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Re: [nexa] 45° Nexa Lunch Seminar - 26 ottobre 2016
by Francesco Ruggiero Oct. 24, 2016

Oct. 24, 2016

*REMINDER*: vi ricordiamo che mercoledì 26 ottobre 2016, dalle ore 13 alle ore 14, si svolgerà il 45° Nexa Lunch Seminar, con un incontro dal titolo: *"Wikidata Birthday. Incontro sullo stato attuale di Wikidata al suo quarto anno di vita".* Ospite dell'incontro *Alessio Melandri* (Fellow Centro Nexa). Ingresso libero, webcast live all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events. Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili all'indirizzo: *https://nexa.polito.it/lunch-45 <https://nexa.polito.it/lunch-45>* Cordiali saluti, Francesco Il giorno 18 ottobre 2016 12:37, Francesco Ruggiero < francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it> ha scritto: > Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui > <http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-45> > [image: NEXA] > > 45°Nexa Lunch Seminar > Mercoledi 26 ottobre 2016, ore 13.00 - 14.00 > > Politecnico di Torino > > http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-45 > Wikidata birthday > Incontro sullo stato attuale di Wikidata al suo quarto anno di vita > > Speaker > Alessio Melandri (Fellow Centro Nexa) > > This event will be webcast live: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events > > Il 29 ottobre 2012 nasce un'importante base di conoscenza collaborativa: > Wikidata. *Un database libero, collaborativo, multilingue che raccoglie > dati strutturati.* Su di esso si appoggiano in primis Wikipedia e gli > altri progetti Wikimedia. Informazioni libere e machine-readable fanno di > Wikidata il punto centrale delle strategie che coinvolgono i dati di molti > progetti e organizzazioni. > > La vision di Wikipedia: *"Imagine a world in which every single human > being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge"*, nata per soddisfare > la sete di informazioni umana, rivive in Wikidata trasformando la somma > della conoscenza in dati strutturati, interrogabili semanticamente da > persone e macchine. > > Il quarto compleanno di Wikidata è un'occasione per esplorare ciò che il > progetto ha raccolto fino ad oggi. Per osservare le domande a cui già ha > fornito una risposta e quelle a cui lo farà a breve. Per cercare di intuire > come ciò cambierà il modo di interfacciarsi con la conoscenza. > > > *Ingresso libero - Saranno disponibili panini e bibite per coloro che si > saranno registrati su http://lunch45.eventbrite.com > <http://lunch45.eventbrite.com> entro il 24 ottobre.* > > BIOGRAFIE - e informazioni supplementari > > [image: [MELANDRI]] > > ALESSIO MELANDRI è full stack developer presso Synapta - startup torinese > specializzata nel Web semantico e in applicazioni data-driven - e Fellow > del Centro Nexa su Internet & Società. Laureato in ingegneria informatica > al Politecnico di Torino e studente del relativo corso magistrale, ha > esperienza come programmatore, in particolare nel campo dei linked data. > Nella maggior parte dei progetti in cui è coinvolto lavora con i dati, > raffinandoli, interrogandoli e sviluppando visualizzazioni. Ha una > predilezione per il software libero e gli open data collaborando, nel tempo > libero, a Wikipedia, Wikidata e OpenStreetMap. > > Letture consigliate e link utili: > > - Wikipedia’s Next Big Thing: Wikidata, A Machine-Readable, > User-Editable Database Funded By Google, Paul Allen And Others > <https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/30/wikipedias-next-big-thing-wikidata-a-mach…> > - Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase > <http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/10/178785-wikidata/fulltext> > - From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration > <http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/arch…> > > > > > 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. +39 011 090 7219 > <https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa>

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la decisione tedesca contro Facebook/WhatsApp (full text)
by Guido Noto La Diega Oct. 23, 2016

Oct. 23, 2016

Potete finalmente trovare il full text della decisione tedesca contro il trasferimento di dati da WhatsApp a Facebook all'indirizzo https://www.academia.edu/29363167/EXCLUSIVE_LEAK_The_German_decision_agains… Cheers, Guido Dr. Guido Noto La Diega <https://uk.linkedin.com/in/guido-noto-la-diega-ph-d-6696146> Northumbria University School of Law City Campus East, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST noto.la.diega(a)gmail.com +44 (0) 191 227 5562 @guidonld You can access my papers on Academia.edu <https://northumbria.academia.edu/GuidoNotoLaDiega> and on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) <http://ssrn.com/author=1794950> This e-mail and any attachment hereto are strictly confidential and are exclusively intended for the person above identified. Without intended recipient’s entitlement, use, copy and dissemination of this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received it in error, please advice us immediately by telephone and return the documents received to the above address, deleting the files. Thank you. Unless necessary, please do not print this e-mail.

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Self-driving cars: Get Off the Trolley Problem
by Alessandro Mantelero Oct. 22, 2016

Oct. 22, 2016

Get Off the Trolley Problem Self-driving cars shouldn’t have to choose who to protect in a crash. By Frank Pasquale http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/10/self_driving_… -- Prof. Avv. Alessandro Mantelero Politecnico di Torino Nexa Center for Internet and Society | Director of Privacy Politecnico di Torino–Tongji University| Coordinator, Double Degree program in Management and IP Law Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology | Part-time Expert, School of Public Administration European Data Protection Law Review | Associate Editor http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero @mantelero EMAIL POLICY: once a day (Mon-Fri)

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Website's operator is legitimate to store personal data in order to protect itself against cyberattacks
by Diego Giorio Oct. 22, 2016

Oct. 22, 2016

Segnalo questa interssante sentenza: http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2016-10/cp160112en.… <http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2016-10/cp160112en.…> Buon WE a tutti<http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2016-10/cp160112en.…> <http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2016-10/cp160112en.…> D. <http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2016-10/cp160112en.…>

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Fwd: [ NNSquad ] China's plan to organize its society relies on 'big data' to rate everyone
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 22, 2016

Oct. 22, 2016

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [ NNSquad ] China's plan to organize its society relies on 'big data' to rate everyone Resent-Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 18:37:23 +0200 Resent-From: d004620(a)polito.it Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 09:35:57 -0700 From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren(a)vortex.com> To: nnsquad(a)nnsquad.org China's plan to organize its society relies on 'big data' to rate everyone https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinas-plan-to-organize-i… Imagine a world where an authoritarian government monitors everything you do, amasses huge amounts of data on almost every interaction you make, and awards you a single score that measures how "trustworthy" you are. In this world, anything from defaulting on a loan to criticizing the ruling party, from running a red light to failing to care for your parents properly, could cause you to lose points. And in this world, your score becomes the ultimate truth of who you are -- determining whether you can borrow money, get your children into the best schools or travel abroad; whether you get a room in a fancy hotel, a seat in a top restaurant -- or even just get a date. This is not the dystopian superstate of Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report," in which all-knowing police stop crime before it happens. But it could be China by 2020. It is the scenario contained in China's ambitious plans to develop a far-reaching social credit system, a plan that the Communist Party hopes will build a culture of "sincerity" and a "harmonious socialist society" where "keeping trust is glorious." - - - --Lauren-- Care About Science and Tech? Our Job One: STOP TRUMP: https://vortex.com/stop-trump - - - Lauren Weinstein (lauren(a)vortex.com) https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone. - - - The correct term is "Internet" NOT "internet" -- please don't fall into the trap of using the latter. It's just plain wrong! _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list https://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad

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The U.S. Government Wants to Read Travelers’ Tweets Before Letting Them In
by Alessandro Mantelero Oct. 22, 2016

Oct. 22, 2016

https://theintercept.com/2016/10/21/the-u-s-government-wants-to-read-travel… qui il documento: "Collecting social media data will enhance the existing investigative process and provide DHS greater clarity and visibility to possible nefarious activity and connections by providing an additional tool set which analysts and investigators may use to better analyze and investigate the case" https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=USCBP-2007-0102-0016 Oscillo fra il dubbio se sia inquietante o sciocco... Visti i "grandi risalutati" ottenuti nella prevenzione già effettuabile su social media con profili pubblici, sarei per la seconda ipotesi. Tuttavia questo controllo sociale bulimico mi induce a conservare la prima opzione. -- Prof. Avv. Alessandro Mantelero Politecnico di Torino Nexa Center for Internet and Society | Director of Privacy Politecnico di Torino–Tongji University| Coordinator, Double Degree program in Management and IP Law Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology | Part-time Expert, School of Public Administration European Data Protection Law Review | Associate Editor http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero @mantelero EMAIL POLICY: once a day (Mon-Fri)

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Hackers used IoT devices to disrupt major websites across U.S - NYTimes
by Antonio Vetrò Oct. 22, 2016

Oct. 22, 2016

Il recente attacco informatico negli stati uniti è partito da dispositivi domestici connessi alla rete e infetti da un malware: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/22/business/internet-problems-attack.html <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/22/business/internet-problems-attack.html> Un tema che toccheremo anche alla Conferenza Nexa del 2/12. -- Antonio Vetrò, Ph.D. Director of Research Nexa Center for Internet and Society, DAUIN, Politecnico di Torino https://nexa.polito.it/people/avetro

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conferenza "state of the Net", Trieste, (28) - 29 ottobre 2016
by Guido Gorgoni Oct. 21, 2016

Oct. 21, 2016

Buongiorno a tutti, segnalo la conferenza "state of the Net" che si terrà Trieste il prossimo 29 ottobre (preview il giorno 28): http://sotn.it/ "The conference which tries to capture the state of art of the internet in Italy and in the world, considering its impact on our society. SotN is a key meeting for the italian industry and tech community, as it investigates dynamics and opportunities in the current digital scenario". La registrazione è gratuita, il tema di questa edizione sarà "Facts" (cito dal sito): *"Facts.*” will be the main theme of State of the Net 2016. While the open internet allows for the *best fact checking ever available*, many are trapped in echo chambers where lies keep bouncing around until they *sound like truth* and resonate with their beliefs. The press is under pressure and sometimes willing to trade quality and analysis for attention. All this is affecting *how we decide, vote, participate in public life*. And while people struggle with facts, machines are becoming very good at processing reality and finding new meanings: from storing “truth” in the blockchain to develop *artificial intelligence *able to interpret and predict our world and drive around town. Saluti G -- _________________________________________________________ Guido Gorgoni Ricercatore in Filosofia del Diritto ( Assistant Professor in Legal Theory) Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Giuridiche e Studi Internazionali (Department of Political Science, Law, and International Studies) Università di Padova (University of Padua) via VIII febbraio, 2 35122 - Padova, Italy tel (+39) 049 827 3441 fax (+39) 049 827 3479 guido.gorgoni(a)unipd.it _________________________________________________________

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Un americano su due è schedato grazie al riconoscimento facciale
by Alberto Cammozzo Oct. 21, 2016

Oct. 21, 2016

<http://www.lastampa.it/2016/10/21/esteri/un-americano-su-due-schedato-grazi…> L'articolo riporta cosa succede in Itala sul fronte riconoscimento facciale: 1) L’Italia lancia un bando: “Strumento utile per l’antiterrorismo” L’industria del riconoscimento facciale è spinta anche dalle richieste di sicurezza degli Stati. Tra gli utilizzi più diffusi finora c’è la ricerca del volto di qualcuno fermato a una frontiera, dopo averlo fotografato con lo smartphone, su un database di sospettati o criminali. Lo fa ad esempio la Turchia. Più complessa, ma molto ambita dalle forze di sicurezza, la ricerca fatta su immagini registrate da telecamere a circuito chiuso o riprese in tempo reale da videocamere di sorveglianza. Ambizione espressa anche del governo italiano che con il ministro dell’Interno Angelino Alfano aveva annunciato un potenziamento del sistema di sicurezza del Paese che includeva anche questo genere di tecnologia. Lo scorso novembre è stata indetta una gara pubblica da 56 milioni di euro per la fornitura di sistemi di videosorveglianza (per edifici pubblici e per il territorio) con funzioni di analisi video in tempo reale e riconoscimento facciale.

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How social media is being weaponized across the world.
by Alberto Cammozzo Oct. 21, 2016

Oct. 21, 2016

<http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2016/10/war-goes-viral/132233/> Lungo e interessante articolo, denso di fatti e opinioni, sulla weaponization dei social. Riporto i passaggi col paragone particolarmente interessante e preoccupante tra i social (volatili amplificatori facilmente polarizzabili e possibili strumenti di segregazione ideologica), e il ruolo catalizzatore del telegrafo nello scoppio della prima guerra mondiale. ciao, Alberto The internet has long been celebrated for its power to bring people together. Yet as it turns out, this same technology is easily weaponized. [] Social media has already revolutionized everything from dating to business to politics. Now it is reshaping war itself. [] In an exchange of congratulations, President James Buchanan expressed to Queen Victoria his belief that the telegraph would “prove to be a bond of perpetual peace and friendship between the kindred nations, and an instrument designed … to diffuse religion, civilization, liberty, and law throughout the world.” Within a few days, Britain would use the same cable to send orders to its military. [] Indeed, the more we’ve learned about behavior on social media, the more apparent it has become that the mirror is distorted—or rather, that it distorts us. For all the hope that comes from connecting with new people and new ideas, researchers have found that online behavior is dominated by “homophily”: a tendency to listen to and associate with people like yourself, and to exclude outsiders. Social networks are bad at helping you empathize with people unlike you, but good at surrounding you with those who share your outlook. The new information ecosystem does not challenge biases; it reinforces them. [] When Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo in June 1914, few thought that global conflict was at hand. But over the next several weeks, diplomats and monarchs were left feeling helpless as their nations barreled toward World War I. For some, the prospect of disappointing their own nationalist citizens scared them more than the war itself. German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg lamented how the public clamor for blood constrained his choices, while Russian Tsar Nicholas II feared the very loss of his throne if he chose any other option than a march to war. He chose war, and the people eventually toppled him all the same. Reading the frantic diplomatic missives that traversed the telegraph lines in the final days before hostilities commenced, one is struck by how the threat of conflict quickly adopted its own terrible logic and momentum. Impassioned populations and real-time reports of mobilizations and countermobilizations helped fuel a sense that, far from a conscious choice, war had become inevitable. [] Today, national leaders engage in Twitter spats, and rapid-fire hashtags draw international attention. Public sentiment can be readily manipulated or even manufactured. And events, filtered through social media, can quickly go viral—the very definition of spinning out of control. Perhaps the greatest danger in this dynamic is that, although information that goes viral holds unquestionable power, it bears no special claim to truth or accuracy. Homophily all but ensures that. [] This extreme ideological segregation, the authors concluded, “comes at the expense of the quality of the information and leads to proliferation of biased narratives fomented by unsubstantiated rumors, mistrust, and paranoia.” As smartphone cameras and streaming video turn every bystander into a reporter (and everyone with an internet connection into an analyst), “truth” becomes a matter of emotional resonance. [] The emergence of a truly interconnected world has long been hailed as a step toward cross-cultural cooperation and global enlightenment. As societies communicate more freely, the thinking has gone, empathy will be nourished, the truth will be easier to find, and many causes of conflict will wither. Thanks to the mobilizing power of social media and the resultant “wisdom of crowds,” citizens will exert more direct control over their governments, helping solve disputes without need for violence. The age of social media, in other words, should be an age of peace and understanding. The same was once said of the telegraph.

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