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90° Nexa Lunch Seminar | 28 Luglio 2021 | Modalità Telematica

by Nexa Media

Gentilissimi, vi segnaliamo che il 90° Nexa Lunch Seminar, /*"Lo stato della censura Internet nel 2020: aggiornamenti dall'Osservatorio Aperto delle Interferenze di rete"*/, con ospite *Arturo Filastò* (Fellow Centro Nexa), si svolgerà *mercoledì 28 luglio, dalle ore 13.00 alle ore 14.00*, in modalità telematica, utilizzando la piattaforma di videoconferenza BigBlueButton. Sarà possibile partecipare al seminario connettendosi al seguente indirizzo: https://didattica.polito.it/VClass/NexaEvent <https://didattica.polito.it/VClass/NexaEvent> Nexa Center for Internet and Society Newsletter Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <https://nexa.polito.it/lunch-90> NEXA 90° Nexa Lunch Seminar Mercoledì 28 luglio 2021, ore 13.00 - 14.00 Politecnico di Torino https://nexa.polito.it/lunch-90 <https://nexa.polito.it/lunch-90> Lo stato della censura Internet nel 2020: aggiornamenti dall’Osservatorio Aperto delle Interferenze di rete Speaker Arturo Filastò (Fellow Centro Nexa) This event will be webcast live: https://nexa.polito.it/nexa-hangout-on-air <https://nexa.polito.it/nexa-hangout-on-air> L'INCONTRO SI SVOLGERÀ IN MODALITÀ TELEMATICA UTILIZZANDO IL SOFTWARE DI CONFERENCE CALL *BIGBLUEBUTTON*. Per partecipare all'incontro: https://didattica.polito.it/VClass/NexaEvent <https://didattica.polito.it/VClass/NexaEvent> Dal 2012 *OONI*, l’osservatorio aperto delle interferenze di rete, investiga su come e dove avviene la *censura su internet nel mondo*, e lo fa tramite un software libero che può essere usato su mobile o desktop. I dati vengono quindi pubblicati tutti in *Open Data*. Il *2020* è stato un anno molto intenso su diversi fronti, incluso quello della censura internet: sempre di più il blocco di contenuti online viene infatti utilizzato quale strumento per arginare rivolte popolari, per evitare che si diffondano informazioni durante le elezioni o addirittura per prevenire l’accesso a informazioni sul COVID-19. Durante l’intervento verranno presentati i *risultati* di varie investigazioni condotte da OONI, e dai suoi partner, sulla censura internet nel mondo. Alcuni dei risultati che presenteremo includono: come le app di messaggistica e social media sono stati bloccati in *Togo, Burundi e Tanzania* durante le elezioni; come il *Myanmar* ha bloccato l’accesso a siti che sostengono di diffondere “fake news”; come l’*Iran* ha bloccato temporaneamente l’accesso alla versione persiana di Wikipedia; come la *Bielorussia* ha implementato blocchi di siti web e un blackout di internet a seguito di rivolte popolari, come l’*Iran* ha bloccato il protocollo DNS over TLS; come il *Venezuela* ha bloccato l’accesso a siti di informazioni sul COVID-19. BIOGRAFIA - e informazioni supplementari [Filastò] *Arturo FILASTÒ* ha fondato OONI (Open Observatory of Network Interference) nel 2011 e da allora è il Project Lead. In passato ha lavorato per il Tor Project come sviluppatore e ha creato un numero di progetti di software libero per promuovere i diritti digitali, quali GlobaLeaks e Tor Atlas. È inoltre il co-fondatore e ha servito come vice-presidente del Centro Hermes per la Trasparenza e Diritti Umani in Rete. Arturo ha studiato Matematica e Informatica all’Università di Roma “La Sapienza”. *Letture consigliate e link utili:* * OONI Probe: LINK <https://ooni.org/install/> * OONI Explorer: LINK <https://explorer.ooni.org/> * Myanmar blocks “fake news” websites amid COVID-19 pandemic: LINK <https://ooni.org/post/2020-myanmar-blocks-websites-amid-covid19/> * Iran temporarily blocks the Farsi language edition of Wikipedia: LINK <https://ooni.org/post/2020-iran-blocks-farsi-wikipedia/> * Burundi blocks social media amid 2020 general election: LINK <https://ooni.org/post/2020-burundi-blocks-social-media-amid-election/> * Tanzania blocks social media on election day: LINK <https://ooni.org/post/2020-tanzania-blocks-social-media-tor-election-day/> * Belarus protests: From internet outages to pervasive website censorship: LINK <https://ooni.org/post/2020-belarus-internet-outages-website-censorship/> * Bloquean sitio sobre coronavirus COVID-19 organizado por la AN y Juan Guaidó: LINK <https://vesinfiltro.com/noticias/bloqueado_portal_coronavirus_AN> * DNS over TLS blocked in Iran: LINK <https://ooni.org/post/2020-iran-dot/> Che cosa sono il Centro Nexa e i cicli di incontri “Mercoledì di Nexa” e “Nexa Lunch Seminar” <https://www.facebook.com/nexa.center/> <https://twitter.com/nexacenter> <https://www.youtube.com/user/NexaCenter> #nexalunchseminar <https://twitter.com/search?q=%23nexalunchseminar&src=typd> #ArturoFilastò <https://twitter.com/hellais> Il Centro Nexa su Internet & Società del Politecnico di Torino (Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica) dal 2006 è un centro di ricerca indipendente e interdisciplinare che, in collaborazione con l'Università di Torino, studia Internet (e più in generale le Tecnologie digitali) e i suoi rapporti con la società. Maggiori informazioni all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/about <http://nexa.polito.it/about>. Durante i “*Mercoledì di Nexa*”, che si tengono *ogni 2° mercoledì del mese* alle *ore 18 in punto*, il Centro Nexa su Internet e Società apre le sue porte non solo agli esperti e a tutti coloro i quali lavorano con Internet, ma anche a semplici appassionati e cittadini. Il ciclo di incontri intende approfondire, con un linguaggio preciso ma accessibile, i temi legati alla Rete: motori di ricerca, Creative Commons, social networks, open source/software libero, neutralità della rete, libertà di espressione, privacy, file sharing, big e open data, smart cities e molto altro. Al centro di quasi tutti gli incontri un ospite pronto a dialogare con i direttori del Centro Nexa, il Prof. Juan Carlos De Martin del Politecnico di Torino e il Prof. Marco Ricolfi dell'Università di Torino, nonché lo staff e i Fellows del Centro Nexa. Maggiori informazioni sui Mercoledì di Nexa, incluso un elenco di tutti i “Mercoledì” passati, sono disponibili all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi <http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi>. Si segnala inoltre che dal maggio 2012 *ogni 4° mercoledì* del mese *dalle ore 13 alle ore 14* il Centro Nexa organizza anche i "*Nexa Lunch Seminar*". Una lista di tutti i “Lunch Seminar” passati è disponibile all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-seminars <http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-seminars>. See our events calendar <http://nexa.polito.it/events> if you're curious about future luncheons, discussions, lectures, and conferences not listed in this email. Our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. Responsabile Comunicazione Centro Nexa su Internet & Società: *Anita Botta*, tel: +39 011 090 7219, Mob: +39 347 131 3903, anita.botta(a)polito.it <mailto:anita.botta@polito.it>. Maggiori informazioni sui Mercoledì di Nexa e i Nexa Lunch Seminar, sono disponibili all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/events <http://nexa.polito.it/events>. Weekly Events Newsletter. Sign up <http://nexa.polito.it/mailing-lists> to receive this newsletter if this email was forwarded to you. To manage your subscription preferences, please click here <https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa>. Connect & get involved: Jobs, internships, and more <http://nexa.polito.it/get-involved>. Cordiali saluti,   -- Anita Botta Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino – DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino _web:_ https://nexa.polito.it/ <https://nexa.polito.it/> _mail:_anita.botta@polito.it <mailto:anita.botta@polito.it> tel: 011 090 7219

July 19, 2021

Revealed: leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon | Surveillance | The Guardian

by Alberto Cammozzo

<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/18/revealed-leak-uncovers-global…> Human rights activists, journalists and lawyers across the world have been targeted by authoritarian governments using hacking software sold by the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group, according to an investigation into a massive data leak. The investigation by the Guardian and 16 other media organisations suggests widespread and continuing abuse of NSO’s hacking spyware, Pegasus, which the company insists is only intended for use against criminals and terrorists. Pegasus is a malware that infects iPhones and Android devices to enable operators of the tool to extract messages, photos and emails, record calls and secretly activate microphones. The leak contains a list of more than 50,000 phone numbers that, it is believed, have been identified as those of people of interest by clients of NSO since 2016. Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based nonprofit media organisation, and Amnesty International initially had access to the leaked list and shared access with media partners as part of the Pegasus project, a reporting consortium. The presence of a phone number in the data does not reveal whether a device was infected with Pegasus or subject to an attempted hack. However, the consortium believes the data is indicative of the potential targets NSO’s government clients identified in advance of possible surveillance attempts.

July 18, 2021

An Ugly Truth by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang review – Facebook’s battle for domination | Journalism books | The Guardian

by Alberto Cammozzo

<https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jul/18/an-ugly-truth-inside-facebook…> How many books are there about Facebook? I’ve lost count. Many of them belong to the genre of the “insider” story – by an early investor in the company, perhaps; or by a supposed intimate of its founder and Supreme Leader; or by an ex-employee with a bad conscience for the societal damage for which he (and it’s always a he, by the way) has been responsible; or (occasionally) by a vigorous critic of social media such as Siva Vaidhyanathan or Franklin Foer. I’ve read most of these and so approached An Ugly Truth with a degree of scepticism on account of its subtitle: “Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination”. But this book is different. For one thing, its co-authors are not “insiders”, but a pair of experienced New York Times journalists who were members of a team nominated in 2019 for a Pulitzer prize. Much more importantly, though, they claim to have conducted over 1,000 hours of interviews with 400-odd people, including Facebook executives, former and current employees and their families, friends and classmates, plus investors and advisers to Facebook, and lawyers and activists who have been fighting the company for a long time. So if this is an “insider” account, it’s better sourced than all of its predecessors in the genre. We’ll get to what this account reveals in a moment, but first let’s clear up the title. It comes from the header on an internal memo sent by Andrew Bosworth (AKA “Boz”), a senior Facebook executive and one of Mark Zuckerberg’s closest confidants. “So we connect more people,” it says. “That can be bad if they make it negative. Maybe it costs someone a life by exposing someone to bullies. Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools. And still we connect people. The ugly truth is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is de facto good.” In a way, this tells you everything you need to know about Facebook. The only thing Boz omitted to mention is that the more people Facebook “connects”, the more money it makes. And the view from its HQ is that it’s still early days in the growth story. After all, Facebook currently has 2.8 billion monthly active users and there are 7.8 billion people on the planet at the moment. Which means, in the megalomaniacal view of the company’s Supreme Leader, that leaves 5 billion still to be “connected”. Only then – when every sentient being on the planet is on Facebook – will the world’s problems be solved. And if you think I’m making this up, then an inspection of some of Zuckerberg essays on his Facebook page may give you pause. Although progress to world domination has, to date, been progressing according to plan, there have been some hiccups – or, at any rate, PR problems – on the way. In focusing their inquiry, Frenkel and Kang have largely concentrated on what’s gone on within Facebook over just four years – from the 2016 presidential election that brought Trump to power to Biden’s election in 2020. They had plenty of material to go on. Among other things, this period includes: Russian hacking of the Clinton campaign; its consummate exploitation of Facebook’s advertising system to disseminate disinformation and introduce chaos into public discourse; the Trump campaign’s mastery of those same systems for the same purposes; the Cambridge Analytica scandal; the smear campaign against George Soros; the way in which Facebook’s expansion into Myanmar facilitated a genocidal campaign against the country’s Rohingya Muslims; the livestreaming by the shooter of the Christchurch massacre in 2019; and the use of Facebook by the insurgents to plan (and livestream) the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January. The co-authors’ exhumation of these ghastly skeletons makes for gripping as well as depressing reading. Two things in particular stand out. The first is that, in most of the cases, people within Facebook were aware of – and alarmed about – what was happening on the company’s systems, either because they had detected them or had been alerted by well-informed outsiders. And yet, when they communicated their concerns to people above them in the managerial hierarchy, nothing much happened – which possibly explains why in some cases Zuckerberg seemed to be unaware of the looming crises until it was too late to claim ignorance. Many Facebook employees are anguished about what their employer has been doing in its relentless quest for growth The most striking example of this is what happened when internal investigators led by the cybersecurity guru Alex Stamos uncovered the extent of Russian meddling on Facebook’s systems. Stamos’s attempts to alert his superiors to what was going on were brushed off. All mention of Russia in his draft white paper were deleted by senior staff. But as news media began to suss that something big was up, it was decided that the company’s board should be briefed on it the day before its quarterly meeting on 7 September 2017. On 6 September, therefore, Stamos gave a presentation to a delegated subcommittee of three board members. They were stunned and furious in an expletive-deleted way. “How the fuck are we only hearing about this now?” said Erskine Bowles, who had been Bill Clinton’s chief of staff. The full board meeting was equally fractious. But nothing substantive happened. Why? Because the board members serve entirely at Zuckerberg’s pleasure. In its regular filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company sums it up nicely: “Mark Zuckerberg, our founder, chairman and CEO, is able to exercise voting rights with respect to a majority of the voting power of our outstanding capital stock and therefore has the ability to control the outcome of matters submitted to the stockholders for approval, including the election of directors and any merger, consolidation, or sale of all or substantially all of our assets. This concentrated control could… result in the consummation of such a transaction that our other stockholders do not support.” Zuckerberg could fire the entire board and there is nothing that anyone could do about it. This extraordinary document is nowhere cited in An Ugly Truth, and yet it underpins its entire narrative. One of the book’s striking revelations is that there is more anxiety inside the company than we realised. Many Facebook employees have been anguished, frustrated or angry about what their employer has been doing in its relentless quest for growth. Some have tried to alert their superiors to their concerns. But time and again the bad news hasn’t persuaded those bosses because they didn’t sync with the overriding imperative of endless corporate growth. And, as HL Mencken famously observed, it’s difficult to explain something to someone whose salary depends on not understanding it. Zuckerberg’s obsession with growth is what underpinned the Myanmar catastrophe. Facebook rolled into a country with no democratic traditions, providing connectivity for people who had never before used the internet. The company’s executives knew zilch about the country other than it was promising territory for their CEO’s cherished “next one billion” project. In entering Myanmar, Facebook had – as the book puts it – “thrown a lit match on to decades of simmering racial tension and had then turned the other way when activists pointed to the smoke slowly choking the country”. In the end, human rights officials estimated that 24,000 Rohingya were murdered and 700,000 Muslims fled to Bangladesh. And while this was going on, the inflammatory rhetoric of 18 million Facebook users that fuelled the genocide was monitored by just five native Burmese speakers, the book reports, none of whom was actually based in Myanmar. So the “ugly truth” about Facebook is that it’s an immensely powerful corporation with a toxic business model, led by an autocratic founder who is hell-bent on world domination. A prominent critic of the company once observed that “the problem of Facebook is Facebook”. Wrong. The problem of Facebook is Zuckerberg. And the question posed by this splendid book is: what are we going to do about him?

July 18, 2021

In ricordo di Philippe Aigrain (1949-2021)

by J.C. DE MARTIN

https://nexa.polito.it/philippe-aigrain-ricordo jc

July 18, 2021

Re: [nexa] Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy | The White House

by Giacomo Tesio

Grazie Antonio e Don Luca, molto interessante. (anche se rimango molto scettico sull'efficacia globale di queste dichiarazioni: difficilmente gli USA metteranno mai a rischio il potere politico e militare che i GAFAM forniscono in questo momento) On Sat, 17 Jul 2021 14:31:06 +0000 VETRO' ANTONIO wrote: > Qui un breve commento del Prof Woodrow Hartzog (Northeastern > University School of Law ) intervistato da Julia Angwin , > sull'impatto potenziale sulle big tech di questo executive order e > sul ruolo della FTC > > > https://www.getrevue.co/profile/themarkup/issues/president-biden-s-executiv… Un passaggio risuona moltissimo con ciò che cerco spesso di spiegare sul "valore" dei dati (ovvero sul potere che conferiscono a chi li detiene [1]) > Without the ability to look at collective harms or more ethereal > harms that are hard to articulate on an individual basis but become > clear when you see them at the population level—things like the > inability to move about from place to place without all of your > movements being monitored and recorded and the chilling effects and > potential deprivation of opportunities that come with things like > biometric surveillance—that’s not something that manifests easily > within unfairness authority because unfairness law demands an > individual consumer injury. But so many modern privacy harms are only > present when you have a wide-angle lens instead of a very narrow > focus. Attenzione però che anche a livello complessivo, di popolazione generale, l'efficacia della manipolazione individuale è difficile da ricondurre ai canali di comunicazione (le "piattaforme") che la attuano a valle della profilazione individuale e della segmentazione collettiva. Poter coordinare chi riceve prima determinati messaggi, prevedendo come questi verranno accettati o rifiutati dai vari segmenti (anche a seconda di come sono stati recepiti da altri segmenti) significa attuare un'influenza invisibile, nascosta dietro i mittenti di tali messaggi. Inoltre ogni singolo messaggio è spesso progettato per essere efficace, con una probabilità elevata, solo sul segmento cui è destinato. Senza conoscere questi segmenti (ed osservare come reagiscono ai messaggi che ricevono nonché analizzando i messaggi che NON ricevono) è impossibile misurare il danno culturale e politico che le piattaforme di sorveglianza stanno facendo alle società democratiche. In altri termini, come osservava Fabio Chiusi qualche giorno fa, il problema del potere cibernetico delle piattaforme di sorveglianza è che è progettato per essere invisibile... o terribilmente sottovalutato. Giacomo [1] http://www.tesio.it/2021/02/24/il_valore_dei_dati_slides.html https://video.resolutions.it/videos/watch/c9b50e80-85de-4b62-bc3a-8f6501d26…

July 17, 2021

Re: [nexa] Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy | The White House

by VETRO' ANTONIO

Qui un breve commento del Prof Woodrow Hartzog (Northeastern University School of Law ) intervistato da Julia Angwin , sull'impatto potenziale sulle big tech di questo executive order e sul ruolo della FTC https://www.getrevue.co/profile/themarkup/issues/president-biden-s-executiv… ________________________________ From: nexa <nexa-bounces(a)server-nexa.polito.it> on behalf of don Luca Peyron <dluca.universitari(a)gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2021 2:18:23 PM To: Nexa <nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it> Subject: [nexa] Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy | The White House Non ancora passato in lista mi pare, una presa di posizione interessante. Buona lettura Dl Https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/07/09/ex…

July 17, 2021

Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy | The White House

by don Luca Peyron

Non ancora passato in lista mi pare, una presa di posizione interessante. Buona lettura Dl Https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/07/09/ex…

July 17, 2021

Re: [nexa] FROM RISKS 32.76 - Social-credit score system for Germany (Vorausschau)

by 380°

"Diego.Latella" <diego.latella(a)isti.cnr.it> writes: > FYI > > _[The following has been reused without explicit authorization under > blanket permission granted for all Risks-Forum Digest materials. The > author(s), the RISKS moderator, and the ACM have no connection with this > reuse.]_ > > D > >> Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 08:46:32 +0200 >> From: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig(a)netcologne.de> >> Subject: Social-credit score system for Germany (Vorausschau) >> >> The German ministry for education and science (BMBF) has published a >> study >> in which it puts forward a Chinese-style social credit system for >> Germany. >> >> A translated quote from the long version on an official BMBF >> https://www.vorausschau.de/vorausschau/de/home/home_node.html#zukuenfte >> (the >> web site's design is atrocious, trying to find the information is quite >> difficult). [...] Lo sviluppo non è del tutto inaspettato e non è limitato alla Germania (o alla Cina)... e il sistema non è nemmeno del tutto nuovo, solo più INCASINATO. https://web.archive.org/web/20180219161634/https://global.handelsblatt.com/… «Germany edges toward Chinese-style rating of citizens» Heike Jahberg Published on February 17, 2018 --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- It sounds like some drastic, Orwellian version of the future. But as Mr. Gigerenzer notes, we in western countries are not as far from such a system as we might like to think. In Germany, he points out, it starts out with the universal credit rating system known as a Schufa. Very much like its US counterpart FICO, Schufa is a private company that assesses the creditworthiness of about three-quarters of all Germans and over 5 million companies in the country. Anyone wanting to rent a house or loan money is required to produce their Schufa rating in Germany – or their FICO score in the US. Additionally, factors like “geo-scoring” can also lower your overall grade if you happen to live in a low-rent neighborhood, or even if a lot of your neighbors have bad credit ratings. In other areas, German health insurers will offer you lower premiums if you don’t get sick as much. They may offer you even better premiums if you share data from your fitness-tracking device to show you’re doing your part to stay healthy. Anyone using websites like Amazon, eBay or Airbnb is asked to rate others and is rated themselves. Those who try to avoid being rated are looked at askance. An increasing number of consumers will be denied certain services or, say, mortgages if they don’t present some kind of rating. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Saluti, Giovanni. -- 380° (Giovanni Biscuolo public alter ego) «Noi, incompetenti come siamo, non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché» Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>.

July 16, 2021

Re: [nexa] FROM RISKS 32.76 - Social-credit score system for Germany (Vorausschau)

by Federico Guerrini

Ciao, ho dato un'occhiata perché mi sembrava molto interessante,ma, se ho ben individuato e compreso quanto scritto sul sito,si tratta di un'esercizio che mira a delineare diversi possibli scenari,senza per questo proporli come auspicabili. _Future of values in our country_ _ _ _Modern societies are not only characterized by different lifestyles, but also by a multitude of values. Our actions are embedded in a framework of cultural influences, attitudes and interests - and have a decisive influence on technological and social developments.__ _ _And incisive, collectively relevant events - for example the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 or the nuclear disaster in Fukushima in 2011 - have an impact on the development of a society.__ _ _In order to gain a preview of possible future value landscapes, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) commissioned the study “The future of values of people in our country”. Your goal: to show which futures are possible.__ _ _ __ _ _The study derives six scenarios based on values - including, for example, the “bonus system”, “tempo differences” and a “return of the blocks”. Find out more and click through the individual elements - or take a look at the full or short version of the study._ (tradotto con Google Translate) Buona giornata, Federico @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}@font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536859905 -1073732485 9 0 511 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}.MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} On 16/7/2021 at 11:18 AM, "Diego.Latella" wrote: FYI _[The following has been reused without explicit authorization under blanket permission granted for all Risks-Forum Digest materials. The author(s), the RISKS moderator, and the ACM have no connection with this reuse.]_ D Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 08:46:32 +0200 From: Thomas Koenig Subject: Social-credit score system for Germany (Vorausschau) The German ministry for education and science (BMBF) has published a study in which it puts forward a Chinese-style social credit system for Germany. A translated quote from the long version on an official BMBF https://www.vorausschau.de/vorausschau/de/home/home_node.html#zukuenfte (the web site's design is atrocious, trying to find the information is quite difficult). ``Highly controversial at the beginning, the bonus point system is largely accepted in the 2030s. It establishes new norms in everyday life that were not possible before. The participatory development of the rules also ensures greater acceptance among the population. Approval of the bonus system is growing, particularly in view of the increasing dynamics of climate change. A point-based evaluation, for example, the of ecological footprint -- helps to make the polluter-pays principle transparent.'' Participation in the point system would be voluntary in the sense that not participating would bring very real drawbacks. Another quote: ``The bonus system is also helpful for the labor market, which continues to suffer from a shortage of skilled workers. system is helpful. It helps to identify qualification potential and efficiently organize the spatial mobility of the workforce.'' So, not participating would lead to lower chances of getting a job. China is explicitly mentioned as a role model. D -- Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR/ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy (http:www.isti.cnr.it) FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it) CNR/GI-STS (http://gists.pi.cnr.it) https://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, mob: +39 348 8283101, fax: +390506212040 =================== The quest for a war-free -- http://www.forbes.com/sites/federicoguerrini/ http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/publication/newsroom-curators-and… www.federicoguerrini.com My latest book: Content Curation (Italian) http://www.amazon.it/Content-Curation-Federico-Guerrini/dp/8820366126

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FYI _[The following has been reused without explicit authorization under blanket permission granted for all Risks-Forum Digest materials. The author(s), the RISKS moderator, and the ACM have no connection with this reuse.]_ D > Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 08:46:32 +0200 > From: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig(a)netcologne.de> > Subject: Social-credit score system for Germany (Vorausschau) > > The German ministry for education and science (BMBF) has published a > study > in which it puts forward a Chinese-style social credit system for > Germany. > > A translated quote from the long version on an official BMBF > https://www.vorausschau.de/vorausschau/de/home/home_node.html#zukuenfte > (the > web site's design is atrocious, trying to find the information is quite > difficult). > > ``Highly controversial at the beginning, the bonus point system is > largely > accepted in the 2030s. It establishes new norms in everyday life that > were not possible before. The participatory development of the rules > also > ensures greater acceptance among the population. Approval of the bonus > system is growing, particularly in view of the increasing dynamics of > climate change. A point-based evaluation, for example, the of > ecological > footprint -- helps to make the polluter-pays principle transparent.'' > > Participation in the point system would be voluntary in the sense that > not > participating would bring very real drawbacks. Another quote: > > ``The bonus system is also helpful for the labor market, which > continues > to suffer from a shortage of skilled workers. system is helpful. It > helps > to identify qualification potential and efficiently organize the > spatial > mobility of the workforce.'' > > So, not participating would lead to lower chances of getting a job. > > China is explicitly mentioned as a role model. D -- Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR/ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy (http:www.isti.cnr.it [1]) FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it) CNR/GI-STS (http://gists.pi.cnr.it) https://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, mob: +39 348 8283101, fax: +390506212040 =================== The quest for a war-free Links: ------ [1] http://www.isti.cnr.it

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