May 2019 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Refunds for 300 million phone users sought in lawsuits over location-data sales

by Giacomo Tesio

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/lawsuits-att-verizon-t-mobile-s… The four major US wireless carriers are facing proposed class-action lawsuits accusing them of violating federal law by selling their customers' real-time location data to third parties. The complaints seeking class action status and financial damages were filed last week against AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint in US District Court for the District of Maryland. The four suits, filed on behalf of customers by lawyers from the Z Law firm in Maryland, all begin with text nearly identical to this intro found in the suit against AT&T: > This action arises out of Defendant's collection of geolocation > data and the unauthorized dissemination to third-parties of the > geolocation data collected from its users' cell phones. AT&T > admittedly sells customer geolocation data to third-parties, > including but not limited to data aggregators, who in turn, are > able to use or resell the geolocation data with little or no > oversight by AT&T. This is an action seeking damages for > AT&T gross failure to safeguard highly personal and > private consumer geolocation data in violation of federal law. [...] In June 2018, all four major carriers promised to stop selling their mobile customers' location information to third-party data brokers after a security problem leaked the real-time location of US cell phone users. The promises came after revelations that prison phone company Securus offered a service enabling law enforcement officers to locate most American cell phones within seconds. Securus' service relied on data from LocationSmart, a data aggregator that received location information from the carriers. Despite the carriers' promises, a Motherboard investigation found in January 2019 that "T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are [still] selling access to their customers' location data and that data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters and others not authorized to possess it, letting them track most phones in the country." [...] "The facts don't support this lawsuit, and we will fight it," AT&T told Ars today. "Location-based services like roadside assistance, fraud protection, and medical device alerts have clear and even life-saving benefits. We only share location data with customer consent. We stopped sharing location data with aggregators after reports of misuse." T-Mobile declined to comment on the lawsuit, but the company told Ars that it "terminated all service provider access to location data as of February 8, 2019." Sprint said it is "reviewing the legal filing" but declined to make any other comment. [...] Verizon responded to us, but provided no comment on the lawsuit. The company said only that "Verizon has led the industry in doing the right thing for our customers on these issues."

May 7, 2019

Re: [nexa] Forget Facebook's 'war room' rhetoric. Its real fight is against itself

by M. Fioretti

On Tue, May 07, 2019 08:43:14 AM +0200, antonio.vetro(a)polito.it wrote: > The social media firm has put together a unit dedicated to stopping interference in the upcoming EU elections. But to confront the root of its problems, Facebook will have to look a little closer to home > > https://www.wired.co.uk/article/facebook-eu-election-war-room > Grazie per la segnalazione. Appena l'ho letto, mi è partito questo: http://stop.zona-m.net/2019/05/facebooks-war-room-is-the-opposite-of-the-fi… -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you

May 7, 2019

Re: [nexa] FT: When manipulation is the digital business model

by Teresa SCANTAMBURLO

Grazie per il link, purtroppo non sono abbonata al FT, sarebbe possibile avere una copia dell'articolo? grazie Teresa On Thu, 2 May 2019 at 19:50, J.C. DE MARTIN <demartin(a)polito.it> wrote: > > https://www.ft.com/content/e24dea0a-6b57-11e9-80c7-60ee53e6681d > > > When manipulation is the digital business model*Ever looked for an online > cancel button and struggled to find it? ‘Dark patterns’ may be to blame* > © PATE > > May 1, 2019 7:35 am by Madhumita Murgia > <https://www.ft.com/stream/34dc6fa2-de2a-4d3c-adaa-071bd19b5f9e> > > We’ve all had that sinking feeling when you realise you’ve signed up for > something online that you never meant to. Maybe a barrage of marketing spam > you accepted by failing to tick a tiny box you never saw. Or perhaps you > got to the last step of the checkout process on a shopping site, only to > discover extra charges. > > These little design tricks have a name: dark patterns. They’re the subtle > ploys many digital companies use to manipulate you into doing something, > such as disclosing personal or financial details. > > .... > (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 > -- Teresa Scantamburlo, PhD European Centre for Living Technology (ECLT) url : www.dais.unive.it/~scantamburlo e-mail: teresa.scantamburlo(a)unive.it -- Nota automatica aggiunta dal sistema di posta.

May 7, 2019

Re: [nexa] Opinion | A Tax That Could Fix Big Tech - The New York Times

by Stefano Quintarelli

On 07/05/2019 08:55, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2019 07:51:11 AM +0200, Stefano Quintarelli wrote: >> a parte che sarebbe facilissima da aggirare > > posso chiedere in che modo? A una prima lettura ho avuto la stessa > identica sensazione, ma senza saperla concretizzare. > basta "vendere" da un paese che non la applica. o vendere qualcosa che non sia pubblicita'. ad esempio un bundle con analytics, solo per dire le due cose piu' semplice. >> portabilita'+interoperabilita'... > > Concordo, invertirei solo l'ordine. Senza l'interoperabilità completa > e obbligatoria, almeno per le comunicazioni di base, la portabilità > non serve assolutamente a niente con i social network, se non per la > comunicazione in generale. servono entrambe assieme. adesso abbiamo la portabilita'. l'interoperabilita' non sarebbe stata possibile nel GDPR. ciao, s. > > Grazie, > Marco > -- reserve your meeting with me at http://cal.quintarelli.it

May 7, 2019

Re: [nexa] Opinion | A Tax That Could Fix Big Tech - The New York Times

by M. Fioretti

On Tue, May 07, 2019 07:51:11 AM +0200, Stefano Quintarelli wrote: > a parte che sarebbe facilissima da aggirare posso chiedere in che modo? A una prima lettura ho avuto la stessa identica sensazione, ma senza saperla concretizzare. > portabilita'+interoperabilita'... Concordo, invertirei solo l'ordine. Senza l'interoperabilità completa e obbligatoria, almeno per le comunicazioni di base, la portabilità non serve assolutamente a niente con i social network, se non per la comunicazione in generale. Grazie, Marco -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you

May 7, 2019

Forget Facebook's 'war room' rhetoric. Its real fight is against itself

by antonio.vetro＠polito.it

The social media firm has put together a unit dedicated to stopping interference in the upcoming EU elections. But to confront the root of its problems, Facebook will have to look a little closer to home https://www.wired.co.uk/article/facebook-eu-election-war-room av == Sent from my wireless device ==

May 7, 2019

Re: [nexa] Opinion | A Tax That Could Fix Big Tech - The New York Times

by Stefano Quintarelli

a parte che sarebbe facilissima da aggirare, e i vari airbnb, uber, apple, microsoft, amazon, ? portabilita'+interoperabilita' per concorrenza e tasse sui ricavi per evitare beps. che le tasse siano progressive, poi , mim pare ovvio... IMHO On 07/05/2019 07:23, J.C. DE MARTIN wrote: > > A Tax That Could Fix Big Tech > > Putting a levy on targeted ad revenue would give Facebook and Google a > real incentive to change their dangerous business models. > > By Paul Romer > > Mr. Romer received a Nobel in economics in 2018. > > https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/opinion/tax-facebook-google.html > > > (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 > -- reserve your meeting with me at http://cal.quintarelli.it

May 7, 2019

Opinion | A Tax That Could Fix Big Tech - The New York Times

by J.C. DE MARTIN

A Tax That Could Fix Big Tech Putting a levy on targeted ad revenue would give Facebook and Google a real incentive to change their dangerous business models. By Paul Romer Mr. Romer received a Nobel in economics in 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/opinion/tax-facebook-google.html (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

May 7, 2019

Big Data from the South

by Milan, Stefania

Car@ amic@ di NEXA sperando di farvi cosa gradita, condividiamo un work in progress concretizzato per ora in una special issue che discute di Southern epistemologies (ben oltre il Global South) e 'big data'. Info below. Cordiali saluti, Stefania e Emiliano —— Edited by Stefania Milan (DATACTIVE, University of Amsterdam) and Emiliano Treré (Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University), it features six articles and a commentary: Stefania Milan and Emiliano Treré: 'Big Data from the South(s): Beyond Data Universalism’ (Milan/Treré) (>> open access at https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476419837739) Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias: Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject Paola Ricaurte: Data Epistemologies, The Coloniality of Power, and Resistance Payal Arora: Decolonizing Privacy Studies Monique Mann and Angela Daly: (Big) Data and the North-in-South: Australia’s Informational Imperialism and Digital Colonialism Jean-Marie Chenou and Carolina Cepeda-Másmela: #NiUnaMenos: Data Activism From the Global South María Soledad Segura and Silvio Waisbord: Between Data Capitalism and Data Citizenship (commentary) You can explore the Special Issue at https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/tvna/current To continue the conversation about Southern and resistant epistemologies of datafication (well beyond the 'Global South'!), visit the webpage of the Big Data from the South Initiative [1], check out the multilingual blog (and consider to contribute to it!), and join the dedicated mailing-list. Enjoy! Stefania Milan y Emiliano Treré [1] https://data-activism.net/publications/big-data-from-the-south/ ---------------------- Stefania Milan, PhD Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam || mediastudies.nl || Principal Investigator, DATACTIVE || data-activism.net (ERC Starting Srant) Principal Investigator, ALEX || algorithms.exposed (ERC Proof of Concept) mobile: [31] 627875425 (NL) || [+39] 3332309945 (I) stefaniamilan.net || @annliffey Fingerprint: 5A7B  6330  5684  FC39  3DC0 67D7  08B3  50AE  6AF5  1B63 The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, forwarding, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited without the express permission of the sender. If you received this communication in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.

May 6, 2019

Libero riuso dell'immagine del bene culturale pubblico

by Mirco Modolo

Buonasera, Segnalo a tutti questo articolo sulle opportunità derivanti dal libero riuso anche commerciale dell'immagine del bene culturale pubblico con ampia casistica internazionale: http://www.archcalc.cnr.it/indice/PDF29/09_Modolo.pdf Cordiali saluti, Mirco Modolo

May 6, 2019