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Facial Recognition Can’t Distinguish Picture From Actual Person
by Alberto Cammozzo Nov. 23, 2018

Nov. 23, 2018

Alcuni anni e diversi milioni di investimenti dopo, quello che era stato previsto (perché statisticamente inevitabile) si verifica. Una cosa è la verifica di identità, un'altra è l'identificazione. Prima di rovinare la vita a diversi italiani innocenti e buttare milioni in SARI real-time occorrerebbe prendere atto anche da noi. <https://www.inquisitr.com/5174591/facial-recognition-cant-distinguish-pictu…> Facial recognition is all the rage. Everyone seems to be very excited about it, that is, until it turns against them. Some have reason to believe we are pushing the technology much faster than we should. It is already being deployed before it has been proven. That leads to the sort of incident that happened in Zhejiang province this week. /The Verge <https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/22/18107885/china-facial-recognition-mista…>/ provides more detail. “As first reported by /Abacus,/ it all took place in the Zhejiang province, south of Shanghai. The face of Dong Mingzhu, a president of China’s top air-conditioning company, flashed on a large screen displayed to the public listing nearby jaywalkers caught by cameras. A line of text captioned her photo, saying she had broken the law. It also listed part of her government ID number and her name, but misidentified her surname as ‘Ju.’ “But what the camera actually saw was an ad featuring Dong’s face on the side of a bus.” The local police did eventually admit their mistake. But the damage was already done. Reputation is difficult to mend. And in a country where face is everything, no company will tolerate too many incidents where they lose face even in what seems to be minor ways from a Western point of view. This is not the first time facial recognition has made an embarrassing mistake. /Slashdot <https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/0335204/Facial-Recognition-Gone-Wr…>/ posts other incidents where facial recognition went wrong. John Gass had his license revoked by mail because he looked too much like a person who had broken the law. The State of Massachusetts began using the software thanks to a grant from Homeland Security. Since then, it has been used in over 1,000 cases resulting in many misidentifications. Amazon’s facial recognition has similar problems. Not long ago, it infamously misidentified 28 out of 435 congressmen as criminals. Worse, 39 percent of those mistakes were made involving people of color. Only 5 percent were white. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University have shown facial recognition software to make more errors with women than with men, and more with darker rather than lighter skin. There is no magic to facial recognition software, but it is possible that it just mirrors the biases of the ones who train it. If mostly white males are used for the recognition training, it will likely be most accurate with white male faces. It may not have anything to do with white male faces being more distinct or easier to recognize. So it could lead to a more fundamental problem with women and people of color being potentially victimized by technology that is supposed to keep us safe ciao, Alberto

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Making Public | Torrent-like Publishing
by Antonio Vetro' Nov. 23, 2018

Nov. 23, 2018

"As part of the initial material contribution to the platform topic of the Making Public! RAAK project, and specifically thinking about networked publishing, I immediately focused on the recent new wave of peer 2 peer, decentralized technologies that took shape in the last few years, and about the possibility of publishing in a torrent-like fashion. Unlike the current internet scenario, these different ways to share informations again create actual bi-directional (if not multi-directional) ‘webs’ of links and points of connection to heterogeneous bodies of published material.” Continua su: http://networkcultures.org/makingpublic/2018/11/19/torrent-like-publishing/ Un caro saluto, Antonio

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Il senato Spagnolo sigla il GDPR che autorizza la profilazione per la politica...
by Matteo G.P. Flora Nov. 22, 2018

Nov. 22, 2018

< https://m.france24.com/en/20181121-spain-approves-contested-data-protection… > Il senato spagnolo ha approvato una controversa legge sulla protezione dei dati online, che permetterà ai partiti politici di indirizzare gli elettori con annunci basati sulla loro cronologia di navigazione in internet. La legge e mira a rendere la legislazione spagnola conforme al regolamento generale sulla protezione dei dati dell'Unione europea #GDPR <https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/gdpr?source=feed_text> ma include anche un emendamento che consente ai partiti politici di "utilizzare i dati personali ottenuti da pagine web e altre fonti accessibili al pubblico per svolgere attività politiche" durante i periodi delle campagne elettorali. Di fatto, legittimando le strategie alla Cambridge Analytica in Europa. In base al regolamento generale sulla protezione dei dati dell'UE, la raccolta di dati relativi alle opinioni politiche delle persone potrebbe essere autorizzata a condizione che vengano fornite le garanzie appropriate. La piattaforma spagnola per la difesa della libertà di informazione afferma che la legge apre la strada alle parti per creare "profili ideologici"... Vedo bene le elezioni Spagnole. Qui il testo di legge: < http://www.congreso.es/public_oficiales/L12/CONG/BOCG/A/BOCG-12-A-13-3.PDF> Qui il testo "incriminato": *Dos. Se añade un nuevo artículo cincuenta y ocho bis, con el contenido siguiente: «Artículo 58 bis. Utilización de medios tecnológicos y datos personales en las actividades electorales. 1. La recopilación de datos personales relativos a las opiniones políticas de las personas que lleven a cabo los partidos políticos en el marco de sus actividades electorales se encontrará amparada en el interés público únicamente cuando se ofrezcan garantías adecuadas. 2. Los partidos políticos, coaliciones y agrupaciones electorales podrán utilizar datos personales obtenidos en páginas web y otras fuentes de acceso público para la realización de actividades políticas durante el periodo electoral. 3. El envío de propaganda electoral por medios electrónicos o sistemas de mensajería y la contratación de propaganda electoral en redes sociales o medios equivalentes no tendrán la consideración de actividad o comunicación comercial. 4. Las actividades divulgativas anteriormente referidas identificarán de modo destacado su naturaleza electoral. 5. Se facilitará al destinatario un modo sencillo y gratuito de ejercicio del derecho de oposición.»* ...estote parati! :) M. -- *Matteo G.P. Flora**Founder @ The Fool - CEO @ Samadhi Investments* Via Merano, 16 | 20127 Milano | http://thefool.it off. +39.02-00613665 <02%200061%203665> | mob. +39.347.9676430 <347%20967%206430> PGP and Encrypted Messages: https://keybase.io/mgpf [image: photo] Matteo G.P. Flora Founder and CEO at The Fool by TF Group srl A Via Vitruvio, 1, Milano (MI), Italy M +39.347.9676430 <+39.347.9676430> E mf(a)thefool.it <mf(a)thefool.it> W http://thefool.it <http://thefool.it> <http://us.linkedin.com/in/matteoflora> <http://facebook.com/lastknight> <http://youtube.com/user/mgpfvideo> <http://medium.com/@mgpf> <http://twitter.com/lastknight> <http://mgpf.it/tedxtrento> 📹 Guarda il video di oggi su YouTube: Il problema dei Bot Instagram spiegato bene <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYQlOb23-ns>

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Article 13: If You Want To Force Google to Pay Artists More, Force Google to Pay Artists More | Electronic Frontier Foundation
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 22, 2018

Nov. 22, 2018

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/article-13-if-you-want-force-google-p… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Quando AI ci sfrutta
by Roberto Dolci Nov. 21, 2018

Nov. 21, 2018

https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2018/nov/18/computers-… Best Regards Rob Dolci President, Aizoon tel: +1 8663986567 415 Lisbon st., Lewiston, ME, 04240 1 Broadway, 14th fl., Cambridge, MA, 02142

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Declaration on Ethics and Data Protection in Artificial Intelligence
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 21, 2018

Nov. 21, 2018

https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/our-work/publications/international-… e anche, per vostra comodità, in allegato. juan carlos DECLARATION ON ETHICS AND DATA PROTECTION IN ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE 40th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners Tuesday 23rd October 2018, Brussels AUTHORS: * Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), France * European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), European Union * Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, Italy

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The HQ2 Scam: How Amazon Used a Bidding War to Scrape Cities’ Data - In These Times
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 20, 2018

Nov. 20, 2018

http://inthesetimes.com/article/21571/the-hq2-scam-how-amazon-used-a-biddin… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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The Complicated Legacy of Stewart Brand’s “Whole Earth Catalog”
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 20, 2018

Nov. 20, 2018

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-complicated-l… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Singapore wants to add face-recognition surveillance to 110, 000 lamp posts
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 20, 2018

Nov. 20, 2018

https://www.fastcompany.com/90269129/singapore-wants-to-add-face-recognitio… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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A Proposed Rule by the Industry and Security Bureau
by Giacomo Tesio Nov. 20, 2018

Nov. 20, 2018

> > As controls on exports of technology are a key component of the effort to > protect sensitive U.S. technology, many sensitive technologies are listed > on the CCL, often consistent with the lists maintained by the multilateral > export control regimes of which the United States is a member. Certain > technologies, however, may not yet be listed on the CCL or controlled > multilaterally because they are emerging technologies. As such, they have > not yet been evaluated for their national security impacts. This advance > notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) seeks public comment on criteria for > identifying emerging technologies that are essential to U.S. national > security, for example because they have potential conventional weapons, > intelligence collection, weapons of mass destruction, or terrorist > applications or could provide the United States with a qualitative military > or intelligence advantage. > https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/19/2018-25221/review-of-c… Fra le tecnologie su sui si propone di stabilire delle restrizioni all'esportazione Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technology, such as: > > (i) Neural networks and deep learning (*e.g.,* brain modelling, time > series prediction, classification); > > (ii) Evolution and genetic computation (*e.g.,* genetic algorithms, > genetic programming); > > (iii) Reinforcement learning; > > (iv) Computer vision (*e.g.,* object recognition, image understanding); > > (v) Expert systems (*e.g.,* decision support systems, teaching systems); > Giacomo

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