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The German Constitutional Court Nixes Foreign Surveillance - Lawfare
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 18, 2020

Aug. 18, 2020

https://www.lawfareblog.com/german-constitutional-court-nixes-foreign-surve… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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MiSE, MID e MUR: al via bando sui Poli europei di innovazione digitale
by don Luca Peyron Aug. 18, 2020

Aug. 18, 2020

Opportunità dl https://www.mise.gov.it/index.php/it/per-i-media/notizie/it/198-notizie-sta… ? _________________________ 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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Sulla colonizzazione algoritmica dell'Africa
by Federico Guerrini Aug. 17, 2020

Aug. 17, 2020

Ciao, sul tema del colonialismo digitale c'è questo interessante paper (scovato via The Syllabus): "Algorithmic colonization of Africa": https://script-ed.org/article/algorithmic-colonization-of-africa/ L'ho letto, e molte delle considerazioni che fa sono applicabili non solo all'Africa, ma al contesto generale (i.e. visione degli essere umani solo come merce da cui estrarre dati, utilitarismo digitale, assenza totale di consultazione dei "soggetti" a cui vengono applicati gli algoritmi, ecc.); ci sono però alcune osservazioni interessanti sul contesto africano, ad esempio su come il celebrato microcredito tramite M-Pesa possa in realtà portare a situazioni di perenne debito, oppure sulla sorveglianza della popolazione in Sudafrica. Abstract *We live in a world where technological corporations hold unprecedented power and influence. Technological solutions to social, political, and economic challenges are rampant. In the Global South, technology that is developed with Western perspectives, values, and interests is imported with little regulation or critical scrutiny. This work examines how Western tech monopolies, with their desire to dominate, control and influence social, political, and cultural discourse, share common characteristics with traditional colonialism. However, while traditional colonialism is driven by political and government forces, algorithmic colonialism is driven by corporate agendas. While the former used brute force domination, colonialism in the age of AI takes the form of ‘state-of-the-art algorithms’ and ‘AI driven solutions’ to social problems. Not only is Western-developed AI unfit for African problems, the West’s algorithmic invasion simultaneously impoverishes development of local products while also leaving the continent dependent on Western software and infrastructure. By drawing examples from various parts of the continent, this paper illustrates how the AI invasion of Africa echoes colonial era exploitation. This paper then concludes by outlining a vision of AI rooted in local community needs and interests.* Ciao, Federico -- https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fellowships/journalist-fellows/p… www.federicoguerrini.com Il mio ultimo libro: Vivere Social http://www.bol.it/libri/Vivere-social.-Manuale/Federico-Guerrini/ea97888971…

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«I satelliti per internet ci ruberanno la notte»: l’astrofisico lancia l’allarme
by don Luca Peyron Aug. 17, 2020

Aug. 17, 2020

E quindi uscimmo a *riveder le stelle* ... o forse no? Buona lettura dl https://torino.corriere.it/piemonte/20_agosto_14/i-satelliti-internet-ci-ru… _________________________ 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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An Algorithm Has Been Developed to Obstruct AI Facial Recognition, and It's Free to Use
by don Luca Peyron Aug. 17, 2020

Aug. 17, 2020

Mosse e contromosse, in terza missione di una università per giunta, interessante! Buona lettura e buona domenica dl https://fstoppers.com/pictures/algorithm-has-been-developed-obstruct-ai-fac… _________________________ 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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Privacy vs. community: Should schools require students to turn on cameras?
by Giacomo Tesio Aug. 17, 2020

Aug. 17, 2020

The questions foster raging conversations on school listservs and over dinner tables. Should students be mandated to turn on their cameras and connect to the class to show eye contact and smiles? If their cameras are dark, how do the teachers even know they're there, or what they're up to? What about students who feel anxious with cameras on and people watching? And what if students live in a household with living conditions that they don't want shared with the rest of the class? Continua con una serie di aneddoti (e senza mai considerare il mezzo di comunicazione o gli usi che chi lo controlla potrebbe fare dei volti degli studenti e delle informazioni deducibili sulla loro famiglia e la loro casa) su https://www.ktvu.com/news/privacy-vs-community-should-schools-require-stude… La domanda però è interessante. Personalmente ho messo un server Jitsi a disposizione della scuola per permettere a mia figlia di accontentare le richieste pressanti degli insegnanti di accendere la telecamera, SENZA consegnare il suo volto ai database di Google ed ai loro sistemi di riconoscimento facciale. La sicumera con cui pretendevano che accendesse la telecamera mi faceva supporre che fossero stati istruiti così. Ma da chi? Webminar del Ministero? E su quale base legale? Giacomo

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An Alexa Bug Could Have Exposed Your Voice History to Hackers
by Giacomo Tesio Aug. 16, 2020

Aug. 16, 2020

Findings published on Thursday by the security firm Check Point reveal that Alexa's web services had bugs that a hacker could have exploited to grab a target's entire voice history, meaning their recorded audio interactions with Alexa. Amazon has patched the flaws, but the vulnerability could have also yielded profile information, including home address, as well as all of the "skills," or apps, the user had added for Alexa. An attacker could have even deleted an existing skill and installed a malicious one to grab more data after the initial attack. "Virtual assistants are something that you just talk to and answer, and usually you don’t have in your mind some kind of malicious scenarios or concerns," says Oded Vanunu, Check Point's head of product vulnerability research. "But we found a chain of vulnerabilities in Alexa's infrastructure configuration that eventually allows a malicious attacker to gather information about users and even install new skills." For an attacker to exploit the vulnerabilities, she would need first to trick targets into clicking a malicious link, a common attack scenario. Underlying flaws in certain Amazon and Alexa subdomains, though, meant that an attacker could have crafted a genuine and normal-looking Amazon link to lure victims into exposed parts of Amazon’s infrastructure. By strategically directing users to track.amazon.com—a vulnerable page not related to Alexa, but used for tracking Amazon packages—the attacker could have injected code that allowed them to pivot to Alexa infrastructure, sending a special request along with the target's cookies from the package-tracking page to skillsstore.amazon.com/app/secure/your-skills-page. Continua su https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-alexa-bug-exposed-voice-history-hackers/ Cattivi hacker cattivi! Hanno questo brutto vizio di ignorare i tabù che proteggono queste microspie^W apparecchiature dagli accessi non autorizzati (autorizzate dal produttore, non dal acquirente, ovviamente). Forse inizieremo ad avere sistemi ragionevolmente sicuri quando i produttori dovranno per legge premiare gli hacker e risarcire gli acquirenti con la stessa cifra, come minimo un migliaio di euro, ogni volta che i primi riescono a dimostrare la credulità dei secondi, mostrando quanto male spendono i propri soldi. Giacomo

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Rodrik, "Democratizing Innovation"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 16, 2020

Aug. 16, 2020

Democratizing Innovation Aug 11, 2020 Dani Rodrik <https://www.project-syndicate.org/columnist/dani-rodrik> Policymakers and the public at large understand the importance of innovation to economic growth and well being. What is less well appreciated is the degree to which the innovation agenda has been captured by narrow groups of investors and firms whose values and interests don’t necessarily reflect society’s needs. Continua qui: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/policymakers-should-influence-…

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Robots in the Workplace: a Threat to—or Opportunity for—Meaningful Work?
by don Luca Peyron Aug. 15, 2020

Aug. 15, 2020

The concept of meaningful work has recently received increased attention in philosophy and other disciplines. However, the impact of the increasing robotization of the workplace on meaningful work has received very little attention so far. Doing work that is meaningful leads to higher job satisfaction and increased worker well-being, and some argue for a right to access to meaningful work. In this paper, we therefore address the impact of robotization on meaningful work https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs13347-019-00377-4.pdf _________________________ 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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You Don’t Really Own Your Own Gadgets - James B. Meigs, Commentary Magazine
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 15, 2020

Aug. 15, 2020

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/james-meigs/you-dont-really-own… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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