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"US, EU sign data transfer deal to ease privacy concerns"
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 1, 2022

April 1, 2022

/"Business groups hailed the announcement, saying it will provide relief to thousands of companies, including tech giants like Google and Facebook, that faced uncertainty over their ability to send data between the U.S. and Europe, which has much stricter regulations on data privacy. Data may be related to employees or customers and users, and companies use it for all types of online advertising, purchases and communications.// // //The agreement came hours after EU officials agreed on sweeping new digital rules to rein in the power of big tech companies such as Facebook and Google."// / Dai, è di sicuro solo una coincidenza! juan carlos *US, EU sign data transfer deal to ease privacy concerns** * By KELVIN CHAN and CHRIS MEGERIAN BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and United States made a breakthrough in their yearslong battle over the privacy of data that flows across the Atlantic with a preliminary agreement Friday that paves the way for Europeans’ personal information to be stored in the U.S. President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the deal during Biden’s stop in Brussels while on a European tour amid Russia’s war in Ukraine. [...] continua qui: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-biden-technology-business-united-…

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"Les Américains pourront accéder à toutes les données personnelles des Européens" Eric Denécé
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 1, 2022

April 1, 2022

*"Les Américains pourront accéder à toutes les données personnelles des Européens" Eric Denécé* Publié le 30/03/2022 à 19:27 - Mise à jour le 31/03/2022 à 17:31 Dans cet entretien essentiel, nous avons reçu Eric Denécé, directeur du Centre français de recherche sur le renseignement, afin qu’il commente l’accord sur le transfert vers les États-Unis des données personnelles des Européens conclu lors du sommet européen du 25 mars entre la présidente de la Commission Ursula von der Leyen et le président américain Joe Biden. « C’est passé quasiment inaperçu », déplore le politologue, qui nous livre également son analyse sur la crise russo-ukrainienne. Eric Denécé commence par rappeler qu’un premier échange sur le transfert des données personnelles des citoyens en Europe vers les États-Unis avait été invalidé par la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne en juillet 2020. Celle-ci avait estimé que les garanties de sécurité en matière de traitement des données n’étaient pas respectées aux États-Unis en vertu, notamment, de la loi américaine sur le Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Par ce texte, « les Américains peuvent piocher dans les données que nous leur transmettons comme ils le veulent en utilisant l’argument de la sécurité nationale, ce qui ouvre la porte à tous les abus », alerte le politologue qui juge qu’Ursula von der Leyen a profité de la crise ukrainienne pour adopter cet accord, pourtant inéquitable. Il le rappelle : « Il n’y a pas de réciprocité des données avec les Américains. » Et d’insister sur le bénéfice que ces derniers pourront en tirer : « On sait que toutes les écoutes de la NSA faites depuis 2002 au titre de la lutte contre le terrorisme ont servi à la guerre économique et non pas à la lutte contre les attentats. » [...] continua qui: https://www.francesoir.fr/videos-lentretien-essentiel/eric-denece

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André Gorz, "L’ideologia sociale dell'automobile" (1973)
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 31, 2022

March 31, 2022

Nella mia ignoranza ho scoperto solo da poco questo articolo del 1973 di André Gorz, intitolato: "L’ideologia sociale dell'automobile": https://www.slow-news.com/lideologia-sociale-della-macchina/ Lo condivido in questa sede anche se non parla di digitale perché mi sembra metodologicamente utile quando si riflette di tecnologia (digitale incluso). Mi scuso con chi già conosce il testo. jc

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‘Globally significant’ AI Act must recognise those affected by AI, says the Ada Lovelace Institute
by Enrico Nardelli March 31, 2022

March 31, 2022

- Ada is recommending amendments to ensure that those affected by AI are recognised and empowered in the AI Act. - Centring those affected by AI, Ada recommends enshrining legal rights for complaint and collective action and giving civil society a voice within standards setting. - Ada recommends expanding and reshaping the role of risk in the Act. Risk should be based on ‘reasonably foreseeable’ purpose and extended beyond individual rights and safety, to also include systemic and environmental risks. The Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research institute based in the UK and Brussels, has today published a series of proposed amendments to the EU AI Act aimed at recognising and empowering those affected by AI, expanding and reshaping the meaning of ‘risk’ and accurately reflecting the nature of AI systems and their lifecycle. As the first comprehensive attempt in the world to regulate AI, the Act has the potential to become a global standard in the regulation of AI and serve as inspiration for other legislative initiatives around the world. Ada recommends empowering people by building ‘affected persons’ into the Act and enshrining their legal rights for complaint and collective action. The voice of civil society should also be increased by building representation for civil society organisations into the EU standards-setting process, which to date has had to tackle technical rather than societal issues. Risk forms the foundation of the AI Act, and Ada is proposing changes to both how risk is determined in the Act and to its categories of risk. The amendments recommend establishing a process for adding new types of AI to the ‘high risk’ list and assessing risk based on the ‘reasonably foreseeable purpose’ of AI systems, rather than their ‘intended purpose’. ... The policy briefing builds on an expert legal opinion commissioned by the Ada Lovelace Institute and authored by Professor Lilian Edwards, a leading academic in the field of internet law, which addresses substantial questions about AI regulation in Europe and looks towards a global standard. https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/press-release/ai-act-must-recognise-th… -- EN ===================================================================== Prof. Enrico Nardelli Direttore Laboratorio Nazionale "Informatica e Scuola" del CINI Dipartimento di Matematica - Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata" Via della Ricerca Scientifica snc - 00133 Roma tel: +39 06 7259.4204 fax: +39 06 7259.4699 mobile: +39 335 590.2331 e-mail: nardelli(a)mat.uniroma2.it online meeting: https://blue.meet.garr.it/b/enr-y7f-t0q-ont home page: http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~nardelli blog: http://link-and-think.blogspot.it/ ===================================================================== --

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Re: [nexa] Bologna: citizen wallet
by Giuseppe Attardi March 31, 2022

March 31, 2022

Una follia: la illustra bene l’episodio “Nose Dive” di Black Mirror. — Beppe > On 30 Mar 2022, at 20:24, <nexa-request(a)server-nexa.polito.it> <nexa-request(a)server-nexa.polito.it> wrote: > > From: 380° <g380(a)biscuolo.net <mailto:g380@biscuolo.net>> > To: nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it <mailto:nexa@server-nexa.polito.it> > Subject: [nexa] Bologna: citizen wallet > Message-ID: <87tubfd52t.fsf(a)xelera.eu <mailto:87tubfd52t.fsf@xelera.eu>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Buongiorno nexiane, > > https://corrieredibologna.corriere.it/bologna/politica/22_marzo_29/bologna-… <https://corrieredibologna.corriere.it/bologna/politica/22_marzo_29/bologna-…> > > Bologna, la «patente digitale» per i cittadini virtuosi: punti e > premi. E un’app con tutti i servizi > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > > L’idea è simile al meccanismo di «una raccolta punti del supermercato», > come sottolinea lo stesso assessore. «Il cittadino avrà un > riconoscimento se differenzia i rifiuti, se usa i mezzi pubblici, se > gestisce bene l’energia, se non prende sanzioni dalla municipale, se > risulta attivo con la Card cultura». Comportamenti virtuosi che > corrisponderanno a un punteggio che i bolognesi potranno poi «spendere» > in premi in via di definizione: «Scontistiche Tper, Hera, attività > culturali e così via». > > La sperimentazione dell’app dopo l’estate > > Il progetto del citizen wallet partirà in via sperimentale dopo > l’estate, ma resta il nodo della privacy e delle resistenze che potrebbe > incontrare tra i cittadini. «Ovviamente nessuno sarà costretto a > partecipare, chi vuole darà il consenso scaricando e utilizzando > un’apposita applicazione, io credo saranno in tanti ad aderire», > scommette l’assessore pentastellato, che punta ad allargare il più > possibile i vantaggi per i cittadini virtuosi: «Vogliamo fargli capire > che non sono degli “sfigati” ma che i loro comportamenti vengono > premiati». > > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Saluti, 380° > > -- > 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 <https://stallmansupport.org/>>.

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Apple, Meta gave customer data to hackers posing as law enforcement
by Giuseppe Attardi March 31, 2022

March 31, 2022

Apple and Meta Platforms provided customer data such as addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses to hackers who posed as law enforcement officials, Bloomberg reported <https://email-st.seekingalpha.com/click/27206446.33775/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxv…>. The news outlet, citing three people familiar with the situation, reported that the tech giants gave the information in the middle of last year to a fraudulent "emergency data request." These requests generally are accompanied by a search warrant or subpoena, but emergency requests do not need court orders, Bloomberg added. Snap was also the recipient of a forged request, but it is not clear if the Evan Spiegel-led company complied and responded. Apple, Snap and Meta Platforms did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Seeking Alpha, but Apple pointed Bloomberg to the law enforcement guidelines posted on its website <https://email-st.seekingalpha.com/click/27206446.33775/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYXBw…>. "If a government or law enforcement agency seeks customer data in response to an Emergency Government & Law Enforcement Information Request, a supervisor for the government or law enforcement agent who submitted the Emergency Government & Law Enforcement Information Request may be contacted and asked to confirm to Apple that the emergency request was legitimate," the guideline states. It's unclear who the hackers were, but some cybersecurity researchers have speculated that it could be a group of minors in the U.S. and U.K. and may be one of members of the Lapsus$ group that hacked Nvidia <https://email-st.seekingalpha.com/click/27206446.33775/aHR0cDovL3NlZWtpbmdh…>, Microsoft <https://email-st.seekingalpha.com/click/27206446.33775/aHR0cHM6Ly9zZWVraW5n…> and Samsung <https://email-st.seekingalpha.com/click/27206446.33775/aHR0cHM6Ly9zZWVraW5n…> in recent weeks. Bloomberg added that the information obtained by the hackers was used to carry out harassment campaigns, citing one of the people. The three people also noted that the information could have been used to commit financial fraud. It's likely that the requests were sent via hacked email domains that allowed the fraudsters access to law enforcement agencies in multiple countries and created the requests using templates. Bloomberg also reported that Discord, an instant messaging platform, was also the recipient of a fraudulent legal request and the company told the news outlet it had complied with the request. On Wednesday, Apple started allowing certain apps, including Netflix and Spotify, to allow sign-up links that point outside Apple's App Store. <https://email-st.seekingalpha.com/click/27206446.33775/aHR0cHM6Ly9zZWVraW5n…>

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Conferenza GARR - Palermo - 18-20/05/2022
by Damiano Verzulli March 30, 2022

March 30, 2022

Carissim*, ritengo che la densità e l'altezza della gran parte dei contenuti che transitano su questa lista sia di assoluto rilievo. Ritengo, altresì, che sia estremamente utile "discutere" di tali temi, meglio ancora se al di fuori della nostra "bolla". È per questo che --seppur con imperdonabile ritardo-- inviterei _TUTT*_ a sottomettere una proposta di intervento alla prossima Conferenza GARR, che si terra' --finalmente in presenza, dopo due anni!-- a Palermo, il prossimo maggio (18-20). A differenza del WorkShop GARR (che ha un taglio molto "operativo" e, tendenzialmente, un focus sugli aspetti piu' "tecnici" legati all'infrastruttura ed ai servizi GARR), la Conferenza è l'occasione per discutere di temi piu' "alti". Discutere --fra gli altri-- esattamente di quei temi che spesso alimentano questa lista. Putroppo la scadenza per la CFP è fissata al prossimo 3/4 [1]. Sono fiducioso, pero', che la stesura di una bozza di proposta (anche solo di 2500 caratteri), non dovrebbe essere compito impossibile. Un caro saluto, DV [1] https://www.eventi.garr.it/it/conf22/call-for-paper -- 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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Fidenza: Carta dell’assegnatario
by 380° March 30, 2022

March 30, 2022

Buongiorno nexiane, qui non c'è di mezzo una app o "il digitale", quindi è un po' OT... https://www.lindipendente.online/2022/03/23/il-comune-di-fidenza-introduce-… «Il Comune di Fidenza introduce la patente a punti per le case popolari» --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- [...] la “Carta dell’assegnatario”, riportante un punteggio iniziale di 50 punti. Attraverso il comportamento dei residenti il credito potrà lievitare o diminuire: nel caso in cui si esaurissero tutti i punti a disposizione, gli assegnatari sarebbero costretti a lasciare l’alloggio. [...] Tra i divieti, figurano “l’utilizzo di barbecue e griglie sul balcone” (pena la perdita di 10 punti) o l’ospitare “persone estranee al nucleo senza la preventiva autorizzazione del Comune e/o dell’Ente gestore”, comportamento che si tradurrebbe in una multa di 50 euro e nella decurtazione di 25 punti dalla “Carta dell’assegnatario”. Per quanto riguarda, invece, gli spazi comuni è vietato consumare alcolici o “distribuire cibo alle popolazioni libere di colombi e volatili in genere”, pena la perdita di 10 punti. [...] All’interno del nuovo regolamento vengono poi citati altri due modi per ottenere un punto da aggiungere al proprio credito: “sistemando un danno provocato” o partecipando alle iniziative per “imparare a vivere bene insieme”. La misura, che ha già provocato diversi malumori nella popolazione locale, segue la strada tracciata da altre amministrazioni italiane, come nel caso dei cinque Comuni del Parmense (Felino, Sala Baganza, Collecchio, Traversetolo e Montechiarugolo) che nel 2019 escogitarono il sistema degli alloggi popolari a punti [...] --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Il regolamento completo è disponibile qui: https://www.aziendacasapr.it/documents/20182/49198/RegolamentoFidenza2022/8… La "Tabella A" a pagina 38 del PDF contiene un elenco di divieti e obblighi davvero... IMPRESSIONANTE; dubito seriamente che molti di quei divieti (vietato consumare alcolici, andiamo!) resisterebbero in una causa in tribunale a seguito di sfratto per esaurimento dei punti Pare non sia niente di nuovo visto che in alcuni comuni è in vigore qualcosa di simile (ma non si sa in che termini) dal 2019, chissà come sono andate quelle esperienze. Saluti, 380° -- 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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Chris Hedges, "On Being Disappeared"
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 29, 2022

March 29, 2022

*On Being Disappeared* /The entire archive of six years of my show On Contact has been disappeared from YouTube./ Chris Hedges The entire archive of On Contact, the Emmy-nominated show I hosted for six years for RT America and RT International, has been disappeared from YouTube. Gone is the interview with Nathaniel Philbrick on his book about George Washington. Gone is the discussion with Kai Bird on his biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Gone is my exploration with Professor Sam Slote from Trinity College Dublin of James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” Gone is the show with Benjamin Moser on his biography of Susan Sontag. Gone is the show with Stephen Kinzer on his book on John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles. Gone are the interviews with the social critics Cornel West, Tariq Ali, Noam Chomsky, Gerald Horne, Wendy Brown, Paul Street, Gabriel Rockwell, Naomi Wolff and Slavoj Zizek. Gone are the interviews with the novelists Russell Banks and Salar Abdoh. Gone is the interview with Kevin Sharp, a former federal judge, on the case of Leonard Peltier. Gone are the interviews with economists David Harvey and Richard Wolff. Gone are the interviews with the combat veterans and West Point graduates Danny Sjursen and Eric Edstrom about our wars in the Middle East. Gone are the discussions with the journalists Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi. Gone are the voices of those who are being persecuted and marginalized, including the human rights attorney Steven Donziger and the political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal. None of the shows I did on mass incarceration, where I interviewed those released from our prisons, are any longer on YouTube. Gone are the shows with the cartoonists Joe Sacco and Dwayne Booth. Melted into thin air, leaving not a rack behind. I received no inquiry or notice from YouTube. I vanished. In totalitarian systems you exist, then you don’t. I suppose this was done in the name of censoring Russian propaganda, although I have a hard time seeing how a detailed discussion of “Ulysses” or the biographies of Susan Sontag and J. Robert Oppenheimer had any connection in the eyes of the most obtuse censors in Silicon Valley with Vladimir Putin. Indeed, there is not one show that dealt with Russia. I was on RT because, as a critic of US imperialism, militarism, the corporate control of the two ruling parties, and especially because I support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, I was blacklisted. I was on RT for the same reason the dissident Vaclav Havel, who I knew, was on Voice of America during the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. It was that or not be heard. Havel had no more love for the policies of Washington than I have for those of Moscow. [...] continua qui: https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/on-being-disappeared

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"Ex-Google CEO funneled money into the White House science office"
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 29, 2022

March 29, 2022

* **Ex-Google CEO funneled money into the White House science office* Eric Schmidt’s contributions raised ethical concerns, Politico reported By Nicole Wetsman Mar 28, 2022, 1:11pm EDT [...] continua qui: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/28/22999754/eric-schmidt-google-money-white…

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