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Faith in the metaverse: A VR quest for community, fellowship
by don Luca Peyron Feb. 3, 2022

Feb. 3, 2022

Evoluzioni (?) dalle mie bande... Buona lettura dl https://religionnews.com/2022/01/31/faith-in-the-metaverse-a-vr-quest-for-c… __________________ 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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Trattative segrete su Europol: il grande scandalo dello Stato di diritto
by Giacomo Tesio Feb. 3, 2022

Feb. 3, 2022

Nei negoziati tenuti a porte chiuse, il Consiglio degli Stati membri e il Parlamento europeo stanno per silurare tutti gli sforzi dell’organismo di controllo europeo della protezione dei dati per ritenere Europol responsabile delle sue pratiche illegali di dati. Il 3 gennaio 2022 il garante europeo della protezione dei dati (EDPB), incaricato di vigilare sulla conformità delle istituzioni e delle agenzie dell’Unione europea (UE) alla normativa in materia di protezione dei dati, ha notificato a Europol, l’agenzia dell’UE per la cooperazione di polizia, un’ordinanza di cancellazione dei dati ha illegalmente conservato ed elaborato per anni. La decisione mirava a riportare le pratiche di dati di Europol in linea con il suo mandato attualmente in vigore. Ha rivelato “lo stesso ‘Scandalo Snowden’ dell’UE “, in cui Europol svolge un ruolo sempre più importante nella raccolta di massa di dati personali e nell’uso di tecniche di data mining per analizzare queste enormi quantità di dati. Sfortunatamente, i responsabili politici dell’UE vogliono rimuovere tutte le barriere legali rimanenti a questo complesso di sorveglianza di massa. Continua su https://www.informapirata.it/trattative-segrete-su-europol-il-grande-scanda… Traduzione dell'articolo di Chloé Berthélémy https://edri.org/our-work/secret-negotiations-about-europol-the-big-rule-of… Giacomo

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L'involuzione di Internet
by Roberto Resoli Feb. 2, 2022

Feb. 2, 2022

Un eccellente articolo di Elettra Bietti sull'involuzione di Internet, da utopia libertaria a campo di gioco del capitalismo estremo: https://promarket.org/2022/01/28/digital-platforms-regulation-free-software… traduzione italiana: https://www.resolutions.it/nextcloud/index.php/s/cp9wks9x85jXCM5 rob

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Paris Open Science European Conference (OSEC) Friday 4th February and Saturday 5th February 2022
by Giacomo Tenaglia Feb. 2, 2022

Feb. 2, 2022

Salve, segnalo questa conferenza online venerdì e sabato sul tema Open Science, organizzata dal governo Francese nell'ambito della presidenza dell'UE. Sabato alle 14:00 ci sarà una sessione interessante a tema "The Software Pillar of Open Science": https://osec2022.eu Programma completo: https://osec2022.eu/program/ Buona giornata, Giacomo Tenaglia

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Harvard University Law School CopyrightX Turin University Affiliated Course 2022 Edition | Apertura iscrizioni al corso
by Nexa Media Feb. 2, 2022

Feb. 2, 2022

Gentilissimi, vi segnaliamo che sono aperte le iscrizioni alla /*Harvard University Law School CopyrightX Turin University Affiliated Course 2022 Edition*/: il corso sarà tenuto *da **metà febbraio a metà maggio del 2022* e si potrà presentare gratuitamente domanda se in possesso di una laurea di primo livello. L'iscrizione è limitata ad un massimo di 20 candidati. Le domande di ammissione saranno quindi accettate fino alla mezzanotte (CET) del *10 febbraio 2022*, e i candidati selezionati verranno avvisati dell'esito positivo entro la mezzanotte (CET) del 12 febbraio 2022. Per chiunque fosse interessato a presentare domanda è possibile consultare qui <https://nexa.polito.it/copyrightx-2022> la *Call for Applications*, dove potrete trovare inoltre informazioni riguardo alla storia, agli insegnamenti e all'organizzazione del corso. Grazie per l’attenzione, un cordiale saluto -- 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@polito.it <mailto:anita.botta@polito.it> tel: 011 090 7219

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Deadline extension to 8 Feb. - CfP GIG-ARTS 2022: "Global Internet Governance and International Human Rights - Whose Rights, Whose Interpretations?" 13-14 April, Nicosia
by Mauro SANTANIELLO Feb. 2, 2022

Feb. 2, 2022

Dear colleagues, Following a number of requests, the organizing committee of The Sixth European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies has extended by one week the GIG-ARTS 2022 deadline for abstracts submission. *New deadline: 8 February 2022. * All details at: events.gig-arts.eu/gig-arts-2022/ Best wishes, Mauro Santaniello (PhD) *Internet & Communication Policy Centre * *Department of Political and Social Studies * *Università degli Studi di Salerno * *Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132 84084 Fisciano (SA) - Italy * *E. msantaniello(a)unisa.it <msantaniello(a)unisa.it> * *W. http://docenti.unisa.it/mauro.santaniello <http://docenti.unisa.it/mauro.santaniello>* *Skype: internetpolicy * *T. twitter.com/webvoodoo <http://twitter.com/webvoodoo>* *Recent publications* M.Santaniello (2021) "From Governance Denial to State Regulation: A Controversy-Based Typology of Internet Governance Models." In Haggart B., Tusikov N., Scholte J.A. (eds.) *Power and Authority in Internet Governance. Return of the State? *Routledge. N.Palladino, M.Santaniello (2021).* Legitimacy, Power, and Inequalities in the Multistakeholder Internet Governance. **Analyzing IANA Transition*. Palgrave Macmillan. *Pubblicazioni recenti in italiano* M. Santaniello (2021) "Fortezza Internet. L’incastellamento del cyberspazio e il regime feudale della cyber security." In Amoretti F.* Per una cultura della sicurezza democratica* Pag.131-148 Soveria Mannelli Rubbettino. F. Amoretti, M. Santaniello (2021) "Sovranità (con)tese. Le digital corporation nello spazio pubblico globale." In F.Tuccari; G. Borgognone *La sovranità* Pag.175-194 M. Santaniello (2021) "Sunburst. La grande eclissi della cybersecurity Usa." *Rivista di Digital Politics*. Vol. 1/2021. Pag.179-194. F. Amoretti, M. Santaniello (2021), "Partecipazione politica e opinione pubblica online in tempo di crisi." *Iride* Vol. 92. Pag.57-67. F. Amoretti, R. Fittipaldi, M. Santaniello (2021), "Poteri monocratici e comunicazione politica ai tempi della pandemia. Dal governo Conte II al governo Draghi". *Comunicazione politica, n. *3/2021, pp. 333-356.

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San Diego: contro i lampioni "intelligenti" (da "Logic")
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 2, 2022

Feb. 2, 2022

*The Oversight Bloc *Lilly Irani, Khalid Alexander /How community organizers and tech workers joined forces to rein in San Diego’s surveillance state.// / In July 2019, one of us, Khalid Alexander, received a tip from a fellow San Diego community organizer. “You should be paying attention to the city’s new streetlights.” The message continued, “Apparently, they have cameras attached to them.” Alexander lived in one of the many predominantly Black and brown neighborhoods in San Diego that was under constant police surveillance, including by “gang suppression units” that watch, harass, and document residents. He feared that streetlights with cameras on them could supercharge these efforts. Two weeks later, Alexander showed up at a public library for a forum about the streetlights program (which the city named the Smart Streetlights Program). The only other people at the meeting were the presenters: a police captain, a city staffer, and an executive from General Electric (GE), the company that produced the new streetlights. Their presentation began with an infomercial for the technology, a city-wide network of thousands of LED streetlights mounted with cameras that recorded video around-the-clock. The footage was uploaded to the cloud, where city agencies could use software to count cars, pedestrians, and who knows what else. According to the police captain, the smart streetlights were already being used to solve crimes. [...] Continua qui: https://logicmag.io/beacons/the-oversight-bloc/

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This company says it’s developing a system that can recognize your face from just your DNA | MIT Technology Review
by Alberto Cammozzo Feb. 1, 2022

Feb. 1, 2022

Verrebbe da dire che è fuffa, anche se Cortica non è nata ieri. Comunque evidenzia la pericolosa tendenza alla convergenza tra tecnologie biometriche. <https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/01/31/1044576/corsight-face-recogniti…> A police officer is at the scene of a murder. No witnesses. No camera footage. No obvious suspects or motives. Just a bit of hair on the sleeve of the victim’s jacket. DNA from the cells of one strand is copied and compared against a database. No match comes back, and the case goes cold. Corsight AI, a facial recognition subsidiary of the Israeli AI company Cortica, purports to be devising a solution for that sort of situation by using DNA to create a model of a face that can then be run through a facial recognition system. It is a task that experts in the field regard as scientifically untenable. Corsight unveiled its “DNA to Face” product in a presentation by chief executive officer Robert Watts and executive vice president Ofer Ronen intended to court financiers at the Imperial Capital Investors Conference in New York City on December 15. It was part of the company’s overall product road map, which also included movement and voice recognition. The tool “constructs a physical profile by analyzing genetic material collected in a DNA sample,” according to a company slide deck viewed by surveillance research group IPVM and shared with MIT Technology Review. A photo of Corsight's investor presentation showing its product roadmap that features "voice to face", "DNA to face" and "movement" as an expansion of its face recognition capabilities. Corsight declined a request to answer questions about the presentation and its product road map. “We are not engaging with the press at the moment as the details of what we are doing are company confidential,” Watts wrote in an email. But marketing materials show that the company is focused on government and law enforcement applications for its technology. Its advisory board consists only of James Woolsey, a former director of the CIA, and Oliver Revell, a former assistant director of the FBI.

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Digital Identity
by Vincenzo Mario Bruno Giorgino Feb. 1, 2022

Feb. 1, 2022

Un intervento che può interessare. Jaap-Henk Hoepman "Civil liberties aspects of the European Digital Identity Framework", January 31, 2022 https://blog.xot.nl/2022/01/31/civil-liberties-aspects-of-the-european-digi… Saluti, VG -- A new book https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319665917 "One of the great liabilities of life is that all too many people find themselves living amid a great period of social change and yet they fail to develop the new attitudes, the new mental responses that the new situation demands. They end up sleeping through a revolution." - Martin Luther King, Jr., "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution" Vincenzo Mario Bruno Giorgino, Ph.D. Dept. of Economic and Social Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics University of Torino - Italy

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Special Issue: “Technology Ethics in Action: Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives”
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 1, 2022

Feb. 1, 2022

New special issue in the /Journal of Social Computing/, “Technology Ethics in Action: Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives” *Summary* This special issue interrogates the discourses and impacts of “tech ethics.” As many institutions embrace tech ethics in response to concerns about digital technology, it is necessary to consider the impacts, limits, and opportunities of these initiatives. The articles in this issue analyze tech ethics as a practical and political endeavor, rather than a primarily philosophical one. What's happened as "tech ethics" has become a widespread discourse? What are the limits of tech ethics initiatives? How can we develop better paths forward? We hope that this issue will be a useful resource for research, teaching, advocacy, and more. You can read the full issue here: https://www.benzevgreen.com/tech-ethics/. jc

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