Depuis le 30 octobre dernier, Meta impose aux internautes de choisir entre publicités ou abonnement payant pour accéder à Facebook ou à Instagram. "Les lois changent dans votre région", assure la firme de Mark Zuckerberg sans préciser de quelles lois elle parle. "Nous vous proposons donc un nouveau choix concernant la façon dont nous utilisons dont nous utilisons vos informations pour les publicités« . Et la question à 13 euros par mois de tomber : « Voulez-vous vous abonner, ou continuer à utiliser nos produits gratuitement avec des publicités ?« .
Le géant américain se voit reprocher le transfert de données d’Européens vers les États-Unis. L’amende est la plus lourde jamais imposée dans le cadre du droit européen sur les données.
Le groupe Meta, à qui appartient Instagram, a annoncé avoir fait appel de cette condamnation européenne pour des manquements au traitement des données des mineurs.
Pour Carolina Milanesi, « les investisseurs croient en Mark Zuckerberg comme entrepreneur », mais « sa vision du métavers peut apparaître légèrement détachée de la réalité ». « En regardant sa vidéo, on pouvait se demander : “Est-ce cela que nous voulons ?” », dit-elle. Censé être une réponse aux questions existentielles de Meta sur son business actuel, le pari sur le métavers pourrait au contraire en ajouter une.
La Data Protection Commission a infligé une amende de 17 millions d’euros à Meta Platforms Ireland Limited. Cette amende prononcée par la CNIL irlandaise fait suite à une série de douze notifications de violation de données reçues...
La société de Mark Zuckerberg pourrait priver l’Europe de ses services (Facebook, Instagram…). Un drôle de calcul qui lui serait très dommageable.
Et si l'enjeu du "metavers", c'était tout simplement l'amplification de la colonisation de nos imaginaires par les marques ?
Amazon devrait voir sa capitalisation bondir de plus 200 milliards de dollars ce vendredi 4 février, l’équivalent de la dégringolade, la veille, de Meta, maison mère de Facebook. Le marché atteint des niveaux de volatilité considérables et la tech en est la première victime, constate Philippe Escande, éditorialiste économique au « Monde ».
Meta’s stock prices plunged after the company reported that Apple’s privacy features would cost it billions this year. It’s not the only tech giant to take a hit.
The problem is this: The company is facing a crisis of identity that it will struggle to buy, or copy, its way out of. It’s not the best social media app, nor is it the best platform for content. No one trusts the company, or its management, to do the right thing. Its image has been stained with the recent revelations of harming teenage kids. It wants to evolve, but it is terrible at doing so. Antitrust regulators are watching the company like a hawk, meaning a splashy acquisition is out of the question. Its track record of innovating its own products shows it won’t create its way out either. And the Metaverse, the vision that Zuckerberg is willing to bet his entire company on — his entire life on — is still some years out (some predict as many as 10 years), and the project is already bleeding billions of dollars and crashing the stock price, the one thing that keeps the company, and Zuckerberg himself, in the shareholder’s good books, despite the constant shit storm the company swirls around in.
Campaigners say lack of parental controls on Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality headset could breach children’s safety code.
Jack Dorsey, who is stepping down after six years as Twitter’s chief executive, is one of the tech leaders who seem to have grown tired of managing their empires.
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Jeff Bezos’ wanderlust led him to step down from Amazon this year and fulfill his childhood fantasy of going to space. Google’s founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, stepped down in 2019 and have since been investing in futuristic projects like airships and flying taxis. Mark Zuckerberg is still running Facebook, but it’s called Meta now, and the company’s big metaverse pivot seems to be designed in part to infuse some novelty and excitement back into a staid, big-company culture.
The face behind the Facebook papers tells how she became Mark Zuckerberg’s nightmare—and thinks people can still make a positive impact at the company.
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There's a thing that most people don't understand. Every other similarly powerful industry in the world, or even a general market in the world, is radically more transparent than Facebook is. It’s like there was a factory producing a widget, and around that factory, kids were getting cancer. A scientist could go and put up a detector and independently validate that there was pollution from the factory that was making those cancer cases. But with Facebook, most people aren't aware of the idea that we have no transparency into the system. They may understand subjectively that Facebook makes them feel bad [but they don’t have the data]. And not only do we not have transparency, but Facebook actively gaslights us and lies to us repeatedly. Facebook does not want us to see what happens; they don't want to give out even aggregate data. When they have given out some aggregate data, like the academic consortium a couple months ago, they literally gave false data.
Even with more transparency at a moderate level, we would have very different conversations. Facebook has lots of solutions—this is not an intractable problem. But they are all solutions that require sacrifices of slivers of profit. Does Facebook deserve to have 17 percent profit margins, or, heaven forbid, 12 percent profit margins? [Note: Meta’s most recent operating margin was 36 percent.] That conversation has distracted people. It's not a question of whether we have Facebook or not, but whether we deserve to have a Facebook that is safe. I totally understand that journalists need to be objective and fair. But I think sometimes we're getting lost in the forest because of the trees. I haven't seen reporting on that as much as I would have liked.