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Re: [nexa] "Paris opens a data center to control its digital infrastructure"

by Enrico Nardelli

Stefano penso che il luogo fisico in cui stanno i dati sia solo un aspetto del problema. Son d'accordo che avere in Italia 10.000 data center non sia il miglior uso delle risorse, ma che lo faccia una grande città come Parigi (o potrebbe essere Milano o Roma) mi sembra invece una scelta molto sensata. Soprattutto nell'ottica di gestire con il proprio personale i servizi digitali: se la gente lo sa fare bene (e sappiamo che nella PA centrale e locale ci son molte persone brave), è senz'altro molto meglio che stare al guinzaglio dei fornitori. Ciao, Enrico Il 30/05/2019 19:36, Stefano Quintarelli ha scritto: > pensa che in italia ne abbiamo una decina di migliaia... > piu' che sovranismo computazionale si dovrebbe parlare di localismo computazionale... > > ciao!, s. > > On 30/05/2019 17:51, J.C. DE MARTIN wrote: >> *Paris opens a data center to control its digital infrastructure* >> / >> //Romain Dillet// >> // >> //@romaindillet / 1 day ago// >> / >> The City of Paris is doing something I didn’t expect — they’re launching their own data center to host their digital services. The data center is going to be operated by city employees, so Paris plans to control their digital destiny from end to end. >> >> I visited the data center yesterday. Located in the north of Paris in the 18th arrondissement, the data center is hidden in the basement of an office building — nothing tells you that there’s a data center in there. >> >> continua qui: >> >> https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/29/paris-opens-a-data-center-to-control-its-… >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nexa mailing list >> nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it >> https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa >> > -- 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/ ===================================================================== --

May 30, 2019

Re: [nexa] "Paris opens a data center to control its digital infrastructure"

by Stefano Quintarelli

pensa che in italia ne abbiamo una decina di migliaia... piu' che sovranismo computazionale si dovrebbe parlare di localismo computazionale... ciao!, s. On 30/05/2019 17:51, J.C. DE MARTIN wrote: > *Paris opens a data center to control its digital infrastructure* > / > //Romain Dillet// > // > //@romaindillet / 1 day ago// > / > The City of Paris is doing something I didn’t expect — they’re launching > their own data center to host their digital services. The data center is > going to be operated by city employees, so Paris plans to control their > digital destiny from end to end. > > I visited the data center yesterday. Located in the north of Paris in > the 18th arrondissement, the data center is hidden in the basement of an > office building — nothing tells you that there’s a data center in there. > > continua qui: > > https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/29/paris-opens-a-data-center-to-control-its-… > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 30, 2019

"Paris opens a data center to control its digital infrastructure"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

*Paris opens a data center to control its digital infrastructure* / //Romain Dillet// // //@romaindillet / 1 day ago// / The City of Paris is doing something I didn’t expect — they’re launching their own data center to host their digital services. The data center is going to be operated by city employees, so Paris plans to control their digital destiny from end to end. I visited the data center yesterday. Located in the north of Paris in the 18th arrondissement, the data center is hidden in the basement of an office building — nothing tells you that there’s a data center in there. continua qui: https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/29/paris-opens-a-data-center-to-control-its-…

May 30, 2019

Behavioral Ad Targeting Not Paying Off for Publishers, Study Suggests - WSJ

by Alberto Cammozzo

<https://www.wsj.com/articles/behavioral-ad-targeting-not-paying-off-for-pub…> Are creepy advertisements really necessary to support the free web? A new academic study suggests they aren’t. Behavioral advertising, which involves collecting data about readers’ online behavior and using it to serve them specially tailored ads, often through bits of code called cookies, has become the dominant force in digital advertising in recent years. But in one of the first empirical studies of the impacts of behaviorally targeted advertising on online publishers’ revenue, researchers at the University of Minnesota, University of California, Irvine, and Carnegie Mellon University suggest publishers only get about 4% more revenue for an ad impression that has a cookie enabled than for one that doesn’t. The study tracked millions of ad transactions at a large U.S. media company over the course of one week. That modest gain for publishers stands in contrast to the vastly larger sums advertisers are willing to pay for behaviorally targeted ads. A 2009 study by Howard Beales, a professor at George Washington University School of Business and a former director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission, found advertisers are willing to pay 2.68 times more for a behaviorally targeted ad than one that wasn’t. Much of the premium likely is being eaten up by the so-called “ad tech tax,” the middlemen’s fees that eat up 60 cents of every dollar spent on programmatic ads, according to marketing intelligence firm Warc. The online ad ecosystem is complex and opaque, said Alessandro Acquisti, a professor of information technology and public policy at Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College, who conducted the study along with Veronica Marotta and Vibhanshu Abhishek. It is “hard to understand how much value each participant in the ecosystem is adding to the process, and whether the fees different intermediaries receive are commensurate to their value added,” he said. Publishers’ inability to benefit much from behavioral targeting could have implications for policy as lawmakers in Washington, D.C., debate the shape of national privacy legislation. The ad industry is pushing for new federal rules, partly to head off the risk of a state-by-state patchwork of privacy laws, following the passage of California’s own privacy regulations. “It is a huge finding in terms of the policy debate,” said Ashkan Soltani, one of the authors of the California Consumer Privacy Act who formerly served as the chief technologist for the FTC. (Mr. Soltani also served as a technical adviser to The Wall Street Journal’s 2012 series on privacy, “What They Know.”) “All of these externalities with regard to the ad economy—the harm to privacy, the expansion of government surveillance, the ability to microtarget and drive divisive content—were often justified to industry because of this ‘huge’ value to publishers,” Mr. Soltani said. [...]

May 30, 2019

Re: [nexa] Jeff Bezos e il gotha della Silicon Valley in Umbria

by Enrico Nardelli

Mah, Cucinelli so che ha una storia di "capitalismo socialmente responsabile". Non so se possa essere accostato ad Adriano Olivetti... Temo invece che la Silicon Valley abbia una scorza molto più dura ed interpreti questo obiettivo mirando ad offrire una nuova forma di organizzazione sociale... Ciao, Enrico Il 30/05/2019 12:28, don Luca Peyron ha scritto: > " Le nostre idee per il futuro comportano la gioia di una tecnologia sottoposta all’umanità" > > Poco più che gossip, ma un segnale comunque interessante... o specchietto per le allodole? > > Buona lettura > > dl > > https://forbes.it/2019/05/30/cosa-ci-faceva-jeff-bezos-e-il-gotha-della-sil… > > > _________________________ > www.universitari.to.it <http://www.universitari.to.it> > via XX settembre 83, Torino > tel. 011 5156239 > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > -- 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/ ===================================================================== --

May 30, 2019

JELT - Journal of Ethics and Legal Technology - first issue and call for papers

by Letizia Mingardo

Dear All, the first issue of our new JELT is online: https://jelt.padovauniversitypress.it It is dedicated to: "Science, Technology and Law: Rediscovering the Value of Human Dialogue". I invite everyone to spread our Journal and to participate by September 1, 2019 in the call for papers for Vol. 1, Number 2, which will be published October 31, 2019. The details of the call are specified on the home page at the link above. Thank you for participation. Best wishes. Letizia Mingardo JELT Editorial Board Professor on Contract in Methodology and Legal Informatics Department of Private Law and Critique of Law University of Padova

May 30, 2019

Jeff Bezos e il gotha della Silicon Valley in Umbria

by don Luca Peyron

" Le nostre idee per il futuro comportano la gioia di una tecnologia sottoposta all’umanità" Poco più che gossip, ma un segnale comunque interessante... o specchietto per le allodole? Buona lettura dl https://forbes.it/2019/05/30/cosa-ci-faceva-jeff-bezos-e-il-gotha-della-sil… _________________________ www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

May 30, 2019

How to set your Google account to delete itself after you die

by Antonio Vetro'

Si può scegliere a chi mandare i dati (fino a 10 persone) oppure di cremarli tutti quanti (le ceneri saranno criptate ?) https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/28/how-to-set-google-to-delete-everything-afte… av

May 30, 2019

Opinion | Why Privacy Is an Antitrust Issue - The New York Times

by J.C. DE MARTIN

Why Privacy Is an Antitrust Issue The demise of Facebook’s competition has put our data at risk. By Dina Srinivasan Ms. Srinivasan is an antitrust scholar. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/opinion/privacy-antitrust-facebook.html (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

May 29, 2019

Legal Action Could Put an End to Sharing of Passenger Data :: Civil Liberties Union for Europe

by Alberto Cammozzo

<https://www.liberties.eu/en/news/legal-action-against-mass-surveillance-in-…> The PNR data of every passenger travelling in Europe is compared against existing patterns, even when they are not suspected of any crimes. This allows law enforcement agencies to identify new suspects. Unfortunately, totally innocent people can be affected by the false results from opaque automatic data evaluation programs and be investigated by the police. The authorities that are responsible for storing and processing PNR data are usually police authorities, like the Federal Criminal Police Offices in both Germany and Austria. However, other authorities can access the data as well, with domestic police authorities, intelligence services and security agencies being able to manually access the databases. Moreover, the data may be exchanged with other EU countries and, in certain cases, even with third countries. PNR data is stored for six months using real names, and then for another four and a half years under pseudonyms. These pseudonyms can be removed, however, under certain circumstances. It is only after five years that, as long as there have been no in-depth police measures, the data is finally deleted. Retaining PNR data violates European fundamental rights In a 2017 legal opinion, the ECJ found that the transfer of PNR data as planned in a draft international treaty between the EU and Canada would breach citizens' fundamental rights. The PNR Directive also violates the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, especially the right to respect for private and family life (Article 7), as well as the right to the protection of personal data (Article 8). In our case, it is not possible to appeal directly to the ECJ. GFF and epicenter.works have thus taken legal action against the national implementation of the PNR Directive before German and Austrian courts, both civil and administrative. They expect the national courts to refer the question of the PNR Directive to the ECJ, and only the ECJ can overturn the PNR Directive and thus stop the retention of PNR data in all EU member states. We thank the Digital Freedom Fund for providing the basic funding for the project.

May 29, 2019