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Conservatives Allege Big Tech Is Biased Against Them - The Atlantic
by J.C. DE MARTIN July 30, 2019

July 30, 2019

Why Conservatives Allege Big Tech Is Muzzling Them Google and Facebook aren’t infringing on the right’s freedom of expression, but insisting otherwise is politically convenient. JUL 28, 2019 Siva Vaidhyanathan https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/conservatives-pretend-big… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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How the West Got China's Social Credit System Wrong | WIRED
by J.C. DE MARTIN July 29, 2019

July 29, 2019

https://www.wired.com/story/china-social-credit-score-system/ (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Privacy group asks court to reconsider FTC’s $5 billion Facebook deal | Ars Technica
by J.C. DE MARTIN July 29, 2019

July 29, 2019

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/privacy-group-asks-court-to-rec… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Mattarella, web rispetti i principi delle democrazie
by don Luca Peyron July 29, 2019

July 29, 2019

Le sagge parole del nostro presidente della Repubblica dl http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/tecnologia/tlc/2019/07/25/mattarella-web-ri… _________________________ www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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Sentenza del rinvio nel caso C‑40/17, Fashion ID GmbH & Co. KG v Verbraucherzentrale NRW e.V.
by Alberto Cammozzo July 29, 2019

July 29, 2019

Se metti il plugin di FB sei co-responsabile per il trattamento dei dati che elabora. <http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=216555> [...] 84 Par conséquent, il apparaît que Fashion ID peut être considérée comme étant responsable, au sens de l’article 2, sous d), de la directive 95/46, conjointement avec Facebook Ireland, des opérations de collecte et de communication par transmission des données à caractère personnel des visiteurs de son site Internet.[...] Accolta la posizione dell'avvocato generale Bobek <http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=209357&doclang=EN> [...] A person that has embedded a third-party plug-in in its website, which causes the collection and transmission of the user’s personal data (that third party having provided the plug-in), shall be considered to be a controller within the meaning of Article 2(d) of Directive 95/46. However, that controller’s (joint) responsibility is limited to those operations for which it effectively co-decides on the means and purposes of the processing of the personal data. [...]

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Trenitalia fa causa a un'app che mostra i ritardi
by don Luca Peyron July 29, 2019

July 29, 2019

Questione di puntualità, di interesse pubblico, di dati open o meno... comunque un caso interessante. dl https://www.wired.it/lifestyle/mobilita/2019/07/29/trenitalia-trenit-dati-t… _________________________ www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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La tecnologia nel sistema di controllo politico e sociale saudita
by don Luca Peyron July 28, 2019

July 28, 2019

Da anni Riyad tiene un database che riguarda le sue cittadine con lo scopo di proteggere uno dei suoi istituti sociali più oscurantisti, quello del “guardiano”, che vede sulla base di una zelante interpretazione degli hadith <http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/hadith> ogni donna costretta ad affidare la sua intera esistenza al familiare maschio a lei più vicino (il marito, il padre, a volte persino il figlio più grande). Questo costume sociale, sostenuto dal governo saudita, di fatto impedisce a ogni donna saudita di avere il controllo sulla propria vita, dovendo dare conto al “guardiano” persino degli spostamenti più banali. Buona lettura, con un po' di mal di pancia assicurato. dl http://www.treccani.it/magazine/atlante/geopolitica/La_tecnologia_nel_siste… _________________________ www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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Don't ban facial recognition | TheHill
by Alberto Cammozzo July 28, 2019

July 28, 2019

Amitai Etzioni si schiera a favore del riconoscimento facciale: "se avessimo avuto le attuali tecnologie di riconoscimento facciale, avremmo potuto arrestare i terroristi della Boston marathon". Ammesso e non concesso, una delle molte domande da porsi sarebbe piuttosto: "se le attuali tecnologie di riconoscimento facciale fossero state implementate da allora, dato il tasso di falsi positivi, quanti arresti e uccisioni di cittadini erroneamente sospettati di essere terroristi avrebbero comportato?" E la garanzia di impiego rispettoso della legge è difficile da ottenere. <https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/454584-dont-ban-facial-recognition> At approximately 2:50 p.m. on April 15, 2013, two bombs exploded close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding another 250. The authorities were able to gain images of the terrorists, but were frantically seeking to establish their identities, to catch them before they planted more bombs, which turned out not to be an idle fear. Unable to identify the terrorists over three days, the FBI released their photographs, asking the public to help. Using current versions of facial recognition (FR), law enforcement could have identified them within three minutes. This astonishing number is not a rhetorical flourish; it is based on a six-month study by a Canadian robbery-investigation unit. In New York City, FR has been used in a variety of ways, including the arrests of a suspected rapist, a person who pushed another onto the subway tracks, the identification of a hospitalized woman suffering from Alzheimer’s and the identification of a child sex trafficker sought by the FBI. Over the course of 2018, New York City detectives requested 7,024 FR searches, resulting in 1,851 possible matches and 998 arrests. ADVERTISEMENT Like other new surveillance technologies, FR encounters a storm of concerns. Some critics sound alarms, based largely on what they fear FR will lead to not on observations of what it does. Thus Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union, warns that “[t]he ultimate nightmare is that we lose all anonymity when we step outside our homes. If you know where everyone is, you know where they work, live, pray. You know the doctors they visit, political meetings they attend, their hobbies, the sexual activities they engage in and who they’re associating with.” Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) likened FR to George Orwell’s Big Brother from “1984.” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) believes that “[w]e have a technology that was created and designed by one demographic, that is mostly effective on one demographic, and they’re trying to sell it and impose it on the entirety of the country.” In response, some localities, namely San Francisco, California, and Somerville, Massachusetts, have already banned the use of FR by their local government agencies. In the nation’s capital, legislators on both sides of the aisle are calling on Congress to ban FR or at least introduce a moratorium on its use. Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) advocates “a timeout.” Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD), the chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, is weighing both options. [...]

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L’inganno contemporaneo della conoscenza disintermediata
by don Luca Peyron July 28, 2019

July 28, 2019

Utile lettura a proposito del nostro conoscere o non conoscere... La cultura, la sua trasmissione, è ancora, fondamentalmente, una questione di relazioni. L'inganno dell'accesso disintermediato all'informazione e al sapere è un inganno. L'intermediazione, il rapporto con chi ha potuto fare esperienza, accumulare conoscenze, metterle alla prova rimane ancora una spinta evolutiva potente, sia individuale che collettiva. Ce lo insegna la manioca Buona lettura e buona domenica dl https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/l-inganno-contemporaneo-conoscenza-disinter… _________________________ www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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Revealing the Hidden Beauty of Common Components - IEEE Spectrum
by J.C. DE MARTIN July 27, 2019

July 27, 2019

https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/revealing-the-hidden-beauty-of… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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