January 2016 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Un'analisi politica della decisione sul Safe Harbour
by Alessandro Mantelero Jan. 10, 2016

Jan. 10, 2016

Poichè fermamente convinto della natura geo-politica dei profili giuridici del trattamento dati, trovo molto interessante questo articolo: The Transatlantic Data War Europe Fights Back Against the NSA By Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2015-12-14/transatlan… [...]This meant that even as Washington had spent years advocating an open Internet and condemning digital surveillance by countries ranging from China to Russia, it had simultaneously been exploiting the open Internet on the sly. The United States had publicly proselytized for the free flow of information while secretly diverting these flows into NSA server farms. It had vigorously supported the global expansion of technology companies, championing the use of Twitter, for example, in pro-democratic movements such as those of the Arab Spring, while quietly requiring some of those firms to turn over troves of data and tapping into their servers overseas. Of course, the United States is not alone in its cynicism. Some politicians who have publicly expressed fury at the Snowden revelations, including German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière, have hypocritically tried to impose similar surveillance schemes on their countries’ own civilians, and foreign intelligence agencies that depend on the CIA have minimized the scandal for fear of being cut off from U.S. intelligence-sharing programs. However, as U.S. actions have interfered with the basic rights of citizens abroad, they have drawn the ire of a different set of actors who are less easily cowed than politicians: judges, who often see their role as protecting fundamental constitutional protections rather than striking international compromises. [...] -- Prof. Avv. Alessandro Mantelero Politecnico di Torino Nexa Center for Internet and Society | Director of Privacy Politecnico di Torino–Tongji University| Coordinator, Double Degree program in Management and IP Law Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology | Part-time Expert, School of Public Administration http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero @mantelero EMAIL POLICY: twice a day (Mon-Fri)

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PayPal, others buy stolen data from criminals to protect users
by Alessandro Mantelero Jan. 10, 2016

Jan. 10, 2016

PayPal, others buy stolen data from criminals to protect users In early 2014, hackers gained control of a small number of eBay employee log-ins and breached a company database containing customer information. Inside it were phone numbers, home addresses and dates of birth, among other details that users entrusted the online auctioneer to protect. The breach would prove so vast that eBay was forced to ask more than 100 million people to reset their passwords. PayPal, then the digital-commerce arm of eBay, sought to ensure it wouldn’t have to ask its users to do the same. So, PayPal did something it acknowledges is a “regular course of business.” It tasked a middleman to buy data from criminals: a small sample of 32 accounts offered online for about $100. continua qui: http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/PayPal-others-buy-stolen-data-f… -- Prof. Avv. Alessandro Mantelero Politecnico di Torino Nexa Center for Internet and Society | Director of Privacy Politecnico di Torino–Tongji University| Coordinator, Double Degree program in Management and IP Law Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology | Part-time Expert, School of Public Administration http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero @mantelero EMAIL POLICY: twice a day (Mon-Fri)

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Open demanio : on line i beni immobili dello Stato
by Mauro Alovisio Jan. 8, 2016

Jan. 8, 2016

Gent.mi segnalo interessante e postiva news http://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/pa-digitale/38869_nasce-opendemanio-onl… Buon fine settimana e buon inizio anno Mauro Alovisio

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Re: [nexa] Anna Frank e la follia del copyright
by Simone Aliprandi Jan. 6, 2016

Jan. 6, 2016

E' solo un altro dei vari casi in cui il copyright viene esteso ben oltre la sua portata con pretesti assurdi. Basti ricordare la vicenda di Happy Birthday (http://www.apogeonline.com/webzine/2015/09/30/copyright-tanti-auguri) e altri casi simili (http://www.mysolutionpost.it/blogs/it-law/piana/2015/04/copyright-dominio-p…) Il caso Anne Frank è utile perché, grazie alla notorietà dell'opera, sta aprendo il dibattito su questa deriva patologica del diritto d'autore. Un caro saluto, -- Simone Aliprandi - http://www.aliprandi.org | http://www.array.eu 2016-01-05 12:00 GMT+01:00 <nexa-request(a)server-nexa.polito.it>: > Send nexa mailing list submissions to > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > nexa-request(a)server-nexa.polito.it > > You can reach the person managing the list at > nexa-owner(a)server-nexa.polito.it > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of nexa digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Anna Frank e la follia del copyright (Antonio Casilli) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 13:02:29 +0100 (CET) > From: Antonio Casilli <antonio.casilli(a)telecom-paristech.fr> > To: nexa <nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it> > Subject: [nexa] Anna Frank e la follia del copyright > Message-ID: <752085594.4251917.1451908949411.JavaMail.zimbra(a)enst.fr> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Il Diario di Anna Frank è disponibile gratis online > > http://www.ilpost.it/2016/01/01/qualcuno-oggi-pubblichera-online-il-diario-… > > Solidarietà al collega Olivier Ertzscheid e alla parlamentare Isabelle Attard, che l'hanno pubblicato in versione originale, per protesta contro una fondazione svizzera che ha ritardato, con un cavillo legale, l'entrata del testo nel dominio pubblico. Ora un avvocato li minaccia di 1000 ? al giorno di penale. > > > > > > -- > Antonio A. Casilli > Associate Professor, Telecom ParisTech > Research Fellow Edgar-Morin Center (EHESS) > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > > > End of nexa Digest, Vol 81, Issue 2 > ***********************************

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Schmitt: "Can’t Disrupt This: Elsevier and the 25.2 Billion Dollar A Year Academic Publishing Business"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 6, 2016

Jan. 6, 2016

*Can’t Disrupt This: Elsevier and the 25.2 Billion Dollar A Year Academic Publishing Business* Jason Schmitt Dec 22, 20159 Twenty years ago (December 18, 1995), Forbes predicted academic publisher Elsevier’s relevancy and life in the digital age to be short lived. In an article entitled “The internet’s first victim,” journalist John Hayes highlights the technological imperative coming toward the academic publisher’s profit margin with the growing internet culture and said, “Cost-cutting librarians and computer-literate professors are bypassing academic journals — bad news for Elsevier.” After publication of the article, investors seemed to heed Hayes’s rationale for Elsevier’s impeding demise. Elsevier stock fell 7% in two days to $26 a share. As the smoke settles twenty years later, one of the clear winners on this longitudinal timeline of innovation is the very firm that investors, journalists, and forecasters wrote off early as a casualty to digital evolution: Elsevier. Perhaps to the chagrin of many academics, the publisher has actually not been bruised nor battered. In fact, the publisher’s health is stronger than ever. As of 2015, the academic publishing market that Elsevier leads has an annual revenue of $25.2 billion. According to its 2013 financials Elsevier had a higher percentage of profit than Apple, Inc. […] Continua qui: https://medium.com/@jasonschmitt/can-t-disrupt-this-elsevier-and-the-25-2-b…

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Is technology making inequality worse? - Agenda - The World Economic Forum
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 6, 2016

Jan. 6, 2016

https://agenda.weforum.org/2016/01/is-technology-making-inequality-worse/ (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Poisoning adaptive biometric systems
by Alberto Cammozzo Jan. 6, 2016

Jan. 6, 2016

Questo mi pare importante: algoritmi di riconoscimento biometrico devono tener conto del mutamento progressivo del volto, ma questa feature può essere usata per una sostituzione d'identità. Poisoning adaptive biometric systems Battista Biggio, Giorgio Fumera, Fabio Roli, and Luca Didaci Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari Adaptive biometric recognition systems have been proposed to deal with natural changes of the clients’ biometric traits due to mul- tiple factors, like aging. However, their adaptability to changes may be exploited by an attacker to compromise the stored templates, either to impersonate a specific client, or to deny access to him. In this paper we show how a carefully designed attack may gradually poison the template gallery of some users, and successfully mislead a simple PCA-based face verification system that performs self-update. <https://pralab.diee.unica.it/sites/default/files/biggio12-spr.pdf> Via - Harvard Business review. "Your Algorithms Are Not Safe from Hackers" <https://hbr.org/2016/01/your-algorithms-are-not-safe-from-hackers> Buon 2016! Alberto

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Ars: "T-Mobile throttles all video streams and downloads to 1.5Mbps, EFF says"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 5, 2016

Jan. 5, 2016

*T-Mobile throttles all video streams and downloads to 1.5Mbps, EFF says* by Jon Brodkin - Jan 4, 2016 9:19pm CET T-Mobile USA's controversial "Binge On" program is throttling all HTML5 video streams and direct video downloads to about 1.5Mbps, according to tests run by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Binge On, unveiled in November, is enabled by default for all T-Mobile customers and downgrades video resolution to 480p in order to reduce data usage. Companies that cooperate with T-Mobile can stream video without counting against customers' high-speed data limits. That means you can watch Netflix, HBO, Hulu, and about another 20 services without using up your data. But all video is downgraded, regardless of whether it gets a data cap exemption, which has led to a rift between T-Mobile and Google's YouTube. […] Continua qui: http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/01/t-mobile-throttles-all-video-stream…

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Anna Frank e la follia del copyright
by Antonio Casilli Jan. 4, 2016

Jan. 4, 2016

Il Diario di Anna Frank è disponibile gratis online http://www.ilpost.it/2016/01/01/qualcuno-oggi-pubblichera-online-il-diario-… Solidarietà al collega Olivier Ertzscheid e alla parlamentare Isabelle Attard, che l'hanno pubblicato in versione originale, per protesta contro una fondazione svizzera che ha ritardato, con un cavillo legale, l'entrata del testo nel dominio pubblico. Ora un avvocato li minaccia di 1000 € al giorno di penale. -- Antonio A. Casilli Associate Professor, Telecom ParisTech Research Fellow Edgar-Morin Center (EHESS)

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intervista a Prof. De Martin radio rai in diretta programma Eta Beta
by Mauro Alovisio Jan. 1, 2016

Jan. 1, 2016

Gent.mi/me segnalo intervista a prof. Juan Carlos De Martin sulle innovazioni che ci aspettano in diretta , programma Eta Beta http://www.rai.it/dl/portaleRadio/popup/player_radio.html?v=1 Buon inizio anno!

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