October 2022 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Castiglioncello 2022

by Diego.Latella

Buongiorno Segnalo la prossima _Castiglioncello International Conference_ (21-22 ottobre) dedicata a "_Nuclear Weapons: New Risks" _e organizzata dalle Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs e dall'Unione degli Scienziati Per Il Disarmo (USPID). Il convegno prevede anche un intervento di Guglielmo Tamburrini su "Nuclear Weapons and the Militarisation of AI". Collaborano all'organizzazione dell'evento il Comune di Rosignano Marittimo, il Centro Interdisciplinare di Scienze per la Pace dell'Università di Pisa, il Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerche per la Pace dell'Università di Bari e il Gruppo Interdisciplinare su Scienza, Tecnologia e Società dell'Area della Ricerca di Pisa del CNR. Per ulteriori informazioni, programma e iscrizione si rimanda al sito web del convegno: https://uspid.org/cast2022/ DL -- 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, fax: +390506212040 =================== The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than compulsion; if in the process we learn how to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task. Above all, remember your humanity. -- Sir Joseph Rotblat Links: ------ [1] http://www.isti.cnr.it

Oct. 4, 2022

Fwd: Big Brother or Dumb Brother? Bus Drivers In Beijing Are Forced To Wear “Emotional Monitors”

by Andrea Trentini

<https://hackaday.com/2022/10/03/big-brother-or-dumb-brother-bus-drivers-in-…> -- Andrea Trentini ⠠⠵ http://atrent.it Dip.to di Informatica Università degli Studi di Milano

Oct. 3, 2022

La città danese che ha vietato Google nelle scuole

by Daniele Imbruglia

https://www.wired.it/article/google-vietato-scuole-helsingor-danimarca/ -- dr. Daniele Imbruglia Ricercatore in Diritto privato Dipartimento di Diritto ed economia delle attività produttive Facoltà di Economia - Università di Roma "La Sapienza" Via del Castro Laurenziano, 9 - 00161 Roma RM https://uniroma1.academia.edu/DanieleImbruglia

Oct. 3, 2022

Report GAO - Cloud Computing: Federal Agencies Face Four Challenges

by Diego.Latella

Cloud Computing: Federal Agencies Face Four Challenges GAO-22-106195 https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-106195?utm_campaign=usgao_email&utm_con… Diego -- 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, fax: +390506212040 =================== Links: ------ [1] http://www.isti.cnr.it

Oct. 2, 2022

The Molly Russell inquest verdict damns Silicon Valley. There can be no more excuses | Peter Wanless and Beeban Kidron | The Guardian

by Alberto Cammozzo

<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/30/molly-russell-inquest…> The ruling in a coroner’s court in north London on Friday will be felt around the world. The senior coroner, Andrew Walker, concluded that 14-year-old Molly Russell “died from an act of self-harm while suffering from depression and the negative effects of online content”. The content, he determined, had contributed to her death in a more than minimal way. This is an immensely significant verdict. First and foremost, it is significant for Molly’s family. Thanks to the incredible courage, bravery and determination of Molly’s father, Ian, and her family, they finally have answers to what caused the death of the daughter and sister they adored. Answers that they had to fight for against the inscrutable indifference of tech companies. Molly Russell died while suffering from effects of online content, coroner says But it has a wider significance. Molly’s experience – which involved two companies pushing, recommending and promoting material – reduced many in the court to tears. And it forced the admission of one expert witness that he had been unable to sleep well for weeks after reviewing the material. It’s the kind of experience that thousands of children have endured and are currently enduring. Both of our organisations, the NSPCC and 5Rights, work with young people who have to rebuild their lives after harm and abuse. These young people are the collateral damage of a “move fast and break things” culture in the tech industry, where tragedy is met with a wilful corporate blindness. This must be a turning point for Silicon Valley. The transparency of the court process has shone a light on how the commercial and design decisions of tech platforms result in real-world harm. The world is watching. The government now has the chance to fulfil what has become a somewhat jaded promise: to make Britain the “safest place in the world” to be on the internet, by bringing forward the online safety bill, ensuring that the changes needed to protect children are enshrined in law. For families like Molly’s, and the countless anonymous, voiceless families who have carried the cost of industry’s negligence, the online safety bill must deliver regulation that embeds children’s safety at the heart of every social media site. It needs to be a robust piece of legislation that sets out children’s rights and needs in enforceable codes of practice, which ensure child safety is not optional but simply a price of doing business – just like any other sector. The delay to the online safety bill won’t make it any easier to please everyone It is time to ensure that child safety is at the top of the corporate inbox, ahead of profit or indeed any other consideration. Basic product safety is the aim. We, along with others in our sector, have worked for many years to codify and explain what is necessary. What we need is for the government to make a law that is a fit testimony to the extraordinary efforts of the Russell family. Children want, need and must be online. It is how they learn, access entertainment and socialise. But if it is not optional then it must be a world they can engage with in the knowledge that their safety has been considered. That’s why the online safety bill is needed now. It’s been five years since Molly’s death. It’s also been five years that we have been waiting for new online safety laws. During that time countless young people will have struggled to deal with toxicity and been exposed to harm thanks to the design choices of tech firms. It is time now to take what we know and make it better for future generations – in Molly’s name.

Oct. 1, 2022