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• 10 hidden gems of the AI act en

  The AI act is about to be adopted. A set of new rules will apply to AI systems thanks to this EU regulation. Let’s discover 10 provisions that not many people may have noticed! 1) Machine-brain interfaces and virtual reality may facilitate manipulation In a recital, machine-brain interfaces and virtual reality are cited in the […]

  – le 7 février 2024 dans la tech par David Libeau.

• Google Bard is telling everyone that I work for it, and this is perhaps its truest lie en

  I am testing Google’s ChatGPT named ‘Bard’ since a couple of week. And as far as used it, it is as good as ChatGPT. By that I mean as bad as ChatGPT on the data protection side. I could easily output my CV from Bard but with a lot of incorrect information. As a data […]

  – le 15 juillet 2023 dans la tech, la vie publique par David Libeau.

• ‘Threads’ is already lying to us en

  ‘Threads’ was launched a couple of days ago in some countries. This new Meta app is supposed to compete against Twitter. I have tested it and I already discovered a misleading feature. Is Zuck already lying to us? Threads hits 100 million users today. The launch is clearly a success for Zuck. On this new […]

  – le 10 juillet 2023 dans la tech, le réseau des gens par David Libeau.

• ChatGPT will probably never comply with GDPR en

  If we can agree that ChatGPT and similar AI systems could be useful and should not be shutdown, they also need to comply with existing applicable laws such as GDPR in Europe. The issue is that it may be impossible for such opaque and complex systems to respect the right to access, rectification or to […]

  – le 10 avril 2023 dans la tech par David Libeau.

• Push notifications are a privacy nightmare en

  What if all iOS and Android apps were not complying with GDPR because of push notifications? This heavily used technology is a nightmare in terms of data protection. Users and developers are not aware of how push notifications’ data flows are messy. Let’s dig into it! Back in 2019 when I built « RIP, le compteur », […]

  – le 24 janvier 2023 dans la tech par David Libeau.

• Elon Musk does not know how to add an image description, so here is a tuto en

  Elon Musk has simply never add any single alternative text to images he tweeted. Not a single one. Although image descriptions are essential for users using screen reader such as visually impaired people. I have analysed 17.964 tweets from Elon Musk. I could not find any alternative text. Not a single one. The CEO of […]

  – le 17 novembre 2022 dans la tech, le réseau des gens par David Libeau.

• Gaming versus GDPR: privacy is loosing en

  Gaming data is personal data. What you play, how you play, what you achieved, everything is often collected, stored and analysed by gaming companies. This tracking helps game developers to know what works and what did not. But how our data privacy rights are respected when we driving over NPCs in Grand Theft Auto or […]

  – le 24 juillet 2022 dans la tech par David Libeau.

• Google reCAPTCHA needs user’s consent according to French data protection regulator en

  The « CNIL », the French data protection regulator, replied to one of my complaints about Google’s captcha and confirmed that this tool must ask user’s consent before been loaded because it is not only a security tool, but it is also collecting data. « God bless the CNIL! », ones reacting to a letter I published on social […]

  – le 28 avril 2022 dans la tech par David Libeau.

• Let’s try to make The Sims 4 accessible to visually impaired gamers en

  I am starting a new open science experiment! I want to describe here on my blog (but also on my Twitter) all the steps I am taking on the small research project of trying to make the game The Sims4 accessible to visually impaired gamers. Come and let’s research together! I don’t know how this […]

  – le 14 septembre 2021 dans la tech, une recherche par David Libeau.

• Why accessibility should technically be API-based en

  While doing a PhD aiming to improve the accessibility of gaming live streaming by generating audio description in real time, I was thinking about what the future of gaming accessibility should look like. If my first GameToSpeech prototype was designed with an API, I thought that I may need at some point to justify this […]

  – le 12 décembre 2020 dans la tech, une recherche par David Libeau.