If our everyday tools can play spies, our body is also transformed into a surveillance tool with biometrics. Guillaume Grallet returns to us on the Clearview affair. The application designed by a New York company literally sucked 3 billion photos to train its facial recognition system, before selling its services to nearly 600 government agencies, including in the United States. Revealed by the New York Times, the information sparked a controversy in bursts: after Twitter or Microsoft, it is the turn of regulators and parliamentarians to question the ethics of this mass facial recognition. Europe should soon declare a moratorium on these technologies.


Back to France for our report, where hackers turn into Avengers. Some internet users track down alleged attackers and then reveal their information on social networks. An illegal gesture. Justiciaries who are also justiciable.


Finally, our test sequence will amaze you! The Hong Kong startup Nreal has been much talked about at CES. She has developed glasses to enhance any application. Clearly, his connected glasses project mixed reality. Demo to follow.

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