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In secret court hearing, lawyer objected to FBI sifting through NSA data like it was Google
by GianlucaQuaglia April 22, 2017

April 22, 2017

_IN HER FIRST APPEARANCE representing the American public before the top-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in 2015, Amy Jeffress argued that the FBI is violating the Fourth Amendment by giving agents “virtually unrestricted” access to data from one of the NSA’s largest surveillance programs, which includes an untold amount of communications involving innocent Americans. The NSA harvests data from major Internet companies like Facebook, Google and Apple without a warrant, because it is ostensibly “targeting” only foreigners. But the surveillance program sweeps up a large number of Americans’ communications as well. Then vast amounts of data from the program, including the Americans’ communications, are entered into a master database that a Justice Department lawyer at the 2015 hearing described as the “FBI’s ‘Google’ of its lawfully acquired information.” [...]_ continua qui https://theintercept.com/2017/04/21/in-secret-court-hearing-lawyer-objected…

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Atlantic: "Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria"
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 22, 2017

April 22, 2017

*Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria** * /“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”/ JAMES SOMERS APR 20, 2017 You were going to get one-click access to the full text of nearly every book that’s ever been published. Books still in print you’d have to pay for, but everything else—a collection slated to grow larger than the holdings at the Library of Congress, Harvard, the University of Michigan, at any of the great national libraries of Europe—would have been available for free at terminals that were going to be placed in every local library that wanted one. At the terminal you were going to be able to search tens of millions of books and read every page of any book you found. You’d be able to highlight passages and make annotations and share them; for the first time, you’d be able to pinpoint an idea somewhere inside the vastness of the printed record, and send somebody straight to it with a link. Books would become as instantly available, searchable, copy-pasteable—as alive in the digital world—as web pages. It was to be the realization of a long-held dream. “The universal library has been talked about for millennia,” Richard Ovenden, the head of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, has said. “It was possible to think in the Renaissance that you might be able to amass the whole of published knowledge in a single room or a single institution.” In the spring of 2011, it seemed we’d amassed it in a terminal small enough to fit on a desk. […] Continua qui: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-googl…

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In Secret Court Hearing, Lawyer Objected to FBI Sifting Through NSA Data Like It Was Google
by Alberto Cammozzo April 22, 2017

April 22, 2017

Forza delle metafore... <https://theintercept.com/2017/04/21/in-secret-court-hearing-lawyer-objected…> [] The lawyer said that searches of the FBI’s “lawfully acquired data” are so common that requiring agents to document them would be impractical, and even dangerous. “If we require our agents to write a full justification every time — think about if you wrote a full justification every time you used Google. Among other things, you would use Google a lot less,” the Justice Department attorney said. “We want the FBI to look and connect the dots in its lawfully acquired information.” []

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Proposed German Legislation Threatens Free Expression Around the World
by Blengino April 20, 2017

April 20, 2017

La proposta di legge tedesca ( <http://www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Gesetzgebungsverfahren/Dokumente/RegE_NetzDG. pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=2)%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank> Draft Law to Improve Law Enforcement in Social Networks ) si inserisce perfettamente nello schizofrenico dibattito sui contenuti sgraditi in rete (dallhatespeech alle fakenews). Nel dibattito gli intermediari della comunicazione, primi fra tutti i social network, sono da un lato accusati di manipolare la diffusione dellinformazione e di non esser neutrali, dallaltro sono pressati affinchè manipolino linformazione rimuovendo e filtrando a piacere contenuti sgraditi (sgraditi a chi?). Qui la posizione della GNI, la Global Network Initiative di cui Nexa fa parte: http://globalnetworkinitiative.org/news/proposed-german-legislation-threaten s-free-expression-around-world

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H2020 CSA Call "The ethical dimensions of IT technologies: a European perspective focusing on security and human rights aspects"
by Diego Latella April 20, 2017

April 20, 2017

Penso sia di interesse per gli iscritti alla lista; si tratta di una coordination and support action; scadenza 30 agosto 2017. https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/… <https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/…> D. Latella --- Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR-ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy (http:www.isti.cnr.it) FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it) http://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, mob: +39 348 8283101, fax: +390506212040 =================== The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than compulsion; if in the process we learn how to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task. Above all, remember your humanity. -- Sir Joseph Rotblat

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Why Fake News Is An Antitrust Problem
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 19, 2017

April 19, 2017

https://www.forbes.com/sites/washingtonbytes/2017/01/10/why-fake-news-is-an… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Netflix ed il sonno
by Luigi Scorca April 19, 2017

April 19, 2017

Carissimi, vi segnalo questo breve ma interessante post di Luca Sappino: https://left.it/2017/04/19/un-post-in-ritardo-sullo-shopping-nei-giorni-di-… <https://left.it/2017/04/19/un-post-in-ritardo-sullo-shopping-nei-giorni-di-…> Luigi -- Luigi Scorca Mob: +39 347 85 22 221 Mail: luigi.scorca(a)gmail.com

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It’s time to regulate the gig economy | SPERI
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 19, 2017

April 19, 2017

http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2017/04/18/its-time-to-regulate-the-gig-econom… It’s time to regulate the gig economy Technology is used to monitor workers doing platform-based work. It can also be used to regulate work and protect workers (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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"Perdere tempo su internet. Un’intervista con Kenneth Goldsmith"
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 19, 2017

April 19, 2017

*Perdere tempo su internet. Un’intervista con Kenneth Goldsmith* /Simone Broglia// / Kenneth Goldsmith è artista e poeta, ben conosciuto a livello internazionale per essere l’editor di UbuWeb – il più ampio archivio digitale di arte contemporanea – nonchè senior editor di PennSound presso la University of Pennsylvania, dove insegna. E’ autore della collezione di saggi, “Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age” (Columbia University Press, 2011) e lo scorso Agosto ha pubblicato il suo ultimo libro “Wasting time on the internet” (HarperCollins Publisher Inc, 2016), un manifesto che mostra “come il tempo che passiamo su internet non è realmente perso, ma è piuttosto produttivo e creativo se l’esperienza viene vista nel contesto teorico e filosofico appropriato”. Un libro che nasce da un’esperienza: un corso tenuto alla Pennsylvania University in cui Kenneth Goldsmith si è cimentato con i propri alunni a mettere in pratica un esperimento di gruppo: spendere tempo sul web, esplorandone tutte le sue possibilità relazionali, comunicative e creative. […] Continua qui: http://www.digicult.it/it/news/perdere-tempo-su-internet-unintervista-con-k…

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Uomo stupido, macchina intelligente? (26 aprile - Torino)
by Francesco Ruggiero April 18, 2017

April 18, 2017

Gentilissimi, mercoledì *26 aprile* *2017* alle ore 18.30, si svolgerà un incontro dal tit olo: *Uomo stupido, macchina intelligente? Dove ci sta portando l'Intelligenza Artificiale, *per discutere dei limiti e delle prospettive dell'Intelligenza Artificiale, su un piano sia teorico che pratico. L'incontro, organizzato in collaborazione con *CELI Language Technology* e *Synapta*, si terrà presso il *Centro Nexa su Internet & Società*, in via Boggio 65/a, a Torino. Parteciperanno *Vittorio di Tomaso*, *Pietro Terna* e *Federico Morando.* Introduce e modera *Anna Masera*. L'evento è gratuito e aperto a tutti, previa iscrizione, entro *venerdì 21 aprile*. Maggiori informazioni sulle iscrizioni e sul programma sono disponibili alla pagina: https://www.bocconialumni.it/uomo-stupido-macchina-intelligente Cordiali saluti, Francesco -- 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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