March 2017 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

"Desperate John Deere tractor owners are downloading illegal Ukrainian firmware hacks to get the crops in"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

*Desperate John Deere tractor owners are downloading illegal Ukrainian firmware hacks to get the crops in* Cory Doctorow John Deere is notorious for arguing that farmers who buy its tractors actually "license" them because Deere still owns the copyright to the tractors' software; in 2015, the US Copyright Office affirmed that farmers were allowed to jailbreak their tractors to effect repairs and modifications. But the Copyright Office doesn't have the legal power to allow anyone to make a tool to make such modifications, which makes the Copyright Office exemption pretty symbolic. Nevertheless, Deere responded immediately to the Copyright Office ruling by amending the EULA for its tractors to prohibit any such modification, third party repairs, etc, and made farmers click through the EULA and "agree" to it in order to start up their tractors. Now, farmers find themselves in desperate straits. Not only does Deere gouge them on repairs ("$230, plus $130 an hour for a technician to drive out and plug a connector into their USB port to authorize [a user-swapped] part"), but the repair shops can be far away or busy, and thus a half-million dollar tractor can sit immobilized while a farmer frets about getting his crops in. […] Continua qui: https://boingboing.net/2017/03/22/make-hay-while-the-sun-shines.html

March 22, 2017

Update: Campaign website, Education event and Skype call

by Fabio Nascimbeni

Da: Judith Blijden <jb(a)kl.nl <mailto:jb@kl.nl>> Oggetto: Update: Campaign website, Education event and Skype call Data: 17 marzo 2017 13:47:54 CET Cc: Lisette Kalshoven <lk(a)kl.nl <mailto:lk@kl.nl>>, Alek Tarkowski <atarkowski(a)centrumcyfrowe.pl <mailto:atarkowski@centrumcyfrowe.pl>>, Teresa Nobre <teresaraposonobre(a)gmail.com <mailto:teresaraposonobre@gmail.com>>, Olga Jurkowska <ojurkowska(a)centrumcyfrowe.pl <mailto:ojurkowska@centrumcyfrowe.pl>> Dear all, We are happy to provide you with some updates on what we are doing in order to make sure we get a better copyright for education. We are making good progress with developing our campaign website to collect signatures from educators throughout Europe. The website will go live on the 27th of March, the first day of Open Education week. The website will be in English, French and German. You can see a couple of screenshots of the website here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/18-5ub-tC4LVNDpk0P0bjMwHOwTPRE1LGwCemXKM…>. We would like to ask you to help us promoting this website in your network. In order to do so we will provide you with shareables such as banners and images in English, French and German next week. You can use these to reach out to educators on the different social media platforms. It will also possible to translate the shareables for social media yourself to your language of preference - they will be in open formats easy to edit We are looking for people that can help us with translating the website into more languages under a CC0 dedication <https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>. You can find the text that would need translation is here <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sTrc1Z6d7BLWhz7AcwZF2ZXVeGhgcCOGa_F…>. We have written an email <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xi3_cAxAoDU8t5WnlFTAWoEPG3NyJNElVTZoFYP…>that you can send to your network asking for translation. We would need the translations preferably by 23th of March but we can also individually agree with you on another deadline. The priority is to engage people and institutions in as many EU countries as it is possible. Please contact us if you can help us with this. We are organising an event about better copyright for education in the European Parliament in late spring. We will present all the signatures that we received from stakeholders and educators through our campaign website. It will be one of the last opportunities before the voting procedure to show that a large amount of stakeholders and educators want a better copyright for education. We would like to remind you that we are organising a skype call on the 13th of April at 10.00 -12.00 CET. If you have not done so already, let us know whether you want to attend the Skype call and send us your Skype ID. We would appreciate if you could do so before March 31st. During the call we will discuss the the progress of campaign website rightcopyright.eu <http://rightcopyright.eu/> to get teachers and educators involved for a better copyright for education that will already be live by then. In short: Let us know if you can help us translate the website into your language Let us know if you want to join the Skype call of the 13th of April by sending us your Skype ID Kind regards, Judith Blijden and Olga Jurkowska -- Kennisland | www.kl.nl <http://www.kennisland.nl/> | t +31205756720 <tel:%2B31205756720> | m +31642002406 <tel:%2B31617450540> -- Fabio Nascimbeni Email: fabio.nascimbeni(a)gmail.com <mailto:fabio.nascimbeni@gmail.com> Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/fabionascimbeni/ <http://linkedin.com/in/fabionascimbeni/>

March 22, 2017

EFF Testifying Before House Committee That Use of Facial Recognition by Law Enforcement Poses Critical Threat to Privacy

by J.C. DE MARTIN

Hearing Wednesday: EFF Testifying Before House Committee That Use of Facial Recognition by Law Enforcement Poses Critical Threat to Privacy One Out of Two Americans Already in a Face Recognition Database Accessible to Law Enforcement WASHINGTON, D.C.—On Wednesday, March 22 <x-apple-data-detectors://3>, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Senior Staff Attorney Jennifer Lynch will testify at a hearing <https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/law-enforcements-use-facial-recognition…> before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform about the FBI's efforts to build up and link together massive facial recognition databases that may be used to track innocent people as they go about their daily lives. The FBI has amassed a facial recognition database <https://www.eff.org/foia/fbis-next-generation-identification-biometrics-dat…> of more than 30 million photographs and has access to hundreds of millions more <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/fbi-can-search-400-million-face-recog…>. The databases include photos of people who aren’t suspected of any criminal activity that come from driver’s license and passport and visa photos, even as the underlying identification technology becomes ever more powerful. The government has done little to address the privacy implications of this massive collection of biometric information. Lynch will testify that the use of facial recognition technology will allow the government to track Americans on an unprecedented level. The technology, like other biometric programs, such as fingerprint and DNA collection, poses critical threats to privacy <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/10/memo-doj-facial-recognitions-threat-p…> and civil liberties. Lynch will tell the House committee that Congress has an opportunity to develop legislation that would protect Americans from inappropriate and excessive biometrics collection and use. What: Full House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Hearing <https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/law-enforcements-use-facial-recognition…>: Law Enforcement’s Use of Facial Recognition Technology Who: EFF Senior Staff Attorney Jennifer Lynch When: Wednesday, March 22, 9:30 a.m. <x-apple-data-detectors://5> Where: 2154 Rayburn House Office Building <x-apple-data-detectors://6> Washington <x-apple-data-detectors://6>. D.C. For more information on facial recognition: https://www.eff.org/foia/fbi-facial-recognition-documents For more on biometric data collection: https://www.eff.org/issues/biometrics For this release: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/hearing-wednesday-electronic-frontier-fo…

March 21, 2017

49° Nexa Lunch Seminar - 22 marzo 2017

by Francesco Ruggiero

*REMINDER*: vi ricordiamo che mercoledì 22 marzo 2017, dalle ore 13 alle ore 14, si svolgerà il 49° Nexa Lunch Seminar, con un incontro dal titolo: *"Weee Open: elettronica sostenibile e open source".* Ospite dell'incontro *Marco Signoretto* (Politecnico di Torino). Ingresso libero, webcast live all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events. Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili all'indirizzo: *https://nexa.polito.it/lunch-49 <https://nexa.polito.it/lunch-49>* Cordiali saluti, Francesco Il giorno 13 marzo 2017 16:38, Francesco Ruggiero < francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it> ha scritto: > Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui > <http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-49> > [image: NEXA] > > 49° Nexa Lunch Seminar > Mercoledi 22 marzo 2017, ore 13.00 - 14.00 > > Politecnico di Torino > > http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-49 > Weee Open: > elettronica sostenibile e open source > > Speaker > Marco Signoretto (Politecnico di Torino) > > This event will be webcast live: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events > > La gestione e lo smaltimento dei rifiuti di apparecchiature elettriche ed > elettroniche (RAEE) rappresenta un problema su scala globale in forte > crescita. Si tratta di *materiale obsoleto o non funzionante, che > talvolta può essere riparato e riutilizzato*, e che, per mancanza di > tempo, viene dismesso come rifiuto. Il team studentesco WEEE Open intende > ridurre questo spreco a partire dai vecchi computer del Politecnico. > Tramite un'analisi dettagliata dello stato degli apparecchi, la > sostituzione di qualche componente e l'installazione di software liberi > possono tornare in vita i “vecchi scassoni”. Sovente le componenti hardware > realmente guaste all’interno di un apparecchio sono poche e sono > sostituibili. *L’utilizzo di software open source e liberi*, generalmente > più leggeri, permette anche alle componenti hardware di vecchia generazione > di *poter essere utili e funzionanti ancora a lungo*. > Il recupero degli AEE si pone come una sfida non solo per ridurre la > quantità di rifiuti ma anche per aumentare la consapevolezza sul tema del > divario digitale, poiché gli apparecchi recuperati possono entrare in un > circuito di ridistribuzione presso realtà escluse in modo parziale o totale > dall'accesso alle tecnologie dell'informazione, riassegnando valore > all'oggetto ritenuto, a torto, obsoleto. > > > *Ingresso libero - Saranno disponibili panini e bibite per coloro che si > saranno registrati su http://lunch49.eventbrite.com > <http://lunch49.eventbrite.com> entro il 20 marzo.* > > BIOGRAFIE - e informazioni supplementari > > [image: [SIGNORETTO]] > MARCO SIGNORETTO è un ex studente di Design del Politecnico di Torino con > un incredibile passione per l'immondizia. Nel 2015 si è laureato con un > progetto di tesi legato alla sostenibilità nel mondo dell'elettronica > proponendo al Politecnico di costituire un Team Studentesco con l'ambizioso > obiettivo di portare i quantitativi di RAEE prodotti dal Politecnico a > 0t/anno. Oggi il Team si chiama WEEEOpen e collaborano numerosi studenti di > diversi dipartimenti che credono fortemente in un futuro di elettronica > sostenibile a rifiuti 0. Oltre a seguire il team WEEEOpen, sta costruendo > la sua carriera da Designer sviluppando diversi progetti dall'illuminazione > alla grafica. > > Letture consigliate e link utili: > > - Marco Signoretto, *Polito Sustainable Path: Elettronica e > Sostenibilità * > <https://issuu.com/marcosignoretto/docs/tesi_signoretto_polito_sustainable_> > . > - Luca Scarcella, *Il secolo dell’open source: 10 progetti che stanno > cambiando il mondo* > <http://thenexttech.startupitalia.eu/6012-20160127-open-source-arduino-linux…>, > "The Next Tech". > - http://www.consorzioremedia.it/it/il-riciclo/raee/. > <http://www.consorzioremedia.it/it/il-riciclo/raee/> > <http://www.consorzioremedia.it/it/il-riciclo/raee/> > - *Spazzatura elettronica* > <http://www.presadiretta.rai.it/dl/portali/site/puntata/ContentItem-8cec7ce6…>, > su "Presa Diretta". > > > > > 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

March 20, 2017

NYTimes - robotica

by Alberto Cammozzo

Brevi video del NY Times sui robot: temi interessanti e ben posti, senza commenti. <https://www.nytimes.com/video/robotica> At the leading edge of technology, robots are poised to change the way we do business and conduct our daily lives. Top roboticists, researchers and artists bring you into their labs to explore innovations and ask the tough questions about where robots are going. Ciao, Alberto

March 19, 2017

Google DeepMind acquired NHS data "without explicit consent from patients"

by Antonio Casilli

BBC Report A deal between Google's artificial intelligence firm DeepMind and the UK's NHS had serious "inadequacies", an academic paper has suggested: patients were not told how their data would be used. When the deal between London's Royal Free Hospital and DeepMind became public in February 2016, some three months after the data started to be collected, it caused controversy over the amount of patient information being shared and the lack of public consultation. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39301901 And here's Julia Powles and Hal Hodson's paper Google DeepMind and healthcare in an age of algorithms "In 2016, DeepMind announced its first major health project: a collaboration with the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, to assist in the management of acute kidney injury. Initially received with great enthusiasm, the collaboration has suffered from a lack of clarity and openness, with issues of privacy and power emerging as potent challenges as the project has unfolded. Taking" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12553-017-0179-1

March 19, 2017

Fwd: [GOAL] Unpaywall: Our new Chrome extension finds OA as you browse

by J.C. DE MARTIN

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [GOAL] Unpaywall: Our new Chrome extension finds OA as you browse Resent-Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 07:20:49 +0100 Resent-From: d004620(a)polito.it Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 19:03:08 -0700 From: Heather Piwowar <heather(a)impactstory.org> Reply-To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <goal(a)eprints.org> To: goal(a)eprints.org Our nonprofit Impactstory just released Unpaywall, an open-source Chrome/Firefox extension that links you to OA as you browse research articles. Hit a paywall? No problem: click the green tab, read it free. Here's why it's game changing: it's not just great for OA Nerds like all of us, it's great for EVERYONE. People just trying to get their work done, but stuck behind paywalls. It's easy, pretty, and brings the power of legal #OA straight to make lives better. We’ve had thousands of installations in our first few days, and we’re we’re aiming for ten thousand by the end of the month. We want everyone in the world to have a “read it free” button next to the “pay us money” button on research articles, powered by open access in repositories worldwide. We’d love your help spreading the word. Install it, <http://unpaywall.org/>tweet it, email it, tell your friends. And let us know what you think...we’re still improving Unpaywall daily. Thanks, and let’s keep fighting for open access together! Jason and Heather @impactstory ps we couldn’t help it, it’s still great for OA Nerds like us: we put an an Expert Setting in there that shows you which papers are gold or green OA :) pps apologies for cross-posting -- Heather Piwowar cofounder of Impactstory <http://impactstory.org/>: share the full story of your research impact. @researchremix <http://twitter.com/#%21/researchremix> and @Impactstory <https://twitter.com/ImpactStory>

March 17, 2017

"20, 000 Worldclass University Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

https://lbry.io/news/20000-illegal-college-lectures-rescued Today, the University of California at Berkeley has deleted 20,000 college lectures from its YouTube channel. Berkeley removed the videos because of a lawsuit brought by two students from another university under the Americans with Disabilities Act. We copied all 20,000 and are making them permanently available for free via LBRY. This makes the videos freely available and discoverable by all, without reliance on any one entity to provide them (even us!). The full catalog is over 4 TB and will be synced over the next several days. [...] LBRY is the first truly free and censorship-resistant way to exchange content. The LBRY protocol provides a completely decentralized network for discovering, distributing, and publishing all types of content and information, from books to movies. When publishing the lectures to LBRY, the content metadata is written to a public blockchain, making it permanently public and robust to interference. Then, the content data itself is hosted via a peer-to-peer data network that offers economic incentives to ensure the data remains viable. This is superior to centralized or manual hosting, which is vulnerable to technical failure or other forms of attrition.

March 17, 2017

convegno: Il fenomeno del cyberbullismo tra le norme in vigore e prospettive di riforma" il 17 marzo 2017 Università degli Studi di Milano per

by Mauro Alovisio

Gent.me/mi segnalo convegno di interesse ad oggetto : " Il fenomeno del cyberbullismo tra le norme in vigore e prospettive di riforma" il 17 marzo presso l'Università degli Studi di Milano per informazioni e programma: http://www.intgiurpol.unimi.it/extfiles/unimidire/79201/attachment/def-vola… Cordiali saluti Mauro Alovisio

March 16, 2017

Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Activism, Research & Critique in the Age of Big Data Capitalism

by Fabio Nascimbeni

Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Activism, Research & Critique in the Age of Big Data Capitalism The 6th ICTs and Society Conference May 20-21 University of Westminster, London Hosted by the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies Speakers: Toni Negri, Jodi Dean, David Chandler, Christian Fuchs, Paolo Gerbaudo, Orit Halpern, Kylie Jarrett, Jack Linchuan Qiu, Antoinette Rouvroy, Etienne Turpin Registration, all abstracts and more info: http://icts-and-society.net/events/digital-objects-digital-subjects-a-sympo… <http://icts-and-society.net/events/digital-objects-digital-subjects-a-sympo…> Presenters at the symposium will engage with questions of the digital in respect to activism, research and critique. The conference will engage with the possibilities, potentials, pitfalls, limits, and ideologies of digital activism. It will reflect on whether computational social science, the digital humanities and ubiquitous datafication enable new research approaches or result in a digital positivism that threatens the independence of critical research and brings about the death of the social sciences and humanities. The conference will explore the futures, places and possibilities of critique in the age of digital subjects and digital objects. Talks: - Toni Negri: The Incorporation of the Digital Machine: A Metaphor? - Jodi Dean: Critique or Collectivity? - David Chandler: Governmentalities of the Digital: Mapping, Sensing and Hacking - Christian Fuchs: Karl Marx in the Age of Big Data Capitalism - Paolo Gerbaudo: The Platform Party: The Transformation of Political Organisation in the Digital Era - Orit Halpern: The Smart Mandate: Ubiquitous Computing, Environment, and “Resilient Hope” - Kylie Jarrett: The Digital Housewife: Labour at the Intersection of Culture and Economy - Jack Linchuan Qiu: Goodbye iSlave: Rethinking Smartphone, Activism, and Chinese Labour - Antoinette Rouvroy: Revitalizing Critique Against the Critical Sirens of Algorithmic Governmentality - Etienne Turpin: The Same River Twice: Torrential Formations of the Anthropocene -- Fabio Nascimbeni Email: fabio.nascimbeni(a)gmail.com <mailto:fabio.nascimbeni@gmail.com> Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/fabionascimbeni/ <http://linkedin.com/in/fabionascimbeni/>

March 16, 2017