November 2018 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Un premio alla memoria di Stefano Rodotà. L'ha istituito il Comitato della Convenzione 108 del Consiglio d’Europa

by J.C. DE MARTIN

https://www.garanteprivacy.it/web/guest/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb… *Un premio alla memoria di Stefano Rodotà L'ha istituito il Comitato della Convenzione 108 del Consiglio d’Europa* Il Comitato della Convenzione 108 del 1981 <https://www.coe.int/en/web/data-protection/consultative-committee-tpd>del Consiglio d’Europa, ha deciso di istituire un Premio in onore e alla memoria del grande giurista Stefano Rodotà. Il Premio, destinato a ricercatori e studenti, punta a valorizzare e a dare visibilità a progetti di ricerca innovativi e originali nel campo della protezione dei dati personali sviluppati in ambito universitario. L’iniziativa del Comitato - di cui è presidente una rappresentante del Garante italiano - nasce con l’intento di far progredire la riflessione sulle tematiche legate alla privacy, in particolare nel mondo digitale. Il conferimento del premio si colloca in un momento storico importante per la Convenzione 108 sulla protezione delle persone rispetto al trattamento automatizzato di dati a carattere personale: con l’adozione (maggio 2018) e l’apertura alla firma degli stati del Protocollo emendativo della 108 (ottobre 2018), si è infatti concluso un processo di revisione volto a rispondere alle molte sfide intervenute negli anni con l'avvento delle nuove tecnologie, assicurando la tenuta dei principi della Convenzione <https://rm.coe.int/convention-108-convention-for-the-protection-of-individu…>e rafforzandone i meccanismi per la sua effettiva implementazione. Il Premio Rodotà verrà assegnato per la prima volta il 28 gennaio 2019 in occasione della Giornata Europea della protezione dei dati personali. Il vincitore avrà l’onore di presentare il suo progetto alla prossima riunione plenaria del Comitato della Convenzione 108 che si terrà a Strasburgo dal 12 al 14 giugno 2019. Il modello per partecipare al Premio è disponibile sul sito del Consiglio d’Europa: https://www.coe.int/en/web/data-protection/rodota-award. Le domande di partecipazione devono essere presentate in lingua inglese o francese entro il 18 dicembre 2018 all’indirizzo*dataprotection(a)coe.int <mailto:dataprotection@coe.int>*). /Roma, 28 novembre 2018/

Nov. 28, 2018

R: Blockchain - Risoluzione del Parlamento Europeo

by Aldo Pedico

Grazie Guido per il contributo. Aldo Da: nexa [mailto:nexa-bounces@server-nexa.polito.it] Per conto di Guido Noto La Diega Inviato: mercoledì 28 novembre 2018 10:31 A: Center Nexa <nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it> Oggetto: [nexa] Blockchain - Risoluzione del Parlamento Europeo Il Parlamento Europeo ha adottato una risoluzione sulla blockchain Fra le altre cose, il Parlamento Calls for an assessment of governance models within the diverse consensus mechanisms under development, taking into account the potential needs of intermediary systems, actors and organisations in order to validate and verify the authenticity of the exchanges and to prevent fraudulent behaviour in good time; Calls on the Commission to explore the possibility of creating an EU-wide, highly scalable and interoperable network that makes use of the technological resources of educational institutions in the Union, with a view to adopting this technology for sharing data and information, thus contributing to the more effective recognition of academic and professional qualifications Calls on the Commission to closely monitor technological developments (such as quantum computing), assess technological risks, support resilience to a cyberattack or a system breakdown, and promote data protection projects that ensure the sustainability of DLT platform La risoluzione e' disponibile all'indirizzo http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P8-TA-2… -- Guido Guido Noto La Diega, PhD FHEA Senior Lecturer / European Research Partnerships Coordinator @ Northumbria Law School Director @italiot | Fellow @nexacenter | Co-convenor @NINSOrig | Co-founder @DPA2018 Northumbria Law School City Campus East, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST noto.la.diega(a)gmail.com<mailto:noto.la.diega@gmail.com> +44(0)191 349 5562 You can access my papers on Academia.edu<http://northumbria.academia.edu/GuidoNotoLaDiega> and on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1794950>) 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. Unless necessary, please do not print this e-mail.

Nov. 28, 2018

Blockchain - Risoluzione del Parlamento Europeo

by Guido Noto La Diega

Il Parlamento Europeo ha adottato una risoluzione sulla blockchain Fra le altre cose, il Parlamento Calls for an assessment of governance models within the diverse consensus mechanisms under development, taking into account the potential needs of intermediary systems, actors and organisations in order to validate and verify the authenticity of the exchanges and to prevent fraudulent behaviour in good time; Calls on the Commission to explore the possibility of creating an EU-wide, highly scalable and interoperable network that makes use of the technological resources of educational institutions in the Union, with a view to adopting this technology for sharing data and information, thus contributing to the more effective recognition of academic and professional qualifications Calls on the Commission to closely monitor technological developments (such as quantum computing), assess technological risks, support resilience to a cyberattack or a system breakdown, and promote data protection projects that ensure the sustainability of DLT platform La risoluzione e' disponibile all'indirizzo http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P8-TA-2… -- Guido Guido Noto La Diega, PhD FHEA Senior Lecturer / European Research Partnerships Coordinator @ Northumbria Law School Director @italiot | Fellow @nexacenter | Co-convenor @NINSOrig | Co-founder @DPA2018 Northumbria Law School City Campus East, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST noto.la.diega(a)gmail.com +44(0)191 349 5562 You can access my papers on Academia.edu <http://northumbria.academia.edu/GuidoNotoLaDiega> and on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1794950>) 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. Unless necessary, please do not print this e-mail.

Nov. 28, 2018

We are Google employees. Google must drop Dragonfly.

by Giacomo

> Our opposition to Dragonfly is not about China: > we object to technologies that aid the powerful > in oppressing the vulnerable, wherever they may be. > The Chinese government certainly isn’t alone in > its readiness to stifle freedom of expression, and > to use surveillance to repress dissent. Dragonfly > in China would establish a dangerous precedent > at a volatile political moment, one that would > make it harder for Google to deny other countries > similar concessions. https://medium.com/@googlersagainstdragonfly/we-are-google-employees-google…

Nov. 28, 2018

The Monopolization of America

by Luigi Scorca

In one industry after another, big companies have become more dominant over the past 15 years, new data show. A must read, in my view. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/25/opinion/monopolies-in-the-us.html

Nov. 27, 2018

From Airbnb to city bikes, the ‘sharing economy’ has been bought up by big money | Evgeny Morozov | Opinion | The Guardian

by Alberto Cammozzo

<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/27/airbnb-city-bikes-sha…> Of all the ideologies spawned by Silicon Valley, that of techno-populism – the making of empty promises on the basis of seismic digital disruption – is the strangest. Promising a world of immediate and painless personal empowerment, techno-populism is ambiguous enough to unite big tech firms, startups, cryptocurrency aficionados and even some political parties. The history is murky, but we do know the date when it went mainstream. It can be traced to Time magazine’s selection, in 2006, of “You” – the millions of ordinary people behind the user-generated web of the 2000s – as its Person of the Year. That choice ingrained techno-populist themes deep into our collective unconscious. While actual contributors to sites such as Wikipedia or Flickr were relatively few, the celebration of them delayed and deflected questions about corporate power and the durability of the emerging digital utopia. Just a few years later, that utopia was no more: highly centralised and dominated by a handful of platforms, the web was a shadow of its former eccentric self. When Uber and Airbnb were young, it was easy to believe a global revolution would liberate informal economic activity In 2018, the omnipotent creative user of 2006 has become a zombie-like content junkie, lethally addicted to scrolling and liking, forever trapped in the invisible cages of data brokers. A noble effort to make everyone an honorary member of the Bloomsbury group has instead condemned all of us to the eternal rosters of Cambridge Analytica. [...]

Nov. 27, 2018

Designing Proof of Human-work Puzzles, for Cryptocurrency and Beyond

by Alberto Cammozzo

Ero sicuro che qualcuno avrebbe pensato a combinare digital labor e bitcoin mining (bastava cercare "human proof of work"). Chiaramente saranno solo attività "fun, educational and beneficial to society". L'immagine di un capannone pieno di diseredati che cliccano captcha evidentemente non sfiora gli autori... <https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/145.pdf> [...] At its core, Bitcoin’s distributed consensus protocol is based on moderately hard Proofs of Work (PoW) [24]. In Bitcoin the Hashcash [3] PoW puzzles are used to extend the blockchain, a cryptographic data-structure in which the public ledger is recorded. A PoW puzzle should be moderately hard for a computer to solve, but the PoW solution should be easy for a computer to verify. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin require that this hardness parameter of PoW puzzles be tunable. An adversary would need to control 51% of the computational power in the Bitcoin network to be able to alter the blockchain and prevent users from reaching the correct consensus 1 . While Bitcoin cleverly avoids the Sybil attack by using PoW puzzles, there are still many undesirable features of this distributed consensus protocol. For example, construcing the proofs of work is energy intensive making the mining process in this distributed consensus protocol environmentally unfriendly. Furthermore, the mining process is dominated by a smaller number of professional miners with customized hardware making it unprofitable for others to join — this raises the natural concern that a few professional miners might collude to alter the public ledger [47]. Indeed, the mining pool GHash.io 2 recently exceeded 50% of the computational power in Bitcoin. While other techniques like Proofs of Space [48, 26] or Proofs of Stake [8] have been proposed to build the blockchain in a distributed consensus protocol each of these techniques has its own drawbacks. It is clearly desirable to find new techniques for reaching a stable distributed consensus. In this paper we ask the following question: Is it possible to design proof of human-work puzzles that are suitable for a decentralized cryptocurrency? We believe that a cryptocurrency based on Proof of Human-work might offer many advantages over other approaches. First, the mining process would be eco-friendly. Second, instead of wasting ‘human cycles,’ it might be possible to base the proofs of human work on activities that are fun [35], educational [34] or even beneficial to society [57, 36]. Third, proofs of human work are fair by nature in the sense that two individuals will generally perform a comparable amount of work to produce a proof of human work. Thus, professional or rich miners would not have an significant advantage over regular users. [...]

Nov. 26, 2018

Le Fake News sulle Fake News -

by J.C. DE MARTIN

http://www.datamediahub.it/2018/11/26/le-fake-news-sulle-fake-news/ (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

Nov. 26, 2018

Droni. Artefatti e oggetti intelligenti | 26 novembre, Torino

by Francesco Ruggiero

Gentilissimi, vi segnalo un incontro in programma il *26 novembre, ore 18-20*, al Circolo dei Lettori di Torino, in via Bogino 9. Tema: *“Droni. Artefatti e oggetti intelligenti”.* L’incontro sarà introdotto da *Maurizio Ferraris* (Università di Torino). Interverranno *Antonio Vetrò *(Nexa Center for Internet & Society), *Filippo Santoni De Sio* (Delft University), *Marzia Soavi* (Università di Padova) ed *Enrico Terrone *(Università di Torino) in qualità di moderatore. Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili all’indirizzo: https://www.circololettori.it/scienza-nuova-3-2/ Cordiali saluti, Francesco -- 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

Nov. 25, 2018

"Joseph Stiglitz: education effort on post-war scale needed for AI"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

*Joseph Stiglitz: education effort on post-war scale needed for AI** */Nobel laureate warns of greater inequality and ‘new era of fascism’ if AI impact on work not ‘managed’// / September 14, 2018 By John Morgan Major public investment in higher and other levels of education akin to the US’ investment after the Second World War is essential to help “manage” the rise of AI, which could otherwise bring a “new era of fascism”, according to economist and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz. The Columbia University professor delivered a lecture as part of the Royal Society’s ‘You and AI’ series, in which he said a key issue was AI’s potential to bring a further rise in inequality by making some jobs obsolete. [...] https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/joseph-stiglitz-education-effort-…

Nov. 25, 2018