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La sinistra e la rivoluzione digitale
by de petra giulio Jan. 3, 2020

Jan. 3, 2020

Una rivista un po’ vintage, che si chiama ‘Critica Marxista’, ha pubblicato un mio articolo su come la politica della sinistra potrebbe confrontarsi con la trasformazione digitale, nella cui scrittura ho fatto riferimento a molti dei temi trattati in questa lista. Mi permetto di segnalarlo a chi può essere interessato. Giulio

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Quarantining online hate speech: technical and ethical perspectives | SpringerLink
by Alberto Cammozzo Jan. 2, 2020

Jan. 2, 2020

Trattare lo hate speech come un virus: dove zoppica il paragone? <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-019-09516-z> In this paper we explore quarantining as a more ethical method for delimiting the spread of Hate Speech via online social media platforms. Currently, companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google generally respond reactively to such material: offensive messages that have already been posted are reviewed by human moderators if complaints from users are received. The offensive posts are only subsequently removed if the complaints are upheld; therefore, they still cause the recipients psychological harm. In addition, this approach has frequently been criticised for delimiting freedom of expression, since it requires the service providers to elaborate and implement censorship regimes. In the last few years, an emerging generation of automatic Hate Speech detection systems has started to offer new strategies for dealing with this particular kind of offensive online material. Anticipating the future efficacy of such systems, the present article advocates an approach to online Hate Speech detection that is analogous to the quarantining of malicious computer software. If a given post is automatically classified as being harmful in a reliable manner, then it can be temporarily quarantined, and the direct recipients can receive an alert, which protects them from the harmful content in the first instance. The quarantining framework is an example of more ethical online safety technology that can be extended to the handling of Hate Speech. Crucially, it provides flexible options for obtaining a more justifiable balance between freedom of expression and appropriate censorship.

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India’s founding values are threatened by sinister new forms of oppression | Madhav Khosla | Opinion | The Guardian
by Alberto Cammozzo Dec. 31, 2019

Dec. 31, 2019

<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/28/indias-founding-value…> [...] Automated facial recognition systems have been used to identify and to exclude protesters, based on earlier protest videos taped by police. The software used was originally developed to trace missing children. It is now being deployed to act against individuals, thereby not merely preventing them from protesting but doing so without any establishment of guilt. This year, the government issued a tender for an automated facial recognition system on a nationwide basis, whose end date has been extended five times. This is despite the absence of any clear legal framework to guide the use of such technology. The tender explicitly notes the benefits of the technology for crime prevention but omits any reference to privacy or sensitisation. In parallel has come the deployment of drone technology to capture images of protesters. In response, the Internet Freedom Foundation, a not-for-profit advocacy group, petitioned India’s directorate general of civil aviation seeking an independent legal opinion on the legality of drones. IFF has pointed out that the DGCA’s guidelines appear to have been openly flouted for the purposes of surveillance. As in the case with facial recognition, there are no clear parameters on when miniaturised drones can be flown with video cameras and visual recognition software. The state is exercising great power, and great power without authority. These technological moves should raise alarm bells. India has the world’s largest biometric database, with few checks on information processing and data mining, and it recently tabled a personal data protection bill in parliament that does little to address non-consensual data profiling by the state. With communal identification and a hegemonic political configuration on the one hand, and with powerful technological instruments on the other, India stands at a curious junction. It faces a medieval politics being driven by the weapons of the future.

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media.ccc.de - Inside the Fake Like Factories
by Alberto Cammozzo Dec. 30, 2019

Dec. 30, 2019

<https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10936-inside_the_fake_like_factories> [...] In a longterm investigation we met and talked to various of these so called “clickworkers” - liking, watching, clicking Facebook, You Tube and Instagram for a small amount of money the whole day in their living room. Fortuitously we could access thousand campaigns, Facebook Fanpages, You Tube videos or Instagram accounts. Thousands of websites and accounts, for which somebody bought likes in the past years. But we did not stop the investigation there: We dived deeper into the Facebook Fake Accounts and Fake Likes universe, bought likes at various other Fake Likes sellers. To get the big picture, we also developed a statistical method to calculate the alleged total number of Facebok User IDs, with surprising results.

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Revealed: the countries with the best work-life balance
by Luigi Scorca Dec. 30, 2019

Dec. 30, 2019

Guardate dov'è l'Italia.. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/10/work-play-life-balance-stress-nether… Luigi

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Silicon Valley Broke All Its Promises - The Atlantic
by J.C. DE MARTIN Dec. 29, 2019

Dec. 29, 2019

The Real Trouble With Silicon Valley The toxicity of the web is peanuts compared with Big Tech’s failure to remake the physical world. DEREK THOMPSON JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2020 ISSUE https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/wheres-my-flying-car/6… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Contract for the Web
by Diego Latella Dec. 29, 2019

Dec. 29, 2019

Quasi certamente mi sbaglio, ma mi pare di non averlo visto in nexa: https://contractfortheweb.org Buon 2020 Diego --- Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher - CNR/ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, IT (http:www.isti.cnr.it) 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

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Sospeso maestro che difende la privacy dei suoi alunni
by Antonio Casilli Dec. 29, 2019

Dec. 29, 2019

Scuola, sospeso maestro elementare che si rifiuta di usare il registro elettronico per ragioni di privacy https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2019/12/28/news/scuola_maestro_contro_il_… -- Antonio A. Casilli Professor, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris Member, Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation (i3 UMR 9217 CNRS) Associate Member, LACI-IIAC (EHESS) Faculty Fellow, Nexa Center for Internet & Society *We respect your right to disconnect. This email send time is due to my own workflow efficiency. You are in no obligation to take action or reply to it outside your office hours.*

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“The Decade the World Went Backwards"
by Francesco Ronchi Dec. 28, 2019

Dec. 28, 2019

“The Decade the World Went Backwards” di umair haque https://eand.co/the-decade-the-world-went-backwards-7031b59d108

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Washington Post: Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands
by Luigi Scorca Dec. 25, 2019

Dec. 25, 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/24/colleges-are-turning-s… Luigi

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