Tag: digital freedom
“France should legitimately be able to require platforms to verify, through effective technical solutions, the age of the Internet user”
DTwelve years after the revelation of the “Facebook Files” by whistleblower Frances Haugen, who denounced the negative impact of the social network on the mental health of young subscribers, the…
“The Sam Altman affair showed that the artificial intelligence doomsayers have lost a battle”
“Catastrophism leads to catastrophe. » This mockery published on X comes from the director of artificial intelligence research at Meta (Facebook, Instagram) Yann LeCun. This AI optimist joked about the…
“The current model of Internet governance is outdated”
Rashid Ismailov, former deputy minister of telecoms in Russia, was, in September 2022, the unsuccessful candidate for the post of secretary general of the International Telecom Union (ITU), a United…
Why the quest for digital sovereignty on the Internet threatens American hegemony
At the beginning of November, China held its 10th with great fanfare.e World Internet Conference (WIC). Global, really? This event was in fact the response of Chinese President Xi Jinping…
“The cyber surveillance industry has adapted across the entire value chain to respond to both the domestic and export markets”
LEurope, hit by the war in Ukraine for almost two years, has been experiencing for several weeks an intensification of the terrorist threat following the outbreak of war between Israel…
China promotes its own standard to gain “mastery”
The fate of the Internet is beginning to turn into a confrontation between the United States and China within the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), one of the agencies of the…
In Europe, these record fines that the champions of new technologies are slow to pay
Hundreds of millions of euros in sanctions… which are still not paid. The culprits: companies in the new technology sector. The fines that several Gafam companies are reluctant to pay,…
In Cyprus, a cybersurveillance conglomerate between legal opacity and tax optimization
An empire founded on the illegal sale of particularly intrusive surveillance technologies, in the middle of Europe: the documents from the “Cyprus Confidential” project shed light for the first time…
European Union opens consumer protection investigation against Amazon
The European Commission announced that it had opened an investigation into the measures implemented by the online commerce giant Amazon to protect consumers, in particular against illegal products, on Wednesday…