January 2019 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Ai al servizio dell'uomo

by don Luca Peyron

Buongiorno a voi tutti, Un contributo dalle nostre "bande" Affiancare etica e tecnologia per un’intelligenza artificiale che ponga sempre al centro l’uomo e sia al servizio di un autentico sviluppo. Ma servono nuovi criteri, categorie e linguaggi. E occorre sviluppare un’etica degli algoritmi. Intervista a tutto campo con Paolo Benanti, docente di etica delle tecnologie e membro del Gruppo di esperti del Mise https://agensir.it/italia/2019/01/24/intelligenza-artificiale-paolo-benanti…

Jan. 24, 2019

Ethical design is not superficial

by Giacomo Tesio

> We should embrace being uncomfortable. > We live in a political and social hellscape. > The majority of us have no job security, we can’t afford > houses and we can’t afford to have families. Many of us > can’t even afford healthcare. None of this is comfortable, > so we may as well do something to change that for our > futures, and for future generations. > > There’s no point wasting time pretending to be ethical > when we could spend that time learning to have a real > impact. If you aren’t able to do that with your current > employer, find another, ethical employer. https://laurakalbag.com/ethical-design-is-not-superficial/

Jan. 24, 2019

Italian lawmaker requests details of new police facial recognition system | BiometricUpdate

by Alberto Cammozzo

E ancora nessuno parla di SARI real-time... <https://www.biometricupdate.com/201901/italian-lawmaker-requests-details-of…> An Italian legislator is requesting more information about the facial recognition system recently introduced for use by Italian police, which draws on a database of 16 million mugshots, or roughly one in three Italian adults, ZDNet reports. Five Star Movement MP Federico D’Inca has filed a question in parliament requesting details about SARI (Automated System for Image Recognition), which was officially launched after an eight-month trial in July of last year. Former MP Stefano Quintarelli questioned the system’s mandate on social media, but police and the Italian Data Protection Authority have said SARI simply extends the utility of its AFIS system from fingerprints to facial biometrics. “If before we could describe the physical appearance of a subject, identified by a picture, only by manually entering the written information into our database, now we can enter the picture itself into the system,” forensics department official Fabiola Mancone told ANSA, Italy’s national press agency, according to ZDNet. Of the 16 million people in the database, 7 million have been stopped repeatedly by police, while the other 9 million have had their picture taken once by police. D’Inca is requesting details about how images are selected, how long they are stored for, who has access to them, and whether the database has gone through penetration testing. He also asks about the two versions of SARI, the currently deployed system for comparing images, and the yet-to-launch real-time facial recognition analysis of public camera feeds to detect people on a watchlist. “We are not against the SARI itself, which could prove useful. However, these technologies could in theory undermine the privacy and freedom of citizens in ways previously unheard of. It is therefore necessary to carefully monitor their deployment,” D’Inca tells ZDNet. Law enforcement officials’ responses have not yet been delivered in parliament. Biometric data retention policies are increasingly under scrutiny, as more facial recognition systems are deployed for law enforcement applications.

Jan. 23, 2019

Face recognition: Are Italy's police using millions more mugshots than is legal?

by Alberto Cammozzo

<https://www.zdnet.com/article/face-recognition-are-italys-police-using-mill…> Italy's police have been using a new facial-recognition system for the past few months. It's based on a database of 16 million mugshots, nine million of which belong to people who have been identified by the police only once, while the other seven million are of individuals who have been stopped repeatedly. Officially introduced in July last year following an eight-month testing phase, SARI (Automated System for Image Recognition) has already helped in the arrests of shoplifters <http://www.arezzonotizie.it/cronaca/riconoscimento-visivo-dalle-telecamere-…> and burglars <http://www.veronasera.it/cronaca/svaligiano-casa-anziana-ladri-riconoscimen…> across the country. But it's also raised doubts and questions about its legality. The first question mark surfaced over the number of people included in the database. As former MP and well-known technology expert Stefano Quintarelli noted <https://twitter.com/quinta/status/1038132627402838016> on Twitter, a record set of 16 million faces in a population of roughly 50 million adults would correspond to roughly one in three Italians, excluding teenagers, being put on record. "When did we decide such a listing?" Quintarelli asked rhetorically. In an official statement, the State police described <http://www.poliziadistato.it/articolo/135b92536bb3957899899171> the new system as a more advanced interface of AFIS, the automated fingerprint identification system that's been in use for many years and which contains not only the fingerprints but also mugshots of suspects. "If before we could describe the physical appearance of a subject, identified by a picture, only by manually entering the written information into our database, now we can enter the picture itself into the system," forensics department official Fabiola Mancone told <https://quifinanza.it/innovazione/video/polizia-sari-riconoscimento-volti/2…> national press agency ANSA. In other words, the new system is simply far more effective and less time-consuming than the previous one, but not really a change of paradigm or a threat to the privacy of citizens. That was also the thinking of the Italian Data Protection Authority, which in July last year issued <https://www.garanteprivacy.it/web/guest/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb…> an opinion that found SARI to be perfectly compliant with the law. Still, neither this statement, nor the material released by the police seemed capable of fully explaining the origin of the 16 million-picture database used by the police, because the AFIS fingerprint system alone does not seem to justify that number. In the ensuing debate, Five Stars MP Federico D'Inca filed a parliamentary question <http://aic.camera.it/aic/scheda.html?numero=4-01149&ramo=C&leg=18>, asking for more details on SARI. His question focused mainly on asking for more information about how the pictures had been selected, how long they will be stored, who can access them, and whether penetration tests aimed at ensuring the security of the database had been performed. In another part of the question document, D'Inca relates to the SARI system being available in two versions. The first version is the one currently deployed, based on an existing dataset of images; the second, still to be implemented, will instead analyze the live camera feeds of people attending public events to compare them to a watchlist of persons of interest for the law-enforcement agency. The process is similar to that trialed <https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-live-facial-recognition-system-is-being-…> in the UK by the Metropolitan Police in central London in December. Tommaso Scannicchio, lawyer and fellow of the Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights, stressed <https://medium.com/@ORARiccardo/anche-litalia-si-%C3%A8-munita-di-un-sistem…> how, by making participants at public events feel under surveillance, this real-time system could engender a 'chilling' effect <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect>, described by Wikipedia as "the inhibition or discouragement of the legitimate exercise of natural and legal rights by the threat of legal sanction". Considering the breath-taking speed at which new technologies are implemented, the time to assess the pros and cons of the system before its use becomes widespread might be limited. "We are not against the SARI itself, which could prove useful. However, these technologies could in theory undermine the privacy and freedom of citizens in ways previously unheard of. It is therefore necessary to carefully monitor their deployment," D'Inca tells ZDNet. At the time of writing, his parliamentary question has still to be answered.

Jan. 23, 2019

Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

by Giacomo Tesio

> If this (quite limited) declarativeNetRequest API ends up being > the only way content blockers can accomplish their duty, this > essentially means that two content blockers I have maintained > for years, uBlock Origin ("uBO") and uMatrix, can no longer exist. > > Beside causing uBO and uMatrix to no longer be able to exist, > it's really concerning that the proposed declarativeNetRequest > API will make it impossible to come up with new and novel > filtering engine designs, as the declarativeNetRequest API is > no more than the implementation of one specific filtering > engine, and a rather limited one (the 30,000 limit is not > sufficient to enforce the famous EasyList alone). https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897&desc=2#c23 Giacomo

Jan. 23, 2019

Re: [nexa] Facebook pumps $7.5m into an independent AI ethics centre (c/o Uni Munich)

by Giacomo Tesio

Infatti mi chiedo: tutte le assunzioni saranno a tempo determinato, perché essendo vincolati mani e piedi ad un unico cliente^W finanziatore... Quanto durerebbe al TUM un ricercatore che proponesse di vietare l'utilizzo di blackbox su dati di origine umana? Che proponesse un semplice principio etico: nessun essere umano può essere oggetto dell'elaborazione di un software di cui i suoi concittadini non siano pienamente in grado di comprendere e prevedere il comportamento. In realtà però non so dire se in Italia sarebbe molto diverso. Giacomo On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 17:57, Giorgio Fontana <g.fontana(a)kelios.it> wrote: > Sarà un po' meno indipendente ed un po' meno etico... > > Il giorno mar 22 gen 2019 alle ore 17:47 gabriele elia < > gabriele.elia(a)live.com> ha scritto: > >> quante università italiane hanno 7.5 Mni€ di budget per AI? e quante da >> una solo convenzione? >> >> >> https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2019/01/21/facebook-independent… >> >> <https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2019/01/21/facebook-independent…> >> Facebook pumps $7.5m into an independent AI ethics centre >> <https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2019/01/21/facebook-independent…> >> An independent AI ethics research centre is set to receive $7.5 million >> of funding courtesy of the folks at Facebook. The new research centre is >> called the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence and was created >> in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich (TUM). >> www.artificialintelligence-news.com >> >> >> >> An independent AI ethics research centre is set to receive $7.5 million >> of funding courtesy of the folks at Facebook. >> >> The new research centre is called the Institute for Ethics in Artificial >> Intelligence and was created in collaboration with the Technical University >> of Munich (TUM). >> >> Facebook, like many companies, is fighting outside concerns about the >> development of AI and its potential societal impact. The centre should help >> to ensure Facebook keeps up with ethical best practices. >> >> Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, Director of Applied Machine Learning at >> Facebook, wrote in a blog post: >> >> “At Facebook, ensuring the responsible and thoughtful use of AI is >> foundational to everything we do — from the data labels we use, to the >> individual algorithms we build, to the systems they are a part of. >> >> We’re developing new tools like Fairness Flow, which can help generate >> metrics for evaluating whether there are unintended biases in certain >> models. We also work with groups like the Partnership for AI, of which >> Facebook is a founding member, and the AI4People initiative. >> >> However, AI poses complex problems which industry alone cannot answer, >> and the independent academic contributions of the Institute will play a >> crucial role in furthering ethical research on these topics.” >> >> Independent, evidence-based research will be conducted by the institute >> to provide insight and guidance for society, industry, legislators, and >> decision-makers across the private and public sectors. >> >> Furthermore, the institute wants to specifically address the concerns >> surrounding AI such as safety, privacy, fairness, and transparency. >> _______________________________________________ >> nexa mailing list >> nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it >> https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa >> > > > -- > Diventa fan della nostra pagina Facebook > https://www.facebook.com/flaneurbnb > <http://www.facebook.com/socialmediaservice> > > Giorgio Fontana > cellulare 392 5164800 > http://www.facebook.com/giorgio.fontana > http://twitter.com/giorgio_fontana# > http://it.linkedin.com/in/giorgiofontana > https://www.youtube.com/user/MrGiorgiofontana > https://www.youtube.com/user/Froogon > > Flaneur bed n book > http://www.flaneurbnbroma.it/ > > Membro del comitato scientifico di *Media Duemila* > http://www.mediaduemila.it/ > > *blog* professionali > http://www.socialmediaitalia.com > <http://www.italiageomagazine.info> > *Curatela* > > social content curator cyberantropologia in: > http://www.scoop.it/t/la-scimmia-nuda-e-internet > Co-conduttore del gruppo:La scimmia Nuda ed Internet > https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/groups/scimmianudaeinternet/ > > Visual Curation in Pinterest: > http://pinterest.com/giorgiofontana/ > > Presentazioni > Prezi <http://prezi.com/user/giorgiofontana/> > <http://www.mediaduemila.it/> > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa >

Jan. 23, 2019

Re: [nexa] Facebook pumps $7.5m into an independent AI ethics centre (c/o Uni Munich)

by Giorgio Fontana

Sarà un po' meno indipendente ed un po' meno etico... Il giorno mar 22 gen 2019 alle ore 17:47 gabriele elia < gabriele.elia(a)live.com> ha scritto: > quante università italiane hanno 7.5 Mni€ di budget per AI? e quante da > una solo convenzione? > > > https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2019/01/21/facebook-independent… > > <https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2019/01/21/facebook-independent…> > Facebook pumps $7.5m into an independent AI ethics centre > <https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2019/01/21/facebook-independent…> > An independent AI ethics research centre is set to receive $7.5 million of > funding courtesy of the folks at Facebook. The new research centre is > called the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence and was created > in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich (TUM). > www.artificialintelligence-news.com > > > > An independent AI ethics research centre is set to receive $7.5 million of > funding courtesy of the folks at Facebook. > > The new research centre is called the Institute for Ethics in Artificial > Intelligence and was created in collaboration with the Technical University > of Munich (TUM). > > Facebook, like many companies, is fighting outside concerns about the > development of AI and its potential societal impact. The centre should help > to ensure Facebook keeps up with ethical best practices. > > Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, Director of Applied Machine Learning at > Facebook, wrote in a blog post: > > “At Facebook, ensuring the responsible and thoughtful use of AI is > foundational to everything we do — from the data labels we use, to the > individual algorithms we build, to the systems they are a part of. > > We’re developing new tools like Fairness Flow, which can help generate > metrics for evaluating whether there are unintended biases in certain > models. We also work with groups like the Partnership for AI, of which > Facebook is a founding member, and the AI4People initiative. > > However, AI poses complex problems which industry alone cannot answer, and > the independent academic contributions of the Institute will play a crucial > role in furthering ethical research on these topics.” > > Independent, evidence-based research will be conducted by the institute to > provide insight and guidance for society, industry, legislators, and > decision-makers across the private and public sectors. > > Furthermore, the institute wants to specifically address the concerns > surrounding AI such as safety, privacy, fairness, and transparency. > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > -- Diventa fan della nostra pagina Facebook https://www.facebook.com/flaneurbnb <http://www.facebook.com/socialmediaservice> Giorgio Fontana cellulare 392 5164800 http://www.facebook.com/giorgio.fontana http://twitter.com/giorgio_fontana# http://it.linkedin.com/in/giorgiofontana https://www.youtube.com/user/MrGiorgiofontana https://www.youtube.com/user/Froogon Flaneur bed n book http://www.flaneurbnbroma.it/ Membro del comitato scientifico di *Media Duemila* http://www.mediaduemila.it/ *blog* professionali http://www.socialmediaitalia.com <http://www.italiageomagazine.info> *Curatela* social content curator cyberantropologia in: http://www.scoop.it/t/la-scimmia-nuda-e-internet Co-conduttore del gruppo:La scimmia Nuda ed Internet https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/groups/scimmianudaeinternet/ Visual Curation in Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/giorgiofontana/ Presentazioni Prezi <http://prezi.com/user/giorgiofontana/> <http://www.mediaduemila.it/>

Jan. 22, 2019

Facebook pumps $7.5m into an independent AI ethics centre (c/o Uni Munich)

by gabriele elia

quante università italiane hanno 7.5 Mni€ di budget per AI? e quante da una solo convenzione? https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2019/01/21/facebook-independent… [https://i2.wp.com/www.artificialintelligence-news.com/wp-content/uploads/20…]<https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2019/01/21/facebook-independent…> Facebook pumps $7.5m into an independent AI ethics centre<https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2019/01/21/facebook-independent…> An independent AI ethics research centre is set to receive $7.5 million of funding courtesy of the folks at Facebook. The new research centre is called the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence and was created in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich (TUM). www.artificialintelligence-news.com An independent AI ethics research centre is set to receive $7.5 million of funding courtesy of the folks at Facebook. The new research centre is called the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence and was created in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Facebook, like many companies, is fighting outside concerns about the development of AI and its potential societal impact. The centre should help to ensure Facebook keeps up with ethical best practices. Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, Director of Applied Machine Learning at Facebook, wrote in a blog post: “At Facebook, ensuring the responsible and thoughtful use of AI is foundational to everything we do — from the data labels we use, to the individual algorithms we build, to the systems they are a part of. We’re developing new tools like Fairness Flow, which can help generate metrics for evaluating whether there are unintended biases in certain models. We also work with groups like the Partnership for AI, of which Facebook is a founding member, and the AI4People initiative. However, AI poses complex problems which industry alone cannot answer, and the independent academic contributions of the Institute will play a crucial role in furthering ethical research on these topics.” Independent, evidence-based research will be conducted by the institute to provide insight and guidance for society, industry, legislators, and decision-makers across the private and public sectors. Furthermore, the institute wants to specifically address the concerns surrounding AI such as safety, privacy, fairness, and transparency.

Jan. 22, 2019

Itasec 2019 a Pisa dal 12 al 15 febbraio

by Arturo Di Corinto

Cari nexiani, forse alcuni di voi lo sanno, visto che Torino è un nodo del Laboratorio Nazionale di cybersecurity, ma vorrei ricordare a quelli che pensano di venire a Itasec19, la terza conferenza nazionale organizzata dal laboratorio che il giorno 27 termina la possibilità di iscriversi con uno sconto sostanziale alla conferenza. Per questo vi giro la lettera del presidente del CINI e direttore del Laboratorio, prof. Paolo Prinetto. un salutone --------------------------------> Sono ancora aperte le Early Registration a ITA*SEC*19 <https://consorzio-cini.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=30db5cf0f27d2310f…> fino al 27 gennaio p.v.. ITA*SEC*, la prima Conferenza Italiana sulla Cybersecurity, è un evento annuale organizzato dal Laboratorio Nazionale di Cybersecurity del CINI. L’edizione 2019 si terrà a Pisa, presso la sede del CNR, dal 12 al 15 febbraio 2019. ITA*SEC*19 <https://consorzio-cini.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=30db5cf0f27d2310f…> inizierà martedì 12 febbraio con un’intera giornata dedicata a Workshop Scientifici e Tutorial: i primi approfondiranno aspetti legati alla ricerca, mentre i secondi illustreranno temi di interesse generale. ITA*SEC*19 <https://consorzio-cini.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=30db5cf0f27d2310f…> proseguirà poi da mercoledì 13 a venerdì 15 con la Conferenza organizzata in tre Spazi principali: lo *Spazio Stakeholder*, lo *Spazio Scientifico/Tecnico* e lo *Spazio Espositivo*. La partecipazione allo Spazio Stakeholder e allo Spazio Espositivo è gratuita. L’accesso al Workshop e Tutorial Day e a tutte le altre sessioni della Conferenza prevede invece una quota di registrazione. E’ obbligatorio per tutti registrarsi tramite il sito ufficiale www.itasec.it <https://consorzio-cini.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=30db5cf0f27d2310f…> al seguente link: https://consorzio-cini.formstack.com/forms/registration_to_ita_sec_2019 <https://consorzio-cini.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=30db5cf0f27d2310f…> . Sul sito sono riportati anche il programma completo e i dettagli sui vari aspetti logistici. Può seguirci su Twitter.@cybersecnatlab. <https://consorzio-cini.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=30db5cf0f27d2310f…> Con l'auspicio di poterla incontrare in occasione della Conferenza, colgo l’occasione per porgerle i più cordiali saluti. Prof. Paolo Prinetto Direttore del Laboratorio Nazionale di Cybersecurity - CINI -- Arturo Di Corinto www.dicorinto.it ---------------------------------> AVVERTENZE AI SENSI DEL D.Lgs. 196/2003 Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica e/o nel/i file/s allegato/i sono da considerarsi strettamente riservate. Il loro utilizzo è consentito esclusivamente al destinatario del messaggio, per le finalità indicate nel messaggio stesso. Qualora riceviate questo messaggio senza esserne il destinatario, Vi preghiamo cortesemente di darcene notizia via e-mail e di procedere alla distruzione del messaggio stesso, cancellandolo dal Vostro sistema. Conservare il messaggio stesso, divulgarlo anche in parte, distribuirlo ad altri soggetti, copiarlo, od utilizzarlo per finalità diverse, costituisce comportamento contrario ai principi dettati dal D.Lgs. 196/2003

Jan. 22, 2019

The CNIL’s restricted committee imposes a financial penalty of 50 Million euros against GOOGLE LLC

by Francesco Mecca

https://www.cnil.fr/en/cnils-restricted-committee-imposes-financial-penalty… On 21 January 2019, the CNIL’s restricted committee imposed a financial penalty of 50 Million euros against the company GOOGLE LLC, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), for lack of transparency, inadequate information and lack of valid consent regarding the ads personalization. -- Francesco Mecca me(a)francescomecca.eu

Jan. 22, 2019