https://pinboard.in/u:jm/public/ recent bookmarks from jm 2022-04-11T10:18:13+00:00 https://twitter.com/thitran3/status/1512393686381961216 jm long-covid covid-19 papers france symptoms https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:015ef678ec96/ 2021-06-23T14:30:09+00:00 https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/22/1026777/france-spyware-amesys-nexa-crimes-against-humanity-libya-egypt/?truid=8c8f2699f50eb3b9985a111121cfee47&mc_cid=dabbb71ca3&mc_eid=eaf496ebe1 jmSenior executives at a French spyware firm have been indicted for the company’s sale of surveillance software to authoritarian regimes in Libya and Egypt that resulted in the torture and disappearance of dissidents. While high-tech surveillance is a multibillion-dollar industry worldwide, it is rare for companies or individuals to face legal consequences for selling such technologies—even to notorious dictatorships or other dangerous regimes. But charges in the Paris Judicial Court against leaders at Amesys, a surveillance company that later changed its name to Nexa Technology, claim that the sales to Libya and Egypt over the last decade led to the crushing of opposition, torture of dissidents, and other human rights abuses. The former head of Amesys, Philippe Vannier, and three current and former executives at Nexa technologies were indicted for “complicity in acts of torture” for selling spy technology to the Libyan regime. French media report that Nexa president Olivier Bohbot, managing director Renaud Roques, and former president Stéphane Salies face the same charges for surveillance sales to Egypt. ]]> spyware surveillance france nexa amesys libya egypt torture human-rights https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c22e3747c2c2/ 2021-04-14T11:19:16+00:00 https://www.indicereparabilite.fr/ jm repair repairability france shopping https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:14adee5d9cd1/ 2020-09-08T09:26:06+00:00 https://twitter.com/vincentglad/status/1303243869933404161/photo/1 jm testing covid-19 age epidemiology dataviz statistics marseilles france https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7ed9065e39e7/ 2020-01-13T17:16:18+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/10/citizens-panels-ready-help-macron-french-climate-policies?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other jm france climate-change citizens-assemblies lawmaking government future taxation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5c1f7b421148/ 2019-06-05T10:56:24+00:00 https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2019/06/04/france-bans-judge-analytics-5-years-in-prison-for-rule-breakers/ jm ‘The identity data of magistrates and members of the judiciary cannot be reused with the purpose or effect of evaluating, analysing, comparing or predicting their actual or alleged professional practices.’ As far as Artificial Lawyer understands, this is the very first example of such a ban anywhere in the world. Insiders in France told Artificial Lawyer that the new law is a direct result of an earlier effort to make all case law easily accessible to the general public, which was seen at the time as improving access to justice and a big step forward for transparency in the justice sector. However, judges in France had not reckoned on NLP and machine learning companies taking the public data and using it to model how certain judges behave in relation to particular types of legal matter or argument, or how they compare to other judges. In short, they didn’t like how the pattern of their decisions – now relatively easy to model – were potentially open for all to see. ]]> censorship france analytics judgements legal judges statistics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:70c20892a220/ 2019-04-11T16:08:32+00:00 https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190410/14580641973/eu-tells-internet-archive-that-much-site-is-terrorist-content.shtml jm eu europol policing france archive.org archival web freedom censorship fail https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c01ee1b12f57/ 2017-06-14T09:45:11+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/13/mounir-mahjoubi-macron-cyber-attack-en-marche jm As a child, he was into maths and geometry, the middle child with one sister 10 years older and another 10 years younger. “I heard about this incredible new thing called the internet,” he says, adding how, aged 12, he saw an advert for the Paris science museum where you could try the internet for free. “There were 15 computers and you queued to have an hour free if you bought an entry ticket. I bought an annual pass to the museum and every Saturday and Sunday I’d travel from one side of Paris to the other to get on the internet and see what it was about. I’d go on Yahoo, chat with people on the other side of the world. I didn’t speak great English then so it wasn’t brilliant chat ...” (via Niall Murphy)]]> france mounir-mahjoubi internet computers society macron politics security https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c0f9ded1a39e/ 2017-05-09T09:45:00+00:00 https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/how-the-american-far-right-tired-and-failed-to-hijack-the#.ui8ErxzDw jm france trolls 4chan fail funny pathetic macron marine-le-pen fascism elections nazis https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7878b8952aff/ 2017-03-26T21:51:24+00:00 https://medium.com/@thegrugq/american-snoper-6d28e833b377#.ncby26s3f jmHow modern conflicts play out in the informatics sphere, what I mean when I talk about cyber war, is happening in France. After France there will be Germany, then the Scandinavian countries have their elections. There is no chance that Putin attempting to shape the world to best suit Russian interests will abate. Currently, the strongest area that he can contend in is the informatics sphere, the cyber realm, where human perception of reality is shaped. ]]> putin france elections russia cyber-war hacking security wikileaks https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b5c7bbab2f39/ 2016-07-26T09:33:19+00:00 http://www.camping-indigo.com/en/noirmoutier-indigo-campsite-france.html jm holidays fun france camping noirmoutier chaize-wood loire nantes recommendations https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:aae6bf079288/ 2016-05-27T09:47:21+00:00 http://www.frenchfoodieindublin.com/2016/05/visiting-the-dordogne-valley.html jm food ffid blogs dordogne france holidays tourism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2e68cf4eaf84/ 2015-11-12T12:35:53+00:00 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11964140/Three-quarters-of-cars-stolen-in-France-electronically-hacked.html jmThe astonishing figures come two months after computer scientists in the UK warned that thousands of cars – including high-end brands such as Porsches and Maseratis - are at risk of electronic hacking. Their research was suppressed for two years by a court injunction for fear it would help thieves steal vehicles to order. The kit required to carry out such “mouse jacking”, as the French have coined the practice, can be freely purchased on the internet for around £700 and the theft of a range of models can be pulled off “within minutes,” motor experts warn. ]]> hacking security security-through-obscurity mouse-jacking cars safety theft crime france smart-cars https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:00465e3b03bd/ 2014-12-30T10:32:41+00:00 http://www.papillesetpupilles.fr/2014/12/comment-bien-couper-le-fromage.html/ jm cheese fromage france cutting food https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fa9182ddab31/ 2014-11-05T16:28:53+00:00 http://euobserver.com/justice/126375 jmAn obscure clause in EU copyright rules means no one can publish photos of public buildings in Belgium, like the Atomium, or France’s Eiffel tower at night without first asking permission from the rights owners. Ah, copyright.]]> copyright ip stupid belgium france law atomium eiffel-tower https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f113dae4da28/ 2014-09-27T20:02:04+00:00 http://lamaisondesamis.fr/ jm ex-iona gites france holidays vacation-rentals vacation hotels https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5ee91ff67317/ 2014-03-31T14:45:16+00:00 http://pando.com/2014/03/27/how-steve-jobs-forced-google-to-cancel-its-plan-to-open-a-paris-office/ jmin a field as critical and competitive as smartphones, Google’s R&D strategy was being dictated, not by the company’s board, or by its shareholders, but by a desire not to anger the CEO of a rival company. This is utterly bananas and anti-competitive. (via Des Traynor)]]> via:destraynor wage-fixing apple google tech paris r-and-d steve-jobs jean-marie-hullot france competition poaching assholes https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f24ceb065831/ 2014-03-20T14:42:17+00:00 http://12mars.rsf.org/2014-en/enemies-of-the-internet-2014-entities-at-the-heart-of-censorship-and-surveillance/ jmThe mass surveillance methods employed in [the UK, USA, and India], many of them exposed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, are all the more intolerable because they will be used and indeed are already being used by authoritarians countries such as Iran, China, Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to justify their own violations of freedom of information. How will so-called democratic countries will able to press for the protection of journalists if they adopt the very practices they are criticizing authoritarian regimes for? This is utterly jaw-dropping -- throughout the world, real-time mass-monitoring infrastructure is silently being dropped into place. France and India are particularly pervasive]]> journalism censorship internet france india privacy data-protection surveillance spying law snowden authoritarianism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:bdb7661452eb/ 2013-07-26T13:23:35+00:00 http://torrentfreak.com/three-strikes-and-youre-still-in-france-kills-piracy-disconnections-130709/ jmAfter years of debate and controversy the French Government has finally backtracked on the law which allowed errant subscribers to be disconnected from the Internet. This morning a decree was published which removed the possibility for file-sharers to have their connections cut for copyright infringement. Instead, those caught by rightsholders will now be subjected to a system of automated fines. ]]> france legal ip piracy filesharing three-strikes https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8b62c2b5aba6/ 2013-06-17T09:30:04+00:00 http://www.english.rfi.fr/visiting-france/20130603-possible-ban-factory-food-french-restaurants jmIn an attempt to crack down on the proliferation of restaurants serving boil-in-a-bag or microwave-ready meals, which could harm France’s reputation for good food, MP Daniel Fasquelle is putting a new law to parliament this month. [...] The proposed law would limit the right to use the word “restaurant” to eateries where food is prepared on site using raw ingredients, either fresh or frozen. Exceptions would be made for some prepared products, such as bread, charcuterie and ice cream. ]]> restaurants food france cuisine boil-in-the-bag microwave cooking daniel-fasquelle https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c826cac22c93/ 2012-08-06T20:22:08+00:00 http://www.cnet.com.au/french-illegal-downloads-agency-hadopi-may-be-abolished-339341011.htm jmAccording to recent statistics, Hadopi has sent 1 million warning emails, 99,000 "strike two" letters and identified 314 people for referral to the courts for possible disconnection. No one has actually been disconnected. According to Aurelie Filipetti, culture minister in the new French Government, Hadopi has been nothing but a waste of money. "€12 million per year and 60 officials; that's an expensive way to send 1 million emails," Filipetti said. "Hadopi has not fulfilled its mission of developing legal downloads. I prefer to reduce the funding of things that have not been proven to be useful." 0 disconnections. Not one.]]> hadopi privacy law three-strikes france money https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:cf1d30c7021f/ 2012-04-16T10:34:07+00:00 http://torrentfreak.com/french-three-strikes-law-slashes-piracy-but-fails-to-boost-sales-120330/ jm france hadopi legal music piracy sales revenues sevn snep video https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:388274295dce/ 2011-12-15T13:22:56+00:00 https://torrentfreak.com/french-presidents-residence-busted-for-bittorrent-piracy-111215/? jm bittorrent surveillance downloading internet privacy france hadopi https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b6147cf8e843/ 2011-06-12T20:27:14+00:00 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110609/09021214636/french-government-creates-its-own-giant-patent-troll.shtml jm france fail omgwtfbbq patent-trolls swpats patents government innovation software europe https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:06b09c68e6af/ 2010-12-06T12:34:27+00:00 http://namawinelake.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/%e2%80%9cno-weapon-no-blood-or-anything-like-that%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-eric-cantona-ideating-on-what-a-revolution-to-bring-down-the-banks-might-look-like-tomorrow-we-might-see/ jm ireland france banking bank-runs economy bailout eric-cantona https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:dad06d230564/ 2010-11-26T14:58:42+00:00 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/20/eric-cantona-bank-protest-campaign jm banking crisis economics finance protest france eric-cantona https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:049893053959/ 2010-07-15T10:45:18+00:00 http://brickmag.com/current/excerpt1.html jm france paris underground toread ux catacombs marquis writing https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:92ff95872f18/ 2010-01-21T14:03:54+00:00 http://fontfeed.com/archives/french-anti-piracy-organisation-uses-pirated-font-in-ownlogo/ jm hadopi piracy copyright design fail france fonts typography logos ip https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:236c6f96cfaf/