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First ACM Workshop on Information Sharing and Collaborative Security
by J.C. DE MARTIN July 1, 2014

July 1, 2014

First ACM Workshop on Information Sharing and Collaborative Security Sharing of security related information is believed to greatly enhance the ability of organizations to defend themselves against sophisticated attacks. If one organization detects a breach the automated sharing of observed security indicators (such as IP addresses, domain names etc.) provide valuable, actionable information to others. Through analyzing shared data it seems possible to get much better insights into emerging attacks. Sharing higher level intelligence about campaigns, threat actors and mitigations is also of great interest. Both in the US and the EU there are major efforts underway to strengthen information sharing. Yet there are a number of technical and policy challenges to realizing this vision. Which information exactly should be shared? How can privacy and confidentiality be protected? How can we create high-fidelity intelligence from shared data without getting overwhelmed by false positives? The first Workshop on Information Sharing and Collaborative Security (WISCS 2014) aims to bring together experts and practitioners from academia, industry and government to present innovative research, case studies, and legal and policy issues. The workshop solicits original research papers in these areas. Workshop proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Collaborative intrusion detection * Case studies for information sharing * Domain name and IP address blacklisting * Collaborative approaches to spear-phishing and DDoS attacks * Data deidentification * Privacy and confidentiality * Cryptographic protocols for collaborative security * Scalability of security analysis on shared data * Ontologies and standards for sharing security data * Human factors in collaboration * Policy and legal issues * Surveillance issues * Trust models * Attacks on information sharing * Economics of security collaboration See: https://sites.google.com/site/wiscs2014/ for further details.

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Should Facebook Manipulate Users?
by Alessandro Mantelero July 1, 2014

July 1, 2014

"Research with human subjects is generally governed by strict ethical standards, including the informed consent of the people who are studied. Facebook’s generic click-through agreement, which almost no one reads and which doesn’t mention this kind of experimentation, was the only form of consent cited in the paper. " http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/01/opinion/jaron-lanier-on-lack-of-transpare… -- Avv. Alessandro Mantelero, PhD Aggregate Professor, Politecnico di Torino Director of Privacy and Faculty Fellow, Nexa Center for Internet and Society Visiting Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute Research Consultant, Sino-Italian Research Center for Internet Torts at Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology Programme Coordinator, Double Degree program in Management and IP Law, Politecnico di Torino–Tongji University of Shanghai http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 10129 Torino - Italy in libertate fortitudo

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Berkman Center Webcast live oggi ore 18.30 - MOOCs and the Science of Learning
by Giuseppe Futia July 1, 2014

July 1, 2014

MOOCs and the Science of Learning http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/07/reich <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/06/sigal> <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/06/sigal> *with Berkman Fellow, Justin Reich* Today, 6.30 pm Webcast live: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast http://nexa.polito.it/berkman-webcast-live Millions of learners on platforms like edX and Coursera are generating terabytes of data tracking their activity in real time. Online learning platforms capture extraordinarily detailed records of student behavior, and now the challenge for researchers is to explore how these new datasets can be used to advance the science of learning. This talk will examine current trends and future directions in research into online learning in large-scale settings. Co-sponsored by edX <https://www.edx.org/>. About Justin Justin Reich is an educational researcher interested in the future of learning in a networked world. He is the Richard L. Menschel HarvardX Research Fellow, based in the Office of the President and Provost at Harvard University, exploring the possibilities and limits of online learning through the HarvardX platform. He is also a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and a visiting lecturer in the Scheller Teacher Education Program at MIT. Justin is the co-founder of EdTechTeacher, a professional learning consultancy devoted to helping teachers leverage technology to create student-centered, inquiry-based learning environments. He earned his doctorate from Harvard University, where he led the Distributed Collaborative Learning Communities project, a Hewlett Foundation funded initiative to examine how social media are used in K-12 classrooms. He writes the EdTechResearcher blog for Education Week, and his writings have appeared in Educational Researcher, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and other publications. Justin started his career teaching wilderness medicine, and later taught high school world history and history electives, and coached wrestling and outdoor activities.

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"Open access in the digital age. A new balance between publishers, libraries, and researchers" - Prof. Jean-Claude Guédon (Università di Montreal), 30/06 ore 14.30
by Giuseppe Futia June 30, 2014

June 30, 2014

Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <http://nexa.polito.it/2014/06/guedon> NEXA Lunedì, 30 giugno 2014 ore 14.30-16.00 Biblioteca Centrale di Ingegneria - Sala Consultazione <http://www.polito.it/ateneo/sedi/?lang=it&bl_id=TO_CEN03&fl_id=XPTE&rm_id=Q…>, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - Torino http://nexa.polito.it/2014/06/guedon Open access in the digital age. A new balance between publishers, libraries, and researchers Jean-Claude Guédon Speaker Prof. Jean-Claude Guédon (Università di Montreal) L'Area Bibliotecaria e Museale del Politecnico di Torino <http://www.biblio.polito.it/> e il Centro Nexa su Internet & Società <http://nexa.polito.it/> del DAUIN organizzano il seminario intitolato: "*Open access in the digital age. A new balance between publishers, libraries, and researchers*". *Jean-Claude Guédon*, professore presso il "Département de littérature comparée" dell'Università di Montreal (Canada) e Garante del Centro Nexa su Internet & Società del DAUIN, illustrerà il tema dell'*open access* applicato alla ricerca scientifica, evidenziando sfide e opportunità, e ragionando sulle complesse dinamiche di relazione che intercorrono tra ricercatori, editori e biblioteche universitarie. L'intervento del Prof. Guédon s'inserisce all'interno di una lunga serie d'incontri <http://www.biblio.polito.it/it/documentazione/eventi.html> sull'open access <http://www.biblio.polito.it/openaccess/> promossa dall'Area Bibliotecaria e Museale del Politecnico di Torino a partire dal 2009 che ha coinvolto, tra gli altri, la Prof.ssa Maria Chiara Pievatolo <http://www.biblio.polito.it/eventi/pievatolo/> (Università di Pisa) e il Prof. Stuart Shieber <http://www.biblio.polito.it/eventi/shieber/> (Harvard University), oltre allo stesso Prof. Guédon in diverse altre occasioni. L'incontro è inoltre un ideale seguito del ciclo di appuntamenti /Tutto quello che avreste voluto sapere sull'open access, ma non avete mai osato chiedere/ <http://www.biblio.polito.it/eventi/oademartin/>, condotto al Politecnico di Torino dal Prof. *Juan Carlos De Martin*, "National Point of Reference" open access per l'Italia a Bruxelles. Il Prof. Guédon è un sostenitore attivo dell'open access da diversi anni. È consulente strategico della "Open Humanities Press <http://openhumanitiespress.org/>", iniziativa che nasce da un collettivo internazionale di accademici, che mira a rendere disponibili in open access opere fondamentali nel pensiero critico contemporaneo, ed è membro del comitato direttivo di "Open Library of Humanities <https://www.openlibhums.org/>", editore per la pubblicazione ad accesso aperto di testi relativi alle scienze umane e alle scienze sociali, che si ispira al modello della "Public Library of Science <http://www.plos.org/>" (PLOS). Tra i testi sull'argomento disponibili in italiano del Prof. Guédon si segnalano /Open Access. Contro gli oligopoli del sapere/ (Edizioni ETS) e /Per la pubblicità del sapere. I bibliotecari, i ricercatori, gli editori e il controllo dell'editoria scientifica/ (Plus -- Collana Methexis). I testi sono liberamente scaricabili rispettivamente agli indirizzi: http://www.edizioniets.com/Priv_File_Libro/558.pdf e http://archiviomarini.sp.unipi.it/174/1/guedon.pdf". *Scarica la versione PDF <http://nexa.polito.it/nexacenterfiles/2014-open-access-guedon.pdf> della locandina dell'incontro*. Biography of Jean-Claude Guédon Prof. Jean-Claude Guédon began his career at Glendon College (York University) in Toronto, Ontario in 1970 and has been a professor at the Université de Montréal since 1973, first in the Institut d'histoire et de sociopolitique des sciences, and, since 1987, in the Département de littérature comparée. He is a long-time member of the Internet Society serving as co-chair of the program committee in 1996, 1998 and 2000, and member of the same committee in 1997, 1999 and 2002. In 1991, with Bill Reading and Walter Moser, he launched the first electronic scholarly journal in Canada: Surfaces. Between 1998 and 2003, he was Chair of the Advisory Board for CNSLP (Canadian National Site Licence Project, now known as CRKN (Canadian Research Knowledge network). From 2002 until 2006, he was a member of OSI's Information Program sub-board. Between 2003 and 2007, he was a member of the Advisory Board of eIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries). In 2006 he was elected (until November 2008) Vice-President of the Canadian Society for the Humanities and Social Sciences. He has advised numerous governmental bodies, including the Ministère de la Recherche (France) for their e-publication project in the humanities and the social sciences; the Agence de la francophonie for matters pertaining to new technologies; the Quebec Minister of Communication in charge of the information highway; and the Quebec Ministry of education for the integration of the new technologies into the curriculum. He regularly acts as expert for the European Commission. He is also on the editorial board of several journals, and his three books are all available in Italian. During his visit at the Nexa Center, prof. Guédon interacted with the staff and the fellows of the Nexa Center and worked on a research whose findings were presented during the 31st Nexa Wednesday (May 11, 2011): Toward a distributed mass digitization <https://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-31>.p> 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. More information about the Nexa Center for Internet & Society at Politecnico di Torino is available at: http://nexa.polito.it/. 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> Nexa Center for Internet and Society Newsletter

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Consultazione su cultura digitale: al via la raccolta di idee
by Diego Giorio June 29, 2014

June 29, 2014

http://www.formez.it/notizie/consultazione-cultura-digitale-al-raccolta-ide… Buona domenica a tutti Diego

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What Everyone Gets Wrong in the Debate Over Net Neutrality
by gianluca June 28, 2014

June 28, 2014

[...] If Comcast's last-mile of cable connection was available to all competitors under the same terms that gave dial-up service providers access to all copper telephone networks back in the 1990s, we would have more ISPs in more geographical areas. Consumers could simply switch providers whenever Netflix or YouTube started to get choppy. And that would give Netflix and YouTube more leverage in their deals with the ISPs. At the moment, this option---where ISPs are treated as "common carriers"---is on the table, but it seems like a remote possibility. Maybe it shouldn't be. Instead of railing against fast lanes, we should be pushing Washington to explore ideas like this that could actually promote competition among ISPs. "In the present situation," Johnson says, "the debate is misdirected." continua qui http://www.wired.com/2014/06/net_neutrality_missing/

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Seminar: "Governing Knowledge Commons" - Prof. Brett Frischmann (June 27, 3-5 p.m.)
by Giuseppe Futia June 26, 2014

June 26, 2014

Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <http://nexa.polito.it/2014/06/frischmann> NEXA Friday, June 27 3-5 p.m. Via Boggio 65/a, Torino (first floor) http://nexa.polito.it/2014/06/frischmann Governing Knowledge Commons Brett Frischmann Speaker Prof. Brett Frischmann (Yeshiva University) This event will be webcast live: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events Prof. Brett Frischmann will discuss *Governing Knowledge Commons <http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199972036.do>*, which will be published by Oxford University Press in July 2014. "Knowledge commons" describes the institutionalized community governance of the sharing and, in some cases, creation, of information, science, knowledge, data, and other types of intellectual and cultural resources. It is the subject of enormous recent interest and enthusiasm with respect to policymaking about innovation, creative production, and intellectual property. Taking that enthusiasm as its starting point, Governing Knowledge Commons argues that policymaking should be based on evidence and a deeper understanding of what makes commons institutions work. It offers a systematic way to study knowledge commons, borrowing and building on Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prize-winning research on natural resource commons. It proposes a framework for studying knowledge commons that is adapted to the unique attributes of knowledge and information, describing the framework in detail and explaining how to put it into context both with respect to commons research and with respect to innovation and information policy. Eleven detailed case studies apply and discuss the framework exploring knowledge commons across a wide variety of scientific and cultural domains. This seminar is organized in cooperation with the Joint Research Activity on "Governance, Regulation and Standards" of the EINS European Network of Excellence in Internet Science <www.internet-science.eu>. Biography of Brett Frischmann Brett Frischmann is Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, where he teaches intellectual property and Internet law. He is currently the Director of Cardozo's IP and Information Law Program, an Affiliated Scholar of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, and an Affiliated Faculty Member of The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University. n March 2012, he published Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources <http://www.amazon.com/Infrastructure-Social-Value-Shared-Resources/dp/01999…>, with Oxford University Press. He received a BA in Astrophysics from Columbia University, an MS in Earth Resources Engineering from Columbia University, and a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center. After clerking for the Honorable Fred I. Parker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practicing at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, DC, he joined the Loyola University, Chicago law faculty in 2002. In June 2013 Prof. Frischmann held the short course "Law and economics of shared infrastructure <http://nexa.polito.it/2013-frischmann>" at the Politecnico di Torino, organized by the Doctoral School of the Politecnico di Torino and the Nexa Center for Internet & Society./p> 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. More information about the Nexa Center for Internet & Society at Politecnico di Torino is available at: http://nexa.polito.it/. 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> Nexa Center for Internet and Society Newsletter

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Seminar: "Transdiegetic information: what it is and why it matters" - Prof. Luciano Floridi (Oxford University), June 27 , 9-11 a.m
by Giuseppe Futia June 26, 2014

June 26, 2014

Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <http://nexa.polito.it/2014/06/floridi> NEXA Friday, June 27 9-11 a.m. Politecnico di Torino Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica Corso Castelfidardo 34 - Torino, Sala Riunioni, 5° piano <http://www.polito.it/ateneo/sedi/index.php?bl_id=TO_CIT11&fl_id=XP05&rm_id=…> http://nexa.polito.it/2014/06/floridi Transdiegetic information: what it is and why it matters Luciano Floridi Speaker Prof. Luciano Floridi (Oxford University) This event will be webcast live: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events /Public seminar organized by SCUDO - Scuola di Dottorato <http://dottorato.polito.it/>, Politecnico di Torino, and the Nexa Center for Internet & Society <http://nexa.polito.it>, Politecnico di Torino (DAUIN)/. Prof. Luciano Floridi (Oxford University & Trustee of the Nexa Center for Internet & Society (DAUIN)) will discuss: *Transdiegetic information: what it is and why it matters*. "Data is one of the few resources that is not only renewable and repurposable, it is also expandable and pervasive. As a result, we increasingly live in a world of information (/infosphere/ <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infosphere>). Borrowing some technical vocabulary from film studies and game design, in this lecture I shall argue that new Information and Communication Technologies are breaking the boundaries between diegetic and non-diegetic information, in favour of a transdiegetisation of the /infosphere/. The talk does not presuppose any previous knowledge and all technical concepts will be clearly and simply explained during the lecture." In 2013 Prof. Floridi has already held a Seminar at the Politecnico di Torino, organized by SCUDO and the Nexa Center, entitled "The Onlife Manifesto <http://nexa.polito.it/2013-floridi-onlife-manifesto>". Moreover, Prof. Floridi was one of the main speakers of the "Computer Ethics <http://nexa.polito.it/2013-aica-computer-ethics>" Conference at the Politecnico di Torino, organized by AICA - Associazione Italiana per l'Informatica ed il Calcolo Automatico <http://www.aicanet.it/> and the Nexa Center. Download the flyer <http://nexa.polito.it/nexacenterfiles/floridi-transdiegetic-information.pdf> of the seminar. Biography of Luciano Floridi Luciano Floridi is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, where he is Senior Research Fellow and Director of Research at the Oxford Internet Institute <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/>, Governing Body Fellow of St Cross College, Distinguished Research Fellow of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics <http://www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/>; Research Associate and Fellow in Information Policy at the Department of Computer Science; and Member of the Faculty of Philosophy. He is also Adjunct Professor, Department of Economics, American University, Washington D.C. Among his recognitions, he has been awarded the Cátedras de Excelencia Prize by the University Carlos III of Madrid (2014-15), was the UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics and Gauss Professor of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. He is a recipient of the APA's Barwise Prize, the IACAP's Covey Award, and the INSEIT's Weizenbaum Award. He is an AISB and BCS Fellow, Editor in Chief of Philosophy & Technology and of the Synthese Library. In 2012, he was Chairman of EU Commission's "Onlife Initiative <http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/onlife-initiative>". His most recent books are: The Fourth Revolution - How the infosphere is reshaping human reality <http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199606726.do> (Oxford University Press, 2014), The Ethics of Information <http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199641321.do> (Oxford University Press, 2013), The Philosophy of Information <http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199232383.do> (Oxford University Press, 2011), The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics <http://www.cambridge.org/it/academic/subjects/philosophy/philosophy-general…> (editor, Cambridge University Press, 2010), and Information: A Very Short Introduction <http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199551378.do> (Oxford University Press, 2010). 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. More information about the Nexa Center for Internet & Society at Politecnico di Torino is available at: http://nexa.polito.it/. 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> Nexa Center for Internet and Society Newsletter

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parere del garante privacy sul fascicolo sanitario
by Mauro Alovisio June 26, 2014

June 26, 2014

gent.me/mi dal sito del Garante http://www.garanteprivacy.it/web/guest/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/… Cordiali saluti Mauro Alovisio Il giorno 20 giugno 2014 13:25, Ducato, Rossana <Rossana.Ducato(a)unitn.it> ha scritto: > Sperando di fare cosa gradita, segnalo che il 30 giugno e il 1° luglio si > terranno presso la Facoltà di Giurisprudenza di Trento due giornate di > studio dedicate a "L'attuazione della sanità elettronica. La prospettiva > europea e i profili giuridici, tecnologici e organizzativi del Fascicolo > Sanitario Elettronico", organizzate dalla Facoltà di Giurisprudenza > dell'Università di Trento, Gruppo di ricerca LawTech > (http://www.lawtech.jus.unitn.it/) in collaborazione con APIHM (Privacy > and Information Helthcare Manager Association <http://www.apihm.it>). > > Il programma dell'evento è disponibile al seguente indirizzo: > < > http://webmagazine.unitn.it/evento/giurisprudenza/1188/lattuazione-della-s > anita-elettronica> > > La partecipazione all'evento è libera e gratuita. Per il rilascio di > eventuali attestati di partecipazione è necessario registrarsi, inviando i > propri dati anagrafici e la propria qualifica a: > apihm-congressi(a)googlegroups.com > > Cordiali saluti, > > Rossana Ducato > > -- > Post-doc Research Fellow in Comparative Law > Ph.D. in European and Comparative Legal Studies > The Trento Law and Technology Research Group > Faculty of Law University of Trento > http://www.lawtech.jus.unitn.it/index.php/people/rossana-ducato > > > Follow my work on: > http://www.ehealthlaw.it > Twitter: @eHealth_LawTech > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ehealthlawtech > SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1881833 > > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa >

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NYT-Op-Ed: "The Supreme Court Saves Cellphone Privacy"
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 26, 2014

June 26, 2014

*The Supreme Court Saves Cellphone Privacy* By THE EDITORIAL BOARD JUNE 25, 2014 The nine justices of the Supreme Court --- whose average age is 68 --- often admit to being unfamiliar with modern technology, if not befuddled by it. While listening to oral arguments in April, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. asked, with apparent sincerity, why anyone other than a criminal would carry two cellphones. Yet in a gratifyingly sweeping ruling on Wednesday, the court embraced a central reality of the digital age and protected such phones from being searched without a warrant during an arrest, except in rare circumstances. "Modern cellphones are not just another technological convenience," Chief Justice Roberts wrote for a unanimous court. "With all they contain and all they may reveal, they hold for many Americans 'the privacies of life.' " [...] Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/26/opinion/the-supreme-court-saves-cellphone…

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