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FT: "Google faces Norwegian public sector ban"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 24, 2012

Jan. 24, 2012

Google faces Norwegian public sector ban January 24, 2012 6:01 pm by Maija Palmer <http://blogs.ft.com/fttechhub/author/maijapalmer/> High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs <http://www.ft.com/servicestools/help/terms> and Copyright Policy <http://www.ft.com/servicestools/help/copyright> for more detail. Email ftsales.support(a)ft.com <mailto:ftsales.support@ft.com> to buy additional rights. http://blogs.ft.com/fttechhub/2012/01/google-faces-norwegian-public-sector-… Norwegian public sector organisations will be banned from using Google Apps after the Norwegian data protection authorities ruled that the service could put citizens' personal data at risk. The data protection authority said Google Apps did not comply with Norwegian privacy laws because there was insufficient information about where data was being kept. The decision came from a test case in Narvik, where the local council had chosen to use Google Apps for their email. The Norwegian ban comes just as things were going so well for Google Apps in Europe, with the company winning its largest ever contract with BBVA <http://blogs.ft.com/fttechhub/2012/01/google-apps-clocks-up-bbva-win/>, the Spanish bank. Now, however, Google could find access to swathes of public sector work effectively closed. Early last year, there was a similar decision in Denmark, where [...] Continua qui: http://blogs.ft.com/fttechhub/2012/01/google-faces-norwegian-public-sector-…

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Music 3.0 - The Blog Behind The Book: Slicing The Profit Pie
by vale.it.newsletters＠gmail.com Jan. 24, 2012

Jan. 24, 2012

http://music3point0.blogspot.com/2010/08/slicing-profit-pie.html Su questo sito appare un'interessante pie chart, che analizza in che modo verrebbe ripartito il ricavo dalle opere musicali. Vi risulta che sia così nella prassi? V

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FAVA sul suo emendamento
by fabio chiusi Jan. 24, 2012

Jan. 24, 2012

Fava (Lega) ha appena scritto su Facebook un lungo 'chiarimento' sul suo emendamento in tema di responsabilità degli intermediari. Qualcuno dei giuristi in lista vuole commentare? Fabio Chiusi --- Gianni Fava ‎"il cosiddetto emendamento Fava in NESSUN MODO impone la disconnessione del provider, ma soltanto lo obbliga a tener conto delle segnalazioni che riceve, assumendosene la responsabilità se decide, in piena autonomia, di non tenerne conto, esattamente come prevede ESPRESSAMENTE la Direttiva. Se il provider, una volta informato, non fa niente, allora il titolare dei diritti violati può agire in giudizio anche contro di lui, oltre che contro l'autore materiale della violazione. Perciò E' SEMPRE UN GIUDICE che deve decidere chi ha ragione e chi ha torto; e i provvedimenti che può dare sono solo l'INIBITORIA, cioè l'ordine di far cessare l'illecito e di prevenirne la ripetizione, e il RISARCIMENTO DEL DANNO. MAI IN NESSUN CASO, lo ripeto, può essere ordinata la disconnessione del provider!!! Dunque questa è una norma ESEMPLARE perché fa l'opposto di quello che molti detrattori interessati e non liberi dicono: la norma cerca infatti di delineare un PUNTO DI EQUILIBRIO tra le esigenze di proteggere i diritti e quella di lasciare alla rete la massima libertà, che NON E' MINIMAMENTE IN DISCUSSIONE: è una norma MOLTO PIU' LIBERALE di quelle inglesi e francesi già in vigore e non ha NIENTE A CHE VEDERE con quella americana recentemente bocciata. Infatti chi attacca questa norma non è andato affatto a vederne il testo, ma si è creato un FANTOCCIO POLEMICO che a questa norma è completamente estraneo, ma che è molto più facile da attaccare. E poi diciamolo chiaro: dietro queste proteste di cono gli INTERESSI ECONOMICI dei grandi e potenti fornitori dei servizi di rete, che non vogliono ridurre i LORO PROFITTI fatti fornendo questi servizi anche a chi viola la legge. La norma e' a difesa dei prodotti italiani e della credibilità' del nostro sistema"

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Released Neubot 0.4.6
by Simone Basso Jan. 24, 2012

Jan. 24, 2012

Released Neubot 0.4.6 http://www.neubot.org/neubot-0.4.6 Version 0.4.6 is the latest generally-available stable release of Neubot, distributed for Ubuntu >= 10.04, MacOSX >= 10.6, Windows >= XP SP3 and FreeBSD as well as in source format (.tar.gz and .zip). The release contains 152 patches. The diffstat says: 112 files changed, with 4618 lines inserted and 1124 lines deleted. As you probably know, between 0.4.5 and 0.4.6 Neubot has been added to Measurement Lab (M-Lab) <http://www.measurementlab.net/>, a distri- buted server platform that hosts tools that, like Neubot, want to measure the quality and neutrality of Internet connections. (More on that here <http://nexa.polito.it/neubot-in-mlab-en>.) So, this release contains a lot of patches that deal with "M-Lab integration" as we will see. Here are the most relevant changes: o Neubot added to M-Lab. With respect to measurement quality, there is a tremendous advantage in using M-Lab. The availability of more than 60 servers around the world allows to redirect users to the nearest server and the thing we are measuring, "speed", is roughly inversely proportional to the distance from the server. Plus, at higher distance there are much more confounding factors, for example because you have to traverse more ISPs. So, it matters A LOT to be as close as possible to the users. o Neubot privacy policy harmonized to M-Lab one, permission to share (publish) the Internet address now REQUIRED for running tests. Now Neubot is hosted in more than 60 M-Lab servers around the world and M-Lab policy requires that all results must be published as open data on the web. In terms of Neubot privacy policy, this means that only users that have provided the permission to share their Internet address can access and use Neubot servers on the M-Lab platform. Given the advantages of using M-Lab, I quickly realized that it has no practical sense to support users that has given just the permission to collect. Because it's in the mutual interest of Neubot and its users to always collect the best data possible. For this reason, the privacy policy has been changed and Neubot now will not even attempt a test unless it has the permission to share the user Internet address. For users that have already installed Neubot and have not provided the permission to share, this practically means that Neubot will do its best to notify you of that and prompt you to change your privacy settings. Since this is a significant change, I've bumped the major version number of the privacy policy, and the current version is 2.0. o Privacy: Renamed `publish` the permission to `share` the Internet address, for the sake of clarity. The name `share` for the permission has been criticized because it does not indicate clearly the purpose of the treatment. With `share` I meant the permission to publish the Internet address on the Web, so that other researchers could reuse it for carrying out their studies. You see? The word `publish` communicates much better what the purpose of the treatment is, hence the change. Thanks to Eleonora Bassi, who pointed out the confusion and prodded me to change the wording. o Support for running tests via web user interface (plus some additional command line goodies). I've added a new component to the Neubot daemon, called the runner, which takes care of running tests. The novelty is that I've also added a local HTTP API, /api/runner, that allows to contact the runner and ask it to run a test. Of course periodic & automatic tests use this new runner, but there is more: - now it is possible to run tests via the web user interface, invoking the /api/runner from the AJAX code; - now tests invoked from the command line use /api/runner to run the test in the context of the local daemon. The latter is good for user isolation (the test is not run by your user but by _neubot unprivileged user) and performances (the runner knows the nearest M-Lab server and avoids overlapping periodic & automatic w/ manual tests). At the same time, there is not a loss in transparency: during the test, the daemon passes a copy of its logs to the command line process, which, in turn, prints them on the standard error and honors the -v flag. Of course, it's still possible to run command line tests in the context of the command line process itself, using runner.enabled, e.g.:: neubot speedtest -D runner.enabled=0 o Add "simple and stupid" MacOSX notifier. As said above, in this 0.4.5 -> 0.4.6 transition we need a mean to notify users that have not provided the permission to share/publish that Neubot does not work anymore with their privacy settings. While we have means to alert users both on Debian/Ubuntu and Windows, 0.4.5 is lacking this capability on the MacOSX. To start with, I've written a "simple and stupid" notification mechanism that runs each time you login into your Mac and, if it finds that you have "bad" privacy permissions, it opens the browsers and points it to the privacy page. In turn from this page you can update your settings. This is quite a ugly solution and I promise I will look into more clean solutions, such as Growl, for this kind and other notifications. (I ACK that his behavior is annoying, especially if you don't want to change your privacy permissions. So, if you want to completely remove Neubot 0.4.6 from your MacOSX you can run the following command:: $ sudo /usr/local/share/neubot/0.004006999/uninstall.sh I probably not advertised that enough, but each version of Neubot on the MacOS ships with its own version of such script.) o Add scripts to deploy Neubot to M-Lab. o More code rationalizations, cleanups and regression tests. Packages and source archives available here: http://www.neubot.org/download ChangeLog here: https://raw.github.com/neubot/neubot/0.4.6/ChangeLog Diff since previous version here: http://releases.neubot.org/_packages/neubot-0.4.6.patch Commit history here: https://github.com/neubot/neubot/commits/0.4.6 SHA256sums here: https://raw.github.com/neubot/neubot-sha256s/master/0.4.6/SHA256 Errata here: http://www.neubot.org/errata#0.4.6 Data here: http://www.neubot.org/data P.S. Just a quick note from the data-release dept.: I'm busy working on a much more scalable file-based data-collection Neubot backend that fits with M-Lab data collection strategy. This new backend is going to replace the current sqlite3-based schema, that has serious problems of scalability. Part of the work is to come out with a script that exports existing data to the new format, such that all Neubot.org data is available in the same format. In the process of writing this new exporter script, I will use the December results as test case, and they will probably be the first piece of data available using the new format. (Under the new format, we have a hierarchy of folders and the leafs are folders where each file contains the results of a test in JSON format.) Thank you, Simone <http://www.neubot.org/people#basso>

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Seminario su "Cloud Computing. Opportunità e aspetti critici della Nuvola"
by MANTELERO ALESSANDRO Jan. 24, 2012

Jan. 24, 2012

Lunedì 13 febbraio p.v. alle ore 9,00 presso il Centro Congressi TORINOINCONTRA, Sala Giolitti, Via Nino Costa 8, Torino si terrà il seminario "Cloud Computing. Opportunità e aspetti critici della Nuvola". L'incontro è organizzato dalla Camera di Commercio di Torino in collaborazione con il Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza ed il Dipartimento di Informatica dell'Università degli Studi di Torino. Interverrà il prof. Pizzetti, Presidente dell'Autorità Garante per la protezione dei dati personali. Programma (scaricabile al seguente indirizzo http://goo.gl/1uVVl) 09.00 Registrazione partecipanti 9.30 Saluti istituzionali Guido Bolatto, Segretario Generale della Camera di commercio di Torino 9.45 Tecnologia Cloud e problemi relativi alla protezione dei dati Francesco Pizzetti, Presidente Autorità Garante per la protezione dei dati personali 10.15 Introduzione agli aspetti tecnico-informatici del Cloud computing Francesco Bergadano, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Torino 10.45 Coffe break 11.00 Profili contrattuali e di data protection del Cloud Computing Alessandro Mantelero, Politecnico di Torino 11.30 “Una Nuvola Pubblica Certificata” Alessandro Osnaghi, Fondazione ASTRID 12.00 I servizi Cloud: l’offerta del mercato - I vantaggi dell'adozione del Cloud Computing nelle PMI ed i relativi aspetti della sicurezza Mariano Ammirabile, IBM I.T.S. - Il Cloud: opportunità, innovazione e falsi miti Luca Giuratrabocchetta, Google Enterprise Italia 12,30 Dibattito Moderatore: Raffaele Caterina, Direttore Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, Università degli Studi di Torino Note organizzative La partecipazione è gratuita, previa iscrizione, da effettuarsi via e-mail ai seguenti indirizzi: affari.legali(a)to.camcom.it; tutela.consum(a)to.camcom.it -- Avv. Alessandro Mantelero, PhD Confirmed Assistant Professor http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero Department of Production Systems and Business Economics Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 10129 Torino - Italy

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Re: [nexa] Licenze "capestro" per chi pubblica con iBooks Author di Apple
by Federico Guerrini Jan. 24, 2012

Jan. 24, 2012

Quello che secondo me alcuni non capiscono è che i libri non sono detersivi: se creo e controllo una filiera che va dal supporto con cui sono creati i testi alla loro distribuzione, acquisisco un potere inedito. Supponiamo che tutte le scuole adottino solo l'iPad. Il formato ideale per produrre testi per iPad sarà, per forza, quello di Apple. Producendo in quel formato (supponendo che la Mela faccia la logica mossa di un formato proprietario, creabile al top solo con Author) si viene però obbligati a versare una quota del 30 % a Apple e a distribuire il libro attraverso i suoi canali. Non solo, ma Apple può decidere di non pubblicartelo il libro e tu, in quel formato, per quel supporto non lo puoi creare in nessun altro modo. Bello, no? Ditemi se sto sbagliando qualcosa nel ragionamento... On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Stefano Quintarelli <stefano(a)quintarelli.it > wrote: > > (anche sul mio blog. interessanti i commenti. danno una idea di cosa pensa > la gente non addentro) > > ------- Original message ------- > >> From: Federico Guerrini <federicogue(a)gmail.com> >> To: nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it >> Sent: 22.1.'12, 19:34 >> >> >> Due interessanti articoli: >> >> Qui >> >> http://www.readwriteweb.com/**archives/why_apple_why_does_** >> it_have_to_be_like_<http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/why_apple_why_does_it_have_to_be_like_>this_the_col.php >> >> E qui: >> >> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/**bott/apples-mind-bogglingly-** >> greedy-and-evil-licen<http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/apples-mind-bogglingly-greedy-and-evil-licen>se-agreement/4360?h=1&tag=nl. >> **e539 >> >> Ciao, >> >> Fed. >> >> >> >> -- www.federicoguerrini.com Il mio ultimo libro: Vivere Social http://www.bol.it/libri/Vivere-social.-Manuale/Federico-Guerrini/ea97888971…

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Ars Technica: "After terrific year, music biz demands that world adopt "SOPA plus"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 24, 2012

Jan. 24, 2012

After terrific year, music biz demands that world adopt "SOPA plus" By Nate Anderson <http://arstechnica.com/author/nate-anderson/> In order to protect itself from piracy, the worldwide recording industry needs a few favors from governments and corporations around the globe, and a major new digital music report <http://www.ifpi.org/content/library/DMR2012.pdf> (PDF) from the industry's worldwide lobby IFPI lays them out. When placed end-to-end, it's a lengthy list---and its one that comes after a year of surprisingly strong growth for the industry. The wishlist *First*: Graduated response schemes, in which rightsholders can easily pass along notices about file-sharing to the accused party, possibly disconnecting them from the Internet. This requires the cooperation of Internet service providers. Also, strong deterrents are needed, such as eventual Internet disconnection. *Second*: Site blocking. [...] Continua qui: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/after-terrific-year-music-b…

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The Cost of Knowledge: Researchers taking a stand against Elsevier
by Irene Cassarino Jan. 23, 2012

Jan. 23, 2012

The Cost of KnowledgeResearchers taking a stand against Elsevier. For many years, academics have protested against the business practices of Elsevier. If you would like to declare publicly that you will not support any Elsevier journal unless they radically change how they operate, then you can do so by filling in your details in the box below. http://thecostofknowledge.com/

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The law of corporations
by Philippe Aigrain Jan. 23, 2012

Jan. 23, 2012

A reflection on common law and copyright law triggered by a quotation on the walls and website of the DOJ. http://paigrain.debatpublic.net/?p=4069&lang=en

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Corte Suprema USA: ci vuole un mandato per sorveglianza GPS
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 23, 2012

Jan. 23, 2012

Storica (probabilmente) decisione della Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-1259.pdf http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/scotus-gps-ruling/ Scheda: http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/united-states-v-jones/ juan carlos

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