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Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community
by Giacomo Tesio May 1, 2019

May 1, 2019

https://github.blog/2019-04-29-apache-joins-github-community/ In 2016, Apache made the decision to start integrating GitHub’s repository and tooling with their own services. After solidifying the integration over the years, they decided to simplify how they work and move all Git projects to GitHub. As of February 2019, Apache’s migration to GitHub was complete ____ 3 anni di lavoro per introdurre un single point of failure fuori dal controllo della comunità al centro del processo di sviluppo di oltre 350 progetti open source fondamentali per l'infrastruttura di milioni di aziende in tutto il mondo. E se vi chiedete perché... https://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html Giacomo

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Facebook will open its data up to academics to see how it impacts elections - MIT Technology Review
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 1, 2019

May 1, 2019

https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613451/facebook-will-open-its-data-up-to… More than 60 researchers from 30 institutions will get access to Facebook user data to study its impact on elections and democracy, and how it’s used by advertisers and publishers. (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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NYT: "Apple Cracks Down on Apps That Fight iPhone Addiction"
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 1, 2019

May 1, 2019

*Apple Cracks Down on Apps That Fight iPhone Addiction* By Jack Nicas April 27, 2019 SAN FRANCISCO — They all tell a similar story: They ran apps that helped people limit the time they and their children spent on iPhones. Then Apple created its own screen-time tracker. And then Apple made staying in business very, very difficult. Over the past year, Apple has removed or restricted at least 11 of the 17 most downloaded screen-time and parental-control apps, according to an analysis by The New York Times and Sensor Tower, an app-data firm. Apple has also clamped down on a number of lesser-known apps. In some cases, Apple forced companies to remove features that allowed parents to control their children’s devices or that blocked children’s access to certain apps and adult content. In other cases, it simply pulled the apps from its App Store. Some app makers with thousands of paying customers have shut down. Most others say their futures are in jeopardy. […] Continua qui: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/27/technology/apple-screen-time-trackers.ht…

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The Tragedy of "The Tragedy of the Commons" - Scientific American Blog Network
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 30, 2019

April 30, 2019

The Tragedy of the Tragedy of the Commons The man who wrote one of environmentalism’s most-cited essays was a racist, eugenicist, nativist and Islamaphobe—plus his argument was wrong By Matto Mildenberger on April 23, 2019 https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-tragedy-of-the-tragedy-of-t… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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US warns British telecom giants against use of Huawei kit
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 30, 2019

April 30, 2019

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/04/30/vodafone-admits-finding-h… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Amazon Is Aggressively Pursuing Big Oil as It Stalls Out on Clean Energy
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 30, 2019

April 30, 2019

https://gizmodo.com/amazon-is-aggressively-pursuing-big-oil-as-it-stalls-ou… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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European Tech Insights
by don Luca Peyron April 30, 2019

April 30, 2019

Buongiorno a tutti, una ricerca interessante da analizzare: un cittadino europeo su quattro preferirebbe lasciare che fosse un’intelligenza artificiale a prendere decisioni importanti sulla gestione del proprio Paese. Nei Paesi Bassi, in Germania e nel Regno Unito, la percentuale è ancora più alta con un cittadino su tre che ammette di preferire una macchina per determinare la direzione del proprio paese piuttosto che un essere umano. https://www.ie.edu/cgc/research/tech-opinion-poll-2019/# ed un articolo che ne individua alcune questioni https://forbes.it/2019/04/24/intelligenza-artificiale-al-posto-dei-politici/ Buona lettura! dl _________________________ www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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Amazon's system for tracking its warehouse workers can automatically fire them - MIT Technology Review
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 30, 2019

April 30, 2019

https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613434/amazons-system-for-tracking-its-w… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Buttarelli: We need to talk about terms and conditions | European Data Protection Supervisor
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 30, 2019

April 30, 2019

https://edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/blog/we-need-talk-abou… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Is your pregnancy app sharing your intimate data with your boss?
by Giacomo Tesio April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

https://web.archive.org/web/20190416160537/https://www.washingtonpost.com/t… Like millions of women, Diana Diller was a devoted user of the pregnancy-tracking app Ovia, logging in every night to record new details on a screen asking about her bodily functions, sex drive, medications and mood. When she gave birth last spring, she used the app to chart her baby’s first online medical data — including her name, her location and whether there had been any complications — before leaving the hospital’s recovery room. But someone else was regularly checking in, too: her employer, which paid to gain access to the intimate details of its workers’ personal lives, from their trying-to-conceive months to early motherhood. Diller’s bosses could look up aggregate data on how many workers using Ovia’s fertility, pregnancy and parenting apps had faced high-risk pregnancies or gave birth prematurely; the top medical questions they had researched; and how soon the new moms planned to return to work. “Maybe I’m naive, but I thought of it as positive reinforcement: They’re trying to help me take care of myself,” said Diller, 39, an event planner in Los Angeles for the video game company Activision Blizzard. The decision to track her pregnancy had been made easier by the $1 a day in gift cards the company paid her to use the app: That’s “diaper and formula money,” she said. [...] ...this new generation of “menstrual surveillance” tools is [...] designed largely to benefit not the women but their employers and insurers, who gain a sweeping new benchmark on which to assess their workers as they consider the next steps for their families and careers. [...] “The real benefit of self-tracking is always to the company,” Levy said. “People are being asked to do this at a time when they’re incredibly vulnerable and may not have any sense where that data is being passed.” [...] “Each time we introduced something, there was a bit of an outcry: ‘You’re prying into our lives,’ ” Ezzard said. “But we slowly increased the sensitivity of stuff, and eventually people understood it’s all voluntary, there’s no gun to your head, and we’re going to reward you if you choose to do it.” “People’s sensitivity,” he added, “has gone from, ‘Hey, Activision Blizzard is Big Brother,’ to, ‘Hey, Activision Blizzard really is bringing me tools that can help me out.’ ” [...] Ovia began as a consumer-facing app that made money in the tried-and-true advertising fashion of Silicon Valley. But three years ago, Wallace said, the company was approached by large national insurers who said the app could help them improve medical outcomes and access maternity data via the women themselves. Ovia’s corporate deals with employers and insurers have seen “triple-digit growth” in recent years, Wallace said. The company would not say how many firms it works with, but the number of employees at those companies is around 10 million, a statistic Ovia refers to as “covered lives.” [...]

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