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AGCM: sanzione ad Amazon per 1.128.596.156 € (1 _MILIARDO_ e passa...)
by Damiano Verzulli Dec. 9, 2021

Dec. 9, 2021

La notizia ufficiale (che non mi pare sia ancora passata) è questa: A528 - Sanzione di oltre 1 miliardo e 128 milioni di euro ad Amazon per abuso di posizione dominante => https://agcm.it/media/comunicati-stampa/2021/12/A528-chiusura L'importo mi sembra rilevante... e interessante. Vedremo come andra' a finire.... Saluti, DV -- 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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The end of nation-states
by Giuseppe Attardi Dec. 7, 2021

Dec. 7, 2021

Se volete approfondire il concetto di Digital Utopia di cui accennavo in precedenza, guardate questo seminario, che apparirà sul canale YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UC3ouVBKcYMqvnYLjpOu8EjA Pueyo li chiama community-states o virtual nations. Tomas Pueyo: The End of Nation-States It’s 2050. The US government just defaulted on its debt and isn't making social security payments. Hospitals are failing since they can’t operate without Medicare and Medicaid. People who invested in dollars have seen their savings decimated. Countries around the world are saddled with US debt. What happened? The Internet and Blockchain. Tomas Pueyo talks about how new technologies will shake up the political order and cause the end of nation-states. Questo blog riporta quanto detto nella prima parte del seminario: https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/internet-blockchain-kill-nati… — Beppe

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Coalition for Competitive Digital Markets - Open Letter: The EU Needs an Effective Digital Markets Act
by Stefano Zacchiroli Dec. 6, 2021

Dec. 6, 2021

Un ampio gruppo di SME europee (in larga parte con business model attinenti a FOSS) si esprime su temi ampiamente discussi in lista, quali la sovranità digitale, il ruolo dei GAFAM nel "cloud sovrano", etc. Più dettagli ed il testo di una lettera aperta alle EU qui: https://competitivedigitalmarkets.eu/ -- Stefano Zacchiroli . zack(a)upsilon.cc . upsilon.cc/zack _. ^ ._ Full professor of Computer Science o o o \/|V|\/ Télécom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris o o o </> <\> Co-founder & CTO Software Heritage o o o o /\|^|/\ Former Debian Project Leader & OSI Board Director '" V "'

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Testo di Meredith Whittaker
by Antonio Casilli Dec. 6, 2021

Dec. 6, 2021

Condivido questo articolo di Meredith Whittaker sulla cattura industriale della ricerca in IA, pubblicato nella rivista dell'ACM Interactions. The steep cost of capture https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/november-december-2021/the-steep-… "Big tech’s control over AI resources made universities and other institutions dependent on these companies, creating a web of conflicted relationships that threaten academic freedom and our ability to understand and regulate these corporate technologies." (...) "In addition to punishing dissent and denigrating research they find threatening, tech companies are working to co-opt and neutralize critique. They do this in part by funding and elevating their weakest critics, often institutions and coalitions that focus on so-called AI ethics, and frame issues of tech power and dominance as abstract governance questions that take the tech industry's current form as a given and AI's proliferation as inevitable. In parallel, tech firms also champion technocratic remedies such as "AI bias bounties" and fairness fixits that stage tech-enabled discrimination as a problem of bad code and "buggy" engineering [15]. Such approaches make great PR. They also serve to cast elite engineers as the arbiters of "bias," while structurally excluding scholars and advocates who don't have computer science training, but whose focus on the racialized power asymmetries and political economy of AI are essential for understanding and addressing AI harms." (...) "To begin, scholars, advocates, and policymakers who produce and rely on tech-critical work must confront and name the dynamic of tech capture, co-optation, and compromise head-on, and soon. This means incorporating reflexive critiques of the conditions and of knowledge creation, and the compromises and trade-offs faced by knowledge workers over whom interested institutions have power. Given the politics of collegial proximity that inform academic prestige networks while working to blur the lines between academic and industry workers, this is certain to be uncomfortable. But naming these dynamics is the only way to address them and to stage questions that allow us to envision and demand alternative futures." -- Antonio A. Casilli Professor, Telecom Paris-Institut Polytechnique de Paris Member, Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation (CNRS) Associate Member, LACI-IIAC (EHESS) Associate researcher, Weizenbaum-Institut, Berlin Member, Scholarly council UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2) Faculty Fellow, Nexa Center for Internet & Society *We respect your right to disconnect. This email send time is due to my own workflow efficiency. You are in no obligation to take action or reply to it outside your office hours.*

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Tecnologie per il controllo delle frontiere in Italia
by Carlo Blengino Dec. 6, 2021

Dec. 6, 2021

[image: 32.png] https://protecht.hermescenter.org/ Davvero un lavoro notevole, che rende concrete e tangibili molte delle criticità che emergono spesso dai temi affrontati in questa lista. <<È importante ...che qualunque discorso sulla tecnologia racchiuda in sé una più ampia riflessione politica e sociologica, che cerchi di cogliere la differenza tra chi agisce la tecnologia e chi la subisce>>. Una missione per NEXA. Un grazie davvero all' *Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights <https://www.hermescenter.org/it/home/> * e a Laura Carrer e Riccardo Coluccini per il loro instancabile lavoro! Carlo *Avv. Carlo Blengino* *Via Duchessa Jolanda n. 19,* *10138 Torino (TO) - Italy* *tel. +39 011 4474035 * Penalistiassociati.it

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"Hackers Are Spamming Businesses’ Receipt Printers With ‘Antiwork’ Manifestos"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Dec. 5, 2021

Dec. 5, 2021

*Hackers Are Spamming Businesses’ Receipt Printers With ‘Antiwork’ Manifestos* /Dozens of printers across the internet are printing out a manifesto that encourages workers to discuss their pay with coworkers, and pressure their employers./ Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai December 2, 2021, 10:17pm […] Continua qui: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbb9d/hackers-are-spamming-businesses-rece…

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UIDAI enters collaboration with World Bank to export Aadhaar digital ID architecture | Biometric Update
by Alberto Cammozzo Dec. 4, 2021

Dec. 4, 2021

<https://www.biometricupdate.com/202112/uidai-enters-collaboration-with-worl…> The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has entered a collaboration with the World Bank and United Nations to deploy the Aadhaar digital ID architecture for systems outside India, The Economic Times reports, as the authority also looks to bolster mobile face biometrics usage. Speaking at a virtual event organized by the Payments Council of India, UIDAI CEO Saurabh Garg said the organization is also establishing a dedicated advisory board to help deploy Aadhaar across different sectors. Some of these include enrolments, authentication, and customer relationship management. In addition, Garg confirmed the UIDAI is currently looking for additional partners from India who can help it in exporting Aadhaar-style digital ID systems overseas. “In the Aadhaar ecosystem, we realized we need to partner with others outside the UIDAI internal system. In the past, we had people from the industry.” During the online session, Garg also announced UIDAI is planning to add more biometrics modalities to Aadhaar’s current fingerprint and iris recognition technologies. “Apart from the finger, we already have iris but iris is more cumbersome to use and it requires special devices. That’s why we are looking at facial authentication with due precaution.” The UIDAI already supports facial recognition through specialized devices, but is looking at deploying Aadhaar’s facial authentication capabilities on mobile devices. Aadhaar’s protections for digital identities, or lack thereof, have sparked multiple concerns and complaints from privacy advocates. It is argued the biometric systems may be used to force vote suppression on individuals as well as generally being deleterious for privacy due to a severe lack of regulations.

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le nuove linee guida in materia di lavoro agile e di telelavoro
by Mauro Alovisio Dec. 3, 2021

Dec. 3, 2021

Gent.me/mi segnalo le nuove linee guida in materia di lavoro agile e di telelavoro nel pubblico impiego http://www.funzionepubblica.gov.it/articolo/ministro/30-11-2021/pa-libera-a… Cordiali saluti Mauro Alovisio

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Respinta alla Camera dei deputati mozione in difesa di Assange
by Antonio Iacono Dec. 3, 2021

Dec. 3, 2021

Mozione [1] Discussione alla Camera del 2/12/2021 [2] Votazione: Presenti: 384 Votanti: 247 Astenuti: 137 Favorevoli: 22 Contrari: 225 Uno dei tanti commenti [3] A. [1] http://dati.camera.it/ocd/aic.rdf/aic1_00456_18 [2] http://webtv.camera.it/evento/19595/516530 [3] https://www.antimafiaduemila.com/home/mafie-news/309-topnews/87074-respinta…

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Re: [nexa] Testo di Meredith Whittaker
by Giuseppe Attardi Dec. 2, 2021

Dec. 2, 2021

Questa è la ragione per cui servirebbe un CERN for AI in Europa. Anche l’infrastruttura nazionale per l’AI proposta da Eric Schmidt tramite la National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence Con lo scopo di “democratize AI”, lascia dei dubbi: In practice, then, these proposals to "democratize" access to AI research infrastructures amount to calls to subsidize tech giants further by licensing familiar infrastructure from these firms in ways that allow them to continue defining the terms and conditions of AI and AI research. — Beppe > On 30 Nov 2021, at 12:00, nexa-request(a)server-nexa.polito.it wrote: > > Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 17:31:00 +0100 (CET) > From: Antonio Casilli <antonio.casilli(a)telecom-paris.fr> > To: nexa <nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it> > Subject: [nexa] Testo di Meredith Whittaker > Message-ID: <764268093.2939040.1638203460934.JavaMail.zimbra(a)enst.fr> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Condivido questo articolo di Meredith Whittaker sulla cattura industriale della ricerca in IA, pubblicato nella rivista dell'ACM Interactions. > > > The steep cost of capture > https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/november-december-2021/the-steep-… > > "Big tech’s control over AI resources made universities and other institutions dependent on these companies, > creating a web of conflicted relationships that threaten academic freedom and our ability to understand > and regulate these corporate technologies." > > (...) > > "In addition to punishing dissent and denigrating research they find threatening, tech companies are working to co-opt and neutralize critique. They do this in part by funding and elevating their weakest critics, often institutions and coalitions that focus on so-called AI ethics, and frame issues of tech power and dominance as abstract governance questions that take the tech industry's current form as a given and AI's proliferation as inevitable. In parallel, tech firms also champion technocratic remedies such as "AI bias bounties" and fairness fixits that stage tech-enabled discrimination as a problem of bad code and "buggy" engineering [15]. Such approaches make great PR. They also serve to cast elite engineers as the arbiters of "bias," while structurally excluding scholars and advocates who don't have computer science training, but whose focus on the racialized power asymmetries and political economy of AI are essential for understanding and addressing AI harms." > > (...) > > "To begin, scholars, advocates, and policymakers who produce and rely on tech-critical work must confront and name the dynamic of tech capture, co-optation, and compromise head-on, and soon. This means incorporating reflexive critiques of the conditions and of knowledge creation, and the compromises and trade-offs faced by knowledge workers over whom interested institutions have power. Given the politics of collegial proximity that inform academic prestige networks while working to blur the lines between academic and industry workers, this is certain to be uncomfortable. But naming these dynamics is the only way to address them and to stage questions that allow us to envision and demand alternative futures." > > -- > Antonio A. Casilli > Professor, Telecom Paris-Institut Polytechnique de Paris > Member, Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation (CNRS) > Associate Member, LACI-IIAC (EHESS) > Associate researcher, Weizenbaum-Institut, Berlin > Member, Scholarly council UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2) > Faculty Fellow, Nexa Center for Internet & Society > > *We respect your right to disconnect. This email send time is due to my own workflow efficiency. You are in no obligation to take action or reply to it outside your office hours.* >

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