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NPR: "Pentagon To Dramatically Expand 'Cyber Warrior' Force"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 30, 2013

Jan. 30, 2013

http://www.npr.org/2013/01/28/170494486/pentagon-to-dramatically-expand-cyb…

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NYT: "Cambridge, Cabs and Copenhagen: My Route to Existential Risk"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 30, 2013

Jan. 30, 2013

Interessanti riflessioni sui rischi connessi allo sviluppo del digitale (e corrispondente nuovo centro crossdisciplinare a Cambridge). juan carlos Opinionator - A Gathering of Opinion From Around the Web <http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/> The Stone <http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/category/the-stone/> January 27, 2013, 5:00 pm211 Comments <http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/cambridge-cabs-and-copenhag…> Cambridge, Cabs and Copenhagen: My Route to Existential Risk By HUW PRICE <http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/author/huw-price/> In Copenhagen the summer before last, I shared a taxi with a man who thought his chance of dying in an artificial intelligence-related accident was as high as that of heart disease or cancer. No surprise if he'd been the driver, perhaps (never tell a taxi driver that you're a philosopher!), but this was a man who has spent his career with computers. Indeed, he's so talented in that field that he is one of the team who made this century so, well, 21st -- who got us talking to one another on video screens, the way we knew we'd be doing in the 21st century, back when I was a boy, half a century ago. For this was Jaan Tallinn, one of the team who gave us Skype. (Since then, taking him to dinner in Trinity College here in Cambridge, I've had colleagues queuing up to shake his hand, thanking him for keeping them in touch with distant grandchildren.) There could be trouble when intelligence escapes the constraints of biology. I knew of the suggestion that A.I. might be dangerous, of course. I had heard of the "singularity," or "intelligence explosion"-- roughly, the idea, originally due to the statistician I J Good (a Cambridge-trained former colleague of Alan Turing's), that once machine intelligence reaches a certain point, it could take over its own process of improvement, perhaps exponentially, so that we humans would soon be left far behind. But I'd never met anyone who regarded it as such a pressing cause for concern -- let alone anyone with their feet so firmly on the ground in the software business. [...] Continua qui: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/cambridge-cabs-and-copenhag…

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Breve interruzione dei servizi di rete domani (31/1/2013)
by Luca Leschiutta Jan. 30, 2013

Jan. 30, 2013

Buongiorno, si segnala che domani verranno effettuate delle prove sugli impianti elettrici delle sale server del Politecnico. Durante tali attività, che inizieranno alle ore 14:00 e termineranno, salvo imprevisti, alle ore 17:00, si potranno verificare delle brevi 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 7218 Fax +39 011 090 7216 web: http://nexa.polito.it/people/lleschiutta =======================================

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R:Lombardia Digitale
by Fiorello Cortiana Jan. 30, 2013

Jan. 30, 2013

Lunedì 4 Febbraio alle 17, all' ATAHOTEL EXECUTIVE di via Don Luigi Sturzo 45 - Metropolitana Garibaldi - Le Fondazioni THINK! e RCM organizzano un incontro con la cittadinanza sul tema " Lombardia Digitale: Un'agenda digitale per l'innovazione e lo sviluppo della nostra Regione". Intervengono: Fiorello Cortiana Fiorella De Cindio Giorgio De Michelis Roberto Masiero Maria Grazia Mattei Davide Tosi .. e molti altri Le tecnologie dell'informazione devono servire per ampliare la partecipazione, generare sviluppo e nuova occupazione, migliorare la sanità, l'educazione e l'assistenza: per cittadini più forti perché più liberi.

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big data/long data
by gianluca quaglia Jan. 30, 2013

Jan. 30, 2013

Our species can’t seem to escape big data. We have more data inputs, storage, and computing resources than ever, so Homo sapiens naturally does what it has always done when given new tools: It goes even bigger, higher, and bolder.We did it in buildings and now we’re doing it in data. Sure, big data is a powerful lens — some would even argue a liberating one — for looking at our world. Despite its limitations and requirements, crunching big numbers can help us learn a lot about ourselves.But no matter how big that data is or what insights we glean from it, it is still just a snapshot: a moment in time. That’s why I think we need to stop getting stuck only on big data and start thinking about long data.By “long” data, I mean datasets that have massive historical sweep — taking you from the dawn of civilization to the present day. The kinds of datasets you see in Michael Kremer’s “Population growth and technological change: one million BC to 1990,” which provides an economic model tied to the world’s population data for a million years; or in Tertius Chandler’s Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth, which contains an exhaustive dataset of city populations over millennia. These datasets can humble us and inspire wonder, but they also hold tremendous potential for learning about ourselves.Because as beautiful as a snapshot is, how much richer is a moving picture, one that allows us to see how processes and interactions unfold over time? continues http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/01/forget-big-data-think-long-data/ qgl

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NY Times: "As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow to a Trickle"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 30, 2013

Jan. 30, 2013

January 28, 2013 As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow to a Trickle By BEN SISARIO <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/ben_sisario/in…> Like plenty of music fans, Sam Broe jumped at the chance to join Spotify two summers ago, and he hasn't looked back. Spotify, which began streaming music in Sweden in 2008, lets users choose from millions of songs over the Internet free or by subscription, and is increasingly seen as representing the future of music consumption. Mr. Broe, a 26-year-old from Brooklyn, said that having all that music at his fingertips helped him trim his monthly music budget from $30 to the $10 fee he pays for Spotify's premium service. "The only time I download anything on iTunes is in the rare case that I can't find it on Spotify," he said. A decade after Apple revolutionized the music world with its iTunes store, the music industry is undergoing another, even more radical, digital transformation as listeners begin to move from CDs and downloads to streaming services like Spotify, Pandora <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/pandora-media-inc/ind…> and YouTube <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/youtube/index.html?in…>. As purveyors of legally licensed music, they have been largely welcomed by an industry still buffeted by piracy. But as the companies behind these digital services swell into multibillion-dollar enterprises, the relative trickle of money that has made its way to artists is causing anxiety at every level of the business. Late last year, Zoe Keating, an independent musician from Northern California, provided an unusually detailed case in point. In voluminous spreadsheets posted to her Tumblr blog, she revealed the royalties she gets from various services, down to the ten-thousandth of a cent. Even for an under-the-radar artist like Ms. Keating, who describes her style as "avant cello," the numbers painted a stark picture of what it is like to be a working musician these days. After her songs had been played more than 1.5 million times on Pandora over six months, she earned $1,652.74. On Spotify, 131,000 plays last year netted just $547.71, or an average of 0.42 cent a play. [...] Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/business/media/streaming-shakes-up-music-…

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Re: [nexa] R: diffamazione via facebook
by Carlo Blengino Jan. 29, 2013

Jan. 29, 2013

Interessante il profilo dell'aggravante del mezzo di pubblicità. La sentenza di Gela non è così peregrina come appare prima facie. Vi è differenza tra pubblicità, diffusione, comunicazione...e dunque tra facebook (amici-amici degli amici) e twitter... Grazie C. Inviato da iPad2 Il giorno 29/gen/2013, alle ore 10:26, Carlo Melzi d'Eril <carlo.melzi(a)accms.it> ha scritto: > Volendo, un mio pezzo su un recente caso di diffamazione “via facebook”: > http://www.penalecontemporaneo.it/materia/-/-/-/2032-in_tema_di_diffamazion… > > avv. Carlo Melzi d'Eril > ACCMS STUDIO LEGALE > > via Podgora 13 > 20122 Milano > t. +39 02 54107715 > f. +39 02 54114827 > carlo.melzi(a)accms.it > carlo.melzideril(a)cert.ordineavvocatimilano.it > > …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… > > Nota di riservatezza : Il presente messaggio e gli eventuali allegati contengono informazioni strettamente riservate. > Esso è riservato esclusivamente al destinatario sopra indicato, il quale è l'unico autorizzato ad usarlo, copiarlo e, > sotto la propria responsabilità, diffonderlo. Si segnala, a chiunque ricevesse questo messaggio per errore o comunque > ne avesse conoscenza senza averne titolo, che trattenerlo o divulgarlo a persone diverse dal destinatario è proibito. Grazie. > > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

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Berkman Center Webcast live oggi ore 18.30 - Citizen video and networked politics in Southeast Asia
by Giuseppe Futia Jan. 29, 2013

Jan. 29, 2013

Citizen video and networked politics in Southeast Asia http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2012/12/lowenthal *Andrew Lowenthal, EngageMedia* Today, 6.30 pm Webcast live: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast http://nexa.polito.it/berkman-webcast-live Citizen video in Southeast Asia has exploded in recent times, and has come to play a significant role in national and regional politics. As in other contexts it has documented spectacular events, spearheaded campaigns and uncovered scandals. More broadly citizen media and networked publics are shifting the balance of power both in the media and the political landscape. Like China and India, ASEAN nations are experiencing rapid growth and the online and citizen media space is only set to grow in media production, audience and importance. Whilst broadband access in the region is still often constrained to urban areas, citizen video is also being taken up as a political tool from those on the economic and political fringes. Initiatives such as Citizen Journalists Malaysia <http://cj.my/> and EngageMedia <http://engagemedia.org/> are working to develop strategic networks of new citizen video producers. In this discussion, Andrew Lowenthal, co-founder and Executive Director of EngageMedia, will outline their approach to video4change and their work in the region, in particular looking at West Papua, (a remote region of Indonesia that has been waging an independence campaign for more than 40 years), the development of regional, cross-border and multilingual video networks, and the effect and possibility of the internet and online media to generate new post-national political configurations and collaborations. About Andrew Andrew Lowenthal is Co-Founder and Executive Director of EngageMedia <http://engagemedia.org/>, an Asia-Pacific human rights and environmental video project begun in 2005. EngageMedia builds the capacity of video activists and campaigners to strategically use video and online technologies by building open source technologies <http://plumi.org/>, creating networks and conducting trainings. EngageMedia also undertakes a number of research initiatives <http://www.engagemedia.org/Projects/research> that look at the uses and effects of video as a social change tool. Current research partners with the MIT Center for Civic Media to explore the impact of 'video4change', another, with the University of Western Sydney, explores the citizen translator in the networked public sphere. Andrew has been working in the field of media and technology activism since 1998. His work traverses the fields of new media and video production, NGO management, network building, research, media and technology activism, software development, and project and event management. Andrew was active in the Indymedia network from 2000-2006. From 2006-08 he worked with the UK based Tactical Technology Collective <http://tacticaltech.org/> as their participatory media project lead, editing the NGO-in-a-box series <http://tacticaltech.org/node/468> of free software packages and the more recent Message-in-a-box <http://miab.tacticaltech.org/>. A past life as a video maker saw his works screen at the Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Art, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and the National Gallery of Indonesia. Links * http://engagemedia.org * http://papuanvoices.net * http://engagemedia.org/videochronic

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EUObserver: "US free to grab EU data on American clouds"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 28, 2013

Jan. 28, 2013

US free to grab EU data on American clouds Today @ 09:18 1. By Nikolaj Nielsen <http://euobserver.com/search/author/238> 2. Nikolaj email <mailto:nn@euobserver.com> 3. Nikolaj Twitter <http://twitter.com/#%21/NikolajNielsen> BRUSSELS - An obscure section in a US law is said to entitle authorities to access, without a warrant, data stored by any EU citizen on clouds run by American companies. Although highly controversial for its indirect effects on Americans, the impact of the law appears to have been overlooked by its intended target - everyone else. Rather than case-by-case snooping, the law authorises mass-surveillance of non-Americans, for purely political purposes, said Caspar Bowden who is the former chief privacy adviser to Microsoft, at a panel on cyber security organised by the CPDP conference in Brussels on Friday (25 January). "It intentionally targets only non-US persons located outside the US and provides for a blanket authorisation to this for one year at a time. There is no individual warrantry," said Bowden, who is now an independent advocate for information rights. [...] Continua qui: http://euobserver.com/justice/118857

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Re: [nexa] Legge privacy europea.
by Marco Baldassari Jan. 27, 2013

Jan. 27, 2013

Anche se i reati per uso illecito dei dati sono già normati (almeno nella UE) sono importanti le imposizioni sulla trasparenza nelle policy di gestione dei dati come nella seguente richiesta: È dunque venuto il momento per Microsoft – scrivono le associazioni e gli attivisti nella lettera aperta – di documentare pubblicamente le sue pratiche di sicurezza e di privacy relative a Skype. Chiediamo a Skype – conclude la lettera – di rilasciare un Rapporto sulla Trasparenza aggiornato regolarmente che includa: 1) Dati sulla cessione di informazioni sugli utenti Skype ad altre parti, disaggregati per Paese, incluso il numero di richieste inoltrate dai governi, il tipo di richiesta, il numero di richieste soddisfatte e le motivazioni con cui altre invece sono state respinte 2) Dettagli specifici di tutti i dati utente raccolti da Microsoft e Skype, e delle modalità con cui sono conservati 3) Quali dati utente – almeno a conoscenza di Skype – altri soggetti, tra cui fornitori di rete o criminali informatici, possono essere in grado di intercettare o conservare 4) Documentazione sulla relazione tra Skype e TOM Online in Cina e altre parti autorizzate a usare la tecnologia Skype, tra cui le capacità di sorveglianza e censura a cui gli utenti possono essere soggetti nel momento in cui utilizzano queste alternative 5) L’interpretazione di Skype delle proprie responsabilità in relazione al Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA); le sue politiche legate alla divulgazione dei metadati delle chiamate in risposta a mandati di comparizione e a National Security Letters (NSLs), e più in generale le politiche e le linee guida per i dipendenti quando Skype riceve e risponde a richieste sui dati degli utenti da parte di agenzie investigative e di intelligence negli Stati Uniti e altrove. Claudio Agosti, presidente di Hermes – Centro per la Trasparenza e i Diritti Digitali in Rete, sottolinea un aspetto fondamentale della vicenda: Nonostante la natura gratuita del servizio, dobbiamo ricordare che le nostre conversazioni, per definizione confidenziali, nel caso di queste reti non sono vincolate alle leggi europee sulla privacy e nemmeno alle nostre leggi statali, che siamo abituati a usare come riferimento. Di fronte a una risposta non soddisfacente di Microsoft, disponiamo di due contromisure: una legale e l’altra tecnologica. Quella legale consiste nel richiedere la portabilità dell’identità digitale, un passaggio analogo a quello avvenuto nelle telecomunicazioni, che consentirebbe a un utente di cambiare operatore mantenendo inalterata la propria rete di contatti. Quella tecnologica consiste nel diffondere software che consentano di proteggere le chiamate e le chat su Skype da eventuali tentativi di raccoglierne i dati. MANTELERO ALESSANDRO <alessandro.mantelero(a)polito.it> wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:42:23 +0100 Marco Baldassari <marco.baldassari(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Ho letto della lobby USA contro la nuova legge sulla >privacy europea e > ritengo che il problema sia malposto. > > Il punto non è chiedere il consnso in modo granulare su >ciascun dato che > venga Grace, con l'assurdità di dover decidere cookie >per cookie e per > ciascun attributo del cookie. l'idea che si debba decidere cookie per cookie è un falso mito, cavalcato dal marketing. Si veda quanto descritto sotto il profilo tecnico dall'ART29 WP (Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, Opinion 16/2011 on EASA/IAB Best Practice Recommendation on Online Behavioural Advertising). > Io ho tutto l'interesse che i miei dati vengano >tracciati se possofidarmi > che il loro utilizzo sarà in una relazione di permission >marketing, per > facilitare il matching con quanto mi interessa. Un >match-making win-win ha > un valore positivo per la collettività. > > Mi pare molto più efficace normare l'uso illecito dei >dati, in modo da > vietare quelle elaborazioni dei dati che mi arrechino un >danno. già fatto (da anni, specie in UE)! > Va in questa direzione la richiesta di trasparenza nei >confronti di > microsoft descritta nel seguente articolo. > > Skype: problemi con la privacy degli utenti. Che fine >fanno le > conversazioni? > http://it.news-republic.com/Web/ArticleWeb.aspx?regionid=6&articleid=6350960 > > Cordiali saluti e buona domenica a tutti. > > Oggi è il giorno della memoria della shoah. > Agiamo tutti affinchè queste discriminazioni cessino. > > Marco Baldassari > > -- > Hai mai desiderato un'applicazione che ti offra tutte le >news che ti > interessano? > Scopri News Republic, la prima applicazione gratuita per >lettori davvero > "smart"! > > http://www.mobilesrepublic.com/newsrepublic -- Avv. Alessandro Mantelero, PhD Professor of Private Law Faculty Fellow, Nexa Center for Internet and Society <a href="http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero">Website</a> <a href="http://it.linkedin.com/pub/alessandro-mantelero/29/723/a48">LinkedIn</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/mantelero">Twitter</a> Department of Management and Production Engineering Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 10129 Torino - Italy in libertate fortitudo

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