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Reuters: New Zealand passport robot tells applicant of Asian descent to open eyes

by Guido Gorgoni

>From Reuters News: New Zealand passport robot tells applicant of Asian descent to open eyes http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKKBN13W0RE A New Zealand man of Asian descent had his passport photograph rejected when facial recognition software mistakenly registered his eyes as being closed. This service is not intended to encourage spam. The details provided have been used for the sole purpose of facilitating this email communication and have not been retained by Thomson Reuters.

Dec. 7, 2016

First settlement reached under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act

by Alberto Cammozzo

<http://www.biometricupdate.com/201612/first-settlement-reached-under-illino…> December 6, 2016 - Last week, a judge in Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago issued final approval for a $1.5 million settlement between L.A. Tan Enterprises Inc. and a class of the franchise’s customers who claim it failed to properly handle their biometric information, according to a report by Bloomberg Law <https://bol.bna.com/first-settlement-reached-under-illinois-biometric-law/>. It is the first settlement reached under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act, which requires companies to gain consent before collecting a person’s biometric data. According to reports, the L.A. Tan franchise used fingerprint technology rather than a key fob to identify its customers in a membership database. The lawsuit claimed L.A. Tan did not obtain written consent from customers to use this data, or provide information about how it would store their biometric data and when, if ever, that data might be destroyed if customers dropped their membership, the franchise closed or other circumstances arose. Under the settlement, L.A. Tan will use the $1.5 million fund to put processes in place to comply with the Illinois statute or destroy all biometric data it still holds and pay each class member who filed a claim with a check for $125. A dozen lawsuits have been brought under the Illinois law including suits against Facebook, Google and Snapchat related to the way its facial recognition algorithm suggests users tag people in photos. The suits, which are pending in federal court in Northern California, accuse the companies of failing to notify users that their facial recognition software was collecting biometric data.

Dec. 7, 2016

Making a Positive Impact: Updating the ACM Code of Ethics

by Diego Latella

Segnalo Making a Positive Impact: Updating the ACM Code of Ethics By Bo Brinkman, <http://dl.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100045288>Don Gotterbarn, <http://dl.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81406594705>Keith Miller, <http://dl.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81452611681>Marty J. Wolf <http://dl.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81339536343> appena pubblicato sulle Communications dell’ACM (Dec. 2016). DL Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR-ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy (http:www.isti.cnr.it) FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it) http://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, mob: +39 348 8283101, fax: +390506212040 =================== The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than compulsion; if in the process we learn how to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task. Above all, remember your humanity. -- Sir Joseph Rotblat

Dec. 6, 2016

Russia Gains an Upper Hand in the Cyber Norms Debate

by Alberto Cammozzo

Interessante pezzo sul confronto US-Russia sulla proibizione dell'interferenza internazionale via cyberspace. <http://blogs.cfr.org/cyber/2016/12/05/russia-gains-an-upper-hand-in-the-cyb…> []Nevertheless, in a 2011 letter to the United Nations General Assembly outlining a proposal for an “International Code of Conduct for Information Security”, the Russian coalition proposed a codification of this concept, stipulating that states subscribing to the Code pledge to “not use information and communications technologies and other information and communications networks to interfere with the internal affairs of other states or with the aim of undermining their political, economic and social stability.” In parallel, Russia and others have pushed to further solidify this and other proposed norms in treaty form. Russia’s information operations could conceivably radically reshape the cyber norms debate and puts the United States in a predicament. Russia is ironically in a better position to advocate the need for binding rules to prohibit non-interference through cyberspace. Even though Moscow is widely believed to be behind the U.S. election shenanigans, it can still argue that a non-interference rule, had it been in place, could have prevented the election tampering. That puts the United States in the unenviable position of publicly arguing for a ban on using cyber means to interfere in the internal affairs of states but having to reject a seemingly ready-made solution. Almost no one in the U.S. intelligence or national security community actually believes that Russia would abide by a cyber non-interference pact. Furthermore, many in the U.S. cyber policy community in government do not see new treaties as a viable option for cyberspace given the unique challenge of monitoring and verification that exist in the cyber domain. Nevertheless, Russia and its allies can use the election tampering as evidence new UN cyber treaties or codes of conduct are necessary. []

Dec. 6, 2016

CEIPI Opinion on a EU Proposal for a Neighbouring Right for Press Publishers Online

by GC F

Dear all, At CEIPI <http://www.ceipi.edu/en/>, I have co-authored with Christophe Geiger and Oleksandr Bulayenko a position paper discussing the proposed introduction in EU law of neighbouring rights for press publishers for the digital uses of their publications. The proposal is included in the European Commission’s Draft Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market of 14 September 2016. Below you find the summary of the paper: Among its key features, the European Commission’s planned copyright reform proposes to introduce in EU copyright law neighbouring rights for press publishers. This proposal is (i) contrary to the objective of creating a Digital Single Market, (ii) detrimental for authors’ interests, and (iii) does not solve any systemic issues of the EU copyright system for the reasons stated below. - The Directive Proposal—and the documents accompanying it—fail to explain how an additional layer of 28 national rights might promote the Digital Single Market. Rather, the proposal poses further challenges related to the territoriality of rights and their fragmentation. In addition, as there is already no uniform approach to exceptions or limitations to 28 national authors’ rights, 28 additional national rights for publishers will suffer the same uncertainty, making the Digital Single Market harder to reach. - Granting rights to ever more actors will reduce the economic value of each right covering essentially the same economic use. While the Impact Assessment accompanying the Directive Proposal concludes that the “introduction of a related right covering digital uses of press publications is not expected to generate higher licence fees for online service providers”, it fails to assess the impact of the Directive Proposal on authors. As the “pie” does not get any bigger, the authors’ share will inevitably decrease. Ultimately, this might undermine the overall functioning of the copyright system, especially because it should primarily secure fair remunerations to creators (rather than only compensate the investment of rightholders), while at the same time providing access to users. - In this regard, the Impact Assessment fails to demonstrate a causal link between publishers’ revenues and investments and granting them neighbouring rights to press publications—and/or promoting mechanisms facilitating initial ownership of authors’ rights by publishers. In contrast, recent empirical evidence from national implementation of publishers’ neighbouring rights confirmed a negative impact on small publishers, while news aggregators might have a positive effect on online news sites. This might have negative repercussions on plurality of sources, users’ access to information—and therefore on democratization. Also, increasing barriers to innovation and desincentivizing new business models might be an additional effect of the reform. - The Directive Proposal does not limit the subject matter to publications presently protected by authors’ rights. It goes far beyond, restricting, for example, uses of works in the public domain. Lifting materials out of the public domain has unwanted consequences, impinging greatly on freedom of expression and democratization, while favouring centralization of information. - Any economic input into the value chain of creative activities does not merit the grant of a property right. Also, a grant of a neighbouring right to one economic actor cannot be a reason for granting such right to another one. Moreover, the Directive Proposal does not follow any meaningful logic of investment reward, since it proposes to grant rights to any publication, even those that do not involve any substantive investment. For example, publication of any trivial information on a “news website” will be sufficient for the grant of neighbouring rights. - Finally, in any event, if this proposal is ever going to be approved, the scope of protection—extending also to non-commercial uses—and the term of protection are overbroad. The CEIPI Opinion is available here <http://www.ceipi.edu/en/news/piece-of-news/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=9416&cHa…> .

Dec. 6, 2016

Re: [nexa] Sulla Rivista Il Mulino in edicola si parla di economie digitali

by giovanni arata

Buongiorno, con l'occasione condivido il link all'ultima bozza pre-stampa dell'articolo in oggetto- non è stato possibile pubblicarlo in toto o in parte online per divieto dell'Editrice. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-UwY2ixX3ehZFA3dVFLNnRMX3c/view Per mia parte resto a disposizione per ogni informazione o chiarimento. Buon pomeriggio, giovanni > ---------- Messaggio inoltrato ---------- > Da: *J.C. DE MARTIN* <demartin(a)polito.it> > Data: domenica 4 dicembre 2016 > Oggetto: [nexa] Sulla Rivista Il Mulino in edicola si parla di economie > digitali > A: Nexa <nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it> > > > C'è anche un articolo del Fellow Nexa Giovanni Arata :) > > Buona domenica e buon voto referendario, > > juan carlos > > > > > -- giovanni arata 333.2708043 medium <https://medium.com/@giovanni_arata> linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/giovanniarata> twitter <https://twitter.com/giovanni_arata>

Dec. 5, 2016

Italian court nixes website block, says embedding isn’t copyright infringement

by Guido Noto La Diega

Fulvio Sarzana intervistato da Ars Technica sul caso kisstube e la liceita' attività di "linkare" a file protetti a diritto d’autore o di "embeddarli" http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/12/italian-court-nixes-website-bl… -- Guido Dr Guido Noto La Diega Lecturer at the Northumbria University President of "Ital-IoT" School of Law City Campus East, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST noto.la.diega(a)gmail.com +44(0)191 349 5562 @guidonld You can access my papers on Academia.edu and on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) This e-mail and any attachment hereto are strictly confidential and are exclusively intended for the person above identified. Without intended recipient’s entitlement, use, copy and dissemination of this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received it in error, please advice us immediately by telephone and return the documents received to the above address, deleting the files. Thank you. Unless necessary, please do not print this e-mail.

Dec. 5, 2016

92° Mercoledì di Nexa - 14 dicembre 2016

by Francesco Ruggiero

Nexa Center for Internet and Society Newsletter Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-92> NEXA 92° Mercoledì di Nexa Mercoledì 14 dicembre 2016, ore 18.00 - 20.00 Politecnico di Torino http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-92 I dati aperti della ricerca: una risorsa strategica per lo sviluppo e per l'innovazione Speaker Paola Gargiulo (Cineca) This event will be webcast live: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events Un incontro per descrivere la centralità dei dati della ricerca nei diversi ambiti accademico-scientifici; potenzialità e opportunità della loro condivisione e riuso, in termini di nuove conoscenze, nuove scoperte e nuove applicazioni. Valutare gli strumenti e le iniziative in corso capaci di *favorire la cross-fertilization tra diverse discipline*, l'innovazione tecnologica , la possibilità per le imprese di creare nuovi servizi e prodotti. Ma anche le sfide poste dalla gestione, la cura, l'accesso aperto e la conservazione dei dati, in considerazione delle *resistenze culturali e politiche al nuovo ecosistema scientifico*. In ultimo saranno prese in esame le infrastrutture e le iniziative in atto per promuovere l'interoperabilità, la discoverability e la conservazione a medio e lungo termine. BIOGRAFIE - e informazioni supplementari [GARGIULO] PAOLA GARGIULO lavora presso il CINECA, dal 2004 si occupa di accesso aperto alla comunicazione scientifica, svolgendo attività di promozione e di advocacy dell'accesso aperto. Attualmente è impegnata in progetti europei relativi alla disseminazione della conoscenza tramite l'attuazione di modelli alternativi di produzione e distribuzione della letteratura scientifica periodica e dei dati della ricerca. In particolare è stata responsabile del National Open Access Desk per l'Italia dei progetti OpenAire (2009-2011) e OpenAirePlus (2012-2014) e attualmente del progetto OpenAIRE 2020 (2015-2018) ed ha coordinato la partecipazione italiana al progetto europeo MedOAnet (2011-2013). Attualmente membro del Governing Board di SCOAP3 (2014 -) e membro del Direttivo di AISA- Associazione Italiana per la promozione della Scienza Aperta (2015-). Letture consigliate e link utili: * /Open Data Introduction/ <http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/Open_Data#Introduction%20>. * /Bibliografia e sitografia sugli open research data/ <http://wiki.openarchives.it/index.php/Bibliografia_e_sitografia_sugli_open_…>. * AA.VV., /The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship/ <%20http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201618>, March 2016. 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>

Dec. 5, 2016

una pronuncia delle CSU civili rischia di estendere i reati di stampa al web

by Carlo Melzi d'Eril

Carissimi, mi permetto di allegare una breve riflessione di Giulio Vigevani e mia. A presto, Carlo http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/norme-e-tributi/2016-12-05/rischio-estension… avv. Carlo Melzi d'Eril ACCMS STUDIO LEGALE via Podgora 13 20122 Milano t. +39 02 54107715 f. +39 02 54114827 <mailto:carlo.melzi@accms.it> carlo.melzi(a)accms.it carlo.melzideril(a)cert.ordineavvocatimilano.it …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Nota di riservatezza : Il presente messaggio e gli eventuali allegati contengono informazioni strettamente riservate. Esso è riservato esclusivamente al destinatario sopra indicato, il quale è l'unico autorizzato ad usarlo, copiarlo e, sotto la propria responsabilità, diffonderlo. Si segnala, a chiunque ricevesse questo messaggio per errore o comunque ne avesse conoscenza senza averne titolo, che trattenerlo o divulgarlo a persone diverse dal destinatario è proibito. Grazie.

Dec. 5, 2016

How do you throw the book at an algorithm? | John Naughton | Opinion | The Guardian

by J.C. DE MARTIN

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/04/how-do-you-throw-book… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

Dec. 4, 2016