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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Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and boss of Facebook is a man in a hurry. Today he is presenting "Libra", which he wants to put into circulation as early as 2020. His currency. In doing so, he is giving his group a power hitherto reserved for the states. With more than two billion users, Facebook has become a major player on the Internet.
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On 15 March 2019, another attack killed 51 people in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, which was broadcast live for nearly 20 minutes on Facebook. A terrorism imbued with the rhetoric of the far right online, which chooses social networks to create a buzz. To fight against
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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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On the occasion of the 9th Day without Facebook, this Thursday 28 February, author Thomas Fauré denounces the technological schizophrenia that keeps Europe happy in front of Facebook, despite the thousand revelations that have been made about it. He claims that at the heart of the Old Continent there are the means to invest in
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The social network Facebook celebrated its 15th birthday on February 4th. The role of the platform in spreading hate speech has been the subject of much debate recently. At the heart of the controversy is Myanmar, where Facebook has been used to coerce hundreds of thousands of Rohingya
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Lately, Facebook has become as clinging as modern art: you either love or hate it. Some of us will use it blindly and unconditionally on a daily basis to publish photos of our recent trips to idyllic places, share memorable moments, even bombard their subscribers with publications on
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In 2018, the European Commission has adopted a pragmatic approach to address the shortcomings of the technology giants. 2019 is likely to be the dawn of a " éthique technologique " where consumers expect their rights to be respected in the digital realm as they are in their daily lives. The
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The Yellow Vest crisis revealed the role of social networks as a driving force and catalyst for the movement. How to govern in the age of Facebook? While President Macron is trying, by solemnly speaking to the French, to find solutions to the Yellow Vest crisis, a deep gulf seems to have opened up.
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On Friday 25 May, the European General Regulation on the Protection of Personal Data (GDPSR) will enter into force throughout the European Union. A text that has been hard fought to preserve the personal data of Internet users. Despite this progress, the vast majority of French people still feel unsafe in the digital world.
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The Cambridge Analytica scandal revealed to bewildered users that Facebook collects and shares the little secrets of our digital lives far beyond what is necessary. Answering the call of the #deletefacebook hashtag, a quarter of French people say they are ready to leave Facebook [1] naively thinking that disappearing from the
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Facebook was brought into the media spotlight during the Cambridge Analytica affair. The scandal showed how the social network was accumulating unprecedented masses of personal data that were then used by pharmacies to target specific audiences and distort, in particular, elections. During the hearings
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In the aftermath of the massive violation of the personal data of 87 million Facebook users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg answered questions from US politicians for two days in the US Senate and then in the House of Representatives. These questions focused on the close relationship between the
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In the midst of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the young founder of Facebook was subjected for more than four hours to a barrage of questions from some 40 US senators. What came out of it? A mea culpa but a lot of blurry and evasive answers. We are far from concrete and precise commitments on solutions.
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There's the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which is proving to be more significant every day; there's also the revelation of phone conversations made on Android, kept by Mark Zuckerberg's social network. Now there is the revelation of an American channel: Facebook was about to make a new
PlusEvery day, we learn more about the mass of personal information collected, without our knowledge, by Facebook in particular and the giants of the web in general. Mark Zuckerberg's excuses are no longer enough to calm the storm that has risen against Facebook, which is not only unable to protect our data,
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The social network created by Mark Zuckerberg is used to collecting superlatives. Its users number in the billions, its turnover is astronomical, its data analysis is the most accurate in the world, and so forth. The storm that Facebook is currently going through can only be huge, planetary, apocalyptic. Every
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You like to take yourself as a selfie? You are not reluctant, far from it, to publish photos of yourself on social networks? Are you a bit of a narcissist? What Facebook has in store for you: a personal paparazzi robot that'll take pictures of you all day long, never tired of your
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