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Google faces €25bn lawsuit in UK and EU over digital advertising
by Alberto Cammozzo Sept. 13, 2022

Sept. 13, 2022

Se le cifre sono corrette e le stime attendibili, parliamo del 10% del ricavo globale annuo di G. del 2021. Un importo non simbolico: vediamo come si sviluppa. <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/13/google-lawsuit-uk-eu-dig…> Google faces a €25bn (£21.6bn) lawsuit in the UK and EU that accuses the tech firm of anticompetitive conduct in the digital advertising market. The company, which is a key player in the online ad market as well as being a dominant force in search, is accused of abusing its power in the ad tech market, which coordinates the sale of online advertising space between publishers and advertisers. “Publishers, including local and national news media who play a vital role in our society, have long been harmed by Google’s anticompetitive conduct,” said Damien Geradin, of the Belgian law firm Geradin Partners which is involved in the EU case. “It is time that Google owns up to its responsibilities and pays back the damages it has caused to this important industry. That is why today we are announcing these actions across two jurisdictions to obtain compensation for EU and UK publishers.” The UK law firm Humphries Kerstetter is planning to bring a case to the Competition Appeal Tribunal over the next month, although the process could take years to reach a conclusion. The UK competition watchdog is also investigating Google’s power in the digital advertising technology market. Toby Starr, a partner at Humphries Kerstetter, said the claim, which aims to recover advertising revenue lost due to Google’s allegedly anticompetitive behaviour over a period of years, would not just be aimed at benefiting news sites. “This important claim will represent a class of victims of Google’s anti-competitive conduct in ad tech who have collectively lost an estimated £7bn. This includes news websites up and down the country with large daily readerships as well as the thousands of small business owners who depend on advertising revenue – be it from their fishing website, food blog, football fanzine or other online content they have spent time creating and publishing.” The UK claim will be “opt out”, meaning that affected parties will be automatically treated as part of the claim, while the EU claim will be lodged in the Netherlands will be “opt in”, meaning would-be claimants need to apply to join the suit. Starr said he expected “many thousands” of parties in the UK to be part of the claim. The combined suits are seeking total compensation that, according to estimates from legal representatives, could reach €25bn. The suits are being financed by litigation firms in the UK and the Netherlands, which take a cut of any proceeds from a successful case. Contacted for comment, Google referred the Guardian to its statement on the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigation, which said: “Advertising tools from Google and many competitors help websites and apps fund their content, and help businesses of all sizes effectively reach their customers. Google’s tools alone have supported an estimated £55bn in economic activity for more than 700,000 businesses in the UK and when publishers choose to use our advertising services, they keep the majority of revenue. We will continue to work with the CMA to answer their questions and share the details on how our systems work.

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Memento | 154° Mercoledì di Nexa | 14 Settembre 2022, ore 17.00
by Nexa Media Sept. 12, 2022

Sept. 12, 2022

Gentilissimi, vi ricordiamo che *mercoledì 14 settembre*, *dalle ore 17.00 alle ore 19.00*, si terrà il *154° Mercoledì di Nexa*, con la presentazione del libro "La politica dei dati. Il governo delle nuove tecnologie tra diritto, economia e società" <https://www.mimesisedizioni.it/libro/9788857590349>, secondo volume della collana /Tecnologie emergenti e diritto/ (Mimesis Edizioni) diretta da Eleonora Bassi e Ugo Pagallo. L'incontro sarà presentato da *Eleonora Bassi* (Fellow del Centro Nexa e Fellow dell'Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo), con la partecipazione dei *curatori e autori del volume*. _*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). QUI <https://nexa.polito.it/contatti> maggiori informazioni su come raggiungerci. *STANZA VIRTUALE* dell'incontro: https://didattica.polito.it/VClass/NexaEvent Di seguito maggiori informazioni sull'evento: https://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-154 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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Surveillance Has Become a Way of Life
by maurizio lana Sept. 12, 2022

Sept. 12, 2022

sulla riduzione /scomparsa negli USA degli spazi pubblici come spazi di libertà di movimento non controllato /20 Years After 9/11, Surveillance Has Become a Way of Life/ https://www.wired.com/story/20-years-after-911-surveillance-has-become-a-wa… "In the aftermath of the attacks of 9/11, we heard patriotic platitudes from those who promised to “defend democracy.” But in the ensuing years, their defense became democracy’s greatest threat, reconstructing cities as security spaces. ... Recent years have brought unprecedented pushback against the post-9/11 surveillance state, as cities across the country seek to reassert civilian control over every aspect of policing, including surveillance. Here, in New York, this led to last year’s passage of the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology (POST) Act, the first surveillance reforms in a generation. The POST Act may have only been a modest first step toward transparency, but it’s already paying dividends, as with last month’s revelations of a $159 million slush fund. This may be the inflection point when we realize just how walled-off we’ve become, and begin dismantling the systems that track and segregate us." di fronte ad una libidine del peggio a cui spesso è difficile sottrarsi, questo articolo ha un piglio differente perché alla descrizione associa l'argomentazione. Maurizio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ apriti cielo per chi non ha bandiera per chi non ha preghiera per chi cammina dondolando nella sera mannarino, apriti cielo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Maurizio Lana - 347 7370925

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GAO - Cybersecurity: Kick-Starting the Office of the National Cyber Director
by Diego.Latella Sept. 12, 2022

Sept. 12, 2022

GAO - Cybersecurity: Kick-Starting the Office of the National Cyber Director https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-105502?utm_campaign=usgao_email&utm_con… D -- 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 =================== The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than compulsion; if in the process we learn how to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task. Above all, remember your humanity. -- Sir Joseph Rotblat Links: ------ [1] http://www.isti.cnr.it

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accesso a pubblicazioni e dati scientifici - US President
by Giuseppe Attardi Sept. 9, 2022

Sept. 9, 2022

Il presidente degli USA ha stabilito che entro il 2025 tutte le pubblicazioni finanziate con fondi pubblici siano rese pubblicamente disponibili gratuitamente e i dati scientifici utilizzati in quelle pubblicazioni siano resi disponibili e accessibili gratuitamente contemporaneamente alla pubblicazione. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-2022-OSTP-Public-A… — Beppe

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Facebook Engineers: We Have No Idea Where We Keep All Your Personal Data
by Giacomo Tesio Sept. 7, 2022

Sept. 7, 2022

In March, two veteran Facebook engineers found themselves grilled about the company’s sprawling data collection operations in a hearing for the ongoing lawsuit over the mishandling of private user information stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The hearing, a transcript of which was recently unsealed, was aimed at resolving one crucial issue: What information, precisely, does Facebook store about us, and where is it? The engineers’ response will come as little relief to those concerned with the company’s stewardship of billions of digitized lives: They don’t know. [...] “I don’t believe there’s a single person that exists who could answer that question,” replied Eugene Zarashaw, a Facebook engineering director. “It would take a significant team effort to even be able to answer that question.” [...] The remarks in the hearing echo those found in an internal document leaked to Motherboard earlier this year detailing how the internal engineering dysfunction at Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, makes compliance with data privacy laws an impossibility. “We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data, and thus we can’t confidently make controlled policy changes or external commitments such as ‘we will not use X data for Y purpose,’” the 2021 document read. [...] https://theintercept.com/2022/09/07/facebook-personal-data-no-accountabilit… Personalmente sono convinto che giochino la carta del fare gli idioti per non pagare pegno, ma di buono c'è che dopo dichiarazioni come queste, nessun DPO potrà sostenere che l'uso dei servizi di Facebook fornisca "adeguate garanzie di protezione dei dati personali". In altri termini, tutti i Titolari che usano i servizi di Facebook sono responsabili di aver violato come minimo l'articolo 28 del GDPR. Voglio proprio vedere cosa si inventeranno questa volta... :-) Giacomo

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VK Baden-Württemberg - 1 VK 23/22
by Giacomo Tesio Sept. 7, 2022

Sept. 7, 2022

The Procurement Chamber of Baden-Württemberg held that a company had to be excluded from a public procurement procedure, as its offer violated the GDPR. This is because compliance with data protection law was a requirement of the tender. The Chamber held that the offer contained an unlawful transfer of customer data to a third country (their parent company located in the U.S.), as it could be accessed by the parent company. https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=VK_Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg_-_1_VK_23/22 Giacomo

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[REMINDER] [WEBINAR GI-STS] 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 Sept. 7, 2022

Sept. 7, 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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Fa inversione a U con il suo suv sulla A1 per seguire il navigatore
by don Luca Peyron Sept. 6, 2022

Sept. 6, 2022

Cronaca, ma che fa pensare Buona lettura dl https://notizie.virgilio.it/fa-inversione-a-u-con-suv-sulla-a1-per-seguire-… _________________________ 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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‘I didn’t want it anywhere near me’: how the Apple AirTag became a gift to stalkers | Apple | The Guardian
by Alberto Cammozzo Sept. 5, 2022

Sept. 5, 2022

<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/05/i-didnt-want-it-anywhere…> n March this year, Laura (not her real name) was in her car when a notification showed up on her phone, alerting her that an Apple AirTag had been detected nearby. “I didn’t know what it was or what it meant. I felt quite panicky,” she says. “I pulled over and still didn’t know what I was looking at. My phone was showing a map of where I was with a trail of red dots indicating the route I’d just followed. I think I was in shock. I drove straight to a friend’s house and we searched the car.” They emptied the glove compartment, opened the bonnet, checked underneath it and then behind the number plate. “Eventually we found it under the carpet in the back – a tiny gadget the size of a 10-pence piece. I didn’t want it anywhere near me.” To Laura, it was obvious how it got there. She had recently separated from her partner, but he had spent the previous day with their young son – and had transferred his child seat from his car to the back seat of Laura’s when he had dropped him back. The AirTag was launched in April last year – a wireless, Bluetooth device designed to keep track of items such as keys, purses, cars or anything else at risk of being lost or stolen. But it has also been a gift to stalkers. “We’re finding it’s quite an issue,” says Violet Alvarez from the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, which supports stalking victims. “It’s so small, it’s unnoticeable and very user-friendly. It doesn’t require any technical skill whatsoever and it is relatively cheap to buy [from £29].” AirTags are also widely available. While a mind-boggling range of spyware is available on eBay or Amazon, the Apple brand is ubiquitous, part of everyday life. “I saw AirTags for sale in my local supermarket,” says Emma Pickering, senior operations manager for tech abuse at the domestic abuse charity Refuge. “People see them, think about tracking more, and the concept of tracking becomes more established. We’re normalising it.” Both Refuge and the Suzy Lamplugh Trust have been contacted by women like Laura, who have received AirTag notifications on their phones. Some went on to find the devices planted in children’s backpacks by ex-partners. Others had been slipped into the women’s pockets or handbags. In one case, the AirTag couldn’t be located at all. The Refuge team talked the caller through how to disable it, but she still doesn’t know where it is hidden. This month at Swansea crown court, Christopher Paul Trotman, 41, pleaded guilty to stalking his ex-girlfriend by gluing an AirTag under her car bumper. Although she had received notifications about the device on her phone, she had no idea what they meant and initially ignored them. It was only when her daughter also began getting notifications that the tag was found. In most cases seen by Refuge and the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, the victims have a clear idea of who planted the device – usually current or former partners – but this is not always the case. In June, the Irish actor Hannah Rose May tweeted a warning after an AirTag was planted on her person during an after-hours event at Disneyland, California. She was in the car park at 2am, about to drive home, when she received a notification that someone had been tracking her for two hours. Sports Illustrated model Brook Nader shared a similar experience on Instagram. Someone slipped an AirTag into her coat pocket when she was in a New York restaurant. Four hours later, in what she described as “the scariest moment ever”, Nader was walking home alone when she received a notification that she was being tracked. Apple has stressed that the company takes the issue of stalking very seriously, which is why it designed the alert system that appears on your iPhone if an AirTag not registered to you is seen moving with you over time. It adds that it works with police when there have been incidents, and stresses that misuse of AirTags is rare. That alert system only works if the stalking victim has an iPhone, however. So in December 2021, eight months after AirTags were launched, Apple released Tracker Detect, an app that will alert you on an Android device – so long as you’re sufficiently informed and far-sighted to install the app and keep it active. The AirTag also emits a warning chime after a while to alert anyone close by of its presence. Initially the chime sounded after three days, but subsequently this was shortened to a random time between eight and 24 hours. Apple has been working to make the chime louder – it can be especially difficult to hear on a busy street or when hidden under a car – and to make the AirTag easier to find after you have received an alert. The approach is: ‘Launch it, monetise it and we can solve problems later. That doesn’t happen in any other industry To Rory Innes, founder of the Cyber Helpline, these safety updates serve to illustrate the problem. “The approach is: ‘Launch it, get it into the world, get it to market, monetise it and we can solve problems later,’” he says. “That doesn’t happen in any other industry. You don’t launch a car and fix the seatbelts months down the line – and that’s because there are strict laws and regulations, safety standards and testing. That just doesn’t exist in tech – and it’s a real gap. “All these features need to be designed into the product pre-release,” he says. “I’ve sat in rooms with social media companies and software developers and their security concerns are always around hackers and encryption. They focus on protecting company servers and databases or protecting consumers from cyber-viruses. But what about when the threat is from someone inside the house? There’s a total lack of understanding when it comes to domestic abuse and stalking, and how individuals become victims.” Another issue is the lack of support when it happens. “If you find an AirTag under your car or you get a notification, it’s impossible to speak to anyone at Apple,” says Innes. “At that point, speed is important. You need expert advice very quickly.” There are complex risk assessments to be made, depending on where you are and who you think the perpetrator might be. A study of female homicides as a result of male violence found stalking behaviour in 94% of cases and surveillance activity in 63%. Disabling access on an AirTag notifies the stalker that you know what they are doing. A stalker who is losing control might escalate their behaviour. Some women might be tempted to confront someone they suspect of planting the device. Any reaction has potential dangers attached, warns Innes: “Apple just don’t offer enough support, and that is about profit.” Apple declined an interview, but did point out that the company has a 24-hour support line. It added that the AirTag support website advises anyone who feels they might be at risk to go to a public location and contact the authorities, who can work with Apple to request information related to the item. The UK government’s online safety bill (currently at the report stage in the House of Commons) offers little help here. “There’s a lot of focus on removing harmful content, which is a lot better than nothing, but what it doesn’t cover in any way is the design of products and the support offered when they are used maliciously,” says Innes. He advises victims to contact the police – every AirTag has a unique serial number that should identify the purchaser through their Apple ID – though the Suzy Lamplugh Trust has heard of cases of the police failing to take this issue seriously enough. Laura had never seen her partner as abusive during their relationship, but when they separated, his tech-abuse went beyond an AirTag. “I’m a dinosaur; he loved fancy new gadgets, and when we were together, he bought the technology,” she says. “He set up her computer passwords, she says, and when they separated he locked her out of her machine. “I was actually in the car on the way to getting it fixed when I got the AirTag alert. “He also put some kind of tag on my keys – he said it was so we wouldn’t lose them – but it meant he knew where I was at all times. He had security cameras on the house, which he viewed on his phone. One night after we had separated, I got in at 11.30 at night, and as I was walking upstairs, loud music started blaring out of the boombox. He had watched me come in on his phone and activated the sound system remotely. I was running around the house unplugging everything. By then I didn’t want to stay at home any more. I felt like I was going crazy.” Laura now has a stalking protection order for five years. Though her ex was originally charged with stalking, this was later downgraded to a public order offence. He claimed that the AirTag must have fallen out his pocket and it was impossible to prove otherwise. Laura says she is still processing it all. “On a bad day, I get this feeling of panic, I have to switch my phone off and do nothing,” she says. “The stuff he has done is so unbelievable – it’s not normal behaviour and yet he seemed such a normal person. That’s what puts me on edge.”

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