March 2016 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Paper: "Policing Hoover's Ghost: The Privilege for Law Enforcement Techniques"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

Articolo scritto dall'unico giudice USA che finora ha negato un warrant per malware (riferisco, non chiedetemi dettagli). jc Policing Hoover's Ghost: The Privilege for Law Enforcement Techniques Stephen W. Smith <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=585899> Texas Southern University - Thurgood Marshall School of Law March 1, 2016 /American Criminal Law Review, Forthcoming <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2740075##>/ *Abstract: * Various legal doctrines have been devised over the years to ensure bureaucratic opacity — state secrets, classified information, executive privilege, legislative privilege, judicial privilege, deliberative process privilege, housekeeping privilege, informer’s privilege, investigative files privilege, and so on. The newest of these is the so-called law enforcement sensitive privilege, now regularly invoked to shield new (and sometimes not so new) techniques and methods used to investigate and prevent crime. In one notable recent criminal case, a federal judge in Arizona invoked this privilege to justify withholding evidence about an electronic device known as the “Stingray”, which the FBI had used to track down a suspect accused of identity theft and tax fraud. Until now, the paternity of this privilege has been obscure, although bits and pieces of the story are well-known and documented. This article attempts to assemble those pieces into a coherent genealogy. Our tale begins with three fascinating protagonists: a Barnard College alumna recruited as a Soviet spy while working under the government’s nose in the Justice Department; the most brilliant and influential federal judge never to sit on the Supreme Court; and the famously secretive law enforcement icon who built the FBI into the nation’s foremost crime-fighting force. All three came together at a seminal moment in the McCarthy Era, with a combustive force whose impact lingers to this day. This was the moment of conception for the law enforcement privilege. The balance of the article traces this doctrine’s growth to maturity, including (ironically) the passage of the Freedom of Information Act; subsequent DOJ-sponsored FOIA amendments exempting investigative files; early court decisions adopting a limited surveillance location privilege; and later decisions recognizing a qualified privilege for law enforcement “sensitive” information. Along the way we pause to relate a personal encounter with the FOIA exemption for law enforcement techniques. The article concludes with a handful of critiques, both practical and theoretical, that might curb the prevailing enthusiasm for this youngest member of the government privilege family. *Number of Pages in PDF File:* 34 *Keywords:* legal history, criminal procedure, civil procedure, evidence, privilege, law enforcement techniques, criminal investigations, courts, freedom of information *URL:* http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2740075

March 23, 2016

We need more thinking and slower thinking. Dont rush.

by Alberto Cammozzo

Luciano Floridi su come froteggiare il cambiamento nel potere. Bel video (breve) <https://aeon.co/videos/the-information-age-traffics-in-speed-to-adapt-to-it…>

March 22, 2016

Berkman Center Webcast live oggi ore 18 - Reconceptualizing the Right to Be Forgotten to Enable Transatlantic Data Flow

by Giuseppe Futia

Reconceptualizing the Right to Be Forgotten to Enable Transatlantic Data Flow https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheons/2016/03/Kulevska%20Rustad <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/06/sigal> *with Sanna Kulevska and Michael L. Rustad * Today, 6.00 pm Webcast live: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast http://nexa.polito.it/berkman-webcast-live Based on the authors’ recent Harvard Journal of Law and Technology article, Reconceptualizing the Right to be Forgotten to Enable Transatlantic Data Flow, Sanna Kulevska and Michael Rustad will lay out the legal dilemmas that flow from the European Union’s far-reaching right to be forgotten (RTBF). Google Spain v. AEPD (May 2014) and Article 17 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will go into effect in 2018, are already driving a significant legal, economic and cultural wedge between the U.S. and its EU trading partners. In October 2015, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) struck down the U.S./EU Safe Harbor agreement that enabled data to be freely transferred from Europe to the United States and in February 2016, the EU/U.S. Privacy Shield was proposed as a replacement. Sanna and Michael will lead the discussion of the legal dilemmas that policymakers face in walking the tight rope between the Scylla of constraining the right of expression and the Charybdis of diminishing an individual’s right to control their personal data. The authors will use current case studies of takedown requests from Google to provide context for their discussion of how a Safe Harbor 2.0 might achieve the proper balance between expression and privacy. About Sanna and Michael *Sanna Kulevska*, J.D., LLM is a Swedish lawyer who works on Internet law issues at the Legal Department of Google's European Headquarters in Dublin. *Michael L. Rustad*, Ph.D., J.D., LL.M is the Thomas F. Lambert Jr. Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Intellectual Property Law Program at Suffolk University Law School. He is the author of the Global Internet Law Hornbook (2d ed. 2015, Global Internet Law in a Nutshell (3d ed. 2015), Computer Contracts (2016 ed.) and Software Licensing (2016 edition).

March 22, 2016

The FBI Now Says It May Crack That iPhone Without Apple’s Help

by gianluca quaglia

Just as the FBI’s standoff with Apple seemed to be coming to a head, the government has abruptly changed course. And it may be backing down altogether from the most public battle in the growing war between law enforcement and tech firms over encryption. On Monday afternoon, the Justice Department filed a motion for a continuance on a hearing set to happen tomorrow in Riverside, California, where it would have argued its case that Apple must help it to crack the iPhone 5C of dead San Bernardino killer Syed Rizwan Farook. The FBI hasn’t given up on accessing the data in Farook’s phone. But it now says it may not need Apple’s assistance to crack the device after all, which it had previously told a judge it could legally compel using the 1789 law known as the All Writs Act. “On Sunday, March 20, 2016, an outside party demonstrated to the FBI a possible method for unlocking Farook’s iPhone,” the Justice Department’s lawyers wrote in a court filing. “Testing is required to determine whether it is a viable method that will not compromise data on Farook’s iPhone. If the method is viable, it should eliminate the need for the assistance from Apple…set forth in the All Writs Act Order in this case.” [...] continua qui http://www.wired.com/2016/03/fbi-now-says-may-crack-iphone-without-apples-h…

March 22, 2016

Johns Hopkins researchers poke a hole in Apple’s encryption - The Washington Post

by J.C. DE MARTIN

Johns Hopkins researchers poke a hole in Apple’s encryption - The Washington Post from Internet Monitor’s Tweet (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

March 21, 2016

Re: [nexa] Studio Ghibli's Animation Software Is Now Free | The Creators Project

by Maurizio Napolitano

Una nota molto importante da sottolineare è che Toonz è che e un software sviluppato in Italia copio/incollo da qui http://www.toonz.com/pdf/PressRelease-ToonzDiventaOpenSource.pdf Digital Video è una compagnia di Ricerca e Sviluppo con un talento, ampiamente dimostrato, di definire e sviluppare prodotti visionari e innovativi e di portarli sul mercato. La compagnia ha la sua sede principale a Roma (Italia) ed è specializzata nello sviluppo di applicazioni professionali per la computer grafica, nonché per broadcast e cinema. Maggiori informazioni su http://www.digitalvideo.eu.com On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 6:32 PM, J.C. DE MARTIN <demartin(a)polito.it> wrote: > Scusate, ma ho un debole per Studio Ghibli :) > JC > > http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/free-studio-ghibli-animation-softwa…

March 21, 2016

Studio Ghibli's Animation Software Is Now Free | The Creators Project

by J.C. DE MARTIN

Scusate, ma ho un debole per Studio Ghibli :) JC http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/free-studio-ghibli-animation-softwa… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

March 21, 2016

Re: [nexa] Computer Related Inventions: a big win for FOSS in India

by Guido Noto La Diega

Ottima notizia, anche se il software non è mai stato brevettabile in India (v. s.3k del Patents Act). Però è importante che ci sia chiarezza sulla categoria, very tricky, di computer-related inventions (ed è bello che ogni tanto la c.d. società civile sia ascoltata) 2016-03-09 12:09 GMT+00:00 Blengino <blengino(a)penalistiassociati.it>: > India is one of the few countries which permits patenting of software – a > monopolization that has only benefited established corporations and largely > throttled innovation in the software industry, worldwide. CIS has > consistently advocated against patentablity of software and in a major > victory last week, software patenting in India died a little more…. > > > > > http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/the-new-guidelines-for-computer-related-inve… > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > > -- *Guido* Dr. Guido Noto La Diega Associate Lecturer in Law: Intellectual Property Law - Buckinghamshire New University President of Ital-IoT <http://italiot.altervista.org/about-us/> - Centre of Multidisciplinary Research on the Internet of Things Avvocato <http://www.studioperrino.it/intro/index.asp> (Commercial and IP/IT Lawyer) Cultore della materia in Civil Law and Intellectual Property <http://www.unipa.it/persone/docenti/n/guido.notoladiega> - University of Palermo Department of Law Queen Alexandra Road High Wycombe Buckinghamshire HP11 2JZ n <g.notoladiega(a)qmul.ac.uk>oto.la.diega(a)gmail.com +44(0)2078823386 @guidonld https://it.linkedin.com/pub/guido-noto-la-diega-ph-d/6/614/669 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. Diese E-Mail enthält vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte Informationen. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestaettet. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Danke. Il presente messaggio di posta elettronica ed ogni eventuale allegato contengono informazioni strettamente riservate e sono indirizzati esclusivamente al soggetto sopra indicato. In mancanza di autorizzazione del destinatario, ne sono vietati l’uso, la riproduzione e la divulgazione. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, siete pregati di avvisarci immediatamente per telefono e di restituirci i documenti ricevuti all’indirizzo sopra indicato, distruggendo i file. Grazie. *BE ECO-FRIENDLY: Unless necessary, please do not print this e-mail *

March 21, 2016

Conference: Regulating International Transfers of Data (7 aprile) - University of Basel

by Giuseppe Futia

Gentilissimi, abbiamo il piacere di segnalarvi il convegno "Regulating International Transfers of Data" che si svolgerà il 7 aprile presso la University of Basel. Durante il convegno interverrà Alessandro Mantelero, Director of Privacy & Faculty Fellow del Centro Nexa su Internet & Società, all'interno della sessione "Regulating the international transfer of data to protect privacy". Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili all'indirizzo: https://ius.unibas.ch/fakultaet/schwerpunkte/recht-der-life-sciences/verans… . La locandina dell'incontro è disponibile all'indirizzo: https://ius.unibas.ch/index.php?eID=secFileDl&fileUid=6487. Cordiali saluti, -- ------------------------------------------------- Giuseppe Futia Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino web: http://nexa.polito.it mail: giuseppe.futia(a)polito.it tel. +39 011 090 7219

March 21, 2016

Re: [nexa] Whatsapp e le backdoor

by J.C. DE MARTIN

Si, penso anche io che sia scoppiata la Seconda CryptoWar. juan carlos On 21/03/16 10:02, Giovanni Testa wrote: > http://nyti.ms/1UofxGi > > Buongiorno, > > non è freschissima, ma credo non fosse circolata. Temo sia solo > questione di tempo e Apple v. FBI sarà stata solamente la schermaglia > iniziale. > >

March 21, 2016