May 2016 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

the battle over encryption shifts to Capitol Hill
by Alberto Cammozzo May 10, 2016

May 10, 2016

Police and Tech Giants Wrangle Over Encryption on Capitol Hill WASHINGTON — Cyrus R. Vance Jr. <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/v/cyrus_r_vance_…>, the district attorney of Manhattan, visited Washington late last month to argue his case on a pressing issue: encryption. In a string of meetings with members of Congress, Mr. Vance told <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/opinion/apple-google-when-phone-encryptio…>central <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/opinion/apple-google-when-phone-encryptio…>lawmakers <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/opinion/apple-google-when-phone-encryptio…> that encryption needed to be diminished during criminal investigations. During a 45-minute session with Senator Angus King, an independent from Maine who is on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mr. Vance said his office had 230 iPhones that might contain crucial information for cases but were useless because Apple <http://www.nytimes.com/topic/company/apple-incorporated?inline=nyt-org> refused to help the police break the encryption on the devices. “I wanted to express a sense of urgency around resolution of this issue,” Mr. Vance said in an interview about his Washington visit. A day after Mr. Vance <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/opinion/apple-google-when-phone-encryptio…> was on Capitol Hill, tech executives including Kent Walker, the general counsel of Google, and Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, also met with lawmakers — but with a very different message on encryption. Tech executives at the meetings said they were concerned about any laws that would force companies to weaken the security of their technology, according to news officials representing these companies. <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/09/technology/police-and-tech-giants-wrangle…> [...] after years of shrugging off the issue, Congress finally seems motivated to create a legal framework for one of our most critical digital security features. Here’s a quick rundown at some of the politicians who are shaping the encryption debate—and the laws that will come of them <https://www.wired.com/2016/05/encryption-laws/>

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EU commission proposes facial recognition for refugees
by Alberto Cammozzo May 10, 2016

May 10, 2016

In its attempts to bring the refugee crisis to heel, the European Commission wants to expand its fingerprint database, introduce facial recognition software, store the information for even longer than before and include minors in the process. The EU is planning wholesale changes to the bloc’s asylum law. In addition to a “fairer” distribution system for refugees and an extension of border controls within the Schengen area, the Eurodac fingerprint database, which is currently used to identify asylum seekers and irregular migrants, is to be enlarged. The system is set to be supplemented with facial recognition software and personal data will be stored for a longer period of time, with the aim of ensuring that irregular migrants stay on the authorities’ radar; the information of underage refugees will also be kept. The upgrade will cost some €30 million. [...] Besides increasing the amount of time data can be stored, from 18 months to five years, border authorities will be allowed to use facial recognition tools as well. The scheme insists that police and border guards will be able to establish the identity of people more efficiently and quickly using the specialist software. In the Commission’s view, fingerprint collection is no longer sufficient, as third country nationals often use means “to deceive” the curent system. Biometric technology is therefore a “central component” of the new European asylum system. <http://www.euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/news/eu-proposes-minor…> Commento: una volta ottenuti i dati biometrici ber il border processing sarà difficile non usarli per l'enforcement e collegarli con le videocamere CCTV. Alberto

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86° Mercoledì di Nexa - 11 maggio 2016
by Giuseppe Futia May 10, 2016

May 10, 2016

Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-86> NEXA 86° Mercoledì di Nexa Mercoledi 11 maggio 2016, ore 18.00 - 20.00 Politecnico di Torino http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-86 Il nesso tra New Media e Gender Empowerment Speaker Elena Pavan (Scuola Normale Superiore, Fellow Centro Nexa) This event will be webcast live: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events La diffusione dei cosiddetti new media, diversi dai media tradizionali perché digitali, interattivi e partecipativi, ha accompagnato e favorito alcune delle più importanti trasformazioni delle nostre società contemporanee. Accanto ad un’enfasi particolarmente marcata sugli aspetti “rivoluzionari” del comunicare in rete, alcuni osservatori hanno richiamato la nostra attenzione anche sulle criticità del panorama mediatico contemporaneo - come i persistenti divari ed i rischi connessi ad un uso generale e spesso superficiale degli strumenti di comunicazione digitale. All’incrocio tra grandi potenzialità ed il perpetuarsi di nuove e vecchie differenze, si è sviluppata nel tempo una *riflessione sistematica sul nesso tra new media e gender empowerment*, soprattutto ad opera di una serie di iniziative e organizzazioni di società civile nate intorno alla metà degli anni ’90. Da una parte, questo stream di riflessione critica sottolinea come *i nuovi media contribuiscano a rafforzare le tradizionali sfide all’uguaglianza tra i generi come la diffusione di stereotipi, la povertà, la discriminazione o la violenza*. Dall’altra, si sottolinea come la *diffusione di affordance tecnologiche e culture di partecipazione permettano di ripensare e agire diversamente le relazioni di potere tra i generi*. Nel corso dell’intervento, le caratteristiche comunicative e tecnologiche dei new media verranno messe in relazione con le componenti principali di un approccio femminista alla comunicazione digitale per riflettere insieme sulla possibilità di favorire nuovi equilibri ed una cultura di vere pari opportunità. BIOGRAFIA - e informazioni supplementari [ELENA PAVAN] ELENA PAVAN è Assistant Professor presso l'Istituto di scienze umane e sociali della Scuola Normale Superiore. Ha conseguito una laurea in Scienze della Comunicazione (Università di Padova, 2004) e un dottorato di ricerca in Sociologia (Università di Trento, 2009). La sua attività di ricerca si è concentrata sullo studio e sull'utilizzo di tecniche di social network analysis all'interno di diversi ambiti di ricerca (dai processi politici e di governance sovranazionali all'interazione uomo-computer) e in combinazione con altre tecniche analitiche, come l'analisi lessicale dei contenuti. I suoi più recenti interessi di ricerca riguardano l'interrelazione tra azione collettiva, partecipazione politica e uso dei social media. Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/people/epavan. Letture consigliate e link utili: * APC, JASS and Women’s Net. 2015. ICTs’ for Feminist Movement Building – Activist Toolkit. Available at https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/icts-feminist-movement-building-activist-toolkit (last access April 2016) * Pavan, Elena. 2015 “#takebachthetech and #WhatAreYouDoingAboutVAW. Reclaiming ICTs and soliciting stakeholders responsibility to end violence against women”. Feminist Media Studies, volume 15(1): 159-162 [ISSN: 1468-0777] * Padovani, Claudia and Elena Pavan. 2012. “Networks and Power in Gender-oriented Communication Governance. Towards a systematic analytic framework”. In Derecho a Comunicar, issue 4:1-20 [ISSN: 2007-137X] 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 Center for Internet and Society Newsletter

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Berkman Center Webcast live oggi ore 18 - Applying network science for public health: Toward 'social' communication strategies
by Giuseppe Futia May 10, 2016

May 10, 2016

Applying network science for public health: Toward 'social' communication strategies https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheons/2016/05/Seymour <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/06/sigal> *with Berkman Fellow, Brittany Seymour* Today, 6.00 pm Webcast live: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast http://nexa.polito.it/berkman-webcast-live The social nature of today’s Internet is creating new public health and policy challenges. For example, the US in 2014 experienced the largest measles outbreak in nearly a generation, which led to the passing of the nation's most conservative vaccine legislation, eliminating the personal belief exemption in California. Research has identified online misinformation about vaccines as one of the risk factors for this outbreak. Through three big data case analyses on water fluoridation, the Ebola epidemic, and childhood vaccinations, we analyze the influence of scientific evidence and the influence of “social proof,” a form of imitation where individuals ascribe to the behavior of others in order to resolve uncertainty. Our work aims to answer the question, how can we employ network science to develop social communication strategies for public health that build on the strengths and opportunities provided by today's Internet? In other words, instead of asking "How can we share our message with our target audience?" should we be asking "How can our target audience share our message?" About Brittany Dr. Brittany Seymour is an Assistant Professor at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. She holds a full-time appointment in the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology and the Office of Global and Community Health. She earned her Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine and completed her Masters in Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health with a concentration in Global Health and Population. Her overall research focus is in interdisciplinary approaches for oral health improvement at the global level through prevention, policy, and health promotion. She has held Fellowships at the Harvard Global Health Institute and the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and conducts funded research on how misinformation online impacts important public health programs such as community water fluoridation and childhood vaccinations. She is a member of the American Public Health Association and the American Association of Public Health Dentistry where she holds a position with the Council on Practice. She is the Director of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health’s Global Oral Health Interest Group and was a contributing author to the FDI World Dental Federation’s Oral Health Atlas 2nd Edition. Dr. Seymour has won numerous honors and awards, including the Award for Community Dentistry and Dental Public Health and the Herschel St. Horowitz scholarship by the American Association of Public Health Dentistry, and an Outstanding Achievement in Teaching Award from HSDM.

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Floridi: The self-fulfilling prophesy - SCHIRN MAG
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 10, 2016

May 10, 2016

Luciano Floridi, da leggere: http://www.schirn.de/en/magazine/context/the_self_fulfilling_prophesy/ (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Dietro gli algoritmi, i proletari del click.
by Antonio Casilli May 10, 2016

May 10, 2016

Facebook Trending: It’s made of people!! (but we should have already known that) https://socialmediacollective.org/2016/05/09/facebook-trending-its-made-of-… "The other worry here is that Facebook is engaged in a labor practice increasingly common among Silicon Valley: hiring information workers through third parties, under precarious conditions and without access to the institutional support or culture their full-time employees enjoy, and imposing time and output demands on them that can only fail a task that warrants more time, care, expertise, and support. This is the troubling truth about information workers in Silicon Valley and around the world, who find themselves “automated” by the gig economy — not just clickworkers on Mechanical Turk and drivers on Uber, but even “inside” the biggest and most established companies on the plant. It also is a dangerous tendency for the kind and scale of information projects that tech companies are willing to take on, without having the infrastructure and personnel to adequately support them. It is not uncommon now for a company to debut a new feature or service, only weeks in development and supported only by its design team, with the assumption that it can quickly hire and train a team of independent, hourly workers. Not only does this put a huge onus on those workers, but it means that, if the service finds users and begins to scales up quickly, little preparation was in place, and the overworked team must quickly make some ad hoc decisions about what are often tricky cases with real, public ramifications." -- Antonio A. Casilli Associate Professor, Telecom ParisTech Research Fellow Edgar-Morin Center (EHESS)

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18 Maggio, Ore 14.30, Aula Magna - La rivoluzione digitale per l’Industria europea
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 9, 2016

May 9, 2016

http://mailing2.infomail.it/bump/newsletter/n,KJ65B9EP4WHJJRK2X4J7,B08SA6I5… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Once a Defender of Internet Freedom, Putin Is Now Bringing China’s Great Firewall to Russia
by fabio chiusi May 9, 2016

May 9, 2016

Bel pezzo - chiaro ed esaustivo - di Soldatov sullo stato e l'evoluzione della censura online in Russia, sempre più tristemente attratta da manie cinesi. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrei-soldatov/putin-china-internet-firewall… f.

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regolare la sharing economy
by Enrico Biale May 9, 2016

May 9, 2016

Alcune idee sulla proposta di legge sulla sharing economy. http://www.rivistailmulino.it/news/newsitem/index/Item/News:NEWS_ITEM:3247 -- Enrico Biale Università del Piemonte Orientale Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Galileo Ferraris 116 13100 Vercelli e-mail: enrico.biale(a)uniupo.it <enrico.biale(a)lett.unipmn.it>

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Re: [nexa] FB facial recognition lawsuit
by Gianluigi Maria Riva May 7, 2016

May 7, 2016

Spett.li tutti, a chi può interessare mi permetto di segnalare un mio recente articolo sul tema: http://www.responsabilecivile.it/riconoscimento-facciale-e-tracciamento-dei… -- avv. Gianluigi M. Riva Mobile: +39 329 53 82 435 (Italy) Skype: gianluigi.maria.riva LinkedIn: https://it.linkedin.com/in/gianluigi-maria-riva-82a34786/en Law Tech Section on Forensics Group: http://www.forensicsgroup.eu/taxonomy/term/17 Column "Medioevo normativo": http://www.varinipublishing.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&… Column "Futuright": http://www.responsabilecivile.it/?s=Gianluigi+Riva Column "Profession: Law" on ELSIANER: https://issuu.com/elsaitaly Il contenuto di questo messaggio di posta elettronica può contenere materiale allegato di natura confidenziale, privilegiata o protetta ed essi sono rivolti unicamente alle persone od entità cui sono indirizzati. Sono vietati la riproduzione e l'uso e la diffusione di questo messaggio in mancanza di autorizzazione espressa. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, si prega di contattare immediatamente il mittente per telefono o e-mail e di cancellare il messaggio dal vostro sistema. This e-mail and any attachment hereto may contain confidential, privileged or otherwise protected material and they are solely for the intended recipient to which is addressed. Copying, diffusion or use of this e-mail or the information herein are prohibited without the express authorization. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please notify me immediately by telephone or e-mail and delete it from your system.

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