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US surveillance has gone too far, John Kerry admits

by Laboratorio Eudemonia

## US surveillance has gone too far, John Kerry admits - theguardian.com ## I humbly would remember that we have the definitive solution for all the problems caused, directly and indirectly, by the public careerists (even those constituting the NSA and FBI). We can simply dismiss them. I pray you to note that the public careerists all around the world are perpetuating the design of the ancient tyrannical societies that are based exactly on the life-long assignment of the public jobs, charges, tasks. When democracy arrived, public careerists (primarily teachers, professors, constitutional experts, philosophers, jurists, etc.) should have explain that the conquest of sovereignty by the people on their res publica required the concrete participation to its roles. On the contrary the public careerists did not want to give up their privileges and only for this reason today we continue to live in arretrated societies, in despotic Countries. Here is why I continue to pray you all to claim your fundamental right to participate to the roles of your Res Publica. Only by introducing the temporary assignment in every public employment we can achieve the Big Change. Cryptography, technology could be our passions and we could be tempted to respond in similar ways. But we cannot forget our human duties and direct responsibilities in the course of events in our Countries and globally. We must dismiss, depose, discharge all public careerists. This is the first duty of peoples who claim democracy. Many thanks, Danilo D'Antonio Democratic Public Employment http://www.hyperlinker.com/ars/

Nov. 1, 2013

Re: [nexa] Fwd: ORG News: How the UK is standing against surveillance

by Federico Guerrini

La (triste) verità è purtroppo, a mio parere che, in Italia, l'opinione pubblica, intesa come soggetto capace di dare un giudizio etico complessivo su un tema, è morta, logorata da troppi anni in cui si è cercato di giustificare tutto l'ingiustificabile. Non si riesce ad avere un dibattito serio su questioni di base,che riguardano direttamente la vita quotidiana dei cittadini, come la giustizia, l'evasione fiscale, l'immigrazione, la disoccupazione, quindi non mi sorprende più di tanto che una vicenda di cui comunque la maggior parte della gente capisce poco, e che è tutt'ora percepita come "distante", non venga presa in grande considerazione. È triste, ma è così. On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 5:45 PM, J.C. DE MARTIN <demartin(a)polito.it> wrote: > Non sbagli a dire, David, che il dibattito in Italia non è > assolutamente ampio e profondo come dovrebbe essere, > anzi, che è carente. > > Fabio Chiusi da sempre si distingue per la precisione e tempestività > con cui segue questi temi (dai tempi di Wikileaks), e alcuni altri > giornalisti/ricercatori lavorano bene, ma la media dei grandi > media è francamente demoralizzante. > > Qui negli USA, dove mi trovo per un periodo di studio, > il dibattito è molto ampio, informato e profondo. > > A proposito: sappiate che qui si dice che i leader > europei avevano autorizzato, eccome, gli USA a fare sorveglianza > di massa dei loro cittadini. > Di conseguenza comportamenti a la Merkel sono > penose sceneggiate, fatte per nascondere le proprie responsabilità. > > juan carlos > > > > > > > > On 31/10/13 7:43 AM, David Orban wrote: > > Qual è il dibattito che sta avvenendo in Italia sullo stato dei programmi > di sorveglianza nazionali? > Che livello di trasparenza c'è attorno ai lavori dei comitati di > supervisione dei servizi segreti? > Quali sono le policy nazionali, anche in vista della possibile evoluzione > della proprietà della rete strategica di Telecom Italia (se ho capito bene > dalle ultime notizie, non verrà scorporata)? > > Sono solo io distratto, oppure oltre a dichiarazioni generiche e senza > significato, non c'è niente di questo? > > David Orban > skype, twitter, linkedin, sl, etc: davidorban > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: ORG- Ruth Coustick-Deal <ruth(a)openrightsgroup.org> > Date: Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:29 PM > Subject: ORG News: How the UK is standing against surveillance > To: david(a)davidorban.com > > > Dear David Orban, here's your newsletter from the frontline of > digital rights: defending and promoting citizens' rights in the digital age > > *ORG win: First UK surveillance debate* > > Today the UK Parliament will be holding its first substantial debate<https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/ask-your-mp-to-join-the-surveilla…>on mass surveillance since the first leaks back in June. This is a big win > for ORG as MPs have heeded our calls for a debate in Parliament. > > The MPs Tom Watson and Julian Huppert from ORG's Advisory Council, as well > as Dominic Raab MP, have secured a Westminster Hall debate in Parliament > today<http://services.parliament.uk/calendar/#%21/calendar/Commons/WestminsterHal…>on 'oversight of intelligence and security services.' > > Politicians in America and Europe have held debates on oversight of > intelligence agencies, yet so far the UK Government has worried more about > whether the newspapers should have said anything at all. Now Parliament is > fulfilling its job of ensuring that intelligence agencies’ powers are > necessary and proportionate. > If you have a chance, call your MP this morning and ask them to take part > in the debate. There’s still time for you to call your MP and let them know that > this issue matters to you!<https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/phone-your-mp-will-they-turn-up-t…> > > You can watch the debate live from 1.30pm. > <http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=13973> > > *Privacy not Prism: £20k in 2 days* > > Thank you for your overwhelming support of our Privacy not PRISM > <https://www.privacynotprism.org.uk/>campaign! We crowdfunded £20k to > fund a legal challenge at the European Court of Human Rights against the UK > Government’s surveillance of our data – and hit that goal over one weekend! > > Not only did you help us raise the money in record time, but you also > proved that there is real public urgency towards stopping the mass > surveillance situation, and you *busted the myth* that the UK just > doesn’t care. > > The challenge is being jointly taken by ourselves, Big Brother Watch, > English PEN and Internet campaigner Constanze Kurz. We are demanding that > the Government be held accountable to human rights law. > > You can read more about it on the Privacy not Prism site<https://www.privacynotprism.org.uk/>, > which is still accepting donations to further support the campaign.* > * > *Whistleblowers in the digital age* * * Former GCHQ director, David > Omand, investigative journalist Heather Brooke, and Malcolm Rifkind, > Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee: just a few of those > who give opinions on Edwards Snowden and the morals of whistleblowing in our > latest video. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X9hfPT2gpA> > > The magnitude of Snowden's revelations has raised a huge debate around the > world about the balance between privacy and security, but also about > whistleblowers and their rights. The UK law protects the majority of > whistleblowers, but doesn't cover the security agencies' workers who deal > with secret information, as in Edward Snowden's case. > > [image: Still from whistleblower video of Francesca West]<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X9hfPT2gpA> > * UK Government: Both Open and Shut? * > > This Friday is the Open Government Partnership London summit. The OGP is a > project to bring people dedicated to transparency from across the world to > make governments more accountable. > > ORG will be leading a panel on transparency and surveillance<http://www.opengovpartnership.org/get-involved/london-summit-2013/agenda/se…>. > We will be calling for Government to back its basic commitment to ‘open > society' by extending that idea to surveillance. We will look at how these > issues relate and how to protect human rights while enhancing openness. > > The panel will be led by Mort Halperin (OSF) and includes Ian Brown > (Oxford Internet Institute), Jim Killock (ORG), Jacqueline Peschard > (Federal Institute for Access to Public Information, Mexico), David Banisar > (Article 19) and a representative of Brazilian government. > *Join a cryptoparty!* > > Cryptoparties are a global movement: each one is an open event to help > people protect their computer and their private data. They are aimed at > complete beginners so you don’t need any technical knowledge to come along. > We’d like to help more of these events take place so everyone can > understand how to protect themselves from surveillance. > > ORG will be speaking, taking part and helping people to run several of > these events in coming months: > > -The ORG-Manchester group will be running one of these events joint with > their local Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) branch on Saturday 7th > December, Mad Lab <http://www.meetup.com/ORG-Manchester/>. > > -At the London Crypto-Festival<https://londoncryptofestival.eventbrite.co.uk/>, > Saturday 30th November, Wendy Grossman and Ian Brown, members of our > Advisory Council will be speaking. > > -Brighton cryptofestival > <https://www.cryptoparty.in/brighton_cryptofestival>(kid-friendly!) join > the ORG-Brighton group and Lighthouse for talks, workshops and kid events > at Sunday 1st December, Lighthouse, Brighton. > We’d like to encourage you to start one going too! We’ll help you promote > it and arrange speakers and provide advice if needed. > > > Join ORG today! > > ORG have had some major victories in the last 2 months: We are small, > growing and effective. Join and become part of a movement fighting to > protect fundamental rights like privacy and free speech. > > *NOW <https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join/> is the time to join ORG<http://www.openrightsgroup.org/join> > * > > *YOU are what makes our work possible. Without support from donations we > wouldn't be able to do any of the above work.* > > * *Help us keep this work going and take on greater capacity to fight on > your behalf. > > We can't do the necessary work we do without support from digital rights > activists like yourself > > Please join here now. <https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join/> > > Thank you! > > > > This update and previous versions are now available from our website: > https://www.openrightsgroup.org/support-org/ > Find us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/openrightsgroup> > Follow us on Twitter <http://twitter.com/openrightsgroup> > [image: G+ logo] > Add us on Google+ <https://plus.google.com/116543318055985390327/posts> > * * Quick fire ORG actions > > -We responded to President Obama’s review board<https://www.openrightsgroup.org/ourwork/reports/response-to-us-surveillance…>on the scale of NSA surveillance. We responded to emphasise the need to > respect non-US people's privacy rights and to restrain untargeted, mass > surveillance. > > -We responded to the IPO's copyright in Europe consultation<https://www.openrightsgroup.org/ourwork/reports/response-to-ipo-copyright-i…>, > raising concerns about DRM, disabled access and parody. > > -We criticised the Culture Committee’s recent copyright report<https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/org-response-to-cms-committee-rep…>as one-sided and simplistic, reducing the debate to either liking the > creative industries or not. > > - We responded jointly with the Open Knowledge Foundation and Open > Corporates to an HMRC consultation on releasing the VAT Register<https://www.openrightsgroup.org/ourwork/reports/consultation-on-proposals-f…>with general support for the notion. > > -Our parliamentary and policy update is back and running. If you want to > stay up to date on all digital policy news, subscribe here.<http://lists.openrightsgroup.org/listinfo/parliamentary.monitor> > * * > ORG out and about Open Government Partnership Summit<http://www.opengovpartnership.org/get-involved/london-summit-2013>, > 1 November, 2pm > ORG will be leading and participating in a panel on open society and > surveillance. > London > > London Crypto-Festival <https://londoncryptofestival.eventbrite.co.uk/>, > Saturday 30 November 11am - 4pm > Presentations from ORG Advisory Council members Wendy Grossman and Ian > Brown. > New academic building > Goldsmiths University of London > > ORG-Sheffield <https://sheffield.openrightsgroup.org/>, Wednesday 13 > November 18:30 > All welcome! Visit their meet-up page<http://www.meetup.com/ORG-Sheffield/>to vote for the topic! > The Graduate, opposite the central library. > > TA3M activism meetup<https://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays:brighton>, > Monday 18 November > Javier Ruiz, ORG, will be speaking at this meetup about our privacy not > prism legal challenge. > Lighthouse <http://lighthouse.org.uk/contact>, 28 Kensington Street, > Brighton BN1 4AJ > > > Follow us on Twitter <http://twitter.com/openrightsgroup>| Find > us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/openrightsgroup> | Add us on > Google+ <https://plus.google.com/116543318055985390327/posts> > *Contents CC-BY-SA <http://www.openrightsgroup.org/licence> Open Rights > Group 2011 * > *Our mailing address is:* > 11 Marshalsea Road, Borough, London SE1 1EN > We need your help <http://www.openrightsgroup.org/volunteer> to fight > for your rights and to keep the web open and free. > This email was delivered to: david(a)davidorban.com; If you wish to opt > out of future emails, you can do so here<http://action.openrightsgroup.org/ea-campaign/clientcampaign.do?ea.client.i…>. | > Join ORG <http://www.openrightsgroup.org/join> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing listnexa@server-nexa.polito.ithttps://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > > > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > > -- https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fellowships/journalist-fellows/j… www.federicoguerrini.com Il mio ultimo libro: Vivere Social http://www.bol.it/libri/Vivere-social.-Manuale/Federico-Guerrini/ea97888971… -- https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fellowships/journalist-fellows/j… www.federicoguerrini.com Il mio ultimo libro: Vivere Social http://www.bol.it/libri/Vivere-social.-Manuale/Federico-Guerrini/ea97888971…

Nov. 1, 2013

Re: [nexa] Fwd: ORG News: How the UK is standing against surveillance

by J.C. DE MARTIN

Non sbagli a dire, David, che il dibattito in Italia non è assolutamente ampio e profondo come dovrebbe essere, anzi, che è carente. Fabio Chiusi da sempre si distingue per la precisione e tempestività con cui segue questi temi (dai tempi di Wikileaks), e alcuni altri giornalisti/ricercatori lavorano bene, ma la media dei grandi media è francamente demoralizzante. Qui negli USA, dove mi trovo per un periodo di studio, il dibattito è molto ampio, informato e profondo. A proposito: sappiate che qui si dice che i leader europei avevano autorizzato, eccome, gli USA a fare sorveglianza di massa dei loro cittadini. Di conseguenza comportamenti a la Merkel sono penose sceneggiate, fatte per nascondere le proprie responsabilità. juan carlos On 31/10/13 7:43 AM, David Orban wrote: > Qual è il dibattito che sta avvenendo in Italia sullo stato dei > programmi di sorveglianza nazionali? > Che livello di trasparenza c'è attorno ai lavori dei comitati di > supervisione dei servizi segreti? > Quali sono le policy nazionali, anche in vista della possibile > evoluzione della proprietà della rete strategica di Telecom Italia (se > ho capito bene dalle ultime notizie, non verrà scorporata)? > > Sono solo io distratto, oppure oltre a dichiarazioni generiche e senza > significato, non c'è niente di questo? > > David Orban > skype, twitter, linkedin, sl, etc: davidorban > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *ORG- Ruth Coustick-Deal* <ruth(a)openrightsgroup.org > <mailto:ruth@openrightsgroup.org>> > Date: Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:29 PM > Subject: ORG News: How the UK is standing against surveillance > To: david(a)davidorban.com <mailto:david@davidorban.com> > > > Dear David Orban, here's your newsletter from the frontline of digital > rights: defending and promoting citizens' rights in the digital age > > > > *ORG win: First UK surveillance debate* > > Today the UK Parliament will be holding its first substantial debate > <https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/ask-your-mp-to-join-the-surveilla…> > on mass surveillance since the first leaks back in June. This is a big > win for ORG as MPs have heeded our calls for a debate in Parliament. > > The MPs Tom Watson and Julian Huppert from ORG's Advisory Council, as > well as Dominic Raab MP, have secured a Westminster Hall debate in > Parliament today > <http://services.parliament.uk/calendar/#%21/calendar/Commons/WestminsterHal…> > on 'oversight of intelligence and security services.' > > Politicians in America and Europe have held debates on oversight of > intelligence agencies, yet so far the UK Government has worried more > about whether the newspapers should have said anything at all. Now > Parliament is fulfilling its job of ensuring that intelligence > agencies' powers are necessary and proportionate. > > If you have a chance, call your MP this morning and ask them to take > part in the debate. There's still time for you to call your MP and let > them know that this issue matters to you! > <https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/phone-your-mp-will-they-turn-up-t…> > > You can watch the debate live from 1.30pm. > <http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=13973> > > > *Privacy not Prism: £20k in 2 days* > > Thank you for your overwhelming support of our Privacy not PRISM > <https://www.privacynotprism.org.uk/>campaign! We crowdfunded £20k to > fund a legal challenge at the European Court of Human Rights against > the UK Government's surveillance of our data -- and hit that goal over > one weekend! > > Not only did you help us raise the money in record time, but you also > proved that there is real public urgency towards stopping the mass > surveillance situation, and you *busted the myth* that the UK just > doesn't care. > > The challenge is being jointly taken by ourselves, Big Brother Watch, > English PEN and Internet campaigner Constanze Kurz. We are demanding > that the Government be held accountable to human rights law. > > You can read more about it on the Privacy not Prism site > <https://www.privacynotprism.org.uk/>, which is still accepting > donations to further support the campaign.* > * > > > *Whistleblowers in the digital age* > > ** Former GCHQ director, David Omand, investigative journalist Heather > Brooke, and Malcolm Rifkind, Chairman of the Intelligence and Security > Committee: just a few of those who give opinions on Edwards Snowden > and the morals of whistleblowing in our latest video. > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X9hfPT2gpA> > > The magnitude of Snowden's revelations has raised a huge debate around > the world about the balance between privacy and security, but also > about whistleblowers and their rights. The UK law protects the > majority of whistleblowers, but doesn't cover the security agencies' > workers who deal with secret information, as in Edward Snowden's case. > > Still from whistleblower video of Francesca West > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X9hfPT2gpA> > > * > > > UK Government: Both Open and Shut? > > * > > This Friday is the Open Government Partnership London summit. The OGP > is a project to bring people dedicated to transparency from across the > world to make governments more accountable. > > ORG will be leading a panel on transparency and surveillance > <http://www.opengovpartnership.org/get-involved/london-summit-2013/agenda/se…>. > We will be calling for Government to back its basic commitment to > 'open society' by extending that idea to surveillance. We will look at > how these issues relate and how to protect human rights while > enhancing openness. > > The panel will be led by Mort Halperin (OSF) and includes Ian Brown > (Oxford Internet Institute), Jim Killock (ORG), Jacqueline Peschard > (Federal Institute for Access to Public Information, Mexico), David > Banisar (Article 19) and a representative of Brazilian government. > > > *Join a cryptoparty!* > > Cryptoparties are a global movement: each one is an open event to help > people protect their computer and their private data. They are aimed > at complete beginners so you don't need any technical knowledge to > come along. We'd like to help more of these events take place so > everyone can understand how to protect themselves from surveillance. > > ORG will be speaking, taking part and helping people to run several of > these events in coming months: > > -The ORG-Manchester group will be running one of these events joint > with their local Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) branch on > Saturday 7th December, Mad Lab <http://www.meetup.com/ORG-Manchester/>. > > -At the London Crypto-Festival > <https://londoncryptofestival.eventbrite.co.uk/>, Saturday 30th > November, Wendy Grossman and Ian Brown, members of our Advisory > Council will be speaking. > > -Brighton cryptofestival > <https://www.cryptoparty.in/brighton_cryptofestival>(kid-friendly!) > join the ORG-Brighton group and Lighthouse for talks, workshops and > kid events at Sunday 1st December, Lighthouse, Brighton. > > We'd like to encourage you to start one going too! We'll help you > promote it and arrange speakers and provide advice if needed. > > > Join ORG today! > > ORG have had some major victories in the last 2 months: We are small, > growing and effective. Join and become part of a movement fighting to > protect fundamental rights like privacy and free speech. > > *NOW <https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join/> is the time to join ORG > <http://www.openrightsgroup.org/join>* > > *YOU are what makes our work possible. Without support from donations > we wouldn't be able to do any of the above work.* > > **Help us keep this work going and take on greater capacity to fight > on your behalf. > > We can't do the necessary work we do without support from digital > rights activists like yourself > > Please join here now. <https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join/> > > Thank you! > > This update and previous versions are now available from our website: > https://www.openrightsgroup.org/support-org/ > > > > Find us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/openrightsgroup> > > Follow us on Twitter <http://twitter.com/openrightsgroup> > G+ logo > Add us on Google+ <https://plus.google.com/116543318055985390327/posts> > > ** > > > Quick fire ORG actions > > -We responded to President Obama's review board > <https://www.openrightsgroup.org/ourwork/reports/response-to-us-surveillance…> > on the scale of NSA surveillance. We responded to emphasise the need > to respect non-US people's privacy rights and to restrain untargeted, > mass surveillance. > > -We responded to the IPO's copyright in Europe consultation > <https://www.openrightsgroup.org/ourwork/reports/response-to-ipo-copyright-i…>, > raising concerns about DRM, disabled access and parody. > > -We criticised the Culture Committee's recent copyright report > <https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/org-response-to-cms-committee-rep…> > as one-sided and simplistic, reducing the debate to either liking the > creative industries or not. > > - We responded jointly with the Open Knowledge Foundation and Open > Corporates to an HMRC consultation on releasing the VAT Register > <https://www.openrightsgroup.org/ourwork/reports/consultation-on-proposals-f…> > with general support for the notion. > > -Our parliamentary and policy update is back and running. If you want > to stay up to date on all digital policy news, subscribe here. > <http://lists.openrightsgroup.org/listinfo/parliamentary.monitor> > > ** > > > ORG out and about > > Open Government Partnership Summit > <http://www.opengovpartnership.org/get-involved/london-summit-2013>, 1 > November, 2pm > ORG will be leading and participating in a panel on open society and > surveillance. > London > > London Crypto-Festival > <https://londoncryptofestival.eventbrite.co.uk/>, Saturday 30 November > 11am - 4pm > Presentations from ORG Advisory Council members Wendy Grossman and Ian > Brown. > New academic building > Goldsmiths University of London > > ORG-Sheffield <https://sheffield.openrightsgroup.org/>, Wednesday 13 > November 18:30 > All welcome! Visit their meet-up page > <http://www.meetup.com/ORG-Sheffield/> to vote for the topic! > The Graduate, opposite the central library. > > TA3M activism meetup > <https://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays:brighton>, Monday > 18 November > Javier Ruiz, ORG, will be speaking at this meetup about our privacy > not prism legal challenge. > Lighthouse <http://lighthouse.org.uk/contact>, 28 Kensington Street, > Brighton BN1 4AJ > > > Follow us on Twitter <http://twitter.com/openrightsgroup> | Find us on > Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/openrightsgroup> | Add us on Google+ > <https://plus.google.com/116543318055985390327/posts> > /Contents CC-BY-SA <http://www.openrightsgroup.org/licence> Open > Rights Group 2011 / > *Our mailing address is:* > 11 Marshalsea Road, Borough, London SE1 1EN > > We need your help <http://www.openrightsgroup.org/volunteer> to fight > for your rights and to keep the web open and free. > This email was delivered to: david(a)davidorban.com > <mailto:david@davidorban.com>; If you wish to opt out of future > emails, you can do so here > <http://action.openrightsgroup.org/ea-campaign/clientcampaign.do?ea.client.i…>. | > Join ORG <http://www.openrightsgroup.org/join> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

Nov. 1, 2013

WPost: "Tech companies urge lawmakers to reform NSA programs"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

*Tech companies urge lawmakers to reform NSA programs** * By Craig Timberg, Published: October 31 E-mail the writer Facebook, Google, Apple and three other leading technology companies on Thursday called for substantial reforms to the U.S. government's surveillance programs, which have drawn new scrutiny in the aftermath of revelations by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. The letter, sent to top members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, endorses greater transparency in surveillance programs, long a goal for tech companies that must comply with government data requests from around the world. Yet it also goes further, urging U.S. lawmakers to enact reforms that would "include substantial enhancements to privacy protections and appropriate oversight and accountability mechanisms for those programs." [...] Continua qui: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/tech-companies-urge-lawma…

Nov. 1, 2013

tablet school

by Stefano Quintarelli

Ciao a tutti se qualcuno fosse interessato a venire martedi pv alla mattina con me a Bergamo a visitare la scuola "flagship" di Impara Digitale, per vedere come funziona una scuola in cui i libri li scrivono i ragazzi, e tutto si svolge con tablet e computer nel cloud, mi mandi mail... (pochi posti, si inizia alle 9 a BG) ciao, s. -- calendar: http://doodle.com/quinta conf room: http://quinta.quivideo.it blog: http://blog.quintarelli.it bitmessage id: BM-2DC6u7NoBoBwSEzX7C8iPjJNrAmZT5s3ms

Nov. 1, 2013

Anonimato, diritti della persona e responsabilità in rete, Università Statale Milano, 11 novembre 2013

by Carlo Melzi d'Eril

Carissimi, allego il programma di un convegno che potrebbe essere di un qualche interesse. Cordialità, Carlo Melzi d’Eril avv. Carlo Melzi d'Eril ACCMS STUDIO LEGALE via Podgora 13 20122 Milano t. +39 02 54107715 f. +39 02 54114827 <mailto:carlo.melzi@accms.it> 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.

Oct. 31, 2013

Fwd: ORG News: How the UK is standing against surveillance

by David Orban

Qual è il dibattito che sta avvenendo in Italia sullo stato dei programmi di sorveglianza nazionali? Che livello di trasparenza c'è attorno ai lavori dei comitati di supervisione dei servizi segreti? Quali sono le policy nazionali, anche in vista della possibile evoluzione della proprietà della rete strategica di Telecom Italia (se ho capito bene dalle ultime notizie, non verrà scorporata)? Sono solo io distratto, oppure oltre a dichiarazioni generiche e senza significato, non c'è niente di questo? David Orban skype, twitter, linkedin, sl, etc: davidorban ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ORG- Ruth Coustick-Deal <ruth(a)openrightsgroup.org> Date: Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:29 PM Subject: ORG News: How the UK is standing against surveillance To: david(a)davidorban.com Dear David Orban, here's your newsletter from the frontline of digital rights: defending and promoting citizens' rights in the digital age *ORG win: First UK surveillance debate* Today the UK Parliament will be holding its first substantial debate<https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/ask-your-mp-to-join-the-surveilla…>on mass surveillance since the first leaks back in June. This is a big win for ORG as MPs have heeded our calls for a debate in Parliament. The MPs Tom Watson and Julian Huppert from ORG's Advisory Council, as well as Dominic Raab MP, have secured a Westminster Hall debate in Parliament today<http://services.parliament.uk/calendar/#%21/calendar/Commons/WestminsterHal…>on 'oversight of intelligence and security services.' Politicians in America and Europe have held debates on oversight of intelligence agencies, yet so far the UK Government has worried more about whether the newspapers should have said anything at all. Now Parliament is fulfilling its job of ensuring that intelligence agencies’ powers are necessary and proportionate. If you have a chance, call your MP this morning and ask them to take part in the debate. There’s still time for you to call your MP and let them know that this issue matters to you!<https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/phone-your-mp-will-they-turn-up-t…> You can watch the debate live from 1.30pm. <http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=13973> *Privacy not Prism: £20k in 2 days* Thank you for your overwhelming support of our Privacy not PRISM <https://www.privacynotprism.org.uk/>campaign! We crowdfunded £20k to fund a legal challenge at the European Court of Human Rights against the UK Government’s surveillance of our data – and hit that goal over one weekend! Not only did you help us raise the money in record time, but you also proved that there is real public urgency towards stopping the mass surveillance situation, and you *busted the myth* that the UK just doesn’t care. The challenge is being jointly taken by ourselves, Big Brother Watch, English PEN and Internet campaigner Constanze Kurz. We are demanding that the Government be held accountable to human rights law. You can read more about it on the Privacy not Prism site<https://www.privacynotprism.org.uk/>, which is still accepting donations to further support the campaign.* * *Whistleblowers in the digital age* * * Former GCHQ director, David Omand, investigative journalist Heather Brooke, and Malcolm Rifkind, Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee: just a few of those who give opinions on Edwards Snowden and the morals of whistleblowing in our latest video. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X9hfPT2gpA> The magnitude of Snowden's revelations has raised a huge debate around the world about the balance between privacy and security, but also about whistleblowers and their rights. The UK law protects the majority of whistleblowers, but doesn't cover the security agencies' workers who deal with secret information, as in Edward Snowden's case. [image: Still from whistleblower video of Francesca West]<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X9hfPT2gpA> * UK Government: Both Open and Shut? * This Friday is the Open Government Partnership London summit. The OGP is a project to bring people dedicated to transparency from across the world to make governments more accountable. ORG will be leading a panel on transparency and surveillance<http://www.opengovpartnership.org/get-involved/london-summit-2013/agenda/se…>. We will be calling for Government to back its basic commitment to ‘open society' by extending that idea to surveillance. We will look at how these issues relate and how to protect human rights while enhancing openness. The panel will be led by Mort Halperin (OSF) and includes Ian Brown (Oxford Internet Institute), Jim Killock (ORG), Jacqueline Peschard (Federal Institute for Access to Public Information, Mexico), David Banisar (Article 19) and a representative of Brazilian government. *Join a cryptoparty!* Cryptoparties are a global movement: each one is an open event to help people protect their computer and their private data. They are aimed at complete beginners so you don’t need any technical knowledge to come along. We’d like to help more of these events take place so everyone can understand how to protect themselves from surveillance. ORG will be speaking, taking part and helping people to run several of these events in coming months: -The ORG-Manchester group will be running one of these events joint with their local Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) branch on Saturday 7th December, Mad Lab <http://www.meetup.com/ORG-Manchester/>. -At the London Crypto-Festival<https://londoncryptofestival.eventbrite.co.uk/>, Saturday 30th November, Wendy Grossman and Ian Brown, members of our Advisory Council will be speaking. -Brighton cryptofestival <https://www.cryptoparty.in/brighton_cryptofestival>(kid-friendly!) join the ORG-Brighton group and Lighthouse for talks, workshops and kid events at Sunday 1st December, Lighthouse, Brighton. We’d like to encourage you to start one going too! We’ll help you promote it and arrange speakers and provide advice if needed. Join ORG today! ORG have had some major victories in the last 2 months: We are small, growing and effective. Join and become part of a movement fighting to protect fundamental rights like privacy and free speech. *NOW <https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join/> is the time to join ORG<http://www.openrightsgroup.org/join> * *YOU are what makes our work possible. Without support from donations we wouldn't be able to do any of the above work.* * *Help us keep this work going and take on greater capacity to fight on your behalf. We can't do the necessary work we do without support from digital rights activists like yourself Please join here now. <https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join/> Thank you! This update and previous versions are now available from our website: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/support-org/ Find us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/openrightsgroup> Follow us on Twitter <http://twitter.com/openrightsgroup> [image: G+ logo] Add us on Google+ <https://plus.google.com/116543318055985390327/posts> * * Quick fire ORG actions -We responded to President Obama’s review board<https://www.openrightsgroup.org/ourwork/reports/response-to-us-surveillance…>on the scale of NSA surveillance. We responded to emphasise the need to respect non-US people's privacy rights and to restrain untargeted, mass surveillance. -We responded to the IPO's copyright in Europe consultation<https://www.openrightsgroup.org/ourwork/reports/response-to-ipo-copyright-i…>, raising concerns about DRM, disabled access and parody. -We criticised the Culture Committee’s recent copyright report<https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/org-response-to-cms-committee-rep…>as one-sided and simplistic, reducing the debate to either liking the creative industries or not. - We responded jointly with the Open Knowledge Foundation and Open Corporates to an HMRC consultation on releasing the VAT Register<https://www.openrightsgroup.org/ourwork/reports/consultation-on-proposals-f…>with general support for the notion. -Our parliamentary and policy update is back and running. If you want to stay up to date on all digital policy news, subscribe here.<http://lists.openrightsgroup.org/listinfo/parliamentary.monitor> * * ORG out and about Open Government Partnership Summit<http://www.opengovpartnership.org/get-involved/london-summit-2013>, 1 November, 2pm ORG will be leading and participating in a panel on open society and surveillance. London London Crypto-Festival <https://londoncryptofestival.eventbrite.co.uk/>, Saturday 30 November 11am - 4pm Presentations from ORG Advisory Council members Wendy Grossman and Ian Brown. New academic building Goldsmiths University of London ORG-Sheffield <https://sheffield.openrightsgroup.org/>, Wednesday 13 November 18:30 All welcome! Visit their meet-up page <http://www.meetup.com/ORG-Sheffield/>to vote for the topic! The Graduate, opposite the central library. TA3M activism meetup<https://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays:brighton>, Monday 18 November Javier Ruiz, ORG, will be speaking at this meetup about our privacy not prism legal challenge. Lighthouse <http://lighthouse.org.uk/contact>, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton BN1 4AJ Follow us on Twitter <http://twitter.com/openrightsgroup> | Find us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/openrightsgroup> | Add us on Google+<https://plus.google.com/116543318055985390327/posts> *Contents CC-BY-SA <http://www.openrightsgroup.org/licence> Open Rights Group 2011 * *Our mailing address is:* 11 Marshalsea Road, Borough, London SE1 1EN We need your help <http://www.openrightsgroup.org/volunteer> to fight for your rights and to keep the web open and free. 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Oct. 31, 2013

Neubot/0.4.16.9 released

by Simone Basso

Neubot/0.4.16.9 released http://www.neubot.org/neubot-0.4.16.9 Version 0.4.16.9 is the latest generally-available stable release of Neubot, distributed for Ubuntu >= 12.04, MacOSX >= 10.6, and Windows >= XP SP3, as well as in source format. Here's what changed in less than 140 characters: new MPEG DASH test, support for tests as plugins, improved results.html, Lisp-like mini-language to generate plots, bug fixes. Install, upgrade instructions at <http://neubot.org/download>. Read on for more details. - - - This release contains 237 commits by 2 authors. The diffstat says: 177 changed files with 14,148 additions and 7,721 deletions. Here is the list of what changed: - New MPEG DASH test. - Support for tests as plugins. - Improved results.html (and /api/results). - Lisp-like mini-language to generate plots. - Use pickle to save the DASH test results. - Add (on Linux and BSD systems) the /etc/neubot/api and the /etc/neubot/users new configuration files. - Make sure that all the tests have the same command line interface and optimize the options of the most frequently used subcommands. - Adapt Neubot to the new deployment process used by Measurement Lab. - Tweak the probability that a test is run to give the priority to the DASH test. - Improved FAQ and manual page. - Removed the unmaintained code to generate an ArchLinux package. - More cleanups and bug fixes. See <http://www.neubot.org/neubot-0.4.16.9> for more details. - - - Diff since previous version here: - https://github.com/neubot/neubot/compare/0.4.15.6...0.4.16.9 Commit history here: - https://github.com/neubot/neubot/commits/0.4.16.9 Errata here: - https://github.com/neubot/neubot/wiki/errata Data here: - http://www.neubot.org/data - http://data.neubot.org/ Pubkey here: - https://github.com/neubot/neubot/blob/0.4.16.9/pubkey.pem Git repositories here: - https://github.com/neubot/neubot - https://github.com/neubot/neubot_debian - https://github.com/neubot/neubot_macos - https://github.com/neubot/neubot_win32 - https://github.com/m-lab-tools/neubot-support -- Simone Basso http://nexa.polito.it/people/sbasso

Oct. 30, 2013

NYT: "Warily, Schools Watch Students on the Internet"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

October 28, 2013 *Warily, Schools Watch Students on the Internet* By SOMINI SENGUPTA SAN FRANCISCO --- For years, a school principal's job was to make sure students were not creating a ruckus in the hallways or smoking in the bathroom. Vigilance ended at the schoolhouse gates. Now, as students complain, taunt and sometimes cry out for help on social media, educators have more opportunities to monitor students around the clock. And some schools are turning to technology to help them. Several companies offer services to filter and glean what students do on school networks; a few now offer automated tools to comb through off-campus postings for signs of danger. For school officials, this raises new questions about whether they should --- or legally can --- discipline children for their online outbursts. The problem has taken on new urgency with the case of a 12-year-old Florida girl who committed suicide after classmates relentlessly bullied her online and offline. Two girls --- ages 12 and 14 --- who the authorities contend were her chief tormentors were arrested this month after one posted a Facebook comment about her death. Educators find themselves needing to balance students' free speech rights against the dangers children can get into at school and sometimes with the law because of what they say in posts on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. Courts have started to weigh in. [...] Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/29/technology/some-schools-extend-surveillan…

Oct. 29, 2013

Ringrazio Raimondo Iemma per la sua partecipazione alla tavola rotonda al LD di Cagliari

by Giovanni Battista Gallus

Cari Amici di Nexa, Voglio ringraziare, a nome del LUG di Cagliari (il Gulch), Raimondo Iemma, che ha accolto l'invito ad intervenire in apertura della tavola rotonda organizzata nell'ambito del Linuxday a Cagliari, con la collaborazione del DIEE (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica ed Elettronica - Cagliari) e di Flosslab S.r.l., sul tema degli Open Data, tavola rotonda che è stata moderata da Giulio De Petra, ed alla quale anche io ho dato il mio modesto contributo. Il suo intervento è stato illuminante, e ha orientato in maniera decisa i lavori. Grazie tante Raimondo (anche perché ti abbiamo costretto a fare un intervento "volante" ;-) Giovanni Battista Gallus -- -- Avv. Giovanni Battista Gallus Patrocinante in Cassazione LL.M. Master of Laws - Ph.D. Via Castelvì n. 9 09129 Cagliari (Italy) e-mail gallus(a)gm-lex.eu PEC g.gallus(a)legalmail.it twitter @gbgallus tel. +390707966538 - fax +390702041360 http://www.gm-lex.eu

Oct. 29, 2013