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Diana Walker est une photographer du TIME qui à été pendant 20 ans la photographe officielle de la Maison Blanche pour le magazine. Au cours de sa carrière, elle a eu la chance de croiser la route de Steve Jobs qu’elle a photographiée à plusieurs reprise entre 1982 et 2004.

Photographs of Steve Jobs (from 1982 to 1994) by TIME’s photographer Diana Walker.

“I first met Steve Jobs on a photo shoot for TIME in 1982. I had no idea that he was going to be my friend or that he was going to be this incredible genius — a part of all our lives, in what we do and what we see. He was speaking to a group of Stanford students in a dorm living room, and it was hard to photograph him there and not be in the way. You had to have light, and I was creeping…

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Google’s privacy principles conundrum


One of the line in this Privacy Principles video confused me a tad. It says “[…] and we don’t sell user information to other companies” (at 1:43). Technically, isn’t that just what Google does with AdSense, going as far as using the notorious DoubleClick DART cookie.

To be fair, they’re still one of the best companies when it comes to managing your privacy settings, so I’m not that worried about it. Just like when I walk in the street, I expect a certain loss of privacy when I’m online, especially when/if I opt-in to use a company’s services. Technically, it’s actually far easier to manage or control one’s privacy online than it is walking in said streets nowadays (CCTV, etc).