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Fwd: Contemplating YouTube's Role in Society
by J.C. DE MARTIN Sept. 4, 2022

Sept. 4, 2022

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Contemplating YouTube's Role in Society Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2022 18:05:59 +0300 From: Tech Policy Press <newsletter(a)techpolicy.press> Contemplating YouTube's Role in Society View in browser <https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0yMDMyMDMyNTcyODc5NDEwNjA5JmM9bTdlOCZlPTc…> Tech Policy Press logo Top stories on Tech Policy Press Good morning! In a June report <https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0yMDMyMDMyNTcyODc5NDEwNjA5JmM9bTdlOCZlPTc…> that I helped co-author with *Paul Barrett*, Deputy Director of the NYU Stern School of Business Center for Business and Human Rights, we noted something that other observers of the major tech firms often point out about YouTube: that the massive social video-sharing platform has received disproportionately less scrutiny from journalists, social scientists, politicians, and civil society groups compared to other platforms. Legal scholar *evelyn douek* calls YouTube’s uncanny ability to escape the kind of attention that Facebook draws “magic dust <https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0yMDMyMDMyNTcyODc5NDEwNjA5JmM9bTdlOCZlPTc…>.” But there are those who do pay very close attention to the company, including journalists and researchers working hard to understand its role in the world. In this week's podcast <https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0yMDMyMDMyNTcyODc5NDEwNjA5JmM9bTdlOCZlPTc…>, you'll hear from Bloomberg journalist *Mark Bergen*. He’s the author of/Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination <https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0yMDMyMDMyNTcyODc5NDEwNjA5JmM9bTdlOCZlPTc…>/, available Tuesday from Viking. It's a business book, a history, and a contemplation of YouTube’s role in society all in one. And, read on for new research <https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0yMDMyMDMyNTcyODc5NDEwNjA5JmM9bTdlOCZlPTc…> from *NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics (CSMaP)*, that considers whether YouTube's recommendation algorithm suggested videos about election fraud to individuals already skeptical of election legitimacy in the 2020 presidential cycle in the U.S. It's the first newsletter of the month, so you can also check out the latest monthly Tech Policy roundup <https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0yMDMyMDMyNTcyODc5NDEwNjA5JmM9bTdlOCZlPTc…> from *Kennedy Patlan*, *Ake Kankirawatana*, and *Rachel Lau* at Freedman Consulting. No matter how closely you follow these issues, there is likely something you missed! Also this week, I spoke to Tech Transparency Project director *Katie Paul* about a disturbing report on the presence of white supremacists on Facebook <https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0yMDMyMDMyNTcyODc5NDEwNjA5JmM9bTdlOCZlPTc…>. And don't miss a piece from *Gretchen Peters* and *Kathleen Miles*, the co-founders of the Alliance to Counter Crime Online, about recent court rulings that suggest the tide may be turning on online child exploitation <https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0yMDMyMDMyNTcyODc5NDEwNjA5JmM9bTdlOCZlPTc…>. I hope you have a wonderful Labor Day for everyone celebrating it- and a great week no matter where you are in the world! Justin Contemplating YouTube’s Rise: A Conversation with Mark Bergen <https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0yMDMyMDMyNTcyODc5NDEwNjA5JmM9bTdlOCZlPTc…> Read more <https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0yMDMyMDMyNTcyODc5NDEwNjA5JmM9bTdlOCZlPTc…> YouTube and the ‘Big Lie’: Research Shows Cause for Concern <https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0yMDMyMDMyNTcyODc5NDEwNjA5JmM9bTdlOCZlPTc…> Read more <https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0yMDMyMDMyNTcyODc5NDEwNjA5JmM9bTdlOCZlPTc…> August 2022 U.S. Tech Policy Roundup <https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0yMDMyMDMyNTcyODc5NDEwNjA5JmM9bTdlOCZlPTc…> Read more <https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0yMDMyMDMyNTcyODc5NDEwNjA5JmM9bTdlOCZlPTc…> Facebook’s White Supremacist Problem <https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0yMDMyMDMyNTcyODc5NDEwNjA5JmM9bTdlOCZlPTc…> Read more <https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0yMDMyMDMyNTcyODc5NDEwNjA5JmM9bTdlOCZlPTc…> Rulings Suggest Tide is Turning on Online Child Exploitation <https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0yMDMyMDMyNTcyODc5NDEwNjA5JmM9bTdlOCZlPTc…> Read more <https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0yMDMyMDMyNTcyODc5NDEwNjA5JmM9bTdlOCZlPTc…> Write for us Reply now <mailto:justin@techpolicy.press> /Tech Policy Press/ hosts essays, opinion, reporting, events, a podcast, and other forms of content on the following topic areas: * *Concentrations of power:* the role and interaction of tech platforms, governments and the media, and the future of the public sphere; * *Geopolitics of technology:* how nation states approach technology in the pursuit of advantage; * *Technology and the economy:* the relationship between markets, business, and labor; * *Racism, bigotry, violence & oppression:* how tech exacerbates or solves such challenges; * *Ethics of Technology:* how technology should be viewed alongside existing democratic ethos, especially with regard to privacy, surveillance, and personal freedoms; * *Election integrity & participation:* mechanisms of democracy, problems such as disinformation, and how citizens come to consensus. We invite contributions from the community. Write to me by reply if you are interested in potentially contributing an essay or article, or have other ideas on ways we can collaborate. -/Justin Hendrix/ Visit Tech Policy Press <https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0yMDMyMDMyNTcyODc5NDEwNjA5JmM9bTdlOCZlPTc…> Tech Policy Press PO Box 90173, Austin TX 78709-0173 <tel:78709-0173> United States

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Pedofilia, in Australia multe ai giganti del web
by don Luca Peyron Sept. 2, 2022

Sept. 2, 2022

Collaborare per il bene comune Buona lettura dl https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/tecnologia/internet_social/2022/08/30/pedo… _________________________ don Luca Peyron Direttore Ufficio per la Pastorale Universitaria Arcidiocesi di Torino www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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Lombroso è tornato?
by don Luca Peyron Sept. 2, 2022

Sept. 2, 2022

Una riflessione che ho trovato interessante e che condivido volentieri Buona lettura dl https://www.innovation-exploited.com/le-allucinazioni-della-artificial-inte… _________________________ don Luca Peyron Direttore Ufficio per la Pastorale Universitaria Arcidiocesi di Torino www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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[WEBINAR GI-STS - CON PREGHIERA DI DIFFUSIONE] Accuratezza e riproducibilità in Intelligenza Artificiale: non solo questioni tecniche, ma anche filosofiche e sociali - con F. Cabitza e V. Schiaffonati - coordina M. Massink
by Diego.Latella Aug. 31, 2022

Aug. 31, 2022

[Con preghiera di diffusione] =============================== ANNUNCIO EVENTO PUBBLICO ONLINE =============================== Accuratezza e riproducibilità in Intelligenza Artificiale: non solo questioni tecniche, ma anche filosofiche e sociali Seminario online aperto al pubblico GIOVEDI 8 SETTEMBRE, 2022 alle 16.30 (CEST) (Official language: Italian) Coordina Mieke Massink (CNR-ISTI, GI-STS) 16:30 Saluti Istituzionali Antonello Provenzale (Presidente - Area della Ricerca di Pisa del CNR) 16:45 "Ogni giorno che passa attribuisco minor valore all'accuratezza" Lezioni apprese da un progettista di interazioni con sistemi AI a supporto delle decisioni (mediche) Federico Cabitza (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca; IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi) 17:15 La crisi della riproducibilità in IA e il suo impatto sul concetto di Trustworthy AI Viola Schiaffonati (Politecnico di Milano) 17:45 Discussione L'evento è organizzato dal Gruppo Interdisciplinare su Scienza, Tecnologia e Società (GI-STS) dell'Area della Ricerca di Pisa del CNR In cooperazione con Areaperta - Area della Ricerca CNR di Pisa Caffe della scienza "N. Badaloni" - Livorno Centro Interdisciplinare Scienze per La Pace dell'Università di Pisa Istituto di Biofisica del CNR Istituto di Fisiologia Clinica del CNR Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione ``A. Faedo'' del CNR La Nuova Limonaia Laboratorio Informatica e Società del CINI Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs Unione degli Scienziati Per Il Disarmo --- Per ulteriori informazioni---incluso il link per la partecipazione all'evento---si rimanda alla pagina "Events" del sito web del Gruppo Interdisciplinare su Scienza, Tecnologia e Società (GI-STS) dell'Area della Ricerca di Pisa del CNR (http://gists.pi.cnr.it) =========================== For more information---including the link for participation---please refer to the "Events" page in the web site of the Gruppo Interdisciplinare su Scienza, Tecnologia e Società (GI-STS) dell'Area della Ricerca di Pisa del CNR (http://gists.pi.cnr.it) -- Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR/ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy (http:www.isti.cnr.it [1]) FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it) CNR/GI-STS (http://gists.pi.cnr.it) https://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, fax: +390506212040 =================== I don't quite know whether it is especially computer science or its subdiscipline Artificial Intelligence that has such an enormous affection for euphemism. We speak so spectacularly and so readily of computer systems that understand, that see, decide, make judgments, and so on, without ourselves recognizing our own superficiality and immeasurable naivete with respect to these concepts. And, in the process of so speaking, we anesthetise our ability to evaluate the quality of our work and, what is more important, to identify and become conscious of its end use. […] One can't escape this state without asking, again and again: "What do I actually do? What is the final application and use of the products of my work?" and ultimately, "am I content or ashamed to have contributed to this use?" -- Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum ["Not without us", ACM SIGCAS 16(2-3) 2--7 - Aug. 1986] Links: ------ [1] http://www.isti.cnr.it

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Firenze: capitale mondiale delle "mappe libere" ... per tre giorni
by Damiano Verzulli Aug. 30, 2022

Aug. 30, 2022

Scopro per caso che oggi, domani e dopodomani, Firenze ospita "State of the Map 2022" [1] l'evento annuale per i "mappatori" (liberi) e gli utenti di OpenStreetMap. Quello delle mappe è --iMHO-- un tema sottovalutato: dopo la de-googlizzazione del mio smartphone, OpenStreetMap è l'unica fonte di informazioni che posso utilizzare, nello specifico attraverso l'app OsmAnd. È fondamentale, quindi, che il relativo ecosistema sia "vivo" e continui a crescere. Mi ha fatto piacere leggere nel programma [2] diversi titoli che evidenziano chiaramente diversi utilizzi delle mappe, resi possibili soltanto perché il layer sottostante "è libero" e --aggiungo-- avulso dalle logiche di mercato. Tra gli interventi mi ha colpito quello dal titolo: "OpenStreetMap in schools: The case study of Bari" [3] ==================== Ferdinando Traversa Rosa Colacicco (Wikimedia Italy, YouthMappers@UniBA) OpenStreetMap has proven to be a really interesting and valuable classroom instrument. Making students work with OSM allows them to develop the soft skills entailed in cooperation, to interact with something bigger than their class or school and to give their contribution for the sake of the collectivity. In this particular experienced, we worked on the local area of Bari with a class with 17 female students of a "Liceo Economico-Sociale", a school not particularly engaged in the STEM field. Thus, we also wanted to help them get more confident with the STEM field, which desperately need more diversity. Furthermore, focus has been on accessibility. ===================== Tempo fa, su questa lista, qualcuno provo' a sensibilizzare gli accademici a coinvolgere i propri studenti nelle dinamiche F/OSS, anche stimolando lo sviluppo di tesi di laurea in tal senso. Non mi pare abbia avuto seguito... e a Firenze, non mi pare di vedere nel programma degli interventi di Universita' (non solo Italiane....). Complimenti ai docenti della scuola di Bari, quindi. Ritengo che la loro sia stata una iniziativa super-lodevole, che mi piacerebbe venisse estesa in qualche modo anche a livello universitario, in qualche Ateneo. Un saluto, DV P.S.: in ogni caso, complimenti anche a UniFirenze perché gia' solo aver messo a disposizione una delle sue location, è gia' tanto... [1] https://2022.stateofthemap.org/ [2] https://2022.stateofthemap.org/programme/ [3] https://2022.stateofthemap.org/sessions/GCLYZE/ -- Damiano Verzulli e-mail: damiano(a)verzulli.it --- possible?ok:while(!possible){open_mindedness++} --- "...I realized that free software would not generate the kind of income that was needed. Maybe in USA or Europe, you may be able to get a well paying job as a free software developer, but not here [in Africa]..." -- Guido Sohne - 1973-2008 http://ole.kenic.or.ke/pipermail/skunkworks/2008-April/005989.html

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"No Take-Backs: Moderna’s Attempt to Renege on its Vaccine Patent Pledge"
by Maurizio Borghi Aug. 30, 2022

Aug. 30, 2022

Segnalo un contributo, molto ben argomentato (a mio parere), sulla recente causa intentata da Moderna contro Pfizer e BioNTech. Il tema riguarda il valore legale di dichiarazioni con cui un titolare di brevetto si impegna pubblicamente a non far valere il proprio titolo legale (con importanti ricadute sulle "licenze pubbliche" piu' in generale). *No Take-Backs: Moderna’s Attempt to Renege on its Vaccine Patent Pledge* August 29, 2022 By Jorge L. Contreras On October 8, 2020, Moderna, the maker of one of the first mRNA-based vaccines for COVID-19 and the recipient of billions of dollars of U.S. government funding, announced that it felt “a special obligation … to use our resources to bring this pandemic to an end as quickly as possible.” As a result, it publicly promised that “while the pandemic continues, Moderna will not enforce our COVID-19 related patents against those making vaccines intended to combat the pandemic.” Moderna broke that promise on August 26, 2022, when it sued Pfizer and BioNTech, the producers of a competing mRNA vaccine, for patent infringement in the U.S. and Germany. This post explains why Moderna’s lawsuits should fail given its irrevocable and continuing nonenforcement pledge. [...] Continua qui: https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/08/29/no-take-backs-modernas-a… -- *______________* *Maurizio Borghi*

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"How One Spook-Run London College Department is Training the World’s Social Media Managers"
by Maurizio Borghi Aug. 30, 2022

Aug. 30, 2022

Un articolo interessante sulle "revolving doors" tra poteri militari e Big Tech, e il ruolo determinante di un'universita' (pubblica)... *How One Spook-Run London College Department is Training the World’s Social Media Managers* By Alan MacLeod / MintPress News August 25, 2022 Staffed by NATO military officers and former government ministers and notorious for training the West’s top spies, the Department of War Studies at King’s College London is also providing the workforce for many of the largest social media companies. This includes Facebook, TikTok, Google, and Twitter. [...] Continua qui: https://scheerpost.com/2022/08/25/how-one-spook-run-london-college-departme… -- *______________* *Maurizio Borghi*

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Facebook agrees to settle Cambridge Analytica data privacy lawsuit | Facebook | The Guardian
by Alberto Cammozzo Aug. 29, 2022

Aug. 29, 2022

<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/26/facebook-cambridge-analy…> Meta’s Facebook has in principle agreed to settle a lawsuit in the San Francisco federal court seeking damages for letting third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, access the private data of users, a court filing showed. The financial terms were not disclosed in the filing on Friday that asked the judge to put the class-action suit on hold for 60 days until the lawyers for both plaintiffs and Facebook finalize a written settlement. The four-year-old lawsuit alleged that Facebook violated consumer privacy laws by sharing personal data of users with third parties such as the now-defunct British political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. Facebook has said its privacy practices are consistent with its disclosures and “do not support any legal claims”. Facebook and its lawyers from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher did not immediately respond to a request for more details regarding the settlement. Of the two law firms representing the plaintiffs, Keller Rohrback did not comment while Bleichmar Fonti & Auld declined to comment.

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Socialite who charmed Nato staff in Naples was Russian spy, say investigators | Espionage | The Guardian
by Alberto Cammozzo Aug. 29, 2022

Aug. 29, 2022

Database leaks e riconoscimento facciale come strumenti di controspionaggio. <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/26/socialite-who-charmed-nato-st…> A team of investigators claim to have unmasked a deep-cover spy from Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, who spent a decade posing as a Latin American jewellery designer and partied with Nato staff based in Naples. The investigators say the woman went by the name of Maria Adela Kuhfeldt Rivera, and told people she met that she was the child of a German father and Peruvian mother, born in the city of Callao, Peru. In fact, she was a career GRU officer from Russia, according to research by Bellingcat in partnership with a number of media outlets including La Repubblica in Italy and Der Spiegel in Germany, and shared with the Guardian before publication. “Rivera” was what the intelligence community call an illegal, a deep-cover agent trained to pose as a foreigner. Moscow’s intelligence agencies have used illegals since the early Soviet period. Sometimes, they stay living in their fake identities for decades. Posing as “Rivera”, the illegal moved between Rome, Malta and Paris, eventually settling in Naples, home of Nato’s Allied Joint Force Command, around 2013. She set up a jewellery boutique called Serein and led an active social life. Her acquaintances said that by taking on the role of secretary at the Naples branch of the international Lions Club, she was able to befriend many Nato staff and other affiliates. One Nato employee told the investigators that he had a brief romantic relationship with “Rivera”. Traditionally, illegals have been extremely hard for counterintelligence agencies to find, but in a world of biometric data, facial recognition software and open source investigation possibilities, it has become harder for Russia to keep its illegals below the radar. Christo Grozev, Bellingcat’s CEO and lead investigator, said in an interview that he had first found the trail of a possible GRU illegal when he was looking at a leaked database of border crossings logged by Belarusian border guards and provided by a group of hackers in opposition to the regime of Alexander Lukashenko. Grozev searched for Russian passport numbers in ranges known to have been used by GRU operatives, and found numerous hits. Most had Russian names, but one stood out: Maria Adela Kuhfeldt Rivera. Looking more closely at “Rivera”, Grozev found that she travelled on several Russian passports with serial numbers in a range used by other known GRU operatives, including an officer who had been indicted for the alleged novichok poisoning of the Bulgarian arms dealer Emilian Gebrev, and another GRU officer reportedly involved in the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury in 2018. He also discovered that on 15 September 2018, “Rivera” bought a ticket from Naples to Moscow. The previous day, Bellingcat and its Russian investigative partner, the Insider, published an article on the two Salisbury poisoners, who travelled under the cover identities Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov, noting irregularities in their passport data suggesting they had security services links. It seems “Rivera” was withdrawn by her bosses, who feared that other operatives with similar passport numbers could be compromised. She does not appear to have left Russia again. Two months after her sudden departure from Naples, she posted a Facebook status in Italian, apparently as a way of explaining her disappearance and silence. “It’s the truth I must finally reveal … Hair is growing now after chemo, very short but it’s there. I miss everything, but I’m trying to breathe,” she wrote. Some GRU illegals only travel abroad for quick, short-term missions and change identities regularly, while others like “Rivera” spend years inhabiting the same cover identity. In June, the Netherlands deported a man arriving on a Brazilian passport in the name of Viktor Muller Ferreira, accusing him of being a Russian illegal named Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov. He had apparently spent a decade preparing his identity, including stints studying in Ireland and the US, and was suspected of trying to infiltrate the international criminal court in The Hague. The unusual thing about “Rivera” is that she travelled on a Russian passport, when usually illegals disguise their links to Russia or the Soviet Union. It seems that an earlier attempt to pass off “Rivera” as a Peruvian citizen failed: an official Peruvian document from 2006 notes that her application for citizenship was rejected as fraudulent. Apparently, unfazed by the setback, the GRU then relaunched the “Kuhfeldt Rivera” identity with a Russian passport. This was a strange decision, but it is possible she had already made valuable contacts under that identity and did not want to lose them. Numerous people who had met “Kuhfeldt Rivera” said she told them her Peruvian mother had taken her to the Soviet Union in 1980 and left her there. She had apparently tried various routes to gain a western European passport over the years. Bellingcat said it had identified the real Russian woman behind the fake “Rivera” persona, based on information and photo matching from various databases and open source research. She did not reply to requests for comment from the Guardian.

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Monitora PA: Speciale Elezione 2022
by Giacomo Tesio Aug. 29, 2022

Aug. 29, 2022

Salve Nexa, giacché se ne parlava proprio in questi giorni, vi segnalo che abbiamo appena pubblicato il nostro "speciale elezioni", dopo aver chiesto a 60 partiti politici di interrompere i trasferimenti transfrontalieri di dati personali, avviati sistematicamente dai propri siti web. Dati personali estremamente sensibili, come sono le opinioni politiche. Dati personali trasferiti spesso ancora prima che il visitatore del sito esprima una qualche forma di consenso. Trasferimenti che gettano un ombra sulle imminenti elezioni. Chiunque vinca. Se qualcuno vincerà. Comunque trovate tutto sul sito di Monitora PA: nei prossimi giorni pubblicheremo anche eventuali risposte che i partiti dovessero inviarci https://monitora-pa.it/2022/08/28/Speciale_Elezioni_2022.html A presto! Giacomo

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