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This company says it’s developing a system that can recognize your face from just your DNA | MIT Technology Review
by Alberto Cammozzo Feb. 1, 2022

Feb. 1, 2022

Verrebbe da dire che è fuffa, anche se Cortica non è nata ieri. Comunque evidenzia la pericolosa tendenza alla convergenza tra tecnologie biometriche. <https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/01/31/1044576/corsight-face-recogniti…> A police officer is at the scene of a murder. No witnesses. No camera footage. No obvious suspects or motives. Just a bit of hair on the sleeve of the victim’s jacket. DNA from the cells of one strand is copied and compared against a database. No match comes back, and the case goes cold. Corsight AI, a facial recognition subsidiary of the Israeli AI company Cortica, purports to be devising a solution for that sort of situation by using DNA to create a model of a face that can then be run through a facial recognition system. It is a task that experts in the field regard as scientifically untenable. Corsight unveiled its “DNA to Face” product in a presentation by chief executive officer Robert Watts and executive vice president Ofer Ronen intended to court financiers at the Imperial Capital Investors Conference in New York City on December 15. It was part of the company’s overall product road map, which also included movement and voice recognition. The tool “constructs a physical profile by analyzing genetic material collected in a DNA sample,” according to a company slide deck viewed by surveillance research group IPVM and shared with MIT Technology Review. A photo of Corsight's investor presentation showing its product roadmap that features "voice to face", "DNA to face" and "movement" as an expansion of its face recognition capabilities. Corsight declined a request to answer questions about the presentation and its product road map. “We are not engaging with the press at the moment as the details of what we are doing are company confidential,” Watts wrote in an email. But marketing materials show that the company is focused on government and law enforcement applications for its technology. Its advisory board consists only of James Woolsey, a former director of the CIA, and Oliver Revell, a former assistant director of the FBI.

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Digital Identity
by Vincenzo Mario Bruno Giorgino Feb. 1, 2022

Feb. 1, 2022

Un intervento che può interessare. Jaap-Henk Hoepman "Civil liberties aspects of the European Digital Identity Framework", January 31, 2022 https://blog.xot.nl/2022/01/31/civil-liberties-aspects-of-the-european-digi… Saluti, VG -- A new book https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319665917 "One of the great liabilities of life is that all too many people find themselves living amid a great period of social change and yet they fail to develop the new attitudes, the new mental responses that the new situation demands. They end up sleeping through a revolution." - Martin Luther King, Jr., "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution" Vincenzo Mario Bruno Giorgino, Ph.D. Dept. of Economic and Social Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics University of Torino - Italy

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Special Issue: “Technology Ethics in Action: Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives”
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 1, 2022

Feb. 1, 2022

New special issue in the /Journal of Social Computing/, “Technology Ethics in Action: Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives” *Summary* This special issue interrogates the discourses and impacts of “tech ethics.” As many institutions embrace tech ethics in response to concerns about digital technology, it is necessary to consider the impacts, limits, and opportunities of these initiatives. The articles in this issue analyze tech ethics as a practical and political endeavor, rather than a primarily philosophical one. What's happened as "tech ethics" has become a widespread discourse? What are the limits of tech ethics initiatives? How can we develop better paths forward? We hope that this issue will be a useful resource for research, teaching, advocacy, and more. You can read the full issue here: https://www.benzevgreen.com/tech-ethics/. jc

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Fwd: [DigHum Lecture Series] Next talk on Feb. 8: Daniel Samaan on "Job Scenarios 2030"
by Enrico Nardelli Feb. 1, 2022

Feb. 1, 2022

-------- Messaggio Inoltrato -------- Date and time: *Tuesday, Februar 8, 2022 at 5:00 p.m.* (17:00) Central European Time (UTC+1) Topic: *“Job Scenarios 2030: How the World of Work has Changed Around the Globe”* (scroll down for abstract and CV) Speaker: *Daniel Samaan * (International Labour Organization) Moderator: *George Metakides* (President of the Digital Enlightenment Forum) To participate via *Zoom* go to: https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/96389928143?pwd=UU5YRkNuRmdoWHV4MFBwMWRCcUErdz09 (Password: 0dzqxqiy) The talk will be live streamed and recorded on our *YouTube* channel: https://www.youtube.com/digitalhumanism For further announcements and information about the speakers in the Lecture Series, see https://dighum.ec.tuwien.ac.at/news-events ----- *ABSTRACT:* We are in the year 2030. How will the world of work look like in 2030? Based on today’s megatrends artificial intelligence (AI), climate change, population aging and others, the author develops scenarios for possible Futures of Work in different regions of the world: Robots have not replaced humans but AI and smart machines have become indispensable parts of our working lives. Efforts to mitigate climate change may fail but still trigger an ecological transformation that leads us into a more sustainable future. Mass production might enter its last decades but people may instead work in small shops and in more agile organizations. Can we work without jobs? In all these transformations AI and the digitalization are likely to play crucial roles. Whatever the future will be in 2030, thinking through such scenarios helps us perceiving opportunities and risks today, and shape the Future of Work that we want. *Short Bio of Daniel Samaan:* Daniel Samaan is an Economist and Senior Researcher at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva. He is an expert in the analysis of global labour market trends, specialized in the links with globalization, new technologies/AI, sustainable development, and a new work culture. He has been an author and part of the core teams of several ILO reports. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals and he is a regular public speaker on various labor market topics and on the Future of Work. Daniel previously worked at the economic policy research center, SCEPA, and in the consulting industry in New York City. He holds a PhD in economics from the New School for Social Research in New York and a master’s degree in economics and business administration from the University of Passau in Germany. ----- For further announcements and information about the speakers in the Lecture Series, see https://dighum.ec.tuwien.ac.at/news-events Also, please note that you can access the slides and recordings of all our past events via that link. Sign the Vienna Manifesto: https://dighum.ec.tuwien.ac.at Follow us on Twitter @DigHumTUWien ===================================================================== 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@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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148° Mercoledì di Nexa | 9 Febbraio 2022 | Modalità Telematica
by Nexa Media Feb. 1, 2022

Feb. 1, 2022

Gentilissimi, vi segnaliamo che il 148° Mercoledì di Nexa, /*"Processing Alterity, Shaping the European Order"*/, con ospite *Annalisa Pelizza *(Università di Bologna e Università di Twente), si svolgerà*mercoledì 9 febbraio, dalle ore 18.00 alle ore 20.00*, in modalità telematica, utilizzando la piattaforma di videoconferenza BigBlueButton. Modera l'incontro: *Alvise Mattozzi* (Politecnico di Torino) Sarà possibile partecipare al seminario connettendosi al seguente indirizzo: 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/mercoledi-148> NEXA 148° Mercoledì di Nexa Mercoledì 9 febbraio 2022, ore 18.00 - 20.00 Politecnico di Torino https://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-148 Processing Alterity, Shaping the European Order Speaker Annalisa Pelizza (Università di Bologna e Università di Twente). Modera: Alvise Mattozzi (Politecnico di Torino) This event will be webcast live: 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 This lecture introduces the concept of *“alterity processing”* to account for the simultaneous enactment of individual “Others” and emergent European orders mediated by *data infrastructures for migration management*. Alterity processing refers to data infrastructures, knowledge practices and bureaucratic procedures through which populations unknown to European actors are translated into “European-legible” identities. Drawing upon a *Science and Technology Studies perspective*, the lecture provides empirical evidence and theoretical reflections on the co-production of migrant people and Europe as a polity through the digitization of registration and identification of third-country nationals. It shows how different registration and identification procedures compete to legitimize different chains of actors, data, and metadata as more authoritative than others. Competing procedures have governance implications, as well, with institutional boundaries shifting de facto, if not de jure. In this tension, it is not only the individual Other that is enacted but also specific bureaucratic orders cutting across old and new European actors and distinctive understandings of “Europe.” The lecture draws upon data collected in the context of the *“Processing Citizenship” project* (ERC StG No 714463, https://processingcitizenship.eu/) BIOGRAFIA - e informazioni supplementari [mercoledì148] *Annalisa PELIZZA* is Professor of Science and Technology Studies (STS) at the University of Bologna. Before that, she was Associate Professor at the Science, Technology and Policy Studies department of the University of Twente, where she is now Visiting Professor. Her research focuses on how governance by data infrastructures shapes modern institutions. By studying how data infrastructures entail broader but unnoticed transformations in the modern order of authority, which are buried in technical minutiae, Pelizza’s work brings tools proper of STS analyses to investigate macro political developments. Pelizza was the recipient of several excellence scientific grants and currently leads the “Processing Citizenship” research group (http://processingcitizenship.eu) funded by the European Research Council. The team investigates transnational data infrastructures for migration management as activities of European governance transformation. She is vice-president of STS Italia, elected member of the Board of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), member of the editorial board of Science, Technology and Human Values. *Letture consigliate e link utili:* * /Processing citizenship: digital registration of migrants as co-production of citizens, territory, and Europe?/ http://processingcitizenship.eu * Pelizza (2016), /Developing the Vectorial Glance: Infrastructural Inversion for the New Agenda on Government Information Systems/, disponibile qui <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0162243915597478> * Pelizza (2020), /Processing Alterity, Enacting Europe: Migrant Registration and Identification as Co-construction of Individuals and Polities/, disponibile in OA qui <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0162243919827927> * Pelizza (2021), /Towards a sociomaterial approach to inter-organizational boundaries: How information systems elicit relevant knowledge in government outsourcing/, disponibile in OA qui <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0268396220934490> * Pelizza (2021), /Identification as translation: The art of choosing the right spokespersons at the securitized border/ disponibile in OA qui <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306312720983932> * Pelizza and Van Rossem (2021), /Sensing European Alterity. An analogy between sensors and Hotspots in transnational security networks/, disponibile qui <https://nexa.polito.it/nexacenterfiles/sensing-europe-altery.pdf> * Schot and Skipper (2018), /Experts and European transport integration, 1945–1958/ disponibile in OA qui <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2011.544509> 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> #AnnalisaPelizza <https://twitter.com/Nisa00> #EuropeanResearchCouncil <https://twitter.com/erc_research> #ProcessCitizenship <https://twitter.com/ProcessCitizens> #nexawednesday <https://twitter.com/search?q=%23nexawednesday&src=typd> 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. 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. 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. 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. Maggiori informazioni sui Mercoledì di Nexa e i Nexa Lunch Seminar, sono disponibili all'indirizzo: 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/ mail: anita.botta(a)polito.it tel: 011 090 7219

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Platform economy, what is happening around the EU and in particular in Easter Europe?
by Alessandro Brolpito Feb. 1, 2022

Feb. 1, 2022

Dear all, The ETF's study investigates changing patterns of work triggered by digitalisation in the six Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. It aims in particular to fill the knowledge gaps on emerging platform work in the region, both web-based and on-location. The future of work – New forms of employment in the Eastern Partnership countries: Platform work | ETF (europa.eu) <https://www.etf.europa.eu/en/publications-and-resources/publications/future…> Workers from all the six countries access international Russian- and English-language web-based platforms. The most widespread web-based engagement relates mainly to higher-complexity specialist work in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector (software development and technology) and the creative and multimedia industry, in line with labour market demand. Alessandro

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