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Call for papers ICDS 2017 - March 19 - 23, 2017 - Nice, France
by Fernanda Faini Nov. 21, 2016

Nov. 21, 2016

Carissimi, spero di fare cosa gradita segnalando la seguente call for papers. La deadline, prevista per il 19 novembre, è stata estesa al 1° dicembre. Cari saluti Fernanda Faini ============== ICDS 2017 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS ICDS 2017, The Eleventh International Conference on Digital Society and eGovernments General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2017/ICDS17.html Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2017/SubmitICDS17.html Event schedule: March 19 - 23, 2017 - Nice, France Contributions: - regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library] - short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library] - ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library] - extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library] - posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library] - posters: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org] - presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org] - demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org] - doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library] Proposals for: - mini symposia: see http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html - workshops: see http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html - tutorials: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org] - panels: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org] Submission deadline: November 19, 2016 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html ICDS 2017 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2017/CfPICDS17.html ============================================================ Trends in government-related actions Smart Cities; Smart Nations; Citizen-centric projects and decisions; Citizen participation in digital government; Usable climate and awareness information; Models for public services; Social media; Social tweeting; ePetitions; eJustice reforms; eParticipation; eGovernment 4.0; Collaborative governance; Digital era governance; Co-creation and co-production of public services; Smart urbanity; e-Ticketing systems; Global and local sustainability; Digital economic strategies; Cybersecurity portals; Transparency and public participation; Metrics for local government responsiveness; Public-private partnerships; Free-access digital libraries; Facebook privacy; Censorship; Web-scale eGovernment recommendation services; Novelty versus social impact; Demographic estimates for urban planners; Citizen-centric maps adaptation (floods, evacuation, emergency, parks, seismic areas, public spaces, etc.); Time-dependent citizen-centric facilities (ambulance spots, firefight stations, etc.); eGovernment solutions and political polarization Trends in IT related governmental/public services Citizen-centric government IT planning; Smart Cities High Technology; Internet of Things (IOT) Intelligent Cities; Urban computing; Traffic/congestion prediction systems (cars, pedestrians, bicyclists); Online ride-sharing systems; Intelligent transport urban systems; Monitoring urban resources (hospitals, schools, water, gas, electricity, parks, etc.); Digital health systems; Smart wearable and portable devices; Smartphones and the digital divide; Crowd mobility metrics and patterns; Elderly-oriented services; Big data for digital government; Open government data; Government datasets; Anonymity and de-anonymization; Privacy in medical tests and personalized medicine; Systems and assistive technologies; Real-time platforms for community communications (portals, radio and TV local stations, etc.); IT systems to advertize risks and uncertainty; IT citizen-centric for noise and pollution; Personalized route planning systems; Ambient street displays; IT ethics in online environments eGovernment services in the context of digital society e-Government strategies; Citizen-Government eModels; Special applications and services of eGovernment; ePayment, eTax administration; eVoting, eCitizen identity cards; Social e-financial projects; Educating eHealth; Homeland security and public records; eGarbage collection of private records; Metrics for eGovernment projects and services; Benefits of eGovernment; On-line social networking; Financing e-Government; e-Governance; From e-Government to m-Government (mobile-Government); e-Environment Digital accessibility Design approaches, techniques, and tools to support Web accessibility; Best practices for evaluation, testing reviews and repair techniques; Accessibility across the entire system lifecycle; Accessibility within e-organizations: good practices and experiences; Industry and research collaboration, learning from practice, and technology transfer; Mobile Internet-Web Accessibility; Developing user interfaces for different devices; Dealing with different interaction modalities; Web authoring guidelines and tools; Accessibility and other core areas related to the Web user experience; (UX): Usability, Findability, Valuability, Credibility, etc.; Innovations in assistive technologies for the Web; Accessible graphic formats and tools for their creation; Adaptive Web accessibility; Accessibility and information architecture; Universally accessible graphical design approaches; User Profiling; Cognitive and behavioral psychology of end user experiences and scenarios Citizen-centric disruptive and enabling technologies Wireless and user mobility; Ubiquitous systems; On-line interactions; User-centric services, applications, eLearning; High speed electronics, storage, networking eHealth and nano medicine; Biological informatics and computing Internet and Web services IP-based networking and applications; Best effort and QoS/SLA; WWW, Web Services, Semantic Web; eLearning and mobile learning; Service-oriented platforms; Peer-to-Peer Systems and applications; Web-advertising and Web-publishing Multimedia and Webcasting eCommerce and eBusiness On-line shopping frameworks; Trust, privacy, security; Internet macro and micro payment systems; On-line banking; Agent-based e-commerce; eBusiness models and costs; eBusiness applications; Infrastructure for e-Commerce; Mobile commerce Citizen-oriented digital evidence Processing citizen-oriented electronic evidence (acquisition, preservation, analysis); Multimedia documents ( X-rays, radiology, biometrics, and surveillance data); Medical digital forensics; Classic and 3D medical documents; DNA profiling; Genetic and biocomputing; Forensic and data mining; Predictive data modeling; Biological data and privacy; Digital forensics tools Consumer-oriented devices and services Mobile TV and IPTV; Consumer-oriented e-commerce; Smart and digital homes; Wearable devices; Smart consumer appliances; Speech enable appliances; Consumer accessibility appliances and services Intelligent computation Theories of agency and autonomy; Intelligent techniques, logics, and systems; Evolutionary computation; Autonomic and autonomous systems; Autonomic computing and autonomic networking; Ubiquitous and ambient computing; Computational economics; Protecting and preventing computing; High performance computing; Service-oriented computing; Multi-agent based computing; Cluster computing and performance; Artificial intelligence Networking and telecommunications Networking and telecommunications technologies; Wireless, mobility and multimedia systems; Internet and Web Services technologies; Systems performance, security, and high availability; Communications protocols (SIP/H323/MPLS/IP); Specialized networks (GRID/P2P/Overlay/Ad hoc/Sensor); Advanced services (VoIP/IPTV/Video-on-Demand); Advanced paradigms (SOA/WS/on-demand) eDefense for security and protection Knowledge for global defense; Security in network, systems, and applications; Trust, privacy, and safeness; Business continuity and availability; Cryptography and algorithms encryption; Rapid Internet attacks and network; Applications and network vulnerabilities Intrusion Prevention and Detection Systems Reducing false positives and improving true positives; Automating IPDS responses; Innovative signature writing and processing; Improving IPDS usability; Successful approaches to Anomaly IPDS (Statistical; Fuzzy logic; Bayesian; Neural networks, etc.); Inventive behavioural based IPDS methods; Inventive host based IPDS methods; Improving the performance of IPDS; Multiple sensor IPDS; Tuning IPDS; The business cases supporting IPDS; Network traffic normalization techniques; Cost/Benefit of IPDS; Combining IPDS with other hardware e.g. firewalls, routers etc.; Inventive methods of using IPDS to counter specific attack types (Web attacks; Buffer overflow attacks; Brute force attacks, etc.); Comparisons of different IPDS mechanisms; Combining multiple IPDS approaches Enforced citizen-centric paradigms Data-centered information systems; User-centric information systems; Pervasive and ubiquitous systems; Mobile learning and communications; Open and distance education systems Web accessibility Design approaches, techniques, and tools to support Web accessibility; Best practices for evaluation, testing reviews and repair techniques; Accessibility across the entire system lifecycle; Accessibility within e-organizations: good practices and experiences; Industry and research collaboration, learning from practice, and technology transfer; Mobile Internet-Web Accessibility; Developing user interfaces for different devices; Dealing with different interaction modalities; Web authoring guidelines and tools; Accessibility and other core areas related to the Web user experience; (UX): Usability, Findability, Valuability, Credibility, etc.; Innovations in assistive technologies for the Web; Accessible graphic formats and tools for their creation; Adaptive Web accessibility; Accessibility and information architecture; Universally accessible graphical design approaches; User Profiling; Cognitive and behavioral psychology of end user experiences and scenarios Computational advertising Computational linguistics; Linguistic signal processing; Statistical properties of community structures; Semantic contextual advertising; Relevance and click feedback; Searching dense and isolated submarkets; Latent factor models; Semantic relatedness; Personalized ad delivery; Processing over query-dependent functions; Inverse document frequency; Query-biased summarization; Pseudo-relevance feedback; Classification of rare queries; Page ranking Management and control Digital telecommunications management; Control and monitoring systems; Measurement and management systems; Human/Machine interface and man-in-the-loop control; Energy and power systems control; Self-monitoring, self-diagnosing, self-management systems Digital analysis and processing Digital information processing (Voice/Data/Video); Computer graphics and animation; Virtual reality/3D graphics/Games; Computer modeling/simulation; Graphic/Image/Photo/Hand-writing analysis and processing; Pattern recognition / Computer vision; Natural language processing / robust processing; Speech recognition and processing Mobile devices and biotechnologies Robotics/Mobile devices/ Mobile networks; Handled and wearable computing and devices; Vehicular navigation and control; Nanotechnologies/Systems-on-the-chip/Networks-on-the-chip/ Haptic phenomena; Biotechnologies/Bioinformatics/Biometrics/Biomedical systems; Computational biochemistry; Biological data management Software and system robustness for digital society Portals and user-oriented systems; Software as a service; Software specification and design methodologies; Software development and deployment; Programming languages and supporting tools; Patterns/Anti-patterns/Artifacts/Frameworks; Agile/Generic/Agent-oriented programming; Neuronal networks/Fuzzy logic/Temporal logic/ Genetic Algorithms; Reasoning models/Model checking/Modular reasoning/; Program verification/validation/correctness ; Embedded and real-time systems; Consumer-oriented digital design Online consumer decision support & advertising; Semiotic engineering of online services; Human factors in computer systems; Personal information management; Consumer trust in digital society; Interaction in smart environments; Mobile consumers and interactive spaces; Hedonic and perceived digital quality; Usability, aesthetics, and accessibility; Multimodal and interactive interfaces; Intelligent user interfaces Social networking Social networking technologies (Web 2.0, faceBook, YouTube, Twitter, etc.); Enterprise social networking; General informative webcast; Government information webcast; State-of-the-art for chat, blogs, wikis, etc.; Text-audio-video blogs; Virtual tradeshows; Social profiling; Contextual social network analysis; Personalization for search and for social interaction; Dynamics, evolution, and trend prediction patterns; Social interactions; Medical assistance in social networking; Data protection inside communities; Misbehavior detection in communities; Pattern presentation for end-users and experts; Evolution of communities in the Web; Online and offline social networks; Information acquisition and establishment of social relations ICT support and applications for eCollaboration Touch screen voting; Local e-Participation; Portals and eGovernment websites; eGovernment platforms and benchmarks; Business process management; Interoperable frameworks (national and cross-countries); Private-public eCollaboration; Regional and cross-nation competitiveness Cyberlaws Digital Divide and Accessibility; e-Democracy and e-Government; Privacy; e-Anonymity and e-Identity; WEB x.0 Impersonation, e-Harassment and e-Threats; e-Loss; e-Fraud Prevention; Technical Countermeasures; e-Law; e-Punishment; e-International relations ------------------------ ICDS 2017 Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2017/ComICDS17.html --- Fernanda Faini *Responsabile Assistenza giuridica egov e open gov - Regione Toscana* *PhD Candidate Università di Bologna (CIRSFID) - **Cultore della materia Università di Firenze* *Presidente Circolo dei Giuristi Telematici* cell: 3385352449 mail: fernandafaini(a)gmail.com twitter: @fernandafaini facebook: www.facebook.com/fernanda.faini linkedIn: *www.linkedin.com/in/fernandafaini <https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernandafaini>* skype: fernanda_pensiero sito web: *www.fernandafaini.it <http://www.fernandafaini.it/>*

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Ho qualcosa da nascondere
by A Dicorinto Nov. 21, 2016

Nov. 21, 2016

Un bellissimo articolo del nostro caro Blengino discute di tecnologia e riservatezza nella società attuale ma da un'angolatura impensata: la sua adolescenza analogica. #mustread http://www.ilpost.it/carloblengino/2016/11/02/ho-qualcosa-da-nascondere/ -- Arturo Di Corinto www.dicorinto.it ---------------------------------> AVVERTENZE AI SENSI DEL D.Lgs. 196/2003 Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica e/o nel/i file/s allegato/i sono da considerarsi strettamente riservate. Il loro utilizzo è consentito esclusivamente al destinatario del messaggio, per le finalità indicate nel messaggio stesso. Qualora riceviate questo messaggio senza esserne il destinatario, Vi preghiamo cortesemente di darcene notizia via e-mail e di procedere alla distruzione del messaggio stesso, cancellandolo dal Vostro sistema. Conservare il messaggio stesso, divulgarlo anche in parte, distribuirlo ad altri soggetti, copiarlo, od utilizzarlo per finalità diverse, costituisce comportamento contrario ai principi dettati dal D.Lgs. 196/2003

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46° Nexa Lunch Seminar - 23 novembre 2016
by Francesco Ruggiero Nov. 21, 2016

Nov. 21, 2016

*REMINDER*: vi ricordiamo che mercoledì 23 novembre 2016, dalle ore 13 alle ore 14, si svolgerà il 46° Nexa Lunch Seminar, con un incontro dal titolo: *"Immaginario e pratiche artistiche tra social network e spazio urbano".* Ospite dell'incontro *Roberto Mastroianni* (Filosofo e Critico d'arte). Ingresso libero, webcast live all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events. Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili all'indirizzo: *https://nexa.polito.it/lunch-46 <https://nexa.polito.it/lunch-46>* Cordiali saluti, Francesco Il giorno 15 novembre 2016 11:05, Francesco Ruggiero < francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it> ha scritto: > Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui > <http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-46> > [image: NEXA] > > 46°Nexa Lunch Seminar > Mercoledi 23 novembre 2016, ore 13.00 - 14.00 > > Politecnico di Torino > > http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-46 > Immaginario e pratiche artistiche tra social network e spazio urbano > *Opera viva* di Alessandro Bulgini > > Speaker > Roberto Mastroianni (Filosofo e Critico d'arte) > > This event will be webcast live: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events > > I social network si presentano come un repertorio di “immagini” capaci di > dar forma allo stesso “immaginario” contemporaneo poiché, presumibilmente, > sono una raccolta delle immagini di un certo tempo e di una certa cultura > oppure di un certo argomento o, infine, di una certa produzione e ambiente > sociale. > Da questo prospettiva, *l’immaginario si confonde con quella che Umberto > Eco chiama “Enciclopedia”, cioè una raccolta generale della semantica di un > gruppo, di una società, di un periodo e/o di una persona *. L’immaginario > è, in quest’ottica, una struttura psico-semantica attraverso la quale > vengono catalogate e collezionate le immagini del tempo e dell’umano, che > vigono in una certa epoca e in un certo spazio, e i prodotti culturali, > effettivi e potenziali, cui l’immaginario stesso può dare forma o da cui > esso deriva. In questa prospettiva, la “collezione di immagini” di una > società o di un gruppo si sovrappone e intreccia sempre con la produttività > di quel che si usa chiamare “immaginazione” o “fantasia”, orientando le > pratiche sociali, rispecchiandosi e influenzando in maniera biunivoca, > quelle artistiche. > A partire da “Opera Viva” di Alessandro Bulgini > <https://alessandrobulgini.wordpress.com/bio/>, ormai divenuta esempio > emblematico a livello nazionale e internazionale di arte relazionale, > capace di unire social network, performance e produzione visuale, *l’intervento > si propone di indagare il nesso tra pratiche performative, immaginario e > social network nella costruzione di uno spazio comunitario* capace di > tenere assieme virtualità e dimensione socio-politica. L’intervento > analizzerà, inoltre, il rapporto tra le pratiche online e offline > dell’artista in diversi contesti urbani italiani e stranieri, al fine di > delineare la fisionomia di una pratica socio-politica capace di influenzare > la percezione, la rappresentazione e l’autorappresentazione del contesto > urbano, delle periferie e delle comunità locali.* I linguaggi e le > dimensioni relazionali di un intervento artistico pluriennale come “Opera > Viva”, sfidano infatti la dimensione spaziale del tessuto metropolitano *delineando > nuove pratiche di fruizione capaci di forzare i limiti dei musei, delle > gallerie e del mercato dell’arte, creando una relazione diretta con ampli > strati delle società. > Sarà presente l'artista. > > > *Ingresso libero - Saranno disponibili panini e bibite per coloro che si > saranno registrati su http://lunch46.eventbrite.com > <http://lunch46.eventbrite.com> entro il 21 novembre.* > > BIOGRAFIE - e informazioni supplementari > > [image: [MASTROIANNI]] > > ROBERTO MASTROIANNI è filosofo, curatore e critico d’arte, ricercatore > esterno di semiotica, estetica filosofica e filosofia del linguaggio presso > il C.I.RC.e- Centro Interdipartimentale Ricerche sulla Comunicazione e la > Unesco Chair in Sviluppo sostenibile e management territoriale > dell’Università degli Studi di Torino. Laureato in Filosofia Teoretica è > dottore di Ricerca in Scienze e Progetto della Comunicazione, si occupa di > Filosofia del Linguaggio, Estetica filosofica, Teoria generale della > Politica, Antropologia, Semiotica, Comunicazione, Arte e Critica > filosofica. Ha curato libri di teoria della politica, scritto saggi di > filosofia e arte contemporanea e curato diverse esposizioni museali in > Italia e all’estero. Ha tenuto seminari, lezioni e conferenze in differenti > Università italiane e straniere. > > Letture consigliate e link utili: > > - M. Leone (a cura di), *Immaginario*. "Lexia. Rivista internazionale > di semiotica", 7-8, Luglio 2011, Aracne Editrice, Roma. > - M. Leone (a cura di), *Immagini efficaci*. "Lexia. Rivista > Internazionale di Semiotica", 17-18, Novembre 2014, Aracne Editrice, Roma. > - L. Manovich, *Il linguaggio dei nuovi media*, Olivares, Milano 2011. > > > > > Che cosa sono il Centro Nexa e i cicli di incontri “Mercoledì di Nexa” e > “Nexa Lunch Seminar” > > Il Centro Nexa su Internet & Società del Politecnico di Torino > (Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica) è un centro di ricerca > indipendente e interdisciplinare che studia Internet e il suo effetto sulla > società. Maggiori informazioni all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/about. > > Durante i “*Mercoledì di Nexa*”, che si tengono *ogni 2° mercoledì del > mese* alle *ore 18 in punto*, il Centro Nexa su Internet e Società apre > le sue porte non solo agli esperti e a tutti coloro i quali lavorano con > Internet, ma anche a semplici appassionati e cittadini. Il ciclo di > incontri intende approfondire, con un linguaggio preciso ma divulgativo, i > temi legati alla Rete: motori di ricerca, Creative Commons, social > networks, open source/software libero, neutralità della rete, libertà di > espressione, privacy, file sharing, big e open data, smart cities e molto > altro. > > Al centro di quasi tutti gli incontri un ospite pronto a dialogare con i > direttori del Centro Nexa, il Prof. Juan Carlos De Martin del Politecnico > di Torino e il Prof. Marco Ricolfi dell'Università di Torino, nonché lo > staff e i Fellows del Centro Nexa. > > Maggiori informazioni sui Mercoledì di Nexa, incluso un elenco di tutti i > “Mercoledì” passati, sono disponibili all'indirizzo: > http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi. > > Si segnala inoltre che dal maggio 2012 *ogni 4° mercoledì* del mese *dalle > ore 13 alle ore 14* il Centro Nexa organizza anche i "*Nexa Lunch Seminar*". > Una lista di tutti i “Lunch Seminar” passati è disponibile all'indirizzo: > http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-seminars. > > See our events calendar <http://nexa.polito.it/events> if you're curious > about future luncheons, discussions, lectures, and conferences not listed > in this email. Our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise > noted. > > Maggiori informazioni sui Mercoledì di Nexa e i Nexa Lunch Seminar, sono > disponibili all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/events. Weekly Events > Newsletter. Sign up <http://nexa.polito.it/mailing-lists> to receive this > newsletter if this email was forwarded to you. To manage your subscription > preferences, please click here > <https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa>. > > Connect & get involved: Jobs, internships, and more > <http://nexa.polito.it/get-involved> > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > > -- Francesco Ruggiero Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino web: http://nexa.polito.it mail: francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it tel: 011 090 7219

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US election and The Secret Agenda of a Facebook Quiz
by Alessandro Mantelero Nov. 21, 2016

Nov. 21, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/the-secret-agenda-of-a-facebook-q… -- 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 European Data Protection Law Review | Associate Editor http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero @mantelero EMAIL POLICY: once a day (Mon-Fri)

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Trump e lo sfruttamento delle click farm nei paesi in via di sviluppo (in inglese)
by Antonio Casilli Nov. 20, 2016

Nov. 20, 2016

Grazie alla benevolenza dei miei followers su Twitter, il testo (pubblicato ieri dal Nouvel Observateur) è stato tradotto in inglese in maniera collaborativa. Siccome alcuni me l'avevano chiesto, lo posto in lista: Never mind the algorithms: the role of click farms and exploited digital labor in Trump’s election http://www.casilli.fr/2016/11/20/never-mind-the-algorithms-the-role-of-expl… "Trump campaign directly bought 60% of his Facebook followers. Those fans and most of his likes come from click farms in the Philippines, Malaysia, India, South Africa, Indonesia, Columbia… and Mexico. Facebook prides itself as being on free service. But it is also a huge marketplace for our personal data: contacts, preferences, network engagement etc. Today Facebook artificially limits the organic reach of content shared by its users. If for example you have 1000 “friends”, less than 10% will read your hilarious jokes or watch your kitten videos. Facebook officially claims that it is about filtering spam. But actually it has implemented a business model aimed at making users pay for a wider reach via sponsoring posts. This model is of less concern for individual users than for corporations and bad hair politicians whose marketing strategies are predicated on this social networking service: the latter are incentivized to have millions of users reading their propaganda, and they will pay to obtain more clicks. The fact is that this system is now based on “click-farms” that exploit workers living in developing or emerging countries. This huge market uncovers the delusion of voluntary participation in online social media, today constrained by the injunction to produce clicks within a productive system relying on an invisible workforce – invisible because literally offshored on the other side of the globe. What would have happened if the rights of these micro-workers had been upheld, if they had had a way to resist freelance jobs blackmail, if they had had a voice to protest against and to refuse to contribute to the imperial dreams of a sociopath surrounded by a court of morally bankrupt lackeys? To acknowledge this hidden click labor and to find ways to regulate it and to protect ourselves from its negative consequences is also – and above all – a fight against barbarism." -- Antonio A. Casilli Associate Professor, Telecom ParisTech Research Fellow, Edgar-Morin Center (EHESS) Member, Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation (i3 UMR 9217 CNRS)

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Petizione EU-wide whistleblower protection
by Alberto Cammozzo Nov. 20, 2016

Nov. 20, 2016

Whistleblowers in the EU must be protected <https://whistleblowerprotection.eu/> Whistleblowers need EU protection – lives, environment and money at stake Whistleblowers often risk ending up paying a high price for disclosing information. Yet whistleblowing can be essential in bringing to light – for example – illegal activities, corruption, activities which are contrary to public interest and threats to public health and safety. Whistleblowing can save lives, the environment and money. It is high time for legislation on EU-wide whistleblower protection. Whistleblower protection is in most cases a workers’ right issue. At the same time, not all whistleblowers are employees. Therefore, broad protection should be ensured covering also other than employees. We call on the European Commission to urgently take action on bringing forward proposals on EU-wide legislation on whistleblower protection with a broad scope of groups and areas of activities protected. We call on the European Council to support initiatives ensuring EU-wide whistleblower protection. We call on the European Parliament to continue to call for EU-wide whistleblower protection and to support initiatives ensuring EU-wide whistleblower protection.

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INVESTIGATORY POWERS BILL e UE
by Alberto Cammozzo Nov. 20, 2016

Nov. 20, 2016

Leggendo le FAQ e altri documenti associati alla nuova legge UK, vedo che sono consentite raccolte bulk molto estese. Mi chiedo: non si ripete nella sostanza quanto previsto dalla direttiva 2006/24/EC sulla data retention, condannata dalla ECJ? Necessariamente cadranno nella raccolta anche dati personali di cittadini UE (anche non residenti in UK) trattati in UK sotto l'ombrello della direttiva DP. <https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/investigatory-powers-bill-fact-s…> INVESTIGATORY POWERS BILL: BULK PERSONAL DATASETS /What are they?/ Bulk Personal Datasets are sets of personal information about a large number of individuals, *the majority of whom will not be of any interest to the security and intelligence agencies*. The datasets are held on electronic systems for the purpose of analysis by the security and intelligence agencies. Examples of these datasets include the electoral roll, telephone directories and travel-related data. /Why do we need them?/ Bulk personal datasets are essential in helping the security and intelligence agencies identify subjects of interest or individuals who surface during the course of an investigation, to establish links between individuals and groups, to understand better a subject of interest’s behaviour and connections *and quickly to exclude the innocent*. In short, they enable the agencies to join the dots in an investigation and to focus their attention on individuals or organisations that threaten our national security. ciao, Alberto

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MIT TechRev: "How to Hold Algorithms Accountable"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 20, 2016

Nov. 20, 2016

A View from Nicholas Diakopoulos and Sorelle Friedler *How to Hold Algorithms Accountable* / //Algorithmic systems have a way of making mistakes or leading to undesired consequences. Here are five principles to help technologists deal with that./ November 17, 2016 Algorithms are now used throughout the public and private sectors, informing decisions on everything from education and employment to criminal justice. But despite the potential for efficiency gains, algorithms fed by big data can also amplify structural discrimination, produce errors that deny services to individuals, or even seduce an electorate into a false sense of security. Indeed, there is growing awareness that the public should be wary of the societal risks posed by over-reliance on these systems and work to hold themaccountable. […] Continua qui: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602933/how-to-hold-algorithms-accountabl…

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Slate: "How the Rest of the World Feels About U.S. Dominance of the Internet"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 20, 2016

Nov. 20, 2016

*How the Rest of the World Feels About U.S. Dominance of the Internet** * /Short answer: not great.// / By Maria Farrell The World Wide Web might have been invented by a Briton working for a European research organization, but let’s face it: The internet is American. The world’s richest tech firms are almost all American, including Apple, the single most valuable publicly traded company in the world. Much of the planet’s communications are sifted through the intelligence agencies of the United States and its proxies. The U.S. government uses American-born tech giants to access the data of millions of non-U.S. citizens, exploiting its home-field advantage over the internet’s architecture. And until just weeks ago, the U.S. had ultimate control over the entire world’s domain name and numbering systems. To top it all off, the internet is explicitly used by the U.S. State Department to preach for American values and interests abroad. It wasn’t always like this. […] Continua qui: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/11/the_u_s_shoul…

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Career Racist Jeff Sessions Is Donald Trump’s Pick For Attorney General
by Alberto Cammozzo Nov. 20, 2016

Nov. 20, 2016

<https://theintercept.com/2016/11/18/career-racist-jeff-sessions-is-donald-t…> [] This is not the first time Sessions has earned a presidential nomination as an administrator of justice. In 1986, President Reagan tapped him to serve as a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, but at the time the Senate found him too racist for the post, and he became the second nominee in 50 years to be denied an appointment. During his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sessions was pressed on accusations that he had called a black prosecutor “boy” and a white civil rights attorney “a disgrace to his race.” He was called out on his comment that he thought the Ku Klux Klan “was OK until I found out they smoked pot” and that the NAACP and ACLU were “trying to force civil rights down the throats of people.” (Sessions denied calling the prosecutor “boy” but not the other comments.) [] Among other positions, Sessions opposed the Violence Against Women Act, the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” and the expansion of anti-hate legislation to include sexual orientation. He fought the removal of the Confederate flag from public buildings, immigration reform, and criminal justice reform. [] Va aggiunta la sua proposta di emendamento all'Electronic Communications Privacy Act per cui i provider avrebbero dovuto fornire a un government official il contenuto di una comunicazione elettronica anche solo in "caso di emergenza", su dichiarazione di quest'ultimo e senza mandato. <https://www.emptywheel.net/2016/11/18/sessions-nomination-emergency-excepti…>

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