January 2015 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Re: [nexa] Access: "Leaked: European Parliament long awaited legal study on data retention"

by Marco Ciurcina

Molto interessante. "the report then adds “That said, the ‘presumption’ of legality of EU acts can also be rebutted and so it cannot be excluded, at this stage, that any other EU act could suffer the same fate as the data retention Directive”. Therefore, all existing agreements currently in place remains valid, however, citizens can request the Commission to look into the validity of these agreements, or they can choose to take legal action to test their validity". m.c. In data giovedì 8 gennaio 2015 09:41:00, J.C. DE MARTIN ha scritto: > Leaked: European Parliament long awaited legal study on data retention > > > 5:27pm | 7 January 2015 | by *Estelle Masse* > <https://www.accessnow.org/blog/author/61/Estelle%20Masse>, > > Tomorrow morning, the European Parliament legal services will release > its long-awaited study on the Court of Justice of the EU’s ruling on the > Data Retention Directive > <https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2014/04/11/a-closer-look-at-eu-courts-ruling > -and-what-it-means-for-the-future-of-data->. Access obtained a copy of the > document > <https://www.accessnow.org/page/-/eu_data_retention.pdf>, which > concludes that the EU’s powers to legislate on data retention matters > are now limited. > > Last April, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) invalidated the EU > Data Retention Directive > <https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2014/04/11/a-closer-look-at-eu-courts-ruling > -and-what-it-means-for-the-future-of-data-> due to several violations of > human rights, in particular the fundamental rights to privacy and data > protection. Adopted in 2006, the Data > Retention Directive required all telecommunications data – including > mobile, landline phones, fax, and email – to be indiscriminately > collected and retained by providers for a minimum of six months and up > to two years. The CJEU’s landmark decision was broadly welcomed by civil > society groups and activists from all around the world. > > Following last year’s ruling, the Civil Liberties Committee of the > European Parliament (LIBE) requested an opinion from Legal Services to > determine its impact on national laws establishing data retention and > other existing international agreements that include data retention > schemes suchPassenger Name Records agreements > <https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2014/11/26/wishing-bon-voyage-to-pnr-agreeme > nts-in-europe> (PNR) and the Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP). > > […] > > Continua qui: > https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2015/01/07/leaked-european-parliament-long-aw > aited-legal-study-on-data-retention

Jan. 11, 2015

New Clues: "Hear, O Internet." (ovvero, le 121 tesi di David Weinberger e Doc Searls)

by J.C. DE MARTIN

*Hear, O Internet. * It has been sixteen years since our previous communication <http://www.cluetrain.com>. In that time the People of the Internet — you and me and all our friends of friends of friends, unto the last Kevin Bacon — have made the Internet an awesome place, filled with wonders and portents. From the serious <http://en.wikipedia.org/> to the lolworthy <http://lolcatbible.com> to the wtf <http://www.truthforhumanity.com/>, we have up-ended titans, created heroes, and changed the most basic assumptions about How Things Work and Who We Are. But now all the good work we've done together faces mortal dangers. When we first came before you, it was to warn of the threat posed by those who did not understand that they did not understand the Internet. These are The Fools, the businesses that have merely adopted the trappings of the Internet. Now two more hordes threaten all that we have built for one another. The Marauders understand the Internet all too well. They view it as theirs to plunder, extracting our data and money from it, thinking that we are the fools. But most dangerous of all is the third horde: Us. A horde is an undifferentiated mass of people. But the glory of the Internet is that it lets us connect as diverse and distinct individuals. We all like mass entertainment. Heck, TV's gotten pretty great these days, and the Net lets us watch it when we want. Terrific. But we need to remember that delivering mass media is the least of the Net's powers. The Net's super-power is connection without permission. Its almighty power is that we can make of it whatever we want. It is therefore not time to lean back and consume the oh-so-tasty junk food created by Fools and Marauders as if our work were done. It is time to breathe in the fire of the Net and transform every institution that would play us for a patsy. An organ-by-organ body snatch <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers> of the Internet is already well underway. Make no mistake: with a stroke of a pen, a covert handshake, or by allowing memes to drown out the cries of the afflicted we can lose the Internet we love. We come to you from the years of the Web's beginning. We have grown old together on the Internet. Time is short. We, the People of the Internet, need to remember the glory of its revelation so that we reclaim it now in the name of what it truly is. David Weinberger Doc Searls January 8, 2015 Continua qui: http://cluetrain.com/newclues/

Jan. 9, 2015

Ars: "Google handled 345 million copyright takedowns in 2014"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

*Google handled 345 million copyright takedowns in 2014* /It's a 75% year-over-year jump, and exponentially more than a few years ago./ by Joe Mullin - Jan 6 2015, 10:05pm CET Piracy news site TorrentFreak reports that Google removed 75 percent more URLs in 2014 than it did the previous year. Google doesn't tally up annual totals, but it does release weekly reports on DMCA notices, and TorrentFreak took it upon itself to add up the weekly reports. Most of the takedown requests are honored. Google has a longstanding tradition of supplying DMCA takedown notices to Chilling Effects, a website that archives such requests. […] Continua qui: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/google-handled-345-million-copyr…

Jan. 9, 2015

Linux Voice available under CC

by J.C. DE MARTIN

http://www.linuxvoice.com/download-linux-voice-issue-2/ Download Linux Voice issue 2 Andrew Gregory <http://www.linuxvoice.com/author/andrew/> | January 9, 2015 | Featured story <http://www.linuxvoice.com/category/featured-story/> | No Comments <http://www.linuxvoice.com/download-linux-voice-issue-2/#comments> It’s that time again! We’ve already made issue 1 freely available <http://www.linuxvoice.com/download-linux-voice-issue-1-with-audio/>, and now we’re releasing issue 2 of Linux Voice under the Creative Commons BY-SA <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/> license. So you can modify and share all content from the magazine (apart from adverts), even for commercial purposes, providing you credit Linux Voice as the original source, and retain the same license. *Highlights in this issue: how Munich switched to Linux, make your own Raspberry Pi-powered arcade machine, write your first kernel module, and understand how software containers such as Docker work. Plus many more tutorials, features and interviews — 116 pages in total!* Click the image below to get the complete magazine PDF, or scroll on for individual articles. And if you like what you see, click here to subscribe <http://shop.linuxvoice.com> from just £38 and get future issues straight to your door or inbox!

Jan. 9, 2015

COMMISSIONE INTERNET, AUDIZIONI SORO, PITRUZZELLA, CARDANI – LUNEDI 10,30 DIRETTA WEBTV

by J.C. DE MARTIN

*/Camera dei Deputati/* */Ufficio stampa/* *//**//* */Comunicato/* */9 gennaio 2015/* *COMMISSIONE INTERNET, AUDIZIONI SORO, PITRUZZELLA, CARDANI – LUNEDI 10,30 DIRETTA WEBTV* ** ** ** La Commissione per i Diritti e i Doveri relativi ad Internet <http://www.camera.it/leg17/1179>è convocata per lunedì 12 gennaio, alle ore 10.30, presso l’Aula della Commissione Difesa, per procedere all'audizione del Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, Antonello Soro, dell'Autorità garante della concorrenza e del mercato, Giovanni Pitruzzella, e dell’Autorità garante per le comunicazioni, Angelo Marcello Cardani. L’appuntamento sarà trasmesso in diretta sulla webtv della Camera.

Jan. 9, 2015

Fwd: Fully funded PhD research grants at the European University Institute

by J.C. DE MARTIN

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Jan. 9, 2015

Re: [nexa] Quando l'advertising business e la surveillance si incontrano

by Marco Ciurcina

In data giovedì 8 gennaio 2015 23:29:11, Fabio Pietrosanti - lists ha scritto: > Meritevole di un cross-posting. anche la Russia viola i diritti umani! resta qualche paese che si preoccupa ancora di rispettarli? :-( m.c. > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Meet the iMarker, Russian targeted ad service which analyze > your traffic on ISP side > Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 20:45:13 +0000 > From: Anton Nesterov <komachi(a)openmailbox.org> > To: cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org > > > > How it works? > > ISPs install the iMarker equipment and mirror all user's traffic on it > (Russian surveillance system, SORM, works the same way). Software takes > time, URL and HTTP Headers from HTTP requests. Then scraper with IP > 92.242.35.54 and User-Agent WebIndex follow every visited URL and > analyze its content. All this information used to build a profile for > user. They says that information is removed right after analysis, and > software saves only result of that analysis. Their website lists that > they categorize users by search queries, online shopping activity, time > of visits, activity on social networks, keywords on visited pages, > visited websites, social-demographic info, such as sex, age, marital > status, and education level, and then they use that data to distribute > users for consumers groups. Every user has some kind of pseudonymous ID > with linked profile. > > It's also has an opt-out option http://www.imrk.net/status > > > How many users affected? > > They says it's 38 million people all over Russia. Minister of > Communication Nikolay Nikiforov said in 2014 there was 62 million people > in Russia using Internet, 56m of them do it every day, so it's 61% of > Russian Internet users. iMarker's website list Akado, Rostelecom, > ER-Telecom, NetByNet, Qwerty, and TTK as ISPs that installed iMarker's > equipment. > > > How to check if this affects you? > > If you are a client of Russian ISP, you can check it here > http://imarker.valdikss.org.ru If you own a webserver, grep the logs for > connections from 92.242.35.54. > > > How do check script works? > > It generate a random link and wait for 3 seconds for connection from > iMarker's IP address. > > > How long iMarker works? > > Company start work on January 2010, commercial sells started on August 2011. > > > > http://imarker.valdikss.org.ru/ — script that checks if your ISP use iMarker > http://www.vedomosti.ru/tech/news/15669231/bolshoj-reklamnyj-brat — report > on iMarker from 2013, says they are ready to provide free DPI to ISPs in > exchange of user's data (Russian) > http://sporaw.livejournal.com/347832.html — blog post quoting private > mails from iMarker's crew (Russian) > http://www.imrk.net/privacy — TOS (Russian) > http://habrahabr.ru/post/247465/ — blog post about iMarker (Russian) > http://www.imarker.ru/ — iMarker website (Russian) > http://www.imrk.net/status — opt-out page (Russian) > http://minsvyaz.ru/ru/news/index.php?id_4=44571 — Nikiforov's statement > on number of Russian Internet users (Russian)

Jan. 8, 2015

Quando l'advertising business e la surveillance si incontrano

by Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists

Meritevole di un cross-posting. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Meet the iMarker, Russian targeted ad service which analyze your traffic on ISP side Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 20:45:13 +0000 From: Anton Nesterov <komachi(a)openmailbox.org> To: cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org How it works? ISPs install the iMarker equipment and mirror all user's traffic on it (Russian surveillance system, SORM, works the same way). Software takes time, URL and HTTP Headers from HTTP requests. Then scraper with IP 92.242.35.54 and User-Agent WebIndex follow every visited URL and analyze its content. All this information used to build a profile for user. They says that information is removed right after analysis, and software saves only result of that analysis. Their website lists that they categorize users by search queries, online shopping activity, time of visits, activity on social networks, keywords on visited pages, visited websites, social-demographic info, such as sex, age, marital status, and education level, and then they use that data to distribute users for consumers groups. Every user has some kind of pseudonymous ID with linked profile. It's also has an opt-out option http://www.imrk.net/status How many users affected? They says it's 38 million people all over Russia. Minister of Communication Nikolay Nikiforov said in 2014 there was 62 million people in Russia using Internet, 56m of them do it every day, so it's 61% of Russian Internet users. iMarker's website list Akado, Rostelecom, ER-Telecom, NetByNet, Qwerty, and TTK as ISPs that installed iMarker's equipment. How to check if this affects you? If you are a client of Russian ISP, you can check it here http://imarker.valdikss.org.ru If you own a webserver, grep the logs for connections from 92.242.35.54. How do check script works? It generate a random link and wait for 3 seconds for connection from iMarker's IP address. How long iMarker works? Company start work on January 2010, commercial sells started on August 2011. http://imarker.valdikss.org.ru/ — script that checks if your ISP use iMarker http://www.vedomosti.ru/tech/news/15669231/bolshoj-reklamnyj-brat — report on iMarker from 2013, says they are ready to provide free DPI to ISPs in exchange of user's data (Russian) http://sporaw.livejournal.com/347832.html — blog post quoting private mails from iMarker's crew (Russian) http://www.imrk.net/privacy — TOS (Russian) http://habrahabr.ru/post/247465/ — blog post about iMarker (Russian) http://www.imarker.ru/ — iMarker website (Russian) http://www.imrk.net/status — opt-out page (Russian) http://minsvyaz.ru/ru/news/index.php?id_4=44571 — Nikiforov's statement on number of Russian Internet users (Russian) -- https://nesterov.pw GPG key: 0CE8 65F1 9043 2B11 25A5 74A7 1187 6869 67AA 56E4 https://keybase.io/komachi/key.asc

Jan. 8, 2015

aspetti da considerare se si parla di abolizione della SIAE

by Simone Aliprandi

La tentazione di gridare "Aboliamo la SIAE!" è forte di questi tempi; ma se vogliamo parlare di un superamento dell'attuale modello di gestione collettiva in Italia è importante tener presenti alcuni aspetti delicati. Li ho messi in luce nel mio intervento nell'utile dibattito pubblico che è stato lanciato nelle scorse settimane dal sito Conversomag.com. Vi invito a commentare e a partecipare al dibattito. A questo link trovate tutte le informazioni: http://aliprandi.blogspot.it/2015/01/abolire-siae-considerare.html Grazie, un cordiale saluto. -- Simone Aliprandi - http://www.aliprandi.org | http://www.array.eu

Jan. 8, 2015

se non paghi ti metto alla gogna: la vicenda si Oristano

by Simone Aliprandi

Oggi è uscito un mio commento, con intervista a G.B. Gallus (Fellow di Nexa) sulla vicenda del Comune di Oristano, cioè quella della pubblicazione di una lista di privati cittadini che non hanno pagato "multe" inflitte dalla Polizia Locale. Un altro caso di difficile equilibrio tra trasparenza e privacy. Ecco il link: http://aliprandi.blogspot.it/2015/01/non-paghi-sputtano-oristano.html Un cordiale saluto. -- Simone Aliprandi - http://www.aliprandi.org | http://www.array.eu

Jan. 8, 2015