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Slate: "How to Block the NSA From Your Friends List"
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 21, 2013

June 21, 2013

Verso il fondo si citano social media decentralizzati come MediaGoblin, Identi.ca, Diaspora, ecc. juan carlos * How to Block the NSA From Your Friends List** * By April Glaser and Libby Reinish | Posted Monday, June 17, 2013, at 11:12 AM After recent revelations of NSA spying, it's difficult to trust large Internet corporations like Facebook to host our online social networks. Facebook is one of nine companies tied to PRISM----perhaps the largestgovernment surveillance effort <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data>in world history. Even before this story broke, many social media addicts hadlost trust in the company <http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/06/11/washington_post_pew_poll…>. Maybe now they'll finally start thinking seriously about leaving the social network giant. Luckily, there are other options, ones that are less vulnerable to government spying and offer users more control over their personal data. But will mass migration from Facebook actually happen? According to aPew study <http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Teens-Social-Media-And-Privacy/Summ…>released weeks before news of PRISM broke, teenagers are disenchanted with Facebook. They're moving to other platforms, like Snapchat and (Facebook owned) Instagram, the study reports. This is the way a social network dies---people sign up for multiple platforms before gradually realizing that one has become vacant or uninteresting. Myspace, for instance, took years todrop off the map <http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/22/facebook-now-nearly-twice-the-size-of-mysp…>. By 2006 Myspace reached 100 million users, making it the most popular social network in the United States. But by 2008, Facebook had reached twice that number, less than two years after allowing anyone older than 13 to join the network. Benjamin Mako Hill, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, thinks Facebook's ability to connect people and bind them to the social network is overrated to begin with. "Facebook didn't exist, what, 10 years ago," he says, and in 10 years, he thinks, "a company called Facebook will exist, but will it occupy the same space in our culture? That's certainly not something I'm willing to take for granted." [...] Continua qui: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/06/17/identi_ca_diaspora_and_f…

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Lessig in italiano
by Masera Anna June 20, 2013

June 20, 2013

http://www.lastampa.it/2013/06/17/blogs/web-notes/e-tempo-di-ripensare-inte… Inviato da iPhone

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NYT: "Web’s Reach Binds N.S.A. and Silicon Valley Leaders"
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 20, 2013

June 20, 2013

June 19, 2013 Web’s Reach Binds N.S.A. and Silicon Valley Leaders ByJAMES RISEN <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/james_risen/in…>andNICK WINGFIELD <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/nick_wingfield…> WASHINGTON — When Max Kelly, the chief security officer for Facebook, left the social media company in 2010, he did not go to Google, Twitter or a similar Silicon Valley concern. Instead the man who was responsible for protecting the personal information of Facebook’s more than one billion users from outside attacks went to work for another giant institution that manages and analyzes large pools of data: theNational Security Agency <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/nationa…>. Mr. Kelly’s move to the spy agency, which has not previously been reported, underscores the increasingly deep connections between Silicon Valley and the agency and the degree to which they are now in the same business. Both hunt for ways to collect, analyze and exploit large pools of data about millions of Americans. The only difference is that the N.S.A. does it for intelligence, and Silicon Valley does it to make money. The disclosure of the spy agency’s program called Prism, which is said to collect the e-mails and other Web activity of foreigners using major Internet companies like Google, Yahoo and Facebook, has prompted the companies to deny that the agency has direct access to their computers, even as they acknowledge complying with secret N.S.A. court orders for specific data. Yet technology experts and former intelligence officials say the convergence between Silicon Valley and the N.S.A. and the rise of data mining — both as an industry and as a crucial intelligence tool — have created a more complex reality. [...] Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/technology/silicon-valley-and-spy-agency-…

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Libro di Peter Suber "Open Access" è ora disponibile in OA
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 19, 2013

June 19, 2013

L'ottimo libro di Peter Suber (neo-direttore dell'Office for Scholarly Communication di Harvard, nonché storico Berkman fellow) sull'open access è ora... beh, in open access: https://plus.google.com/109377556796183035206/posts/QGDsbZd7DtE E' disponibile in formati PDF, HTML, ePub e Mobi. Vivamente consigliato; spargete la voce! juan carlos

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lettera dei garanti privacy del mondo su Google Glass
by Mauro Alovisio June 19, 2013

June 19, 2013

gent.me/mi segnalo iniziativa di interesse http://www.garanteprivacy.it/web/guest/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/… *I Garanti del mondo a Big G: i "Google Glass" rispettino la privacy dei cittadini* *Le Autorità di garanzia scrivono a Larry Page: subito chiarimenti e l'avvio di un confronto.* Quali informazioni raccoglie Google attraverso i "Glass", i famosi occhiali a realtà aumentata? Con chi le condivide? Come intende utilizzarle? Come viene garantito il rispetto delle legislazioni sulla privacy? Come pensa Google di risolvere il problematico aspetto della raccolta di informazioni di persone che, a loro insaputa, vengono "riprese" e "registrate" tramite i Glass? Sono solo alcune delle questioni che le Autorità di protezione dati di diversi continenti riunite nel GPEN (Global Privacy Enforcement Network), hanno messo nero su bianco in una lettera<http://www.garanteprivacy.it/garante/doc.jsp?ID=2485687>inviata alla multinazionale californiana sullo sviluppo di Google Glass, una tecnologia in via di sperimentazione legata all'elaborazione elettronica dei dati, indossabile sotto forma di occhiali, che comprende una microcamera, un microfono ed un dispositivo Gps con accesso ad Internet. Le Autorità per la privacy, tra le quali il Garante italiano, hanno espresso preoccupazione riguardo all'impatto privacy che può derivare dall'uso dei Google Glass e forti timori sul possibile futuro uso di sistemi di "riconoscimento facciale". Le Autorità hanno quindi chiesto alla società un sollecito riscontro sulle implicazioni privacy legate allo sviluppo di questa nuova tecnologia e sulle misure che intende prendere per garantire il rispetto della vita privata in tutti i Paesi del mondo. Google è stata invitata ad un confronto, attraverso incontri e dimostrazioni pratiche sull'uso dei "super-occhiali". Nonostante l'esigenza più volte affermata che la privacy sia parte integrante della progettazione di ogni prodotto e servizio prima del lancio, nessuna Autorità di protezione dati è stata sentita dalla multinazionale e le uniche informazioni di cui dispongono i Garanti, derivano in gran parte dai media o dalla pubblicizzazione del dispositivo ad opera della stessa Google. cordiali saluti Mauro Alovisio

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CNN (Schneier): "Has U.S. started an Internet war?"
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 18, 2013

June 18, 2013

Has U.S. started an Internet war? By *Bruce Schneier*, Special to CNN June 18, 2013 -- Updated 1446 GMT (2246 HKT) /*ditor's note:* Bruce Schneier <http://www.schneier.com/> is a security technologist and author of "Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Survive." <http://www.schneier.com/book-lo.html> / *(CNN)* -- Today, the United States is conducting offensive cyberwar actions around the world. More than passively eavesdropping, we're penetrating and damaging foreign networks for both espionage and to ready them for attack. We're creating custom-designed Internet weapons, pre-targeted and ready to be "fired" against some piece of another country's electronic infrastructure on a moment's notice. This is much worse than what we're accusing China of doing to us. We're pursuing policies that are both expensive and destabilizing and aren't making the Internet any safer. We're reacting from fear, and causing other countries to counter-react from fear. We're ignoring resilience in favor of offense. Welcome to the cyberwar <https://www.schneier.com/essay-421.html> arms race <https://www.schneier.com/essay-411.html>, an arms race that will define the Internet in the 21st century. Presidential Policy Directive 20 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/07/obama-cyber-directi…>, issued last October <http://epic.org/privacy/cybersecurity/Pres-Policy-Dir-20-FactSheet.pdf> and released by Edward Snowden, outlines <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/07/obama-china-targets-cyber-overs…> U.S. cyberwar policy. Most of it isn't very interesting, but there are two paragraphs about "Offensive Cyber Effect Operations," or OCEO, that are intriguing: [...] Continua qui: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/18/opinion/schneier-cyberwar-policy/index.ht…

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Economist: "Secrets, lies and America’s spies"
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 18, 2013

June 18, 2013

Uno dei migliori commenti che abbia letto finora su questa vicenda. juan carlos ------ Surveillance Secrets, lies and America’s spies A government’s first job is to protect its citizens. But that should be based on informed consent, not blind trust Jun 15th 2013 |From the print edition <http://www.economist.com/printedition/2013-06-15> CONSTANT vigilance: that is the task of the people who protect society from enemies intent on using subterfuge and violence to get their way. It is also the watchword of those who fear that the protectors will pursue the collective interest at untold cost to individual rights. Edward Snowden, a young security contractor, has come down on one side of that tussle by leaking documents showing that the National Security Agency (NSA) spied on millions of Americans’ phone records and on the internet activity of hundreds of millions of foreigners. The documents, published by the /Guardian /and the /Washington Post/, include two big secrets (see article <http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21579473-americas-national-security-…>). One is a court order telling Verizon, a telecoms company, to hand over “metadata”, such as the duration, direction and location of subscribers’ calls. The other gives some clues about a programme called PRISM, which collects e-mails, files and social-networking data from firms such as Google, Apple and Facebook. Much of this eavesdropping has long been surmised, and none of it is necessarily illegal. America gives wide powers to its law-enforcement and spy agencies. They are overseen by Congress and courts, which issue orders to internet firms. [...] Continua qui: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21579455-governments-first-job-protec…

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Guidelines on "business and human rights" for the ICT sector
by Andrea Glorioso June 18, 2013

June 18, 2013

Cari tutti, vorrei segnalare che la Commissione Europea ha pubblicato, dopo un lungo lavoro di analisi e consultazione, tre guide "pratiche" su "business and human rights" in tre settori, ovvero "employment and recruitment agencies", "oild and gas" e (probabilmente di maggior interesse per questa lista) "Information and Communication Technology". Potete trovare le guide e altro materiale su "business and human rights", parte delle attivita` della Commissione Europea sulla responsabilita` sociale d'impresa (Corporate Social Responsibility) qui: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sustainable-business/corporate-soci… . A presto, Andrea -- I speak only for myself. Sometimes I do not even agree with myself. Keep it in mind. Twitter: @andreaglorioso Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andrea.glorioso LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=1749288&trk=tab_pro

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How Google Will Use High-Flying Balloons to Deliver Internet to the Hinterlands
by gianluca June 18, 2013

June 18, 2013

How Google Will Use High-Flying Balloons to Deliver Internet to the Hinterlands Not much happens in Geraldine, a small farming community in the interior of the South Island of New Zealand, about 85 miles from Christchurch. So when Hayden MacKenzie, a fourth-generation farmer there, picked up the phone last Tuesday and got a request to participate in a secret project—one that he wouldn’t even learn about until he signed a vow of silence—he and his wife Anna figured that they’d take a shot. That evening, two men showed up at his cozy farmhouse. They bore a peculiar red device, a sphere slightly bigger than a volleyball perched on a short collar, and attached it to his roof. Then they left. Only when the men returned the next day did they reveal what they were up to. Inside the red ball was an antenna that would give the MacKenzies Internet access. It was custom-designed to communicate with a similar antenna that would be floating by in the stratosphere, over 60,000 feet above sea level. On a solar-powered balloon. Oh, and the men work for Google. [...] continua qui http://www.wired.com/business/2013/06/google_internet_balloons/ qgl

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Lessig su Privacy e Sicurezza
by Masera Anna June 17, 2013

June 17, 2013

Ascoltate Lessig: "Che governi usino tecnologia per proteggere la nostra sicurezza, ma anche la nostra privacy" http://t.co/k1GENkKDhh Inviato da iPhone

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