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Paper: "Uber's Drivers: Information Asymmetries and Control in Dynamic Work"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 16, 2016

Jan. 16, 2016

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2686227 Uber's Drivers: Information Asymmetries and Control in Dynamic Work Alex Rosenblat <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2334957> Data & Society Research Institute Luke Stark <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1466832> New York University (NYU) October 15, 2015 *Abstract: * This empirical study explores labor in the on-demand economy using the rideshare service Uber as a case study. By conducting sustained monitoring of online driver forums and interviewing Uber drivers, we explore worker experiences within the on-demand economy. We argue that Uber’s digitally and algorithmically mediated system of flexible employment builds new forms of surveillance and control into the experience of using the system, which result in asymmetries around information and power for workers. In Uber’s system, algorithms, CSRs, passengers, semiautomated performance evaluations, and the rating system all act as a combined substitute for direct managerial control over drivers, but distributed responsibility for remote worker management also exacerbates power asymmetries between Uber and its drivers. Our study of the Uber driver experience points to the need for greater attention to the role of platform disintermediation in shaping power relations and communications between employers and workers. *Number of Pages in PDF File:* 17 *Keywords:* digital labor, on-demand economy, Uber, interaction design, flexible employment, ridesharing, algorithm, data, middle manager, rating, surge pricing, entrepreneurship, algorithm, predictive scheduling, sharing economy, workplace surveillance

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Guardian: "You are not what you read: librarians purge user data to protect privacy"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 16, 2016

Jan. 16, 2016

*You are not what you read: librarians purge user data to protect privacy* /US libraries are doing something even the most security-conscious private firm would never dream of: deleting sensitive information in order to protect users/ Last week, with little fanfare, the Graduate Center at the City University of New York did something very few private companies would ever do to protect its users’ privacy: it quietly began to purge its interlibrary loan records. “This policy change is motivated by the idea that libraries should not keep more information about their users’ requests than necessary,” wrote Beth Posner, head of library resource sharing at the school. “We will continue to keep all requests from 2013 forward until further notice; eventually we will only keep a rolling history of one year or less, though, in order to help ensure that ILL requests remain confidential,” she told students and faculty in the email. “Previously, you could find a list of everything you ever requested through ILL.” Perhaps that sounds like harmless information, but Polly Thistlethwaite, chief librarian at the Graduate Center, said that guilt by association with controversial books has a long history and that librarians have a duty to protect readers of “heretical texts”. […] Continua qui: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/13/us-library-records-purged-da…

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Safe Harbor - Max Shrems al CCC
by Alberto Cammozzo Jan. 15, 2016

Jan. 15, 2016

Talk di Max Schrems al CCC. Parla anche dei retroscena. <https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7513-safe_harbor> Alberto

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MEVALUATE
by barbaracarfagna＠libero.it Jan. 15, 2016

Jan. 15, 2016

----Messaggio originale---- Da: Eduardo Marotti <eduardo.marotti(a)mevaluate.com> Data: 15/01/2016 17.20 A: <barbaracarfagna(a)libero.it> Ogg: Uscite MEVALUATE (ora anche take Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor) Ora anche Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor (quarto take in un anno) (FIN) Mevaluate: consorzio Petras ottiene finanziamento in GB da 43,5 milioni Per sviluppare ricerca su Internet delle Cose (Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor) - Roma, 15 gen - Oltre 20 professionisti e manager italiani, che nel 2013 a Dublino hanno fondato Mevaluate Holding, inventando l'unita' di misura della reputazione e il rating reputazionale, sbarcano in Inghilterra con il Consorzio Petras (9 Universita' del Regno Unito e imprese internazionali del calibro di AT&T, CISCO, Toshiba, Telefonica, BT) che si e' aggiudicato un grant da 32,8 milioni di sterline (43,5 milioni di euro) per sviluppare la ricerca su Internet of Things (Internet delle Cose). Il grant e' messo a disposizione da Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) - l'ente governativo inglese per la ricerca in ingegneria e fisica - che intende promuovere la leadership globale del Regno Unito in `Internet delle Cose´ e aumentare la connettivita' degli oggetti in tutte le imprese e nel settore pubblico. Il consorzio Petras nei prossimi tre anni esplorera' questioni chiave concernenti privacy, reputazione, fiducia, affidabilita', accettabilita' e sicurezza legate alla diffusione dell'Internet delle Cose. Mevaluate Holding, guidata dal Ceo Eduardo Marotti, nell'ambito del Consorzio Petras attribuira' un rating reputazionale ai produttori di Internet delle Cose misurando il rispetto delle norme sulla privacy e sulla gestione dei dati nei confronti di centinaia di milioni di utenti nel mondo e determinera' cosi' il grado di fiducia che gli stessi utenti possono riporre nei produttori di «Internet delle Cose». com-amm (RADIOCOR) 15-01-16 16:19:52 (0440) 5 NNNN Categoria: Notizie/Finanza Data di riferimento: 2016/01/15 From: Eduardo Marotti Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 3:48 PM To: barbaracarfagna(a)libero.it Subject: Uscite MEVALUATE (siamo usciti anche su LA STAMPA, IL MESSAGGERO, MILANO FINANZA) Cara Barbara, questi gli articoli pubblicati tra ieri e oggi. Evidenzio che Il Messaggero e Milano Finanza hanno scritto di MEVALUATE 3 volte in 12 mesi. · La Stampa, ha pubblicato il 14.01.2016: http://mevpress.com/2016/01/14/un-progetto-italiano-misura-affidabilita-e-r… · Il Messaggero, ha pubblicato oggi 15.01.2016: https://mevpress.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/il-messaggero-solo-articolo.jpg · Milano Finanza, ha pubblicato oggi 15.01.2016: http://mevpress.com/2016/01/15/mevaluate-rating-alla-reputazione-sul-web-in… Yahoo Finanza, ha pubblicato il 14.01.2016: http://mevpress.com/2016/01/14/internet-delle-cose-gb-sceglie-mevaluate-per… Ti chiamo, come d'accordo, martedì per vederci al più presto. Baci Eduardo From: Eduardo Marotti Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 12:57 PM To: barbaracarfagna(a)libero.it Subject: TAKE ADNKRONOS DI IERI 13 GENNAIO U.S. - Grant UK da 43,5 milioni di Euro su Internet delle Cose. Con MEVALUATE è made in Italy il controllo reputazione. FYI Internet: da progetto italiano in Gb misurazione reputazione e affidabilità Finanziamento a consorzio Petras di 43,5 mln euro per ricerca su IoT testo Roma, 13 gen. (AdnKronos) (Red/AdnKronos) I due pilastri della nuova economia e della sharing economy, affidabilità e reputazione, saranno finalmente misurabili con criteri scientifici. E' l'obiettivo di un progetto dell'italiana Mevaluate Holding, che opererà tramite il Consorzio Petras nel Regno Unito per sviluppare la ricerca su Internet delle Cose. Il consorzio, formato da nove Università del Regno Unito e imprese internazionali quali AT&T, CISCO, Toshiba, Telefonica, BT, ha ottenuto per il progetto un finanziamento di 43,5 milioni di euro. Sono più di venti i professionisti e manager italiani che nel 2013, a Dublino, hanno fondato Mevaluate Holding, inventato l’unità di misura della reputazione e il rating reputazionale e sono sbarcati in Inghilterra con il Consorzio Petras. Il finanziamento è stato messo a disposizione da Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), l'ente governativo inglese per la ricerca in ingegneria e fisica, che intende promuovere la leadership globale del Regno Unito in "Internet delle Cose" e aumentare la connettività degli oggetti in tutte le imprese e nel settore pubblico. Nell'ambito del progetto, il Consorzio Petras nei prossimi tre anni esplorerà questioni chiave concernenti privacy, reputazione, fiducia, affidabilità, accettabilità e sicurezza legate alla diffusione dell’Internet delle Cose. Mevaluate Holding, guidata dall'ad Eduardo Marotti, nell’ambito del Consorzio Petras attribuirà un rating reputazionale ai produttori di Internet delle Cose, misurando il rispetto delle norme sulla privacy e sulla gestione dei dati nei confronti di centinaia di milioni di utenti nel mondo e determinerà così il grado di fiducia che gli stessi utenti possono riporre nei produttori di "Internet delle Cose". L'azienda italiana opererà per il consorzio con un comitato etico mondiale in cui, con il ruolo di Advisor for International Law, spicca il professor Giuseppe Tesauro, presidente emerito della Corte Costituzionale, già presidente dell’Antitrust e prima avvocato generale presso la Corte di Giustizia delle Comunità europee. Secondo Tesauro "è straordinaria l’invenzione di Mevaluate, che con il suo algoritmo determina una inedita unità di misura della reputazione, trasformandola da percezione soggettiva a dato oggettivo, identificando così il grado di fiducia che diventa un rating reputazionale (nella forma A-A-A-100-100). L'indicatore offre tutte le possibili garanzie di indipendenza, incorruttibilità e autorevolezza - spiega ancora Tesauro - perché è frutto di un calcolo, è ispirato dal Codice della Reputazione Universale ed è validato dal WEC – Worldwide Ethics Committee". Mevaluate Holding collaborerà anche con due eccellenze italiane: Luciano Floridi, professore di filosofia ed etica dell’informazione e direttore della ricerca con una cattedra creata ad personam all’università di Oxford, nonché inventore dell'Infosfera e unico italiano arruolato da Google nella commissione di super esperti di privacy e leggi sull’informatica; Mariarosaria Taddeo, ricercatrice dell’Oxford Internet Institute, presidente International Association for Computing and Philosophy e consulente NATO per la cyber warfare. Roberto

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Code of Conduct on mHealth apps
by Guido Noto La Diega Jan. 15, 2016

Jan. 15, 2016

DG connect ha presentato la prima bozza di codice di condotta sulle mHealth apps, ahime' focalizzata sul solo sviluppatore. Puo' essere scaricata all'indirizzo http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/meeting-privacy-code-conduct-mhe… . Cheers -- *Guido* Dr. Guido Noto La Diega <http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/staff/notoladiega.html>, Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Cloud Computing Law <http://www.cloudlegal.ccls.qmul.ac.uk/project/researchers/index.html> - Queen Mary University of London <http://www.mccrc.eu/Pages/Research-Team.aspx> President of Ital-IoT <http://italiot.altervista.org/about-us/> - Centre of Multidisciplinary Research on the Internet of Things Avvocato <http://www.studioperrino.it/intro/index.asp> (Commercial and IP/IT Lawyer) Cultore della materia in Civil Law and Intellectual Property <http://www.unipa.it/persone/docenti/n/guido.notoladiega> - University of Palermo 67-69 Lincoln's Inn Fields London WC2A 3JB g.notoladiega(a)qmul.ac.uk +44(0)2078823386 @guidonld https://it.linkedin.com/pub/guido-noto-la-diega-ph-d/6/614/669 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. Diese E-Mail enthält vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte Informationen. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestaettet. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Danke. Il presente messaggio di posta elettronica ed ogni eventuale allegato contengono informazioni strettamente riservate e sono indirizzati esclusivamente al soggetto sopra indicato. In mancanza di autorizzazione del destinatario, ne sono vietati l’uso, la riproduzione e la divulgazione. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, siete pregati di avvisarci immediatamente per telefono e di restituirci i documenti ricevuti all’indirizzo sopra indicato, distruggendo i file. Grazie. *BE ECO-FRIENDLY: Unless necessary, please do not print this e-mail *

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Cf Papers & Panels: "Internet & Politics: from Local to Global Politics" | ECPR General Conference | 7-10.September.16 | Prague
by Calderaro, Andrea Jan. 15, 2016

Jan. 15, 2016

Call for Papers and Panels Internet and Politics: from Local to Global Politics Section at the ECPR General Conference | 7-10.September.16 | Prague Section Chairs Andrea Calderaro (Cardiff University) Alexandra Segerberg (Stockholm University) Abstract The Section aims to explore Internet and Politics across its multiple dimensions in a global and comparative perspective. While the research area of Internet and Politics initially focused primarily on the influence of digital technologies on political participation, more recently a growing body of work looks at the relation between digital technologies and politics in a wide range of political regimes, institutions and civic groups, as well as geographical locations. This is making it increasingly clear that multiple dimensions from local, national to international politics traverse the field, and means that such diverse issues as digital privacy and cybersecurity, the role of digital technologies in challenging and sustaining autocratic regimes, or the position of internet governance in the broader context of global governance now also appear as key research concerns. Meanwhile, much of the emerging scholarship shares the challenge of developing frameworks and methods adequate to analysing politics under fast-moving and complex conditions. This Section calls for Panels and Papers seeking to establish clear lines of dialogue between the multiple dimensions and diverse theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches characterizing the study of Internet of Politics. To achieve this goal, it hosts panels addressing: 1. Novel conceptual and theoretical frameworks helping us to better understand and systematize the multiple dimensions of Internet and Politics; 2. Methodological issues, discussing both quantitative and qualitative, digital and conventional research approaches able to solve the challenges encountered in the field; 3. Empirically grounded research and results that shed light on the multiplex relations between Internet and Politics across different regimes, forms of politics, and across different geographical contexts. How To: Please find detailed information about how to prepare your submissions here: http://ecpr.eu/Events/Content.aspx?ID=140&EventID=95#PanelPapers Paper and Panel proposals must be sent by 15th Feb, through the ECPR website: http://ecpr.eu/Events/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=95 Please do not hesitate to contact Section Chairs for any further information. Andrea Calderaro (CalderaroA(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:CalderaroA@cardiff.ac.uk>) Alexandra Segerberg (Alexandra.Segerberg(a)statsvet.su.se<mailto:Alexandra.Segerberg@statsvet.su.se>) ----------------------------------------------- Andrea Calderaro, PhD Lecturer in International Relations Department of Politics and International Relations | Cardiff University ----------------------------------------------- Personal page: www.andreacalderaro.net<http://www.andreacalderaro.net> Twitter: @andreacalderaro The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, forwarding, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited without the express permission of the sender. If you received this communication in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.

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Fwd: Le Regole del Caos. Istituzioni, industry ed artisti a confronto sul futuro del diritto d’autore in Italia. Cosa fare? Roma, 18 gennaio 2016
by Mauro Alovisio Jan. 15, 2016

Jan. 15, 2016

Gent.me/mi segnalo convegno di interesse in materia di diritto di autore....a Roma il prossimo lunedi 18 gennaio 2016 con partecipazione fellow Nexa avv.Carlo Blengino <http://supercom.musvc2.net/e/r?q=Q9%3d9BQ0_Iizj_Ts_Okth_Yz_Iizj_Sx9301.B721…> <http://supercom.musvc2.net/e/r?q=Q9%3d9BQ0_Iizj_Ts_Okth_Yz_Iizj_Sx9301.B721…>Se non legge correttamente questo messaggio, cliccare qui <http://supercom.musvc2.net/e/r?q=Q9%3d9BQ0_Iizj_Ts_Okth_Yz_Iizj_Sx9301.B721…> [image: Questo testo viene mostrato quando l'immagine è bloccata] *La Società per Autori è lieta di invitarti a* *Le Regole del Caos* Istituzioni, industry ed artisti a confronto sul futuro del diritto d’autore in Italia. Cosa fare? *Lunedì 18 gennaio 2016Ore 12 - 18Teatro Dell’AngeloVia Simone De Saint Bon 19 - Roma* Il diritto d’autore in Italia sta perdendo sempre più attenzione e centralità. Per capire cosa stia accadendo e valutare tutte le possibili soluzioni, la *Società per Autori* (SpA) organizza una giornata dedicata al tema, coinvolgendo tutte le componenti istituzionali, industriali ed artistiche che contribuiscono alla catena del valore del settore. Interverranno parlamentari, autorità di regolazione, autori (sceneggiatori, registi, scrittori, fumettisti, fotografi, giornalisti, musicisti) assieme ai rappresentanti di associazioni di categoria, produttori, editori, esperti di diritto d’autore e dirigenti di network radiotelevisivi. Si discuterà di tutela del diritto d'autore, delle normative attuali e delle prospettive di adeguamento ai nuovi scenari, dell’allineamento ai quadri regolatori europei, del potere contrattuale degli autori in rapporto agli editori e ai produttori, delle insidie e delle opportunità del web, della differenza tra Creative Commons e Siae e dei possibili scenari in caso di perdita del monopolio. *Agenda* *Ore 12,00 – 12,45* Accoglienza e networking dei partecipanti *Ore 12,45 – 14,00* *“Tra caos e regole”* brevi interventi sul diritto d’autore di: - *Arianna Tronco*, Agente di autori, ideatrice SPA - *Michele Serra*, Giornalista, Autore - *Andrea Zalone*, Autore televisivo - *Andrea Miccichè*, Avvocato, Presidente *Nuovo Imaie* - *Guido Pugnetti*, Responsabile Marketing, Commerciale e rapporti tra le reti *Rai* - *Carlo Blengino*, Avvocato e Fellow del Centro Nexa su Internet & Società - *Paolo Agoglia*, Direttore Ufficio Legislativo, *Siae* - *Guido Guerzoni*, Docente di Storia economica presso la SDA *Bocconi*, Autore - *Davide D’Atri*, Amministratore delegato e fondatore di *Soundreef* - *Antonio Pascale*, Scrittore, Giornalista - *Enrico Bertolino*, Conduttore radio-televisivo, Autore *Ore 14,00 – 15,00* Light Lunch *Ore 15,00 – 18,00* Dibattito Modera *Massimo Bernardini*, Giornalista *“La circolazione legale delle opere d'autore”* - *Paolo Agoglia*, Direttore Ufficio Legislativo, *Siae* - *Federico Bagnoli Rossi*, Segretario Generale, *FAPAV* - *Carlo Blengino*, Avvocato e Fellow del Centro Nexa su Internet & Società - *Francesco Posteraro*, Consigliere, *Agcom* - *Andrea Romano*, Deputato *Partito Democratico* *“Le opere d'autore e tutela del lavoro degli artisti”* - *Raffaele Barberio*, Direttore, *Key4biz* - *Lorenza Bonaccorsi*, Deputata, *Partito Democratico* - *Carlo Degli Esposti*, Produttore cinematografico - *Fabio Macaluso*, Avvocato, Esperto di diritto antitrust e telecomunicazioni - *Michele Serra*, Giornalista *“La direttiva sulle società di gestione collettiva del copyright e l'eventuale liberalizzazione del mercato (fine del monopolio)”* - *Francesca Bonomo*, Deputata, *Partito Democratico* - *Andrea Miccichè*, Avvocato, Presidente *Nuovo Imaie* - *Domenico Luca Scordino*, Consigliere di gestione, *Siae* - *Guido Scorza*, Avvocato, Docente di diritto delle nuove tecnologie - *Luca Sofri*, Giornalista, Direttore *Il Post* Per registrarsi e per informazioni: *regoledelcaos(a)gmail.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','regoledelcaos(a)gmail.com');>* [image: Email] <http://supercom.musvc2.net/e/r?q=Pp%3dB5Pq_LbyQ_Wl_NRwa_Xg_LbyQ_Vq8jCt.An5t…> [image: Facebook] <http://supercom.musvc2.net/e/t?q=9%3d2dIe%26l%3dY%26x%3dY9YG%26K%3d4bCY3%26…> [image: Twitter] <http://supercom.musvc2.net/e/t?q=4%3d7aUZ%26q%3dV%260%3dTDVS%26F%3d9YOT8%26…> [image: Linkedin] <http://supercom.musvc2.net/e/t?q=8%3dBZOd%26v%3dU%264%3dXIUM%26J%3dDXIXC%26…> [image: Google+] <http://supercom.musvc2.net/e/t?q=0%3dPcJf%260%3dX%26y%3dZWXH%26L%3dRaDZQ%26…> *Per cancellarsi cliccare qui | Unsubscribe* <http://supercom.musvc2.net/e/r?q=Ov%3dDGOw_NnxW_Yx_MXym_Wm_NnxW_X37pE6.0t76…> [image: MailUp] <http://supercom.musvc2.net/e/t?q=6%3dPYIb%260%3dT%26x%3dVWTG%26H%3dRWCVQ%26…> Email inviata con MailUp <http://supercom.musvc2.net/e/t?q=4%3dGgIZ%261%3db%26x%3dTNbG%26F%3dIeCTH%26…> <http://supercom.musvc2.net/e/t?q=9%3dFbVe%26z%3dW%26A%3dYMWT%26K%3dHZPYG%26…>Con MailUp la cancellazione e' sicura <http://biii.emailsp.it/p>

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RESET journal -- Issue 4, "Game Worlds", now released
by Francesca Musiani Jan. 14, 2016

Jan. 14, 2016

Dear readers, The RESET (Social Sciences Research on the Internet) journal is thrilled to announce that our fourth issue is now online (http://reset.revues.org/451) Five original papers constitute the thematic focus on "Game Worlds" (4 in French and 1 in English), and one paper appears in our new Varia section. Allow us to remind you to consider responding to our permanent CFPs for our sections Varia (http://reset.revues.org/617) and Updating The Classics ( http://reset.revues.org/376) Wishing you all the best for 2016 The RESET editorial board --- Chers lectrices et chers lecteurs, La revue RESET est heureuse de vous annoncer la parution de son quatrième numéro en accès libre en ligne (http://reset.revues.org/451) Ce numéro contient un dossier thématique "Les mondes du jeu" avec 5 contributions originales dont quatre en français et une en anglais, complété par un article sur l'adolescence et la vie privée figurant dans la toute nouvelle rubrique Varia. Nous profitons de la présente pour vous rappeler qu'outre nos appels à contributions thématiques, nous lirons avec plaisir toute soumission d'articles suivant nos appels permanents des rubriques Varia ( http://reset.revues.org/616) et Actualité des classiques ( http://reset.revues.org/375) Avec nos meilleurs voeux pour 2016 Le comité éditorial de RESET -- Francesca Musiani (ph.d.) assistant research professor (*chargée de recherche*), CNRS, ISCC <http://www.iscc.cnrs.fr/> associate researcher, i3, CSI <http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/>, MINES ParisTech co-chair, ESN-IAMCR <http://iamcr.org/s-wg/cctmc/esn> academic editor, @PolicyR <http://policyreview.info/> on the web <http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/People/musiani/> | on twitter <https://twitter.com/franmusiani>

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Doctorow: "You Can't Destroy the Village to Save It: W3C vs DRM, Round Two"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 14, 2016

Jan. 14, 2016

JANUARY 12, 2016 | BY CORY DOCTOROW You Can't Destroy the Village to Save It: W3C vs DRM, Round Two The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the nonprofit body that maintains the Web's core standards, made a terrible mistake in 2013: they decided to add DRM—the digital locks that train your computer to say "I can't let you do that, Dave"; rather than "Yes, boss"—to the Web's standards. At the time,we fought the proposal on a principled basis <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/lowering-your-standards>: DRM has no place in the open Internet because of the many ways it shuts down legal, legitimate activities. We lost. So we came back witha new proposal <https://www.eff.org/pages/objection-rechartering-w3c-eme-group>: the W3C could have its cake and eat it too. It could adopt a rule that requires members who help make DRM standards to promise not to sue people who report bugs in tools that conform to those standards, nor could they sue people just for making a standards-based tool that connected to theirs. They could make DRM, but only if they made sure that they took steps to stop that DRM from being used to attack the open Web. This is nowhere near as good as the W3C rejecting DRM altogether, but it's/much/better than nothing. If the W3C is going to create new DRM standards, let them make them in a way that minimizes the risk to security researchers and standards-implementers, the people that the W3C exists to serve. We've asked the W3C to make this into their policy. The only W3C group presently engaged in DRM standardization is due to have its charter renewed in early 2016. The W3C called a poll over that charter during the Christmas month, ending on December 30th. Despite the tight timeline and the number of members who were unavailable over the holidays, a global, diverse coalition of commercial firms, nonprofits and educational institutions came together to endorse this proposal. More than three quarters of those who weighed in on our proposal supported it. Those supporters include Stanford University, the Open University, the University of Southampton, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro,Ripple (a payments company) <https://ripple.com/insights/ripple-eff-open-approach-to-security-will-defin…>, the Hypothes.is project and several others all said that they would not agree with the group being rechartered at all unless EFF's covenenant were made a condition of participation. The proposal is now in the hands of the W3C's executive, specifically W3C CEO Jeff Jaffe and Director Tim Berners-Lee. They have it in their power to substantially mitigate some of the worst potential effects of DRM at the W3C. If the W3C adopts EFF's proposal, they will be saying to the companies that push for DRM: "You are welcome to standardize any technology in our group, but you must promise not to use that work to sue programmers for doing normal things that are important to the Web's openness and survival." To understand why DRM is a bad technology for open standardization, you need to understand the laws that protect it. Around the world, laws like the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Canada's C-11, New Zealand's Bill 92A; and accords like the European EUCD, the Central American Free Trade Agreement, and the US-Australian and US-Korean Trade Agreements establish special legal protections for DRM. These governments (and many others) give legal backing to companies that try to lock you out of devices, software, and media that you own, and this interferes with activities like repairing your own electronics or your car, making backups or remixes of videos, auditing the security of medical devices, and many more legitimate and otherwise-lawful activities. It gets worse. In practice, it's not hard to break DRM, so to slow the spread of information about how to remove the locks on the stuff you own, laws like the DMCA also has been used to punish disclosure of bugs and defects. This doesn't mean that bad guys—enemy spies, cyber arms-dealers, voyeurs, identity thieves, and griefers—don't discover and weaponize these bugs. It just means that you don't get to learn about them until they are used in a high-profile attack, or until a brave security researcher risks a lawsuit to come forward. While DRM has many other failings, these two are especially pointed in the context of Web standards: 1. DRM is incompatible with interoperability Interoperability—plugging one thing into another—is why standards exist. Sometimes, vendors welcome interop, offering APIs and other hooks for follow-on tools to plug into. Sometimes, manufacturers don't bother, or actively try to block third party equipment from playing nice with their own (think of inkjet printer cartridges). In the absence of DRM, it's perfectly legit (and common) for manufacturers to figure out how to let you plug something they make into something you own, even when this goes against the wishes of the original manufacturer. You bought it, you own it, you get to decide what you plug into it. DRM exists to stop users from doing things they want to do and to stop innovative companies from helping users do things they want to do -- or would want to do, if they had the option. Your cable box, for example, will be designed to stop you from recording your favorite shows for long-term storage and viewing on the go. But if you could just plug any digital video recorder into your cable box, you could record those shows, move them to your laptop, and watch them ten years from now. DRM locks up the data coming out of your cable box with encryption that is arguably unlawful to break, even to do something legal, like make a copy for personal use. That's not unusual: tech companies have dreamed of the "toaster-maker gets to sell you the bread" business since forever. The common response to this is for a competing manufacturer to design a widget that converts the proprietary, locked output from your gadget into a standard, open one, that can accept a variety of apps, recorders, lightbulbs, bread, etc. DRM laws put a roadblock in the way of this innovation. So DRM only exists to/prevent/compatibility without explicit permission—the opposite of a standard. 2. DRM is a security disaster The prohibition on reporting bugs in systems with DRM makes those bugs last longer, and get exploited harder before they're patched. Last summer,the US Copyright Office collected evidence <https://www.eff.org/document/library-congress-2015-dmca-1201-rules>about DRM interfering with reporting bugs in tractors, cars, medical implants, and critical national infrastructure. The W3C's roadmap for HTML5 is for it to have the flexibility and power to replace apps as the default way to control all those devices and more. If standards-compliant browsers have legal barriers to reporting vulnerabilities in them, it exposes the whole technological world and everything we do in it at risk of attacks that can't be headed off until it's too late. Many of the eminent security researchers who participated in the Copyright Office's latest rulemaking to consider exemptions to Section 1201 of the US DMCA have endorsed EFF's proposal for a nonagression covenant, including Bruce Schneier, Matthew Blaze and Matthew Green. This isn't the first collision between proprietary rights and the W3C. In 1999,the W3C had to decide what to do about software patents <http://www.w3.org/2007/Talks/0507-patent-policy-overview/#%284%29>. These patents were and are hugely controversial, and the W3C was looking for a way to be neutral on the question of whether patents were good or bad, while still protecting the Web's openness to anyone who wanted to develop for it. They came up with a brilliant strategy: a patent nonaggression policy—a policy we modelled our DRM proposal on. Under this policy, participation in a W3C group meant that you had to promise your company wouldn't use its patents to sue over anything that group produced. This policy let the W3C take a position on the open Web (the Web is more open when your risk of getting sued for making it better is reduced) without taking a policy on whether patents are good. The DRM covenant does the same thing. Without taking a position on DRM, it takes the inarguable position that the Web gets more open when the number of people who can sue you for reporting bugs in it or connecting new things to it goes down. The World Wide Web Consortium is at a crossroads. Much of the "Web" is disappearing into apps and into the big companies' walled gardens. If it is to be relevant in the decades to come, it must do everything it can to keep the Web open as an/alternative/to those walled gardens. We're trying hard to help them do that. But if the W3C executive won't take the lead on keeping the Web open, they must, at a minimum, not impede those who haven't given up the fight. CC BY

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Diritto all'oblio e pubblicità obbligatoria: come si conciliano?
by Diego Giorio Jan. 14, 2016

Jan. 14, 2016

http://www.altalex.com/documents/news/2015/12/09/diritto-a-oblio-pubblicita… Segnalo questo commento ad un'ordinanza della Corte di Cassazione Saluti a tutti D.

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