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Lemov: "On Not Being There: The Data-Driven Body at Work and at Play"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 16, 2015

Aug. 16, 2015

Una lettura più lunga e un po' meno prevedibile del solito: insomma, una lettura buona per agosto :) juan carlos /The Hedgehog Review/: Vol. 17 No. 2 (Summer 2015) On Not Being There: The Data-Driven Body at Work and at Play Rebecca Lemov The protagonist of William Gibson’s 2014 science-fiction novel /The Peripheral/, Flynne Fisher, works remotely in a way that lends a new and fuller sense to that phrase. The novel features a double future: One set of characters inhabits the near future, ten to fifteen years from the present, while another lives seventy years on, after a breakdown of the climate and multiple other systems that has apocalyptically altered human and technological conditions around the world. In that “further future,”1 <http://iasc-culture.org/THR/THR_article_2015_Summer_Lemov.php#endnotes> only 20 percent of the Earth’s human population has survived. Each of these fortunate few is well off and able to live a life transformed by healing nanobots, somaticized e-mail (which delivers messages and calls to the roof of the user’s mouth), quantum computing, and clean energy. For their amusement and profit, certain “hobbyists” in this future have the Borgesian option of cultivating an alternative path in history—it’s called “opening up a stub”—and mining it for information as well as labor. Flynne, the remote worker, lives on one of those paths. A young woman from the American Southeast, possibly Appalachia or the Ozarks, she favors cutoff jeans and resides in a trailer, eking out a living as a for-hire sub playing video games for wealthy aficionados. Recruited by a mysterious entity that is beta-testing drones that are doing “security” in a murky skyscraper in an unnamed city, she thinks at first that she has been taken on to play a kind of video game in simulated reality. As it turns out, she has been employed to work in the future as an “information flow”—low-wage work, though the pay translates to a very high level of remuneration in the place and time in which she lives. What is of particular interest is the fate of Flynne’s body. Before she goes to work she must tend to its basic needs (nutrition and elimination), because during her shift it will effectively be “vacant.” Lying on a bed with a special data-transmitting helmet attached to her head, she will be elsewhere, inhabiting an ambulatory robot carapace—a “peripheral”—built out of bio-flesh that can receive her consciousness. […] Continua qui: http://iasc-culture.org/THR/THR_article_2015_Summer_Lemov.php

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NYT: "AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 16, 2015

Aug. 16, 2015

*AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale* By Julia Angwin, Charlie Savage, Jeff Larson, Henrik Moltke, Laura Poitras and James Risen AUG. 15, 2015 The National Security Agency’s ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: the telecom giant AT&T. While it has been long known that American telecommunications companies worked closely with the spy agency, newly disclosed N.S.A. documents show that the relationship with AT&T has been considered unique and especially productive. One document described it as “highly collaborative,” while another lauded the company’s “extreme willingness to help.” AT&T’s cooperation has involved a broad range of classified activities, according to the documents, which date from 2003 to 2013. AT&T has given the N.S.A. access, through several methods covered under different legal rules, to billions of emails as they have flowed across its domestic networks. It provided technical assistance in carrying out a secret court order permitting the wiretapping of all Internet communications at the United Nations headquarters, a customer of AT&T. […] Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/us/politics/att-helped-nsa-spy-on-an-arra…

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anagrafe dell'edilizia scolastica on line
by Mauro Alovisio Aug. 15, 2015

Aug. 15, 2015

Gent.me segnalo finalmente la pubblicazione on line dei dati dell'anagrafe dell'edilizia scolastica http://www.governo.it/Notizie/Ministeri/dettaglio.asp?d=79112 p.s. 19 anni di attesa... ma un primo traguardo nel nome della trasparenza Buon ferragosto e saluti da Torino

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When Forgetting Isn’t Best | Berkman Center
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 13, 2015

Aug. 13, 2015

https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/99083 (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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NYTimes: Algorithms and Bias: Q. and A. With Cynthia Dwork
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 10, 2015

Aug. 10, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/upshot/algorithms-and-bias-q-and-a-with-c… Preventing discriminatory algorithms is an issue being taken up by computer scientists as well as policy makers, ethicists and legal experts. (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Time to fix patents | The Economist
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 7, 2015

Aug. 7, 2015

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21660522-ideas-fuel-economy-todays-pa… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Recommendations on Terms of Service and Human Rights on the IGF Website
by Luca Belli Aug. 7, 2015

Aug. 7, 2015

FYI FYI Dear all, (apologies for cross posting) As some of you may already know, over the past year the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility (DCPR) has promoted a participatory process aimed at the elaboration of some Recommendations on Terms of Service and Human Rights. The consolidated draft of the Recommendations is now available on the IGF website for comments. You are all invited to comment on the draft by the end of August. http://review.intgovforum.org/igf-2015/dynamic-coalitions/dynamic-coalition… The Recommendations aim at providing indications on how to safeguard human rights within online platforms’ terms of service. The draft has been elaborated via an open process, as decided during the DCPR foundation meeting. All information regarding the process is available on the website of the DCPR and will remain public. Thanks to all DCPR members (as well as all non-members) who participated in the process. Please do not hesitate to share this email. All the best, Luca ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Luca Belli, PhDResearcher, Center for Technology & Society, FGV Rio de JaneiroFounder and Co-chair, IGF Dynamic Coalition on Network NeutralityCo-founder and Co-chair, IGF Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: governance(a)lists.igcaucus.org To be removed from the list, visit: http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing For all other list information and functions, see: http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see: http://www.igcaucus.org/ Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t

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Net Neutrality Policy Statement on the IGF Website
by Luca Belli Aug. 7, 2015

Aug. 7, 2015

FYI Dear all, (apologies for cross posting) Please note that the consolidated draft of the Net Neutrality Policy Statement has been published on the IGF website. You are all invited to comment on the draft by the end of August. http://review.intgovforum.org/igf-2015/dynamic-coalitions/dynamic-coalition… The draft aims at providing policy indications that any stakeholder may use in order to safeguard net neutrality. The draft has been elaborated via an open process initiated by members of the Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality as well as of the Global Coalition on Net Neutrality (see below: Request for Comments). The elaboration process encompassed 4 consultation-periods organised between May and July 2015. All information regarding the elaboration process is available on the DCNN website and will remain public. Thanks to all those who participated to the process and, please, do not hesitate to share this email. Best regards, Luca ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Luca Belli, PhDResearcher, Center for Technology & Society, FGV Rio de JaneiroFounder and Co-chair, IGF Dynamic Coalition on Network NeutralityCo-founder and Co-chair, IGF Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Request for Comments Network Neutrality Policy Statement This is a Request for Comments with regard to the development of one or more Policy Statement(s) on Net Neutrality promoted by members of the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality (DCNN) and the Global Coalition on Net Neutrality (GNN), to be discussed within the IGF community at-large. SUBJECT The development of the DRAFT Net Neutrality Policy Statement(s) aims at promoting the endorsement of an agreed position on net neutrality by the IGF community, based on the Model Framework on Network Neutrality developed by the DCNN. The development of the Policy Statement(s) is consistent with the Final Chair's Summary of the IGF 2014, according to which "The ninth IGF concluded with looking at the role of the IGF in taking the network neutrality discussion forward. [...] The Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality will continue the discussions leading up to the 2015 meeting, but the view was also held that there was a need to develop a process that allowed the entire IGF community to weigh in and validate the findings of the Dynamic Coalition." The DCNN Model Framework (MF) was presented at the 8th IGF in Bali and included in a Report on "Protecting Human Rights through Network Neutrality" delivered to the Council of Europe Steering Committee on Media and Information Society to be used as a working document for the elaboration of a Draft Recommendation on Net Neutrality. To date, the MF has been conveyed to several Parliamentary assemblies (EU Parliament, Argentinian Senate and South Korean Parliament) by DCNN members. However, although it has already played an inspirational role, the model has never been officially validated by the IGF community at-large, as pointed out by the Chairs Summary. This lack of validation is primarily due to the lack of an official validation process for dynamic coalitions' outcomes within the IGF structure. The development of the Policy Statements aims therefore at filling this gap through a self-organised and bottom-up process, which is the very essence of the IGF. DRAFT POLICY STATEMENTS During the RightsCon joint meeting of the DCNN and the GNN, consensus emerged as regards the elaboration of one or more DRAFT Net Neutrality Policy Statement(s) to be presented to the IGF MAG and discussed - and hopefully endorsed - by the IGF community at-large. The initial DRAFT policy statements are in attachment. The first policy statement (I. On Network Neutrality) aims at providing a concise and "human readable" version of the MF, while the second statement (II. On Specialised Services) aims at expanding the MF definition and provisions on specialised services, adding some further elements. The statements also include a "restyling" of the MF (APPENDIX Model Framework v.2.0). The original provisions of the MF have been reorganised within this restyled version, in order to identify with more clarity the key issues that should be evoked in the policy statements. The only modification to the MF content concerns the expansion of the specialised service provisions, in order include the additional elements that are proposed in Statement II. DRAFTERS According to DC NN Rules of Procedure, two drafters have been designated in order to "manage the elaboration of the position or statement and consolidate received comments with the aim of achieving a consensus document." The two individuals who volunteered as drafters are: - Luca Belli, DCNN Co-Chair and Researcher at the Center for Technology & Society, FGV Rio de Janeiro - Michał Woźniak, Warsaw Hackerspace and Polish Linux Users Group CALENDAR Comments to this initial DRAFT should be sent by 10 May 2015. After this deadline, the drafters will consolidate the comments and provide an updated draft that will be shared for a second round of comments. According to DCNN Rules of procedure, "DCNN members will be provided with 14 calendar days to comment, followed by a revised draft, and 10 calendar days to comment the revised draft." To foster the inclusion of widest number of comments from the IGF community at-large, all individuals will be allowed to comment the Draft statements using this google doc and this Pad. You are also free to share your inputs and critiques writing to the DCNN mailing-list nncoalition(a)mailman.edri.org to which you can subscribe following this link. : http://translate.google.com/translate_t

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The Legal Problems with Cyber War Are Much Bigger Than You Think - Defense One
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 7, 2015

Aug. 7, 2015

http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2015/08/legal-problems-cyber-war-are-much-b… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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MIT TechReview: "Tech’s Enduring Great-Man Myth"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 7, 2015

Aug. 7, 2015

*Tech’s Enduring Great-Man Myth* /*The idea that particular individuals drive history has long been discredited. Yet it persists in the tech industry, obscuring some of the fundamental factors in innovation.*/ By Amanda Schaffer on August 4, 2015 Since Steve Jobs’s death, in 2011, Elon Musk has emerged as the leading celebrity of Silicon Valley. Musk is the CEO of Tesla Motors, which produces electric cars; the CEO of SpaceX, which makes rockets; and the chairman of SolarCity, which provides solar power systems. A self-made billionaire, programmer, and engineer—as well as an inspiration for Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark in the Iron Man movies—he has been on the cover of Fortune and Time. In 2013, he was first on the Atlantic’s list of “today’s greatest inventors,” nominated by leaders at Yahoo, Oracle, and Google. To believers, Musk is steering the history of technology. As one profile described his mystique, his “brilliance, his vision, and the breadth of his ambition make him the one-man embodiment of the future.” […] Continua qui: http://www.technologyreview.com/review/539861/techs-enduring-great-man-myth/

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