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US: HART Will Include Face Recognition, DNA, and Peoples’ “Non-Obvious Relationships”
by Giacomo Tesio June 11, 2018

June 11, 2018

> > The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is quietly building what > will likely become the largest database of biometric and biographic data on > citizens and foreigners in the United States. The agency’s new Homeland > Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) > <http://www.planetbiometrics.com/article-details/i/5614/desc/dhs-reveals-det…> > database will include multiple forms of biometrics—from face recognition > <https://www.eff.org/pages/face-recognition> to DNA, data from > questionable sources, and highly personal data on innocent people. It will > be shared with federal agencies outside of DHS as well as state and local > law enforcement and foreign governments. And yet, we still know very little > about it. > > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/hart-homeland-securitys-massive-new-d… Giacomo

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109° Mercoledì di Nexa | 13 giugno 2018
by Nexa Media June 11, 2018

June 11, 2018

Nexa Center for Internet and Society Newsletter Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-109> NEXA 109° Mercoledì di Nexa Mercoledì 13 giugno 2018, ore 18.00 - 20.00 Politecnico di Torino http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-109 Social reading e promozione della lettura. La case history edtech di TwLetteratura e Betwyll Speaker Edoardo Montenegro (Betwyll) This event will be webcast live: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events Nel 2012, a partire da alcuni esperimenti con gli /Esercizi di stile/ di Raymond Queneau e le /Lezioni americane/ di Italo Calvino, TwLetteratura ha dato vita su Twitter ad una community di lettori che coinvolge scuole e università in Italia e all’estero, impegnate a leggere e commentare i testi letterari con brevi messaggi di 140 caratteri sulla webapp Betwyll. Attraverso un laboratorio di social reading dedicato a un brano di /Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep/ di Philip K. Dick ci chiederemo se e *come l’integrazione fra lettura e social networking può trasformare il modo in cui apprendiamo dai testi scritti*: * la lettura su carta è davvero destinata ad essere un giorno sostituita dalla lettura su schermo? * l’intromissione del lettore e dei suoi commenti nel contenuto finiscono per impoverirlo o arricchirlo? * il social networking è un elemento di rumore e distrazione o uno strumento di apprendimento? A partire da questa case history e allargando lo sguardo a *come sta evolvendo l’ecosistema edtech*, confronteremo il percorso di innovazione dal basso che ha preso corpo in Italia con i casi di altri paesi, fra cui Israele e la Svezia, in cui l’innovazione sembra muoversi lungo una direttrice diversa. BIOGRAFIE - e informazioni supplementari [Montenegro] *Edoardo MONTENEGRO* è nato a Torino nel 1976. Si è laureato in Scienze della Comunicazione all'Università di Torino e ha conseguito un Master in Marketing e e-Commerce alla SDA Bocconi. Lavora nel settore bancario nel 1997, occupandosi di comunicazione e change management. Dal 2005 al 2010 ha insegnato scrittura argomentativa ai laboratori di scrittura dell'Università di Torino. Attraverso l'esperienza dei blog ha poi iniziato a sperimentare alcuni esercizi di social reading su Twitter. Nel 2012 ha co-fondato con Paolo Costa e Pierluigi Vaccaneo TwLetteratura, una community di social reading che promuove la lettura digitale e un uso consapevole dei social network. Nel 2016 da TwLetteratura è nata Betwyll Srl, startup che offre servizi di social reading a università e imprese, di cui è oggi vice presidente e chief marketing officer. *Letture consigliate e link utili:* * AA.VV., /Promoting Reading in the Digital Environment. Report of the Working Group of EU Member States Experts’ on Promoting Reading in the Digital Environment Under the Method of Coordination/ <https://publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/9052931a…>, Brussels, 2016. * Italo Calvino, /Lezioni americane/, Milano, Garzanti, 1988. * Raymond Queneau,/Exercices de Style/, Paris, Gallimard, 1947 (/Esercizi di stile/, tr. it. di Umberto Eco, Torino, Einaudi, 1983). * Philip K. Dick, /Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?/, New York, Doubleday, 1968. 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. Responsabile Comunicazione Centro Nexa su Internet & Società: *Francesco Ruggiero*, tel: +39 011 090 7219, Mob: +39 349 1335082, francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it <mailto:francesco.ruggiero@polito.it>. 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. 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"Near-Collapse of ZTE May Be China’s Sputnik Moment"
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 11, 2018

June 11, 2018

Eh già. E l'Europa - Germania inclusa? jc *Near-Collapse of ZTE May Be China’s Sputnik Moment* By Li Yuan June 10, 2018 HONG KONG — Once derided as a technology backwater and copycat, China is justifiably proud of its technology boom. Its people zip around the country on high-speed trains. They can buy, and pay for, just about anything with their smartphones. For Chinese traveling abroad, the rest of the world can seem slow and antiquated. Now, that progress has been cast into doubt, and even some of the smartest people in the technology world are asking how they got it so wrong. The Trump administration gave ZTE, which employs 75,000 people and is the world’s No. 4 maker of telecom gear, a stay of execution on Thursday. ZTE, which had violated American sanctions, agreed to pay a $1 billion fine and to allow monitors to set up shop in its headquarters. In return, the company — once a symbol of China’s progress and engineering know-how — will be allowed to buy the American-made microchips, software and other tools it needs to survive. China’s technology boom, it turns out, has been largely built on top of Western technology. The ZTE incident, as it is called in China, may be the country’s Sputnik moment. Like the United States in 1957, watching helplessly as the Soviet Union launched the first human-made satellite, many people in China now see how far the country still has to go. […] Continua qui: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/10/technology/china-technology-zte-sputnik-…

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Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened?
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 8, 2018

June 8, 2018

https://blog.growthbot.org/chatbots-were-the-next-big-thing-what-happened Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened? Justin Lee Oh, how the headlines blared: “…the 2016 bot paradigm shift is going to be far more disruptive and interesting than the last decade’s move from Web to mobile apps.” Chatbots were The Next Big Thing. Our hopes were sky high. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, the industry was ripe for a new era of innovation: it was time to start socializing with machines. And why wouldn’t they be? All the road signs pointed towards insane success. [...] (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Ciclo di seminari: Le legacy urbane tra patrimonio, diritti e innovazione | 11 giugno, Torino
by Francesco Ruggiero June 8, 2018

June 8, 2018

Carissimi, vi segnalo che l’*11 giugno 2018 *alle ore* 17:30, *prenderà il via il *Ciclo di seminari: Le legacy urbane tra patrimonio, diritti e innovazione <http://urbanlegacylab.net/events/le-legacy-urbane-tra-patrimonio-diritti-e-…>, *organizzato dal centro interdipartimentale* FULL - the Future Urban Legacy Lab.* La prima lecture, che avrà luogo presso il *Salone d’Onore del Castello del Valentino*, a Torino, sarà tenuta dal *Prof. Carlo Olm**o* affiancato dal *Prof. Matteo Robiglio* nel ruolo di discussant. *Le legacy urbane tra patrimonio, diritti e innovazione *è un ciclo di incontri seminariali a due voci per esplorare il senso e le implicazioni della parola-chiave di F*UL*L.Il dibattito ha l’obiettivo di produrre le basi teoriche per riformulare il concetto di Legacy urbana. E’ necessario creare un lessico che sostenga questo concetto.I luoghi comuni del Novecento non esistono più, le narrazioni legate a questi luoghi non sono più sufficienti per descrivere ciò che ne rimane. Alla fine del secolo scorso si passa da parole chiave fondate sulla storia dell’industria, a parole chiave di natura urbana e fondate sull’‘assenza’, il vuoto diventa patrimonio e edifici o frammenti di edifici entrano a pieno diritto nei processi di patrimonializzazione, ponendo il problema della continua ricostruzione di una memoria rimossa. La sfida è quella di ricostruire un vocabolario con la necessaria profondità storica, che possa costituire la “base comune” di un progetto che ambisce a ridefinire la legacy di una città industriale che oggi ha bisogno dell’argomentazione su cui fondare la propria legittimità, i propri confini, i propri attori e le proprie retoriche. Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili alla pagina: http://urbanlegacylab.net/events/le-legacy-urbane-tra-patrimonio-diritti-e-… Cordiali saluti, -- 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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Unproven facial-recognition companies target schools, promising an end to shootings
by Alberto Cammozzo June 8, 2018

June 8, 2018

<https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/unproven-facial-recognition…> The facial-recognition cameras installed near the bounce houses at the Warehouse, an after-school recreation center in Bloomington, Ind., are aimed low enough to scan the face of every parent, teenager and toddler who walks in. The center’s executive director, David Weil, learned earlier this year of the surveillance system from a church newsletter, and within six weeks he had bought his own, believing it promised a security breakthrough that was both affordable and cutting-edge. Since last month, the system has logged thousands of visitors’ faces — alongside their names, phone numbers and other personal details — and checked them against a regularly updated blacklist of sex offenders and unwanted guests. The system’s Israeli developer, Face-Six, also promotes it for use in prisons and drones. “Some parents still think it’s kind of ‘1984,’ ” said Weil, whose 21-month-old granddaughter is among the scanned. “A lot of people are afraid we’re getting too much information. . . . But the biggest thing for us is that we protect our kids.” An expanding web of largely unknown security contractors is marketing face recognition directly to school and community-center leaders, pitching the technology as an all-seeing shield against school shootings like those at Parkland, Fla., and Santa Fe, Tex. Although facial recognition remains unproven as a deterrent to school shootings, the specter of classroom violence and companies’ intensifying marketing to local education officials could cement the more than 130,000 public and private schools nationwide as one of America’s premier testing grounds — both for the technology’s abilities and for public acceptance of a new generation of mass surveillance. The surveillance firms say little about how they designed, tested or safeguarded their facial-recognition systems because, they argue, it is proprietary information. They also play down privacy concerns, despite worries from parents over the lack of oversight into who controls the children’s facial images and how they can be used in the long term. “We’ve gotten no answers to all these questions: Under what conditions can a kid’s face be put into the system? Does the district need parental consent? Who can do a facial-recognition search?” said Jim Shultz, whose 15-year-old daughter goes to a high school in Upstate New York that is paying millions to install a surveillance network offering facial recognition. “It’s as if somebody presented them with a cool new car and they didn’t bother to look under the hood.” It’s unclear how the systems could have thwarted past attacks, many of which involved shooters who were students allowed on campus. But companies have nevertheless built sales pitches around the promise that campus administrators could block or track undesirable guests — wanted fugitives, problematic parents and expelled students, such as the Parkland suspect — before their violence could begin. “We were all waiting for something like the Parkland school shooting, for better or for worse,” said Jacob Sniff, the chief executive of Suspect Technologies, a facial-recognition start-up working with a few unidentified universities. “It’s quite clear that a facial-recognition system could have . . . prevented it.” Parents and privacy experts worry, however, that schools are rushing to adopt**untested and invasive artificial-intelligence systems with no proof of success. /[Amazon is selling facial recognition to law enforcement — for a fistful of dollars <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/05/22/amazon-is-sell…>]/ Andrew Ferguson, a law professor at the University of the District of Columbia, said surveillance companies are preying on the dread of community leaders by selling experimental “security theater” systems that offer only the appearance of safer schools. “These companies are taking advantage of the genuine fear and almost impotence of parents who want to protect their kids,” he said, “and they’re selling them surveillance technology at a cost that will do very little to protect them.” [...]

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Workers at Google just scored an impressive victory against US militarism
by Luigi Scorca June 6, 2018

June 6, 2018

Google employees have led a campaign demanding that the company terminate its contract with the Pentagon for Project Maven, a program that uses machine learning to improve targeting for drone strikes. Nearly five thousand Google workers signed an internal petition to cancel the project, and dozens resigned. https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/google-project-maven-military-tech-workers

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92 million accounts for DNA testing site MyHeritage found online
by gabriele elia June 6, 2018

June 6, 2018

Sembra sui dati si possa dire “se sono nel cloud, prima o poi qualcuno se li prende” :( https://www.zdnet.com/article/92-million-accounts-for-dna-testing-site-myhe… 92 million accounts for DNA testing site MyHeritage found online The company announced the exposure revealed email addresses and hashed passwords. By Zack Whittaker<https://www.zdnet.com/meet-the-team/us/zack-whittaker/> for Zero Day<https://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/> | June 5, 2018 -- 20:44 GMT (21:44 BST) | Topic: Security<https://www.zdnet.com/topic/security/> · 0<https://www.zdnet.com/article/92-million-accounts-for-dna-testing-site-myhe…> · 2 · · · · [tree.jpg] (Image: file photo) DNA testing site MyHeritage<https://www.myheritage.com/> has said the company has been hacked. The Israel-based company said in a blog post<https://blog.myheritage.com/2018/06/myheritage-statement-about-a-cybersecur…> this week that a security researcher found a file containing 92.2 million account records, including email addresses and scrambled passwords<https://www.zdnet.com/pictures/the-dumbest-passwords-people-still-use/>. The company said the breach affected all accounts up to and including to October 26, 2017. "There has been no evidence that the data in the file was ever used by the perpetrators," said Omer Deutsch, the company's chief information security officer in a blog post<https://blog.myheritage.com/2018/06/myheritage-statement-about-a-cybersecur…>, adding that the company has not seen any indication that the accounts had been compromised. The company didn't name the security researcher.<https://www.zdnet.com/article/chilling-effect-lawsuits-threaten-security-re…> MyHeritage allows users to search a vast trove of genealogy records to build up family trees and discover the histories of their ancestors.

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deliveroo: i ragazzi in spagna sono dipendenti secondo una corte
by Stefano Quintarelli June 5, 2018

June 5, 2018

https://goo.gl/yNFDS2 Primera Sentencia que Condena a Deliveroo y declara la Laboralidad del Rider ciao!, s.

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"Big data. Connessioni e pluralismo". 8 giugno 2018, 9.30, Roma. Camera dei Deputati
by Luigi Scorca June 5, 2018

June 5, 2018

https://t.co/9YOVtJO968?amp=1

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