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The Friendship That Made Google Huge
by gianlucaquaglia＠gmail.com Dec. 4, 2018

Dec. 4, 2018

Annals of Technology December 10, 2018 Issue The Friendship That Made Google Huge Coding together at the same computer, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat changed the course of the company—and the Internet. [...] continua qui https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship-that-made-goog… --

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Are Google and Facebook really suppressing conservative politics? | Technology | The Guardian
by Alberto Cammozzo Dec. 4, 2018

Dec. 4, 2018

<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/04/google-facebook-anti-con…> In August, Paula Bolyard, a supervising editor at the conservative news outlet PJ Media, published a story reporting that 96% of Google search results for Donald Trump prioritized “left-leaning and anti-Trump media outlets”. Bolyard’s results were generated according to her own admittedly unscientific methodology. She searched for “Trump” in Google’s News tab, and then used a highly questionable media chart that separated outlets into “left” and “right” to tabulate the results. She reported that 96 of 100 results returned were from so-called “left-leaning” news outlets, with 21 of those from CNN alone. Despite this dubious methodology, Bolyard’s statistic spread, and her story was picked up by a Fox Business Network show. [...]

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Blockchain study finds 0.00% success rate and vendors don't call back when asked for evidence
by Giacomo Tesio Dec. 3, 2018

Dec. 3, 2018

Articolo interessante che si conclude con una proposta interessante: > Perhaps technology consultancy and marketing should be as tightly > regulated as financial consultancy, where mis-selling can (in theory) > lead to a lifetime ban from the industry, something the US Securities > and Exchange Commission can do for people who violate securities > law, like Michael Milken. > > Surely if you hype "blockchain" or "artificial intelligence" (this report > details a 95 per cent failure rate at Monsanto) and it was never going to > work well, surely that's indistinguishable from fraud. A graduated series > of penalties ranging from a five-year ban to a lifetime ban could then be > imposed. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/30/blockchain_study_finds_0_per_cent_…

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Quattro chiacchiere su GDPR e BlockChain (Diego Giorio)
by karlessi Dec. 3, 2018

Dec. 3, 2018

Buonasera, mi permetto una precisazione che ritengo fondamentale a proposito dell'origine "politica" della blockchain: > Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 11:33:28 +0000 > From: Diego Giorio <dgiorio(a)hotmail.com> > To: Giacomo Tesio <giacomo(a)tesio.it> > Cc: Nexa <nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it>, "Matteo G.P. Flora" > <mf(a)thefool.it> > Subject: Re: [nexa] Quattro chiacchiere su GDPR e BlockChain > Message-ID: > <DM5PR1301MB20427A825F27417C80A12580BEAE0(a)DM5PR1301MB2042.namprd13.prod.outlook.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" [snip] > > D'altra parte la blockchain è stata teorizzata inzialmente in ambito ciberpunk, ovvero in una comunità anarchica, per superare il problema (secondo la loro visione) di un'autorità centrale di controllo. - sì, sicuramente i Cypherpunks (Cypher, non Cyber) teorizzarono nella ml omonima alla fine degli anni Ottanta qualcosa di simile alla blockchain e agli smart contracts, o almeno alla criptomoneta elettronica. I Cypherpunks però NON erano affatto una comunità anarchica, semmai anarco-capitalista. Cioè "libertari di destra" o "anarchici di destra" (espressioni che ritengo prive di significato, ma purtroppo costoro le usano per definirsi da qualche decennio). Non tutti, ma senz'altro i fondatori, tra cui Tim May ed Eric Hugues. In ogni caso, non c'entrano nulla con la tradizione di matrice socialista dell'anarchismo "à la" Proudhon-Bakunin-Kropotkin-Malatesta etc. Cosa ne sia ora di questa ml e se abbia un orientamento politico "anarchico" è un altro discorso > cf. archivi recenti https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/ per chi volesse approfondire, con un collega abbiamo scritto un articolo pubblicato su Mondo Digitale N 2 - 2017 (pp. 5 ssg, § 3. Dal cypherpunk a Wikileaks e oltre) http://mondodigitale.aicanet.net/2017-2/articoli/03_Garcia-Milani_MD69.pdf - il cyberpunk è (stato) un fenomeno prevalentemente letterario-artistico-musicale l'anarco-capitalismo è una variante estremista del libertarianesimo (right libertarians), un movimento che negli USA conta un partito politico di riferimento, lobbies e think-tanks (Cato Institute etc.) nota di colore per capire di cosa parliamo: questo è un tipico evento anarco-capitalista: https://anarchapulco.com/ c'è grande confusione sotto il cielo, buona serata k. -- "C.I.R.C.E. - https://circex.org" "tecnologie appropriate - https://alekos.net" GPG keys available via keyservers https://pgp.mit.edu/ Key fingerprint = BDFB 786F 6B35 7EB0 CE48 530C FCF9 E111 3537 3013

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Now you can read the controversial Definers research about George Soros and Facebook
by Matteo Flora Dec. 2, 2018

Dec. 2, 2018

Now you can read the controversial Definers research about George Soros and Facebook https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/01/facebook-definers-george-soros/

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Fwd: [liberationtech] Who's Working for Your Vote? - a new release by Tactical Tech
by Alberto Cammozzo Nov. 30, 2018

Nov. 30, 2018

Tactical Tech has identified more than 300 organisations around the world working with political parties through data-driven campaigning. Interessante survey. Nessuna in Italia, però.... Che sia davvero così? Alberto -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [liberationtech] Who's Working for Your Vote? - a new release by Tactical Tech Reply-To: liberationtech <liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu> List-Id: liberationtech <liberationtech.lists.stanford.edu> Sender: "liberationtech" <liberationtech-bounces(a)lists.stanford.edu> In 2018, Cambridge Analytica, the data mining and analytics company, dominated the news about political campaigning and data. But they are not alone in using personal data for political influence. Since we began actively documenting this industry, our global list has expanded to 329 organisations, and it is still growing. We started our research by examining a few news articles that profiled data brokers and data analytics companies. From there, we began a series of in-depth investigations into the context of these companies – the work they do, their outreach and how they fit into a landscape of other organisations and actors. We reviewed the websites and promotional materials they produced, we conducted open-ended interviews with some of their staff members, and we attended industry events. Through this research, we mapped a digital campaigning industry whose breadth and depth far surpassed our expectations. This overview is the start of the a series in which we unpack our findings. There are two features of these organisations that are important to their impact on democratic processes. Firstly, most of them are for-profit companies, with the primary aim of generating, maintaining and growing revenue, a business model that inevitably guides their decisions rather than traditional political metrics such as voter participation. Secondly, the organisations are, for the most part, hired for their expertise in data technologies rather than their knowledge or engagement in politics. Political campaigning is now often largely mediated by data-driven technology organisations. https://ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org/posts/whos-working-for-vote/ This article is part of The Influence Industry, a series looking at the global business of using data in elections. -- https://tacticaltech.org @info_activism -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing the moderator at zakwhitt(a)stanford.edu.

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Facebook pondered, for a time, selling access to user data
by Alberto Cammozzo Nov. 30, 2018

Nov. 30, 2018

<https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/facebook-pondered-for-a-time-se…> A failure to adequately redact a public court document <https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5317193-7b6c2e96-396f-4cf6-ba18-65c…> from February 2017 shows that, back in 2012, Facebook considered charging companies at least $250,000 for access to one of its primary troves of user data, the Graph API <https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/>. In April 2014, Facebook changed the way the previously permissive Graph API works <https://medium.com/tow-center/the-graph-api-key-points-in-the-facebook-and-…>. The social media giant restricted some data access and eliminated all access to the earlier version by June 2015. The redaction failure was first reported Wednesday by /The Wall Street Journal <https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-considered-charging-for-access-to-use…>./ Ars was able to access pages of blacked-out text simply by copying and pasting them into a text editor. However, some portions of the messages, which span 2012 through 2014, are incomplete. These revealed blocks of text (built on previous reporting <https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/facebook-let-select-companies-h…>) suggest that Facebook gave extended access to the v1.0 of Graph API to numerous companies not only including Nissan and Royal Bank of Canada but now also to Chrysler/Fiat, Lyft, Airbnb, and Netflix, among others. Facebook spokeswoman Katy Dormer called Ars on Thursday morning to say that Chrysler/Fiat and the other companies—besides Nissan and Royal Bank of Canada—listed in this court document are listed erroneously, and that Six4Three's attorneys are mistaken on this point. How long the pay-for-access proposal was under consideration is not clear, but it was not ultimately implemented—Facebook continues to give away access to its Graph API for free. These previously hidden excerpts reveal part of an argument that is at the crux of an ongoing lawsuit brought by Six4Three, a short-lived app that sought to identify Facebook images of people wearing bikinis. [...]

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Re: [nexa] firma elettronica per presentazione liste elettorali?
by Giovanna Sissa Nov. 29, 2018

Nov. 29, 2018

Il giorno gio 29 nov 2018 alle ore 17:07 Giovanna Sissa < sissa.giovanna(a)gmail.com> ha scritto: > Grazie Stefano, > un emendamento lo scorso anno era stato approvato: > > https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/legge-elettorale-via-l… > mi chiedevo se qualcosa è cambiato dall’ultima tornata elettorale ad > oggi... > > Giovanna > > > Il giorno gio 29 nov 2018 alle ore 16:59 Stefano Quintarelli < > stefano(a)quintarelli.it> ha scritto: > >> non e' possibile >> ci provammo, ci cassarono >> >> On 29/11/2018 16:10, Giovanna Sissa wrote: >> > Qualcuno sa se oggi è possibile usare la firma elettronica per >> > raccogliere le firme per presentare una lista elettorale? Avevo letto, >> > mi sembra un anno fa, che era passato un emendamento in merito a >> questo, >> > ma non so se l’iter legislativo è proseguito e la norma è operativa. >> > Grazie in anticipo >> > Giovanna Sissa >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > nexa mailing list >> > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it >> > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa >> > >> >> -- >> Sent with Disk Term on my TRS-80 Model 1 >> >> reserve your meeting with me at http://cal.quintarelli.it >> >

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Maître Mention : "Les entreprises doivent respecter le statut indépendant des livreurs à vélo"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 29, 2018

Nov. 29, 2018

https://www.franceinter.fr/societe/maitre-mention-les-entreprises-doivent-r… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Nature: “Managing expectations of artificial intelligence”
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 29, 2018

Nov. 29, 2018

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07504-9 (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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