October 2019 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

France to become first EU country to use nationwide facial recognition ID app

by Matteo Flora

France to become first EU country to use nationwide facial recognition ID app Alicem - an acronym for “certified online authentification on mobile" - is an application enabling “any individual who decides to use it to prove his identity on the internet in a secure manner,” says the interior ministry website. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/03/france-become-first-eu-country-…

Oct. 4, 2019

Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For? - The New York Times

by J.C. DE MARTIN

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/07/technology/tech-workers-ask-censorship-s… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

Oct. 4, 2019

The stockmarket is now run by computers, algorithms and passive managers

by gianluca quaglia

March of the machines The stockmarket is now run by computers, algorithms and passive managers Such a development raises questions about the function of markets, how companies are governed and financial stability FIFTY YEARS ago investing was a distinctly human affair. “People would have to take each other out, and dealers would entertain fund managers, and no one would know what the prices were,” says Ray Dalio, who worked on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in the early 1970s before founding Bridgewater Associates, now the world’s largest hedge fund. Technology was basic. Kenneth Jacobs, the boss of Lazard, an investment bank, remembers using a pocket calculator to analyse figures gleaned from company reports. His older colleagues used slide rules. Even by the 1980s “reading the /Wall Street Journal/ on your way into work, a television on the trading floor and a ticker tape” offered a significant information advantage, recalls one investor. [...] continua qui https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/10/05/the-stockmarket-is-now-run-by…

Oct. 3, 2019

In difesa dell'umanesimo

by don Luca Peyron

Articolo interessante, che deve poi essere integrato rispetto alle scelte che propone perchè umanesimo può significare molte cose come ben sappiamo. Buona lettura dl https://www.agendadigitale.eu/cultura-digitale/un-nuovo-umanesimo-contro-li… _________________________ www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

Oct. 3, 2019

Google contractors reportedly targeted homeless people for Pixel 4 facial recognition

by Matteo Flora

Google contractors reportedly targeted homeless people for Pixel 4 facial recognition According to several sources who allegedly worked on the project, a contracting agency named Randstad sent teams to Atlanta explicitly to target homeless people and those with dark skin, often without saying they were working for Google, and without letting on that they were actually recording people’s faces. https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/2/20896181/google-contractor-reportedly-ta…

Oct. 3, 2019

L'HuffPost: L’innovazione non funziona senza attivare il dna digitale delle persone

by don Luca Peyron

L'HuffPost: L’innovazione non funziona senza attivare il dna digitale delle persone. Alcune considerazioni condivisibili Buona lettura Dl https://www.huffingtonpost.it/entry/linnovazione-non-funziona-senza-attivar…

Oct. 3, 2019

Whose deaths matter? New research on Black Lives Matter and media attention

by Giacomo Tesio

Paper: https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/8782 Blog post: https://medium.com/@EthanZ/whose-deaths-matter-new-research-on-black-lives-… Media coverage of deaths of unarmed people of color at the hands of police sharply increased after the high-profile death of Michael Brown. We analyze a novel set of media data to understand reasons for this rise and to postulate a shift in reporting that treats these deaths as part of a larger pattern, crystallized around the “key event” of Michael Brown’s death rather than as unconnected incidents. We see a “news wave” that resulted in increased coverage and sharing of stories about deaths of people of color at the hands of police that aligned with activist efforts such as the Black Lives Matter movement. Our quantitative methods suggest a mechanism for tracking effectiveness of activist efforts to change the framing of important social phenomena in the news. _____ Personalmente ho trovato molto interessante questo passaggio: When journalists compete to cover the same story, there’s a competition to cover the same facts in a new and interesting way. Understanding Walter Scott’s murder by officer Michael Slager not just as a horrific instance of police brutality but as part of a larger, nationwide narrative of a crisis in policing gave journalists a chance to distinguish their stories and movement leaders a chance to reframe the story. Giacomo

Oct. 2, 2019

Re: [nexa] Report: Digitalisation and European welfare states | Bruegel

by Aldo Pedico

Grazie per la splendida condivisione. Aldo Mobile +39.3482244924 a.pedico(a)teleion.it<https://owa.teleion.it/OWA/redir.aspx?SURL=DUZCqLdUdoandbWpBmWHxyBfsbaJ9ubk…> TELEION s.r.l. Via Ferrero 31 – 10098 Rivoli (TO) www.teleion.it<http://www.teleion.it> ________________________________ From: nexa <nexa-bounces(a)server-nexa.polito.it> on behalf of J.C. DE MARTIN <demartin(a)polito.it> Sent: mercoledì 2 ottobre 2019 21:09 To: Center Nexa Subject: [nexa] Report: Digitalisation and European welfare states | Bruegel https://bruegel.org/2019/07/digitalisation-and-european-welfare-states/ (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any)) _______________________________________________ nexa mailing list nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

Oct. 2, 2019

Report: Digitalisation and European welfare states | Bruegel

by J.C. DE MARTIN

https://bruegel.org/2019/07/digitalisation-and-european-welfare-states/ (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

Oct. 2, 2019

How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age - The New York Times

by J.C. DE MARTIN

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/magazine/ice-surveillance-deportation.ht… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

Oct. 2, 2019