Finance law 2024: the government wants to continue monitoring social networks to fight fraud

2023-12-21 17:00:08 LéA GIRARDOT / “THE WORLD” Bercy will be able to continue to hunt down fraudsters on online sales platforms and cast its net on social networks. The finance bill for 2024, definitively adopted Thursday, December 21, extends for two years and expands an experiment which, since 2021, has allowed the Ministry of the … Read more

“I am the only influencer with whom you can make an appointment on Doctolib”

2023-12-02 04:00:09 Physiotherapy session with Astrid Bruno, host of the Instagram account @exploratricedelintime, in her office in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, November 22, 2023. EMMA BURLET FOR “THE WORLD” We knew Michel Cymes, the cathodic ENT doctor, who became a multimillionaire thanks to his shows, his books and his conferences on the theme of … Read more

Why the quest for digital sovereignty on the Internet threatens American hegemony

2023-11-26 16:00:24 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 to the 18e edition of the Internet Governance Forum which had taken place a month earlier in Japan, under the auspices of the … Read more

Major Cybersecurity Incident Impacts Australian Ports: Government Response and Impact on Supply Chains

2023-11-11 10:54:29 The Australian government announced on Saturday November 11 that a cybersecurity incident « important » affected several ports in the country operated by the DP World Australia group. The government is coordinating the response to a “significant cybersecurity incident affecting several Australian ports” and collaborates with the operator to “measure the impact”said the Australian Minister … Read more

European Union Extends Ban on Meta’s Behavioral Advertising: Latest Updates and Implications

2023-11-01 16:52:54 The ban on any “behavioral ” imposed by Norway on Meta, parent company of the Facebook and Instagram platforms, will be extended to all countries of the European Union and the European Economic Area, a announced Wednesday, November 1, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), the main European privacy authority. It thus confirms … Read more

Meta and Facebook Accused of Harming Youth: State Lawsuits and Internal Documents Revealed

2023-10-24 18:03:50 More than forty American states have decided to sue Meta, accusing Facebook and Instagram of harming the “mental and physical health of the country’s youth”, according to the complaint filed Tuesday, October 24 with a California court. Also, the group is accused of violating the law on the confidentiality of children’s personal data. … Read more

how journalistic investigations changed the situation

2023-10-17 17:00:16 The scenario is now well established: a whistleblower requests a consortium of investigative journalists, to whom he hands over a mass of raw data with offshore accounts and shell companies, which is shared between media outlets around the world, who will work on months to uncover the fraudsters and criminal networks behind the … Read more