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Convegno Unitn - Non per profitto: la scienza aperta e il ruolo dell'università
by Roberto Caso Aug. 28, 2018

Aug. 28, 2018

Buongiorno, segnalo questo convegno dell'Università di Trento che si terrà il 25 ottobre nell'ambito dell'OA week 2018: https://webmagazine.unitn.it/evento/giurisprudenza/44254/non -per-profitto-la-scienza-aperta-e-il-ruolo-dell-universit Qui di seguito la scheda introduttiva: "Quando, circa vent’anni fa, sono emerse le prime istanze verso l*’Open Access *e l’*Open Science* Internet era ancora uno strumento che prometteva decentramento dei poteri e democrazia. In quel torno di anni si pensava che le istituzioni scientifiche e accademiche che non operano per il profitto dovessero svolgere un ruolo fondamentale nella creazione delle infrastrutture, dei processi e dei contenuti della scienza aperta. Oggi, la scienza aperta ha fatto sicuramente molti passi in avanti. Esiste un’imponente massa di contenuti scientifici (software, pubblicazioni, dati) disponibili in forma gratuita e con diritti di riuso, cioè accompagnati da licenze aperte come le *Creative Commons Licenses*. - Ma qual è il ruolo dell’università e delle altre istituzioni scientifico-accademiche no profit nel governo e nella gestione della scienza aperta? - L’università può ancora rivendicare un ruolo di primo piano nella scienza aperta o si presenta ormai come un ingranaggio di un meccanismo di mercato dominato da piattaforme commerciali con enorme potere di controllo dell’informazione? - Di fronte al potere delle banche dati dell’editoria commerciale, dei social network generalisti e scientifici, dei motori di ricerca quale compito spetta all’università? - La scienza aperta rappresenta un baluardo dell’autonomia dell’università e della libertà accademica? Si proverà a rispondere a queste domande in una giornata di studio durante la quale ospiti stranieri e rappresentanti delle università italiane più impegnate nella promozione della scienza aperta si confronteranno proponendo visioni ed esperienze". A presto, rc -- Roberto Caso Professore Associato di Diritto Privato Comparato Università di Trento - Facoltà di Giurisprudenza http://www5.unitn.it/People/it/Web/Persona/PER0000633 http://www.lawtech.jus.unitn.it/index.php/people/roberto-caso

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Report: “Creative Markets and Copyright in the Fourth Industrial Era: Reconfiguring the Public Benefit for a Digital Trade Economy”
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 26, 2018

Aug. 26, 2018

https://www.ictsd.org/themes/innovation-and-ip/research/creative-markets-an… Creative Markets and Copyright in the Fourth Industrial Era: Reconfiguring the Public Benefit for a Digital Trade Economy A rapid succession of technological advances – big data, robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence – is steadily changing how firms engage in productive activity, how consumers interact, and how knowledge goods are acquired, shared, and governed. The rise of big data and the increasingly widespread adoption of artificial intelligence across many industries have complicated our understanding of the values of twentieth-century intellectual property rules. If anything, the expected social costs (such as privacy) of new technology have already intensified debates – both global and national in scope – about the nature of rules that best foster innovation, facilitate access to public goods, and enable economic development. This paper explores the fundamental questions facing the copyright system in the new industrial and digital era. It considers a broad range of issues including the evolving concept of authorship, originality, exhaustion issues, and the fair use or fair dealing doctrine in the new global context. It concludes with recommendations on how to redesign global copyright for innovation, competition, and inclusion. (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Verso una repubblica dei beni comuni? (Nuovo libro in Fr)
by Antonio Casilli Aug. 24, 2018

Aug. 24, 2018

Hello all, per i francofoni, segnalo un libro collettivo sui commons (digitali, politici e naturali). Al tomo ho contribuito anch'io, oltre che molti altri, tra cui il fondatore della P2P foundation Michel Bauwens, il sociologo del Politecnico di Torino Gragorio Arena, l'economista Benjamin Coriat, Sébastien Broca di cui ho recentemente segnalato l'uscita in italiano de "L'utopia del software libero", etc. Il riferimento completo è: Nicole Alix, Jean-Louis Bancel, Benjamin Coriat & Frédéric Sultan (2018). Vers une république des biens communs ?, Paris : Les Liens qui Libèrent. http://www.editionslesliensquiliberent.fr/livre-Vers_une_r%C3%A9publique_de… Cheers, Antonio -- Antonio A. Casilli Associate Professor, Telecom ParisTech Member, Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation (i3 UMR 9217 CNRS) Associate Member, LACI-IIAC (EHESS) Faculty Fellow, Nexa Center for Internet & Society

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Robot says: Whatever | Aeon
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 22, 2018

Aug. 22, 2018

https://aeon.co/amp/essays/the-robots-wont-take-over-because-they-couldnt-c… Robot says: Whatever What stands in the way of all-powerful AI isn't a lack of smarts: it's that computers can't have needs, cravings or desires Margaret Boden In Henry James’s intriguing novella The Beast in the Jungle (1903), a young man called John Marcher believes that he is marked out from everyone else in some prodigious way. The problem is that he can’t pinpoint the nature of this difference. Marcher doesn’t even know whether it is good or bad. Halfway through the story, his companion May Bartram – a wealthy, New-England WASP, naturally – realises the answer. But by now she is middle-aged and terminally ill, and doesn’t tell it to him. On the penultimate page, Marcher (and the reader) learns what it is. For all his years of helpfulness and dutiful consideration towards May, detailed at length in the foregoing pages, not even she had ever really mattered to him. That no one really mattered to Marcher does indeed mark him out from his fellow humans – but not from artificial intelligence (AI) systems, for which nothing matters. [...] This essay is adapted from the inaugural Margaret Boden Lecture, delivered by Professor Boden herself, at the University of Cambridge in June 2018. (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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PDF Antologia spagnola di miei testi
by Antonio Casilli Aug. 22, 2018

Aug. 22, 2018

Hello all, ho passato un'estate un po' strana, con in mezzo un lungo soggiorno in Bolivia per accompagnare (a suon di conferenze) l'uscita di un mio libro un po' particolare: si tratta di un'antologia di 5 saggi apparsi nell'ultimo decennio in riviste francesi e inglesi (più un inedito, versione extended play di un testo che avevo scritto per Feltrinelli l'anno scorso). Il tutto è stato coordinato, praticamente senza che io ci mettessi mano, dall'ambasciata di Francia in Bolivia e dalla Agetic, l'equivalente boliviano dell'Agenzia per l'Italia digitale. Quindi se leggete lo spagnolo e/o se avete colleghi ispanofoni interessati a futuro del lavoro, intelligenza artificiale, privacy e sorveglianza di massa (ma anche virus, hacking e wikipedia -- c'è un po' di tutto in 'sto libro...) non esitate a scaricare il pdf e a farlo circolare abbondantemente via email, media sociali o dove meglio vi aggrada. ------- Antonio A. Casilli (2018). Trabajo, conocimiento y vigilancia: 5 ensayos sobre tecnología. La Paz, Bolivia: Editorial del Estado. Descarga documento PDF: https://agetic.gob.bo/pdf/estadotic/AGETIC-Trabajo-conocimiento-vigilancia.… Contenido Introducción.........................................................5 ¿Existe una cultura laboral digital global? Marginación del trabajo, desigualdades globales y colonialidad................................9 Inteligencia artificial: ¿los humanos reemplazarán a los robots?....45 Una historia de la virulencia: El cuerpo y la cultura informática en la década de 1980...................................................83 El wikipedista, el investigador y el vándalo.......................125 Cuatro tesis sobre vigilancia digital masiva y la negociación de la privacidad.........................................................141 Cheers, Antonio

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Competition Act investigation regarding business parcel delivery services
by Luigi Scorca Aug. 21, 2018

Aug. 21, 2018

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/bulletins/competition-bulletins…

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Award-winning security research reveals a host of never-seen, currently unblockable web-tracking techniques
by Alberto Cammozzo Aug. 21, 2018

Aug. 21, 2018

<https://boingboing.net/2018/08/16/who-left-open-the-cookie-jar.html> Who Left Open the Cookie Jar? A Comprehensive Evaluation of Third-Party Cookie Policies <https://wholeftopenthecookiejar.eu/static/tpc-paper.pdf> won the Distinguished Paper prize at this year's Usenix Security Conference; its authors, researchers at Belgium's Catholic University in Leuven, revealed a host of devastating, never-seen tracking techniques for identifying web-users who were using privacy tools supplied by browser-vendors and third-party tracking-blocking tools. The techniques the KU Leuven team identified allowed them to track users across sites by means of the Appcache API; "lesser-known HTML tags"; the Location response-header; various <meta> redirects; Javascript in PDF tables, Javascript's location.href property; and through service workers. These techniques bypassed the stock browser privacy protections, including the latest, most extensive privacy settings in Firefox; they also worked against popular cookie-blocking/ad-blocking/script-blocking browser extensions. The good news is that the researchers found no evidence of these techniques being exploited in the wild and they tipped off the browser vendors before going public, which means that we can hope that future browsers will be better equipped to defend against these tactics. The bad news is that until then, we're all vulnerable to unscrupulous websites using these tactics to track us everywhere. Here's the researchers' catalog of exploits <https://wholeftopenthecookiejar.eu/> with suggested countermeasures. [...]

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Is coding style personal data?
by Giovanni Battista Gallus Aug. 20, 2018

Aug. 20, 2018

Identifying Programmers by their Coding Style *[2018.08.13]* <https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/08/identifying_pro.html> Fascinating research <https://www.wired.com/story/machine-learning-identify-anonymous-code/> de-anonymizing code -- from either source code or compiled code: Rachel Greenstadt, an associate professor of computer science at Drexel University, and Aylin Caliskan, Greenstadt's former PhD student and now an assistant professor at George Washington University, have found that code, like other forms of stylistic expression, are not anonymous. At the DefCon hacking conference Friday, the pair will present a number of studies they've conducted using machine learning techniques to de-anonymize the authors of code samples. Their work could be useful in a plagiarism dispute, for instance, but it also has privacy implications, especially for the thousands of developers who contribute open source code to the world. Una prospettiva molto interessante, segnalata sull'ultimo Cryptogram ( https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/2018/0815.html#cg29) Buone riflessioni agostane. G.Battista Gallus

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How Royal Mail saved home mover marketing from the GDPR graveyard
by Luigi Scorca Aug. 20, 2018

Aug. 20, 2018

https://www-computerworlduk-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.computerworlduk.…

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Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Chinese Agents
by Alberto Cammozzo Aug. 20, 2018

Aug. 20, 2018

<https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/15/botched-cia-communications-system-help…># t was considered one of the CIA’s worst failures in decades: Over a two-year period starting in late 2010, Chinese authorities systematically dismantled the agency’s network of agents across the country, executing dozens of suspected U.S. spies. But since then, a question has loomed over the entire debacle. How were the Chinese able to roll up the network? Now, nearly eight years later, it appears that the agency botched the communication system it used to interact with its sources, according to five current and former intelligence officials. The CIA had imported the system from its Middle East operations, where the online environment was considerably less hazardous, and apparently underestimated China’s ability to penetrate it. “The attitude was that we’ve got this, we’re untouchable,” said one of the officials who, like the others, declined to be named discussing sensitive information. The former official described the attitude of those in the agency who worked on China at the time as “invincible.” [] When CIA officers begin working with a new source, they often use an interim covert communications system—in case the person turns out to be a double agent. The communications system used in China during this period was internet-based and accessible from laptop or desktop computers, two of the former officials said. This interim, or “throwaway,” system, an encrypted digital program, allows for remote communication between an intelligence officer and a source, but it is also separated from the main communications system used with vetted sources, reducing the risk if an asset goes bad. Although they used some of the same coding, the interim system and the main covert communication platform used in China at this time were supposed to be clearly separated. In theory, if the interim system were discovered or turned over to Chinese intelligence, people using the main system would still be protected—and there would be no way to trace the communication back to the CIA. But the CIA’s interim system contained a technical error: It connected back architecturally to the CIA’s main covert communications platform. When the compromise was suspected, the FBI and NSA both ran “penetration tests” to determine the security of the interim system. They found that cyber experts with access to the interim system could also access the broader covert communications system the agency was using to interact with its vetted sources, according to the former officials. In the words of one of the former officials, the CIA had “fucked up the firewall” between the two systems. [...]

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