Scandal Cambridge Analytica: data collected on Twitter

The social network has sold easy access at the tweets to  GSR company. This is she what provided
 the data from 87 million Facebook users to Cambridge Analytica.

 The company Cambridge  Analytica specializes in political influence and close to Donald Trump, is the heart of a controversy, for  having   made the siphoning the data of 87 million users Facebook. Saturday, April 28th, Twitter has confirmed British newspaper The Telegraph that  GSR, the company through which, pased Cambridge Analytica , to recover  the data  Facebook, aspired and data of Twitter users.


GSR , in fact,   buy  in 2015 at twitter,an access, allowing him  to easily collect tweets published between December 2014 and April 2015. A service that the social network sells to many companies.

This new discovery,  is not the same brought as the one that concerns Facebook. The collected tweets were public, and user data is generally less sensitive and completed on Twitter than on Facebook.  'We have carried out an internal investigation and we have not found
 no access to private data concerning Twitter users, 'the company has declared to Bloomberg.


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The Pope puts a guard against the evil curiosity

Know to discern, good and bad curiosities,  and  toward open the heart to the Holy Spirit that offers certainty. These are the invocations formulated by the Pope on this Monday during his daily Liturgy in the chapel of  Casa Santa Marta.

'Our life is full of curiosity', but how can we distinguish good curiosity of  the a bad ? To from illustrate 'good curiosity', the Pope evokes these little children who spend their time asking 'Why.' If they do that, it's  because as they  will grow , they  will catch  knowledge of things that they do not understand and will seek explanations. This is a good curiosity because then it will allow them to evolve and have more autonomy. It is also a matter of 'contemplative' curiosity because 'children see, contemplate, do not understand and ask their questions.'


Being  vigilant at his own behavior

' Patrimony of womens as of  mens ',the gossip ,  in  revenge is a bad curiosity. while we want ' to put his nose in the lives of others 'when we are looking to go nowhere , at the end, the personalities will be soiled, when we are looking for  to do understand   things we do not have the right to know. 'This kind of bad curiosity accompanies us throughout life: this is a temptation we always have,' says François.


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The highlight of the American dream

« Happy Valley », Pennsylvania.  Its campus, its giant soccer stadium, his apple pies  ... But also  its businesses of rape , its  inhabitants in shape of caricature and his invisible minorities. Photographer Eva O'Leary has tracked the visual anomalies of this average city apparently neat..

The is of  the places  whose nicknam resonate as a manifest. This is the case of 'Happy Valley', «the lucky valley», alias State College, a small corner of Pennsylvania known for its huge campus and its 100,000-foot football stadium. A small end of American dream.An city average cleaned , as America count more.  28-year-old photographer, Eva O'Leary, grew up there.But she wanted to exceed the images of Epinal and apple pies  and pom-pom girls, thus,  like statistics  whose  is gargling  State College on her site  internet:  the one of the more small rates of stress in a US metropolis, the seventh  more safest city in the United States ... ...

Nul need to scratch too much to perceive  the upside of a less happy decorum, whose nail  has crushed in the scandal thread. In 2012, the local football club assistant coach was convicted for the rape of several minors. Amounts of aggression were so declared on the campus. Nothing   is not thus so idyllic as we believe . For Eva O'Leary, the ideals promoted are not just holes, they are dangerous. 'The normality that promotes this type of place is toxic. '


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The web inventor exhorts to regularize the artificial intelligence

During a roundtable about the future of the internet, Tim Berners-Lee has opposite a human vision of technology face to Facebook, Amazon and eBay.

Dad upset of the World Wide Web, who deplored more and more regularly the derives, the British Tim Berners-Lee took advantage of a roundtable in Lyon, Thursday April 26th at the annual global conference of the Internet, to launch a cry from heart to the intentions of its great multinationals on issues of personal data and of the Artificial Intelligence (IA), two intimately linked issues.

'Personal data is not the new petroil. If I give you my data, these it's not like the petroil, it's not like water, I still have it. These are mine. '

His speech echoes a very widespread idea , corespondent the 'date' will be the black gold of the 21st century.

 The Web giants, more conciliatory.

This very applauded statement contrasts with those of other participants in this roundtable - The born of Amazon, Facebook, of eBay and Google - defending industrial interests. Re-taking a  henceforth known formula, Ruhi Sarikaya, director of Applied Sciences of the Amazon, has highlighted the strategic importance of searches around AI and automatic learning, whose data is fuel.

'I think that in the next five years we will be considering the date as an exchange currency,,' said Kira Radinsky, eBay's scientific director. Herself do not belong to companies, but to me, and  will furnish us in Exchange for a service, mastering this change. '

A proposal far from disinterested. 'Must render the power to the users, allow them understand what is happening, and give them honest compensation. If users are winners, we are also , 'defends the head of the online commerce site.

Certains, see even,    in the sharing of personal data , a moral obligation. . 'Not sharing health data is  cause of inadvertent the death of someone. The same  the data tied to the   terrorism, 'Mrs. Radinsky in an argument that, did not 
make hard,  unanimity in the room.  'Data is my right, I want to   can  give them ,  it to a company, ,' says Tim Berners-Lee.

'If you send them in the cloud to a third party, like an insurance company, I'm just a point for them.' But,  me I am me,and I will keep ye the control ' '

The GAFA defend self-regulation

The debate was held because on May 25 the European Data Protection Regulation (RGPD) will enter into force, a new law forbidding in particular companies to exploit information about their users without their consent and to which  the giants of the Web dont have other choice than to conform

Some try too much from now on to show white paw 'We need people to trust Facebook, we want more transparency,' promises thus Antoine Bordes, who heads in IA from  Facebook in Paris research office in Paris, the FAIR. While recalling the recent Initiatives of the platform to allow its users to access their file history and eliminate them.

But this law does not cover everything. 'Regularization of AI remains to be done,' points out Tim Berners-Lee. Or, web giants are rather reticent to the irruption of the politics in their technological projects and the most strategic ones, preferring to play the card of a become industry more mature and responsible . ' It needful etic formation to use of data and this kind of program has emerged in recent years, it is completely new', Mr Bordes points out.

The risks of the  IA sideslip 

Vinton Cerf, from Google, an engineer and one of the founding fathers of the Internet, also calls for an controlled innovation from interior:

'The real answer ,it is that we needful must have developers with a true sense of ethics. It's not easy, the whole world will not agree. But I call on governments, not to jump Right away in the control of AI, because we do not even know the potential of these instruments.And at the same time, it will be necessary to be  vigilant .

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The ABBA group gathered for two new songs

The mythical group of the 1970s, winner of Eurovision in 1974, decided to meet with the occasion of the 35th anniversary of their last album.

ABBA, the legendary Swedish pop group, reunited for two new songs, 35 years after their last album. Agnetha Fältskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, split up in the early eighties. Since, with very rare exceptions, the four Swedes have never appeared in public together.

In this same communication, the group members announce the title of one of the songs: I still have faith in you. They also specify that the songs will be interpreted by their numerical avatars in the course of  a show broadcast in December produced by the British BBC and the NBC US network.https://instagram.com/p/BiEl5cslkdR/?utm_source=ig_embed

'The decision to continue the exciting project of a tour by the avatars took an unexpected turn,' noted the artists in the release.

For them, being in the studio was an 'extremely joyful experience'.


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Lionel Messi can register his brand in Europe

The Argentine striker  has  won on Thursday in justice the right to register its brand of  sports articles in his name in the European Union .


The Argentine striker  has  won on Thursday in justice the right to register its brand of  sports articles in his name «Messi» in the European Union overturning a previous decision, announced the EU Court in Luxembourg.

In 2013, the European organism loaded with intellectual ownership (EUIPO) had given  right , to the Spanish exploiters of the   'Messi' brand , who were doing be worth the risk of confusion.  A decision that the Court of Justice of the EU judged it to be unfounded and canceled it on Thursday.

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Freedom of the press: 'deleterious climate' in democracies

The 2018 edition of World Reporters Without Borders World Ranking  worrying of a re-Winning the hostility of political power towards journalists.

Citing Stalin, Donald Trump did not hesitate to qualify the media as 'enemies of the people' a few months after his election. For Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the US President's claimed hostility recalls that threats towards journalists are no longer 'the prerogative of authoritarian countries only'.

 On the occasion of the publication, Wednesday, April 25, of the 2018 edition of his ranking of press freedom the NGO reveals that 'more and more democratically elected heads of state no longer see the press as a foundation of democracy, but as an adversary . RSF also denounces a ' deleterious climate that touches even the countries  on high  of ranking .' Norway and North Korea conserving respectively the first and last place,

If the United States recede two places in the 45th position behind Romania or Burkina Faso,Europe is not sheltered by threats proffered by political leaders towards the media, notably since the emergence of populist parties'  using anti-media rhetoric. 'Political leaders who fuel journalism's detestation, bear a  heavy deal of responsibility,' says Christophe Deloire, RSF Secretary General.

 The organization targets the leaders of the Central European countries, following the image of Serbia, which loses ten place (position 76) or Hungary (position 73), where Prime Minister Viktor Orban accuses independent media that he discredits his country, close to international opinion.

France wins six places (position 33), but, according to the NGO, it is a partially mechanical 'comeback' after the exceptional fall of some of its European neighbors. '


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