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Stupidly click baity title. The only corporation that does not pollute is the one that doesn't produce anything. Sure, regulations such as carbon taxes are necessary to contain negative externalities, but if there's a demand for cheap products there will be a lowest bidder that will take all market share.

Lowering our consumption is unfortunately the way to make those companies pollute less.

Le studio de 1975 représente 69 smics mensuels de l'époque (smic de 1975 en euros courants=192euros).
Transposé à aujourd'hui, 69 smics mensuels nous donne un pouvoir d'achat immobilier de 118k euros.

Certes pas assez pour un studio Parisien, mais suffisant pour la proche couronne Est. Comme le 19eme à l'époque était un quartier pas trop huppé, dans le fond la différence avec les prix d'aujourd'hui n'est pas si flagrante. Et le studio d'aujourd'hui aux normes sera moins cher à chauffer et nettement plus confortable.

A la reflexion, c'est surtout la manière de faire qui est plus formelle et plus policée dans le monde de la science. Certes, c'est un système para-légal, mais il y a tout de même un protocole, des voies de recours. L'argumentation sur la légitimité du fichier et sa maintenance sont rigoureusement étudiés pour être compatibles avec les juridictions du monde entier.

Alors que lorsqu'on lit l'article, le groupe facebook est géré de façon haineuse et grossière, sans se soucier d'y mettre les formes nécessaires.

Comme quoi, y mettre la forme peut faire une grosse différence sur le plan éthique.

Il y a peut-être une startup à créer qui gérerai un tel fichier de mauvais payeurs, pour les locataires, mais aussi tout un tas d'escrocs en tous genre, y compris les proprios abusifs.

Le dilemme éthique est intéressant. Dans le domaine scientifique, il est considéré normal de tenir à jour des listes de chercheurs ayant commis des inconduites scientifiques. Les bannissant ainsi peu ou prou des revues et de perspectives de carrière. Ceci sans possibilité de recours légal.

Où est la différence sur le plan éthique ?

The same type of program is being introduced at European universities.

In my doctoral school, this is a five hours course, presented as a MOOC. Not too sure it really is useful.

The educated public generally feels concerned about the subject, and such a generic course feels boring to its intended audience.

My go to answer is to say that I don't have a mobile phone. Actually, I have one, but it's only for personal contacts, not for institutions. When a clerk asks me for my phone number, I answer: sure, give me your phone number, I'll text you my contact.

Same for administrations and my employer: my boss has my phone numbers but not HR in my company.

The only institution that has my phone number is my bank, and i'm seriously considering using an alternate authentication method for 2FA at my bank.

If enough of us do that, it won't happen.

And unfortunately, the rebound effect nullifies iits ecological impact.

It says it has a "high res monitor". For having learned to program graphics on this machine, we had to count the pixels to be able to fit our drawings in the screen: 512x342, that's not a lot of screen real estate. The 640x480 PC screen was a luxury.

Just don't believe this is anything new. Back in time, people used to seriously believe in faeries, trolls, deamons, angels and other supernatural phenomena.

That's how you could lead people to carry holy wars and consider serfdom and slavery as natural order of things.

Back in the 80's, I remember a report from an ethnologist going to Nepal and meeting people who seriously believed that Russians had goat feet.

If anything, the internet has revealed the credulity of the general population, and provides means to fight and contain superstitions of various kinds.

I'm an optimist.

I do keep this monthly reminder that all my moves are tracked. I find it's better to be kept aware of this than to play it like an ostrich.

This said, in Europe at least, opting out of this service should force google to drop your data, and retain it only in aggregate forms that do not allow reidentifying you.