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

NPR: "Is The 'Right To Be Forgotten' The 'Biggest Threat To Free Speech On The Internet'?"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 25, 2012

Feb. 25, 2012

Is The 'Right To Be Forgotten' The 'Biggest Threat To Free Speech On The Internet'? 09:06 am February 24, 2012 by ROBERT KRULWICH This Is Yesica, the tipsy one on the right. She's a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model from Argentina. She is very nice to look at. But if you live in Argentina, you can't look at her. Put Yesica's name in Yahoo Argentina and what do you get? You get nothing. A blank. She's not there. Yesica and her lawyers have exercised a legal right now dubbed the "Right to Be Forgotten" that allows you to remove embarrassing pictures or information you put on the Web — and do it permanently, totally. Which means you can tell Yahoo or Google or Facebook, "I don't want that there anymore. I want this to be forgotten. You have the image or the email or whatever in your computers. Remove it. And if you don't, you are breaking the law." [...] Continua qui: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/02/23/147289169/is-the-right-to-be-f…

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"Open source politics: Reddit drafts “The Freedom of Internet Act”
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 25, 2012

Feb. 25, 2012

Open source politics: Reddit drafts “The Freedom of Internet Act” By Anthony De Rosa February 24, 2012 Unsatisfied with allowing Washington politicians, who seem to have shown a willful ignorance of how the Internet actually works, have taken it upon themselves to draft legislation in place of SOPA and PIPA. Using a Google Doc open for anyone to help write and edit, they’ve come up with a draft version of “The Freedom of Internet Act” <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nei0Q_-th2J0fkqZU0hyBrSKklQqoc-8eXpXEwo…> The act addresses some basic tenants they’ve set forth. Note that these proclamations are subject to change as this is a living document and only reflect the content at the time of this publication: [...] Continua qui: http://blogs.reuters.com/anthony-derosa/2012/02/25/open-source-politics-red…

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Sony Music Boss: Censored YouTube Videos Cost Us Millions
by Paolo Brini Feb. 24, 2012

Feb. 24, 2012

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Guardian: "Facebook's nudity and violence guidelines are laid bare"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 24, 2012

Feb. 24, 2012

Facebook's nudity and violence guidelines are laid bare Nipples are rude but crushed limbs are OK -- a document leak has revealed the social network's attitudes to sex and violence # Charles Arthur <http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/charlesarthur> # guardian.co.uk <http://www.guardian.co.uk>, Tuesday 21 February 2012 16.36 EST Facebook bans images of breastfeeding if nipples are exposed -- but allows "graphic images" of animals if shown "in the context of food processing or hunting as it occurs in nature". Equally, pictures of bodily fluids -- except semen -- are allowed as long as no human is included in the picture; but "deep flesh wounds" and "crushed heads, limbs" are OK ("as long as no insides are showing"), as are images of people using marijuana but not those of "drunk or unconscious" people. The strange world of Facebook's image and post approval system has been laid bare <http://gawker.com/5885836/facebook-releases-new-content-guidelines-now-allo…>by a document leaked from the outsourcing company oDesk to the Gawker website, which indicates that the sometimes arbitrary nature of picture and post approval actually has a meticulous -- if faintly gore-friendly and nipple-unfriendly -- approach. [...] Continua qui: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/21/facebook-nudity-violence-c…

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Fwd: [ NNSquad ] Judge awards iPhone user $850 in throttling case
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 24, 2012

Feb. 24, 2012

Begin forwarded message: > From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren(a)vortex.com> > Date: 24 febbraio 2012 17:34:04 GMT-05:00 > To: nnsquad(a)nnsquad.org > Subject: [ NNSquad ] Judge awards iPhone user $850 in throttling case > > > Judge awards iPhone user $850 in throttling case > > http://j.mp/zp3bLj (AP / Yahoo) > > "Pro-tem Judge Russell Nadel found in favor of Spaccarelli in Ventura > Superior Court in Simi Valley on Friday, saying it wasn't fair for the > company to purposely slow down his iPhone, when it had sold him an > "unlimited data" plan. Spaccarelli could have many imitators. AT&T > has some 17 million customers with "unlimited data" plans who can be > subject to throttling. That's nearly half of its smartphone users. > AT&T forbids them from consolidating their claims into a class action > or taking them to a jury trial. That leaves small claims actions and > arbitration." > > - - - > > --Lauren-- > NNSquad Moderator > _______________________________________________ > nnsquad mailing list > http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad >

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Il fondo di solidarietà (o previdenza) della Siae: 87 milioni di euro "segregati" nelle casse SIAE...
by deborah de angelis Feb. 24, 2012

Feb. 24, 2012

http://www.rockol.it/news-344396/Blandini-(SIAE)---Ripristinare-le-pensioni… Vi inoltro questo articolo che esplora una delle tante questioni che stanno attanagliando la società di gestione del diritto d'autore italiana in questo periodo. A breve, vi invierò anche la rettifica a mano dell'Avv.Renato Recca, il quale ha deciso di chiarire alcune imprecisioni presenti nella intervista del Direttore Generale dell'Ente, dott. Blandini. Buona lettura, Deborah -- DDA Studio Legale ------------------------------------------------ Avv. Deborah De Angelis via Pietro da Cortona 8, 00196 Roma (RM) <http://g.co/maps/emca9> Tel. +39 06 397 456 22 Fax +39 06 390 388 33 www.ddastudiolegale.it info(a)ddastudiolegale.it skype deb.dda Il presente messaggio, corredato dei relativi allegati contiene informazioni da considerarsi strettamente riservate, ed è destinato esclusivamente al destinatario sopra indicato. Chiunque ricevesse questo messaggio per errore o comunque lo leggesse senza esserne legittimato è avvertito che trattenerlo, copiarlo, divulgarlo, distribuirlo a persone diverse dal destinatario è severamente proibito e, nel caso, è pregato di rinviarlo immediatamente al mittente distruggendo l'originale. This message, together with its annexes, contains information to be deemed strictly confidential and is destined only to the addressee(s) identified above. If anyone received this message by mistake or reads it without entitlement is forewarned that keeping, copying, disseminating or distributing this message to persons other than the addressee(s) is strictly forbidden and is asked to transmit it immediately to the sender and to erase the original message received.

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Fwd: When the City Meets the Citizens Workshop , Dublin, June 4th 2012 (WCMCW) - CALL FOR PAPERS
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 24, 2012

Feb. 24, 2012

Ricevo da un ex tesista (ora a Cambridge) e volentieri inoltro. juan carlos -------- Original Message -------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- CALL FOR PAPERS ============================================================= When the City Meets the Citizens Workshop , Dublin, June 4th 2012 (WCMCW) In conjunction with the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) http://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view_project.php?id=2983 ============================================================= Social media has played a key role in providing insights into people's activities, opinions and day-to-day lives. These detailed user-generated information-streams offer a unique opportunity for cities to understand and engage their citizens. The research domain of smarter cities aims to monitor disruptive events (e.g., emergencies, Olympics), analyze social behaviour, identify citizens' sentiment and understand their interactions with services. On the other side, cities can use their understanding of the citizen to foster stronger relationships with the diverse communities in their constituencies. This understanding could be applied to mobilize people on important issues such as education, health care, political engagement and community awareness. Current social media research falls short of what the agenda behind smarter cities requires. Most of the research in social media has gone into understanding the relationship between the city and its dwellers, and researchers have done so by collecting and analyzing what dwellers post on social media sites. However, these sites could be used not only to monitor citizens but also to engage them. This workshop is interested in research that aims to progress both sides of this relationship, but particularly research that works towards closing the loop between the city and the citizens This WCMC workshop fosters discussions covering topics such as (but not limited to): * Use of social media to engage citizens, for example through gamification * Improving understanding of the city through mining social media * Disaster recovery and coordination using social media * Mobilizing the community through social media * Pervasive applications for user interaction and data collection * Enabling citizen and NGO initiatives through social media * Methodology for quality evaluation and validation of user generated content * Visualizations and interfaces to enable exploration of city data * Privacy and ethical concerns in citizen engagement SUBMISSIONS All contributions must be submitted as PDF files. The workshop accepts full papers (no longer than 6 pages) and position papers (no longer than 4 pages),and all must be submitted by the deadlines given above, and formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style (see the author instructions page). All submitted papers will be reviewed and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of presentation by the Program Committee. All accepted submissions must be presented during the workshop. Please submit papers to EasyChair WCMCW2012 ( http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcmcw2012) Follow use on Twitter @wcmcw2012 IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: March 2, 2012 Paper acceptance notifications:March 16, 2012 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge Barry Smyth, UCD, Ireland Aaron Quigley, St. Andrews University, Scotland Jill Freyne, CSIRO, Australia Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA Dominik Dahlem, IBM Research, Ireland Neal Lathia, University of Cambridge, UK Michael Batty, University College London, UK Karen Church, Telefonica Research, Barcelona, Spain Mirco Musolesi, University of Birmingham, UK Christine Outram, City Innovation Group, USA Conor Hayes, DERI, Ireland Licia Capra, University College London, UK Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Thomas Erickson, IBM Research Lisa Purvis, Spigit, USA Robin Burke, DePaul University, USA Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, Oxford Internet Institute, UK ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Elizabeth M. Daly, IBM Research, Smarter Cities Dublin Giusy Di Lorenzo, IBM Research, Smarter Cities Dublin Daniele Quercia, University of Cambridge, UK Michael Muller, IBM Research, Cambridge, USA

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New Berkman report: Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 24, 2012

Feb. 24, 2012

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [report-release-list] Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality - New Report from the Berkman Center Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:38:17 -0500 From: Amar Ashar <ashar(a)cyber.law.harvard.edu> To: report-release-and-press-list(a)eon.law.harvard.edu Dear Friends and Colleagues, The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is pleased to share a substantial new report from the Youth and Media project: "*Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2005272>*" by Urs Gasser, Sandra Cortesi, Momin Malik, & Ashley Lee. Building upon a process- and context-oriented information quality framework, this paper seeks to map and explore what we know about the ways in which young users of age 18 and under search for information online, how they evaluate information, and how their related practices of content creation, levels of new literacies, general digital media usage, and social patterns affect these activities. A review of selected literature at the intersection of digital media, youth, and information quality---primarily works from library and information science, sociology, education, and selected ethnographic studies---reveals patterns in youth's information-seeking behavior, but also highlights the importance of contextual and demographic factors both for search and evaluation. To access the full report and additional material, please visit: http://youthandmedia.org/infoquality Key Findings: 1. Search shapes the quality of information that youth experience online. 2. Youth use cues and heuristics to evaluate quality, especially visual and interactive elements. 3. Content creation and dissemination foster digital fluencies that can feed back into search and evaluation behaviors. 4. Information skills acquired through personal and social activities can benefit learning in the academic context. "Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality" lays the foundation and raises questions for further explorations in this area. The report also encourages a public policy discussion on youth, digital media, and information quality issues. We hope you will take the time to review the report, to build upon it, and to share it with interested colleagues and networks. We wish to thank all of our wonderful collaborators at the Berkman Center, our friends at the Harvard Law School Library, and the participants of a workshop on information quality for their valuable contributions and their important work in the field. The report builds upon research enabled by generous grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation. As always, we welcome your feedback. Urs Gasser, John Palfrey, Sandra Cortesi, and the Youth and Media team -- Urs Gasser, Executive Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society John Palfrey, Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law; Vice Dean, Library and Information Resources, Harvard Law School; Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society Sandra Cortesi, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society Contact us: youthandmedia(a)cyber.law.harvard.edu Website: http://www.youthandmedia.org Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/youthandmediaberkmancenter The Berkman Center for Internet & Society: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/

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La concorrenza sul cinguettio
by Emanuele Lerro Feb. 24, 2012

Feb. 24, 2012

Curioso! http://www.leggioggi.it/2012/02/24/la-concorrenza-sul-cinguettio/ Saluti, e. Inviato da iPhone

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9 arguments against ACTA, by MEP Engstrom
by Paolo Brini Feb. 24, 2012

Feb. 24, 2012

<http://owni.eu/2012/02/23/9-arguments-against-acta/> Ciao, Paolo

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