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VK Baden-Württemberg - 1 VK 23/22

by Giacomo Tesio

The Procurement Chamber of Baden-Württemberg held that a company had to be excluded from a public procurement procedure, as its offer violated the GDPR. This is because compliance with data protection law was a requirement of the tender. The Chamber held that the offer contained an unlawful transfer of customer data to a third country (their parent company located in the U.S.), as it could be accessed by the parent company. https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=VK_Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg_-_1_VK_23/22 Giacomo

Sept. 7, 2022

Re: [nexa] Verso le elezioni

by antonio＠piumarossa.it

> Però ho pensato che possa interessare questa pagina del Ministero, > che raccoglie tutte le liste, con relativi statuti e programmi: > > > https://dait.interno.gov.it/elezioni/trasparenza/elezioni-politiche-2022 > Torno sul thread per aggiungere che la Legge 9 gennaio 2019 n.3 [1] stabilisce che: "... entro il settimo giorno antecedente la data della consultazione elettorale ... sono pubblicati in maniera facilmente accessibile il curriculum vitae e il certificato del casellario giudiziale ... dei candidati" Aspettiamoci quindi, entro il 18 settembre, di poter accedere a 9654 (4827 candidati, per due) file in formato PDF/A [2] A. [1] https://www.normattiva.it/atto/caricaDettaglioAtto?atto.dataPubblicazioneGa… [2] come da Specifiche delle regole tecniche https://dait.interno.gov.it/documenti/dm_20-03-2019_all.a.pdf

Sept. 7, 2022

[REMINDER] [WEBINAR GI-STS] Accuratezza e riproducibilità in Intelligenza Artificiale: non solo questioni tecniche, ma anche filosofiche e sociali - con F. Cabitza e V. Schiaffonati - coordina M. Massink

by Diego.Latella

[Con preghiera di diffusione] =============================== ANNUNCIO EVENTO PUBBLICO ONLINE =============================== Accuratezza e riproducibilità in Intelligenza Artificiale: non solo questioni tecniche, ma anche filosofiche e sociali Seminario online aperto al pubblico GIOVEDI 8 SETTEMBRE, 2022 alle 16.30 (CEST) (Official language: Italian) Coordina Mieke Massink (CNR-ISTI, GI-STS) 16:30 Saluti Istituzionali Antonello Provenzale (Presidente - Area della Ricerca di Pisa del CNR) 16:45 "Ogni giorno che passa attribuisco minor valore all'accuratezza" Lezioni apprese da un progettista di interazioni con sistemi AI a supporto delle decisioni (mediche) Federico Cabitza (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca; IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi) 17:15 La crisi della riproducibilità in IA e il suo impatto sul concetto di Trustworthy AI Viola Schiaffonati (Politecnico di Milano) 17:45 Discussione L'evento è organizzato dal Gruppo Interdisciplinare su Scienza, Tecnologia e Società (GI-STS) dell'Area della Ricerca di Pisa del CNR In cooperazione con Areaperta - Area della Ricerca CNR di Pisa Caffe della scienza "N. Badaloni" - Livorno Centro Interdisciplinare Scienze per La Pace dell'Università di Pisa Istituto di Biofisica del CNR Istituto di Fisiologia Clinica del CNR Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione ``A. Faedo'' del CNR La Nuova Limonaia Laboratorio Informatica e Società del CINI Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs Unione degli Scienziati Per Il Disarmo --- Per ulteriori informazioni---incluso il link per la partecipazione all'evento---si rimanda alla pagina "Events" del sito web del Gruppo Interdisciplinare su Scienza, Tecnologia e Società (GI-STS) dell'Area della Ricerca di Pisa del CNR (http://gists.pi.cnr.it) =========================== For more information---including the link for participation---please refer to the "Events" page in the web site of the Gruppo Interdisciplinare su Scienza, Tecnologia e Società (GI-STS) dell'Area della Ricerca di Pisa del CNR (http://gists.pi.cnr.it) -- 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 =================== I don't quite know whether it is especially computer science or its subdiscipline Artificial Intelligence that has such an enormous affection for euphemism. We speak so spectacularly and so readily of computer systems that understand, that see, decide, make judgments, and so on, without ourselves recognizing our own superficiality and immeasurable naivete with respect to these concepts. And, in the process of so speaking, we anesthetise our ability to evaluate the quality of our work and, what is more important, to identify and become conscious of its end use. […] One can't escape this state without asking, again and again: "What do I actually do? What is the final application and use of the products of my work?" and ultimately, "am I content or ashamed to have contributed to this use?" -- Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum ["Not without us", ACM SIGCAS 16(2-3) 2--7 - Aug. 1986] Links: ------ [1] http://www.isti.cnr.it

Sept. 7, 2022

Re: [nexa] Fa inversione a U con il suo suv sulla A1 per seguire il navigatore

by 380°

Buongiorno Marco, "Marco A. Calamari" <marcoc_maillist(a)marcoc.it> writes: > On mar, 2022-09-06 at 09:07 +0200, don Luca Peyron wrote: >> Cronaca, ma che fa pensare > > Fa pensare che anche le telecamere qualche volta servono... le telecamere in questo caso servono solo a fare la multa, che sinceramente è proprio l'ultimissimo dei problemi considerato lo stato pietoso in cui ci troviamo piuttosto, a me fa pensare servirebbe usare il cervello... e non qualche vota "La macchina propone, l'uomo dispone", non esistono alternative. > E' un argomento complesso. Sì è complesso e proprio per questo meriterebbe che venisse affrontato con adeguata cultura e non con supertizione, che "a naso" è l'atteggiamento mentale che ha spinto l'autista a seguire l'indicazione del navigatore saluti, 380° P.S.: sarà capitato anche a voi dover fare una deviazione di carreggiata autostradale a causa di lavori in corso, magari per qualche chilometro e su un percorso non parallelo alla carreggiata "giusta"... in quei casi è risaputo che i navigatori sbarellano, proponendo svolte a destra e manca come se non ci fosse un domani. Giusto per dire che sono PROGRAMMI e in quanto tali deficienti, non mi sembra poi così complesso. -- 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>.

Sept. 6, 2022

Re: [nexa] Fa inversione a U con il suo suv sulla A1 per seguire il navigatore

by Giacomo Tesio

E' solo un caso particolarmente eclatante di alienazione cibernetica: https://video.linuxtrent.it/w/uGeLUW9uwuU7siCavjNnZm Non mi pare nemmeno sia la prima volta che accade. On Tue, 06 Sep 2022 09:39:34 +0200 Andrea Trentini wrote: > per parafrasare Lawrence Lessig: "code is life (or death)" Viviamo in una società cibernetica in cui gli automatismi prevalgono numericamente sulle persone di diversi ordini di grandezza. Automatismi che riproducono pedissequamente la volontà di chi li crea ed amministra. Chi non ne comprende il funzionamento abbastanza da poterlo alterare e adattare alla propria volonta è destinato ad adattarsi ad esso e diventare un mero ingranaggio nelle mani di chi li controlla... e dei bug che vi ha inevitabilmente inserito. In fondo è esattamente così che (non) funzionano le self-driving car. Il nostro autista si è semplicemente ridotto ad un attuatore del software di navigazione, che era il vero controllore del veicolo. Da un punto di vista cibernetico, non è molto diverso da quanto accadde nel 2018 a Rafaela Vasquez, quando l'auto che NON guidava investì ed uccise Elaine Herzberg. Ma la mia domanda è: ad una persona che non comprende il funzionamento (e dunque i limiti) degli automatismi di cui si circonda tanto da ridursi ad ingranaggio degli stessi, dobbiamo togliere solo la patente o anche i diritti elettorali (attivi E passivi [1])? Sia chiaro: è una domanda, non una proposta! La mia personale risposta è che una democrazia cibernetica non può permettersi cittadini di serie B ed è "compito della Repubblica rimuovere gli ostacoli di ordine economico e sociale, che, limitando di fatto la libertà e l'eguaglianza dei cittadini, impediscono il pieno sviluppo della persona umana e l'effettiva partecipazione di tutti i lavoratori all'organizzazione politica, economica e sociale del Paese." Ne deriva che l'unica soluzione costituzionalmente legittima è una scuola pubblica che educhi ad una piena cittadinanza cibernetica, mettendo tutti in condizione di comprendere ed alterare il funzionamento degli automatismi che ci circondano. E magari comprendere anche quando spegnerli. Insomma... c'è molto lavoro da fare. [2] Giacomo [1]: https://monitora-pa.it/2022/08/28/Speciale_Elezioni_2022.html [2]: https://monitora-pa.it/2022/09/05/cari_amici_linuxari.html

Sept. 6, 2022

Re: [nexa] Fa inversione a U con il suo suv sulla A1 per seguire il navigatore

by M. Fioretti

On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 09:54:35 AM +0200, Marco A. Calamari wrote: > On mar, 2022-09-06 at 09:07 +0200, don Luca Peyron wrote: > > Cronaca, ma che fa pensare > > Fa pensare che anche le telecamere qualche volta servono... > E' un argomento complesso. > > https://notizie.virgilio.it/fa-inversione-a-u-con-suv-sulla-a1-per-seguire-… quello che "le telecamere qualche volta servono" e' sicuramente un argomento complesso, ma il fatto originale e' la somma di due errori 1) certi umani sono assolutamente imbecilli (se le cose sono andate come dice l'articolo, questo e' alla lettera uno che ha risposto "certo" alla domanda che fan da sempre tutti i genitori, "se uno ti dice di buttarti di sotto tu che fai, ti butti?") 2) google ogni tanto da indicazioni assolutamente imbecilli, cosa stranota. In citta' e strade grandi OK, ma nei paesi mi ha fatto prendere "scorciatoie" inesistenti o percorribili solo da muli piu' di una volta che forse complessi non sono. O no? Marco -- Help me write my NEXT MILLION WORDS for digital awareness: https://stop.zona-m.net/2021/10/funding-2021-2022/

Sept. 6, 2022

Re: [nexa] Fa inversione a U con il suo suv sulla A1 per seguire il navigatore

by Marco A. Calamari

On mar, 2022-09-06 at 09:07 +0200, don Luca Peyron wrote: > Cronaca, ma che fa pensare Fa pensare che anche le telecamere qualche volta servono... E' un argomento complesso. > Buona lettura > dl > > https://notizie.virgilio.it/fa-inversione-a-u-con-suv-sulla-a1-per-seguire-… > > _________________________ > don Luca Peyron > Direttore Ufficio per la Pastorale Universitaria > Arcidiocesi di Torino > www.universitari.to.it > via XX settembre 83, Torino > tel. 011 5156239 > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

Sept. 6, 2022

Re: [nexa] Fa inversione a U con il suo suv sulla A1 per seguire il navigatore

by Andrea Trentini

per parafrasare Lawrence Lessig: "code is life (or death)" On 06/09/2022 09:07, don Luca Peyron wrote: > Cronaca, ma che fa pensare > Buona lettura > dl > https://notizie.virgilio.it/fa-inversione-a-u-con-suv-sulla-a1-per-seguire-… <https://notizie.virgilio.it/fa-inversione-a-u-con-suv-sulla-a1-per-seguire-…> > _________________________ > don Luca Peyron > Direttore Ufficio per la Pastorale Universitaria > Arcidiocesi di Torino > www.universitari.to.it <http://www.universitari.to.it> > via XX settembre 83, Torino > tel. 011 5156239 > -- Andrea Trentini ⠠⠵ http://atrent.it Dip.to di Informatica Università degli Studi di Milano

Sept. 6, 2022

Fa inversione a U con il suo suv sulla A1 per seguire il navigatore

by don Luca Peyron

Cronaca, ma che fa pensare Buona lettura dl https://notizie.virgilio.it/fa-inversione-a-u-con-suv-sulla-a1-per-seguire-… _________________________ don Luca Peyron Direttore Ufficio per la Pastorale Universitaria Arcidiocesi di Torino www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

Sept. 6, 2022

‘I didn’t want it anywhere near me’: how the Apple AirTag became a gift to stalkers | Apple | The Guardian

by Alberto Cammozzo

<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/05/i-didnt-want-it-anywhere…> n March this year, Laura (not her real name) was in her car when a notification showed up on her phone, alerting her that an Apple AirTag had been detected nearby. “I didn’t know what it was or what it meant. I felt quite panicky,” she says. “I pulled over and still didn’t know what I was looking at. My phone was showing a map of where I was with a trail of red dots indicating the route I’d just followed. I think I was in shock. I drove straight to a friend’s house and we searched the car.” They emptied the glove compartment, opened the bonnet, checked underneath it and then behind the number plate. “Eventually we found it under the carpet in the back – a tiny gadget the size of a 10-pence piece. I didn’t want it anywhere near me.” To Laura, it was obvious how it got there. She had recently separated from her partner, but he had spent the previous day with their young son – and had transferred his child seat from his car to the back seat of Laura’s when he had dropped him back. The AirTag was launched in April last year – a wireless, Bluetooth device designed to keep track of items such as keys, purses, cars or anything else at risk of being lost or stolen. But it has also been a gift to stalkers. “We’re finding it’s quite an issue,” says Violet Alvarez from the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, which supports stalking victims. “It’s so small, it’s unnoticeable and very user-friendly. It doesn’t require any technical skill whatsoever and it is relatively cheap to buy [from £29].” AirTags are also widely available. While a mind-boggling range of spyware is available on eBay or Amazon, the Apple brand is ubiquitous, part of everyday life. “I saw AirTags for sale in my local supermarket,” says Emma Pickering, senior operations manager for tech abuse at the domestic abuse charity Refuge. “People see them, think about tracking more, and the concept of tracking becomes more established. We’re normalising it.” Both Refuge and the Suzy Lamplugh Trust have been contacted by women like Laura, who have received AirTag notifications on their phones. Some went on to find the devices planted in children’s backpacks by ex-partners. Others had been slipped into the women’s pockets or handbags. In one case, the AirTag couldn’t be located at all. The Refuge team talked the caller through how to disable it, but she still doesn’t know where it is hidden. This month at Swansea crown court, Christopher Paul Trotman, 41, pleaded guilty to stalking his ex-girlfriend by gluing an AirTag under her car bumper. Although she had received notifications about the device on her phone, she had no idea what they meant and initially ignored them. It was only when her daughter also began getting notifications that the tag was found. In most cases seen by Refuge and the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, the victims have a clear idea of who planted the device – usually current or former partners – but this is not always the case. In June, the Irish actor Hannah Rose May tweeted a warning after an AirTag was planted on her person during an after-hours event at Disneyland, California. She was in the car park at 2am, about to drive home, when she received a notification that someone had been tracking her for two hours. Sports Illustrated model Brook Nader shared a similar experience on Instagram. Someone slipped an AirTag into her coat pocket when she was in a New York restaurant. Four hours later, in what she described as “the scariest moment ever”, Nader was walking home alone when she received a notification that she was being tracked. Apple has stressed that the company takes the issue of stalking very seriously, which is why it designed the alert system that appears on your iPhone if an AirTag not registered to you is seen moving with you over time. It adds that it works with police when there have been incidents, and stresses that misuse of AirTags is rare. That alert system only works if the stalking victim has an iPhone, however. So in December 2021, eight months after AirTags were launched, Apple released Tracker Detect, an app that will alert you on an Android device – so long as you’re sufficiently informed and far-sighted to install the app and keep it active. The AirTag also emits a warning chime after a while to alert anyone close by of its presence. Initially the chime sounded after three days, but subsequently this was shortened to a random time between eight and 24 hours. Apple has been working to make the chime louder – it can be especially difficult to hear on a busy street or when hidden under a car – and to make the AirTag easier to find after you have received an alert. The approach is: ‘Launch it, monetise it and we can solve problems later. That doesn’t happen in any other industry To Rory Innes, founder of the Cyber Helpline, these safety updates serve to illustrate the problem. “The approach is: ‘Launch it, get it into the world, get it to market, monetise it and we can solve problems later,’” he says. “That doesn’t happen in any other industry. You don’t launch a car and fix the seatbelts months down the line – and that’s because there are strict laws and regulations, safety standards and testing. That just doesn’t exist in tech – and it’s a real gap. “All these features need to be designed into the product pre-release,” he says. “I’ve sat in rooms with social media companies and software developers and their security concerns are always around hackers and encryption. They focus on protecting company servers and databases or protecting consumers from cyber-viruses. But what about when the threat is from someone inside the house? There’s a total lack of understanding when it comes to domestic abuse and stalking, and how individuals become victims.” Another issue is the lack of support when it happens. “If you find an AirTag under your car or you get a notification, it’s impossible to speak to anyone at Apple,” says Innes. “At that point, speed is important. You need expert advice very quickly.” There are complex risk assessments to be made, depending on where you are and who you think the perpetrator might be. A study of female homicides as a result of male violence found stalking behaviour in 94% of cases and surveillance activity in 63%. Disabling access on an AirTag notifies the stalker that you know what they are doing. A stalker who is losing control might escalate their behaviour. Some women might be tempted to confront someone they suspect of planting the device. Any reaction has potential dangers attached, warns Innes: “Apple just don’t offer enough support, and that is about profit.” Apple declined an interview, but did point out that the company has a 24-hour support line. It added that the AirTag support website advises anyone who feels they might be at risk to go to a public location and contact the authorities, who can work with Apple to request information related to the item. The UK government’s online safety bill (currently at the report stage in the House of Commons) offers little help here. “There’s a lot of focus on removing harmful content, which is a lot better than nothing, but what it doesn’t cover in any way is the design of products and the support offered when they are used maliciously,” says Innes. He advises victims to contact the police – every AirTag has a unique serial number that should identify the purchaser through their Apple ID – though the Suzy Lamplugh Trust has heard of cases of the police failing to take this issue seriously enough. Laura had never seen her partner as abusive during their relationship, but when they separated, his tech-abuse went beyond an AirTag. “I’m a dinosaur; he loved fancy new gadgets, and when we were together, he bought the technology,” she says. “He set up her computer passwords, she says, and when they separated he locked her out of her machine. “I was actually in the car on the way to getting it fixed when I got the AirTag alert. “He also put some kind of tag on my keys – he said it was so we wouldn’t lose them – but it meant he knew where I was at all times. He had security cameras on the house, which he viewed on his phone. One night after we had separated, I got in at 11.30 at night, and as I was walking upstairs, loud music started blaring out of the boombox. He had watched me come in on his phone and activated the sound system remotely. I was running around the house unplugging everything. By then I didn’t want to stay at home any more. I felt like I was going crazy.” Laura now has a stalking protection order for five years. Though her ex was originally charged with stalking, this was later downgraded to a public order offence. He claimed that the AirTag must have fallen out his pocket and it was impossible to prove otherwise. Laura says she is still processing it all. “On a bad day, I get this feeling of panic, I have to switch my phone off and do nothing,” she says. “The stuff he has done is so unbelievable – it’s not normal behaviour and yet he seemed such a normal person. That’s what puts me on edge.”

Sept. 5, 2022