October 2021 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Bruno Le Maire et Cédric O saluent un nouveau partenariat majeur pour le cloud de confiance
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 7, 2021

Oct. 7, 2021

Bruno Le Maire et Cédric O saluent un nouveau partenariat majeur pour le cloud de confiance https://minefi.hosting.augure.com/Augure_Minefi/default.ashx (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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China Leaps Ahead in Effort to Rein In Algorithms - The Wall Street Journal.
by Enrico Nardelli Oct. 6, 2021

Oct. 6, 2021

China Leaps Ahead in Effort to Rein In Algorithms https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-leaps-ahead-in-effort-to-rein-in-algorit… ... Launched last week by the Cyberspace Administration of China, the campaign aims to establish a comprehensive system to regulate the use of algorithms within three years, part of the ruling Communist Party’s effort to rein in what it sees as unscrupulous business practices and exert more control over online discourse. Regulators called for algorithms to be fair and transparent, while adhering to China’s Communist Party ideology. ... -- 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/ ===================================================================== --

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PROM prenotazione SPID
by Giacomo Tesio Oct. 6, 2021

Oct. 6, 2021

https://www.poste.it/gestore-attese/index.html#/prenotazione/23004/

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conferenza "Are We Owned" questo venerdi'
by Guido Noto La Diega Oct. 6, 2021

Oct. 6, 2021

Carissime/i (visto che dicono la Crusca abbia bocciato lo schwa), questo venerdi' la mia universita' sara' sede di una bella conferenza chiamata *«Are We Owned? A Multidisciplinary and Comparative Conversation on Intellectual Property in the Algorithmic Society»* Il programma si puo' consultare all'indirizzo https://areweowned.wordpress.com/ Gli abstract sono disponibili qui: https://guidonotoladiega.wordpress.com/2021/10/06/are-we-owned-abstracts-an… Fra i relatori spiccano il nostro Co-Direttore Marco Ricolfi e Joshua Fairfield, autore di *Owned*. Se volete partecipare da remoto, rispondete a quest'email a condividero' il link Zoom. Cheers Guido *Guido Noto La Diega*, PhD FHEA Avv *Assoc Prof of Intellectual Property & Privacy Law @stirlaw <https://twitter.com/StirLaw>* Visiting Prof @unimc <http://giurisprudenza.unimc.it/it/dipartimento/dipartimento-di-eccellenza/b…> | Chair @LawScottish <https://www.scotlin.org/> <https://twitter.com/italiot> | Fellow @nexacenter <https://nexa.polito.it/about-en> E: notoladiega(a)gmail.com T: @guidonld <https://twitter.com/guidonld> For updates and open access to my research visit my website <https://guidonotoladiega.wordpress.com/>

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Intellectual monopoly capitalism—challenge of our times – Cédric Durand and Cecilia Rikap
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 6, 2021

Oct. 6, 2021

Intellectual monopoly capitalism—challenge of our times by Cédric Durand and Cecilia Rikap on 5th October 2021 Unregulated capitalism has always tended to monopoly. But Big Tech represents a challenge antitrust tools can’t tame. https://socialeurope.eu/intellectual-monopoly-capitalism-challenge-of-our-t… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Winter school: “Taming the iMonster: Regulating digital platforms”
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 6, 2021

Oct. 6, 2021

Taming the iMonster: Regulating digital platforms DigiGov Virtual Winter School https://digigov.univie.ac.at/teaching/winter-school/ (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Exclusive: Government Secretly Orders Google To Identify Anyone Who Has Searched A Name, Address And Telephone Number
by Giacomo Tesio Oct. 6, 2021

Oct. 6, 2021

In an attempt to chase down the perpetrators, investigators turned to Google, asking the tech giant to provide information on anyone who had searched for the victim’s name, two spellings of her mother’s name and her address over 16 days across the year. After being asked to provide all relevant Google accounts and IP addresses of those who made the searches, Google responded with data in mid-2020, though the court documents do not reveal how many users had their data sent to the government. It’s a rare example of a so-called keyword warrant and, with the number of search terms included, the broadest on record. [...] The latest case shows Google is continuing to comply with such controversial requests, despite concerns over their legality and the potential to implicate innocent people who happened to search for the relevant terms. [...] There’s more that the government can get with such requests than simple Google account identities and IP addresses. In Wisconsin, the government was hopeful Google could also provide “CookieIDs” belonging to any users who made the searches. These CookieIDs “are identifiers that are used to group together all searches conducted from a given machine, for a certain time period. Such information allows investigators to ascertain, even when the user is not logged into a Google account, whether the same individual may have conducted multiple pertinent searches,” the government wrote. Continua su https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/10/04/google-keyword-warra… Il lettore attento noterà che per poter rispondere a queste richieste, Google deve mantenere un registro di ogni ricerca effettuata da ogni utente. Ogni singola ricerca che effettuate viene associata con _almeno_ una data ed un IP al vostro profilo. E lì resterà per sempre. Così come ogni singola visita ad un sito che utilizzi Google Analytics. Ogni suono intercettato dal "assistente virtuale" sullo smartphone... Lo so che è ovvio. Ma Forbes finge di preoccuparsi del primo emendamento. Noi ci preoccupiamo del GDPR. Ma il problema è a monte: Google riceve quei dati. Giacomo

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Ex-Uber driver takes legal action over ‘racist’ face-recognition software | Uber | The Guardian
by Alberto Cammozzo Oct. 5, 2021

Oct. 5, 2021

<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/05/ex-uber-driver-takes-leg…> An Uber <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/uber> driver who lost his job when automated face-scanning software failed to recognise him is accusing the firm of indirect race discrimination in a legal test case. The black driver, who worked on the Uber platform from 2016 until April 2021, has filed an employment tribunal claim alleging his account was illegally deactivated when facial-verification software used to log drivers on to the ride-hailing app decided he was not who he said he was. The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB), which is backing the action, claimed at least 35 other drivers had had their registration with Uber terminated as a result of alleged mistakes with the software since the start of the pandemic. It is calling for Uber to scrap the “racist algorithm” and reinstate terminated drivers. Uber said it “strongly refutes the completely unfounded claims” and that it was “committed to fighting racism and being a champion for equality – both inside and outside our company”. The firm said the checks were “designed to protect the safety and security of everyone who uses the app by ensuring the correct driver is using their account”. Drivers can choose human verification of their picture, and when technology is chosen “there is always a minimum of two human expert reviews prior to any decision to remove a driver”, she said. Uber has used the software <https://www.uber.com/en-GB/blog/real-time-id-check-uk-drivers/> since April 2020. In 2019 Microsoft, which makes the software, conceded <https://www.itv.com/news/2019-01-23/microsoft-warns-about-dangers-posed-by-…> facial recognition software did not work as well for people of colour and could fail to recognise them. Studies of several facial recognition software packages <https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/actionable-auditing-investigating-th…> have shown that error rates when recognising people with darker skin have been higher than among lighter-skinned people, although Microsoft and others have been improving performance. Uber said its software did not rely on scanning large numbers of faces, which had been blamed for introducing error. Rather it verified an already uploaded picture of the driver against their freshly submitted selfie. [...]

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Facebook outage
by Giuseppe Attardi Oct. 5, 2021

Oct. 5, 2021

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/4/22708989/instagram-facebook-outage-messe…

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Russia is building its own kind of sovereign internet — with help from Apple and Google
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 5, 2021

Oct. 5, 2021

https://theconversation.com/russia-is-building-its-own-kind-of-sovereign-in… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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