Since the end of 2023, the Marseille collective Le Nuage était sous nos pieds (The cloud was beneath our feet) has been investigating, analysing and fighting against the social, ecological and political impacts of digital…
Category: Networks
Data centers, these concrete mega-computers that process and store our digital data are proliferating all over the world. They are monopolising water and electricity, generating environmental pollution and soil artificialisation, multiplying land grabbing and the…
In the wake of the Artificial Intelligence paradigm, data centres are set to proliferate all over the country. These server warehouses dedicated to processing and storing computer data generate numerous conflicts over the use of water and…
For years, Orange has been trying to market the gold mine that is our geolocation data (the list of relay antennas to which our phones connect during the day). The pandemic appears to be a…
Paris, 30 September 2015 — The Commission of Defence of the French Lower Chamber has massively rejected all amendments presented by Laure de La Raudière, Lionel Tardy and Sergio Coronado (in the group EELV)…
Open letter sent by civil rights groups worldwide against the Surveillance Bill to be adopted in France.
Paris, January 18th, 2012 – La Quadrature du Net’s website has gone dark today in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT-IP Act (PIPA) discussed in the US Congresshttps://www.laquadrature.net/en/stop-us-online-censorship-before-acta-brings-it-to-europe”, as well…
Online content and app providers drive demand for broadband, driving fixed and mobile revenues of €155bn (£133 bn) in Europe in 2010, according to a report commissioned by the BBC, Channel 4, Blinkbox, Skype and…
Just weeks after the Federal Communications Commission adopted its first-ever rules aimed at regulating Internet access, Verizon Communications on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit to overturn the controversial order.
There’s some movement in the U.S. network neutrality debates under a rather dry heading: “Further Inquiry Into Two Under-Developed Issues in the Open Internet Proceeding.”
[…] a couple weeks ago Google and Verizon announced a…