« L’affrontement peut aussi être indirect : ces plates-formes cherchent à accumuler toujours plus de données pour imaginer de nouveaux services. Et les listes de course d’un utilisateur sont des informations sensibles et convoitées »
« To make its predictions, Google is combining the bus route details with the data it’s collecting from users who have consented to anonymized data sharing. This is the same data collection mechanism it uses to predict the crowds at local businesses today »
Facebook: "wooops, We stored millions of passwords in plain text"
IT: 🤦
People: 🤨
Google: "Hold my beer"
« Google said it discovered in April that the way it implemented password setting and recovery for its enterprise offering in 2005 was faulty and improperly stored a copy of the password in plaintext »
« OldTuber permission granted you the ability to completely bypass the new Google-oriented code enforcement policies, enabling anyone holding it to commit code directly to the YouTube codebase »
What could possibly go wrong? 😏
Interesting story anyway
« We need to start asking, as a society, if we are going to continue to allow business models that are built around exploiting our information without meaningful consent »
« It looks like Facebook was not the only one abusing Apple’s system for distributing employee-only apps to sidestep the App Store and collect extensive data on users »
« When you see any information listed on a website, your first reaction isn’t to immediately question whether or not that information is accurate. It is to blindly trust the technology that has helped you unfailingly countless times in the past »