April 2019 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Il testo della proposta "Algorithmic Accountability Act"

by Antonio Vetro'

Non credo sia passata in lista -e se sì- me ne scuso. Il testo della Algorithmic Accountability Act proposto qualche giorno fa in Senato USA: "To direct the Federal Trade Commission to require entities that use, store, or share personal information to conduct automated decision system impact assessments and data protection impact assessments. “ […] https://www.scribd.com/document/405802106/Algorithmic-Accountability-Act-of… <https://www.scribd.com/document/405802106/Algorithmic-Accountability-Act-of…> av

April 15, 2019

Microsoft reveals hackers accessed some Outlook.com accounts for months

by Giacomo

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/13/18309192/microsoft-outlook-email-account… Microsoft has started notifying some Outlook.com users that a hacker was able to access accounts for months earlier this year. The software giant discovered that a support agent’s credentials were compromised for its web mail service, allowing unauthorized access to some accounts between January 1st and March 28th, 2019. Microsoft says the hackers could have viewed account email addresses, folder names, and subject lines of emails, but not the content of emails or attachments.

April 15, 2019

Legal Design seminars e Tavola rotonda sui "dark patterns"

by Rossana Ducato

Cari tutti, sperando di fare cosa gradita, segnalo due iniziative che si terranno prossimamente a Bruxelles nell'ambito del corso "European IT Law by Design" della UCLouvain (www.eitlab.eu) Il corso è supportato dal Programma Jean Monnet dell'Unione europea. *26-27 Aprile e 3 Maggio 2019 | Bruxelles* *Legal Design Seminars.* Un ciclo di seminari per discutere le sfide del legal design e l'importanza di questo metodo per uno studente di giurisprudenza. Lecturers e visiting professors: Helena Haapio (Vaasa University), Margaret Hagan (Stanford University), Monica Palmirani (Università di Bologna), Stefania Passera (University of Helsinki), Arianna Rossi (University of Luxembourg). Organizzazione scientifica: Rossana Ducato and Alain Strowel. Programma e locandina disponibile al seguente link: http://eitlab.eu/888-2/ *27 Aprile 2019 | 14.00 | Bruxelles* *Legal Design Roundtable "Dark Patterns in Data Protection: Law, Nudging, Design and the role of Technology".* What are dark patterns? How they can affect the decision-making process of data subjects and consumers? What are the legal remedies available? Can we use legal design to correct such deceiving practices? We are going to discuss these issues in a dynamic symposium with: EDPS, Antonia Fokkema (DG JUST), Margaret Hagan (Stanford), Helena Haapio (Vaasa University/ Lexpert), Stefania Passera (Helsinki University), Arianna Rossi (University of Luxembourg), Anne-Lise Sibony (UCLouvain), Sari Depreeuw (Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles), Dariusz Kloza (VUB), Christopher Schmon (BEUC), Peggy Valcke (KULeuven), Rossana Ducato (UCLouvain and Université Saint-Louis), Alain Strowel (UCLouvain, Université Saint-Louis, KULeuven, Munich IP Centre). Program and registration: http://eitlab.eu/legal-design-roundtable2019/ La partecipazione è gratuita. La registrazione è necessaria per la tavola rotonda. Un saluto cordiale, Rossana Ducato *--* Postdoctoral Researcher Ph.D. in Comparative and European Legal Studies *Institut pour la recherche interdisciplinaire en sciences juridiques* Place Montesquieu, 2 bte L2.07.01, B-1348 Louvain-La-Neuve

April 14, 2019

chiarimento sulle responsabilità legate al software delle macchine auto-guidate

by Enrico Nardelli

Spero che qualche giurista possa essermi d'aiuto. Stavo cercando di capire qual era la situazione relativa alla responsabilità, in Europa, di un produttore di software. Mi è chiaro che la situazione è abbastanza complessa perché spesso il software non è venduto come prodotto ma è un servizio per il quale si paga una licenza, e in questi casi si pone al di fuori della direttiva Europea sulla "Product Liability". Però poi mi sono imbattuto in una discussione che sostiene che qualora il software faccia parte di un prodotto fisico, per esempio una macchina auto-guidata, allora il venditore della macchina è responsabile per i danni provocati anche nel caso la responsabilità sia da attribuire ad un malfunzionamento software. Volevo quindi se possibile una conferma o confutazione (o dei riferimenti a dove ulteriormente approfondire la questione) se quest'ultima interpretazione sia corretta. Grazie in anticipo Enrico -- EN ===================================================================== Prof. Enrico Nardelli Dipartimento di Matematica - Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata" Via della Ricerca Scientifica snc - 00133 Roma tel: +39 06 7259.4204 fax: +39 06 7259.4699 mobile: +39 335 590.2331 e-mail: nardelli(a)mat.uniroma2.it home page: http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~nardelli blog: http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/blog/enardelli/ http://link-and-think.blogspot.it/ ===================================================================== --

April 14, 2019

Alibaba founder defends overtime work culture as 'huge blessing'

by Giacomo

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-tech-labour/alibaba-founder-defend… "I personally think that being able to work 996 is a huge blessing,” he said in remarks posted on the company’s WeChat account. “Many companies and many people don’t have the opportunity to work 996,” Ma said. “If you don’t work 996 when you are young, when can you ever work 996?” [...] “In this world, everyone wants success, wants a nice life, wants to be respected,” Ma said. “Let me ask everyone, if you don’t put out more time and energy than others, how can you achieve the success you want?” [...] This month activists on Microsoft’s GitHub, the online code repository site, launched a project titled “996.ICU” where tech workers listed Alibaba among the companies ranked as having some of the worst working conditions.

April 14, 2019

How We Measure Standards (and why it’s sort of a problem)

by Giacomo

Bel esempio di quanto profondamente politica sia la tecnologia e quanto sia fondamentale una profonda comprensione della stessa per poterla dirigere o regolamentare. Programmare è sempre un atto politico, ma qui non si parla neppure di feature, piattaforme o architettura del software... ma di test. Test. https://medium.com/@thejohnjansen/how-we-measure-standards-and-why-its-sort… I’ve been working on the web platform since 2010. I moved over to the Internet Explorer team from SharePoint Designer to help with IE9, and I’ve been here ever since. At that time, Chrome had only barely shipped. Chrome version 4.0 (still based on webkit at the time) and Firefox version 3.6 (running Gecko) both released about the same day I started on IE. But to be clear: we were not much concerned with Chrome. It was certainly cute and seemed fast, but the real competition was Firefox. Mozilla strongly argued that they were the “Standard-bearer” of Standards (competing directly with Opera for that role), and we decided to compete against them in the standards arena. [...] In order to accomplish a standards mode, Microsoft engineers wrote a lot of tests. A lot. And we made some of them public by donating them to the W3C. [...] It turns out that it really does require experts in the code to write good tests of that code. [...] Well, as stated above: writing tests requires expertise. It is also very time-consuming. It is therefore very expensive. For all new features coming through the W3C, Microsoft was submitting tests that showed we were passing nearly 100% in Standards, and also that Firefox was passing only 90% or so (interestingly, and in hind-sight a really really important fact: Chrome was also at about the 100% mark on new features, and when I would try to demonstrate they were not following standards it was very difficult to do). So most of the tests that were publicly consumed were written by Microsoft and they were mostly concerned with only new features. [...] What I learned from all of this is that he who controls the tests begins to control the perception. And our game theory was correct: Firefox had to dedicate engineers to fix public test failures. They had to dedicate engineers to write tests so that Microsoft would not control the entire narrative. [..] However [...] While we were focused on Mozilla and their limited engineering resources, Google was choosing to throw as many bodies as necessary at the problem. And they did a really (really, (really)) good job [...] In 2017, Chrome enabled two-way sync between the Chromium source and Web Platform Tests. [..] And that is a good thing. (But) New features in Chromium must include tests. If those tests fail, the merge will likely be rejected. Those tests then sync automatically with the Web Platform Tests. Adding any additional tests that Chromium might fail requires expertise from another feature expert. [...] And so it falls again to Mozilla. [...] You can see from the current dashboard (wpt.fyi, written primarily by Google), that Chrome passes more tests than any other engine. And they will continue to submit tests for new features that will also pass 100% of the tests. And the only way that Mozilla will change that is if they submit tests at the same rate as Chrome. You may be thinking, “Whoa John, hold on. Firefox also has two-way sync so aren’t they just doing the same thing?” Well, they could, except they have to spend so much time fixing bugs as seen on wpt.fyi, they really cannot play game theory here. [..] The industry measures standards compliance via test suites that are not necessarily testing things we care about as web developers in ways that they may never be used by real code and do not show a complete picture of implementation status.

April 14, 2019

Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police

by gianluca quaglia

Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police The tech giant records people’s locations worldwide. Now, investigators are using it to find suspects and witnesses near crimes, running the risk of snaring the innocent. By JENNIFER VALENTINO-DeVRIES APRIL 13, 2019 [..] continua qui https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/13/us/google-location-tracking-…

April 14, 2019

‘A Convenient Life and a Good Life May Not Be the Same Thing’

by Giacomo

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/franklin-foer-interviews-… If it’s your algorithm, it’s your responsibility. This is the only way that we can sort of sustain a world where we know who is responsible for what.

April 13, 2019

Pasquale: Quantifying Love | Boston Review

by J.C. DE MARTIN

http://bostonreview.net/print-issues-politics/frank-pasquale-quantifying-lo… Quantifying Love Reputational currency, like China's Social Credit Score, rebrands repression as rational nudging. And these algorithmic governance models are spreading. FRANK PASQUALE (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

April 13, 2019

Opinion | How Capitalism Betrayed Privacy - The New York Times

by J.C. DE MARTIN

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/opinion/sunday/privacy-capitalism.html (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

April 13, 2019