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      Google halts its 4-plus-year plan to turn off tracking cookies by default in Chrome

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 4 days ago - 17:22 · 1 minute

    A woman in a white knit sweater, holding a Linzer cookie (with jam inside a heart cut-out) in her crossed palms.

    Enlarge / Google, like most of us, has a hard time letting go of cookies. Most of us just haven't created a complex set of APIs and brokered deals across regulation and industry to hold onto the essential essence of cookies. (credit: Getty Images)

    Google has an announcement today: It's not going to do something it has thought about, and tinkered with, for quite some time.

    Most people who just use the Chrome browser, rather than develop for it or try to serve ads to it, are not going to know what " A new path for Privacy Sandbox on the web " could possibly mean. The very short version is that Google had a "path," first announced in January 2020 , to turn off third-party (i.e., tracking) cookies in the most-used browser on Earth, bringing it in line with Safari, Firefox, and many other browsers. Google has proposed several alternatives to the cookies that follow you from page to page, constantly pitching you on that space heater you looked at three days ago. Each of these alternatives has met varying amounts of resistance from privacy and open web advocates, trade regulators, and the advertising industry.

    So rather than turn off third-party cookies by default and implement new solutions inside the Privacy Sandbox, Chrome will "introduce a new experience" that lets users choose their tracking preferences when they update or first use Chrome. Google will also keep working on its Privacy Sandbox APIs but in a way that recognizes the "impact on publishers, advertisers, and everyone involved in online advertising." Google also did not fail to mention it was "discussing this new path with regulators."

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      iPhone SE 4 : tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur les dernières rumeurs

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · 4 days ago - 10:03

    Iphone 15 Pro Max Logo Apple

    Le prochain iPhone SE pourrait être la bonne affaire de l'année, à condition que son prix ne s'envole pas.
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      iPhone 17 : le grand chamboulement arrive pour Apple

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · 4 days ago - 07:07

    Iphone Famille

    Alors que les yeux sont rivés sur les futurs iPhone 16 et 16 Pro, l'iPhone 17 promet des changements importants. Apple modifierait sa gamme pour faire de la place à un nouveau modèle pour le moins intriguant.
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      Apple “clearly underreporting” child sex abuse, watchdogs say

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 5 days ago - 16:46

    Apple “clearly underreporting” child sex abuse, watchdogs say

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    After years of controversies over plans to scan iCloud to find more child sexual abuse materials (CSAM), Apple abandoned those plans last year. Now, child safety experts have accused the tech giant of not only failing to flag CSAM exchanged and stored on its services—including iCloud, iMessage, and FaceTime—but also allegedly failing to report all the CSAM that is flagged.

    The United Kingdom’s National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) shared UK police data with The Guardian showing that Apple is "vastly undercounting how often" CSAM is found globally on its services.

    According to the NSPCC, police investigated more CSAM cases in just the UK alone in 2023 than Apple reported globally for the entire year. Between April 2022 and March 2023 in England and Wales, the NSPCC found, "Apple was implicated in 337 recorded offenses of child abuse images." But in 2023, Apple only reported 267 instances of CSAM to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), supposedly representing all the CSAM on its platforms worldwide, The Guardian reported.

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      Apple met à jour ses applications et se prépare pour les JO de Paris

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · 5 days ago - 09:31

    Iphone 15 Pro Boite

    Apple a lancé toute une série de nouveautés pour faciliter le suivi des Jeux Olympiques de Paris 2024. Les applications Plans, Musique, Podcats et même Apple TV sont concernées.
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      UK watchdog accuses Apple of failing to report sexual images of children

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 5 days ago - 07:00

    Exclusive: NSPCC finds Apple implicated in more cases of predators sharing child abuse imagery in England and Wales alone than the company reported globally in a year

    Apple is failing to effectively monitor its platforms or scan for images and videos of the sexual abuse of children, child safety experts allege, which is raising concerns about how the company can handle growth in the volume of such material associated with artificial intelligence.

    The UK’s National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) accuses Apple of vastly undercounting how often child sexual abuse material (CSAM) appears in its products. In a year, child predators used Apple’s iCloud, iMessage and Facetime to store and exchange CSAM in a higher number of cases in England and Wales alone than the company reported across all other countries combined, according to police data obtained by the NSPCC.

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      En 2026, les AirPods pourraient intégrer des caméras infrarouges

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · 6 days ago - 14:00

    Airpods Apple

    Apple n'a pas l'intention de laisser le marché des écouteurs à la concurrence, et prévoirait de nouvelles fonctionnalités inattendues pour les AirPods. En 2026, les utilisateurs pourraient porter des écouteurs dotés de caméras infrarouges intégrées, selon un analyste très au fait des coulisses du constructeur.
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      iPhone 15 : le dernier smartphone d’Apple est moins cher pour les soldes sur Amazon

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · 7 days ago - 13:32

    [Deal du jour] La version basique du dernier smartphone d’Apple est en ce moment en promotion. Une bonne occasion de mettre la main sur un très bon modèle récent.