April 2017 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

50° Nexa Lunch Seminar - 26 aprile 2017
by Francesco Ruggiero April 24, 2017

April 24, 2017

*REMINDER*: vi ricordiamo che mercoledì 26 aprile 2017, dalle ore 13 alle ore 14, si svolgerà il 50° Nexa Lunch Seminar, con un incontro dal titolo: *"The Online Tracking Horde".* Ospite dell'incontro *Stefano Traverso* (DET, 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-50 <https://nexa.polito.it/lunch-50>* Cordiali saluti, Francesco 2017-04-18 15:24 GMT+02:00 Francesco Ruggiero <francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it> : > Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui > <http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-50> > [image: NEXA] > > 50° Nexa Lunch Seminar > Mercoledi 26 aprile 2017, ore 13.00 - 14.00 > > Politecnico di Torino > > http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-50 > The Online Tracking Horde > > Speaker > Stefano Traverso (DET, Politecnico di Torino) > > This event will be webcast live: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events > > During the visit to any website, the average internaut may face scripts > that upload personal information to so called online trackers, invisible > third party services that collect information about users and profile them. > This is no news, and many works in the past tried to measure the > extensiveness of this phenomenon. > All of them ran active measurement campaigns via crawlers. *We observe > the phenomenon from a passive angle, to naturally factor the diversity of > the Internet and of its users*. We analyze a large dataset of passively > collected traffic summaries to observe how pervasive online tracking is. We > see more than 400 tracking services being contacted by unaware users, of > which the top 100 are regularly reached by more than 50% of Internauts, > with top three that are practically impossible to escape. Worse, more than > 80% of users gets in touch the first tracker within 1 second after starting > navigating. And we see a lot of websites that hosts hundreds of tracking > services. Conversely, those popular web extensions that may improve > personal protection, e.g., Ghostery, are actually installed by a handful of > users (3.5%). > *We also present the first experimental campaign aimed at benchmarking > popular plug-ins for web privacy preservation to date*. We select 7 > different plug-ins and setup a testbed to automatically browse regular web > pages, while collecting navigation data. We analyze this data to compare > each plug- in, considering both privacy-protection and performance angles. > The resulting picture witnesses how pervasive web tracking is, and > describes the effectiveness of available countermeasures. > > > *Ingresso libero - Saranno disponibili panini e bibite per coloro che si > saranno registrati su http://lunch50.eventbrite.com > <http://lunch50.eventbrite.com> entro il 24 aprile.* > > BIOGRAFIE - e informazioni supplementari > > [image: [TRAVERSO]] > STEFANO TRAVERSO is a postdoctoral fellow in the Telecommunication > Networks Group of Politecnico di Torino. He received a PhD in electronic > and telecommunication engineering from the Politecnico di Torino. During > his PhD and Post-docs he has been visiting Telefonica I+D research center > (Barcelona, Spain), NEC Laboratories (Heidelberg, Germany) and Nokia Bell > Labs (Paris, France). His current research interests include Internet > measurements, design of privacy-preserving systems, and high-speed > networking. He is a co-founder of the startup Ermes (www.myermes.com) > official spin-off of Politecnico di Torino. > > Letture consigliate e link utili: > > - Metwalley H., Traverso S., Mellia M., Miskovic S., Baldi M., *The > Online Tracking Horde: A View from Passive Measurements* > <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-17172-2_8>. > - Metwalley H., Traverso S., Mellia M., *Unsupervised Detection of Web > Trackers* > <http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7417499/?reload=true>. > - Englehardt S., Narayanan A., *Online Tracking: A 1-million-site > Measurement and Analysis* > <http://randomwalker.info/publications/OpenWPM_1_million_site_tracking_measu…> > . > > > > > 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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Google: monopolio o no?
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 24, 2017

April 24, 2017

*NYT Opinion: "Is It Time to Break Up Google?"** * https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/opinion/sunday/is-it-time-to-break-up-go… *Forbes: "Google Isn't A Monopoly - So Don't Break It Up Or Regulate It Like One"** * https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2017/04/23/google-isnt-a-monopoly-… juan carlos

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Canadian RTC on net neutrality
by avv. Monica A. Senor April 22, 2017

April 22, 2017

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) strengthened its commitment to net neutrality by declaring that Internet service providers should treat data traffic equally to foster consumer choice, innovation and the free exchange of ideas. Segue qui... https://www.canada.ca/en/radio-television-telecommunications/news/2017/04/c… Un caro saluto a tutti, Monica

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In secret court hearing, lawyer objected to FBI sifting through NSA data like it was Google
by GianlucaQuaglia April 22, 2017

April 22, 2017

_IN HER FIRST APPEARANCE representing the American public before the top-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in 2015, Amy Jeffress argued that the FBI is violating the Fourth Amendment by giving agents “virtually unrestricted” access to data from one of the NSA’s largest surveillance programs, which includes an untold amount of communications involving innocent Americans. The NSA harvests data from major Internet companies like Facebook, Google and Apple without a warrant, because it is ostensibly “targeting” only foreigners. But the surveillance program sweeps up a large number of Americans’ communications as well. Then vast amounts of data from the program, including the Americans’ communications, are entered into a master database that a Justice Department lawyer at the 2015 hearing described as the “FBI’s ‘Google’ of its lawfully acquired information.” [...]_ continua qui https://theintercept.com/2017/04/21/in-secret-court-hearing-lawyer-objected…

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Atlantic: "Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria"
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 22, 2017

April 22, 2017

*Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria** * /“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”/ JAMES SOMERS APR 20, 2017 You were going to get one-click access to the full text of nearly every book that’s ever been published. Books still in print you’d have to pay for, but everything else—a collection slated to grow larger than the holdings at the Library of Congress, Harvard, the University of Michigan, at any of the great national libraries of Europe—would have been available for free at terminals that were going to be placed in every local library that wanted one. At the terminal you were going to be able to search tens of millions of books and read every page of any book you found. You’d be able to highlight passages and make annotations and share them; for the first time, you’d be able to pinpoint an idea somewhere inside the vastness of the printed record, and send somebody straight to it with a link. Books would become as instantly available, searchable, copy-pasteable—as alive in the digital world—as web pages. It was to be the realization of a long-held dream. “The universal library has been talked about for millennia,” Richard Ovenden, the head of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, has said. “It was possible to think in the Renaissance that you might be able to amass the whole of published knowledge in a single room or a single institution.” In the spring of 2011, it seemed we’d amassed it in a terminal small enough to fit on a desk. […] Continua qui: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-googl…

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In Secret Court Hearing, Lawyer Objected to FBI Sifting Through NSA Data Like It Was Google
by Alberto Cammozzo April 22, 2017

April 22, 2017

Forza delle metafore... <https://theintercept.com/2017/04/21/in-secret-court-hearing-lawyer-objected…> [] The lawyer said that searches of the FBI’s “lawfully acquired data” are so common that requiring agents to document them would be impractical, and even dangerous. “If we require our agents to write a full justification every time — think about if you wrote a full justification every time you used Google. Among other things, you would use Google a lot less,” the Justice Department attorney said. “We want the FBI to look and connect the dots in its lawfully acquired information.” []

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Proposed German Legislation Threatens Free Expression Around the World
by Blengino April 20, 2017

April 20, 2017

La proposta di legge tedesca ( <http://www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Gesetzgebungsverfahren/Dokumente/RegE_NetzDG. pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=2)%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank> Draft Law to Improve Law Enforcement in Social Networks ) si inserisce perfettamente nello schizofrenico dibattito sui contenuti sgraditi in rete (dallhatespeech alle fakenews). Nel dibattito gli intermediari della comunicazione, primi fra tutti i social network, sono da un lato accusati di manipolare la diffusione dellinformazione e di non esser neutrali, dallaltro sono pressati affinchè manipolino linformazione rimuovendo e filtrando a piacere contenuti sgraditi (sgraditi a chi?). Qui la posizione della GNI, la Global Network Initiative di cui Nexa fa parte: http://globalnetworkinitiative.org/news/proposed-german-legislation-threaten s-free-expression-around-world

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H2020 CSA Call "The ethical dimensions of IT technologies: a European perspective focusing on security and human rights aspects"
by Diego Latella April 20, 2017

April 20, 2017

Penso sia di interesse per gli iscritti alla lista; si tratta di una coordination and support action; scadenza 30 agosto 2017. https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/… <https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/…> D. Latella --- 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

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Why Fake News Is An Antitrust Problem
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 19, 2017

April 19, 2017

https://www.forbes.com/sites/washingtonbytes/2017/01/10/why-fake-news-is-an… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Netflix ed il sonno
by Luigi Scorca April 19, 2017

April 19, 2017

Carissimi, vi segnalo questo breve ma interessante post di Luca Sappino: https://left.it/2017/04/19/un-post-in-ritardo-sullo-shopping-nei-giorni-di-… <https://left.it/2017/04/19/un-post-in-ritardo-sullo-shopping-nei-giorni-di-…> Luigi -- Luigi Scorca Mob: +39 347 85 22 221 Mail: luigi.scorca(a)gmail.com

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