November 2019 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

La Giornata internazionale per l'eliminazione della violenza contro le donne

by Agata Lo Tauro

La *Giornata* internazionale *per* l'eliminazione della *violenza contro* le *donne* è una ricorrenza istituita dall'Assemblea generale delle Nazioni Unite, tramite la risoluzione numero 54/134 del 17 dicembre 1999. https://theconversation.com/violence-against-women-does-technology-do-more-… Vi invio le seguenti informazioni sperando di fare cosa gradita. cari saluti, agata https://it.linkedin.com › agata-lo-tauro-6723257b <https://it.linkedin.com/in/agata-lo-tauro-6723257b>

Nov. 25, 2019

74° Nexa Lunch Seminar | 27 Novembre 2019

by Nexa Media

REMINDER: vi ricordiamo che mercoledì 27 novembre, dalle ore 13.00 alle ore 14.00, si svolgerà il 74° Nexa Lunch Seminar, con un incontro dal titolo: *Il soggetto dei big data: da individuo a utente* Ospite: Irene Domenicale (/Dott.ssa in Filosofia/). Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili all’indirizzo: https://nexa.polito.it/lunch-74 Cordiali saluti,   -- Anita Botta Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino – DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino _web:_ https://nexa.polito.it/ _mail:_anita.botta@polito.it <mailto:anita.botta@polito.it> tel: 011 090 7219

Nov. 25, 2019

Re: [nexa] Let’s forget the term AI

by Angelo Raffaele Meo

condivido Raf Il 24/11/19 20:14, Stefano Quintarelli ha scritto: > https://blog.quintarelli.it/2019/11/lets-forget-the-term-ai-lets-call-them-… > > > Let’s forget the term AI. Let’s call them Systematic Approaches to > Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences (SALAMI). > > Happy reading... > > Ciao, s. > > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

Nov. 24, 2019

Exposed: China’s Operating Manuals For Mass Internment And Arrest By Algorithm

by Luigi Scorca

https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-cables/exposed-chinas-operating-m…

Nov. 24, 2019

Let’s forget the term AI

by Stefano Quintarelli

https://blog.quintarelli.it/2019/11/lets-forget-the-term-ai-lets-call-them-… Let’s forget the term AI. Let’s call them Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences (SALAMI). Happy reading... Ciao, s.

Nov. 24, 2019

Google Is Basically Daring the US to Block Its Fitbit Deal | WIRED

by Alberto Cammozzo

<https://www.wired.com/story/google-fitbit-project-nightingale-antitrust/> Google’s plan to buy Fitbit took chutzpah from the start. The company was already being investigated by Congress, state attorneys general, and federal antitrust regulators, a reflection of growing alarm over a conglomerate whose dominant market share is built on unrivaled access to personal data. Now it was announcing a $2.2 billion acquisition of a firm with troves of the most intimate details of its users’ physical health, from their heart rate to their exercise routines to how many hours they sleep at night. Fitbit was apparently worried enough about the threat of the deal being blocked that it negotiated a $250 million breakup fee in case of “a failure to obtain Antitrust Approvals.” A week later, almost on cue, Makan Delrahim, the top antitrust official at the Department of Justice, suggested at a conference at Harvard that federal enforcers might start treating data privacy as a relevant issue in evaluating mergers. “It would be a grave mistake to believe that privacy concerns can never play a role in antitrust analysis,” he said. So there was some reason to wonder whether the Google-Fitbit deal would be the first casualty of the growing antitrust techlash. And that was all before the Wall Street Journal reported this week on Google’s Project Nightingale, a mostly secret deal with one of the country’s largest nonprofit hospital networks granting Google free access to tens of millions of complete, nonanonymized patient records, which it is using to train an AI platform that will be able to customize patient care. (This is apparently legal, somehow, under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA.) In return for the data, according to the Journal, the hospital network, Ascension, will get free use of the new software, which Google intends to sell to other health care providers. In a blog post after the story came out, Google Cloud executive Tariq Shaukat wrote, “All of Google’s work with Ascension adheres to industry-wide regulations (including HIPAA) regarding patient data, and come [sic] with strict guidance on data privacy, security and usage.” That didn’t stop the Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Health and Human Services from announcing an investigation into the project on Wednesday. Together, the Fitbit merger and Project Nightingale present an immediate challenge to Delrahim’s claim that antitrust regulators are ready to treat data collection as a competition issue. Since the late 1970s, the federal government’s approach to merger review has essentially narrowed to the question of whether the reduction in competition caused by two companies combining will be bad for consumers. That analysis has in turn tended to focus even more narrowly on whether the post-merger firm will raise prices. Bringing user data concerns into antitrust, as Delrahim suggested, would require asking a similar question: Will the reduction in competition lead to consumers having to accept inferior privacy protections? “What I’m telling my students is, this is a great test case,” said Maurice Stucke, an antitrust expert at the University of Tennessee College of Law. “The agencies say they’re concerned about these data-opolies. They’re going to scrutinize their data-driven acquisition of these smaller firms. Here you have this established firm that’s already established a significant treasure trove of personal data. So, is anything going to change?” [...]

Nov. 24, 2019

"Google Is Basically Daring the Government to Block Its Fitbit Deal"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

*Google Is Basically Daring the Government to Block Its Fitbit Deal* /The company’s moves into health data will test how serious antitrust enforcers are about privacy issues.// / Google’s plan to buy Fitbit took chutzpah from the start. The company was already being investigated by Congress, state attorneys general, and federal antitrust regulators, a reflection of growing alarm over a conglomerate whose dominant market share is built on unrivaled access to personal data. Now it was announcing a $2.2 billion acquisition of a firm with troves of the most intimate details of its users’ physical health, from their heart rate to their exercise routines to how many hours they sleep at night. Fitbit was apparently worried enough about the threat of the deal being blocked that it negotiated a $250 million breakup fee in case of “a failure to obtain Antitrust Approvals.” […] Continua qui: https://www.wired.com/story/google-fitbit-project-nightingale-antitrust/

Nov. 24, 2019

burocrazia ricorsiva (autoreferenziale)

by Giovanni Biscuolo

Buon giorno, il buon Andrea Trentini mi ha segnalato questa, che voglio condividere con voi. A pagina 3 di questo documento http://famiglia.governo.it/media/1718/faq.pdf (rif. http://famiglia.governo.it/it/notizie/notizie/avvisi-e-bandi/nuovo-avviso-c…) si legge: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- La procedura prevede prima l’invio tramite PEC da parte del soggetto proponente, alla casella conciliamo(a)pec.governo.it, della proposta progettuale al Dipartimento. Successivamente il soggetto proponente dovrà procedere all’invio tramite PEC, alla medesima casella conciliamo(a)pec.governo.it, della ricevuta di avvenuta consegna della PEC contenente la proposta progettuale. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Viva la PEC ricorsiva! Saluti. Gio' P.S.: non so se è l'unico caso, ma mi diverte moltissimo :-) -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures

Nov. 24, 2019

Vostro evento NEXA sull'innovazione ... alcune considerazioni alla femminina :-)

by Agata Lo Tauro

Buongiorno a tutti... Se parli d'innovazione prima devi avere l'idea (il proposal/abstract) e poi implementi networking / *partnership* ... Devi anche parlare di bandi e di opportunità, ovviamente... poche parole e tanti fatti? :-) (ho anche lavorato all'*Innovation Relay Centre*... "si fa quel che si può") Bastano pochissime considerazioni alla femminina? :-) Please let me know if I can be of further help. Have a great day agata https://it.linkedin.com › agata-lo-tauro-6723257b <https://it.linkedin.com/in/agata-lo-tauro-6723257b>

Nov. 24, 2019

L’Unione Europea a sostegno delle imprese ICT

by Agata Lo Tauro

Vi inoltro il seguente link sperando di fare cosa gradita https://www.assintel.it/eventi/ue-sostegno-delle-imprese-ict/ cari saluti, agata https://it.linkedin.com › agata-lo-tauro-6723257b <https://it.linkedin.com/in/agata-lo-tauro-6723257b>

Nov. 23, 2019