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by don Luca Peyron Oct. 8, 2020

Oct. 8, 2020

AI and Ethics seeks to promote informed debate and discussion of the ethical, regulatory, and policy implications that arise from the development of AI. It will focus on how AI techniques, tools, and technologies are developing, including consideration of where these developments may lead in the future. The journal will provide opportunities for academics, scientists, practitioners, policy makers, and the public to consider how AI might affect our lives in the future, and what implications, benefits, and risks might emerge. Attention will be given to the potential intentional and unintentional misuses of the research and technology presented in articles we publish. Examples of harmful consequences include weaponization, bias in face recognition systems, and discrimination and unfairness with respect to race and gender. Prima uscita e primi pezzi. Buona lettura dl https://www.springer.com/journal/43681 _________________________ don Luca Peyron Direttore Ufficio per la Pastorale Universitaria Arcidiocesi di Torino www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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Google and Oracle are headed to the Supreme Court. The future of software hangs in the balance.
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 8, 2020

Oct. 8, 2020

Google and Oracle are headed to the Supreme Court. The future of software hangs in the balance. A generation of software built around shared assumptions for interoperability faces an uncertain future depending on the outcome of a yearslong legal fight between Google and Oracle. Tom Krazit https://www.protocol.com/google-oracle-supreme-court-software-api (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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NYT: "12 Accusations in the Damning House Report on Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 7, 2020

Oct. 7, 2020

*12 Accusations in the Damning House Report on Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google* /Lawmakers said they found multiple problems with each of the four giant tech companies./ By Mike Isaac, Steve Lohr, Jack Nicas and Daisuke Wakabayashi https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/technology/amazon-apple-facebook-google-…

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Registro degli algoritmi di decisione automatica della città di Nantes
by Antonio Vetro' Oct. 7, 2020

Oct. 7, 2020

https://data.nantesmetropole.fr/pages/algorithmes_nantes_metropole/ Al momento ci sono il codice e la documentazione di due sistemi che sono usati per “decisioni sugli individui automatizzate”. A.

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Exchange Graveyard
by Giacomo Tesio Oct. 6, 2020

Oct. 6, 2020

Not all exchanges can live forever. Some have been exposed as frauds, some have been the victims of hacker attacks and some have just disappeared. The below list is our Exchange Graveyard, listing exchanges that have died during the last two years. Rest in Peace. https://www.cryptowisser.com/exchange-graveyard/ Giacomo

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Amazon puts out call for gig workers to pick orders at Whole Foods
by Luigi Scorca Oct. 6, 2020

Oct. 6, 2020

https://www.grocerydive.com/news/amazon-puts-out-call-for-gig-workers-to-pi… Amazon usa i fattorini per prendere gli ordini "food" dai negozi fisici e portarli a destinazione dai clienti... Luigi

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NYTimes: Seattle Passes Minimum Pay Rate for Uber and Lyft Drivers
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 6, 2020

Oct. 6, 2020

Seattle Passes Minimum Pay Rate for Uber and Lyft Drivers https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/business/economy/seattle-uber-lyft-drive… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Netflix’s The Social Dilemma highlights the problem with social media, but what’s the solution?
by Federico Guerrini Oct. 6, 2020

Oct. 6, 2020

Ciao, qualche considerazione attinente alla discussione di poco tempo fa su questa lista: "Filmmaker Jeff Orlowski seems to frame “ethical” platform design <https://theconversation.com/ethical-design-is-the-answer-to-some-of-social-…> as the antidote. While this is an important consideration, it’s not a complete answer. And this framing is one of several issues in The Social Dilemma’s approach.Ethical design considers the moral consequences of the design choices in a platform. It is design made with the intent to ‘do good’. Shutterstock The program also relies uncritically on interviews with former tech executives, who apparently never realised the consequences of manipulating users for monetary gain. It propagates the Silicon Valley fantasy they were just innocent geniuses wanting to improve the world (despite ample evidence <https://medium.com/@rossformaine/i-was-googles-head-of-international-relati…> to the contrary <https://www.wired.com/story/cambridge-analytica-50m-facebook-users-data/>). As tech policy expert Maria Farell suggests, these retired “prodigal tech bros <https://conversationalist.org/2020/03/05/the-prodigal-techbro/>”, who are now safely insulated from consequences, are presented as the moral authority. Meanwhile, the digital rights and privacy activists who have worked for decades to hold them to account are largely omitted from view." (...) In the long run, stemming the flow of personal data to digital platforms will also need legislative change. While legislation can’t fix everything, it can encourage systemic change. In Australia, we need stronger data privacy protections, preferably in the form of blanket legislative protection such as the General Data Protection Regulation implemented in Europe <https://eur-lex.europa.eu/content/news/general-data-protection-regulation-G…> in 2018." https://theconversation.com/netflixs-the-social-dilemma-highlights-the-prob… Ciao, Federico

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Apathy, convenience or irrelevance?
by Giuseppe Attardi Oct. 5, 2020

Oct. 5, 2020

The bigger threat of corporate surveillance and data profiling practices is its ability to usurp individual agency and self-determination through its predictive functions which pre- determine opportunities, not only consumer choices, but individual access to a range of opportunities such as access to finance, insurance, education, work, social connection, knowledge and interests, thereby determining life outcomes for us. > https://www.socialresearchnz.com/post/apathy-convenience-or-irrelevance-ide… <https://www.socialresearchnz.com/post/apathy-convenience-or-irrelevance-ide…>

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John Pilger: "EYEWITNESS TO THE TRIAL AND AGONY OF JULIAN ASSANGE"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 5, 2020

Oct. 5, 2020

John Pilger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pilger jc ----- *EYEWITNESS TO THE TRIAL AND AGONY OF JULIAN ASSANGE* 2 October 2020 /John Pilger has watched Julian Assange's extradition trial from the public gallery at London's Old Bailey. He spoke with Timothy Erik Ström of Arena magazine, Australia:// / *Q: Having watched Julian Assange's trial first-hand, can you describe the prevailing atmosphere in the court?* The prevailing atmosphere has been shocking. I say that without hesitation; I have sat in many courts and seldom known such a corruption of due process; this is due revenge. Putting aside the ritual associated with 'British justice', at times it has been evocative of a Stalinist show trial. One difference is that in the show trials, the defendant stood in the court proper. In the Assange trial, the defendant was caged behind thick glass, and had to crawl on his knees to a slit in the glass, overseen by his guard, to make contact with his lawyers. His message, whispered barely audibly through face masks, WAS then passed by post-it the length of the court to where his barristers were arguing the case against his extradition to an American hellhole. Consider this daily routine of Julian Assange, an Australian on trial for truth-telling journalism. He was woken at five o'clock in his cell at Belmarsh prison in the bleak southern sprawl of London. The first time I saw Julian in Belmarsh, having passed through half an hour of 'security' checks, including a dog's snout in my rear, I found a painfully thin figure sitting alone wearing a yellow armband. He had lost more than 10 kilos in a matter of months; his arms had no muscle. His first words were: 'I think I am losing my mind'. [...] continua qui: http://johnpilger.com/articles/eyewitness-to-the-trial-and-agony-of-julian-…

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