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White House: "Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship"
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 30, 2020

May 30, 2020

*Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship* /Issued on: May 28, 2020/ By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. Free speech is the bedrock of American democracy. Our Founding Fathers protected this sacred right with the First Amendment to the Constitution. The freedom to express and debate ideas is the foundation for all of our rights as a free people. In a country that has long cherished the freedom of expression, we cannot allow a limited number of online platforms to hand pick the speech that Americans may access and convey on the internet. This practice is fundamentally un-American and anti-democratic. When large, powerful social media companies censor opinions with which they disagree, they exercise a dangerous power. They cease functioning as passive bulletin boards, and ought to be viewed and treated as content creators. The growth of online platforms in recent years raises important questions about applying the ideals of the First Amendment to modern communications technology. Today, many Americans follow the news, stay in touch with friends and family, and share their views on current events through social media and other online platforms. As a result, these platforms function in many ways as a 21st century equivalent of the public square. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube wield immense, if not unprecedented, power to shape the interpretation of public events; to censor, delete, or disappear information; and to control what people see or do not see. […] Continua qui: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-preventing-…

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Teologia, trasformazione digitale e covid 19
by don Luca Peyron May 30, 2020

May 30, 2020

Cari Nexiani, mi permetto di segnalare un webinar sulle questioni in oggetto che affronterà i temi a noi cari con uno sguardo diverso da quelli consueti. A parte chi vi scrive, gli altri due teologi ingaggiati sono persone di valore per cui faccio un po' di auto-altro promozione. Buona visione a chi lo desidera. dl Emergenza Digitale: uso ed abuso del digitale in tempo di Covid 19 - Il 3 giugno alle 18 sul canale youtube dell’Apostolato Digitale Arcidiocesi di Torino <https://www.facebook.com/apostolatodigitale/?__tn__=K-R&eid=ARA-Yo_uC_x6OGE…> Quale impatto ha sulla vita della Chiesa e delle comunità cristiane la trasformazione digitale che stiamo vivendo? La pandemia ha accelerato tale trasformazione in ogni comparto, dunque anche per la pastorale ecclesiale. Nella consapevolezza che si tratta di un cambiamento antropologico e non solo tecnologico, è tempo di cominciare o continuare alcune riflessioni. I due mesi e mezzo di del cosiddetto lock-down, con il divieto di celebrazioni eucaristiche con il popolo e le norme del distanziamento fisico, hanno messo alla prova la creatività digitale dei cattolici, generato buone pratiche e evidenziato limiti. Una Chiesa che si metta all’ascolto dei segni dei tempi è chiamata a integrare la ritrovata presenza fisica con quella digitale portando avanti o inaugurando nuove pratiche. Nel parleranno in un webinar organizzato dal Servizio per l’Apostolato Digitale dell’Arcidiocesi di Torino alcuni esperti moderati da Fabio Colagrande, giornalista della Radio Vaticana. Il 3 giugno alle 18 sul canale youtube dell’Apostolato digitale si confronteranno Assunta Steccanella, docente di teologia pastorale presso la Facoltà Teologica del Triveneto, Massimiliano Padula, docente di Scienze della Comunicazione sociale alla Pontificia Università Lateranense, e don Luca Peyron, docente di teologia della trasformazione digitale all’Università Cattolica di Milano. Durante il live sarà possibile intervenire con domande e richieste di chiarimenti utilizzando la chat del canale. Link alla diretta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wcwSndv5mY <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wcwSndv5mY&fbclid=IwAR3EhnWSZSpGwZyumdrdVw…> _________________________ www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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ACLU sues facial recognition firm Clearview AI, calling it a ‘nightmare scenario’ for privacy - The Verge
by Alberto Cammozzo May 29, 2020

May 29, 2020

<https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/28/21273388/aclu-clearview-ai-lawsuit-facia…> The American Civil Liberties Union is suing controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI for violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), alleging the company illegally collected and stored data on Illinois citizens without their knowledge or consent and then sold access to its technology to law enforcement and private companies. The full complaint is available here. “Unbeknownst to the public, this company has offered up this massive faceprint database to private companies, police, federal agencies, and wealthy individuals, allowing them to secretly track and target whomever they wished using face recognition technology,” writes ACLU attorney Nathan Freed Wessler in a blog post outlining the lawsuit. “That company is Clearview AI, and it will end privacy as we know it if it isn’t stopped.” "“That company is Clearview AI, and it will end privacy as we know it if it isn’t stopped.”" Clearview AI rose to prominence earlier this year thanks to media reports, including a high-profile investigation from The New York Times in January, that revealed its technology is highly accurate and in widespread use throughout both law enforcement agencies and private sector companies. The reason the company’s tool is effective is because Clearview scraped photographs and other data from social media sites against those platforms’ rules, resulting in a database of more than 3 billion images which are then matched against an uploaded photo using sophisticated algorithms trained by machine learning. Tech companies have sent numerous cease and desist orders to Clearview over the past five months, but it’s unclear if the company has ever complied with orders to remove data it’s siphoned from public social networks’ pages and posts. The company has responded to criticism by claiming it would never offer its tool to the public for individual use and more recently said it would stop selling its technology to private companies and focus only on law enforcement. However, numerous media reports have discovered that Clearview provided its product to investors, high-profile executives, and other individuals as part of trial periods to promote the product, and critics fear its facial recognition system is the foundation for rampant civil rights violations. “By building a mass database of billions of faceprints without our knowledge or consent, Clearview has created the nightmare scenario that we’ve long feared, and has crossed the ethical bounds that many companies have refused to even attempt. Neither the United States government nor any American company is known to have ever compiled such a massive trove of biometrics,” Wessler explains. “Adding fuel to the fire, Clearview sells access to a smartphone app that allows its customers — and even those using the app on a trial basis — to upload a photo of an unknown person and instantaneously receive a set of matching photos.” One avenue to combat Clearview’s conduct that may prove effective is BIPA, the Illinois privacy law and one of the only pieces of US legislation that protects facial recognition data from misuse. It’s the same law that earlier this year pushed Facebook to a $550 million settlement over its use of unauthorized facial recognition on photos uploaded to its social network. The ACLU says “Clearview’s actions clearly violate BIPA,” which demands a company inform citizens and gain written consent when any biometric identifier, be it a faceprint or a fingerprint, is collected and stored for any reason. [...]

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Phenomenal World | Digital Scab, Digital Snitch
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 28, 2020

May 28, 2020

https://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/digital-scab-digital-snitch (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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notizia falsa sul tracciamento di Google su Covid_19
by Aldo Pedico May 28, 2020

May 28, 2020

Chiedo conferma a tutti voi sulla veridicità di questa notizia espressa dal giornalista, Edoardo Gagliardi, nella parte iniziale del messaggio video. Il giornalista presenta una notifica inviata sull’account di posta dello smartphone da Google, spiegando che Google, a fronte di questa notifica, abbia installato un’applicazione per il tracciamento Covid_19, a insaputa del proprietario dell’apparato e che questa app non sia disinstallabile. Inoltre, questa app fa uso del protocollo Bluetooth e non di posizione o altro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92pPKqGnt8k&feature=youtu.be Il messaggio di posta nel mio smartphone c’è ma è semplicemente una notifica e non esiste nessuna applicazione. Mi sbaglio? Aldo

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Commissione cultura della Camera - risoluzione editoria - diritto d'autore
by Roberto Caso May 28, 2020

May 28, 2020

Buongiorno, segnalo la risoluzione sull'editoria della Commissione Cultura della Camera: https://ilmanifesto.it/la-risoluzione-unitaria-della-commissione-cultura-de… Estraggo 2 punti: "8) ad adottare iniziative normative, con urgenza, per il recepimento della direttiva europea 2019/790 sul diritto d’autore e sui diritti connessi nel mercato unico digitale, in particolare le normative riguardanti i diritti connessi di editori, giornalisti e autori, nonché la conseguente remunerazione e la responsabilità dei prestatori di servizi della società dell’informazione per violazioni del diritto d’autore relative a materiali postati dagli utilizzatori, prevedendo inoltre sistemi a garanzia della concreta applicazione della nuova disciplina e tutelando il principio della libera circolazione dell’informazione in rete; 13) con riferimento al fenomeno della pirateria editoriale, a promuovere un’iniziativa normativa idonea a dotare il nostro ordinamento di più adeguati strumenti per la difesa della proprietà intellettuale e dei contenuti editoriali;" A presto, rc -- Roberto Caso Professore Associato di Diritto Privato Comparato Università di Trento - Facoltà di Giurisprudenza La rivoluzione incompiuta. La scienza aperta tra diritto d'autore e proprietà intellettuale, Milano, Ledizioni, 2020 <https://www.robertocaso.it/2019/12/13/la-rivoluzione-incompiuta/> http://www5.unitn.it/People/it/Web/Persona/PER0000633 http://www.lawtech.jus.unitn.it/index.php/people/roberto-caso https://www.robertocaso.it/ https://twitter.com/RobertoCaso

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Qatari contact-tracing app 'put 1m people's sensitive data at risk' | World news | The Guardian
by Alberto Cammozzo May 28, 2020

May 28, 2020

<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/27/qatar-contact-tracing-app-1m-…> A security flaw in Qatar’s coronavirus contact-tracing app put the sensitive personal details of more than a million people at risk, according to an investigation by Amnesty International. The app, which is mandatory for Qatari residents to install, was configured in a way that would have allowed hackers “to access highly sensitive personal information, including the name, national ID, health status and location data of more than 1 million users”, according to Amnesty International’s security lab. Claudio Guarnieri, the lab’s head, said the flaws, fixed following their discovery, “should act as a warning to governments around the world rushing out contact tracing apps that are too often poorly designed and lack privacy safeguards”. The Qatari app uses a mixture of GPS and Bluetooth technology to track Covid-19 cases and warn people who may have been exposed to an infectious person. Like the UK’s app, it operates on a centralised model allowing the country’s interior ministry access to the information it gathers. [...]

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Coronavirus e RPA (Robotic Process Automation): riflessioni...
by ivan May 27, 2020

May 27, 2020

In questi tempi di emergenze tutte le istituzioni cercano di impegnarsi il più possibile per contribuire combattere la pandemia, ed in particolare mi ha colpito questo avviso: Avviso di consultazione pubblica per la preliminare verifica della ricorrenza delle condizioni per esperire procedura negoziata senza previa pubblicazione di un bando di gara. Acquisizione di un sistema di Robotic Process Automation (RPA) per allineamento continuo dei dati relativi ai tamponi in relazione al Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS/LIS) del laboratorio finalizzata alla ricerca molecolare del virus SARS-CoV 2 https://www.arpa.piemonte.it/lavora-con-noi/gare-e-appalti/11-2020 Leggendo la relazione (in allegato) mi ha colpito il fatto si debba implementare un RPA per far scambiare dati tra due Web Software della Pubblica Amministrazione per la modica cifra di 60000 euro. Ingenuamente mi sarei aspettato soluzioni differenti per allineare dei dati fra due database... ma non sono un esperto in materia e quindi mi astengo da ulteriori commenti. Voi cosa ne pensate? Cordiali saluti

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Nadim Kobeissi on Twitter: "Wow really impressed by StopCovid's commitment to privacy 👌 https://t.co/zFDwDwTJpE" / Twitter
by Alberto Cammozzo May 27, 2020

May 27, 2020

<https://twitter.com/kaepora/status/1265586688128159747> La pagina "Confidentialitè" della app StopCovid mostra "Lorem Ipsum...". Privacy by design?

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Hacking Team Founder: ‘Hacking Team is Dead’
by Giacomo Tesio May 27, 2020

May 27, 2020

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7wbnd/hacking-team-is-dead The company's former CEO posted a bizarre obituary on LinkedIn saying the infamous surveillance firm is "definitely dead." David Vincenzetti posted a short message saying “Hacking Team is dead” on Tuesday, more than a year after the Italian company was acquired by another cybersecurity firm and rebranded as Memento Labs. As Motherboard reported earlier this year, Memento Labs is struggling to take off after several key Hacking Team employees have left, slowing down the development of new products that it would need to compete with companies such as NSO Group. Vincenzetti did not respond to a request for comment via email. Paolo Lezzi, the CEO of Memento Labs, also did not immediately reply to an email asking for comment. While Hacking Team has formally ceased to exist when it got acquired and rebranded in 2019, Vincenzetti’s post is the last nail in the coffin, and the final chapter in the company’s fall from grace. Hacking Team was founded in 2003, and was among the very first companies to focus solely on developing software designed to hack and spy on computers, and later mobile phones. The company was one of the pioneers of the so-called lawful intercept industry, a market where firms provide these kinds of tools exclusively to law enforcement and intelligence agencies. In the 2000s, Hacking Team went from selling only to Italian agencies to selling to Spain’s national intelligence agency, and later to cops and spies in 41 different countries in its heyday in 2015. That year, a hacktivist known as Phineas Fisher broke into Hacking Team’s servers, stole gigabytes of sensitive data and posted it online, dealing the company with what would eventually become a deadly blow. Claudio Guarnieri, a security researcher that was among the very first to discover Hacking Team’s malware at the beginning of the last decade reacted to the post with irony. “So long and thanks for all the phish,” he said in an online chat, using the infosec lingo for phishing attacks, one of the most popular methods used by Hacking Team customers to hack targets. A former employee previously told Motherboard that Hacking Team without Vincenzetti is “like Nirvana without Kurt Cobain.” “Poor Vincenzetti,” the former employee said. “He’s flipping out. I’m really sorry to see him like this.”

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