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WP: "Supreme Court unanimously reaffirms: There is no ‘hate speech’ exception to the First Amendment"
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 20, 2017

June 20, 2017

* **Supreme Court unanimously reaffirms: There is no ‘hate speech’ exception to the First Amendment** * By Eugene Volokh June 19 at 11:37 AM From today’s opinion by Justice Samuel Alito (for four justices) in Matal v. Tam, the “Slants” case: / [The idea that the government may restrict] speech expressing ideas that offend … strikes at the heart of the First Amendment. Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express “the thought that we hate.”/ Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote separately, also for four justices, but on this point the opinions agreed: / A law found to discriminate based on viewpoint is an “egregious form of content discrimination,” which is “presumptively unconstitutional.” … A law that can be directed against speech found offensive to some portion of the public can be turned against minority and dissenting views to the detriment of all. The First Amendment does not entrust that power to the government’s benevolence. Instead, our reliance must be on the substantial safeguards of free and open discussion in a democratic society./ And the justices made clear that speech that some view as racially offensive is protected not just against outright prohibition but also against lesser restrictions. […] Continua qui: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/06/19/supreme…

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Re: [nexa] nexa Digest, Vol 98, Issue 26
by Antonio Lieto June 20, 2017

June 20, 2017

Bnh Il 20/Giu/2017 12:00 PM, <nexa-request(a)server-nexa.polito.it> ha scritto: > Send nexa mailing list submissions to > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > nexa-request(a)server-nexa.polito.it > > You can reach the person managing the list at > nexa-owner(a)server-nexa.polito.it > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of nexa digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: appello ai comuni: condividete il vostro software > (Stefano Quintarelli) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 00:19:20 +0200 > From: Stefano Quintarelli <Stefano(a)Quintarelli.it> > To: Roberto Guido <bob4mail(a)gmail.com>, <nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it> > Subject: Re: [nexa] appello ai comuni: condividete il vostro software > Message-ID: > <15cc2705240.27a1.f8608db3ebabc6d4e8556211cbc92854(a)Quintarelli.it> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8" > > La voglia di impegnarsi va lodata. > Credo che il csi Piemonte eroghi già molti applicativi as a service. > Certamente si può discutere sulla adeguatezza: ci sarà sempre qualcosa > fatto meglio, per chiunque valuti il sw fatto in passato da altri. > Agid ha un interlocutore su questi temi, forse un buon punto di partenza > potrebbe essere parlare con lui (cfr sito). Anche per un chiarimento in > merito a leggi e normative attuali (penso ad anpr, piuttosto che stabilità > 2016 e piano triennale). > Mi pare che Anci abbia un forum sul riuso. Ne ho sentito parlare da Paolo > Testa di Anci. > Ciao, s. > > > In data 19 giugno 2017 11:53:06 Roberto Guido <bob4mail(a)gmail.com> ha > scritto: > > > Tra i tanti comuni italiani che sono stati chiamati al voto l'11 giugno > > uno ha la particolarità di averlo fatto per la prima volta. Mappano, in > > provincia di Torino, è stato promosso dallo status di "frazione" a > > quello di "comune" solo nel 2013, ed ha ora per la prima volta eletto un > > proprio consiglio comunale. Cui spetta il non facile compito di > > costruire una nuova amministrazione da zero, ma con la rara opportunità > > di poterlo fare senza vincoli pregressi. > > > > Il neo eletto Consiglio ha la necessità di allestire una propria > > infrastruttura informatica e di dotarsi di servizi digitali, sia per i > > cittadini che per il suo stesso funzionamento interno, ed in ossequio > > delle linee guida del Codice di Amministrazione Digitale ha deciso di > > adottare soluzioni libere ed opensource e riusare quanto già sviluppato > > da altre amministrazioni simili. > > > > Il lodevole intento è purtroppo ostacolato dalla mancanza di > > informazioni e riferimenti: a distanza di 11 anni dalla pubblicazione > > del suddetto Codice risulta ancora difficile, se non impossibile, > > reperire soluzioni libere e riusabili specifiche per la PA. Il Catalogo > > Nazionale dei Programmi Riutilizzabili, oggi in carico all?Agenzia per > > l'Italia Digitale, è scarsamente curato ed in massima parte riporta > > riferimenti ad applicazioni proprietarie o non più reperibili, né esiste > > una rete - ufficiale o ufficiosa - di soggetti cui rivolgersi. > > > > Il Comune di Mappano, insieme ad Italian Linux Society, lancia dunque un > > appello a tutti i comuni per raccogliere soluzioni ad-hoc per > > l?amministrazione: protocollo, anagrafe, gestione personale, servizi > > demografici e finanziari. > > > > http://www.linux.it/comune-from-scratch > > > > I comuni italiani con meno di 10.000 abitanti, e dunque con risorse e > > competenze interne troppo modeste per potersi autonomamente e > > rapidamente dotare di una completa struttura digitale, sono 6.700 su un > > totale di 8.000: obiettivo dell'iniziativa è quello di indicizzare in > > modo più efficace e conveniente il patrimonio software di pubblica > > utilità in uso e renderlo più facilmente accessibile a queste realtà, > > nonché di dare supporto tecnico ai comuni che hanno internamente > > implementato le proprie soluzioni e vogliono condividerle con gli altri. > > > > -- > > Roberto Guido > > http://www.madbob.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > > nexa mailing list > > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > > > ------------------------------ > > End of nexa Digest, Vol 98, Issue 26 > ************************************ >

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Seminario: VALUTAZIONE DI IMPATTO PRIVACY (DPIA)
by Guido d'Ipp June 19, 2017

June 19, 2017

Segnalo seminario su VALUTAZIONE DI IMPATTO PRIVACY (DPIA): Quali obblighi per il settore pubblico e privato alla luce del nuovo regolamento privacy? Introduce: Prof. Carlo Colapietro - Ordinario di Istituzioni di diritto pubblico – Direttore del Master in Responsabile della protezione dei dati personali. Intervengono: Dott.ssa Valentina Fiorillo - Funzionario del Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali Dott. Matteo Timiani - Funzionario del Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali Giovedì 22 giugno 2017 (ore 15) Aula 5 Università degli Studi Roma Tre Via Ostiense 161, Roma info: masterprivacy(a)uniroma3.it Sito: www.masterprotezionedatipersonali.it/info/notizie/140-seminario-valutazione… Guido d'Ippolito <https://www.linkedin.com/in/guidodippolito> 2017-06-19 17:22 GMT+02:00 <nexa-request(a)server-nexa.polito.it>: > Send nexa mailing list submissions to > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > nexa-request(a)server-nexa.polito.it > > You can reach the person managing the list at > nexa-owner(a)server-nexa.polito.it > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of nexa digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Privacy Shield is up for review, and it?s not looking good > (Alberto Cammozzo) > 2. NYT: "Using Texts as Lures, Government Spyware Targets > Mexican Activists and Their Families" (J.C. DE MARTIN) > 3. Re: appello ai comuni: condividete il vostro software > (Giuseppe Attardi) > 4. Re: NYT: "Using Texts as Lures, Government Spyware Targets > Mexican Activists and Their Families" (J.C. DE MARTIN) > 5. Survey su infrastrutture di rete come bene comune (Antonio Vetrò) > 6. Nove working paper di Oxford sulla propaganda computazionale > nel mondo (fabio chiusi) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 20:06:23 +0900 > From: Alberto Cammozzo <ac+nexa(a)zeromx.net> > To: "nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it" <nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it> > Subject: [nexa] Privacy Shield is up for review, and it?s not looking > good > Message-ID: <db4f1248-05f6-8ef4-23b5-9adf10b0acfc(a)zeromx.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > > > <http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/privacy- > shield-is-up-for-review-and-it-s-not-looking-good-1.3119948> > > Privacy Shield, the transatlantic data transfer agreement now used by > more than 2,000 companies, comes up for its first annual review in > September. This week, data protection authorities are already emitting > warning growls. > > The 2016 agreement is the replacement for the weak and muddled EU/US > Safe Harbour principles that were declared inadequate by the European > Court of Justice (ECJ) in October 2015. > > [...] > > On Tuesday, the EU?s Article 29 Working Party (WP 29) ? Europe?s data > protection working group made up of national data protection supervisors > and others ? issued a statement outlining a letter it has sent to the > commission. > > The WP 29 has an invited role in the review process and, as its letter > makes clear, it intends to spend several days in the US soon on a > fact-finding mission, talking to companies, US government > representatives and civil society groups. > > Often shrugged off in the past for having more bark than bite, the WP 29 > is now a far more influential group in the wake of those past ECJ > rulings in which the justices essentially confirmed concerns the working > group had stated for years. Now a weightier ethical watchdog, its > contributory role in assessing Privacy Shield will make it a bellwether > for indicating any serious problems. > > Spoiler alert: serious problems are expected. Not least as the group > pointedly states that it reserves the right to issue its own independent > report, in effect if it is not happy with the commission?s report or > decisions. > > The WP 29 states several critical (and long-standing) areas of alarm in > its letter to the commission, some already voiced in an opinion on the > newly-minted Privacy Shield way back in pre-Trump era April 2016 > (http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/article-29/ > press-material/press-release/art29_press_material/2016/ > press_release_shield_en.pdf). > Post-Trump, some ill winds are blowing. > > In the Tuesday statement, the group flags an intention to examine both > commercial and law enforcement/security access to, and management of, EU > data. > > [...] > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 14:49:00 +0200 > From: "J.C. DE MARTIN" <demartin(a)polito.it> > To: Nexa <nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it> > Subject: [nexa] NYT: "Using Texts as Lures, Government Spyware Targets > Mexican Activists and Their Families" > Message-ID: <4faa8aef-99c1-ef9c-503a-e839341269d9(a)polito.it> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" > > *Using Texts as Lures, Government Spyware Targets Mexican Activists and > Their Families* > > By AZAM AHMED and NICOLE PERLROTH > > JUNE 19, 2017 > > MEXICO CITY ? Mexico?s most prominent human rights lawyers, journalists > and anti-corruption activists have been targeted by advanced spyware > sold to the Mexican government on the condition that it be used only to > investigate criminals and terrorists. > > [?] > > Continua qui: > https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/19/world/americas/mexico- > spyware-anticrime.html?_r=0 > >

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"How Barcelona’s citizens will control the use of their data"
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 19, 2017

June 19, 2017

*How Barcelona’s citizens will control the use of their data** * /Interview with Francesca Bria, Chief Technology and Digital Innovation Officer, Barcelona City Council./ By Nurfilzah Rohaidi 19 JUN 2017 […] Continua qui: https://govinsider.asia/inclusive-gov/barcelona-city-council-citizen-data-s…

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Nove working paper di Oxford sulla propaganda computazionale nel mondo
by fabio chiusi June 19, 2017

June 19, 2017

Ne ho letti due, e sono davvero affascinanti e ben fatti. Si trovano qui: http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/2017/06/19/computational-propaganda-worldwide-e…. Per chi non volesse leggersi tutto il malloppo, presto in arrivo un mio riassunto. Buona serataf.

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Survey su infrastrutture di rete come bene comune
by Antonio Vetrò June 19, 2017

June 19, 2017

Propago a mia volta la diffusione di questo survey sul tema delle infrastrutture di rete come bene comune. A. > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Christian Fuchs <christian.fuchs(a)uti.at> > Subject: [icts] netCommons survey > Date: 19. June 2017 at 10:07:00 GMT+2 > To: icts(a)lists.riseup.net > Resent-From: <d016873(a)polito.it> > Reply-To: christian.fuchs(a)uti.at > > Dear members of the ICTs & Society mailing list > > We are a team of researchers based at the University of Westminster in London and working for the netCommons Project (EU Horizon 2020 project netCommons: Network Infrastructure as Commons, http://netcommons.eu) > > As part of the project, we are conducting an online survey to examine users’ concerns about Internet use and at the same time explore the potential of alternative Internet provision. Such concerns will provide useful input to policy makers and regulators who hold significant responsibilities over the telecommunications and Internet landscape, and consequently need to take informed steps towards the evolution of this landscape. > > We are looking in particular for respondents (Internet users) who are academic/research staff, students, IT product/services professionals or administrative/clerical staff at Universities or research institutes. > > We would be grateful if you could take some time (about 20 minutes) to complete the survey. > > The survey link is: https://d52netcommons.limequery.com/357528?lang=en > > The survey will be available online until 30 June 2017. > > Many thanks for your collaboration. > > Kind regards > > Prof Christian Fuchs > Dr Maria Michalis, Reader > Dr Dimitris Boucas, Research Fellow > University of Westminster, UK >

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NYT: "Using Texts as Lures, Government Spyware Targets Mexican Activists and Their Families"
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 19, 2017

June 19, 2017

*Using Texts as Lures, Government Spyware Targets Mexican Activists and Their Families* By AZAM AHMED and NICOLE PERLROTH JUNE 19, 2017 MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s most prominent human rights lawyers, journalists and anti-corruption activists have been targeted by advanced spyware sold to the Mexican government on the condition that it be used only to investigate criminals and terrorists. […] Continua qui: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/19/world/americas/mexico-spyware-anticrime.…

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Re: [nexa] appello ai comuni: condividete il vostro software
by Giuseppe Attardi June 19, 2017

June 19, 2017

> On 19 giu 2017, at 12:00, nexa-request(a)server-nexa.polito.it wrote: > > Il Comune di Mappano, insieme ad Italian Linux Society, lancia dunque un > appello a tutti i comuni per raccogliere soluzioni ad-hoc per > l?amministrazione: protocollo, anagrafe, gestione personale, servizi > demografici e finanziari. Il software di anagrafe è fornito dall’AgID attraverso SOGEI come servizio web: http://www.sogei.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/844 — Beppe

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Privacy Shield is up for review, and it’s not looking good
by Alberto Cammozzo June 19, 2017

June 19, 2017

<http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/privacy-shield-is-up-for-revi…> Privacy Shield, the transatlantic data transfer agreement now used by more than 2,000 companies, comes up for its first annual review in September. This week, data protection authorities are already emitting warning growls. The 2016 agreement is the replacement for the weak and muddled EU/US Safe Harbour principles that were declared inadequate by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in October 2015. [...] On Tuesday, the EU’s Article 29 Working Party (WP 29) – Europe’s data protection working group made up of national data protection supervisors and others – issued a statement outlining a letter it has sent to the commission. The WP 29 has an invited role in the review process and, as its letter makes clear, it intends to spend several days in the US soon on a fact-finding mission, talking to companies, US government representatives and civil society groups. Often shrugged off in the past for having more bark than bite, the WP 29 is now a far more influential group in the wake of those past ECJ rulings in which the justices essentially confirmed concerns the working group had stated for years. Now a weightier ethical watchdog, its contributory role in assessing Privacy Shield will make it a bellwether for indicating any serious problems. Spoiler alert: serious problems are expected. Not least as the group pointedly states that it reserves the right to issue its own independent report, in effect if it is not happy with the commission’s report or decisions. The WP 29 states several critical (and long-standing) areas of alarm in its letter to the commission, some already voiced in an opinion on the newly-minted Privacy Shield way back in pre-Trump era April 2016 (http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/article-29/press-material/press…) Post-Trump, some ill winds are blowing. In the Tuesday statement, the group flags an intention to examine both commercial and law enforcement/security access to, and management of, EU data. [...]

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52° Nexa Lunch Seminar - 28 giugno 2017
by Francesco Ruggiero June 19, 2017

June 19, 2017

Nexa Center for Internet and Society Newsletter Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-52> NEXA 52° Nexa Lunch Seminar Mercoledi 28 giugno 2017, ore 13.00 - 14.00 Politecnico di Torino http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-52 An open discussion on the data revolution Speaker Antonio Vetrò (Director of Research at Nexa Center) This event will be webcast live: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events Humanity is witnessing an historical transition towards a world of massive, real time availability of data from our environments and from human behaviour it has been estimated that in the last 10 years humanity accumulated more information than in the rest of its entire history. This phenomenon is known as “Big Data”. *Big Data can profoundly change the world we live in, bringing disruptive innovations in fundamental sectors such as science and economy*, and even a revolution in the way we conduct our lives and we perceive it. Notwithstanding the high expectations on the impact of Big Data for our societies, we observe a plethora of notes of caution, too. *The revolutionary aspects above mentioned has been criticized in different fields*: scientific communities has raised doubt over the epistemological and methodological flaws in Big Data analytics, while data-driven decision-making entails ethical and legal issues about privacy, accountability, bias and discrimination. The aim of this lunch seminar is to openly discuss the phenomenon, *with an eye on the philosophical and historical roots*. Future research and policy directions will be also mentioned. /Ingresso libero - Saranno disponibili panini e bibite per coloro che si saranno registrati su http://lunch52.eventbrite.com entro il 26 giugno./ BIOGRAFIE - e informazioni supplementari [VETRO] ANTONIO VETRÒ is Director of Research at the Nexa Center for Internet and Society at Politecnico di Torino (Italy). Formerly, he has been research fellow in the Software and System Engineering Department at Technische Universität München (Germany) and junior scientist at Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering (MD, USA). He holds a PhD in Information and System Engineering from Politecnico di Torino (Italy). He is specialised in empirical methodologies and statistical analyses, applying such an empirical epistemological approach to study the impact of technology on society. After working for a few years on methodologies to improve the quality of software and data, he recently steered his research on how to transfer technological innovations to industry and public institutions. Letture consigliate e link utili: * Viktor Mayer-Schnbergeri,/Big Data: A Revolution that will Transform how We Live, Work and Think/, Viktor Mayer-Schnberger and Kenneth Cukier, John Murray Publishers, UK, 2013. * Kent W. Staley, /An Introduction to Philosophy of Science/, Cambridge University Press * Floridi L. and Taddeo M.,/What is data ethics?/, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, Volume 374, Issue 2083, December 2016. * Lepri, B., Staiano, J., Sangokoya, D., Letouzé, E., & Oliver, N., /The Tyranny of Data? The Bright and Dark Sides of Data-Driven Decision-Making for Social Good/, arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.00323, 2016. * Brent Daniel Mittelstadt, Patrick Allo, Mariarosaria Taddeo, , Sandra Wachter, Luciano Floridi, /The ethics of algorithms: Mapping the debate/ <http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2053951716679679>, Big Data & Society, Vol 3, Issue 2 , First published date: November-01-2016. * Cecconi, F. and Cencini, M. and Falcioni, M. and Vulpiani, /Predicting the future from the past: An old problem from a modern perspective <http://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.4746070>/, American Journal of Physics, 80, 1001-1008 (2012). * Francesco Sylos Labini, /Big Data Complexity and Scientific Method/ <http://www.syloslabini.info/online/big-data-complexity-and-scientific-metho…>. * Chris Anderson, /The End of Theory/ <https://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/anderson08/anderson08_index.html>, Edge. 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>

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