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Objections #2 : Transhumanisme et risques environnementaux (Ethical Technology)

Cette partie du livre (Partie 4) liste les objections qui sont faites au transhumanisme, et tente d’y répondre. Dans cet article : les craintes de surpopulation, de surconsommation, de perte de diversité génétique…

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9th Beyond Humanism Conference Wrap Up (Ethical Technology)

Here you find a video summary of the 9th Beyond Humanism Conference which took place at John Cabot University in Rome (http://www.johncabot.edu/) in July 2017 and during which the launch of the “Journal of Posthuman Studies” was celebrated: http://beyondhumanism.org/blog/2017/08/05/video-9th-beyond-humanism-conference-rome-2017/

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EFF To Court: Border Agents Need Warrants to Search Contents of Digital Devices (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

Whether Conducted Manually or Using Forensic Software, Cell Phone Searches Are Highly Intrusive

New Orleans, Louisiana—Searches of mobile phones, laptops, and other digital devices by federal agents at international airports and U.S. land borders are highly intrusive forays into travelers’ private information that require a warrant, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said in a court…

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MATRIOSHKA HUB DE MOBILITÉ (SENSORICA)

Pour une mobilité en réseau, inclusive et soutenable

Actuellement, nos villes et nos territoires font face à de nombreux défis de mobilité, ce qui accélère l’innovation basée sur de nouvelles technologies, dans un cadre d’un développement durable. La démocratisation de l’internet permet l’intégration des offres de transports publics et privés qu’imposent les nouveaux besoins des…

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End Biometric Border Screening (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

This blog post was first published in The Hill on July 18, 2017.

This summer, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is expanding its program of subjecting U.S. and foreign citizens to facial recognition screening at international airports. This indiscriminate biometric surveillance program threatens the personal privacy of millions of travelers. DHS should end it.

The history of this

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Don’t Let Congress Compromise on Net Neutrality (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

A few months ago, we received confirmation of what many of us had feared: incoming Federal Communications Commission Chair Ajit Pai announced his plans to eliminate the clear, enforceable protections for net neutrality that the Commission had implemented in 2015.

Since then, people have stood up en massein support of the open Internet. Over 18 million comments have been filed with the FCC—the…

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How Captive Portals Interfere With Wireless Security and Privacy (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

If you have ever wanted to use the wifi at a coffee shop or library, you have probably had to click through a screen to do it. This screen might have shown you the network’s Terms of Service and prompted you to click an “I agree” button. Depending on where you were, it might have asked you for information about yourself, like your email, social media accounts, room number (in a hotel), account…

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S.B. 727 Would Unfairly Restrict California Students’ Use of Course Materials (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

There’s a bill in the California Assembly that we think would make postsecondary education more expensive for students. Not only that: we think that it would undermine students’ right to make fair uses of educational materials. To make matters worse, several states around the country appear to be considering similar measures.

S.B. 727may seem benign. The bill’s purpose appears to be to give…

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EFF Urges Supreme Court to Take On Unconstitutional NSA Surveillance, Reverse Dangerous Ruling That Allows Massive Government Spying Program (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

Nation’s Highest Court Being Asked for the First Time to Weigh In On Legality of NSA’s PRISM Spying

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) askedthe Supreme Court to review and overturn an unprecedented ruling allowing the government to intercept, collect, and store—without a warrant—millions of Americans’ electronic communications, including emails, texts, phone calls,…

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New Infographic: Understanding Uses of Microphones in Internet of Things (IoT) Devices (Future of Privacy Forum)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 10, 2017 Contact: Stacey Gray, Policy Counsel, [email protected] Melanie Bates, Director of Communications, [email protected]

New Infographic: Understanding Uses of Microphones in Internet of Things (IoT) Devices

Washington, DC – Today, the Future of Privacy Forum released an infographic, “Microphones & the Internet of Things: Understanding Uses…

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California Court of Appeal Overturns Dangerous Right of Publicity Ruling (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

Almost all posts on social media include depictions of real people. And most social media websites include advertising. Does this combination mean that nearly everyone featured on social media can sue for infringement of their right of publicity? That would be disruptive. Fortunately, a new ruling [PDF] by the California Court of Appeal confirms that more is needed for a right of publicity…

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The Future of Microphones in Connected Devices (Future of Privacy Forum)

Today, FPF released a new Infographic: Microphones & the Internet of Things: Understanding Uses of Audio Sensors in Connected Devices (read the Press Release here). From Amazon Echos to Smart TVs, we are seeing more home devices integrate microphones, often to provide a voice user interface powered by cloud-based speech recognition.

Last year, we wrote about the “voice first revolution” in a…

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Faire son coming out transhumaniste (Ethical Technology)

Ce n’est qu’en mettant des visages et des préoccupations somme toute normales sur le mouvement qu’il quittera les marges et pourra remonter, petit à petit, dans l’agenda politique de nos sociétés.

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The Tell-Tale Brain: The Effect of Predictive Brain Implants on Autonomy (Ethical Technology)

What if your brain could talk to you?

’That’s a silly question’, I hear you say, ‘My brain already talks to me.’

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Apache JSPWiki's codebase moved to Git (Apache Software Foundation Blogs)

We’re pleased to announce that the JSPWiki codebase has been migrated from SVN to Git. Aside from making development easier for our core contributors—who prefer Git—we hope this change attracts and increases community developer involvement. If you’re a coder looking to get involved in an Apache top-level project, featuring a great (and friendly) developer community, please pop by and say hi—or…

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Community Development News - July 2017 (Apache Software Foundation Blogs)

Community Development News – July 2017 (Apache Software Foundation Blogs)

Welcome to our monthly blog update about what is happening in Apache Community Development (ComDev)! You may have noticed that we missed our June issue, this was due to the holiday season so we have a double update for you this month. This month we have lots of news about upcoming conferences that we are interested in participating at, we share a more detailed blog post about the OpenExpo in…

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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 4 August 2017 (Apache Software Foundation Blogs)

It’s Friday! Here’s what the Apache community has been up to over the past week:

Support Apache –with more than 65 Million lines of code committed over the past year alone, Apache projects need your help to remain open, free, and accessible to all. Every dollar counts. http://apache.org/foundation/contributing.html

ASF Board –management and oversight of the business and affairs of the…

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