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Eben Moglen's series of talks "Snowden and the Future" at the Columbia Law School
by David Orban Nov. 5, 2013

Nov. 5, 2013

Esposizione estremamente chiara e appassionata Eben Moglen's series of talks "Snowden and the Future" at the Columbia Law School is a must see for those interested in decoding our societies' interaction with technology, and freedoms. http://snowdenandthefuture.info/ "What has Edward Snowden done to change the course of human history? How does the evolution of surveillance since World War II threaten democracy? What does it mean that information can be both so powerful and so easily spread? In a network embracing all of humanity, how does democracy survive our desire for security? Eben Moglen is the Founder of the Software Freedom Law Center, Columbia law professor and historian. He received the 2003 EFF pioneer award for his role in legalizing software encryption and defending free software. He was clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the US Supreme Court during 1986–87." Two talks are already available as video, audio and text: http://snowdenandthefuture.info/PartI.html http://snowdenandthefuture.info/PartII.html Part 3 is going to be held on Nov 13, and Part 4 on Dec 4. If you are in NYC those days, you should go...

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The Data Surveillance State in the US and Europe
by Alessandro Mantelero Nov. 5, 2013

Nov. 5, 2013

per chi fosse interessato The Data Surveillance State in the US and Europe Joel Reidenberg Princeton University - Center for Information Technology Policy; Fordham University School of Law November 2, 2013 Wake Forest Law Review, Forthcoming Abstract: The democracies on both sides of the Atlantic are trying to balance the legitimate needs of the law enforcement and intelligence communities to access online transactional data with the basic rights of citizens to be free from state intrusions on their privacy. From the recent revelations of massive collection of telecommunications data by the US government to the disclosures of the UK tapping transatlantic telecommunications cables, and of the Swedish government’s warrantless wiretap rules, national data surveillance seems to have few boundaries that the law has effectively protected. American law has generally focused on access restraints for government to obtain privately held information, ignored the collection and storage of data, and granted special privileges to national security actors. By contrast, Europe emphasizes rules related to the collection and retention of data and focuses less on due process obstacles for government access, while also giving government easier access for national security. In each system, the elusive linkage between retention and access, the privatization of state surveillance activity, and flawed oversight for national security create extensive transparency of citizen’s data and undermine values of democracy including the presumption of innocence, the state’s monopoly on law enforcement, and the zone of individual freedom. In effect, government data surveillance law in both Europe and the United States has reached a turning point for the future of information privacy online. Three proposals can help to secure privacy that is necessary to preserve democratic values: stricter retention limits must be combined with stronger access controls; government access to personal information must be logged and transparent to citizens; and government officials must be personally liable for over-reaching behavior.

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FLORENCE SCHOOL OF REGULATION • COMMUNICATIONS & MEDIA SPECIAL WORKSHOP on PLURALISM IN THE AGE OF INTERNET 8 November 2013
by Marco Bassini Nov. 5, 2013

Nov. 5, 2013

FLORENCE SCHOOL OF REGULATION • COMMUNICATIONS & MEDIA SPECIAL WORKSHOP on PLURALISM IN THE AGE OF INTERNET 8 November 2013 EUI • Villa La Fonte Via delle Fontanelle 10 • San Domenico di Fiesole Please find attached the final programme of the conference. Marco Bassini Dipartimento di Studi Giuridici "Angelo Sraffa" Università Commerciale "L. Bocconi" Via Roentgen, 1 20136 Milano Stanza 1-C1-07 Tel. +39.02.5836.5611

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WPost: "How we know the NSA had access to internal Google and Yahoo cloud data"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 4, 2013

Nov. 4, 2013

*How we know the NSA had access to internal Google and Yahoo cloud data** * BY BARTON GELLMAN, ASHKAN SOLTANI, AND ANDREA PETERSON November 4 at 3:03 pm The Washington Post reported last Wednesday that the National Security Agency has been tapping into the private links that connect Google and Yahoo data centers around the world. Today we offer additional background, with new evidence from the source documents and interviews with confidential sources, demonstrating that the NSA accessed data traveling between those centers. The background also helps explain the response of U.S. officials following the publication of the story. The U.S. government declined repeated requests to discuss the story beginning eight days before it was published. Since publication it has made four responses. [...] Continua qui: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/04/how-we-know-th…

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Gray: "Open Government Partnership should foster accountability and social justice"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 4, 2013

Nov. 4, 2013

*Open Government Partnership should foster accountability and social justice** */Intended to meet the needs of citizens, the movement has come to embody digital rather than political openness// / Jonathan Gray Senior government officials and campaigners from about 60 countries gathered in London last week for the second annual summit of the Open Government Partnership (OGP). Voluntary commitments were announced on increased political transparency, and talks planned about freedom of information, civic participation, whistleblower protection and corporate accountability. David Cameron, the British prime minister, opened the event with an announcement that the UK would crack down on hidden company ownership -- a move widely celebrated by transparency, anti-corruption and tax justice campaigners. Elaborate networks of shell companies are often used for illicit and unethical activities including arms trafficking, terrorist financing, illegal tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance. Making the true owners of companies part of the public record will enable journalists, campaigners and others outside government to expose these dark networks and the money that flows through them. Cameron emphasised the importance of open government for economic growth and innovation. Alluding to the work of Amartya Sen, he contended that open governments were conducive to economic prosperity, whereas "closed governments breed poverty". [...] Continua qui: http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/nov/04/o…

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La responsabilità degli intermediari della rete internet e la giurisprudenza. 26 Novembre 2013, ore 9 e 30. Corte Suprema di Cassazione, Roma.
by Fulvio Sarzana Nov. 4, 2013

Nov. 4, 2013

La responsabilità degli intermediari della rete internet e la giurisprudenza. E questo il titolo del Convegno che si svolgerà il giorno 26 Novembre 2013, dalle ore 9 e 30 alle 13 e 30 presso lAula Magna Avvocati della Corte di Cassazione in Roma. Il Convegno, organizzato dallOrdine degli Avvocati di Roma, vede la partecipazione di Magistrati, Avvocati, esponenti delle Associazioni di Consumatori e Docenti Universitari ed intende porre laccento sulla disciplina giuridica e lapplicazione giurisprudenziale relativa alla responsabilità degli intermediari della rete internet quali gli operatori di telefonia, gli internet service providers, gli editori della rete, e più in generale tutti coloro che forniscono servizi via internet. La giornata si focalizzerà anche sulle recenti iniziative regolamentari in materia di diritto dautore in via di approvazione definitiva da parte dellAutorità per le Garanzie nelle comunicazioni ( AGCOM), che hanno sollevato diversi dubbi di legittimità, e sulla tutela dei Consumatori on line. Introdurrà Mauro Vaglio, Presidente dellOrdine degli Avvocati di Roma. Il Chairman della Giornata è Carlo Sarzana di S. Ippolito Presidente Aggiunto onorario della Corte di Cassazione Parteciperanno in qualità di relatori Cosimo Ferri, Sottosegretario di Stato alla Giustizia, Nicola DAngelo, Magistrato, Ex Commissario AGCOM, Giuseppe Corasaniti, Sostituto Procuratore generale della Corte di Cassazione, Marco Bellezza e Marco Scialdone, Avvocati, Marco Pierani, Responsabile affari istituzionali di Altroconsumo, Giovanni Maria Riccio, Professore nellUniversità di Salerno. La relazione conclusiva è affidata a Riccardo Bolognesi, Consigliere dellOrdine degli Avvocati di Roma Per partecipare inviare una mail a infoATlidis.it o chiamare il numero 06/3211553 Studio Legale Sarzana e Associati www.lidis.it ************************************* Avv. Fulvio Sarzana di Sant'Ippolito Studio Legale Sarzana e Associati Via Velletri, 10 - 00198 Roma Tel. +39 06 3211553 Tel. +39 06 97614489 Fax. +39 06 97256424 skype fulvio.sarzana <http://www.lidis.it/> http://www.lidis.it ************************************* This message and any file transmitted are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please You should not copy or disclose the contents to any other person. For further information please visit our website at <http://www.lidis.it/> http://www.lidis.it . _____ <http://www.avast.com/> http://static.avast.com/emails/avast-mail-stamp.png Questa e-mail è priva di virus e malware perché è attiva la protezione avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com/> . --- Questa e-mail è priva di virus e malware perché è attiva la protezione avast! Antivirus. http://www.avast.com

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Tafter Journal Double Call for Papers on Copyright - Deadline: December 20, 2013
by Giuseppe Futia Nov. 4, 2013

Nov. 4, 2013

Gentilissimi, riceviamo e volentieri segnaliamo: ----- Tafter Journal is pleased to announce a special Double Call for Papers on Copyright in order to give attention to one of the most current and controversial talking point. Tafter Journal is convinced that some even strong pluralism of views and multiplicity of approaches can enrich the value of the public debate, helping to find innovative solution and offering a complex picture of the many technical, political and deontological problems affecting the copyright regime in times of radical change. More information available at: http://www.tafterjournal.it/2013/10/23/double-call-for-papers-on-copyright/ ----- ------------------------------------------------- Giuseppe Futia Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino web: http://nexa.polito.it mail: giuseppe.futia(a)polito.it tel. +39 011 090 7219

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"Surveillance Without Borders? The Unlawfulness of the NSA-Panopticon, Part I"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 2, 2013

Nov. 2, 2013

*"Surveillance Without Borders? The Unlawfulness of the NSA-Panopticon, Part I"** * Published on November 1, 2013 <http://www.ejiltalk.org/surveillance-without-borders-the-unlawfulness-of-th…> Author: Anne Peters <http://www.ejiltalk.org/author/anne-peters/> *Introduction: The draft GA resolution on privacy on the Internet* At the end of October 2013, a draft General Assembly resolution <http://statewatch.org/news/2013/oct/un-draft-resolution-on-privacy-us-surve…> calling for the right to privacy on the Internet was sponsored by Brazil and Germany. /(photo: a panopticon <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon>, credit <http://filosofie.be/blog/de-neo-cynicus/2378/ter-info-wat-is-een-panopticum…>)/ The draft resolution reaffirms the human right to privacy. It calls upon states to take measures to put an end to violations of these rights (operative para. 4 b), calls upon states to review their procedures, practices and legislation concerning the extra-territorial surveillance of private communications (para. 4 b) and calls upon states to establish independent oversight mechanisms capable of ensuring the transparency and accountability of state surveillance of communications (para. 4 d). Although the draft resolution does not mention the United States or the National Security Agency (NSA), it is indirectly reacting against the NSA's recent espionage and surveillance activities conducted in a number of European states, including France, Italy, and Spain. This two-part post will focus on surveillance of German officials including the chancellor Angela Merkel and of ordinary persons in Germany by way of example. Spying on government officials concerns general international law, which will be the focus of Part I of this post. Part II will focus on the bugging of the communication of private persons, which implicates human rights law. *Breach of international law vis-à-vis the surveilled states* The interception of communication by government officials, agents, and authorities seems to constitute espionage. However, there are no specific international law norms that would contain or regulate espionage. [...] Continua qui: http://www.ejiltalk.org/surveillance-without-borders-the-unlawfulness-of-th…

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Fwd: ORG News: How the UK is standing against surveillance
by David Orban Nov. 2, 2013

Nov. 2, 2013

Qual è il dibattito che sta avvenendo in Italia sullo stato dei programmi di sorveglianza nazionali? Che livello di trasparenza c'è attorno ai lavori dei comitati di supervisione dei servizi segreti? Quali sono le policy nazionali, anche in vista della possibile evoluzione della proprietà della rete strategica di Telecom Italia (se ho capito bene dalle ultime notizie, non verrà scorporata)? Sono solo io distratto, oppure oltre a dichiarazioni generiche e senza significato, non c'è niente di questo? David Orban skype, twitter, linkedin, sl, etc: davidorban ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ORG- Ruth Coustick-Deal <ruth(a)openrightsgroup.org> Date: Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:29 PM Subject: ORG News: How the UK is standing against surveillance To: david(a)davidorban.com Dear David Orban, here's your newsletter from the frontline of digital rights: defending and promoting citizens' rights in the digital age *ORG win: First UK surveillance debate* Today the UK Parliament will be holding its first substantial debate<https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/ask-your-mp-to-join-the-surveilla…>on mass surveillance since the first leaks back in June. This is a big win for ORG as MPs have heeded our calls for a debate in Parliament. The MPs Tom Watson and Julian Huppert from ORG's Advisory Council, as well as Dominic Raab MP, have secured a Westminster Hall debate in Parliament today<http://services.parliament.uk/calendar/#%21/calendar/Commons/WestminsterHal…>on 'oversight of intelligence and security services.' Politicians in America and Europe have held debates on oversight of intelligence agencies, yet so far the UK Government has worried more about whether the newspapers should have said anything at all. Now Parliament is fulfilling its job of ensuring that intelligence agencies’ powers are necessary and proportionate. If you have a chance, call your MP this morning and ask them to take part in the debate. There’s still time for you to call your MP and let them know that this issue matters to you!<https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/phone-your-mp-will-they-turn-up-t…> You can watch the debate live from 1.30pm. <http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=13973> *Privacy not Prism: £20k in 2 days* Thank you for your overwhelming support of our Privacy not PRISM <https://www.privacynotprism.org.uk/>campaign! We crowdfunded £20k to fund a legal challenge at the European Court of Human Rights against the UK Government’s surveillance of our data – and hit that goal over one weekend! Not only did you help us raise the money in record time, but you also proved that there is real public urgency towards stopping the mass surveillance situation, and you *busted the myth* that the UK just doesn’t care. The challenge is being jointly taken by ourselves, Big Brother Watch, English PEN and Internet campaigner Constanze Kurz. We are demanding that the Government be held accountable to human rights law. You can read more about it on the Privacy not Prism site<https://www.privacynotprism.org.uk/>, which is still accepting donations to further support the campaign.* * *Whistleblowers in the digital age* * * Former GCHQ director, David Omand, investigative journalist Heather Brooke, and Malcolm Rifkind, Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee: just a few of those who give opinions on Edwards Snowden and the morals of whistleblowing in our latest video. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X9hfPT2gpA> The magnitude of Snowden's revelations has raised a huge debate around the world about the balance between privacy and security, but also about whistleblowers and their rights. The UK law protects the majority of whistleblowers, but doesn't cover the security agencies' workers who deal with secret information, as in Edward Snowden's case. [image: Still from whistleblower video of Francesca West]<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X9hfPT2gpA> * UK Government: Both Open and Shut? * This Friday is the Open Government Partnership London summit. The OGP is a project to bring people dedicated to transparency from across the world to make governments more accountable. ORG will be leading a panel on transparency and surveillance<http://www.opengovpartnership.org/get-involved/london-summit-2013/agenda/se…>. We will be calling for Government to back its basic commitment to ‘open society' by extending that idea to surveillance. We will look at how these issues relate and how to protect human rights while enhancing openness. The panel will be led by Mort Halperin (OSF) and includes Ian Brown (Oxford Internet Institute), Jim Killock (ORG), Jacqueline Peschard (Federal Institute for Access to Public Information, Mexico), David Banisar (Article 19) and a representative of Brazilian government. *Join a cryptoparty!* Cryptoparties are a global movement: each one is an open event to help people protect their computer and their private data. They are aimed at complete beginners so you don’t need any technical knowledge to come along. We’d like to help more of these events take place so everyone can understand how to protect themselves from surveillance. ORG will be speaking, taking part and helping people to run several of these events in coming months: -The ORG-Manchester group will be running one of these events joint with their local Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) branch on Saturday 7th December, Mad Lab <http://www.meetup.com/ORG-Manchester/>. -At the London Crypto-Festival<https://londoncryptofestival.eventbrite.co.uk/>, Saturday 30th November, Wendy Grossman and Ian Brown, members of our Advisory Council will be speaking. -Brighton cryptofestival <https://www.cryptoparty.in/brighton_cryptofestival>(kid-friendly!) join the ORG-Brighton group and Lighthouse for talks, workshops and kid events at Sunday 1st December, Lighthouse, Brighton. We’d like to encourage you to start one going too! We’ll help you promote it and arrange speakers and provide advice if needed. Join ORG today! ORG have had some major victories in the last 2 months: We are small, growing and effective. Join and become part of a movement fighting to protect fundamental rights like privacy and free speech. *NOW <https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join/> is the time to join ORG<http://www.openrightsgroup.org/join> * *YOU are what makes our work possible. Without support from donations we wouldn't be able to do any of the above work.* * *Help us keep this work going and take on greater capacity to fight on your behalf. We can't do the necessary work we do without support from digital rights activists like yourself Please join here now. <https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join/> Thank you! This update and previous versions are now available from our website: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/support-org/ Find us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/openrightsgroup> Follow us on Twitter <http://twitter.com/openrightsgroup> [image: G+ logo] Add us on Google+ <https://plus.google.com/116543318055985390327/posts> * * Quick fire ORG actions -We responded to President Obama’s review board<https://www.openrightsgroup.org/ourwork/reports/response-to-us-surveillance…>on the scale of NSA surveillance. We responded to emphasise the need to respect non-US people's privacy rights and to restrain untargeted, mass surveillance. -We responded to the IPO's copyright in Europe consultation<https://www.openrightsgroup.org/ourwork/reports/response-to-ipo-copyright-i…>, raising concerns about DRM, disabled access and parody. -We criticised the Culture Committee’s recent copyright report<https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/org-response-to-cms-committee-rep…>as one-sided and simplistic, reducing the debate to either liking the creative industries or not. - We responded jointly with the Open Knowledge Foundation and Open Corporates to an HMRC consultation on releasing the VAT Register<https://www.openrightsgroup.org/ourwork/reports/consultation-on-proposals-f…>with general support for the notion. -Our parliamentary and policy update is back and running. If you want to stay up to date on all digital policy news, subscribe here.<http://lists.openrightsgroup.org/listinfo/parliamentary.monitor> * * ORG out and about Open Government Partnership Summit<http://www.opengovpartnership.org/get-involved/london-summit-2013>, 1 November, 2pm ORG will be leading and participating in a panel on open society and surveillance. London London Crypto-Festival <https://londoncryptofestival.eventbrite.co.uk/>, Saturday 30 November 11am - 4pm Presentations from ORG Advisory Council members Wendy Grossman and Ian Brown. New academic building Goldsmiths University of London ORG-Sheffield <https://sheffield.openrightsgroup.org/>, Wednesday 13 November 18:30 All welcome! Visit their meet-up page <http://www.meetup.com/ORG-Sheffield/>to vote for the topic! The Graduate, opposite the central library. TA3M activism meetup<https://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays:brighton>, Monday 18 November Javier Ruiz, ORG, will be speaking at this meetup about our privacy not prism legal challenge. Lighthouse <http://lighthouse.org.uk/contact>, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton BN1 4AJ Follow us on Twitter <http://twitter.com/openrightsgroup> | Find us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/openrightsgroup> | Add us on Google+<https://plus.google.com/116543318055985390327/posts> *Contents CC-BY-SA <http://www.openrightsgroup.org/licence> Open Rights Group 2011 * *Our mailing address is:* 11 Marshalsea Road, Borough, London SE1 1EN We need your help <http://www.openrightsgroup.org/volunteer> to fight for your rights and to keep the web open and free. This email was delivered to: david(a)davidorban.com; If you wish to opt out of future emails, you can do so here<http://action.openrightsgroup.org/ea-campaign/clientcampaign.do?ea.client.i…>. | Join ORG <http://www.openrightsgroup.org/join>

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tablet school
by Stefano Quintarelli Nov. 1, 2013

Nov. 1, 2013

Ciao a tutti se qualcuno fosse interessato a venire martedi pv alla mattina con me a Bergamo a visitare la scuola "flagship" di Impara Digitale, per vedere come funziona una scuola in cui i libri li scrivono i ragazzi, e tutto si svolge con tablet e computer nel cloud, mi mandi mail... (pochi posti, si inizia alle 9 a BG) ciao, s. -- calendar: http://doodle.com/quinta conf room: http://quinta.quivideo.it blog: http://blog.quintarelli.it bitmessage id: BM-2DC6u7NoBoBwSEzX7C8iPjJNrAmZT5s3ms

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