February 2022 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

The Free Knowledge Institute is back
by M. Fioretti Feb. 4, 2022

Feb. 4, 2022

per conoscenza, ritengo possa interessare molti membri di questa lista con cui si potrebbero discutere anche progetti comuni, un annuncio che ho appena condiviso su vari social network: ##################################################################### (disclosure: I am an FKI Board Member) FKI is very, very happy to announce that... FKI is back, wishes everybody a great 2022, and looks forward to work more with all advocates of Free as in #Freedom #KNOWLEDGE https://freeknowledge.eu/fki-is-back-and-wishes-everybody-a-great-2022/ ##################################################################### -- Help me write my NEXT MILLION WORDS for digital awareness: https://stop.zona-m.net/2021/10/funding-2021-2022/

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Why the Facebook owner’s shares are in freefall
by Alberto Cammozzo Feb. 3, 2022

Feb. 3, 2022

<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/03/why-facebook-shares-are-…> Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire felt the full force of investors’ concerns about its growth prospects on Thursday, as the revelation of Facebook’s first-ever drop in daily users helped trigger a selloff, with shares down by a quarter. Here are some key points to help explain the selloff, which has wiped about $220bn (£162bn) off Meta’s market value. Declining user numbers at Facebook Facebook is Meta’s biggest app and it recorded its first fall in daily active users – a key growth metric – since the company was founded in 2004. Global daily users dropped from 1.93 billion in the third quarter of 2021 to 1.929 billion. It was led by a decline in users in Africa and Latin America, which is worrying for Meta because it needs to grow outside of its main market in the US, where growth fell too, albeit not for the first time. Last year a whistleblower, Frances Haugen, released internal documents that included presentations warning that Facebook was losing young users. One document revealed that “engagement is declining for teens in most western, and several non-western, countries”. TikTok is a problem Zuckerberg, Meta’s founder and chief executive, identified the video-sharing app TikTok as a key contributor to the user growth problem. “People have a lot of choices for how they want to spend their time, and apps like TikTok are growing very quickly,” he said on Wednesday’s earnings call. Chinese-owned TikTok has 1 billion users worldwide and is one of the reasons why Meta is struggling to compete in the market for young consumers. On the call, Zuckerberg said he was hopeful Facebook’s rival to TikTok, Reels, would help win back young users. “This is why our focus on Reels is so important over the long-term, as is our work to make sure that our apps are the best services out there for young adults.” In the meantime, however, it means slower revenue growth, he admitted. . Hits to revenue growth Meta makes 97% of its revenue from advertising, by building up profiles of its users that can then be matched to advertisers’ needs. So if an advertiser is looking for a consumer in a certain location, of a specific demographic and with certain hobbies, then Meta can direct those ads towards particular groups thanks to the data it has compiled about them. Meta, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, saidrecent changes with Apple’s iOS software for iPhones had hurt the business. Apple now requires users to give permission for companies such as Meta to gather data about them as they browse across the web. Unsurprisingly, users have said no thanks and it has made its ad targeting less effective. Mark Zuckerberg walks with Sheryl Sandberg. Sheryl Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg: company has ‘many targeting and measuring tools’. Photograph: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Sheryl Sandberg, Meta’s chief operating officer and architect of Facebook’s advertising strategy, said during an investor call on Wednesday that the company had ways of targeting users with less data. “There are also a lot of things that small businesses and large businesses can do to take advantage of the many targeting and measurement tools we have,” she said. It should be pointed out that overall revenue did grow in the three months to December, up to $33.7bn compared with $28.1bn for the same period last year. Net income – a US measure of profit – was $10.3bn for the quarter, down nearly $1bn on last year. Nonetheless, Meta remains a very wealthy and profitable business. the meta logo on a smartphone with a metaverse computer graphic in the background Meta is betting on the metaverse being the next big thing. Photograph: Andre M Chang/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock Patience – and money – is needed for the metaverse The metaverse is a catch-all term for a blending of the physical and digital worlds, where people carry out their professional and social lives via a mix of virtual and augmented reality. Zuckerberg is so convinced it is the next big thing in tech that he renamed the company from Facebook Inc to Meta. But it is years away from being a fully fledged part of people’s lives. So the results from Meta’s virtual reality unit – Reality Labs, which includes the top-selling Oculus VR headsets – showed a loss of $3.3bn on revenues of less than $1bn. This is the future of Meta’s business, so expect the revenues to grow, as well as the costs.

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Datigov sotto al cofano
by Antonio Iacono Feb. 3, 2022

Feb. 3, 2022

Credo possa interessare qualcuno anche qui. Messaggio di Francesco "Piersoft" Paolicelli alla lista "spaghetti opendata" "Sapete che le linee guida Agid sull’interoperabilità sono ormai finalmente approvate. Io volevo solo aggiornarvi sul cosa stiamo facendo dentro DatiGov per migliorare i Meta Dati insieme a tantissime amministrazioni locali; stiamo accompagnando grandi produttori di dati aperti ma anche i piccoli comuni, per permettere una pubblicazione che entri in dati gov (e da lì in europa) con i metadati corretti." il resto qui: https://groups.google.com/g/spaghettiopendata/c/fUtTt5C_Haw A.

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Faith in the metaverse: A VR quest for community, fellowship
by don Luca Peyron Feb. 3, 2022

Feb. 3, 2022

Evoluzioni (?) dalle mie bande... Buona lettura dl https://religionnews.com/2022/01/31/faith-in-the-metaverse-a-vr-quest-for-c… __________________ 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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Trattative segrete su Europol: il grande scandalo dello Stato di diritto
by Giacomo Tesio Feb. 3, 2022

Feb. 3, 2022

Nei negoziati tenuti a porte chiuse, il Consiglio degli Stati membri e il Parlamento europeo stanno per silurare tutti gli sforzi dell’organismo di controllo europeo della protezione dei dati per ritenere Europol responsabile delle sue pratiche illegali di dati. Il 3 gennaio 2022 il garante europeo della protezione dei dati (EDPB), incaricato di vigilare sulla conformità delle istituzioni e delle agenzie dell’Unione europea (UE) alla normativa in materia di protezione dei dati, ha notificato a Europol, l’agenzia dell’UE per la cooperazione di polizia, un’ordinanza di cancellazione dei dati ha illegalmente conservato ed elaborato per anni. La decisione mirava a riportare le pratiche di dati di Europol in linea con il suo mandato attualmente in vigore. Ha rivelato “lo stesso ‘Scandalo Snowden’ dell’UE “, in cui Europol svolge un ruolo sempre più importante nella raccolta di massa di dati personali e nell’uso di tecniche di data mining per analizzare queste enormi quantità di dati. Sfortunatamente, i responsabili politici dell’UE vogliono rimuovere tutte le barriere legali rimanenti a questo complesso di sorveglianza di massa. Continua su https://www.informapirata.it/trattative-segrete-su-europol-il-grande-scanda… Traduzione dell'articolo di Chloé Berthélémy https://edri.org/our-work/secret-negotiations-about-europol-the-big-rule-of… Giacomo

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L'involuzione di Internet
by Roberto Resoli Feb. 2, 2022

Feb. 2, 2022

Un eccellente articolo di Elettra Bietti sull'involuzione di Internet, da utopia libertaria a campo di gioco del capitalismo estremo: https://promarket.org/2022/01/28/digital-platforms-regulation-free-software… traduzione italiana: https://www.resolutions.it/nextcloud/index.php/s/cp9wks9x85jXCM5 rob

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Paris Open Science European Conference (OSEC) Friday 4th February and Saturday 5th February 2022
by Giacomo Tenaglia Feb. 2, 2022

Feb. 2, 2022

Salve, segnalo questa conferenza online venerdì e sabato sul tema Open Science, organizzata dal governo Francese nell'ambito della presidenza dell'UE. Sabato alle 14:00 ci sarà una sessione interessante a tema "The Software Pillar of Open Science": https://osec2022.eu Programma completo: https://osec2022.eu/program/ Buona giornata, Giacomo Tenaglia

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Harvard University Law School CopyrightX Turin University Affiliated Course 2022 Edition | Apertura iscrizioni al corso
by Nexa Media Feb. 2, 2022

Feb. 2, 2022

Gentilissimi, vi segnaliamo che sono aperte le iscrizioni alla /*Harvard University Law School CopyrightX Turin University Affiliated Course 2022 Edition*/: il corso sarà tenuto *da **metà febbraio a metà maggio del 2022* e si potrà presentare gratuitamente domanda se in possesso di una laurea di primo livello. L'iscrizione è limitata ad un massimo di 20 candidati. Le domande di ammissione saranno quindi accettate fino alla mezzanotte (CET) del *10 febbraio 2022*, e i candidati selezionati verranno avvisati dell'esito positivo entro la mezzanotte (CET) del 12 febbraio 2022. Per chiunque fosse interessato a presentare domanda è possibile consultare qui <https://nexa.polito.it/copyrightx-2022> la *Call for Applications*, dove potrete trovare inoltre informazioni riguardo alla storia, agli insegnamenti e all'organizzazione del corso. Grazie per l’attenzione, un cordiale saluto -- 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/ _mail:_anita.botta@polito.it <mailto:anita.botta@polito.it> tel: 011 090 7219

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Deadline extension to 8 Feb. - CfP GIG-ARTS 2022: "Global Internet Governance and International Human Rights - Whose Rights, Whose Interpretations?" 13-14 April, Nicosia
by Mauro SANTANIELLO Feb. 2, 2022

Feb. 2, 2022

Dear colleagues, Following a number of requests, the organizing committee of The Sixth European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies has extended by one week the GIG-ARTS 2022 deadline for abstracts submission. *New deadline: 8 February 2022. * All details at: events.gig-arts.eu/gig-arts-2022/ Best wishes, Mauro Santaniello (PhD) *Internet & Communication Policy Centre * *Department of Political and Social Studies * *Università degli Studi di Salerno * *Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132 84084 Fisciano (SA) - Italy * *E. msantaniello(a)unisa.it <msantaniello(a)unisa.it> * *W. http://docenti.unisa.it/mauro.santaniello <http://docenti.unisa.it/mauro.santaniello>* *Skype: internetpolicy * *T. twitter.com/webvoodoo <http://twitter.com/webvoodoo>* *Recent publications* M.Santaniello (2021) "From Governance Denial to State Regulation: A Controversy-Based Typology of Internet Governance Models." In Haggart B., Tusikov N., Scholte J.A. (eds.) *Power and Authority in Internet Governance. Return of the State? *Routledge. N.Palladino, M.Santaniello (2021).* Legitimacy, Power, and Inequalities in the Multistakeholder Internet Governance. **Analyzing IANA Transition*. Palgrave Macmillan. *Pubblicazioni recenti in italiano* M. Santaniello (2021) "Fortezza Internet. L’incastellamento del cyberspazio e il regime feudale della cyber security." In Amoretti F.* Per una cultura della sicurezza democratica* Pag.131-148 Soveria Mannelli Rubbettino. F. Amoretti, M. Santaniello (2021) "Sovranità (con)tese. Le digital corporation nello spazio pubblico globale." In F.Tuccari; G. Borgognone *La sovranità* Pag.175-194 M. Santaniello (2021) "Sunburst. La grande eclissi della cybersecurity Usa." *Rivista di Digital Politics*. Vol. 1/2021. Pag.179-194. F. Amoretti, M. Santaniello (2021), "Partecipazione politica e opinione pubblica online in tempo di crisi." *Iride* Vol. 92. Pag.57-67. F. Amoretti, R. Fittipaldi, M. Santaniello (2021), "Poteri monocratici e comunicazione politica ai tempi della pandemia. Dal governo Conte II al governo Draghi". *Comunicazione politica, n. *3/2021, pp. 333-356.

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San Diego: contro i lampioni "intelligenti" (da "Logic")
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 2, 2022

Feb. 2, 2022

*The Oversight Bloc *Lilly Irani, Khalid Alexander /How community organizers and tech workers joined forces to rein in San Diego’s surveillance state.// / In July 2019, one of us, Khalid Alexander, received a tip from a fellow San Diego community organizer. “You should be paying attention to the city’s new streetlights.” The message continued, “Apparently, they have cameras attached to them.” Alexander lived in one of the many predominantly Black and brown neighborhoods in San Diego that was under constant police surveillance, including by “gang suppression units” that watch, harass, and document residents. He feared that streetlights with cameras on them could supercharge these efforts. Two weeks later, Alexander showed up at a public library for a forum about the streetlights program (which the city named the Smart Streetlights Program). The only other people at the meeting were the presenters: a police captain, a city staffer, and an executive from General Electric (GE), the company that produced the new streetlights. Their presentation began with an infomercial for the technology, a city-wide network of thousands of LED streetlights mounted with cameras that recorded video around-the-clock. The footage was uploaded to the cloud, where city agencies could use software to count cars, pedestrians, and who knows what else. According to the police captain, the smart streetlights were already being used to solve crimes. [...] Continua qui: https://logicmag.io/beacons/the-oversight-bloc/

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