January 2013 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Re: [nexa] WARNING! :-/

by Stefano Quintarelli

in una ipotetica associazione "amici del tacchino", e' utile capire se trattasi di animalisti o allevatori.. ciao, s. Il 22/01/2013 16:05, MANTELERO ALESSANDRO ha scritto: > non è una novità! L'azione di lobbying sta andando avanti da oltre un > anno da ancora prima che uscisse il draft... anche in lista se ne è più > volte parlato. > Non condiviso i toni allarmistici. La proposta rafforza e non > indebolisce la tutela dei dati, almeno nel testo attuale. > > Alessandro > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:54:13 +0100 > "G.Battista Frontera" <gb.frontera(a)virtualia.it> wrote: >> >> >> http://www.laquadrature.net/en/alert-our-privacy-about-to-be-destroyed-in-br >> >> ussels >> >> *** Paris, 22 January 2013 - The revision of the "data protection" >> privacy >> directive is in progress in the European Parliament, with a vote in the >> consumers committee (IMCO) on Wednesday. It is the object of an >> unprecedented lobbying campaign, mostly driven by US companies. If >> citizens >> don't act, banks, insurance companies and Internet service operators will >> have a free hand to collect, process, store and sell all of our personal >> data, which will enable them to know and direct all that we do online and >> offline. *** >> >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >> believed to be clean. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nexa mailing list >> nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it >> https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > > -- > Avv. Alessandro Mantelero, PhD > Professor of Private Law > Faculty Fellow, Nexa Center for Internet and Society > > <a href="http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero">Website</a> > <a > href="http://it.linkedin.com/pub/alessandro-mantelero/29/723/a48">LinkedIn</a> > <a href="https://twitter.com/mantelero">Twitter</a> > > Department of Management and Production Engineering > Politecnico di Torino > Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 > 10129 Torino - Italy > > in libertate fortitudo > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > > > ----- > Nessun virus nel messaggio. > Controllato da AVG - www.avg.com > Versione: 2013.0.2890 / Database dei virus: 2639/6041 - Data di > rilascio: 18/01/2013 > -- my calendar: http://doodle.com/quinta http://blog.quintarelli.it

Jan. 22, 2013

R: WARNING! :-/

by G.Battista Frontera

Dissento: la situazione è arrivata a livello di guardia adesso! Sarebbe il caso di mobilitarsi e coordinarsi a livello europeo, proprio con la Quadrature du Net. Ciao. Gb -----Messaggio originale----- Da: MANTELERO ALESSANDRO [mailto:alessandro.mantelero@polito.it] Inviato: martedì 22 gennaio 2013 16.06 A: G.Battista Frontera; 'NEXA List' Oggetto: Re: [nexa] WARNING! :-/ non è una novità! L'azione di lobbying sta andando avanti da oltre un anno da ancora prima che uscisse il draft... anche in lista se ne è più volte parlato. Non condiviso i toni allarmistici. La proposta rafforza e non indebolisce la tutela dei dati, almeno nel testo attuale. Alessandro On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:54:13 +0100 "G.Battista Frontera" <gb.frontera(a)virtualia.it> wrote: > > > http://www.laquadrature.net/en/alert-our-privacy-about-to-be-destroyed > -in-br > ussels > > *** Paris, 22 January 2013 - The revision of the "data protection" >privacy directive is in progress in the European Parliament, with a >vote in the consumers committee (IMCO) on Wednesday. It is the object >of an unprecedented lobbying campaign, mostly driven by US companies. >If citizens don't act, banks, insurance companies and Internet service >operators will have a free hand to collect, process, store and sell >all of our personal data, which will enable them to know and direct >all that we do online and offline. *** > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by > MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa -- Avv. Alessandro Mantelero, PhD Professor of Private Law Faculty Fellow, Nexa Center for Internet and Society <a href="http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero">Website</a> <a href="http://it.linkedin.com/pub/alessandro-mantelero/29/723/a48">LinkedIn</ a> <a href="https://twitter.com/mantelero">Twitter</a> Department of Management and Production Engineering Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 10129 Torino - Italy in libertate fortitudo -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

Jan. 22, 2013

Re: [nexa] WARNING! :-/

by MANTELERO ALESSANDRO

non è una novità! L'azione di lobbying sta andando avanti da oltre un anno da ancora prima che uscisse il draft... anche in lista se ne è più volte parlato. Non condiviso i toni allarmistici. La proposta rafforza e non indebolisce la tutela dei dati, almeno nel testo attuale. Alessandro On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:54:13 +0100 "G.Battista Frontera" <gb.frontera(a)virtualia.it> wrote: > > > http://www.laquadrature.net/en/alert-our-privacy-about-to-be-destroyed-in-br > ussels > > *** Paris, 22 January 2013 - The revision of the "data >protection" privacy > directive is in progress in the European Parliament, >with a vote in the > consumers committee (IMCO) on Wednesday. It is the >object of an > unprecedented lobbying campaign, mostly driven by US >companies. If citizens > don't act, banks, insurance companies and Internet >service operators will > have a free hand to collect, process, store and sell all >of our personal > data, which will enable them to know and direct all that >we do online and > offline. *** > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa -- Avv. Alessandro Mantelero, PhD Professor of Private Law Faculty Fellow, Nexa Center for Internet and Society <a href="http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero">Website</a> <a href="http://it.linkedin.com/pub/alessandro-mantelero/29/723/a48">LinkedIn</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/mantelero">Twitter</a> Department of Management and Production Engineering Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 10129 Torino - Italy in libertate fortitudo

Jan. 22, 2013

WARNING! :-/

by G.Battista Frontera

http://www.laquadrature.net/en/alert-our-privacy-about-to-be-destroyed-in-br ussels *** Paris, 22 January 2013 - The revision of the "data protection" privacy directive is in progress in the European Parliament, with a vote in the consumers committee (IMCO) on Wednesday. It is the object of an unprecedented lobbying campaign, mostly driven by US companies. If citizens don't act, banks, insurance companies and Internet service operators will have a free hand to collect, process, store and sell all of our personal data, which will enable them to know and direct all that we do online and offline. *** -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

Jan. 22, 2013

Re: [nexa] Campaigns against the privatization of digitized public domain material in France

by Carlo Blengino

corsairs and pirates http://www.ilpost.it/carloblengino/2013/01/21/corsari_pubblicodominio/ My two cents Inviato da iPad2 Il giorno 19/gen/2013, alle ore 10:29, Philippe Aigrain <philippe.aigrain(a)sopinspace.com> ha scritto: > Dear all, > > A small point of information on what be of interest to all of you. > > For several years, the French National Library BnF (as well as the > French National Audiovisual Institut INA) have been engaged in > negotiating public-private partnerships for digitizing part of their > collections. These agreements receive public funding through a stimulus > plan (named "grand emprunt" = "great loan" under the former government > and "investissements d'avenir" = "investments for the future" under the > new government). > > The agreements regard collections that include public domaiun material, > orphan works, out-of-publication works and commercially distribued > works, with different provisions. > > For now two years, a debate developed, first in 2011 in specialized > international circles of library digitizing policy, then through > coverage by the on-line media ActuaLitté (http://www.actualitte.com/) > and by myself, in particular on the specifics of agreements regarding > public domain material. > > On 15 January 2013, just during the wave of emotion surrounding the > death of Aaron Swartz, the Ministry of culture, the Commissariat à > l'investissement and BNF announced the signature of two agreements > regarding respectively ancient books (incunables and books until 1700) > with ProQuest and 78 and 33rpm sound recordings of patrimonial value > (only part being public domain) with Believe. These agreements create 10 > years of commercial exclusive rights for the private party, the library > being authorized to distribute on-line only 5% of the works, and to give > access to the rest when digitized only in its premises (during the 10 > years). > > Similar agreements exist in other countries, in particular in the UK, > but it should be noted that, according to information published by the > signatories, the rights of the public and libraries are tramped upon by > the French (unpublished) agreements to a significantly greater degree > than in the Google Books agreements, even though the new policy is > supposed to represent an alternative. > > I have published an analysis on 16 January > http://paigrain.debatpublic.net/?p=6333 (in French) > stressing that the agreements constitute a privatization of the public > domain, are in contradiction with the Europeana Charter (the President > of BNF also chairs Europeana) and with the recommandations of the > European Commission Comité des Sages, and of course with COMMUNIA Public > Domain Manifesto and recommandations. > > I also analyzed how the public private partnerships are likely to be > economically more costly for the government than procurement for > digitizing under the library own terms, and called to their immediate > publication, their cancellation. I stressed that there were likely to > result in French-speaking public domain material being mostly available > from societal projects (Internet Archive, Gutenberg, WikiSource, UbuWeb > and P2P file sharing) or from the US DPLA. I also stressed that it was > every citizen's right and duty to share widely the works digitized under > these agreements or by others that would enter in one's possession (by > legal means) as to prevent the privatization of the public domain. And > that if technology or legal artifacts were used to prevent entry in > possession of these files by their users, they should be legally and > politically challenged. > > Yesterday, 6 organisations published a press release also demanding > publication and cancellation of these public-private partnerships : > COMMUNIA association, Regards Citoyens, Open Knowledge Foundation > France, Framasoft, SavoirCom1 and La Quadrature du Net : > http://www.laquadrature.net/fr/non-a-la-privatisation-du-domaine-public-par… > > ActuaLitté has extendly covered these positions : > http://www.actualitte.com/usages/refuser-la-privatisation-du-domaine-public… > http://www.actualitte.com/usages/bnf-vendre-le-domaine-public-n-est-pas-le-… > > Specific calls have started to be published by librarians against the > agreements, including calls to sharing public domain digitized material, > though many express sympathy in private byr are still hesitating to > speak out publicly due to "duty of reserve" requirements for civil servants. > > International support will be appreciated. Our apologies for not having > had time to provide English translations of all our materials. Feel free > to produce translations yourselves. > > Best regards, > > Philippe Aigrain > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

Jan. 22, 2013

Personal Democracy Robots?

by Matteo G.P. Flora

Personal Democracy Robots?<https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/pnhoward/personal-democracy-robots/> Freedom to Tinker A few weeks ago I wrote a post for Slate arguing that it is time to consider developing—and maybe even using—democracy robots<http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/12/31/twitter_bots_for_democra…> on Twitter. Preprogrammed messages released on a strategic schedule could have an impact on public opinion in sensitive moments for an authoritarian regime. The EFF’s eloquent Jillian York<https://www.eff.org/about/staff/jillian-york> retorted “let’s not<http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/01/04/pro_democracy_twitter_bo…> ”. In short, I argued that the other side is using social media armies and bots in their campaigns to manipulate the opinion of their publics, diasporas overseas, and even international opinion. Since authoritarian governments are investing in such technologies, D-bots could be an important part of a systematic response from the democracies that want to promote democracy. *Most of these crafty bots generate inane commentary and try to sell stuff, but some are given political tasks. For example, pro-Chinese bots have clogged Twitter conversations about **the conflict in Tibet*<http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/03/twitter-bots-target-tibetan-protests/> *. In Mexico’s recent presidential election, the political parties played with **campaign bots on Twitter*<http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428286/twitter-mischief-plagues-mexico…> *. And even an **aspiring parliamentarian in Britain*<http://insidecroydon.com/2012/11/26/jasper-admits-to-using-twitter-bots-to-…> * turned to bots to appear popular on social media during his campaign. Furthermore, the Chinese, Iranian, Russian, and Venezuelan governments employ their own social media experts and pay small amounts of money to large numbers of people (“50 cent armies”) to generate pro-government messages, if **inefficiently*<http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/01/201211111642310699.html> *.* Freedom House’s recent Freedom on the Net report<http://www.freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/resources/FOTN%202012%20Ove…> actually identifies a longer list of countries where paid commentators and account hijacking allows regimes to spread misinformation. <http://ftt-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/2012.jpg> Of course, Ms. York is right to question how D-bots would get around the mechanisms that Twitter has for cutting down on the traffic that clogs up its networks. *How, exactly, would one (or a dozen) Twitter account(s) that tweet links to stories about democracy be effective in combating an army of Twitter accounts targeting individuals with propaganda? It would merely leave the conversation to the bots, all of which would quickly be relegated to spam by Twitter anyway: The social media platform’s algorithms are set up to detect repeated messages, while those not automatically detected can easily be reported by users. The alternative—targeting the bots to tweet at anti-American or anti-democratic accounts—is not likely to be any more effective.* And she makes the smart argument that the better strategy would be for average citizens who are proud of their democracies to take to social media. I wonder if a volunteer social media troop for having substantive interactions about democratic values with people living in authoritarian regimes would have as much impact as the paid armies of basiji militias, Russian youth nationalists or Chinese microbloggers. The impact of d-bots or authoritarian a-bots would only ever be on the small population of elite technology users. This is an important subgroup however, especially in political sensitive moments like corruption scandals or rigged elections. The magic of social media is in interactivity, so simply blasting out links to news content is only the first step in disseminating ideas about how political life can be organized. And the research suggests that the most recalcitrant supporters of regimes should not be targeted by media campaigns precisely because they are set in their ways. Reaching out to mommy bloggers, poets, and sports enthusiasts may be the best way to draw larger numbers of people into political conversations they might not have otherwise. Whether or not the State Department should be funding experiments in building d-bots may be a moot debate. One of the interesting trends we’ve seen is the surprising way in which average citizens in the West have been dedicating their own computing resources to support social movements in authoritarian countries. There are a growing number of tools to let average users build their own twitter bots<http://www.pcworld.com/article/242338/10_twitter_bot_services_to_simplify_y…>. So in the next major political crisis in Russia, China, or Iran, will people be releasing their own bots? -- Matteo G.P. Flora - The Fool srl - CEO & Founder C.so Magenta, 43 | 20123 Milano | http://thefool.it off. +39.02.00618826 | mob. +39.347.9676430 Direzione e Coordinamento Giacomini Investimenti S.p.a.

Jan. 22, 2013

Re: [nexa] Paper: "Info-nauti - Cittadini in rete" (Ceccarini e Di Pierdomenico)

by J.C. DE MARTIN

P.S. Il contenuto è ovviamente identico al precedente On 22/01/13 11:24, J.C. DE MARTIN wrote: > Cari tutti, > > gli autori mi trasmettano un nuovo PDF, che vi inoltro. > > Vi prego di usare questo (per uso personale e non commerciale), > frutto di specifiche richieste da parte dell'editore, ignorando il > precedente. > > ciao, > > juan carlos > > P.S. Un bel giorno sorgerà il sol dell'Open Access... :-) > > > On 20/01/13 22:43, J.C. DE MARTIN wrote: >> Luigi Ceccarini e Martina Di Pierdomenico >> >> Info-nauti >> >> Cittadini in rete >> >> L'articolo, con un approccio descrittivo, studia il nesso tra >> l'utilizzo della rete, come stru- mento di informazione, e il profilo >> civico e politico di questi utenti. Quanti usano internet con >> regolarita? per informarsi sono definiti info-nauti. Richiamano la >> figura del buon cittadino, sofisticato e competente. Sono esigenti e >> critici rispetto alla politica. Partecipano di piu?, anche a parita? >> di risorse sociali e culturali. Una componente importante degli >> info-nauti e? quella dei giovani. Le loro abilita? tecnologiche e una >> diversa cultura politica rispetto agli adulti abbozzano le >> trasformazioni che il ricambio generazionale portera? sul fronte >> della cittadinanza politica e della sfera pubblica. >> >> Parole chiave: nuovi media, partecipazione politica, democrazia >> elettronica, in- formazione politica, sfera pubblica. >> >> Sono libero di condividere con voi su questa lista il PDF in allegato >> grazie al consenso >> degli autori, del Prof. Mazzoleni (direttore della rivista >> "Comunicazione >> politica") e del Mulino - che ringrazio tutti. >> >> juan carlos >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

Jan. 22, 2013

Re: [nexa] Paper: "Info-nauti - Cittadini in rete" (Ceccarini e Di Pierdomenico)

by J.C. DE MARTIN

Cari tutti, gli autori mi trasmettano un nuovo PDF, che vi inoltro. Vi prego di usare questo (per uso personale e non commerciale), frutto di specifiche richieste da parte dell'editore, ignorando il precedente. ciao, juan carlos P.S. Un bel giorno sorgerà il sol dell'Open Access... :-) On 20/01/13 22:43, J.C. DE MARTIN wrote: > Luigi Ceccarini e Martina Di Pierdomenico > > Info-nauti > > Cittadini in rete > > L'articolo, con un approccio descrittivo, studia il nesso tra > l'utilizzo della rete, come stru- mento di informazione, e il profilo > civico e politico di questi utenti. Quanti usano internet con > regolarita? per informarsi sono definiti info-nauti. Richiamano la > figura del buon cittadino, sofisticato e competente. Sono esigenti e > critici rispetto alla politica. Partecipano di piu?, anche a parita? > di risorse sociali e culturali. Una componente importante degli > info-nauti e? quella dei giovani. Le loro abilita? tecnologiche e una > diversa cultura politica rispetto agli adulti abbozzano le > trasformazioni che il ricambio generazionale portera? sul fronte della > cittadinanza politica e della sfera pubblica. > > Parole chiave: nuovi media, partecipazione politica, democrazia > elettronica, in- formazione politica, sfera pubblica. > > Sono libero di condividere con voi su questa lista il PDF in allegato > grazie al consenso > degli autori, del Prof. Mazzoleni (direttore della rivista "Comunicazione > politica") e del Mulino - che ringrazio tutti. > > juan carlos > >

Jan. 22, 2013

Re: [nexa] Bruce Sterling, "THE HACKER CRACKDOWN, Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier"

by Pierpaolo Franco

Il 18 gennaio 2013 17:27, J.C. DE MARTIN <demartin(a)polito.it> ha scritto: > Sulla scia delle discussioni post-morte Aaron Swartz, > segnalo quanto nella mia ignoranza ho appena scoperto, > ovvero, che il notissimo libro del neo-garante Nexa Bruce Sterling, > "THE HACKER CRACKDOWN: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier", > è anche disponibile online per usi non commerciali [1]: > > http://www.gutenberg.org/files/101/101-h/101-h.htm > Evviva! La traduzione italiana è esaurita da un pezzo: una gran fortuna averlo trovato in una bancarella al mare > Ciao, > > juan carlos > > [1] per approfondimenti leggete la > "Preface to the Electronic Release of The Hacker Crackdown", > http://www.gutenberg.org/files/101/101-h/101-h.htm#preface > > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa >

Jan. 22, 2013

Berkman Center Webcast live oggi ore 18.30 - Redefining the Quote: Using the Social Web to Gauge Grassroots Sentiment in China

by Giuseppe Futia

Redefining the Quote: Using the Social Web to Gauge Grassroots Sentiment in China http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2013/01/wertime <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2013/01/wertime> *David Wertime, Tea Leaf Nation* Today, 6.30 pm Webcast live: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast http://nexa.polito.it/berkman-webcast-live In what ways is the Chinese Internet a better source for grassroots Chinese sentiment than traditional quotes and sources? In what ways is it worse? More broadly, what best practices can and should journalists use when mining social media for sentiment? About David David Wertime is the co-founder and co-editor of Tea Leaf Nation <http://tealeafnation.com/>, an English-language online magazine that synthesizes and analyzes Chinese social media. Tea Leaf Nation is a partner site with The Atlantic <http://theatlantic.com/> and has dozens of volunteer contributors. Before founding Tea Leaf Nation, David graduated from Harvard Law School and practiced law in New York and Hong Kong. He first encountered China as a Peace Corps Volunteer, serving in Fuling, China from 2001 to 2003.

Jan. 22, 2013