Google supports researchers to buy a pipe - Le Figaro

The Internet giant has strengthened its partnership with the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) and fund a dozen researchers. But the company is at stake in Europe for its practices in the protection of personal data.

Google has released the big game On Monday, Vinton Cerf, vice president of Google known to be one of the fathers of the Internet, came in person to meet Cosnard Michel, CEO of the National Research Institute in Computer Science (INRIA), to strengthen their partnership. Google and Inria cooperate for four years.

Through this cooperation, “the work of a dozen researchers can be funded,” said Michel Benard, head of Google’s relations with universities in Europe. This partnership is funded by Google through direct donations or funding for their doctoral students. The originality of the cooperation is to “promote basic research complex, for the long term with a high risk taking. We encourage the publication of scientific results and the availability of open source software mode (free to copy and law), “said Michel Benard. Everyone wins. Francis Bach, researcher Sierra common project with CNRS and INRIA, dedicated to handle large databases, with specific alliance with Google, it can access databases of phenomenal size and that ‘Conversely, access Google “to search results before the publication of scientific work, because the academic time and the time of the industry are different.”

a little smiling face of Google. That of a group that promotes the development of knowledge and information sharing. “Of course at Stanford University are now followed by 160,000 people worldwide, against 500 before,” said Vinton Cerf, also chief evangelist of the Internet to Google. But on the dark side of the group, respect for the privacy of Internet users, Google has remained very discreet. “Google has launched a tender INRIA replied. The results are not yet known, “says Michel Benard, who does not comment formally notified Google in Europe. However, the information entrusted by users, service users of the Internet giant, pose challenges to the group of Cnils in Europe, since the entry into force of a new privacy policy on March 1, 2012. Spain is considering financial penalties. France and Google still has to respond within three months.

Google wants to communicate “Prism”

also about spying on users of Internet services program at the request of the U.S. government, through the “Prism” program of the National Security Agency, Vinton Cerf, recalls the statements of the U.S. group. “We are cooperating with the U.S. government and with other countries on issues of national security. We have asked the government of the United States authorized to disclose the nature of the information we have requested. The current number of applications is relatively small. The information we collect to provide targeted ads are collected for our use only. We do not share with anyone, except in legal claims. But respond to a government that believes that his job is to protect citizens? For my part, I would be protected. “