Après avoir passé près de 13 ans au Nouvel Observateur, j'ai rejoint Mediapart en novembre 2012. Je suis en charge des sujets liés aux libertés publiques.
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In the interest of transparency towards its readers, Mediapart’s journalists fill out and make public since 2018 a declaration of interests on the model of the one filled out by members of parliament and senior civil servants with the High Authority for Transparency and Public Life (HATVP), a body created in 2014 after Mediapart’s revelations on the Cahuzac affair.
The so-called Twitter Affair in which anti-Semitic and other racist comments were Tweeted has provoked a major outcry in France over the use and abuse of the internet. The government has promised to take action and a senator is currently overseeing plans for new legislation to 'supervise' the web in France. But many internet rights campaigners fear that freedom of speech could become the first casualty of this war on racist, sexist and homophobic language on the internet. Jérôme Hourdeaux reports.
After Mediapart broke a series of stories in 2010 about the Bettencourt Affair that appeared to implicate a government minister, the then-ruling UMP party's general secretary Xavier Bertrand attacked what he called the website's 'fascist methods'. Mediapart responded by taking the unusual step of launching a defamation action against the politician. This week the case finally came to trial. Jérôme Hourdeaux reports on the proceedings.
There was all the atmosphere of a joint press conference between heads of state when French President François Hollande and Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt this month announced an agreement had been reached between the US search engine giant and the French press over Google’s use of article contents. Google will make a one-off payment of 60 million euros to fund development of the publishers' presence on the internet, while it will also offer to increase their online revenues using Google’s advertising platforms. However, as Dan Israel and Jérôme Hourdeaux report, what was presented as a "historic" compromise is in reality a long-term victory for Google over an ailing, cash-strapped press, while the details of the deal are, curiously, to remain secret.
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Le mois dernier, se tenait à Berlin la conférence annuelle de la Berliner Gazette intitulée « TACIT FUTURES ». Durant trois jours, journalistes, codeurs, hacktivistes, artistes… étaient invités à travailler sur les concepts de mouvement, de flux à la fois de personnes de biens ou d’argent, à l’heure du big data et des algorithmes prédictifs.
Comme chaque année, plusieurs associations de différents pays, ont fêté le 1er janvier la « Journée du domaine public », célébrant l’entrée dans le domaine public d’œuvres incontournables qui se trouvent, à cette date, libérées de leur législation nationale sur les droits d’auteur.
