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Inside Google's Fight To Keep The US Government Out Of Gmail Inboxes
by Alberto Cammozzo May 22, 2017

May 22, 2017

punti chiave: sovranità territoriale e reciprocità <https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/05/21/google-epic-court-fi…> In at least six separate federal cases, Google is waging a quiet war against the U.S. government. It's taking the FBI to task over warrants demanding it hand over the contents of Gmail data stored overseas. And because Google stores customer accounts in fragments in servers around the globe, it's a fight that matters for every email user on the planet, not just non-American Gmail customers. Alongside unsealed cases in California, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, there are at least three other sealed court battles in which Google has claimed the government has no right to use the Stored Communications Act to demand data the firm holds overseas, sources close to firm's legal fight told /Forbes/. That's on top of multiple sealed state cases, they added. Its tussle with the government has emerged after Microsoft won a landmark 2016 case against the U.S. <https://www.forbes.com/sites/insider/2017/05/01/a-cloud-over-the-microsoft-…>, in which it prevented the FBI from accessing data it stored in Ireland. That came after two appeals and is only legally binding across courts in the Second Circuit, which covers six districts in Connecticut, New York and Vermont. Now, court documents show that Google, backed by some of its biggest rivals from Microsoft to Amazon to Yahoo, is trying to change the state of play across the rest of America, bringing more privacy to users whose information is stored on foreign soil. [...]

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51° Nexa Lunch Seminar - 24 maggio 2017
by Francesco Ruggiero May 22, 2017

May 22, 2017

*REMINDER*: vi ricordiamo che mercoledì 24 maggio 2017, dalle ore 13 alle ore 14, si svolgerà il 51° Nexa Lunch Seminar, con un incontro dal titolo: *"Software Heritage: Archiving the Software Commons for Fun and Social Benefit".* Ospite dell'incontro *Stefano Zacchiroli* (Università Paris-VII). Ingresso libero, webcast live all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events. Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili all'indirizzo: https://nexa.polito.it/lunch-51 Cordiali saluti, Francesco 2017-05-15 10:55 GMT+02:00 Francesco Ruggiero <francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it> : > Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui > <http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-51> > [image: NEXA] > > 51° Nexa Lunch Seminar > Mercoledi 24 maggio 2017, ore 13.00 - 14.00 > > Politecnico di Torino > > http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-51 > Software Heritage: Archiving the Software Commons for Fun and Social > Benefit > > Speaker > Stefano Zacchiroli (Università Paris-VII) > > This event will be webcast live: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events > The Software Commons is the vast body of human knowledge embedded in > software source code, that is publicly available and can be freely altered > and reused. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) constitutes the bulk of > it. Sadly we seem to be at increasing risk of losing this precious heritage > built by the FOSS community over the paste decades: code hosting sites shut > down when their popularity decreases, tapes of ancient versions of our > toolchain (bit-)rot in basements, etc. The ambitious goal of the Software > Heritage project is to contribute to address this risk, by collecting, > preserving, and sharing *all* publicly available software in source code > form. Together with its complete development history, as captured by > state-of-the art version control systems. Although still in Beta, Software > Heritage <https://www.softwareheritage.org/> has already archived more > than 3 billion unique source code files and 700 million unique commits, > spanning more than 50 million software development projects from major code > hosting sites, distributions, and upstream software collections. > > *Ingresso libero - Saranno disponibili panini e bibite per coloro che si > saranno registrati su http://lunch51.eventbrite.com > <http://lunch51.eventbrite.com> entro il 22 maggio.* > > BIOGRAFIE - e informazioni supplementari > > [image: [ZACCHIROLI]] > > STEFANO ZACCHIROLI is Associate Professor of Computer Science at > University Paris Diderot on leave at Inria. His research interests span > formal methods, software preservation, and Free/Open Source Software > engineering. He is co-founder and current CTO of the Software Heritage > project. He is an official member of the Debian Project since 2001, where > he was elected to serve as Debian Project Leader for 3 terms in a row over > the period 2010-2013. He is a former director of the Open Source Initiative > (OSI) and recipient of the 2015 O'Reilly Open Source Award. > > Letture consigliate e link utili: > > - Roberto Di Cosmo, Stefano Zacchiroli,* Software Heritage: Why and > How to Preserve Software Source Code > <https://upsilon.cc/%7Ezack/stuff/software-heritage-draft.pdf%20>*. > - Nancy Kranich and Jorge Reina Schement,* Information Commons*, > Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 42, 1 (2008), 546-591. > - Vinton G Cerf, *Avoiding "Bit Rot": Long-Term Preservation of > Digital Information [Point of View]*, Proc. IEEE 99, 6 (2011), 915-916. > - Collberg, Christian, et al., *Measuring reproducibility in computer > systems research*, Department of Computer Science, University of > Arizona, Tech. Rep (2014). > > > > > Che cosa sono il Centro Nexa e i cicli di incontri “Mercoledì di Nexa” e > “Nexa Lunch Seminar” > > Il Centro Nexa su Internet & Società del Politecnico di Torino > (Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica) è un centro di ricerca > indipendente e interdisciplinare che studia Internet e il suo effetto sulla > società. Maggiori informazioni all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/about. > > Durante i “*Mercoledì di Nexa*”, che si tengono *ogni 2° mercoledì del > mese* alle *ore 18 in punto*, il Centro Nexa su Internet e Società apre > le sue porte non solo agli esperti e a tutti coloro i quali lavorano con > Internet, ma anche a semplici appassionati e cittadini. Il ciclo di > incontri intende approfondire, con un linguaggio preciso ma divulgativo, i > temi legati alla Rete: motori di ricerca, Creative Commons, social > networks, open source/software libero, neutralità della rete, libertà di > espressione, privacy, file sharing, big e open data, smart cities e molto > altro. > > Al centro di quasi tutti gli incontri un ospite pronto a dialogare con i > direttori del Centro Nexa, il Prof. Juan Carlos De Martin del Politecnico > di Torino e il Prof. Marco Ricolfi dell'Università di Torino, nonché lo > staff e i Fellows del Centro Nexa. > > Maggiori informazioni sui Mercoledì di Nexa, incluso un elenco di tutti i > “Mercoledì” passati, sono disponibili all'indirizzo: > http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi. > > Si segnala inoltre che dal maggio 2012 *ogni 4° mercoledì* del mese *dalle > ore 13 alle ore 14* il Centro Nexa organizza anche i "*Nexa Lunch Seminar*". > Una lista di tutti i “Lunch Seminar” passati è disponibile all'indirizzo: > http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-seminars. > > See our events calendar <http://nexa.polito.it/events> if you're curious > about future luncheons, discussions, lectures, and conferences not listed > in this email. Our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise > noted. > > Maggiori informazioni sui Mercoledì di Nexa e i Nexa Lunch Seminar, sono > disponibili all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/events. Weekly Events > Newsletter. Sign up <http://nexa.polito.it/mailing-lists> to receive this > newsletter if this email was forwarded to you. To manage your subscription > preferences, please click here > <https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa>. > > Connect & get involved: Jobs, internships, and more > <http://nexa.polito.it/get-involved> > > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > > -- Francesco Ruggiero Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino web: http://nexa.polito.it mail: francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it tel: 011 090 7219

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Revealed: Facebook's internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence
by Alberto Cammozzo May 22, 2017

May 22, 2017

Difficile costruire un codice globale per la censura! <https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/may/21/revealed-facebook-internal-rul…> Ciao, Alberto

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MIT TechRev: "We Need More Alternatives to Facebook"
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 21, 2017

May 21, 2017

*We Need More Alternatives to Facebook* /Chastened by the negative effects of social media, Mark Zuckerberg says he will tweak his service and upgrade society in the process. Should any company be that powerful?/ by Brian Bergstein April 10, 2017 About 10 years after TVs began to be ubiquitous in American homes, television broadcasting was a staggering financial success. As the head of the Federal Communications Commission observed in a 1961 speech to broadcast executives, the industry’s revenue, more than $1 billion a year, was rising 9 percent annually, even in a recession. The problem, the FCC chairman told the group, was the way the business was making money: not by serving the public interest above all but by airing a lot of dumb shows and “cajoling and offending” commercials. “When television is bad, nothing is worse,” he said. That speech would become known for the pejorative that the FCC chairman, Newton Minow, used to describe TV: he called it “a vast wasteland.” It’s a great line, but there are other reasons to revisit the speech now, about 10 years after the emergence of another communications service—Facebook—that has become ubiquitous in American homes, a staggering financial success, and a transmitter of a lot of pernicious schlock. What’s striking today is why Minow said the vast-wasteland problem mattered—and what he wanted to do about it. […] Continua qui: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604082/we-need-more-alternatives-to-face…

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friendly reminder: "Fear and Loathing of the Online Self". Roma 22-23 Maggio
by donna d.r. May 19, 2017

May 19, 2017

In allegato i materiali relativi al convegno e alla serata ad ESC spero che qualche nexiano sia dei nostri! buona giornata donatella

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news sul disegno di legge sul cyberbullismo
by Mauro Alovisio May 16, 2017

May 16, 2017

Gent.mi /me segnalo interessante aggiornamento sul percorso parlamentare del disegno di legge sul cyberbullismo verso l'approvazione http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/politica/2017/05/16/cyberbullismo-rush-fina… http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2017/05/16/cyberbullismo-quasi-fatta-per-la… Cordiali saluti Mauro Alovisio

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Chart: Here’s How 5 Tech Giants Make Their Billions
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 16, 2017

May 16, 2017

Dati noti, ma è utile avere una sintesi, anche grafica. jc * Chart: Here’s How 5 Tech Giants Make Their Billions* JEFF DESJARDINS on May 12, 2017 at 1:03 pm http://www.visualcapitalist.com/chart-5-tech-giants-make-billions

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Un trend: Netflix Blocks Rooted Phones From Seeing Netflix App - Netflix has confirmed the company is now preventing rooted
by gabriele elia May 16, 2017

May 16, 2017

Netflix e altri associano l'idea smartphone rooted - applicazioni sono da bloccare Netflix Blocks Rooted Phones From Seeing Netflix App -<http://wirelessiq.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=5000b2674aa552c31856aa…> Netflix has confirmed the company is now preventing rooted Android phones from being able to install the company's streaming video app via the Play Store. Android Police was the first to note the changes in policy with the release of the 5.0 version of the Netflix app over at the Google Play store, which has been upgraded to integrate the Widevine DRM provided by Google. Oddly the app still seems to work if sideloaded, but it's not clear it's going to stay that way. In a statement Netflix confirmed that users with rooted phones may not even see the Netflix app show up in the Play Store. "With our latest 5.0 release, we now fully rely on the Widevine DRM provided by Google," Netflix has confirmed. "Therefore, many devices that are not Google-certified or have been altered will no longer work with our latest app and those users will no longer see the Netflix app in the Play Store." In fact, Netflix even appears to have blocked phones that simply have the bootloader unlocked. That's oddly troubling given that rooted phone users aren't doing anything particularly wrong in rooting their devices or installing custom ROMs. That said, there has been a slow trend in this direction in recent months, with the developers of Pokemon Go also blocking rooted devices from installing or using the game.

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Corriere della Sera
by Venturello Marco May 15, 2017

May 15, 2017

Segnalo interessante articolo sul Corriere del 13 maggio, pagina 18, dal titolo: "Le duemila ragazze single su Facebook finite (a loro insaputa) nel catalogo web", con intervista a Carlo Blengino. Buona giornata a tutti. Avv. Marco Venturello V E N T U R E L L O E B O T T A R I N I, A V V O C A T I Via Vittorio Amedeo II, 17 - 10121 Torino, Italia Tel. +39 011 5185831, Fax +39 011 5185850 E-mail marco.venturello(a)sleuresis.it PEC marcoventurello(a)pec.ordineavvocatitorino.it Web www.sleuresis.it <http://www.sleuresis.it/> Skype venturello.marco * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Le informazioni contenute o allegate al presente messaggio possono essere riservate e confidenziali. Qualora non foste il corretto destinatario del presente messaggio, chiediamo cortesemente di volerci avvertire e di non riprodurre, utilizzare o divulgare, in alcun modo, il suo contenuto. This message and any file transmitted with it may be private and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify us immediately and not copy, disclose or use it for any purpose. --- Questa e-mail è stata controllata per individuare virus con Avast antivirus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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"You can now add automatically generated citations to millions of books on Wikipedia"
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 15, 2017

May 15, 2017

*You can now add automatically generated citations to millions of books on Wikipedia** * By Jake Orlowitz, Wikimedia Foundation May 11th, 2017 /Wikipedia editors can now draw on WorldCat, the world’s largest database of books, to generate citations on Wikipedia thanks to a collaboration between OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) and the Wikimedia Foundation’s Wikipedia Library program.// / […] Continua qui: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/11/wikimedia-oclc-partnership/

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