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Economists on the Run
by Giuseppe Attardi July 18, 2020

July 18, 2020

OT, ma penso si debba riflettere su come la hyperglobalization abbia prodotto disuguaglianze e “distrutto più posti di lavoro di quanti ne creava” (Stigliz). Se va male agli USA, figuriamoci a noi. http://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/22/economists-globalization-trade-paul-kru…

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Selinger, "Did you protest recently? Your face might be in a database"
by J.C. DE MARTIN July 17, 2020

July 17, 2020

*Did you protest recently? Your face might be in a database* /In the United States, at least one in four law enforcement agencies // //are able to use facial recognition technology. The implications are troubling/ /Evan Selinger and Albert Fox Cahn /Fri 17 Jul 2020 11.27 BST In recent weeks, millions have taken to the streets to oppose police violence and proudly say: “Black Lives Matter.” These protests will no doubt be featured in history books for many generations to come. But, as privacy researchers, we fear a darker legacy, too. We know that hundreds of thousands of photos and videos of protesters have been recorded and uploaded online. They could remain there indefinitely, only to be dredged up decades later. It is for this reason that we must ask whether those photos could end up in a facial recognition database. [...] continua qui: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/17/protest-black-lives-m…

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Digital Independence for Europe: how to get there
by don Luca Peyron July 17, 2020

July 17, 2020

Buona lettura, dl https://aspeniaonline.it/digital-independence-for-europe-how-to-get-there/ _________________________ 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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Fwd: Corte Ue: invalida la decisione della Commissione che ha ritenuto adeguata la protezione offerta dallo scudo UE-USA per la privacy (sent C-311/18)
by Marco Ciurcina July 17, 2020

July 17, 2020

Boom! La bomba attesa è arrivata. :-) Si riaprono scenari interessanti. C'è da studiare e riflettere, sia per chi se ne occupa professionalmente sia (soprattutto) per i decisori politici. m.c. --------- Messaggio inoltrato --------- Oggetto: Corte Ue: invalida la decisione della Commissione che ha ritenuto adeguata la protezione offerta dallo scudo UE-USA per la privacy (sent C-311/18) Data: giovedì 16 luglio 2020, 07:44:27 CEST Da: Presseinfo-IT <Presseinfo-IT(a)curia.europa.eu> A: Pappalettere Eleonora <Eleonora.Pappalettere(a)curia.europa.eu> La Corte dichiara invalida la decisione 2016/1250 della Commissione sull'adeguatezza della protezione offerta dal regime dello scudo UE-USA per la privacy Essa giudica, invece, valida la decisione 2010/87 relativa alle clausole contrattuali tipo per il trasferimento di dati personali a incaricati del trattamento stabiliti in Paesi terzi (Sentenza nella causa C-311/18 Data Protection Commissioner/Maximilian Schrems e Facebook Ireland) In allegato il comunicato stampa in italiano. Eleonora Montserrat Pappalettere e Sofia Aktipis Unità Stampa e Informazione – Sezione IT Direzione della comunicazione [cid:image002.png@01D52C0D.E2ED57E0] Rue du Fort Niedergrünewald L-2925 Luxembourg curia.europa.eu<https://www.curia.europa.eu/> Tél : +352 4303 8575/3552 [twitter_on]<https://twitter.com/eucourtpress?ref_src=twsrc%5etfw> [youtube_on] <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTfyrAlsJRZF1nGLLgnDiMA> [cid:image005.png@01D52C0D.E2ED57E0] <https://itunes.apple.com/lu/app/cvria/ id1099088434?l=fr&mt=8> [cid:image006.png@01D52C0D.E2ED57E0] <https:// play.google.com/store/apps/details? id=eu.europa.publications.cjeu&hl=en&pcampaignid=MKT-Other-global-all-co- prtnr-py-PartBadge-Mar2515-1> ------------------------------------------

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Iranian Spies Accidentally Leaked Videos of Themselves Hacking
by Giacomo Tesio July 17, 2020

July 17, 2020

In two videos IBM showed to WIRED on the condition that they not be published, the hackers demonstrate the workflow for siphoning data out of a hacked account. In one video, the hacker logs into a compromised Gmail account—a dummy account for the demonstration—by plugging in credentials from a text document, and links it to the email software Zimbra, designed to manage multiple accounts from a single interface, using Zimbra to download the account's entire inbox to the hacker's machine. Then the hacker quickly deletes the alert in the victim's Gmail that says their account permissions have been changed. Next the hacker downloads the victim's contacts and photos from their Google account too. A second video shows a similar workflow for a Yahoo account. The most telling element of the video, Wikoff says, is the speed the hacker demonstrates in exfiltrating the accounts' information in real time. The Google account's data is stolen in around four minutes. The Yahoo account takes less than three minutes. In both cases, of course, a real account populated with tens or hundreds of gigabytes of data would take far longer to download. But the clips demonstrate how quickly that download process is set up, Wikoff says, and suggest that the hackers are likely carrying out this sort of personal data theft on a mass scale. "To see how adept they are at going in and out of all these different webmail accounts and setting them up to exfiltrate, it is just amazing," says Wikoff. "It’s a well-oiled machine." [...] In other videos the IBM researchers declined to show to WIRED, the researchers say the hackers appeared to be combing through and exfiltrating data from real victims' accounts, rather than ones they created for training purposes. One victim was a member of the US Navy, and another was a two-decade veteran of the Greek Navy. The researchers say the APT35 hackers appear to have stolen photos, emails, tax records, and other personal information from both targeted individuals. Continua su http://web.archive.org/web/20200717040312/https://www.wired.com/story/iran-… Personalmente credo che in IBM si siano anzitutto sorpresi delle implicazioni economiche del video. Negli States questo tipo di operazioni è del tutto automatizzata. In Iran può essere fatta manualmente. Giacomo

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Re: [nexa] Q&A: The Data Delusion
by Giuseppe Attardi July 17, 2020

July 17, 2020

The Apple case is an example. Verstrager tried to fight with swords against firearms, or cavalry against tanks. Stefano Quintarelli notes in Capitalismo immateriale: “La perdita di gettito fiscale per lo stato a causa del fatto che le multinazionali digitali erogano all’estero beni e servizi digitali sul mercato nazionale, è quindi solo un epifenomeno di una più radicale trasformazione in atto, che ha un potenziale di interferenza senza precedenti nell’informazione, nelle relazioni sociali e nell’economia”. The antitrust laws conceived in the last century are not suitable to the modern digital society and the time of reaction of legislators is not slow to catch up with new unanticipated behaviours or means to sidesteps them. A complete redesign of regulations for the digital age is needed, but as also Quintarelli notices, this would require a change of mind in the public opinion. Instead the population has been lulled by the apparent benefits of free services in exchange of giving away their minds in a faustian exchange. When Google announces it is opening two datacenters in Italy, the prime minister Conte expresses appraisal: he does not see that if Google had paid its due taxes, he would have had even more money to invest in building his own datacenters, creating infrastructure and valuable assets (CAPEX), instead of keeping spending (OPEX) and increasing Google profit. The infrastructures, that Italy desperately needs, would also have had a multiplicative effect produced by the value produced by its users and the competences that would be created. We have become addicted and accomplices. -- > On 16 Jul 2020, at 20:14, nexa-request(a)server-nexa.polito.it wrote: > > Schaake: How do you reflect on the difference in speed between technological innovations and democratic lawmaking? Some people imply this will give authoritarian regimes an advantage in setting global standards and rules. What are your thoughts on ensuring democratic governments speed up? > Tisné: Democracies cannot afford to be outpaced by technological innovation and constantly be fighting yesterday?s wars. Our laws have not changed to reflect changes in technology, which extracts value from collective data, and need to catch up. A lot of the problems stem from the fact that in government (as in companies), the people responsible for enforcement are separated from those with the technical understanding. The solution lies in much better translation between technology, policy and the needs of the public.

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Mai più donne invisibili (anche grazie al digitale): intervista alla presidente di Rete per la Parità
by don Luca Peyron July 17, 2020

July 17, 2020

Buona lettura con un argomento importante e poco affrontato dl https://www.techeconomy2030.it/2020/07/16/mai-piu-donne-invisibili-anche-gr… _________________________ 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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Q&A: The Data Delusion
by Giacomo Tesio July 16, 2020

July 16, 2020

Protecting Individual Isn't Enough When the Harm is Collective. A Q&A with Marietje Schaake and Martin Tisne on his new paper The Data Delusion. [...] Schaake: What scenario do you foresee in 10 years if collective harms are not dealt with in updates of laws? Tisné: I worry we will see two impacts. The first is a continuation of what we are seeing now: negative impacts of digital technologies on discrimination, voting rights, privacy, consumers. As people become increasingly aware of the problem there will be a corresponding increase in legal challenges. We’re seeing this already for example with the Lloyd class action case against Google for collecting iPhone data. But I worry these will fail to stick and have lasting impact because of the obligation to have these cases turn on one person, or a class of people’s, individual experiences. It is very hard for individuals to seek remedy for collective harms, as opposed to personal privacy invasions. So unless we solve the issue I raise in the paper – the collective impact of AI and automation – these will continue to fuel polarization, discrimination on the basis of age, gender (and many other aspects of our lives) and the further strengthening of populist regimes. I also worry about the ways in which algorithms will optimize on the basis of seemingly random classifications (e.g. “people who wear blue shirts, get up early on Saturday mornings, and were geo-located in a particular area of town at a particular time”). These may be proxies for protected characteristics (age, gender reassignment, disability, race, religion, sex, marriage, pregnancy/maternity, sexual orientation) and provide grounds for redress. They may also not be and sow the seeds of future discrimination and harms. Authoritarian rulers are likely to take advantage of the seeming invisibility of those data-driven harms to further silence their opponents. How can I protect myself if I don’t know the basis on which I am being discriminated against or targeted? Schaake: How do you reflect on the difference in speed between technological innovations and democratic lawmaking? Some people imply this will give authoritarian regimes an advantage in setting global standards and rules. What are your thoughts on ensuring democratic governments speed up? Tisné: Democracies cannot afford to be outpaced by technological innovation and constantly be fighting yesterday’s wars. Our laws have not changed to reflect changes in technology, which extracts value from collective data, and need to catch up. A lot of the problems stem from the fact that in government (as in companies), the people responsible for enforcement are separated from those with the technical understanding. The solution lies in much better translation between technology, policy and the needs of the public. Continua su https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/news/data-delusion Giacomo

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Libera concorrenza nella gestione collettiva del diritto d'autore: la Corte Costituzionale si alla legittimità dell'art. 19 comma l, del decreto legge n. 148 del 2017, convertito, con modificazioni, nella legge n. 172 del 2019.
by deborah de angelis July 16, 2020

July 16, 2020

La Corte Costituzionale afferma la legittimità dell’articolo 19, comma l, del decreto legge n. 148 del 2017, convertito, con modificazioni, nella legge n. 172 del 2019. Il Tar del Lazio aveva sollevato la questione per violazione dell’articolo 77, secondo comma, della Costituzione (carenza dei presupposti di necessità e urgenza). La Corte Costituzionale ha, invece, riconosciuto l’esistenza dei presupposti di legge nell’intento del Governo di dare attuazione ai principi di libera concorrenza dettati dall’EU nella gestione collettiva del diritto d’autore, al fine di evitare una procedura di infrazione. https://www.cortecostituzionale.it/actionSchedaPronuncia.do?param_ecli=ECLI… Cari saluti DDA DDA Studio Legale ------------------------------------------------ Avv. Deborah De Angelis 00195 Roma (RM), Via Giuseppe Ferrari, 2 Tel. +39 06 59871248 www.ddastudiolegale.it info(a)ddastudiolegale.it skype: deb.dda Il presente messaggio, corredato dei relativi allegati contiene informazioni da considerarsi strettamente riservate, ed è destinato esclusivamente al destinatario sopra indicato. Chiunque ricevesse questo messaggio per errore o comunque lo leggesse senza esserne legittimato è avvertito che trattenerlo, copiarlo, divulgarlo, distribuirlo a persone diverse dal destinatario è severamente proibito e, nel caso, è pregato di rinviarlo immediatamente al mittente distruggendo l'originale. This message, together with its annexes, contains information to be deemed strictly confidential and is destined only to the addressee(s) identified above. If anyone received this message by mistake or reads it without entitlement is forewarned that keeping, copying, disseminating or distributing this message to persons other than the addressee(s) is strictly forbidden and is asked to transmit it immediately to the sender and to erase the original message received.

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DIY Dongle Breathes Life Into Broken Ventilators
by Giacomo Tesio July 15, 2020

July 15, 2020

We have a new hero in the COVID-19 saga, and it’s some hacker in Poland. Whoever this person is, they are making bootleg dongles that let ventilator refurbishers circumvent lockdown software so they can repair broken ventilators bought from the secondhand market. The dongle is a DIY copy of one that Medtronic makes, which of course they don’t sell to anyone. It makes a three-way connection between the patient’s monitor, a breath delivery system, and a computer, and lets technicians sync software between two broken machines so they can be Frankensteined into a single working ventilator. The company open-sourced an older model at the end of March, but this was widely viewed as a PR stunt. This is not just the latest chapter in the right-to-repair saga. What began with locked-down tractors and phones has taken a serious turn as hospitals are filled to capacity with COVID-19 patients, many of whom will die without access to a ventilator. Not only is there a shortage of ventilators, but many of the companies that make them are refusing outside repair techs’ access to manuals and parts. These companies insist that their own in-house technicians be the only ones who touch the machines, and many are not afraid to admit that they consider the ventilators to be their property long after the sale has been made. The ridiculousness of that aside, they don’t have the manpower to fix all the broken ventilators, and the people don’t have the time to wait on them. Continua su https://hackaday.com/2020/07/15/diy-dongle-breathes-life-into-broken-ventil… Giacomo

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