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Opinion | Big Tech After the Coronavirus: All Power, No Accountability? - The New York Times
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 2, 2020

May 2, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/opinion/tech-companies-coronavirus.html (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Fwd: [Grin-discuss] Le relazioni dei gruppi di lavoro sulle app covid-19
by Diego Latella May 2, 2020

May 2, 2020

FYI Diego -------- Original Message -------- SUBJECT: [Grin-discuss] Le relazioni dei gruppi di lavoro sulle app covid-19 DATE: 2020-05-01 15:56 FROM: Simone Martini <simone.martini(a)unibo.it> TO: "grin-discuss(a)grin-informatica.it" <grin-discuss(a)grin-informatica.it> Forse non tutti abbiamo visto che il Ministero per l'innovazione tecnologica e la digitalizzazione ha pubblicato mercoledì le relazioni ufficiali dei gruppi di lavoro: https://innovazione.gov.it/task-force-dati-le-relazioni-delle-attivita-dei-… Quella del Gruppo 6 (Tecnologie per il governo dell'emergenza) è anche disponibile qui: https://github.com/taskforce-covid-19/documents/tree/master/sgdl_6_Tecnolog… Per lo scope del GRIN è certo rilevante anche quella del Gruppo 7 - Big Data & AI for policy. -s. _______________________________________________ Grin-discuss mailing list Grin-discuss(a)grin-informatica.it http://www.grin-informatica.it:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grin-discuss -- -------------- Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher - CNR/ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, IT (http:www.isti.cnr.it [1]); FM&&T Laboratory (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it) http://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - phone: +39 0503152982 - mob: +39 348 8283101 - fax +39 0503152040 ========================================= E non sta andando per niente bene. Links: ------ [1] http://www.isti.cnr.it

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NYT: How Coronavirus Mutates and Spreads
by Luigi Scorca May 1, 2020

May 1, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/30/science/coronavirus-mutation… Luigi

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How Russia is using facial recognition to police its coronavirus lockdown - ABC News
by Alberto Cammozzo May 1, 2020

May 1, 2020

<https://abcnews.go.com/International/russia-facial-recognition-police-coron…> [...] For now, the facial recognition technology is being used only to monitor a narrower category: those who have tested positive for the virus or deemed high risk of having it, including those returning from abroad, like Bykovsky. He described how passengers landing in Moscow were stopped by medics and photographed three times while being tested for the virus. They were then entered into a quarantine watch-list. The system can also be used for contact tracing, allowing police to follow an infected person’s movements over previous days, said Artyom Kukharenko, the head of research and development at NtechLab, the primary developer for the system. Kukharenko said the system can complete a search in under 10 seconds and that it largely works even when people are wearing face masks by identifying them by their eye line. The company soon hopes to roll out a function analyzing silhouettes, he said, meaning it could spot large gatherings and also automatically detect when people are standing too close together. Since March, Moscow’s authorities said the system has allowed them to catch several hundred people violating quarantine. Other Russian cities are also introducing similar systems. [...]

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[Disobey 2020] More than Turbulence - Chris Kubecka - YouTube
by Alberto Cammozzo May 1, 2020

May 1, 2020

Per quelli che sono interessati alle vicende di Boeing dopo il 737Max: questa relazione sul loro approccio all'ITC è agghiacciante. "No encryption, no authentication..." "Boeing doesn't understand they are an IT company that just happens to build aircrafts" <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLKQlAytnAw&feature=youtu.be>

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