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A French version of this post has been featured in Slate, La Libre Belgique, and Yahoo News. “I owe you… read more About the chilling effect of communication surveillance on free speech (a letter from the President of the USA)

Quite often, while discussing the role of web giants in enforcing mass digital surveillance (and while insisting that there is… read more Privacy is not dying, it is being killed. And those who are killing it have names and addresses

Here’s the translation of my op-ed published in the Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014 edition of the italian newspaper Il Corriere… read more Privacy: the greatest trick Zuckerberg ever pulled

Traduction de l’italien de ma tribune parue dans le quotidien Il Corriere della Sera (supplément “La Lettura”), dimanche 19 janvier… read more Vie privée : la plus belle des ruses de Mark Zuckerberg

Dans le cadre du séminaire EHESS Étudier les cultures du numérique : approches théoriques et empiriques et en collaboration avec… read more Seminaire EHESS/CVPIP de Nicolas Colin "L'âge de la multitude" (20 janvier 2014, 17h)

We are driven to online participation because “someone is wrong on the Internet”, to tell it like the classic xkcd cartoon, and by the will to prove that we are right. A moral and semantic shift arises when being right stops meaning that the information we contribute is accurate, and starts signifying our inherent righteousness. There is no denying that those very masses described by some as a justice-hungry lynch mob that today rise up against hate speech are not, statistically speaking, immune from racist and HIV/AIDS stigmatizing remarks. For them, the entire Justine Sacco affair can be regarded as a way to reassert some sort of moral upper hand over a random villain.

Pour la séance du 16 décembre 2013 de mon séminaire Étudier les cultures du numérique : approches théoriques et empiriques… read more [Notes] Séminaire EHESS A Dalsuet & S Vial — 'Amitié et manifestation d'autrui : pour une philosophie des réseaux sociaux numériques'

Playlist de 5 vidéos pour le projet Digital Society Forum, où le sociologue Dominique Cardon interviewe Antonio Casilli : une… read more Entretien : Dominique Cardon et Antonio Casilli (Digital Society Forum, 28 nov. 2013)

Depuis quelques jours cette nouvelle fait le tour des Internets. Le contenu des Google Hangouts sous surveillance automatisée ? Mystère… read more Google censure les gros mots : une non-nouvelle [Updated 02.12.13]

2013 is coming to an end, and it’s time to take stock at the (disastrous) state of our digital freedoms…. read more Web Index 2013: the USA join the ranks of Egypt, Kenya and Malaysia for censorship and surveillance