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I built a life on oversharing – until I saw its costs, and learned the quiet thrill of privacy | Moya Lothian-McLean | The Guardian
by Alberto Cammozzo May 5, 2022

May 5, 2022

I have grown up in a generation that overshares in order to be heard. Only through the slow, gruelling process of learning to be private am I really beginning to listen to myself. <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/02/life-oversharing-cost…> I’m part of a generation used to living their life in full view – our collective adolescence measured in a succession of messaging apps and social networks. Each of them encouraged increasing levels of openness and entrenched the message: sharing prompts caring or, better yet, attention. For much of my life, almost everything became fodder to be shared online. Funny texts from friends, videos of strangers on the street, stray thoughts about sexual proclivities. Privacy, both mine and that of the people I came into contact with, was a mythical concept. If I had experienced something, surely that made it my anecdote, to do with as I pleased? This approach caused problems. A man I was dating texted me to ask if a particular rant about bad communicators was about him (yes). A colleague warned me about sharing pictures in my underwear, prompting a furious reaction. Family fractures resulted from drunk tweets. But why, I would think defiantly, should I censor myself? Over the past two years, though, something has changed: I’ve started to properly pull back, prompted by the ongoing presence in my life of someone I love very deeply, whose attitude to privacy is the antithesis of mine. I had learned to see sharing as widely as possible as an act of pride. To me, posting a candid photograph to 10,000 followers was akin to loudly claiming my beloved for the world to see. He took a different view: attention from faceless avatars meant nothing to him. Why, he asked, did I feel compelled to perform my life for these people? It was a good question and one I wasn’t quite able to articulate an answer to, becoming defensive at first. Even now, I’m not sure there’s a single way to understand the drive to broadcast every facet of my existence. Perhaps the simplest explanation is that oversharing was a behaviour I learned early – as a toddler, my mother tells me I would run around, pointing at people and announcing what genitalia I surmised they had, informed by the iconic 1973 kids’ sex education book Where Did I Come From? – and engaging in it resulted in an incredible amount of positive reinforcement as I grew older. There are other reasons of course: realisations and breakthroughs I’ve had since beginning the process of redrawing my boundaries. But I’ll keep those to myself. Another factor was starting out as a lifestyle journalist in the twilight of the 2010s. A first-person essay boom was in full swing and leveraging your personal life was one of the few routes to get noticed if you lacked contacts or journalism qualifications. Young women desperate to stand out from the crowd were coaxed into sharing intimate, and often traumatic, details about their lives for clicks. In this arena, to lay yourself bare was an act of ambition – one, we later discovered, that can be difficult to scrub from the internet. Meanwhile, a new crop of digital-first and reality TV celebrities had emerged, defined by their “authenticity’” and willingness to present their entire existence for public consumption. Positive reinforcement for laying it all on the metaphorical table was high. Reprogramming yourself is a fascinating exercise. The urge to share is most insistent when I’m alone, prompting the horrific realisation that somewhere along the way, my brain has been trained to process reality through an audience. Sharing became how I made my own life real; if a tree fell in a forest, and I didn’t tweet about it, did it even happen? At times, I feel like something terrible and irreversible has taken place; that I’ll never be able to walk down a street listening to a beautiful piece of music and not get the urge to convert the sheer joy of the experience into a social media post, or a text to a friend to make it real. But every time I resist that grubby pull, there’s a small rush of triumph – and liberation. Now I’ve had a taste of what keeping things close feels like, I crave it. It’s a delicious secret, a reclamation of power I wasn’t aware I’d surrendered. Choosing what to share, with who and when, prompts necessary pauses – do I really need to mention this detail? Is this information I want out there long term? Do I even have the necessary consent to trumpet a certain story to all and sundry? None of this means I’ve stopped sharing altogether. That would be a lonely life indeed. But I have become far more selective about exactly what information reaches an audience wider than my inner circle (and I’m not alone; there is a burgeoning backlash against oversharing, counting Taylor Swift and some UK teens among its converts). Last year, I read the playwright Joe Orton’s diaries, published after his 1967 murder. As detailed in John Lahr’s introduction to The Orton Diaries, Orton always intended for posthumous publication of the work and believed “the value of a diary was its frankness”. His entries are the last word in confessional writing. But they were penned safe in the knowledge that the public would only read them after Orton was long gone. As a result, the man who jumps off the page feels utterly free, for better or worse. I’m now realising that complete openness was limiting. Privacy is a cloak, under which we are at liberty to explore the intricacies of the self, beholden to no audience other than ourselves. I have grown up in a generation that overshares in order to be heard. Only through the slow, gruelling process of learning to be private am I really beginning to listen to myself.

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CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 5, 2022

May 5, 2022

*CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders* /Newly released documents showed the CDC planned to use phone location data to monitor schools and churches, and wanted to use the data for many non-COVID-19 purposes, too./ by Joseph Cox The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bought access to location data harvested from tens of millions of phones in the United States to perform analysis of compliance with curfews, track patterns of people visiting K-12 schools, and specifically monitor the effectiveness of policy in the Navajo Nation, according to CDC documents obtained by Motherboard. The documents also show that although the CDC used COVID-19 as a reason to buy access to the data more quickly, it intended to use it for more-general CDC purposes. [...] continua qui: https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vymn/cdc-tracked-phones-location-data-cur…

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Google lancia "feature" che garantiscono "controlli sovrani"... (inclusa la cifratura "client-side")
by Damiano Verzulli May 5, 2022

May 5, 2022

Ho appena letto questo annuncio (del 04/05/2022): => "Announcing Sovereign Controls for Google Workspace" di Javier Solter, Vice President and General Manager, Google Workspace - https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/workspace/announcing-sovereign-contr… nel quale leggo che "/....//Today, we’re announcing Sovereign Controls for Google Workspace, which will provide digital sovereignty capabilities for organizations, both in the public and private sector, to control, limit, and monitor transfers of data to and from the EU starting at the end of 2022, with additional capabilities delivered throughout 2023..../" Google, quindi, strizza l'occhio all'EU e fa un passo avanti dicendo: "/Ok, cara EU! Utilizzateci tranquillamente... dato che restererete 'sovrani' dri vostri dati, esattamente come desiderate/". Rispetto alla crittografia, leggo anche: "/...This commitment builds on our existing Client-side encryption, Data regions, and Access Controls capabilities..../" Quel "Client-side encryption" mi ha incuriosito e... ho cercato di approfondire. Scopro che sarebbe una "feature" gia' disponibile da tempo [*]: -------- /Google Workspace already uses the latest cryptographic standards to encrypt all data at rest and in transit between our facilities. We’re taking this a step further by giving customers direct control of encryption keys and the identity service they choose to access those keys. With Client-side encryption, customer data is indecipherable to Google, while users can continue to take advantage of Google’s native web-based collaboration, access content on mobile devices, and share encrypted files externally.../ -------- Ho anche capito che questa gestione "client-side" della chiave di cifratura è, di fatto, possibile _A_CONDIZIONE_ di utilizzare determinati servizi: "/enabling Client-side encryption requires you to choose a key access service partner: Flowcrypt, Fortanix, Futurex, Thales, or Virtru. Each of these partners have built tools in accordance with Google’s specifications and provide both key management and access control capabilities. /" ....ed allora mi si confondono le idee. Come faccio a gestire "client-side" la chiave, se questa gestione deve passare per un terzo? Ripeto: ho le idee confuse... Forse con il dire: "/With Client-side encryption, customer data is indecipherable to Google/" intendono che tali dati restano inaccessibili a loro (Google), ma comunque accessibili a chi detiene le chiavi (il partner terzo)? ...non capisco. Il punto che vorrei sollevare in questa sede, pero', è un altro: credo occorra fare un po' di chiarezza su questo punto, capendo esattamente cosa viene proposto e argomentando la discussione affinche' i decision-maker possano (...ammesso che lo vogliano) comparare cio' che dice Google rispetto a cio' che interessa veramente (in termini di "Sovranita' Digitale"). Insomma: se non si fa nulla.... scommetto che tutti (i decision-maker) si fermeranno al titolo e diranno: "/Oh! Finalmente abbiamo risolto. Procediamo a spron battuto, ora, con la migrazione totale dei servizi.... D'altronde loro sono compliant!/" Bye, DV [*] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/workspace/new-google-workspace-secur… -- Damiano Verzulli e-mail:damiano@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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e-privacy torna in presenza
by Diego Giorio May 5, 2022

May 5, 2022

O, meglio, in modalità mista presenza/remoto Non mi sembra di averlo visto passare in lista, quindi segnalo che torna l'ormai storico convegno e-privacy, che festeggia la XXX edizione in 20 anni di attività. Si terrà a giugno, a Firenze, dov'è nato, e sarà dedicato a tematiche molto di attualità: https://e-privacy.winstonsmith.org/ [https://e-privacy.winstonsmith.org/images/editions/EPRIVACY_29_1200x700.png]<https://e-privacy.winstonsmith.org/> e-privacy XXX — Sospendiamo la privacy<https://e-privacy.winstonsmith.org/> e-privacy XXX @ Firenze | Rete Call for Paper. Il Progetto Winston Smith e l'Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights sono lieti di invitarti come relatore all'edizione primaverile alla trentesima edisione di e-privacy, che si terrà in modalità mista, presenza + videoconferenza il 16 e 17 giugno 2022 a Firenze.. Oltre a poterci stringere la mano, avremo l'occasione di ... e-privacy.winstonsmith.org Saluti a tutti D.

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"Elon Musk and the oligarchs of the ‘Second Gilded Age’ can not only sway the public – they can exploit their data, too"
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 5, 2022

May 5, 2022

*Elon Musk and the oligarchs of the ‘Second Gilded Age’ can not only sway the public – they can exploit their data, too** * Published: April 27, 2022 1.34pm BST /Nolan Higdon// /Lecturer of History and Media Studies, California State University, East Bay During the Gilded Age of the late 19th century, and the early decades of the 20th century, U.S. captains of industry such as William Randolph Hearst and Jay Gould used their massive wealth to dominate facets of the economy, including the news media. They were, in many ways, prototype oligarchs – by the dictionary definition, “very rich business leaders with a great deal of political influence.” Some have argued that the U.S. is in the midst of a Second Gilded Age defined – like the first – by vast wealth inequality, hyper-partisanship, xenophobia and a new crop of oligarchs using their vast wealth to purchase media and political influence. Which brings us to the announcement on April 25, 2022, that Tesla billionaire Elon Musk is, barring any last-minute hitches, purchasing the social media platform Twitter. It will put the wealthiest man on the planet in control of one of the most influential means of communications in world today. As a media scholar, I suspect Musk’s desire in buying Twitter goes beyond a desire to control and shape public discourse. Today’s equivalent of the Gilded Age oligarchs – the handful of super-rich Americans gobbling up increasing chunks of the media landscape – will have that, but they will also have access to a trove of personal data of users and news consumers. [...] continua qui: https://theconversation.com/elon-musk-and-the-oligarchs-of-the-second-gilde…

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Kaspersky fuori dalla PA: cosa faranno aziende e privati?
by Mauro Alovisio May 4, 2022

May 4, 2022

Gent.mi Segnalo https://www.punto-informatico.it/kaspersky-fuori-dalla-pa-cosa-faranno-azie… Un caro saluto Mauro

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Dave Walden
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 4, 2022

May 4, 2022

*David Walden, a computer scientist who helped develop a machine that would evolve to become the backbone of the internet for decades, died on April 27 at his home in East Sandwich, Mass. He was 79.* The cause was complications of mantle cell lymphoma, his wife, Sara Walden, said. In 1969, Mr. Walden was part of a small team of talented young engineers whose mission was to build the Interface Message Processor. Its function was to switch data among computers linked to the nascent Arpanet, the precursor to the internet. The first I.M.P. was installed that year at the University of California, Los Angeles. The I.M.P.s would be crucial to the internet until the Arpanet was decommissioned in 1989. …………. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/03/technology/david-walden-dead.html

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Why eliminating A.I. bias is harder than it seems
by Enrico Nardelli May 4, 2022

May 4, 2022

... it turns out that mitigating bias is far harder than even many experts assume, as a story last week in the tech publication The Register pointed out https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/01/ai_models_racist/?tpcc=nleyeonai . The story cited a research paper published in the science journal Science Advances that looked at racial bias in an A.I. system designed to classify brain activity from functional magnetic resonance image (fMRI) scans. It turns out that the datasets of fMRI data used to train these kind of A.I. systems don’t have much data from Black Americans. So it’s not surprisingly that the algorithms performed poorly on scans of Black patients. But what is surprising is that even when the researchers curated a training dataset consisting only of data from Black Americans, the resulting system still performed worse on Black patients than the standard system performed on white patients. ... https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/e/evib?_t=5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b… -- EN ===================================================================== Prof. Enrico Nardelli Presidente di "Informatics Europe" Direttore del Laboratorio Nazionale "Informatica e Scuola" del CINI Dipartimento di Matematica - Università di Roma "Tor Vergata" Via della Ricerca Scientifica snc - 00133 Roma home page: http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~nardelli blog: http://link-and-think.blogspot.it/ 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 ===================================================================== --

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ai for good
by don Luca Peyron May 4, 2022

May 4, 2022

https://news.mit.edu/2021/artificial-intelligence-tool-can-help-detect-mela… Cose buone dal mondo recitava una vecchia pubblicità dl _________________________ 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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La guerra dell’informazione è senza limiti
by David Schmudde May 4, 2022

May 4, 2022

Buongiorno a tutti, mi permetto di segnalare la traduzione italiana di un mio intervento su QCodeMag sulla guerra dell'informazione per capire meglio le dimensioni del conflitto cibernetico fra Russia e Ucraina dal 2014. "La guerra dell’informazione è senza limiti (e senza limiti sono le conseguenze)" https://www.qcodemag.it/interventi/la-guerra-dellinformazione-e-senza-limit… I vostri commenti sono benvenuti! Un caro saluto, David a Torino, IT, Beyond the Frame https://schmud.de

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