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Mueller, "Authoritarianism Goes Digital: The EUI Conference"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 3, 2024

Nov. 3, 2024

*Authoritarianism Goes Digital: The EUI Conference* Posted on November 1, 2024 by Milton Mueller https://www.internetgovernance.org/2024/11/01/authoritarianism-goes-digital… A conference devoted to challenging “digital authoritarianism” is something that IGP can certainly get behind. But what is digital authoritarianism, and was it really being challenged in Italy on October 28 and 29? At the meeting “Decrypting Digital Authoritarianism: How the Use of the Internet Can Threaten Democracy and Human Rights, <https://www.eui.eu/events?id=565878>” I learned a lot about the answers to those questions. [...] *Conclusion: Mixed Signals* The good news here is that Europe is seeing a threat to communicative freedom and is devoting resources to combating that trend. It is also good news that the academics, activists and some policy makers concerned about digital authoritarianism are realizing that it is not entirely about “us” liberal democratic good guys vs “them” geopolitical bad guys. The drivers of systemic control are present on both sides, and the competition for geopolitical power between state actors is largely responsible for the authoritarian trend. The academic researchers involved in this debate need to be careful that they are not coopted into supporting certain kinds of repression in that competition.Keep the fundamental rights of the individual uppermost in mind and don’t get drawn into any state’s geopolitical agenda.

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OpenStreetMap Foundation
by Maurizio Napolitano Nov. 3, 2024

Nov. 3, 2024

In realtà non mi piace autocelebrarmi solo che se ho deciso di candidarmi nel board del OpenStreetMap Foundation è stato anche a causa di qualche discussione avvenuta in questa mailing-list Mi hanno eletto tre settimane fa senza fare tanta "campagna elettorale" Adesso c'è parecchio da fare e non sarà facile Dentro la fondazione ho proposto di posizionare meglio il progetto nei dibattiti sulla conoscenza aperta visto che il progetto è spesso citato come esempio ma poi non si vede la presenza di OpenStreetMap Foundation ai tavoli dove si discute di opendata, dati geo spaziali e qualsiasi altro tema inerente -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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Re: [nexa] Articolo GDPR
by alessandro marzocchi Nov. 2, 2024

Nov. 2, 2024

Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 10:06:53 +0100 From: Giuseppe Attardi < > attardi(a)di.unipi.it> > La vera battaglia è quella di democratizzare l’AI, ossia renderla > disponibile a tutti, smontando i monopoli e costruendo infrastrutture > pubbliche controllate democraticamente per orientare lo sviluppo della > tecnologia verso obiettivi di interesse comune. > Il modello dello sviluppo scientifico aperto è quello che ha portato alla > società moderna, sconfiggendo tiranni, povertà e paure ataviche. > Per me sono parole ottime, non polemicamente domando: come si democratizza ...? Da non tecnico continuo a vedere il digitale come parola e lingua e non vedo democrazia senza "codice aperto" ed educazione ad esso. Poi è ovvio che pochissimi saranno Dante, Goethe, Shakespeare ma a nessuno viene negata la possibilità. Cordialmente Duccio (Alessandro Marzocchi)

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e-privacy XXXV in streaming - Privacy: tante norme, poca protezione
by Marco A. Calamari Oct. 31, 2024

Oct. 31, 2024

E' iniziata a terza sessione di e-privacy XXXV «Privacy: tante norme, poca protezione» Quali reali tutele è in grado di offrire l’Europa, a fronte di tecnologie sempre più invasive, più sofisticate e più veloci nella loro diffusione? Sono sufficienti norme come il GDPR o l’AI act per frenare i sistemi che saranno disponibili fra due anni quando questo Regolamento troverà piena applicazione? https://www.youtube.com/live/YDFF9TOhgIc

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OSI continua a censurare anche ex-post
by Giacomo Tesio Oct. 31, 2024

Oct. 31, 2024

Ciao Nexa, vi segnalo che anche dopo la pubblicazione della Open Washing AI definition (aka OSAID 1.0) OSI continua a censurare le obiezioni cui non sa come ribattere. Gli esempi della coda di paglia del board OSI ormai si sprecano, ma trovo particolarmente esplicativo che persino l'Avvocato Carlo Piana debba ricorrere a questi mezzi per non rispondere: qui https://archive.is/JPSRX potete leggere la mia analisi della sua confusa lettura del recente comunicato della FSF, eliminata dal forum: https://discuss.opensource.org/t/fsf-announced-basics-of-free-ml-applicatio… Sono questi i metodi del co-design process con il quale OSI cerca di legittimare la OSAID 1.0, con il supporto di Bloomberg, Mozilla, Software Heritage e una quindicina di altri loro amichetti. Credo che il passaggio più insostenibile per l'OSI sia stato: > And I’d really like to talk with the data scientists who told you > that they can reduce the vocabulary of a LLM without having the > training dataset, just to ask them “How?”. > > I’ll bet a pizza, that none will come out here to explain how. > Because you cannot. But the original developers of the system can! > > Now, according to <https://opensource.org/licenses/review-process>, > a license “that structurally put the licensor in a more favored > position than any licensee”, is not open source. > > Why the OSAID can do that? La contraddizione evidente deve bruciare troppo... :-) Secondo voi, non sarebbe il caso di introdurre a Giurisprudenza corsi obbligatori di logica, logica modale, etica ed informatica? Facciamolo per i nostri figli, così che i lobbisti GAFAM di domani siano un minimo più competenti di quelli di ieri! :-D Giacomo PS: Non temente, la versione uncensored è adatta ai minori di 14 anni. PPS x gli amici di OSI: non esiste solo la Wayback Machine. Esistono diversi archivi, in chiaro, su Tor... per il futuro, ricordate che è davvero futile cercare di censurare informatici competenti. 😘

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SFSCON 2024: un seminario molto interessante... la prossima settimana :-(
by Damiano Verzulli Oct. 30, 2024

Oct. 30, 2024

Segnalo alla lista l'imminente SFSCON 2024 - South Tyrol Free Software Conference 2024 -, che si terra' a Bolzano i prossimi venerdi' e sabato della prossima settimana. Ho appena scorso il programma di venerdi': https://www.sfscon.it/programs/2024/ e... ce n'e' decisamente per *TUTTI* coloro che frequentano questa lista. Decisamente un evento rilevante, a mio avviso. Saluti, DV -- Damiano Verzulli e-mail:damiano@verzulli.it --- possible?ok:while(!possible){open_mindedness++} --- "...I realized that free software would not generate the kind of income that was needed. Maybe in USA or Europe, you may be able to get a well paying job as a free software developer, but not here [in Africa]..." -- Guido Sohne - 1973-2008 http://ole.kenic.or.ke/pipermail/skunkworks/2008-April/005989.html

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SFC Announces Aspirational Statement on LLM-backed generative AI for Programming
by Stefano Zacchiroli Oct. 30, 2024

Oct. 30, 2024

Assieme a Software Freedom Conservancy abbiamo annunciato qualche giorno fa un "aspirational statement", su come dovrebbe essere un assistente alla programmazione basato su AI, in un mondo tecnologico ideale nel quale tutto il software dovrebbe essere libero. Per cercare, ogni tanto, di guardare alla luna! Buona lettura. https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/oct/25/aspirational-on-llm-generative-a… -------- SFC Announces Aspirational Statement on LLM-backed generative AI for Programming October 25, 2024 In 2022, Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) convened a committee in the wake of Microsoft's GitHub Copilot announcement, to meet and begin considering the complex questions that arise from the use of large language models (LLMs) in generative AI systems that seek to assist software developers. Today, we announce a joint statement by this committee, entitled Machine-Learning-Assisted Programming that Respects User Freedom. Everyone on our committee has watched as interest in this issue has grown in the FOSS community. While the Committee was initially convened to consider how copyleft related to these systems, our focus changed as we considered the complex issues. With the unending influx of models, products, and projects in this area, we began to see a potential dystopia: no systems available today are reproducible by the public, and all of them seem to disrespect user rights and freedoms in some manner. Rather than despair, we turned our minds to what FOSS does best: imagining the ideal if corporate interests were not the primary force defining society's relationship with software. In the past, the FOSS community has responded to new challenges with a race-to-the-bottom document that defines the bare minimum of user rights and freedoms that the community of activists will accept. For-profit companies hope to legitimately claim whatever they produce is “FOSS enough”. As such, we have avoided any process that effectively auto-endorses the problematic practices of companies whose proprietary products are already widely deployed . No system, particularly a proprietary one, should ever be "too big to fail". While our proposal may seem unrealistic, nearly every proposal in the history of FOSS has seemed unrealistic — until it happened. We call on the FOSS community to not lament what is, but to dream and strive for what can be. The statement follows: Continua qua: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/oct/25/aspirational-on-llm-generative-a… -- Stefano Zacchiroli . zack(a)upsilon.cc . https://upsilon.cc/zack _. ^ ._ Full professor of Computer Science o o o \/|V|\/ Télécom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris o o o </> <\> Co-founder & CSO Software Heritage o o o o /\|^|/\ Mastodon: https://mastodon.xyz/@zacchiro '" V "'

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Sweden and Norway rethink cashless society plans over Russia security fears
by Alberto Cammozzo Oct. 30, 2024

Oct. 30, 2024

<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/30/sweden-and-norway-rethink-cas…> Sweden and Norway rethink cashless society plans over Russia security fears Miranda Bryant Sweden and Norway are backpedalling on plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats, and concern for those unable to use them. A combination of good high-speed internet coverage, high digital literacy rates, large rural populations and fast-growing fintech industries had put the Nordic neighbours on a fast track to a future without cash. Swish, a mobile payment system that six banks launched in 2012, is ubiquitous in Sweden, from market stalls to coffee shops and clothes stores. The Norwegian equivalent, Vipps, which merged with Danish MobilePay in 2022 to form Vipps MobilePay, is also very popular. Last month, it also launched in Sweden. The former deputy governor of Sweden’s central bank predicted in 2018 that Sweden would probably be cashless by 2025. But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and a subsequent rise in cross-border hybrid warfare and cyber-attacks blamed on pro-Russia groups have prompted a rethink. The Swedish government has since completely overhauled its defence and preparedness strategy, joining Nato, starting a new form of national service and reactivating its psychological defence agency to combat disinformation from Russia and other adversaries. Norway has tightened controls on its previously porous border with Russia. The security rethink extends to the fundamentals of how people pay for goods and services. In a brochure with the title If Crisis or War Comes that will be sent to every home in Sweden next month, the defence ministry advises people to use cash regularly and keep at least a week’s supply in various denominations as well as access to other forms of payment such as bank cards and digital payment services. “If you can pay in several different ways, you strengthen your preparedness,” it says. The government is also considering legislation to protect the ability to pay in cash for certain goods. Cash is legal tender in Sweden, but shops and restaurants can effectively make themselves cashless as long as they display a notice setting out their restrictions on payment methods. Norwegian retail customers have always had the right to pay in cash, but it has not been enforced and in recent years increasing numbers of retailers have gone cashless, locking out about 600,000 people who do not have access to digital services. The government acted over the summer, bringing in legislation under which retailers can be fined or sanctioned if they do not accept cash payments from 1 October. The justice and public security ministry said it “recommends everyone keep some cash on hand due to the vulnerabilities of digital payment solutions to cyber-attacks”. It said the government took preparedness seriously “given the increasing global instability with war, digital threats, and climate change. As a result, they’ve ensured that the right to pay with cash is strengthened”. The country’s justice and emergencies minister, Emilie Enger Mehl, said earlier this year: “If no one pays with cash and no one accepts cash, cash will no longer be a real emergency solution once the crisis is upon us.” Prolonged power cuts, system failures or digital attacks on payment systems and banks could leave cash as “the only alternative that is easily available”, she said. Max Brimberg, a researcher at Sweden’s central bank, said the move away from cash had been driven largely by the private sector. Many of the country’s banks abolished cash in local branches some time ago, which made digital payment services easy to roll out to a very willing public. The percentage of cash purchases in physical shops has fallen from almost 40% in 2012 to about 10% in recent years, and Brimberg said there was growing concern about cash becoming obsolete. “That’s something that we as a central bank and also the central government see as a potential risk, especially for the people who still haven’t adopted the digital economy and also for preparedness if there were to be a weaponised attack or armed attack against Sweden or a close country,” he said. “So cash fills a very specific role in the payment system, both because it’s issued by the state but also because it’s the only form of payment that we can use if the systems for electricity or communications networks don’t work as they usually do.” Because all Swedish payment systems were part of one ecosystem, an attack could bring society to a standstill, he said. “Pretty much any function that you do in society you have to use some sort of payment or verification analysis, either by electronic ID or electronic payment,” he said. “All of those would be at risk of undermining the functionality of the entire system in Sweden if it were to fail.” The central bank is looking into creating and issuing an “e-krona” that would act as a “digital complement to cash”, but implementation would require a political mandate. Hans Liwång, a professor of systems science for defence and security at the Swedish Defence University, said there was a lack of evidence about whether cash was better than digital payments in the face of modern threats. Pointing to Ukraine, where digital systems have proved vital to its resilience, he said: “Ukraine is a very good example of moving into the future when there is war rather than backwards.”

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L'Ue non sarà il "terzo polo" dell'Intelligenza artificiale fra Usa e Cina. Ecco perché. L'analisi di Aresu - Startmag
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 30, 2024

Oct. 30, 2024

Da leggere e meditare: https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/intervista-alessandro-aresu-geopolitica… (messaggio spedito in movimento - scusate brevità ed eventuali refusi)

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Una segnalazione e una richiesta
by fulvio benussi Oct. 30, 2024

Oct. 30, 2024

Buongiorno a tutt*, come dissi al Prof. Juan Carlos De Martin in occasione del convegno "L'intelligenza artificiale tra fatto e norma" in Università Cattolica da alcuni mesi seguo con interesse i dibattiti in questa Lista. Mi presento: sono un giornalista pubblicista e un formatore. Come giornalista sono direttore responsabile del magazine *Quaderni di Comunità. Persone, Educazione e Welfare nella società 5.0* della Link University di Roma. Sono membro dell'*Osservatorio Diritto & Innovazione Pubblica Amministrazione Bicocca.* Recentemente con Monica Constantin ho scritto l'articolo *Intelligenza Artificiale nelle Pubbliche Amministrazioni: come assicurare trasparenza e controllo democratico.* Mi farebbe davvero piacere se ricevessi da chi di voi vorrà farlo: critiche, osservazioni, suggerimenti, ecc. L'articolo può essere letto e scaricato al link: https://dipab.diseade.unimib.it/osservatorio-dipab-le-pubblicazioni/ Grazie per l'attenzione -- Fulvio Oscar Benussi ( 339 194 1926 Ai sensi del Reg.EU 2016/679 preciso che le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio, inclusi gli allegati, sono riservate e ad uso esclusivo del destinatario. Qualora il messaggio in parola Le fosse pervenuto per errore, La invito, per cortesia, ad eliminarlo senza copiarlo e a non inoltrarlo a terzi, dandomene gentilmente comunicazione. Qualsiasi violazione è sanzionabile a livello amministrativo, civile e penale. The information in this e-mail and in any files attached is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this message and notify the sender immediately. You should not retain, copy or use this e-mail for any purpose, not disclose all or any part of its contents to any other person according to the European Regulament EU n. 2016/679. =========================== Proteggi l'ambiente! Non stampare questa e-mail se non veramente necessario.

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