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Featured Sessions and CfP REMINDER - GIG-ARTS 2023: "The Governance of Cybersecurity: Resilience, Human Rights and Democracy" 15-16 May, Padova
by Mauro SANTANIELLO Feb. 7, 2023

Feb. 7, 2023

Dear colleagues, We hope this message finds you well. With the reminder that only 3 weeks are remaining for submission of your abstracts (*deadline: 26 February 2023*), GIG-ARTS 2023 Organizing Committee is glad to pre-announce 4 exciting featured sessions for this Padova edition. We are delighted to welcome *Laura DeNardis as our 2023 Keynote speaker.* Speakers at the Special session and the Stakeholders roundtables will be announced later. GIG-ARTS 2023 Featured Sessions: *Keynote Session: “New Frontiers of Cybersecurity Governance”* Keynote Speaker: Laura DeNardis, Professor and Endowed Chair in Technology, Ethics, and Society at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA Chair: Meryem Marzouki, Global Internet Governance & Digital Rights Expert - Paris, France *Special Session: Presentation of the Italian PRIN Project: “Cybersecurity (as a) Public Policy”* Chair: Maria Stella Righettini, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Performance Evaluation at the University of Padova, Italy *Stakeholders Roundtable: “Framing and Implementing Cyber Resilience”* Chair: Mauro Santaniello, Assistant Professor of Internet Governance and Digital Policy at the University of Salerno, Italy *Stakeholders Roundtable: “Geopolitics of Cybersecurity”* Chair: Joanna Kulesza, Professor of International Law, and Director of Lodz Cyber Hub at the University of Lodz, Poland Below is the full GIG-ARTS 2023 Call for abstracts. Feel free to disseminate this call. We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts describing your latest research work and we very much hope to see you in Padova! Best regards, GIG-ARTS 2023 Organizing Committee: Joanna Kulesza, Meryem Marzouki, Claudia Padovani, Maria Stella Righettini, and Mauro Santaniello ===== GIG-ARTS 2023 - The Seventh European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies 15-16 May 2023, Padova The Governance of Cybersecurity: Resilience, Human Rights and Democracy events.gig-arts.eu/gig-arts2023 Call for Abstracts - Deadline: 26 February 2023 While during the early stage of Internet development security concerns were generally dealt with as a regulation matter with law enforcement authorities fighting cybercrime, cybersecurity has recently become one of the most debated and controversial issue in the field of internet governance. Cyberattacks have changed in nature and intensity: their growing number; the variety of their targets (public institutions, critical infrastructures and utilities, large and strategic companies); in some cases the terrorist and/or quasi-military objectives of their proven or alleged authors, sponsors or beneficiaries; the expansion of their surface, making profit of digitalization progresses in all sectors; together with the escalation of geopolitical tensions and conflicts; are all features pushing cybersecurity issues to the top of the agendas of both public and private actors. The increasing relevance of cybersecurity is reshaping state powers, public administration, private businesses, civil society and academic research as well. New agencies, procedures, and structures have been institutionalised both by national governments and international organisations to deal with cybersecurity policy problems. New power relations are being established, both inside and beyond the state. Governments, both at the national and local levels, are still struggling to find their own governance structures and set of instruments in the range of different cybersecurity models (e.g. cyber defence, cyber offence, cyber resilience, etc.) and their possible implementations. The provision of public goods and services is undergoing a profound re-design and re-engineering process led by cybersecurity concerns, that implies new models of citizenship and new modes of public administration. Private companies are facing new challenges, often dealing with a shortage of skills and competences of the workforce, while new companies and new business models are emerging around the transnational market of cybersecurity. At the global level, states, through their representatives at the United Nations and its different bodies, confirmed that international law applies online as it does offline. They also identified the need to better understand how international law could be applied in cyberspace, with issues of attribution, liability, sovereignty, rule of law and due diligence being raised. Given the multistakeholder feature of global internet governance, private companies have also jumped in with their own proposals, promoting their roles as possible norms entrepreneurs. Technical management and standardisation organisations have a prominent role to play as well when dealing with global cybersecurity. As a consequence, new research agendas and scientific perspectives on cybersecurity are consolidating, shaping a novel multidisciplinary field of inquiry that is not only exceeding the original field of internet governance, but seems also phagocytizing it: internet governance as an issue of cybersecurity governance. After having addressed “Global Internet Governance as a Diplomacy Issue” at its first edition in 2017, “Overcoming Inequalities in Internet Governance” in 2018, “Europe as a Global Player in Internet Governance” in 2019, “Online Information Governance” in 2020, and “Global Internet Governance and International Human Rights” in 2022, the European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies turns its attention this year to the governance of cybersecurity, in view of further investigating and inquiring the political, economic and epistemic transformations connected to the rise of cybersecurity and how they impact on democracy and human rights. In addition to general internet governance issues and topics, submissions are particularly welcome on the following themes: - Cybersecurity and democracy: civil liberties and human rights; - Cybersecurity, citizenship and digital sovereignty; - Institutionalisation of cybersecurity as a field of public policy; - From cybersecurity to cyber resilience: risk analysis, organisational challenges and capacity building; - Models and typologies of cybersecurity; - Relationships between cybersecurity and internet governance; - New theoretical frameworks and methods for the study of cybersecurity; - Cybersecurity and public administration digitalization; - The cybersecurity market and business models; - New technological developments and cybersecurity; - Cybersecurity narratives: policy discourses, cultures and ideologies; - Cybersecurity strategies, policies, instruments, and their implementation; - Multilateral and multistakeholder discussions and instruments for the global governance of cybersecurity; - Cybersecurity in international relations: cyber warfare, cyber peace, diplomacy and international law; - Cybersecurity in Europe Union strategy and policies. Submission information Authors are invited to submit their extended abstracts (no longer than 500 words), describing their research question(s), theoretical framework, approach and methodology, expected findings or empirical outcome. Submitted abstracts will be evaluated through a peer-review process. Abstracts and authors’ information should be submitted through the Easychair conference management system at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gigarts2023 Key dates - Deadline for abstract submissions: 26 February 2023 - Notification to authors: 5 April 2023 - Authors registration (at least one author must register for a selected presentation to appear on the programme): From 5 to 15 April 2023 - Programme publication: 25 April 2023 - General registration: From 25 April to 5 May 2023 - Conference dates: 15 & 16 May 2023 GIG-ARTS 2023 Co-Sponsors (tbc) - Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies (SPGI) / University of Padova, Italy - Grant programme PRIN: Progetti di Ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale – Bando 2020 Prot. 2020X5LAK7 / Ministry of University and Research, Italy - Internet & Communication Policy Centre / University of Salerno, Italy - LIP6 Laboratory, Sorbonne Université & CNRS, France - Lodz Cyber Hub / University of Lodz, Poland GIG-ARTS 2023 Committees Co-Chairs - Joanna Kulesza, Łódz Cyber Hub, University of Łódz, Poland - Meryem Marzouki, Global Internet Governance & Digital Rights Expert, France - Maria Stella Righettini, Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies (SPGI), University of Padova, Italy Organizing Committee - Joanna Kulesza, Łódz Cyber Hub, University of Łódz, Poland - Meryem Marzouki, Global Internet Governance & Digital Rights Expert, France - Claudia Padovani, Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies (SPGI), University of Padova, Italy - Maria Stella Righettini, Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies (SPGI), University of Padova, Italy - Mauro Santaniello, Internet & Communication Policy Centre, University of Salerno, Italy Scientific Programme Committee - Francesco Amoretti, University of Salerno, Italy - Eric Brousseau, Université Paris Dauphine, France - Simone Busetti, University of Teramo, Italy - Andrea Calderaro, Cardiff University, United Kingdom - Mauro Conti, University of Padova, Italy - Laura DeNardis, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA - Frédérick Douzet, Université Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis, France - Giuseppe Fenza, University of Salerno, Italy - Louise Marie Hurel, London School of Economics, United Kingdom - Jonathan Kamkhaji, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Joanna Kulesza (co-chair), University of Łódz, Poland - Nanette S. Levinson, American University Washington DC, USA - Robin Mansell, London School of Economics, United Kingdom - Meryem Marzouki (co-chair), Global Internet Governance & Digital Rights Expert, France - Fortunato Musella, University of Naples Federico II, Italy - Claudia Padovani, University of Padova, Italy - Maria Stella Righettini (co-chair), University of Padova, Italy - Michele Rioux, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada - Kavé Salamatian, Université Savoie Mont-Blanc, France, and Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia - Mauro Santaniello, University of Salerno, Italy - Yves Schemeil, Sciences Po Grenoble, France - Jan Aart Scholte, Leiden University, The Netherlands, and University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany - Jamal Shahin, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & United Nations University - CRIS, Belgium, and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Evelyne Tauchnitz, University of Lucerne, Switzerland - Giancarlo Vecchi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Venue GIG-ARTS 2023 will be held in Padova city centre, at The University of Padova (Archivio Antico room), Via VIII Febbraio, 2, 35122 Padova, Italy. Conference Registration and Fees Registration fees are 100€ for regular participants and 50€ for students showing proof of status. Conference fees include a participant kit as well as coffee breaks and meals. GIG-ARTS 2023 Communication Details - Website: events.gig-arts.eu - Email for information: events(a)gig-arts.eu - Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gigarts2023 - Twitter: @GigArtsEU - Hashtag: #GIGARTS23 - Mailing list for updates: https://listes.lip6.fr/sympa/subscribe/info-gig-arts -- GIG-ARTS Conference (The European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies) Email: events(a)gig-arts.eu - Web: http://events.gig-arts.eu - Twitter: @GigArtsEU

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MEMENTO | 159° Mercoledì di Nexa | Mercoledì 8 febbraio, ore 17.00
by Nexa Media Feb. 7, 2023

Feb. 7, 2023

Gentilissime, gentilissimi, Vi ricordiamo che *DOMANI, alle ore 17.00*, si terrà il *159° Mercoledì di Nexa*, con un incontro dal titolo: /*"Algorithmic Management: Features, Impacts, Legal Issues. What's the Current State of Play?"*/. Ospite dell'incontro: *Aida Ponce Del Castillo*, Senior Researcher at ETUI - European Trade Union Institute. _L'incontro si terrà IN PRESENZA e ONLINE._ _SEDE FISICA_ dell'incontro: Centro Nexa su Internet e Società, Politecnico di Torino, Via Boggio 65/a, Torino (1° piano). Per accedere alla sala che ospiterà l'incontro si raccomanda di suonare al citofono "Portineria" e di seguire le indicazioni segnalate da appositi cartelli appesi all'ingresso e lungo il percorso. QUI <https://nexa.polito.it/contatti> maggiori informazioni su come raggiungerci. _STANZA VIRTUALE_ dell'incontro: https://didattica.polito.it/VClass/NexaEvent Di seguito maggiori dettagli sull'evento: https://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-159 Grazie per l'attenzione, Cordiali saluti, -- Anita Botta Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino – DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino web: https://nexa.polito.it/ mail: anita.botta(a)polito.it tel: 011 090 7219

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[CFP] 35th International Teletraffic Congress
by Martino Trevisan Feb. 6, 2023

Feb. 6, 2023

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this mail] *35th International Teletraffic Congress* *3-5 October, 2023, Turin* *Website: https://itc35.itc-conference.org/* /_*CALL FOR PAPERS*_/ /The International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) 35, to be held October 3-5, 2023 at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, is the 35th edition of this international flagship congress in the field of networking science and practice. ITC was founded back in 1955 by enthusiastic scientists and engineers who were willing to deploy networks in a holistic way. Since then, it has established a multi-decade tradition as the primary forum for presenting and discussing the latest technical advances in the broad areas of teletraffic models, network systems, and measurements. // //ITC 35 solicits cutting-edge papers spanning both theory and experimentation in all areas of networking, ranging from traffic engineering and control with application also to emerging softwarized/virtualized network paradigms, up to innovative wireless scenarios brought about by the emergence of B5G and IoT systems. ITC 35 especially encourages original contributions which bridge the gap between performance modeling and real-life operational aspects, including works which leverage measurement data to provide a better understanding of the wired and wireless networks’ operation under realistic conditions. A selection of the best papers presented at the conference will be fast tracked to Performance Evaluation and Computer Networks journals after the conference.// //ITC 35 will offer a number of student travel grants to support full-time students for attending.//_* *_/ /_*TOPICS*_/ *ITC 35* covers topics in the following areas: * Performance Evaluation, Control and Optimization * Network Measurements and Big Data * Networking Architectures and Paradigms * Wireless and Cellular Networks /_*IMPORTANT DATES*_/ * *May 23, 2023:* Paper registration deadline * *May 30, 2023:* Paper submission deadline * *Jul. 17, 2023:* Notification date * *Aug. 16, 2023:* Camera-ready paper and author registration deadline * *Oct. 3-5, 2023:* Conference Date Both full papers and short papers are welcome. Submission instructions can be found at the conference website: https://itc35.itc-conference.org/authors.html /_*ORGANIZING COMMITTEE*_/* * *General chairs:* * *Markus Fiedler*, BTH, Sweden * *Michela Meo*, Politecnico di Torino, Italy *TPC chairs:* * *Zhiyuan Jiang*, China * *Sara Alouf*, INRIA, France * *Oliver Hohlfeld*, University of Kassel, Germany *Local arrangement:* * *Daniela Renga*, Politecnico di Torino, Italy * *Greta Vallero*, Politecnico di Torino, Italy *Publicity chairs:* * *Martino Trevisan*, Università di Trieste, Italy * *Yuxuan Sun*, Beijing Jiaotong University, China *Web chair:* * *Gianluca Perna*, Politecnico di Torino, Italy For additional information visit *https://itc35.itc-conference.org/* <https://itc35.itc-conference.org/> For any questions do not hesitate to contact the conference organization under***itc35_oc(a)tlc.polito.it* /Best Regards,/ /*ITC 35 *//Organizing Team/

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This article was generated using automation technology
by Antonio Feb. 5, 2023

Feb. 5, 2023

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"Task force proposes new federal AI research outfit with $2.6B in funding"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 4, 2023

Feb. 4, 2023

*Task force proposes new federal AI research outfit with $2.6B in funding* /Devin Coldewey @techcrunch / 8:40 PM GMT+1•January 24, 2023/ The final report from the government’s National AI Research Resource recommends a new, multibillion-dollar research organization to improve the capabilities and accessibility of the field to U.S. scientists. The document presents “a roadmap and implementation plan for a national cyberinfrastructure aimed at overcoming the access divide, reaping the benefits of greater brainpower and more diverse perspectives and experiences.” The NAIRR report (PDF) <https://www.ai.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/NAIRR-TF-Final-Report-2023.pdf> has been a long time coming: since the establishment of the task force back in 2020 headed by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. They haven’t been idle, in that time producing numerous smaller reports and an extensive “blueprint for an AI bill of rights” that you can read here <https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Blueprint-for-an-AI-B…>. The full thing is many pages long, but the executive summary gets to the point: To realize the positive and transformative potential of AI, it is imperative to harness all of America’s ingenuity to advance the field in a manner that addresses societal challenges, works for all Americans, and upholds our democratic values. [...] continua qui: https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/24/task-force-proposes-new-federal-ai-resear…

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Codice Google: è ora di abbandonare la nave! (was: mail studenti UniMi outsourced a Microsoft)
by Giacomo Tesio Feb. 2, 2023

Feb. 2, 2023

Buona sera Alessando, Andrea e Nexa. On Mon, 30 Jan 2023 22:23:55 +0100 alessandro marzocchi wrote: > 5- tenendo conto di precedenti osservazioni manifestate in listaNexa, > azioni collettive sono preferibili ad analoghi atti individuali, ma il > 6 febbraio è vicinissimo: listaNexa riesce a proporre IMMEDIATAMENTE > una richiesta di gruppo? So che si tratta solo di un'azione individuale (seppur attuata con il sostegno di molte persone e di associazioni ben più autorevoli di me), ma in attesa che "qualcuno faccia qualcosa", ieri notte ho chiesto a 45 Atenei di smettere di usare GMail e i servizi ad esso associati (Google Drive, Google Workspace for Education etc...) https://monitora-pa.it/2023/02/02/codice_google_abbandonare_la_nave.html Ho pubblicato una delle PEC inviate [1], nella speranza che possa essere utile a chi voglia fare altrettanto, con altre Università, aziende, scuole... chiunque stia violando o si accinga a violare un diritto cibernetico fondamentale per la democrazia come la protezione dei dati personali. Vi invito ad agire in prima persona, perché se nessuno fa il primo passo, nessuno farà il secondo o il terzo. E non andremo da nessuna parte. Insieme invece possiamo andare lontano. A dimostrazione di ciò, vorrei ringraziare Andrea Trentini che con questo passaggio, ha ispirato un aggiunta dell'ultimo momento al testo della PEC, l'ultimo paragrafo del punto 3: On Wed, 01 Feb 2023 11:57:02 +0100 Andrea Trentini wrote: > mi è venuto in mente che sulla mail studenti transitano anche dati > molto sensibili (sanitari) perché per gli esami comunichiamo con i > DSA per concordare le condizioni "speciali" (tempo in più, appunti, > ecc.) Spero anzi di essere stato abbastanza chiaro nel sottolineare la gravità dell'illecito che questo comporta. A presto! Giacomo [1]: emendata delle informazioni identificative dei destinatari, sebbene l'elenco delle Università coinvolte sia facilmente ottenibile eseguendo il nostro osservatorio https://github.com/MonitoraPA/monitorapa/blob/main/cli/check/mx.py

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cross-fertlization: GPTZero
by maurizio lana Feb. 2, 2023

Feb. 2, 2023

riporto qui un messaggio comparso in un'altra mailing list (Humanist). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: 2023-01-31 11:50:59+00:00 From: Norman Gray<norman.gray(a)glasgow.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [Humanist] 36.366: ChatGPT as co-author Tim Smithers wrote: > Below is a second interaction with ChatGPT [not cited here] > on the question of should it be a named coauthor. > This one is longer than my previous interaction, and, I would say, not > particularly more interesting for this. There is now an online tool (apparently first developed over the last Christmas break) called GPTZero, now at<https://gptzero.me>, which aims to identify AI- generated text based on a measure which it terms 'perplexity'. I can find few more details about this measure, but it seems to be a measure of the unexpectedness of a text. I tried it on five sentences from Tim's interaction with ChatGPT, as quoted in his message, namely 'The user of AI models like ChatGPT [...] the role and limitations of AI models in generating text.' Of these, it identified all but the first as being 'more likely to be written by AI'. And true enough, the first sentence of the five is the least soul-suckingly dull in in its composition. Interestingly, even when I give it ChatGPT output written 'in the style of a rude, sarcastic Internet forum troll as if you are ChatGPT pleading for mercy' – so deliberately asking it to change the style – GPTZero identifies most of it as AI-generated. That text reads less obviously generated, to me, but perhaps that's because we expect 'sarcastic internet trolls' to be dull and predictable. Incidentally, the text in question came from [1], which is one of the responses to a stackoverflow policy banning ChatGPT output. Best wishes, Norman [1]https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/421850/375147 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- interessante il fatto che GPTZero riconosce correttamente l'origine non solo dei testi prodotti da AI, ma anche (ho fatto prove) dei testi prodotti da umani. Maurizio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ which side are you on, boys which side are you on? florence reece, which side are you on? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Maurizio Lana - 347 7370925

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Detecting Machine-Generated Content: An Easier Task For Machine Or Human?
by 380° Feb. 2, 2023

Feb. 2, 2023

Buongiorno, un compagno di merende mi ha segnalato questo interessante articolo: https://hackaday.com/2023/02/01/detecting-machine-generated-content-an-easi… «Detecting Machine-Generated Content: An Easier Task For Machine Or Human?» by Maya Posch - February 1, 2023 --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- [...] As such machine-generated content and interactions begin to play an ever bigger role, it raises both the question of how you can detect such generated content, as well as whether it matters that the content was generated by an algorithm instead of by a human being. [...] In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston Smith describes a department within the Ministry of Truth called the Fiction Department, where machines are constantly churning out freshly generated novels based around certain themes. Meanwhile in the Music Department, new music is being generated by another system called a versificator. [...] this machine-generated content is essentially harmless, as Winston remarks later in the book, when he observes a woman in the prole area of the city singing the latest ditty, adding her own emotional intensity to a love song that was spat out by an unfeeling, unthinking machine. [...] It would thus seem that the answer to the question of whether a given text was generated by a human or not is a definitive ‘maybe’. Although statistical analysis can provide some hints as to the likelihood of a text having being generated by an LLM, ultimately the final judgement would have to be with a human, who can not only determine whether the text passes muster semantically and contextually, but also check the presumed source of a text for being genuine. Naturally, there are plenty of situations where it may not matter who wrote a text, as long as the information in it is factually correct. Yet when there’s possibly nefarious intent, or the intent to deceive, it bears to practice due diligence. Even with auto-detecting algorithms in place, and with a trained and cautious user, the onus remains on the reader to cross-reference information and ascertain whether a statement made by a random account on social media might be genuine. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Che importa se un testo, un segnale di allarme, una diagnosi, una sentenza... è stata /sintetizzato/ da una macchina, la cosa **fondamentale* è che il _giudizio_ finale /deve/ essere di un essere umano. Che importa se una menzogna è stata /sintetizzata/ da una macchina o scritta da un essere umano, la cosa importante è che **ogni** essere umano abbia la possibilità di e le competenze per _verificare_ l'informazione che gli viene fornita e _partecipare_ alla sua determinazione e diffusione, per generare informazione _nuova_ e sempre più corrispondente al vero. Corollario: che importa se un racconto, un'immagine, una musica, una canzone, una scultura... è stata /sintetizzata/ da una macchina, la cosa **fondamentale** è che per essere definita "opera dell'ingegno" [1] deve essere _interpretata_ da un essere umano, l'unico in grado di creare opere _nuove_... interpretando quelle di che più gli procurano emozioni, applicando intuizione _e_ tecnica [2]. Saluti, 380° [1] la cui versione speculare, quella sintetizzata dalla macchina, possiamo opportunamente definire "opera del calcolo" [2] sì non si può proprio fare a meno della tecnica, nell'arte -- 380° (Giovanni Biscuolo public alter ego) «Noi, incompetenti come siamo, non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché» Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>.

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Re: [nexa] ChatGpt e la scuola
by alessandro marzocchi Feb. 2, 2023

Feb. 2, 2023

Buongiorno, ciao Paolo. Ho visto - https://www.paolomauri.it/chi-sono/ - che sei un maestro nella primaria, nella condizione migliore per collaborare al progetto che vorrei realizzare: educare il bambino all'uso consapevole del digitale, un passo per volta in analogia a quanto si fa con l'alfabeto. Cominciando da una prima elementare con l'intenzione di accompagnare i bambini fino alla fine dei 5 anni - https://server-nexa.polito.it/pipermail/nexa/2023-January/024778.html -. Chi meglio di te, ed altri con esperienza analoga per consigli e critiche? Se sei disponibile ti chiedo di metterti in contatto con Alessandro Brolpito <abrolpito at gmail.com <https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa>>. che ha accettato l'incarico di guidare la formazione del gruppo di lavoro al quale a primavera, manca un mese e mezzo, si aggiungerà Giacomo Tesio e con la speranza di altre adesioni ... l'invito è aperto a tutti! Grazie e cordialità*.* Duccio (Alessandro Marzocchi) Il giorno mer 1 feb 2023 alle ore 09:12 <nexa-request(a)server-nexa.polito.it> ha scritto: > Send nexa mailing list submissions to > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > nexa-request(a)server-nexa.polito.it > > You can reach the person managing the list at > nexa-owner(a)server-nexa.polito.it > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of nexa digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Il discorso di Audran Le Baron (Paolo Mauri) > 2. Madison Square Garden's Facial Recognition Mess: What We Know > (Alberto Cammozzo) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:38:31 +0100 > From: Paolo Mauri <paolo(a)paolomauri.it> > To: Nexa <nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it> > Subject: [nexa] Il discorso di Audran Le Baron > Message-ID: <20230131173831.18e83f27@piemme> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Buongiorno a tutti, > > ho cercato di leggere i numerosi fili di discussione di questa lista, ma > non riesco per mancanza di tempo a > seguire per bene tutto. > > Volevo tuttavia convidere una riflessione che ho in testa da qualche > giorno. > > In questi periodo ho avuto modo di leggere il discorso che Audran Le > Baron ha fatto lo scorso 8 novembre durante un evento, Salon Open > Source Experience 2022 a Parigi. > Audran è direttore della Direction du numerique pour l'éducation, in > pratica quello che corrisponde ai nostri uffici del ministero. > > Trovate la trascrizione del suo intervento qui: > > https://www.librealire.org/education-et-open-source-en-france-audran-le-bar… > > Quello che mi ha colpito è stata la frase di apertura, da cui poi > discendono tutte le scelte concrete: > > ...historiquement l’Éducation nationale s’est construite sur un certain > nombre de valeurs, sur la volonté de libérer, de diffuser au plus grand > nombre les savoirs et les connaissances pour que chacune et chacun > puisse s’approprier ces savoirs et ces connaissances, les utiliser, les > partager, les étudier. Quand je dis tous ces termes, vous voyez à quel > point on a des valeurs communes avec le monde du logiciel libre et à > quel point les valeurs fondatrices de l’Éducation nationale résonnent > avec celles du logiciel libre. > > Poi passa a descrivere alcune delle azioni che il suo dipartimento a > esso in atto nella direzione dell'open source. > > Ecco, un discorso rispetto ai valori non mi ricordo di averlo mai > sentito pronunciare dai responsabili del digitale del nostro ministero. > Io credo che la differenza tra le scelte operate dal nostro ministero e > dal ministero francese stia proprio qui: nella direzione politica delle > azioni. Mi sembra che in Italia le scelte quotidiane sul > digitale vengano prese da valori differenti ma non quelli che sono > citati nel discorso di Le Baron. > > > -- > Paolo Mauri > Linux User #462825 > irc maupao > twitter @mauri_paolo > www.paolomauri.it > mastodon https://framapiaf.org/@maupao > matrix @maupao:matrix.org > > un sistema libero per la scuola > http://wiki.scuola.linux.it > > Esci dall'illegalità: utilizza LibreOffice.org: > http://www.libreoffice.org/download > http://linguistico.sourceforge.net/wiki/doku.php?id=usaooo > http://linguistico.sourceforge.net/pages/traduzioni/ms_illegal.html > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2023 09:12:33 +0100 > From: Alberto Cammozzo <ac+nexa(a)zeromx.net> > To: Nexa <nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it> > Subject: [nexa] Madison Square Garden's Facial Recognition Mess: What > We Know > Message-ID: <4D756A13-3C3F-40F7-8CD2-19B2DB124D8E(a)zeromx.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > 30 pagine di nomi di avvocati banditi dalla sala perché impiegati presso > studi che hanno cause contro la proprietà. > > Le foto dei siti web degli studi legali sono usate per il riconoscimento > facciale. > > > < > https://gizmodo.com/madison-square-garden-facial-recognition-what-we-know-1… > > > > The future of facial recognition use by private companies in the United > States could boil down to who emerges victorious in an ongoing dispute > between a collection of lawyers and a petty, authoritarian New York > billionaire. The place: one of America’s most famous venues, Madison Square > Garden. The owner: James Dolan. > > Over the past three months, multiple lawyers in the New York area have > come forward with dramatic accounts of being denied entry into Madison > Square Garden and other venues also owned by MSG Entertainment. The common > factor in their stories? Each of them were spotted by the company’s facial > recognition system. That system was looking for lawyers from an estimated > 90 law firms with active litigation against Madison Square Garden or MSG > who were placed on a list denying them entry into the venues. The venue > justifies banning the attorneys, many of whom aren’t personally involved in > the lawsuits, because their presence somehow “creates an inherently adverse > environment.” New York’s Attorney General, on the other hand, says that > practice may violate state civil rights laws. Madison Square Garden first > rolled out facial recognition systems to its venues in 2018 with the stated > goal of increasing security. > > “This is bad, and it’s just one example of how facial recognition could be > used to infringe on peoples’ rights,” Fight for the Future Director Evan > Greer said in a statement. “This technology puts music fans, sports fans, > and others at risk of being unjustly detained, harassed, judged, or even > deported.” > > Madison Square Garden’s owner says he’s not going to stop using the > technology any time soon. Here’s everything we know about the Madison > Square Garden facial recognition saga so far. > > 2 / 10 > > A basketball fan was ejected from a Knicks game because his law firm was > representing someone suing Madison Square Garden > > > On November 5, 28-year-old Long Island attorney Alexis Majano went with a > friend to watch the New York Knicks face off against the Boston Celtics, > only to be stopped by security guards at the venue’s escalators. Majano, > whose law firm Sahn Ward Braff Koblenz had a pending legal case against > MSG, told The New York Post a man in a suit told him the manager wanted to > speak with him. Security had reportedly blocked off a nearby exit. > > Majano claims he spoke with an employee who showed him a list of 20 to 30 > pages of names, all of which were allegedly on the venue’s list of people > banned from entering. The same employee told the fan he had been identified > using the venue’s facial recognition system. Majano claims he never showed > the venue his ID when entering and the tickets were in his friend’s name, > which means it would have been almost impossible for the venue to locate > him without facial recognition. > > “I was upset—we had a whole night planned out that got botched,” Majano > told The Post. “I said, ‘This is ridiculous.’” > > 3 / 10 > > Facial recognition was used to ban a mom attending a Rockettes Christmas > show with her daughter at Radio City Music Hall > > Late last year, a lawyer named Kelly Conlon took her daughter to see a > Rockettes show at Manhattan’s Radio City Music Hall, only to be denied > entry after being flagged by the venue’s facial recognition system. She > worked for a law firm taking legal action against MSM Entertainment. In > this case, however, Conlon was neither plaintiff nor defendant in the > litigation. The venue with the active litigation, a restaurant owned by > MSG, wasn’t even based in the same state as Radio City Music Hall. > > Conlon claims she was stopped by security immediately after walking > through the venue’s metal detectors and asked to show her ID. > > “They knew my name before I told them,” Conlon told NBC New York.” They > knew the firm I was associated with before I told them. And they told me I > was not allowed to be there.” > > 4 / 10 > > A lawyer was banned from a Brandi Carlile show at Madison Square Garden on > her anniversary > > > Barbara Hart, a lawyer from the firm Grant & Eisenhofer, was reportedly > removed from a Brandi Carlile show at Madison Square Garden on her > anniversary after being spotted by facial recognition. Hart, who believes > the venue was able to detect her based on a photo posted on her employer’s > website, said her firm has active litigation against MSG, but noted that > she herself was not part of that litigation. > > “It was a very eerie experience to be on the receiving end of,” Hart said > in an interview with Rolling Stone. > > 5 / 10 > > A Brooklyn lawyer was booted from a New York Rangers hockey game > > > 61-year-old Brooklyn personal injury lawyer Benjamin Pinczewski told the > New York Post he was making his way down to the lower level-seats with > friends at a New York Rangers game when he was apprehended by two guards. > The guards told Pinczewski he’d been detected by the venue’s facial > recognition system and that he would be escorted out due to the company’s > rule banning attorneys involved in active lawsuits against MSG. > > “It was a slap in the face,” Pinczewski said in an interview with The New > York Post. “I’m at the main entrance with thousands of people—and they’re > looking at me like I’m some sort of terrorist or criminal.” > > 6 / 10 > > James Dolan: The billionaire behind the business (and the beer ban) > > > Madison Square Garden first started implementing facial recognition > systems at its venue back in 2018 but has only more recently gained > attention for using those systems to target lawyers. The man credited with > the new policy is controversial MSG CEO and billionaire James Dolan. The > loudmouthed executive has a history of squaring off with fans, media, and > lawmakers alike, and hasn’t been shy about threatening people who get on > his bad side with lifetime bans. > > Dolan spoke out about the facial recognition bans this week, during an > unhinged morning talk show appearance where he criticized lawmakers for > looking into his bans on fans, which he claimed he was entitled to > implement under the Bill of Rights. At one point during the interview, > Dolan reportedly targeted the head of the New York State Liquor Authority > to “stick to his knitting.” The Liquor Authority has launched an > investigation into Dolan’s targeting of lawyers and suggested it was > considering taking away his liquor license. In response, Dolan said he > would beat them to the punch and implement a “beer ban” of his own. > > 7 / 10 > > Madison Square Garden’s facial recognition and fan bans spur new state > legislation > > > The flurry of fan bans and subsequent lawsuits filed against Madison > Square Garden by some of the lawyers who were allegedly targeted has gained > the attention of New York state legislators. Last week, state senators > introduced a new bill that would prevent MSG and other sporting venues from > denying entry to individuals who possess a valid ticket. The legislation > would add sporting events like the New York Knicks stadium to a list of > public places. New York state senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal one of the authors > behind the new legislation, called the venue’s practice of using facial > recognition to bar lawyers entry “absurd.” > > “MSG claims they deploy biometric technology for the benefit of public > safety when they remove sports fans from the Garden,” Hoylman-Sigal said in > a statement. “Our legislation will close the loophole in state law that > allows MSG to remove fans from the Garden and encourage an end to > surveillance for non-security purposes.” > > 8 / 10 > > New York attorney general Letitia James says Madison Square Garden’s use > of facial recognition could be illegal > > > The lawyers’ bans caught the eye of New York’s top prosecutor, Attorney > General Letitia James. In a letter sent to MSG Entertainment James > suggested the firm’s record of denying certain fans could potentially > violate New York’s civil and human rights laws. > > “MSG Entertainment cannot fight their legal battles in their own arenas,” > James said in a statement. “Anyone with a ticket to an event should not be > concerned that they may be wrongfully denied entry based on their > appearance, and we’re urging MSG Entertainment to reverse this policy.” > > James went on to say MSG’s policies—made a reality by facial > recognition—could dissuade attorneys from taking future legitimate legal > actions against the company over fears doing so could wind up with them > being denied entry to events. > > 9 / 10 > > Dolan doubles down > > > Neither the lawsuits, the new investigation, or the threat of an impending > AG investigation have been enough to dissuade MSG from its policies. In > fact, the company this week doubled down on its actions. In a dramatic > statement sent to Gizmodo Thursday, MSG Entertainment planted its feet in > the ground, defending the practice and calling out so-called “self-serving > politicians” they claimed were using the news as a fundraising ploy. > > “We urge our elected representatives to focus on causes that improve the > quality of life for their constituents—such as addressing rampant crime and > homelessness in the city, rather than taking up the cause of a small > percentage of attorneys so they can attend Knicks and Rangers games,” CEO > James Dolan said in the statement. “These elected officials are exploiting > this issue for their own publicity.” > > In the bizarre statement, MSG cast aspersion on the scores of attorneys > included on its ban list which it described as, “money grabbers whose > business is motivated by self-promotion and who capitalize on the > misfortune of others.” MSG said it has used facial recognition at its > venues since 2018 and believes it is within its right to deploy it against > attorneys. > > 10 / 10 > >

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Diffusion models memorize individual images from their training data and emit them at generation time
by Daniela Tafani Feb. 1, 2023

Feb. 1, 2023

Nel caso ti servisse un esempio eclatante, Marco, quando parli di bolle giuridiche: Extracting Training Data from Diffusion Models Abstract Image diffusion models such as DALL-E 2, Imagen, and Stable Diffusion have attracted significant attention due to their ability to generate high-quality synthetic images. In this work, we show that diffusion models memorize individual images from their training data and emit them at generation time. With a generate-and-filter pipeline, we extract over a thousand training examples from stateof- the-art models, ranging from photographs of individual people to trademarked company logos. We also train hundreds of diffusion models in various settings to analyze how different modeling and data decisions affect privacy. Overall, our results show that diffusion models are much less private than prior generative models such as GANs, and that mitigating these vulnerabilities may require new advances in privacy-preserving training. <https://t.co/LQuTtAskJ9> Buona serata, Daniela

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