July 2019 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Il kernel Linux adotta il Code Of Conduct
by Francesco Mecca Sept. 9, 2020

Sept. 9, 2020

Il mondo del FOSS e piu` in generale quello dell'informatica non e` un universo a se` stante ma coesiste con il mondo della politica e ci interagisce. Il 16 settembre Linus con questa email http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1809.2/00117.html ha annunciato di prendersi una pausa dallo sviluppo del kernel. Inoltre si scusa per il suo comportamento aggressivo: "The above is basically a long-winded way to get to the somewhat painful personal admission that hey, I need to change some of my behavior, and I want to apologize to the people that my personal behavior hurt and possibly drove away from kernel development entirely. I am going to take time off and get some assistance on how to understand people's emotions and respond appropriately." Questo cambiamento, che non ha precedenti in 30 anni di benevola dittatura, rientra nel panorama molto piu` ampio dell'attuale conflitto ideologico fra le vecchie idee di selezione per merito e le piu` nuove idee di selezione per diversita`, fra il "technical coding" e il "social coding", alt-destre e la sinistra culturale. Francesco Mecca

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Regolamentare Internet...
by Carlo Blengino Aug. 12, 2019

Aug. 12, 2019

espungere il male, prevenire ogni devianza, da Internet e dal mondo. Bel pezzo di Fabio Chiusi. Ricordo solo che tutte le battaglie per i diritti civili, tutte, sono iniziate infrangendo regole, scardinando concetti consolidati e ritenuti dai più giusti e sacrosanti, spesso sono stati commessi reati per permettere all'umanità di fare un passo avanti. Rosa Park fu arrestata legittimamente per aver violato il posto riservato dalla legge ai bianchi (nell'IOT di domani probabilmente un software non l'avrebbe neppure lasciata salire sul bus) e meno di 30 anni fa decine di giovani italiani rischiarono la galera rifiutandosi di fare il servizio militare...per dire. Grazie Fabio https://www.valigiablu.it/internet-politica-regole/

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"Billionaire Summer Camp: The Rich And Famous Flock To Sicily For The 7th Annual Google Retreat"
by J.C. DE MARTIN July 31, 2019

July 31, 2019

*Billionaire Summer Camp: The Rich And Famous Flock To Sicily For The 7th Annual Google Retreat** * Jul 30, 2019, 08:29am Jim Dobson Senior Contributor Located on the southwest coast of Sicily, close to the seaside town of Sciacca, the wealthiest people have converged for the Annual Google Camp. Traditionally held every year at the end of July, the famed Verdura Resort hosts the most top-secret gathering in the world. Even though social media posts are forbidden, the superyacht owners enjoy showing off their celebrity guests throughout the week's activities and high profile lunches. […] Continua qui: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2019/07/30/billionaire-summer-camp-t…

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Il predictive policing italiano - XLAW
by Antonio Vetro' July 31, 2019

July 31, 2019

Condivido un'interessante segnalazione del collega Antonio Servetti (con suo permesso) nell’ambito del c.d. "predictive policing": https://it.businessinsider.com/perla-il-dirigente-di-polizia-ha-creato-un-a… "Un algoritmo che è in grado di prevedere i reati predatori come rapine, furti, truffe, scippi e molto altro, ore prima che avvengano.” “Sovrapponiamo i dati criminali a questa città virtuale, ci accorgiamo che i reati avvengono in quelle riserve di caccia e combaciano proprio con le fasi a operazioni regolari all’interno della città.” Il sistema si chiama XLAW, e viene dato in comodato d’uso gratuito alle questure, secondo quanto riportato nell’articolo. Riporto la metafora usata per descrivere l'approccio: Territorio = Paziente Crimine Predatorio = Malattia Ogni altro dato acquisito = Sintomo/criterio Colleghi architetti mi riferiscono che l’analogia è usata da almeno 200 anni… XLaw ovviamente è in uso da meno tempo, secondo l’articolo è sperimentato dal 2004 a Napoli e dal 2011 funziona su tutta la città. Io ne vengo a conoscenza solo ora (sigh!) grazie alla segnalazione di Antonio, e le ricerche su Google datano notizie da circa un anno. Al di là dell’essere concordi o meno con questo tipo di approccio, sarebbe interessante poterci mettere le mani per verificare l’effetto dei cicli di feedback ed eventuali discriminazioni dettate da un approccio su serie storiche, come trovato in uno studio del 2016 fatto su un software simile, PredPol: https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2016.00960… Ringrazio in anticipo per suggerimenti utili a seguire questa pista. Un caro saluto, antonio vetrò

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In Hong Kong Protests, Faces Become Weapons - The New York Times
by Alberto Cammozzo July 30, 2019

July 30, 2019

<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/technology/hong-kong-protests-facial-rec…> HONG KONG — The police officers wrestled with Colin Cheung in an unmarked car. They needed his face. They grabbed his jaw to force his head in front of his iPhone. They slapped his face. They shouted, “Wake up!” They pried open his eyes. It all failed: Mr. Cheung had disabled his phone’s facial-recognition login with a quick button mash as soon as they grabbed him. As Hong Kong convulses amid weeks of protests, demonstrators and the police have turned identity into a weapon. The authorities are tracking protest leaders online and seeking their phones. Many protesters now cover their faces, and they fear that the police are using cameras and possibly other tools to single out targets for arrest. And when the police stopped wearing identification badges as the violence escalated, some protesters began to expose officers’ identities online. One fast-growing channel on the social messaging app Telegram seeks and publishes personal information about officers and their families. The channel, “Dadfindboy,” has more than 50,000 subscribers and advocates violence in crude and cartoonish ways. Rival pro-government channels seek to unmask protesters in a similar fashion. Mr. Cheung, who was arrested last week on a suspicion of “conspiring and abetting murder,” subscribes to the “Dadfindboy” channel, although he denied being among its founders as the police have said and he condemned posts calling for violence. He believes he was targeted by the police because he developed a tool that could compare images against a set of photos of officers to find matches — a project he later abandoned. Interested in All Things Tech? The Bits newsletter will keep you updated on the latest from Silicon Valley and the technology industry. “I don’t want them to be like secret police,” said Mr. Cheung, who was released on bail and has not been charged with wrongdoing. “If law enforcement officers don’t wear anything to show their identity, they’ll become corrupt. They’ll be able to do whatever they want.” “With the tool, ordinary citizens can tell who the police are,” he added. Hong Kong is at the bleeding edge of a significant change in the authorities’ ability to track dangerous criminals and legitimate political protesters alike — and in their targets’ ability to fight back. Across the border in China, the police often catch people with digital fingerprints gleaned using one of the world’s most invasive surveillance systems. The advent of facial-recognition technology and the rapid expansion of a vast network of cameras and other tracking tools has begun to increase those capabilities substantially. The transformation strikes a strong chord in Hong Kong. The protests began over a proposed bill that would have allowed the city to extradite criminal suspects to mainland China, where the police and courts ultimately answer to the Communist Party. [...]

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Conservatives Allege Big Tech Is Biased Against Them - The Atlantic
by J.C. DE MARTIN July 30, 2019

July 30, 2019

Why Conservatives Allege Big Tech Is Muzzling Them Google and Facebook aren’t infringing on the right’s freedom of expression, but insisting otherwise is politically convenient. JUL 28, 2019 Siva Vaidhyanathan https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/conservatives-pretend-big… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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How the West Got China's Social Credit System Wrong | WIRED
by J.C. DE MARTIN July 29, 2019

July 29, 2019

https://www.wired.com/story/china-social-credit-score-system/ (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Privacy group asks court to reconsider FTC’s $5 billion Facebook deal | Ars Technica
by J.C. DE MARTIN July 29, 2019

July 29, 2019

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/privacy-group-asks-court-to-rec… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Mattarella, web rispetti i principi delle democrazie
by don Luca Peyron July 29, 2019

July 29, 2019

Le sagge parole del nostro presidente della Repubblica dl http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/tecnologia/tlc/2019/07/25/mattarella-web-ri… _________________________ www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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Sentenza del rinvio nel caso C‑40/17, Fashion ID GmbH & Co. KG v Verbraucherzentrale NRW e.V.
by Alberto Cammozzo July 29, 2019

July 29, 2019

Se metti il plugin di FB sei co-responsabile per il trattamento dei dati che elabora. <http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=216555> [...] 84 Par conséquent, il apparaît que Fashion ID peut être considérée comme étant responsable, au sens de l’article 2, sous d), de la directive 95/46, conjointement avec Facebook Ireland, des opérations de collecte et de communication par transmission des données à caractère personnel des visiteurs de son site Internet.[...] Accolta la posizione dell'avvocato generale Bobek <http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=209357&doclang=EN> [...] A person that has embedded a third-party plug-in in its website, which causes the collection and transmission of the user’s personal data (that third party having provided the plug-in), shall be considered to be a controller within the meaning of Article 2(d) of Directive 95/46. However, that controller’s (joint) responsibility is limited to those operations for which it effectively co-decides on the means and purposes of the processing of the personal data. [...]

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