February 2012 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Op-ed sul NYT e relativa analisi by TechDirt
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 9, 2012

Feb. 9, 2012

Op-Ed Contributor What Wikipedia Won't Tell You By CARY H. SHERMAN Published: February 7, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/opinion/what-wikipedia-wont-tell-you.html THE digital tsunami that swept over the Capitol last month, forcing Congress to set aside legislation to combat the online piracy of American music, movies, books and other creative works, raised questions about how the democratic process functions in the digital age. RIAA Totally Out Of Touch: Lashes Out At Google, Wikipedia And Everyone Who Protested SOPA/PIPA from the /new-tone?/ dept Remember all that talk of how the supporters of SOPA/PIPA were "humbled" <http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120203/14444217655/paramount-wants-to-ta…> by the protests of January 18th, and how they had learned their lessons <http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120119/21092917484/why-chris-dodd-failed…> about trying to push through a bill without actually involving the stakeholders? Remember the talk of how they hoped a new tone <http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120120/16562717497/hollywood-unions-now-…> could be found in the debate? Yeah. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120208/01453517694/riaa-totally-out-touc…

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La procura di Roma vuole vederci chiaro nella faccenda del fondo Pensioni SIAE...
by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it Feb. 8, 2012

Feb. 8, 2012

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A future leading case?
by a_danni＠libero.it Feb. 8, 2012

Feb. 8, 2012

Buonasera a tutti, sono un novellino della vostra mailing list, ma vi seguo con molto interesse. (merito del prof. Ricolfi). Sono incappato in questa notizia. Secondo voi esperti, il caso ha qualche prospettiva di sviluppo? Ammetto che ne sono divertito. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/can-porn-be-copyrighted-one- file-sharing-defendant-says-no.ars Andrea

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39° Mercoledì di NEXA - 8 febbraio 2012
by Giuseppe Futia Feb. 8, 2012

Feb. 8, 2012

*39° Mercoledì di NEXA* *"Rischi e opportunità del fenomeno dei Big Data"* http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-39* * *Mercoledì 8 febbraio 2012 ore 18 - 20* (2° mercoledì del mese) Via Boggio 65/a, Torino (primo piano) Twitter: http://twitter.com/nexacenter Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nexa.center Live streaming: http://nexa.polito.it/events Con l'espressione Big Data <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data> s'intende un paradigma in cui l'aggettivo "big" si riferisce non solo alla quantità, ma anche alla varietà, eterogeneità e profondità dei dati, dalle cui complesse relazioni è possibile estrapolare leggi, modelli e comportamenti, ovvero "*pattern emergenti*". In occasione del 39° Mercoledì di NEXA <http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-39>, si confronteranno su questo tema *Leonardo Camiciotti* e *Andrea Casalegno* del Consorzio Torino Piemonte Internet Exchange (Top-IX <http://www.top-ix.org/>), che relazioneranno a proposito della loro partecipazione all'iniziativa Tech@state <http://tech.state.gov/>, organizzata dall'ufficio di eDiplomacy <http://www.state.gov/m/irm/ediplomacy/> del Dipartimento di Stato USA. Con loro, *Alessandro Mantelero*, faculty fellow del Centro NEXA su Internet & Società, che approfondirà il fenomeno dei Big Data sulla base delle implicazioni di una distribuzione asimmetrica della conoscenza, con evidenti *riflessi in termini competitivi e di controllo sociale*. Nell'attuale società dell'informazione, infatti, sta emergendo una nuova forma di potere informativo avente ad oggetto le *grandi* *aggregazioni di dati ed incentrata sui sistemi di analisi in grado di elaborarle con finalità predittive*. Si delinea dunque una disponibilità di informazioni la cui dimensione è tale da non poter essere più dominata con gli strumenti tradizionali e che risulta sovente concentrata *in mano a pochi soggetti pubblici e privati*. In questo contesto, ma anche in quelle situazioni in cui i dati siano di libero accesso, la grandezza dei database consente di trarre nuove inferenze mediante processi elaborativi che non sono alla portata di tutti. *Biografie: * *Leonardo Camiciotti* ha conseguito una laurea in Ingegneria elettronica presso l'Università degli Studi di Firenze e un Master in Business Administration presso l'Università di Torino. Attualmente è responsabile del Development Program del Consorzio Top-IX: il programma mira a facilitare la creazione di nuove imprese, fornendo supporto infrastrutturale, come ad esempio ampiezza di banda e servizi di cloud computing, per imprese che operano su Internet e si trovano ai primi stadi. In precedenza è stato /Research Scientist,/ /Strategy & Business Development Officer/ e /Business Owner/ presso Philips Corporate Research. *Andrea Casalegno* ha conseguito una laurea in Scienze dell'Amministrazione presso l'Università degli Studi di Torino e attualmente ricopre il ruolo di direttore tecnico presso il Consorzio Top-IX. Dal 1998 al 2005 è stato project manager presso il Consorzio per il Sistema Informativo piemontese (CSI-Piemonte) mentre in precedenza è stato project manager e account manager in Telecom Italia. Prima di essere direttore tecnico, Casalegno ha ricoperto presso Top-IX il ruolo di /Chief Technology Officer/. * Alessandro Mantelero* è ricercatore confermato presso il Politecnico di Torino, Facoltà di Ingegneria Gestionale e Ingegneria Industriale, dove insegna Diritto Privato. Si è laureato con lode in Giurisprudenza nel 1998 presso l'Università di Torino e ha ottenuto all'interno della stessa un dottorato di ricerca in Diritto Civile. E' autore di numerose pubblicazioni <http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero/pubblicazioni.html> tra cui: "Attività di impresa in Internet e tutela della persona" e "Il costo della privacy tra valore della persona e ragione d'impresa". I suoi studi si concentrano attualmente su protezione dei dati, responsabilità degli ISP e sulle implicazioni giuridiche del cloud computing. *Letture consigliate:* * David Bollier (2010)/, The Promise and Peril of Big Data <http://www.aspeninstitute.org/publications/promise-peril-big-data>, /"The Aspen Institute" * Danah Boyd e Kate Crawford (2011), /Six Provocations for Big Data <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1926431>/, in "A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society" * James Manyika et al.(2011), /Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity/ <http://www.mckinsey.com/Insights/MGI/Research/Technology_and_Innovation/Big…>, "McKinsey Global Institute" * /The Economics of Personal Data and Privacy: 30 Years after the OECD Privacy Guideline/s <http://www.oecd.org/document/22/0,3746,en_2649_34255_46565782_1_1_1_1,00.ht…>, OECD Conference center, 2010 *Ufficio Stampa Centro NEXA su Internet & Società:* Giuseppe Futia NEXA Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica Tel. +39 011 564 7219

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News from "Quadrature du Net".
by G.Battista Frontera Feb. 8, 2012

Feb. 8, 2012

https://www.laquadrature.net/en/will-the-new-acta-rapporteur-stand-for-citiz ens-freedoms Ciao. Gb

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Facebook Is Using You
by bernardo parrella Feb. 6, 2012

Feb. 6, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/facebook-is-using-you.html… Facebook makes money by selling ad space to companies that want to reach us. Advertisers choose key words or details --- like relationship status, location, activities, favorite books and employment --- and then Facebook runs the ads for the targeted subset of its 845 million users ..... Ads that pop up on your screen might seem useful, or at worst, a nuisance. But they are much more than that. The bits and bytes about your life can easily be used against you. Whether you can obtain a job, credit or insurance can be based on your digital doppelgänger --- and you may never know why you've been turned down. .... full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/facebook-is-using-you.html… (by Lori Andrews, author of "I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy.")

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Dalla "Quadrature du net".
by G.Battista Frontera Feb. 6, 2012

Feb. 6, 2012

https://www.laquadrature.net/en/the-eu-commissions-repressive-plans-beyond-a cta Ciao. Gb

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Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age
by Philippe Aigrain Feb. 6, 2012

Feb. 6, 2012

Apologies for multiple receptions of this message Dear friends, The book Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age that I wrote with the help of my daughter Suzanne is finally out (February 1st, 2012). This message is to ask for your help in raising awareness globally about the book and its ideas, and for your participation in debating them (see below). It is also for expressing my personal thanks to each of you: the book would not exist without the many exchanges I had with nexaites and the inspiration I drew from them. Sharing makes a case for the legitimacy and usefulness of non-market sharing between individuals of digital works. Taking stock of recent economic knowledge about the culture economy, it models and describes a financing model ("creative contribution") designed to sustain an expanding creative economy in a context where sharing is recognized as a right. Philosophical, legal, and institutional aspects are also discussed. The creative contribution (term that I used since 2008) is yet another flatrate mechanism, but as described in Sharing it has many original aspects (based on social rights, including both rewards/remuneration and financing to future works, data collection for rewards based on voluntary provision using automated recording on user machines and under their sole control, etc.) Sharing is published under a hybrid publishing model with 4 components : - the paper book, marketed globally, - commercial eBooks in the US (more later) - an open access electronic version under a CC-By-NC-ND license< - a dedicated "live book" website at http://www.sharing-thebook.net, where you can comment on the book chapters, download source code and datasets, and run interactively our models with parameters of your choice. Important links: - Book site: http://www.sharing-thebook.net - Amsterdam University Press book page: http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789089643858&l=2 - Chicago University Press (US distributor) book page: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo13742081.html - Best deal for US buyers is Barnes & Noble at $21.28: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sharing-philippe-aigrain/1106789389 Note that on-line stores still have the book as not yet published, but it's there. Best, Philippe

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EU: presentati i testi ufficiali della riforma della data protection
by MANTELERO ALESSANDRO Feb. 6, 2012

Feb. 6, 2012

testi ufficiali: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/newsroom/data-protection/news/120125_en.htm conferenza stampa: http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/player/streaming.cfm?type=ebsvod&sid=194999 -- Avv. Alessandro Mantelero, PhD Confirmed Assistant Professor http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero Department of Production Systems and Business Economics Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 10129 Torino - Italy

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Re: [nexa] intervista al Prof. Pizzetti sulla proposta della Commissione in materia di privacy
by m.bellezza＠oppic.it Feb. 6, 2012

Feb. 6, 2012

Salve a tutti, segnalo quest'interessante intervista rilasciata dal Garante privacy su Medialaws sul nuovo framework regolamentare in materia proposto dalla Commissionehttp://www.medialaws.eu/intervista-al-prof-pizzetti-presidente-dell%E2%80%99autorita-garante-per-la-protezione-dei-dati-personali-sulla-nuova-disciplina-%E2%80%9Cprivacy%E2%80%9D-proposta-dalla-commissione-2/ Da: nexa-bounces(a)server-nexa.polito.it A: nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it Cc: Data: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:24:24 +0100 Oggetto: nexa Digest, Vol 34, Issue 7 > Send nexa mailing list submissions to > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > nexa-request(a)server-nexa.polito.it > > You can reach the person managing the list at > nexa-owner(a)server-nexa.polito.it > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of nexa digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Facebook Is Using You (bernardo parrella) > 2. The Death of the Cyberfl?neur (bernardo parrella) > 3. Call for Papers for the 2012 ISHTIP workshop > (aura.bertoni(a)unibocconi.it) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:06:15 -0800 > From: bernardo parrella > Subject: [nexa] Facebook Is Using You > To: nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > Message-ID: <4F2EB707.2020002(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" > > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/facebook-is-using-you.html… > > Facebook makes money by selling ad space to companies that want to reach > us. Advertisers choose key words or details --- like relationship > status, location, activities, favorite books and employment --- and then > Facebook runs the ads for the targeted subset of its 845 million users ..... > > Ads that pop up on your screen might seem useful, or at worst, a > nuisance. But they are much more than that. The bits and bytes about > your life can easily be used against you. Whether you can obtain a job, > credit or insurance can be based on your digital doppelg?nger --- and > you may never know why you've been turned down. .... > > full article: > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/facebook-is-using-you.html… > > (by Lori Andrews, author of "I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: > Social Networks and the Death of Privacy.") >

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