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Paper: "Law is Code: A Software Engineering Approach to Analyzing the United States Code"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 22, 2014

Oct. 22, 2014

*"Law is Code: A Software Engineering Approach to Analyzing the United States Code"* written in collaboration with William Li, Pablo Azar, and Andrew Lo of MIT CSAIL and Berkman Alumnus Phil Hill. Abstract: The agglomeration of rules and regulations over time has produced a body of legal code that no single individual can fully comprehend. This complexity produces inefficiencies, makes the processes of understanding and changing the law difficult, and frustrates the fundamental principle that the law should provide fair notice to the governed. In this article, we take a quantitative, unbiased, and software-engineering approach to analyze the evolution of the United States Code from 1926 to today. Software engineers frequently face the challenge of understanding and managing large, structured collections of instructions, directives, and conditional statements, and we adapt and apply their techniques to the U.S. Code over time. Our work produces insights into the structure of the U.S. Code as a whole, its strengths and vulnerabilities, and new ways of thinking about individual laws. For example, we identify the first appearance and spread of important terms in the U.S. Code like "whistleblower" and "privacy." We also analyze and visualize the network structure of certain substantial reforms, including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and show how the interconnections of references can increase complexity and create the potential for unintended consequences. Our work is a timely illustration of computational approaches to law as the legal profession embraces technology for scholarship, to increase efficiency, and to improve access to justice. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2511947 The final version will be available this spring in the Journal of Business & Technology Law.

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Fwd: New Report: 4 in 10 internet users have been harassed online
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 22, 2014

Oct. 22, 2014

(Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any)) Begin forwarded message: > Resent-From: <d004620(a)polito.it> > From: Pew Research Center Internet Project <info(a)pewinternet.org> > Date: 22 ottobre 2014 18:17:38 CEST > To: <demartin(a)polito.it> > Subject: New Report: 4 in 10 internet users have been harassed online > Reply-To: Pew Research Center Internet Project <info(a)pewinternet.org> > > Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. > NUMBERS, FACTS AND TRENDS SHAPING YOUR WORLD > > OCTOBER 22, 2014 > Online Harassment > > Harassment has become a common part of online life. Fully 73% of adult internet users have seen someone be harassed in some way online and 40% have personally experienced it. Young women experience particularly severe forms. > > Online adults who witnessed harassment said they had seen at least one of the following occur to others online: > 60% of internet users said they had witnessed someone being called offensive names > 53% had seen efforts to purposefully embarrass someone > 25% witnessed someone being harassed for a sustained period of time > 24% had seen someone being physically threatened > 19% said they witnessed someone being sexually harassed > 18% said they had seen someone be stalked > > Internet users who have personally experienced online harassment said they were the target of at least one of the following online: > 27% of internet users have been called offensive names > 22% have had someone try to purposefully embarrass them > 8% have been physically threatened > 8% have been stalked > 7% have been harassed for a sustained period > 6% have been sexually harassed > > > Read or download the full report: http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/10/22/online-harassment/ > NEWSLETTER SIGN UP > FOLLOW THE PEW RESEARCH CENTER ON TWITTER, FACEBOOK AND RSS. > This email was sent to demartin(a)polito.it > unsubscribe from newsletter | update subscription preferences > © PEW RESEARCH CENTER | 1615 L Street NW, Suite 700, Washington, D.C. 20036

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Hungary plans new tax on Internet traffic, public calls for rally
by fabio chiusi Oct. 22, 2014

Oct. 22, 2014

(Reuters) - Hungary plans to impose a new tax on Internet data transfers, a draft 2015 tax bill submitted to parliament late on Tuesday showed, in a move that could hit Internet and telecoms providers and their customers hard. The draft tax code contains a provision for Internet providers to pay a tax of 150 forints (37 pence) per gigabyte of data traffic, though it would also let companies offset corporate income tax against the new levy. Within hours of the tax provision being published over 100,000 people joined a Facebook group protesting the levy, which they fear providers will pass on to them. Thousands said they would rally against the tax, which they said was excessive, outside the Economy Ministry on Sunday. Hungary plans new tax on Internet traffic, public calls for rally

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AGCOM nega tutela a Sky in base al Regolamento sul diritto d'autore su Gomorra La serie. Lo concede però alla RAI su Un medico in famiglia e Don Matteo
by Fulvio Sarzana Oct. 22, 2014

Oct. 22, 2014

http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2014/10/22/diritto-dautore-agcom-lo-nega-a-s ky-sulla-serie-televisiva-gomorra/1164460/ --- Questa e-mail è priva di virus e malware perché è attiva la protezione avast! Antivirus. http://www.avast.com

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Doppiozero: " Conversazione con Philippe Aigrain"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 22, 2014

Oct. 22, 2014

*Conversazione con Philippe Aigrain* Tiziano Bonini Questa estate ho letto Illusioni Perdute di Balzac, un grande classico che ritrae con precisione millimetrica la vita precaria e bohémien della “classe creativa” parigina degli anni trenta dell’Ottocento (scrittori, giornalisti, poeti, pittori, tipografi, critici teatrali, attori, editori). Sembrava di leggere le cronache dei lavoratori della conoscenza di oggi: squattrinati, costretti ad uscire tutte le sere per incontrare persone (faccio cose, vedo gente) che potrebbero darti un lavoro, un mese pieni di soldi il mese dopo al verde. Se è vero però che il lavoro nelle industrie creative è sempre stato difficile per sua natura, l’aumento della produzione di contenuti e la frammentazione del pubblico hanno messo in crisi il modello di sopravvivenza delle economie culturali e creative. Chi dà la colpa alla pirateria, chi alle reti p2p, chi alle vecchie industrie culturali incapaci di adattarsi, chi ad Amazon che rovina l’editoria e Google che rovina il giornalismo, ma nessuno ha soluzioni concrete, se non tassare (giustamente) di più i futuri media mogul. È un film già visto in passato: negli anni venti l’industria musicale aveva paura che la radio facesse vendere meno dischi, i giornali avevano paura che la radio facesse vendere meno giornali, la radio aveva paura che la tv le rubasse il posto, Hollywood che le videocassette le facessero vendere meno biglietti del cinema e così via, fino all’arrivo di Internet, che ha messo in crisi tutte le industrie precedenti. Uno dei più attenti analisti dei cambiamenti in corso nell’economia di prodotti culturali e creativi è Philippe Aigrain, autore del libro Sharing. Culture and Economy in the Internet Age (Amsterdam University Press, 2012), che Doppiozero aveva recensito qui. Aigrain, oltre ad analizzare il cambiamento, ha anche una sua soluzione, molto pratica (e molto complessa nell’applicazione), che consiste nella riforma del modo in cui finanziamo i lavori creativi, attraverso un contributo che lui chiama “creative contribution”. […] Continua qui: http://www.doppiozero.com/materiali/chefare/conversazione-con-philippe-aigr…

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Why privacy matters, Glenn Greenwald
by Andrea Trentini Oct. 22, 2014

Oct. 22, 2014

Un video illuminante, spero http://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matters -- /\_______________ /--\ndrea |rentini http://atrent.it Laboratorio Software Libero @ . Dipartimento di Informatica @ ..: Universita' degli Studi di Milano

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Interruzione dei servizi di rete sabato 25 ottobre 2014
by Luca Leschiutta Oct. 21, 2014

Oct. 21, 2014

Buongiorno, si segnala che sabato 25 ottobre 2014 verrà eseguita una manutenzione straordinaria di alcuni apparati di rete del Politecnico di Torino. Durante tale attività, che inizierà alle ore 9.00 e, secondo le previsioni, terminerà alle ore 13.00, si potranno verificare delle interruzioni di connettività verso i nostri server. Cordiali saluti Luca Leschiutta -- ====================================== Dr. Luca Leschiutta, Ph.D. IT manager @ NEXA Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN C.so Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 10129 Torino - Italy Tel. +39 011 090 7216 Fax +39 011 090 7216 web: http://nexa.polito.it/people/lleschiutta =======================================

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Berkman Center Webcast live oggi ore 18.30 - The Inspection House: An Impertinent Field Guide to Modern Surveillance
by Giuseppe Futia Oct. 21, 2014

Oct. 21, 2014

The Inspection House: An Impertinent Field Guide to Modern Surveillance http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/10/inspectionhouse <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/06/sigal> <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/06/sigal> *with authors Emily Horne & Tim Maly* Today, 6.30 pm Webcast live: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast http://nexa.polito.it/berkman-webcast-live In 1787, British philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham conceived of the panopticon, a ring of cells observed by a central watchtower, as a labor-saving device for those in authority. While Bentham's design was ostensibly for a prison, he believed that any number of places that require supervision---factories, poorhouses, hospitals, and schools---would benefit from such a design. The French philosopher Michel Foucault took Bentham at his word. In his groundbreaking 1975 study, Discipline and Punish, the panopticon became a metaphor to describe the creeping effects of personalized surveillance as a means for ever-finer mechanisms of control. Forty years later, the available tools of scrutiny, supervision, and discipline are far more capable and insidious than Foucault dreamed, and yet less effective than Bentham hoped. Shopping malls, container ports, terrorist holding cells, and social networks all bristle with cameras, sensors, and trackers. But, crucially, they are also rife with resistance and prime opportunities for revolution. The Inspection House is a tour through several of these sites---from Guantánamo Bay to the Occupy Oakland camp and the authors' own mobile devices---providing a stark, vivid portrait of our contemporary surveillance state and its opponents. 'Someone you can't see is watching you. That idea, long the stuff of feverish dystopian fantasy, is now an unremarkable statement of fact, true in most public places, and true in many that used to be private. Yet most of us being watched have no idea how this vast, casual surveillance came to be, or how it works. The Inspection House is a remedy for our collective incomprehension of the panopticon, built in our name, that we all now inhabit. --- Clay Shirky About Emily Horne Emily Horne lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. She is the photographer and designer for the webcomic /A Softer World/, and freelance edits books for kicks. Her work has appeared in /The Guardian/, /The Coast/ and Tor.com. She is @birdlord on Twitter. About Tim Maly Tim Maly writes about design, architecture, networks and infrastructure. He is a Fellow at Harvard's metaLAB and is big into cyborgs. His work has appeared in /Wired/, /Medium/, /The Atlantic/ and Urban Omnibus. He is @doingitwrong on Twitter.

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l'intricata faccenda del monopolio siae
by Simone Aliprandi Oct. 21, 2014

Oct. 21, 2014

Condivido un mio breve commento sulla recente ordinanza a favore di Soundreef e una ricostruzione generale della faccenda del cosiddetto "monopolio SIAE": http://www.apogeonline.com/webzine/2014/10/21/aliprandi-monopolio-siae Un caro saluto. -- Simone Aliprandi - http://www.aliprandi.org | http://www.array.eu

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TechDirt - Italian Parliament Publishes Draft Internet Bill Of Rights
by fabio chiusi Oct. 21, 2014

Oct. 21, 2014

Segnalo questo pezzo di Glyn Moody su TechDirt sul Bill of Rights https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141020/06582728886/italian-parliament-p… Buona giornata a tutti f.

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