June 2019 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

New York's Privacy Bill Is Even Bolder Than California's
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 5, 2019

June 5, 2019

https://www.wired.com/story/new-york-privacy-act-bolder/ (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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L'infosfera e noi: tuoi profili social se vuoi entrare in Usa
by don Luca Peyron June 5, 2019

June 5, 2019

LA STORIA dei propri social negli ultimi cinque anni. Questo pretenderanno dipartimento di Stato e dipartimento di Sicurezza interna statunitense per prendere in considerazione la domanda di un visto per l’ingresso e la permanenza nel Paese. Buona lettura e buon viaggio! Dl https://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/social-network/2019/06/03/news/visto_u…

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e-privacy
by Diego Giorio June 5, 2019

June 5, 2019

Ricordo che domani e venerdì, grazie alla collaborazione di alcuni nexiani, si svolgerà al Politecnico di Torino, sala Ciminiera, la XXV edizione di e privacy. Ingresso libero! https://e-privacy.winstonsmith.org/ Saluti a tutti, e partecipate numerosi e-privacy XXV — Nuove tecnologie di controllo<https://e-privacy.winstonsmith.org/> e-privacy 2019 - summer edition. Il 6 e 7 giugno 2019 (GIOVEDÌ e venerdì) a Torino, nella Sala conferenze "Luigi Ciminiera" - Sede Centrale - Cittadella Politecnica. si svolgerà e-privacy 2019 summer edition.. Il tema guida della XXV edizione di e-privacy è: Nuove tecnologie di controllo "Come il nascente sistema di social scoring vada oltre ogni pensabile profilazione." e-privacy.winstonsmith.org D.

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Fwd: call for chapters: Automating Justice
by Alberto Cammozzo June 5, 2019

June 5, 2019

Call for chapters Automating Justice This call for chapters welcomes abstract submissions on the theme of Automating Justice for publication in an edited volume. It is intended that this book will be published by Springer or Routledge Publishing House. Autonomous systems have been gradually introduced over the past years to replace humans in many different areas. For example, autonomous systems (e.g., systems for data mining and analytics) are being used in election campaigns to help manipulate voters’ decisions; autonomous systems (e.g., predictive and analytic computer programs) are being used in criminal justice systems to assist police, prosecutors, judges, and other decision-makers; lethal semi-autonomous and autonomous weapon systems are being used for conducting combat operations in armed conflicts. The ability of such systems to act on their own with limited human control raises many criminological, legal, and ethical concerns. The overall objective of this edited volume is to critically explore – on the one hand – how autonomous systems might be beneficial to society, and – on the other hand – why they might represent a risk for human rights and other fundamental values of our societies. Themes that are of interest to the volume include: 1) Automation of crime control a) Automation of suspicion: the intelligence agencies’ use of automated risk tools and similar tools b) Predictive policing c) Algorithmic criminal justice: the use of automated systems to help judges in decisions on bail, decisions on sentencing, and decisions on parole. 2) The use of lethal semi-autonomous and autonomous weapons systems in military operations a) The use of machine learning algorithms to select military targets b) The (non)compliance of such systems with the requirements of international humanitarian law c) The problem of accountability in military operations carried out by such systems Other proposals within the scope will also be considered. We invite submissions of 400-500 words chapter proposals. Deadline: 31 July 2019 Submissions should be sent to the editors, Aleš Završnik, at: at ales.zavrsnik(a)pf.uni-lj.si, and Vasja Badalič, at vasja.badalic(a)pf.uni-lj.si Submissions should also include: a) Title of chapter b) Author/s name/s, institutional details c) Corresponding author’s email address d) Keywords (no more than 5) e) A short biography (15 lines) Authors will be informed of commissioning by 15 August 2019. Commissioned chapters will be around 6,000-9,000 words and will be due by 31 January 2020. The fact that an abstract is accepted does not guarantee publication of the final manuscript. All chapters submitted will be judged on the basis of a double-blind reviewing process. Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the editors: Aleš Završnik: ales.zavrsnik(a)pf.uni-lj.si & Vasja Badalič: vasja.badalic(a)pf.uni-lj.si Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aleš Završnik, Senior Research Fellow Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, Ljubljana Poljanski nasip 2 SI-1000 Ljubljana, SLOVENIA P: +386 1 4203 251 E: ales.zavrsnik(a)pf.uni-lj.si F: +386 1 4203 245 W: www.inst-krim.si Recent work: Završnik, A. (2019). The European Digital Fortress and Large Biometric EU IT Systems: Border Criminology, Technology, and Human Rights, Dve domovini / Two Homelands, 49, pp. 51-67. http://twohomelands.zrc-sazu.si/en/articles/show/586/the-european-digital-f… Završnik, A. (ed.) (2018). Big Data, Crime and Social Control, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Big-Data-Crime-and-Social-Control-1st-Edition/Zav… Završnik, A. (2017). Algorithmic Surveillance: Big data, Algorithms and Social Control. Revija za kriminalistiko in kriminologijo, 2017, 68(2), pp. 135-149 (in Slovenian). https://www.policija.si/images/stories/Publikacije/RKK/PDF/2017/02/RKK2017-… Završnik, A. (ed.) (2016). Drones and Unmanned Aerial Systems: Legal and Social Implications for Security and Surveillance. Cham [etc.]: Springer, 2016. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319237596 **************************************************** This is a message from the SURVEILLANCE listserv for research and teaching in surveillance studies. To unsubscribe, please send the following message to <LISTSERV(a)jiscmail.ac.uk>: UNSUBSCRIBE SURVEILLANCE For further help, please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help ****************************************************

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Installazione artistica datapoietica
by don Luca Peyron June 5, 2019

June 5, 2019

Prendere vita, in questo caso, non è un eccesso di antropomorfismo: le luci della lampada, infatti, sono animate in tempo reale dal costante afflusso dei dati riguardo la povertà estrema nel mondo, raccolti da fonti globali quali UNDP <http://hdr.undp.org/en/2018-MPI>, World Bank <https://data.worldbank.org/topic/poverty>, OECD <https://data.oecd.org/inequality/poverty-rate.htm>, World Poverty Clock <https://worldpoverty.io/>. E non si spegnerà finché tutti gli esseri umani non saranno usciti dalla fascia di povertà. Buona lettura e buona giornata. Dl https://www.vice.com/it/article/xwnved/obiettivo-persico-iaconesi-datapoies…

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UNESCO OER Recommendation: One Step Closer to Adoption
by Giacomo Tesio June 4, 2019

June 4, 2019

Interessante iniziativa UNESCO di cui non ero al corrente. https://creativecommons.org/2019/06/04/unesco-oer-recommendation-one-step-c… The global open education community works collectively to create a world in which everyone has universal access to effective open education resources (OER) and meaningful learning opportunities as defined by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal #4 (SDG4): Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. UNESCO continues to work with national governments to help them better support open education (content, practices, policy) in their countries. CC is an active leader and contributor to this work, alongside our many partners. [...] This new UNESCO OER Recommendation presents an historic opportunity for Creative Commons (CC) and others in the open education community to work with national governments to help them understand and implement model open education recommendations in their countries. CC and our international chapters will actively support national governments as they leverage this opportunity to meet the SDG4 goals.

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Facebook a induit la Commission européenne en erreur lors du rachat de WhatsApp
by Luigi Scorca June 4, 2019

June 4, 2019

https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2019/06/03/facebook-a-induit-la-com…

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Chomsky and Herman's Propaganda Model Foretells a Weaponized Facebook
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 3, 2019

June 3, 2019

https://truthout.org/articles/chomsky-and-hermans-propaganda-model-foretell… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Model Metropolis (da SimCity alla SmartCity?)
by Giacomo Tesio June 3, 2019

June 3, 2019

Un brillante articolo da Kevin T. Baker, storico: https://logicmag.io/06-model-metropolis/ Ai miei occhi, pone questioni interessantissime. Di straordinaria attualità nel momento in cui vecchi giocatori di SimCity (come me) ragionano, discutono, votano o decidono sulle "Smart City". E di straordinario interesse non solo storico politico, ma informatico. Mostra come l'informatica e la programmazione siano mezzi di espressione capaci di diffondere un sistema di credenze e valori complesso (150 equazioni e 200 variabili) SENZA comunicazione verbale. Diffondendo veri e propri pregiudizi senza una singola rete neurale a nascondere / giustificare i bias. Giacomo ____ Almost as soon as SimCity came out, journalists, academics, and other critics began to speculate on the effects that the game might have on real-world planning and politics. Within a few years of its release, instructors at universities across the country began to integrate SimCity into their urban planning and political science curriculums. Commentators like the sociologist Paul Starr worried that the game’s underlying code was an “unreachable black box” which could “seduce” players into accepting its assumptions, like the fact that low taxes promoted growth in this virtual world. “I became a total Republican playing this game,” one SimCity fan told the Los Angeles Times in 1992. “All I wanted was for my city to grow, grow, grow.” Despite all this attention, few writers looked closely at the work which sparked Wright’s interest in urban simulation in the first place. Largely forgotten now, Jay Forrester’s Urban Dynamics put forth the controversial claim that the overwhelming majority of American urban policy was not only misguided but that these policies aggravated the very problems that they were intended to solve. In place of Great Society-style welfare programs, Forrester argued that cities should take a less interventionist approach to the problems of urban poverty and blight, and instead encourage revitalization indirectly through incentives for businesses and for the professional class. Forrester’s message proved popular among conservative and libertarian writers, Nixon Administration officials, and other critics of the Great Society for its hands-off approach to urban policy. This outlook, supposedly backed up by computer models, remains highly influential among establishment pundits and policymakers today. [...] When we consider the social effects of computers in political and social life, we usually think in terms of expanded power and new possibilities. This perspective on computation permeates even our critical visions of technology. But we should also be attentive to the power that computers and the accompanying language of “systems” and “complexity” have to narrow our conception of the politically possible. [...] Forrester argued that for most of human history, people have only needed to understand basic cause-and-effect relationships, but that our social systems are governed by complex processes that unfold over long periods of time. [...] In essence, anything we do to try to improve society will backfire and make things even worse. [...] Expert knowledge, of course, has an important place in democratic deliberation, but it can also cut people out of the policy process, dampen the urgency of moral claims, and program a sense of powerlessness into our public discourse. Appeals to a social system’s “complexity” and the potential for “perverse outcomes” can be enough to sink transformative social programs that are still on the drawing board.

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IEEE - Compliance with U.S. Trade Restrictions Should have Minimal Impact on IEEE Members Around the World
by Alberto Cammozzo June 3, 2019

June 3, 2019

I dipendenti Huawei sono esclusi dal processo di peer review delle pubblicazioni ieee. <https://www.ieee.org/about/news/2019/compliance-with-us-trade-restrictions.…> [...] IEEE complies with U.S. government regulations which restrict the ability of the listed Huawei companies and their employees to participate in certain activities that are not generally open to the public. This includes certain aspects of the publication peer review and editorial process. [...]

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