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Memento | 138° Mercoledì di Nexa | 10 Marzo 2021
by Nexa Media March 8, 2021

March 8, 2021

Gentilissimi, vi ricordiamo che *mercoledì 10 marzo, dalle ore 18.00 alle ore 20.00*, si svolgerà il 138° Mercoledì di Nexa, con un incontro dal titolo: *"Macchine ingannevoli: L'Intelligenza Artificiale dopo il test di Turing"*. Ospite:/*Simone Natale*/**(Università di Torino)/./ L'incontro si svolgerà in *modalità telematica*, utilizzando il software open source di conference call *Jitsi Meet*. Per chi vorrà partecipare live al seminario sarà possibile accedere alla conference call attraverso il seguente link: https://meet.nexacenter.org/MercolediNexa <https://meet.nexacenter.org/MercolediNexa> Maggiori informazioni sull'incontro sono disponibili alla pagina: https://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-138 <https://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-138> 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/ <https://nexa.polito.it/> _mail:_anita.botta@polito.it <mailto:anita.botta@polito.it> tel: 011 090 7219

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by Giovanni Leghissa March 6, 2021

March 6, 2021

credo possa interessare buona giornata Giovanni https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/how-mckinsey-destroyed-mi…

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Big Tech governing Big Tech -- An open letter to UN SG to stop plans for a new High Level Multistakeholder Body
by Giuseppe Attardi March 5, 2021

March 5, 2021

Da varie associazioni: https://justnetcoalition.org/big-tech-governing-big-tech.pdf

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"Peak Design calls out Amazon for making a ‘copycat’ of its Everyday Sling"
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 5, 2021

March 5, 2021

*Peak Design calls out Amazon for making a ‘copycat’ of its Everyday Sling* Published Mar 3, 2021 | Gannon Burgett https://www.dpreview.com/news/4716095412/peak-design-calls-out-amazon-for-m… Notate la frase alla fine dell'articolo: "DPReview is an editorially independent, wholly-owned subsidiary of Amazon."

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informatica e inquinamento
by Angelo Raffaele Meo March 5, 2021

March 5, 2021

carissimi, da fanatico apostolo dell'informatica ho polemizzato a lungo, nel corso di una cena, con mia figlia Michela sul dibattito di Nexa e su Gabanelli, Sissa, ecc, Oggi Michela mi ha mandato un enorme volume di dati Vi giro ancuni di questi dati. Leggete sino alla slide 14, per risparmiare tempo. Non ho idee chare. Comunque direi: Se dovete eseguire un po' di prodotti del tipo 569*3286, accontentatevi del telefonino e non comprate un supercomputer dell'ultima generazione. Inoltre, non collegatevi a un cloud a cui trasmettere i fattori dei vari prodotti per fargli eseguire le varie moltiplicazioni. Temo che la logica del cloud sia pericolosa per l'ambiente. Temo anche che abbiano un po' di ragione gli oppositorie del 5G. Raf

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Gig Workers Gather Their Own Data to Check the Algorithm’s Math | WIRED
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 5, 2021

March 5, 2021

Gig Workers Gather Their Own Data to Check the Algorithm’s Math Drivers for Uber, Lyft, and other firms are building apps to compare their mileage with pay slips. One group is selling the data to government agencies https://www.wired.com/story/gig-workers-gather-data-check-algorithm-math/ (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Naomi Klein: how big tech helps India target climate activists | India | The Guardian
by Alberto Cammozzo March 4, 2021

March 4, 2021

<https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/mar/04/how-big-tech-helps-india-targe…> [...] The case against Ravi and her “co-conspirators” hinges entirely on routine uses of well-known digital tools: WhatsApp groups, a collectively edited Google Doc, a private Zoom meeting and several high-profile tweets, all of which have been weaponised into key pieces of alleged evidence in a state-sponsored and media-amplified activist hunt. At the same time, these very tools have been used in a coordinated pro-government messaging campaign to turn public sentiment against the young activists and the movement of farmers they came together to support, often in clear violation of the guardrails social media companies claim to have erected to prevent violent incitement on their platforms. In a country where online hatred has tipped with chilling frequency into real-world pogroms targeting women and minorities, human rights advocates are warning that India is on the knife-edge of terrible violence, perhaps even the kind of genocidal bloodshed that social media aided and abetted against the Rohingya in Myanmar. Through it all, the giants of Silicon Valley have stayed conspicuously silent. Their famed devotion to free expression, as well as their newfound commitment to battling hate speech and conspiracy theories, is, in India, nowhere to be found. In its place is a growing and chilling complicity with Modi’s information war, a collaboration that is poised to be locked in under a draconian new digital media law that will make it illegal for tech companies to refuse to cooperate with government requests to take down offending material or to breach the privacy of tech users. Complicity in human rights abuses, it seems, is the price of retaining access to the largest market of digital media users outside China. After some early resistance from the company, Twitter accounts critical of the Modi government have disappeared in the hundreds without explanation; government officials engaging in bald incitement and overt hate speech on Twitter and Facebook have been permitted to continue in clear violation of the companies’ policies; and Delhi police boast that they are getting plenty of helpful cooperation from Google as they dig through the private communications of peaceful climate activists like Ravi. “The silence of these companies speaks volumes,” a digital rights activist told me, requesting anonymity out of fear of retribution. “They have to take a stand, and they have to do it now.” [...]

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The new Leviathan is an autonomous digital machine | LSE Business Review
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 4, 2021

March 4, 2021

The new Leviathan is an autonomous digital machine 0 comments | 114 shares Estimated reading time: 10 minutes Leviathan, a mythical creature in Judaism, was used by philosopher Thomas Hobbes to symbolise the rule of law standing above all other human powers. Szymon Wróbel writes that the automation of technology risks becoming a new Leviathan. As autonomous technology removes humans from interactions or transactions loops, a political economy running on asymmetries of information as a form of control is being born before our eyes. The new ruling class owns neither land or factories but instead owns the algorithms with which information is gathered and used. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2021/02/08/the-new-leviathan-is-an-a… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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COVID-19: Test and Trace barely used check-in data from pubs and restaurants - with thousands not warned of infection risk
by Giacomo Tesio March 4, 2021

March 4, 2021

Data from hundreds of millions of check-ins by people who visited pubs, restaurants and hairdressers before lockdown was barely used by Test and Trace, according to a confidential report obtained by Sky News. The report admits that the failure of the £22bn service to use the data for alerts or contact tracing meant "thousands of people" were not warned they might be at risk of infection, "potentially leading to the spread of the virus." To make matters worse, when coronavirus data from venues was used, public health officials encouraged pubs and restaurants to contact customers directly - a breach of data protection law which could leave businesses facing legal action. The report says that lack of guidance from Test and Trace for local public health teams on how to use the data left businesses "being asked to, or volunteering, to contact customers and visitors". It adds: "This is a breach of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and leaves businesses and venues open to potential legal challenge." Labour said the revelations exposed "a staggering level of dysfunctionality" inside Test and Trace - and hospitality groups reacted to the news with exasperation. Tratto da https://news.sky.com/story/test-and-trace-barely-used-check-in-data-from-pu… Giacomo

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[2102.01648] The Privatization of AI Research(-ers): Causes and Potential Consequences -- From university-industry interaction to public research brain-drain?
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 4, 2021

March 4, 2021

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01648 (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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