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EU Antitrust Chief Defends Countries’ Digital Tax Measures
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 26, 2020

Feb. 26, 2020

*EU Antitrust Chief Defends Countries’ Digital Tax Measures *Feb. 26, 2020, 8:00 AM / - Efforts needed in absence of unified solution, Vestager says// // - Supports OECD efforts to forge a global plan/ EU antitrust and tech chief Margrethe Vestager defended European nations’ plans to impose their own digital services taxes on large tech firms. France, Italy, Austria, and the Czech Republic, frustrated by failure to reach consensus on an EU-wide digital services tax, are pushing ahead with their own measures. “I strongly applaud that member states are picking it up where we failed as a community together to do something,” Vestager said in an interview with Bloomberg Tax on Tuesday. “I think it is very important in order to be able to answer the many businesses who pay their taxes, that you’re willing to do something to make sure that your competitors, they pay as well,” she added. [...] continua qui: https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report-international/eu-antitrust-c…

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Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain
by Stefano Quintarelli Feb. 26, 2020

Feb. 26, 2020

Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin generated and saved every possible melody to a hard drive, then turned it back around to the commons. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxepzw/musicians-algorithmically-generat… -- reserve your meeting with me at https://cal.quintarelli.it

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Moshe Vardi: Advancing Computing as a Science and Profession–But to What End?
by Diego Latella Feb. 26, 2020

Feb. 26, 2020

Nice note of Moshe Vardi in the Communications of the ACM (March 2020): "Advancing Computing as a Science and Profession–But to What End?” https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/3/243014-advancing-computing-as-a-scien… <https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/3/243014-advancing-computing-as-a-scien…> Diego 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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How Much is Privacy Worth Around the World and Across Platforms?
by don Luca Peyron Feb. 26, 2020

Feb. 26, 2020

In this paper, we measure individuals’ valuation of online privacy across a wide range of countriesand data types. The online information we consider includes personal information onfinances, biometrics, location, networks, communications, and web browsing. The countries we analyze include the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, and Germany. We conduct these measures using carefully designed, internationally distributed, discrete choice surveys. These surveys allow us to measure tradeoffs across these aspectsof online privacy, and importantly,allow us to make relative comparisons of these tradeoffs across many countries. dl https://techpolicyinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Prince_Wallsten_… _________________________ www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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Re: [nexa] "A European strategy for data "
by Giuseppe Attardi Feb. 26, 2020

Feb. 26, 2020

Il 19/02/20 23:38, J.C. DE MARTIN ha scritto: > COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE > COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF > THE REGIONS > > A European strategy for data > > > Documento (PDF, 35 pagin) in allegato. > > juan carlos Today 80% of the processing and analysis of data takes place in data centres and centralised computing facilities, and 20% in smart connected objects, such as cars, home appliances or manufacturing robots, and in computing facilities close to the user (‘edge computing’). By 2025 these proportions are likely to be inverted. Ammesso e non concesso che questo sia vero, a questo punto l’obiettivo di The aim is to create a single European data space – a genuine single market for data, open to data from across the world sarebbe inutile o poco rilevante. Ciascun dispositivo userebbe i propri dati e dello spazio singolo europeo ne potrebbe fare a meno. In realtà cedo stia sfuggendo il fatto che sono proprio le raccolte di dati centralizzate quelle che costituiscono un valore economico e un vantaggio competitivo. I dati di singoli hanno ben poco valore, solo raccolti tutti insieme in dataset collettivi hanno un valore, quanto meno per ragioni di statistica. È per questo che secondo me bisognerebbe ragionare sui dati collettivi come di un Common Good, la cui proprietà non è dei singoli, ma della comunità. Chiunque accoglie dati da cittadini o da fonti pubbliche, dovrebbe non esserne proprietario ed essere obbligato a renderli accessibili a chiunque a condizioni eque. È la quinta delle mie re4gole dell’economia robotizzata. — Beppe

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Cambiare il mondo con un click: una riflessione sul clicktivism
by don Luca Peyron Feb. 25, 2020

Feb. 25, 2020

Semplice ed interessante panoramica sull'attivismo on line Buona lettura dl http://www.beunsocial.it/cambiare-il-mondo-con-un-click-una-riflessione-sul… _________________________ www.apostolatodigitale.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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Artificial intelligence yields new antibiotic
by don Luca Peyron Feb. 25, 2020

Feb. 25, 2020

http://news.mit.edu/2020/artificial-intelligence-identifies-new-antibiotic-…

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L’intelligenza artificiale minaccia la nostra responsabilità morale: ecco come
by don Luca Peyron Feb. 24, 2020

Feb. 24, 2020

Un articolo interessante che mi pare non sia ancora stato qui condiviso. Buona lettura dl https://www.agendadigitale.eu/cultura-digitale/lintelligenza-artificiale-mi… _________________________ www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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Éric Sadin: stiamo in guardia dalla tecnologia antiumana e dalla data-driven society
by don Luca Peyron Feb. 24, 2020

Feb. 24, 2020

Invito alla lettura dl https://www.morningfuture.com/it/article/2020/02/24/eric-sadin-tecnologia-s… _________________________ www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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EU Commission Embraces Remote Facial Recognition? :: Civil Liberties Union for Europe
by Alberto Cammozzo Feb. 24, 2020

Feb. 24, 2020

<https://www.liberties.eu/en/news/ec-white-paper-on-ai-and-facial-recognitio…> The latest version of the European Commission's white paper on AI does not specify a temporary ban on remote facial recognition. Today, the European Commission presented its white paper on AI. In line with what the media found out last week, the released version - as opposed to an earlier draft - does not suggest a temporary ban on remote facial recognition. During a press event last Thursday, Commission Vice-President for Digital Margrethe Vestager said that the Commission would not propose any EU-level regulatory measure now. “So what we will say in the paper in a very lawyered up language is, let’s pause and figure out if there are any [situations], and if any, under what circumstances facial recognition remotely should be authorised," Vestager said. At the end of the day, this means that law enforcement agencies all over Europe will increasingly use the technology in ways they see fit, in many cases under highly questionable interpretations of the national laws. (The best research on this was conducted by Privacy International in the UK last year. If you are interested in how UK police are breaching the rights of our former fellow-citizens, read about their project here.) Police surveillance coupled with facial recognition technology endangers our democracies. It hinders our right to speak our minds, to meet others and publicly express our disagreements with people in power. It is especially dangerous in times when authoritarianism is on the rise. The white paper on AI will be the starting point of a 12-week consultation. Liberties strongly hopes that in those 12 weeks the Commission will listen to the human rights community’s concerns, and its legislative proposal, expected to be put forward late this year, will appropriately protect our civil liberties and human rights.

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