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Onlinecensorship.org
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 19, 2015

Nov. 19, 2015

Onlinecensorship.org seeks to encourage social media companies to operate with greater transparency and accountability toward their users as they make decisions that regulate speech. We’re collecting reports from users in an effort to shine a light on what content is taken down, why companies make certain decisions about content, and how content takedowns are affecting communities of users around the world. WHO WE ARE Onlinecensorship.org is a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Visualizing Impact. It was founded in 2012 by Ramzi Jaber and Jillian C. York, both of whom had begun to notice posts disappearing from their friends’ Facebook pages. One particular story inspired them to action: popular band Coldplay posted a link to OneWorld’s song “Freedom for Palestine”, a multi-artist collaboration, generating nearly 7,000 largely supportive comments. Then, suddenly, the link disappeared, leading to accusations that the band had taken it down due to criticism. As it turned out, it wasn’t Coldplay that removed the link , but Facebook, after it was reported as “abusive” by scores of users. The lack of recourse for such takedowns led to the creation of Onlinecensorship.org, a platform where users of social media sites can report content takedowns. In 2014, we won the Knight News Challenge on the topic of strengthening the Internet for free expression and innovation and were finally able to move the project forward.

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NYT Room for Debate: "Can Predictive Policing Be Ethical and Effective?"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 19, 2015

Nov. 19, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/11/18/can-predictive-policing-be-…

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Calcio, Diritti TV: Tribunale di Milano vieta accesso a RojaDirecta
by Matteo G.P. Flora Nov. 18, 2015

Nov. 18, 2015

Il Tribunale di Milano ha ordinato a un importante fornitore italiano di connessione internet di inibire a tutti i suoi clienti l'accesso al famoso sito 'pirata' Rojadirecta, che trasmette partite di calcio in streaming violando il copyright dei match di Serie A e Champions League. E' quanto fa sapere in una nota Mediaset che evidenzia di aver "ottenuto oggi un importante provvedimento" in tema "di pirateria informatica sui contenuti editoriali protetti da copyright". La Sezione specializzata impresa del Tribunale milanese, chiarisce la società, "ha infatti ordinato a un importante fornitore italiano di connessione internet di inibire a tutti i propri clienti l'accesso al dominio it.rojadirecta.eu, uno dei principali siti che viola sistematicamente il copyright delle gare di Serie A e Champions League". Allo stesso tempo, i giudici hanno anche "vincolato l'azienda di tlc all'immediata rimozione di tutti i siti con nome 'rojadirecta', indipendentemente dal paese in cui sono registrati", fissando "una penale di 30.000 euro per ogni giorno di ritardo nell'attuazione del provvedimento". La decisione del Tribunale di Milano, la prima di questo genere, secondo Mediaset, "riveste una particolare rilevanza giurisprudenziale in tema di lotta alla pirateria". La società, tra l'altro, "aveva già ottenuto dal Tribunale di Roma uno stop diretto al gestore del portale Rojadirecta e due ordini di sequestro del medesimo sito da parte della Procura della Repubblica di Milano". E questo nuovo provvedimento "darà un impulso determinante ai fornitori di connettività nell'inasprire tutte le iniziative idonee a contrastare la pirateria sui contenuti a tutela di tutte le imprese editoriali italiane" http://sport.repubblica.it/news/sport/calcio-diritti-tv-tribunale-vieta-acc… -- Un saluto. M PS. Questa mail è scritta dalla tastiera di un iPhone. Perdonate gli eventuali (probabili) refusi... -- Matteo G.P. Flora - The Fool srl - CEO & Founder Via Merano, 16 | 20127 Milano | http://thefool.it off. +39.02-00613665 | mob. +39.347.9676430 The Fool is part of Samadhi Holding - http://samadhi.io

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Creative Commons Toolkit for Business - Creative Commons
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 18, 2015

Nov. 18, 2015

https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/46433 (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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China nearly triples number of supercomputers, report says - BBC News
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 18, 2015

Nov. 18, 2015

Chissà come mai. JC http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34840805 (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Report "Surveillance by intelligence services: fundamental rights safeguards and remedies"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 18, 2015

Nov. 18, 2015

This report, drafted in response to the European Parliament’s call for thorough research on fundamental rights protection in the context of surveillance, maps and analyses the legal frameworks on surveillance in place in EU Member States. http://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2015/surveillance-intelligence-services (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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App Permissions: An Analysis of Android Phones | Pew Research Center
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 18, 2015

Nov. 18, 2015

http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/11/10/an-analysis-of-android-app-permission… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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NYT Ed: "Mass Surveillance Isn’t the Answer to Fighting Terrorism"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 18, 2015

Nov. 18, 2015

*Mass Surveillance Isn’t the Answer to Fighting Terrorism* By THE EDITORIAL BOARD NOV. 17, 2015 It’s a wretched yet predictable ritual after each new terrorist attack: Certain politicians and government officials waste no time exploiting the tragedy for their own ends. The remarks on Monday by John Brennan, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, took that to a new and disgraceful low. Speaking less than three days after coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris killed 129 and injured hundreds more, Mr. Brennan complained about “a lot of hand-wringing over the government’s role in the effort to try to uncover these terrorists.” What he calls “hand-wringing” was the sustained national outrage following the 2013 revelations by Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor, that the agency was using provisions of the Patriot Act to secretly collect information on millions of Americans’ phone records. In June, President Obama signed the USA Freedom Act, which ends bulk collection of domestic phone data by the government (but not the collection of other data, like emails and the content of Americans’ international phone calls) and requires the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to make its most significant rulings available to the public. […] Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/opinion/mass-surveillance-isnt-the-answer…

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TechCrunch: "Encryption Is Being Scapegoated To Mask The Failures Of Mass Surveillance"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 17, 2015

Nov. 17, 2015

*Encryption Is Being Scapegoated To Mask The Failures Of Mass Surveillance* Natasha Lomas (@riptari) Well that took no time at all. Intelligence agencies rolled right into the horror and fury in the immediate wake of the latest co-ordinated terror attacks in the French capital on Friday <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34818994>, to launch their latest co-ordinated assault on strong encryption — and on the tech companies creating secure comms services — seeking to scapegoat end-to-end encryption as the enabling layer for extremists to perpetrate mass murder. There’s no doubt they were waiting for just such an ‘opportune moment’ to redouble their attacks on encryption after recent attempts to lobby for encryption-perforating legislation foundered <https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/tech-trade-agencies-…>. (A strategy confirmed by a leaked email sent by the intelligence community’s top lawyer, Robert S. Litt, this August — and subsequently obtained by the Washington Post <https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/tech-trade-agencies-…> — in which he anticipated that a “very hostile legislative environment… could turn in the event of a terrorist attack or criminal event where strong encryption can be shown to have hindered law enforcement”. Et voila Paris… ) Speaking to CBS New at the weekend in the immediate aftermath of the Paris attacks, former CIA deputy director Michael Morell said: “I think this is going to open an entire new debate about security versus privacy.” […] Continua qui: http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/17/the-blame-game/

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Torino, domani al Campus lectio magistralis di Mariana Mazzucato
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 17, 2015

Nov. 17, 2015

*Torino - Domani mercoledì, 18 novembre* 2015, *alle 18:00*, *presso l'Aula Magna del Campus Luigi Einaudi *(Lungo Dora Siena 100/A), *l’economista Mariana Mazzucato* *terrà la Luigi Einaudi Lecture 2015 *dal titolo "Lo Stato innovatore: Keynes e Schumpeter, una convivenza possibile?", organizzata dal Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica ‘Cognetti de Martiis’ dell’Università di Torino in collaborazione con la Fondazione Luigi Einaudi. *Introduce Federico Revelli*, Direttore del Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica Cognetti de Martiis. *Mariana Mazzucato* è docente di Economia dell’innovazione alla Science Policy Research Unit dell’Università del Sussex. Ha svolto incarichi accademici presso l’Università di Denver, London Business School, Open University e Università Bocconi. Il suo recente libro, *Lo Stato innovatore*, rovescia l’immagine di uno Stato letargico, regolatore contro un settore privato dinamico e dimostra - attraverso l’utilizzo di esempi storici - come alcuni degli investimenti ad alto rischio che hanno portato a rivoluzioni nei campi dell’informatica, della biotecnologia, della nanotecnologia, siano stati promossi da istituzioni pubbliche. Svolge attività di consulenza per policy makers di varie parti del mondo su come ottenere una crescita economica che sia “smart” – trainata dall’innovazione – e più inclusiva; nel 2014 è stata vincitrice del New Statesman SPERI Prize in Economia politica. La sua ricerca analizza la relazione tra mercati finanziari, innovazione e crescita economica – a livello di impresa, industriale e nazionale; i suoi progetti attuali riguardano la crescita alimentata dall’innovazione, sostenibile, inclusiva e i sistemi finanziari globali distribuiti per la società. Per confermare la propria partecipazione: lecture-einaudi2015. <http://lecture-einaudi2015.eventbrite.it/>eventbrite.it <http://lecture-einaudi2015.eventbrite.it/>

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