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Internet e Wikipedia 'oscurati' in Francia
by Antonio Casilli Oct. 18, 2016

Oct. 18, 2016

Ieri Google e Wikipedia sono stati classificati come siti terroristi e censurati in Francia. In più, gli indirizzi IP di tutti quelli che hanno cercato di accedere a questi siti sono stati tracciati dal ministero dell'interno. Solo per qualche ora, e solo su un provider, ma l'evento ci da' molti spunti per capire come funzioni la censura del web, la sorveglianza elettronica di massa, e cosa sia importante per la "resilience" di Internet. Un riassunto in inglese di Rayna Stamboliyska: https://medium.com/@maliciarogue/in-france-google-and-wikipedia-briefly-cen… Un postmortem tecnico in francese di Stéphane Bortzmeyer: http://www.bortzmeyer.org/google-detourne-par-orange.html

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CREATe Public Lecture "Copyright Reform in a Brexit environment"
by Thomas Margoni Oct. 18, 2016

Oct. 18, 2016

Carissimi, Segnalo a quanti si dovessero trovare a Glasgow o dintorni l'evento in oggetto. Un caro saluto. Thomas ----- original message ----- Dear Colleagues, CREATe, the RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy at the University of Glasgow, warmly invites you to join us on October 19^th for a public lecture by Professor Martin Kretschmer on Copyright Reform in the Brexit Environment. The following week, October 26^th , our public lecture will mark the Creative Commons UK with talks by Timothy Vollmer and Gwen Franck from Creative Commons. *Copyright Reform in a Brexit environment* Martin Kretschmer speaking** By Prof. Martin Kretschmer, Director of CREATe, the RCUK Copyright Centre Where: University of Glasgow, Humanities Lecture Theatre, When: Wednesday, October 19th, 17:30 This event is part of the CREATe Public Lecture Series 2016. Also see page here <http://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2016/09/23/create-events/>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On September 14th, the European Commission presented a package of proposed copyright reforms <https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/modernisation-eu-copyright-ru…> under the banner of promoting a Digital Single Market (DSM). In fact, the initiative tries to overcome a legislative stalemate of 15 years (since the Information Society Directive of 2001), during which the job of migrating copyright law into a digital world had been largely left to the European Court of Justice. Among the measures announced are potentially far reaching interventions, such as establishing the principle that online rights need to be cleared only in the country of origin (bypassing the need to acquire licences in 28 EU countries – though the provision applies only to broadcasters at this stage). There is also an attempt to force digital intermediaries to pay royalties, namely those platforms that benefit from exposure of unauthorised, copyright protected materials uploaded by users (so-called “user generated content” or UGC: prominent examples include music videos on YouTube, or images on Facebook). This proposed intervention has been labelled variously as blatantly anti-American, a general monitoring obligation <http://ipkitten.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/academics-stress-importance-of.html>, a jealousy tax <http://festival.create.ac.uk/opening-closing-and-plenary-videos/> and an innovation own goal <http://www.politico.eu/article/insiders-slam-commissions-copyright-plans/>, making it harder for European digital start-ups to compete. Other proposed measures aim to channel revenues to press publishers (by giving them new rights – critiqued here <http://www.create.ac.uk/publications/the-european-commissions-public-consul…>), increase transparency in copyright related payments to artists, foster digitisation of cultural heritage, facilitate access for the visually impaired, and legitimise big data practices (such as text and data mining). This lecture will investigate what a digital single market means in an interconnected world in which copyright still slices content by territory, and where the balance between artists, investors and users still reflects an analogue world of linear exploitation. Finally, the lecture turns to Brexit. Can the UK become a digital Island? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The public lecture is free and open to everyone. Registration <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/create-public-lecture-series-tickets-2798368…> secures a seat. The _Humanities Lecture Theatre <http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_351748_en.pdf>_ (Room 255 in the University of Glasgow Main Building off the West Quadrangle) will form a striking setting for this event. It is the University’s only lecture theatre preserved in its original Victorian wooden amphitheatre layout. In the digital world, we need to take the long view! /Room 255 is accessible from the ‘Foyer to the Forehall’ labelled 256A on this map <http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_351748_en.pdf>./ Join us at CREATe, School of Law, on Wednesday October 19th, at 17:30. All the best, Joy Joy Davidson CREATe Centre Manager School of Law 10 The Square University of Glasgow G12 8QQ Tel: +44 (0)141 330 2086 Email: joy.davidson(a)glasgow.ac.uk <mailto:joy.davidson@glasgow.ac.uk> Website:http://www.create.ac.uk The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401 -- Dr. Thomas Margoni Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Internet Law Director of the LLM in Intellectual Property and the Digital Economy School of Law - CREATe Centre University of Glasgow http://ssrn.com/author=1383303

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45° Nexa Lunch Seminar - 26 ottobre 2016
by Francesco Ruggiero Oct. 18, 2016

Oct. 18, 2016

Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-45> 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 entro il 24 ottobre./ BIOGRAFIE - e informazioni supplementari [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 Center for Internet and Society Newsletter

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"L’algoritmo della precarietà, il caso Foodora"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 17, 2016

Oct. 17, 2016

*L’algoritmo della precarietà, il caso Foodora** * /Lo sciopero dei fattorini di Foodora ricorda quanto avvenuto questa estate a Londra, dove a scioperare sono stati i lavoratori di Deliveroo e UberEats. La gig economy, tra riproposizione del “vecchio” e elementi di novità// /// Arianna Tassinari, Vincenzo Maccarrone 17 ottobre 2016 | Sezione: Italie, Lavoro, Società Sabato 8 ottobre una cinquantina di lavoratori di Foodora, impresa attiva nel settore della consegna cibo tramite fattorini in bicicletta, sono scesi in piazza a Torino per protestare contro le condizioni di lavoro imposte dall’azienda. La vicenda ha avuto molto risalto mediatico e diversi quotidiani hanno parlato dell’azione dei lavoratori di Foodora come del primo sciopero in Italia della cosiddetta sharing economy. Questa terminologia è però scorretta. Si parla solitamente di sharing economy in riferimento all’attività di aziende come Blablacar o Aibnb, che operano tramite piattaforme online che hanno essenzialmente la funzione di mettere in rete compratori di servizi e venditori che ‘condividono’ un loro bene, come la propria auto o la casa. Diverso è invece il caso di imprese come Foodora o Deliveroo: queste compagnie offrono un servizio di consegna cibo dai ristoranti agli utenti, utilizzando lavoratori che danno la propria disponibilità in precise fasce orarie tramite una applicazione per smartphone. L’unico elemento in comune tra i due tipi di attivitá é il fatto che basano le proprie operazioni su piattaforme digitali, ma la somiglianza finisce qui. L’uso di una app per intermediare la domanda e l’offerta di servizi e consumi e per gestire l’allocazione delle prestazioni lavorative accomuna dunque Foodora e Deliveroo ad altre piattaforme digitali di ‘micro-lavoro’, come Uber, MechanicalTurk o Task Rabbit, che ben poco hanno a che fare con l’idea di ‘condivisione’. In questo caso si tende perciò a parlare di gig economy, o “economia dei lavoretti” (gig). […] Continua qui: http://sbilanciamoci.info/lalgoritmo-della-precarieta-caso-foodora/

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UK’s Investigatory Powers Bill
by Antonio Casilli Oct. 17, 2016

Oct. 17, 2016

Un altro mese, un'altra legge liberticida... The UK’s Investigatory Powers Bill is about to become law – here's why that should terrify us Julian Huppert 14 October 2016 The evidence that these powers are all needed is thin indeed. And the cost to all of our privacy is huge. https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaliberties/julian-huppert/uk-investigato… -- Antonio A. Casilli Associate Professor, Telecom ParisTech Research Fellow, Edgar-Morin Center (EHESS) Member, Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation (i3 UMR 9217 CNRS)

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PI: "USA, tecnocontrollo poliziesco"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 16, 2016

Oct. 16, 2016

*USA, tecnocontrollo poliziesco** * /Le forze dell'ordine statunitensi hanno sfruttato il sistema di monitoraggio della startup Geofeedia per reperire dati su manifestanti, seguirne gli spostamenti ed entrare prontamente in azione. È ora che Facebook, Twitter, Instagram vietino queste intrusioni. Il monito è dell'ACLU// / Mirko Zago 13 ottobre 2016 Roma - L'ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) del Nord Carolina ha reso noto di aver ottenuto dei documenti che testimoniano come Twitter, Facebook e Instagram abbiano fornito accesso ai dati degli utenti a una società di social media monitoring. Si tratta di Geofeedia, proprietaria di una piattaforma che sarebbe stata impiegata in accordo con le autorità per identificare e seguire gli spostamenti di chi ha partecipato a manifestazioni di protesta in molto luoghi del Paese. […] Continua qui: http://punto-informatico.it/4347380/PI/News/usa-tecnocontrollo-poliziesco.a…

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Spid: il Tar del Lazio annulla il regolamento dell’Agid
by Guido Noto La Diega Oct. 15, 2016

Oct. 15, 2016

Assoprovider accoglie con soddisfazione l’ennesima sentenza del TAR del Lazio, dopo le due precedenti del 2015 e 2016 che annullavano di fatto i requisiti relativi al capitale sociale necessario per svolgere l’attività di Identity Provider <https://www.key4biz.it/spid-bortolotto-assoprovider-una-trappola-per-utenti…> (5 milioni di euro ndr). https://www.key4biz.it/spid-il-tar-del-lazio-annulla-il-regolamento-dellagi… -- 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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Mercedes' Self-Driving Cars Will Kill Pedestrians Over Drivers
by Alberto Cammozzo Oct. 15, 2016

Oct. 15, 2016

<https://www.inverse.com/article/22204-mercedes-benz-self-driving-cars-ai-et…> When Mercedes-Benz starts selling self-driving cars, it will choose to prioritize driver safety over pedestrians, a company manager has confirmed. The ethical conundrum of how A.I.-powered machines should act in life-or-death situations has received more scrutiny as driverless cars become a reality, but the car manufacturer believes that it’s safer to save the life you have greater control over. “You could sacrifice the car. You could, but then the people you’ve saved initially, you don’t know what happens to them after that in situations that are often very complex, so you save the ones you know you can save,” Christoph von Hugo, Mercedes’ manager of driver assistance systems, told /Car and Driver/ <http://blog.caranddriver.com/self-driving-mercedes-will-prioritize-occupant…> in an interview published last week. “If you know you can save at least one person, at least save that one. Save the one in the car.” [] Ciao, Alberto

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Pentagon Video Warns of “Unavoidable” Dystopian Future for World’s Biggest Cities
by Alberto Cammozzo Oct. 14, 2016

Oct. 14, 2016

Agghiacciante visione distopica di un inevitabile futuro di guerra urbana. Pentagon Video Warns of “Unavoidable” Dystopian Future for World’s Biggest Cities <https://theintercept.com/2016/10/13/pentagon-video-warns-of-unavoidable-dys…> The year is 2030. Forget about the flying cars, robot maids, and moving sidewalks we were promised. They’re not happening. But that doesn’t mean the future is a total unknown. According to a startling Pentagon video obtained by The Intercept, the future of global cities will be an amalgam of the settings of “Escape from New York” and “Robocop” — with dashes of the “Warriors” and “Divergent” thrown in. It will be a world of Robert Kaplan-esque urban hellscapes — brutal and anarchic supercities filled with gangs of youth-gone-wild, a restive underclass, criminal syndicates, and bands of malicious hackers. At least that’s the scenario outlined in “Megacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity,” a five-minute video that has been used at the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations University. All that stands between the coming chaos and the good people of Lagos and Dhaka (or maybe even New York City) is the U.S. Army, according to the video, which The Intercept obtained via the Freedom of Information Act. “Megacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity,” a video created by the Army and used at the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations University. The video is nothing if not an instant dystopian classic: melancholy music, an ominous voiceover, and cascading images of sprawling slums and urban conflict. “Megacities are complex systems where people and structures are compressed together in ways that defy both our understanding of city planning and military doctrine,” says a disembodied voice. “These are the future breeding grounds, incubators, and launching pads for adversaries and hybrid threats.” The video was used as part of an “Advanced Special Operations Combating Terrorism” course offered at JSOU earlier this year, for a lesson on “The Emerging Terrorism Threat.” JSOU is operated by U.S. Special Operations Command, the umbrella organization for America’s most elite troops. JSOU describes itself as geared toward preparing special operations forces “to shape the future strategic environment by providing specialized joint professional military education, developing SOF specific undergraduate and graduate level academic programs and by fostering special operations research.” Megacities are, by definition, urban areas with a population of 10 million or more, and they have been a recent source of worry and research for the U.S. military. A 2014 Army report, titled “Megacities and the United States Army,” warned that “the Army is currently unprepared. Although the Army has a long history of urban fighting, it has never dealt with an environment so complex and beyond the scope of its resources.” A separate Army study published this year bemoans the fact that the “U.S. Army is incapable of operating within the megacity.”

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Facebook-backed school software shows promise — and raises privacy concerns
by Alberto Cammozzo Oct. 14, 2016

Oct. 14, 2016

<https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/facebook-backed-school-softw…> Caroline Pollock Bilicki felt uneasy about the new education program introduced this year at her children’s Chicago school. Summit Basecamp, built with the help of Facebook engineers, was billed as a powerful tool that could reshape how students learn. Dozens of schools nationwide have signed up to use the program, which tailors lessons to individual students using software that tracks their progress. But it also captures a stream of data, and Bilicki had to sign a consent form <https://plp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/article_attachments/206157927/Parental_Con…> for her children to participate, allowing their personal data to be shared with companies such as Facebook and Google. That data, the form said, could include names, email addresses, schoolwork, grades and Internet activity. Summit Basecamp promised to limit its use of the information — barring it from being used, for example, to deliver targeted ads — but Bilicki agonized over whether to sign the form. “I’m not comfortable with having my kids’ personally identifiable information going to I don’t even know where, to be used for I’m not sure what,” she said. A joint project of Facebook and the high-performing charter-school network Summit Public Schools, Basecamp is an example of an increasingly popular education trend — data-driven “personalized learning.” Its most fervent backers have framed it as the next big thing in education, re-imagining how classrooms work and allowing teachers to reach students across a wide spectrum. But as the Summit program and others like it have expanded, concerns such as Bilicki’s have emerged, highlighting the tension between the promise and the potential perils of new classroom technologies. Some parents, researchers and privacy advocates worry about what information is being collected and how it is being used. Education experts warn that while using computers to personalize teaching might prove transformative, its effectiveness remains largely unproven. []

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