Storymaps est un formidable outil de narration multimédia qui permet de raconter une histoire à l’aide d’une carte géographique. En réalité, la plateforme fait beaucoup plus, beaucoup mieux que cela. Il s’agit d’un outil...
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Dernière mise à jour le 9 février 2023 Free Webpage Creator est un service en ligne entièrement gratuit qui permet de créer une page web pour ses élèves en 30 secondes montre en main....
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Meta is suing the London-based “scraping-for-hire” Voyager Labs for using surveillance software to automatically scrape information from 600,000 user profiles on Facebook and Instagram.
The lawsuit alleges the surveillance firm violated Facebook’s and Instagram’s terms and conditions and California Law. In this instance, information obtained through automated scraping included likes, comments, friends, and users’ photos. Voyager’s surveillance software also scraped information from Twitter, YouTube, Medium, Pinterest, Vimeo, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and Telegram.
The information Voyager scraped was sold to law enforcement agencies, including the LA Police Department, for profit. Marketing its surveillance software to law enforcement agencies for clandestine intel gathering, the company boasted that its data-scraping activities were untraceable.
However, in 2017, Meta gave Voyager a warning to cease and desist its scraping activities. These activities had been going on since it first became active on the Facebook platform back in 2016, according to the exhibits of the case released.
The surveillance software, which cost USD 705,000, created over 38,000 fake Facebook profiles for data scraping purposes. It also tracked COVID-19 victims and their connections.
Voyager designed its AI surveillance software to be untraceable. It then marketed it to law enforcement agencies and departments as an intel gatherer. The surveillance software blatantly disregarded users’ rights and indiscriminately profiled users for criminal behavior.
Voyager’s website states that the software is “designed to analyze massive amounts of data” and “to uncover social whereabouts and hidden connections between entities.”
Its marketing materials further state that “Voyager’s unique collection methods enable traceless collection from social media networks” and claim that the “collection process cannot be associated with clients servers by any third party or by the social network itself.”
Meta recently announced its fight against scraping-for-hire, explaining that a data scraper “covertly collects information that people share with their community, family, and friends, without oversight or accountability, and in a way that may implicate people’s civil rights.”
In another transgression, Voyager Labs used COVID-19 tracing as a public-interest cover-up for its illegal data-scraping policies and surveillance activities. Its surveillance software targeted individuals, pubs, and religious organizations.
For instance, followers of Shincheonji’s Church in South Korea were tracked and monitored through the organization’s Facebook page. Through the scraping operation, the firm obtained information on infection rates and individual connections.
These activities were carried out with intent. As such, they violate both individual privacy and Facebook’s policies, not to mention the sovereignty of individual states whose citizens they monitor. Hyping up its software’s appeal, Voyager claimed it provided near real-time data that was “untraceable” and “completely anonymous”. It achieved this by employing multiple proxies from different vendors and locations.
The Voyager surveillance software case comes after Meta sued another scraping-for-hire company, Octopus, in July 2022. Similar to Voyager, Octopus used automated accounts to scrape data from the profiles of over 350,000 Instagram users.
However, despite Meta’s best efforts to put itself in a favorable light for protecting users’ rights, its own data-scraping activities are well-known. In 2018, reports on Meta (then Facebook) emerged, alleging it collected SMS and voice data from Android mobile devices.
Whether or not data scraping is legal is a much-debated question. It largely depends on the context and, chiefly, on what purposes the data will serve later on. Social media sites typically discourage data scraping, because users who feel their data isn’t protected would be incentivized to leave the platform.
Voyager’s agents on Facebook and Instagram platforms used the data to aid law enforcement and COVID-19 tracking. As such, they might argue they used scraping for the general good.
Certain jurisdictions, like the EU and California state, enforce users’ rights and privacy with stricter regulations. Data scrapers consider any publicly available information as open-to-scraping, arguing that any private information shouldn’t be public in the first place.
In April 2022, in a case involving LinkedIn and a data-scraping company, hiQ, an appeals court ruled that data scraping of public information for presentation to corporate companies is perfectly legal. This ruling dealt a serious blow to the fight against data scraping. But the LinkedIn and hiQ case is different from this current lawsuit. In this case, hiQ hadn’t agreed to LinkedIn’s terms and conditions before scraping user information.
Data scraping is concerning for individuals and businesses. Cybercriminals who gain access to personal information online may later use it in phishing scams and other social engineering attacks. Using scraped personal information, they can contact victims, pretending to be officials from the government.
Many victims end up giving up more sensitive information via email or phone during such interactions. This is because people generally trust that anyone with access to such personal information must belong to the government. But, such information, culled from LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter databases is easily accessible on darknet forums.
That said, steps and protections are available for those who take their privacy seriously. Users should take care when posting online. They could also minimize the number of social media accounts that they use and adjust their privacy settings to protect their information from prying eyes. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Twitter have all experienced multiple hacks recently. This should put those worried about their individual privacy on alert.
Since these platforms have added more privacy controls over the years, users should strive to put them to good use. Some measures that users can take to protect their privacy are requesting data, setting profiles to private, and refusing to upload any Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in a public way.
Voyager Labs is a well-backed surveillance software firm that intentionally violated Facebook’s and Instagram’s terms and conditions. Covering up its data-scraping activities under noble causes, it tracked and monitored individuals using sophisticated AI analysis. It did this for purposes it couldn’t disclose to the public without incurring condemnation and ire.
But, despite repeated violations of digital privacy, many see a silver lining. With these incidents becoming public knowledge, the general public will be inspired to exercise care when online. Moreover, data regulation policies within the states are shifting. These policies are starting to align closely with those enshrined in General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), providing victims with comprehensive and retributive legal recourses against illicit data scraping.
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Our daughter was in need of a storage unit in her room to help organize toys and books so we decided to build her an open storage unit with baskets. While it is a simple design, we wanted to add a little flare by installing beveled edges to the front of it rather than just standard plywood edge banding. With a few sheets of plywood we were able to make something that we think is pretty cool.
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Time needed: 1 day.
We actually did this a little out of order. We started the finishing process before installing the shelves by first filling any wood joints adjacent to the trim with DAP Premium Wood Filler. 
Then, after a good sanding we applied the primer and paint to the unit, shelves and back. Since our unit is white, we applied caulk later. If going with a color you would want to complete assembly and caulk before painting.
After completing the unit we then applied DAP Alex Ultra to all the cubbies and this not only makes those joints disappear, with their Anti-Shrink technology, it will make sure you don’t see any cracking in the caulk as the wood moves.
As always, if you have any questions don’t hesitate to comment below and especially don’t forget to post pictures of your finished products in the comments! ENJOY!
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Quoi de plus pratique et confortable qu’un prompteur pour rassurer une débutante ou un débutant en tournage vidéo. Bien sûr ce n’est qu’un outil qui ne doit pas se substituer à vos talents d’interprétation.
Mais ça peut être intéressant notamment pour aider certaines personnes qui n’ont pas l’habitude d’être face à une caméra. Évidemment il faudra faire en sorte qu’on ne voit pas que la personne est en train de lire. Le mieux est de le tenir le plus éloigné possible de la personne qui joue devant la cam.
Alors pour fabriquer ton prompteur à pas cher avec du matos que tu possèdes très certainement déjà chez toi il te faudra:
pour créer ton prompteur maison, tu auras besoin d’un:
– 1 écran
– 1 pc portable ou une raspberry
– 1 câble hdmi
Qprompt permet de faire défiler du texte avec plein d’options très proches de ce qu’est un prompteur.
Il est téléchargeable pour windobe, linux, macOS et même androîd. Donc si t’as une tablette assez rande , ça pourrait le faire aussi!
sudo snap install qprompt
le projet :
https://github.com/Cuperino/QPrompt/
Je te conseille d’utiliser les nombreux raccourcis claviers
compte à rebours à paramétrer
Enjoy!
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Si un jour tu t’es essayé au montage vidéo, tu t’es peut être déjà retrouvé à pleurer devant le résultat obtenu après quelques heures d’assemblage: une vidéo avec un son décalé par rapport à l’image. Le truc bien rageant lorsque tu t’es fadé toute la partie « cut », incrustation et sous-titres. Une des raisons les plus courantes de ce désastre est … l’utilisation d’un smartphone comme caméra. Bizarre? Voici l’explication et la solution pour en finir avec de problème de décalage son/vidéo.
Pour sa facilité d’utilisation et les petits budgets, filmer avec son smartphone peut paraitre une bonne idée. D’autant plus si tu fais des lives. T’appuie sur l’appli et ça envoie le flux vidéo directement. La qualité de l’image est plutôt correcte.Mais s’il te vient l’idée de récupérer la vidéo pour en faire un montage, tu risques d’être déçu au moment du résultat final. C’est ici que les problèmes de décalage de son / image apparaissent alors que sur le live la synchro du son et de la vidéo était parfaite. Pourquoi le souci apparait-il après la phase de montage ?
Et bien c’est simple Jamy, lorsque tu filmes avec ton smartphone ce dernier est souvent configuré avec une fréquence d’images variables. Le nombre d’images par secondes peut osciller entre 2 et 30. Le souci c’est que le logiciel de montage que tu vas utiliser sera paramétré avec une fréquence d’images fixes.
Donc quand tu insères ta vidéo sur la time line il va la lire constamment en 30 images par secondes et les passages de ta vidéo qui seront en 2 images/sec par exemple seront lu 15 fois plus vite. Et l’audio lui ne suivra pas cette cadence , il sera lu linéairement . D’où le décalage final entre le son et l’image.
L’application qui va nous permettre de resynchroniser le son avec l’image s’appelle:
Elle va nous permettre de réencoder la video source issue du smartphone en framerate fixe.
handbrake est opensource et disponible sur Linux , Mac et windobe.
Pour le télécharger:
https://handbrake.fr/downloads.php
Perso, pour l’installer sur ma linux, j’ai utilisé le flatpack:
flatpak install HandBrake-1.5.1-x86_64.flatpak
Et voilà , la vidéo et le son sont calés . On peut dire qu’Handbrake est une belle découverte et m’a sauvé la vie sur ce coup là. Donc j’espère qu’il pourra t’aider aussi si un jour tu tombes sur ce type de problème 
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