, a déclaré ce jeudi 7 janvier que le géant des médias sociaux interdit le président Trump pour une durée indéterminée. Une mesure prise après que Donald Trump ait armé le web pour encourager l’assaut du Capitole américain. Cette décision du géant du web
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Information, liberté d’expression, liberté des médias, … sont cruciales pour le fonctionnement d’une société véritablement démocratique et continuent à l’être par ces temps de crises. Pourtant, partout dans le monde, se multiplient les signes d’ingérence dans les processus démocratiques. Dans l’anarchie de l’information en ligne, s’informer revient à circuler dans
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Today, the United States is crumbling under the weight of two pandemics: coronavirus and police brutality. Both are causing physical and psychological violence. Both kill and disproportionately injure black and brown people. And both are driven by the technology that we are designing, redirecting...
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What can journalism do in the face of all forms of disinformation? The Fondation Hirondelle, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this March, and UNESCO have just published the manual "Journalism and Disinformation" in French. It provides keys to take a step back from disinformation... Journalism
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How is information and misinformation disseminated on digital social networks? Jens Koed Madsen, a researcher at the Complex Human-Environment Systems Simulation Group (Cohesys) at the University of Oxford, explained the main cognitive biases induced by users and by algorithms in an interview with the publication "Mediation".
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The right to oblivion and neighbouring rights, two cases of very different natures have brought Google, the giant of search engines, into conflict with European justice. In both cases, one in which it is condemned and the other not, Google is trying to play the game as finely as possible. It does so by
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While "free models" are nothing new, the digital economy has given them an unprecedented scale. From the LinkedIn professional network to dating applications and video games, digital players are deploying a range of strategies in which the user has free access to a partial service according to the following criteria
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Protection of personal data, control over the advertising market, online search or social networks, dominant position in online commerce or control of the market for smartphone applications... Grievances against the digital giants are the source of many investigations, both on the American side and on the European side.
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It is an article in the Washington Post signed by our colleague Reed Albergotti who throws this paving stone into the pond and breaks the silence. The mythical and often adulated apple brand shamelessly plunders the best ideas in the applications it hosts on its own App Store. Privilege of
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Recent statements by two members of the government, Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet and Secretary of State for Digital Media Cédric O, are fuelling dangerous confusion in an otherwise legitimate public debate on the spread of hate speech, the mass dissemination of false news, influence peddling, etc.
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Facebook, the giant firm founded by Mark Zuckerberg, wants to look more and more like a state, if not more. With its 2.4 billion users, the social network has colossal power. A few days ago, Facebook announced the creation of its own currency. Regalian privilege arrogated to a
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He's probably the most powerful man in the world. At the head of an empire of more than two billion subjects who worship him daily. But he is also, in recent months, the most disparaged man in the world. His masterpiece, Facebook, seems to have become an uncontrollable monster.
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All they have to do is look at the news feed of their favourite social network to feel up to date. A title, a picture, a few lines of introduction are enough. When it comes to information, some people are not satisfied with much. They are even more convinced than those who are going to
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You are ready to go on holiday, your luggage is packed, your rooms are booked; there is only one problem: the government has cancelled your tickets. This is happening in China and tens of millions of Chinese people are being punished because their "social credit score" has been "too high".
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Everyone agrees that he is the father of the web. Thirty years ago almost to the day, the internet raised enthusiastic hopes for a better life for all mankind. Today, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, looks at his baby with an
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Ubiquitous in our hyper-connected world, passwords guarantee the security of our personal information online. While they tend to be forgotten on a daily basis, they come back to the forefront with each new mass hack. In the dock, many new technologies, such as biometrics, are now being used to protect personal information.
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