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AGI - Agenzia Italia: In Finlandia il grande utilizzo di carte di credito ha indebitato i cittadini
by don Luca Peyron Feb. 16, 2020

Feb. 16, 2020

Il passo più lungo della gamba digital edition. Educazione digitale significa anche questo evidentemente! Buona lettura Dl https://www.agi.it/estero/news/2020-02-16/carte-credito-debito-finlandia-70…

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Focus on Human Control - International Panel on the Regulation of Autonomous Weapons (iPraw) August 8, 2019 [notsp]
by Diego.Latella Feb. 14, 2020

Feb. 14, 2020

FYI (sorry for late announcement ...) Focus on Human Control [1] International Panel on the Regulation of Autonomous Weapons (iPraw) [2] August 8, 2019 Diego PS: link available also at the Computers: National Security, War, and Civil Rights [3] page of the USPID web site (www.uspid.org [4]) -- Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher - CNR/ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, IT (http:www.isti.cnr.it [5]); FM&&T Laboratory (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it) http://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - phone: +39 0503152982 - mob: +39 348 8283101 - fax +39 0503152040 Links: ------ [1] https://www.ipraw.org/human-control/ [2] https://www.ipraw.org/ [3] http://www.uspid.org/compwa.html [4] http://www.uspid.org [5] http://www.isti.cnr.it

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Ajunwa to Congress: Help stop employers’ AI-fueled bias - Mary Catt - Cornell Chronicle - February 11, 2020 [notsp]
by Diego Latella Feb. 14, 2020

Feb. 14, 2020

http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/02/ajunwa-congress-help-stop-employers… <http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/02/ajunwa-congress-help-stop-employers…> D Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR-ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy (http:www.isti.cnr.it) FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it) http://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, mob: +39 348 8283101, fax: +390506212040 =================== The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than compulsion; if in the process we learn how to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task. Above all, remember your humanity. -- Sir Joseph Rotblat

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Re: [nexa] Big Data: pubblicata indagine Agcom, Agcm e Garante privacy - Garante Privacy
by Giuseppe Attardi Feb. 13, 2020

Feb. 13, 2020

> On 11 Feb 2020, at 13:57, nexa-request(a)server-nexa.polito.it wrote: > > Questo è un URL più tradizionale su cui consultare il rapporto > https://www.garanteprivacy.it/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/9264204 Il documento mi pare ampio e approfondito e condivisibili le raccomandazioni. Riporto alcune considerazioni varie. Mi sembra che Big Data venga usato principalmente con l’accezione di dati raccolti tramite Internet: "la fase di raccolta dei Big Data ha inizio con la generazione che si realizza nell’ambito di attività svolte dagli utenti in un contesto informatizzato ovvero nell’ambito della cosiddetta Internet of things." Andrebbero ricordati tutti i dati ottenuti con la ricerca scientifica (fisica, medica, biologica, genomica, astronomia, s …) o da sistemi di monitoraggio (traffico aereo, satelliti, terremoti), o da sistemi di transazioni (finanza, commercio), che non sono generati da Internet né si trovano spesso in Internet. Anche in questo documento secondo me si fa confusione tra ML e Artificial Intelligence. Inutile che lo ripeta: i dati di sensori, IoT e simili non sono utilizzabili per Artificial Intelligence in quanto non contengono le indicazioni di un comportamento umano intelligente. Si riporta: “i programmi di intelligenza artificiale [...] apprendono grazie alla disponibilità di un elevatissimo numero di esempi” tralasciando che gli esempi devono essere annotati con le decisioni umane sull’esito ricavato o sull’intento che li ha generati. Strano che non venga citato il libro della Zuboff su Surveillance Capitalism, che è un importante contributo sull’uso distorto dei dati raccolti dagli utenti. Trovo invece fondamentali le questioni poste nella sezione 5.2, tra cui: Dati come barriera all’entrata barriere all’entrata Portabilità dei dati e riduzione switching costs L’emergere di posizioni dominanti Dominio su nuovi mercati Potere di mercato e operazioni di concentrazione Significativa la questione dell'asimmetria informativa tra consumatore e impresa, che secondo me si risolve stabilendo che i dati raccolti dagli utenti sono un bene comune, non una proprietà privata di chi li ha raccolti, che andrebbe citata nella sez. 5.3.6 (Diritti di proprietà e architetture alternative di gestione dei dati). Le alternative considerate: portabilità dei dati, possesso dei dati, interoperabilità, decentralizzazione (cit. progetto Solid di MIT), sono difficilmente percorribili. Non sono d’accordo che "i dati personali acquisiti dal fornitore di un servizio sono spesso visti […] come il prezzo che un utente paga per la fruizione di quest’ultimo”. Il fenomeno del "free effect”, per cui gli utenti sono disposti a fornire dati o contenuti in cambio della gratuità di un servizio andrebbe approfondito, non solo negli aspetti di privacy, ma anche di distorsione della concorrenza o di barriere all’ingresso di altri. Concordo che "l’intreccio tra le competenze del Garante dei dati personali e dell’Autorità antitrust può rivelarsi inevitabile e particolarmente complesso”, anzi la questione va posta a livello europeo. — Beppe PS. Riguardo alle piattaforme cloud, non ci sono solo AWS e OpenStack, ma anche Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud oltre a Kubernetes, AWS ECS, Google Containers.

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From ethics washing to ethics bashing: a view on tech ethics from within moral philosophy
by Giacomo Tesio Feb. 13, 2020

Feb. 13, 2020

The word 'ethics' is under siege in technology policy circles. Weaponized in support of deregulation, self-regulation or handsoff governance, "ethics" is increasingly identified with technology companies' self-regulatory efforts and with shallow appearances of ethical behavior. So-called "ethics washing" by tech companies is on the rise, prompting criticism and scrutiny from scholars and the tech community at large. In parallel to the growth of ethics washing, its condemnation has led to a tendency to engage in "ethics bashing." This consists in the trivialization of ethics and moral philosophy now understood as discrete tools or pre-formed social structures such as ethics boards, self-governance schemes or stakeholder groups. The misunderstandings underlying ethics bashing are at least threefold: (a) philosophy and "ethics" are seen as a communications strategy and as a form of instrumentalized cover-up or façade for unethical behavior, (b) philosophy is understood in opposition and as alternative to political representation and social organizing and (c) the role and importance of moral philosophy is downplayed and portrayed as mere "ivory tower" intellectualization of complex problems that need to be dealt with in practice. This paper argues that the rhetoric of ethics and morality should not be reductively instrumentalized, either by the industry in the form of "ethics washing," or by scholars and policy-makers in the form of "ethics bashing." Grappling with the role of philosophy and ethics requires moving beyond both tendencies and seeing ethics as a mode of inquiry that facilitates the evaluation of competing tech policy strategies. In other words, we must resist narrow reductivism of moral philosophy as instrumentalized performance and renew our faith in its intrinsic moral value as a mode of knowledgeseeking and inquiry. Far from mandating a self-regulatory scheme or a given governance structure, moral philosophy in fact facilitates the questioning and reconsideration of any given practice, situating it within a complex web of legal, political and economic institutions. Moral philosophy indeed can shed new light on human practices by adding needed perspective, explaining the relationship between technology and other worthy goals, situating technology within the human, the social, the political. It has become urgent to start considering technology ethics also from within and not only from outside of ethics. Continua su https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3351095.3372860 PDF: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3351095.3372860?download=true Che ne pensate? Giacomo

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Re: [nexa] Il documentario "Invisibles - Les travailleurs du clic" è online
by barbaracarfagna＠libero.it Feb. 13, 2020

Feb. 13, 2020

Grazie! Inviato da Libero Mail per iOS mercoledì 12 febbraio 2020, 23:54 +0100 da cristina(a)cossuavv.191.it <cristina(a)cossuavv.191.it>: >Grazie infinite! >Ritengo che siano importanti spunti di riflessione e confronto ..anche sotto il profilo giuridico. >Sarebbe molto interessante approfondire le tematiche dal punto di vista degli operatori del diritto... >Cari saluti. >Cristina > > > > >Inviato da smartphone Samsung Galaxy. > > >-------- Messaggio originale -------- >Da: Antonio Casilli < antonio.casilli(a)telecom-paris.fr > >Data: 12/02/20 22:06 (GMT+01:00) >A: nexa < nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > >Oggetto: [nexa] Il documentario "Invisibles - Les travailleurs du clic" è online > >Cari tutti, > >la serie di documentari "Invisibles - Les travailleurs du clic", è ormai disponibile gratuitamente sulla piattaforma della televisione pubblica francese, France Télévisions: https://www.france.tv/slash/invisibles/ . > >I 4 episodi saranno disponibili dal 14 febbraio anche su Youtube e Peertube (a cadenza settimanale). > >Presentazione: > >I social, le app di consegna a domicilio, i motori di ricerca... Come possiamo fare a meno di queste applicazioni che riempiono le nostre giornate e ci rendono la vita più facile? Facebook, Google, Amazon, Deliveroo, Uber Eats, Airbnb, Booking, Tinder... Tutte queste piattaforme, come per magia, rispondono quasi istantaneamente ai nostri bisogni, desideri e aspirazioni. Tanto che ci si dimentica che dietro le loro interfacce ci sono migliaia di uomini e donne che lavorano ogni giorno per farle funzionare. > >Ep. 1 - "Gioventù in movimento" (produzione dati e gestione algoritmica del personale, da Uber ai ciclofattorini) > >Ep. 2 - "Microlavorare di più per il microguadagnare di meno" (i lavoratori che addestrano l'IA, tra l'Europa e l'Africa) > >Ep. 3 - "Traumi senza moderazione" (i rischi legati all'attività dei moderatori dei contenuti dei social, e le loro strategie di resistenza) > >Ep. 4 - "Oltre il clic" (quando i lavoratori del clic si organizzano, creano piattaforme alternative e diventano whistleblowers) > >Buon binge-watching, >Antonio > > > >-- >Antonio A. Casilli >Professore, Telecom Parigi, Institut Polytechnique de Paris >Membro, Istituto interdisciplinare per l'innovazione (i3 UMR 9217 CNRS) >Membro Associato, LACI-IIAC (EHESS) >Borsista di Facoltà, Centro Nexa per Internet e Società >_______________________________________________ >nexa mailing list >nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it >https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa >_______________________________________________ >nexa mailing list >nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it >https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

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(Ricerca) The future of platforms - MIT Sloan Management Review
by Federico Bo Feb. 12, 2020

Feb. 12, 2020

Dalla MIT Sloan Management Review Platforms power the world’s most valuable companies, but it will get harder and harder to capture and monetize their disruptive potential. https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-future-of-platforms/ (necessaria iscrizione (gratuita) per scaricare la ricerca) Federico -- Ing. Federico Bo /federicobo.eu <https://www.federicobo.eu/>/

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CIA controlled global encryption company for decades, says report | US news | The Guardian
by Alberto Cammozzo Feb. 12, 2020

Feb. 12, 2020

<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/11/crypto-ag-cia-bnd-germany-i…> The Swiss government has ordered an inquiry into a global encryption company based in Zug following revelations it was owned and controlled for decades by US and German intelligence. Joe Biden leaves New Hampshire early as Democrats vote in primary – live Read more Encryption weaknesses added to products sold by Crypto AG allowed the CIA and its German counterpart, the BND, to eavesdrop on adversaries and allies alike while earning million of dollars from the sales, according the Washington Post and the German public broadcaster ZDF, based on the agencies’ internal histories of the intelligence operation. “It was the intelligence coup of the century,” the CIA report concluded. “Foreign governments were paying good money to the US and West Germany for the privilege of having their most secret communications read by at least two (and possibly as many as five or six) foreign countries.” The mention of five or six countries is probably a reference to the Five Eyes electronic intelligence sharing agreement between the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The operation, codenamed Thesaurus and then renamed Rubicon in 1980s, demonstrated the overwhelming intelligence value of being able to insert flaws into widely sold communications equipment. The CIA’s success over many years is likely to reinforce current US suspicions of equipment made by the Chinese company Huawei. Neither China or the Soviet Union bought Crypto encryption devices, suspicious of the company’s origins, but it was sold to more than 100 other countries. Carolina Bohren, a spokeswoman for the Swiss defence ministry, said in an emailed statement: “The events under discussion date back to 1945 and are difficult to reconstruct and interpret in the present day context.” Bohren said that following media inquiries about the company, the Swiss government appointed a former federal supreme court judge, Niklaus Oberholzer, in January to “investigate and clarify the facts of the matter” and report back to the defence ministry in June. Meanwhile, Switzerland has suspended foreign sales of Crypto products. At their height, Operations Thesaurus and Rubicon provided the US with a powerful intelligence edge. When Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin were hosted by the former president Jimmy Carter at Camp David in 1978 to negotiate an Egyptian-Israeli peace accord, the US was able to monitor all Sadat’s communications with Cairo. Iran was also a Crypto customer, allowing CIA and the National Security Agency (NSA) to spy on the revolutionary government in Tehran during the 1979 hostage crisis. US intelligence was also able to eavesdrop on Libyan officials congratulating each other on the 1986 bombing of a Berlin disco. According to the CIA’s history, the US passed on intercepted communications about Argentinian military plans to the UK during the Falklands war, exploiting Argentina’s reliance on Crypto encryption equipment. The CIA and BND agreed the purchase of Crypto in 1970 but, fearing exposure, the BND sold its share of the company to the US in the early 1990s. According to the Washington Post, the CIA continued to exploit the company until 2018, when it sold the company’s assets to two private companies. [...]

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Commons Markets and Public Policy
by Marco Ciurcina Feb. 12, 2020

Feb. 12, 2020

Commons, Markets and Public Policy Free and Open Source Software as a Laboratory for the Information Paradigm di Marco Berlinguer Lo trovate qui https://www.transform-network.net/en/publications/issue/commons-markets-and… m.c.

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Per chi fosse a Milano venerdì prossimo
by Oreste Pollicino Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Presentazione Volume Garante privacy

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