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User data plundering by Android and iOS apps is as rampant as you suspected | Ars Technica
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 5, 2015

Nov. 5, 2015

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/11/user-data-plundering-by-android-and… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking" - Vox
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 4, 2015

Nov. 4, 2015

Molto interessante. jc http://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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"Google, Facebook and others 'falling short' on digital privacy"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 4, 2015

Nov. 4, 2015

Google, Facebook and others 'falling short' on digital privacy By Julie Balise <http://www.sfgate.com/author/julie-balise/> Updated 2:34 pm, Tuesday, November 3, 2015 Google gets a "D" in digital rights -- and it's the best-performing Internet or telecommunications company in a study on freedom of expression and privacy released on Tuesday <https://rankingdigitalrights.org/index2015/findings/>. The inaugural Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index looked at privacy, freedom of expression and commitment to those policies at eight publicly listed Internet and eight publicly listed telecomunications companies around the world. Researchers scored companies using peer reviews, company feedback and quality control. "There are no 'winners,' " the report says. "Even companies in the lead are falling short. Across the board, companies need to improve their commitments to, and disclosures of, policies and practices that affect users' freedom of expression and privacy. […] Continua qui: http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Google-Facebook-and-others-fall-shor…

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criticità privacy sito
by Mauro Alovisio Nov. 4, 2015

Nov. 4, 2015

Gent.me/mi segnalo interessante criticità privacy riportata oggi sul Corriere della Sera del 4 novembre 2015 http://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/15_novembre_04/lombardia-informat… Cordiali saluti da Torino Mauro Alovisio

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Italia, parliamo di diritti in Rete
by FelynX Nov. 4, 2015

Nov. 4, 2015

Segnalo Italia, parliamo di diritti in Rete (di Claudio Tamburrino) "In parlamento si discute una mozione a tema Internet Bill of Rights in attesa dell'Internet Governance Forum. A Roma, nei prossimi giorni, si svolgerà invece Internet Ungovernance Forum Italia" http://punto-informatico.it/4281389/PI/News/italia-parliamo-diritti-rete.as… -- FelynX // PP / #romapirata

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Re: [nexa] in discussione in questo momento la mozione Dichiarazione dei diritti in Internet
by Giuseppe Attardi Nov. 3, 2015

Nov. 3, 2015

Bel discorso del Quinta. -- Beppe

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Google Searches Put Consumers at Risk - The Atlantic
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 3, 2015

Nov. 3, 2015

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/google-searches-priva… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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in discussione in questo momento la mozione Dichiarazione dei diritti in Internet
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 3, 2015

Nov. 3, 2015

Diretta dalla Camera dei Deputati su Radio Radicale e qui: http://webtv.camera.it/assemblea juan carlos

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2015 Indicators - Ranking Digital Rights
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 3, 2015

Nov. 3, 2015

https://rankingdigitalrights.org/index2015/ (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Berkman Center Webcast live oggi ore 18 - Re-assembling the Assembly Line: Digital Labor Economies, and Demands for an Ambient Workforce
by Giuseppe Futia Nov. 3, 2015

Nov. 3, 2015

Re-assembling the Assembly Line: Digital Labor Economies and Demands for an Ambient Workforce https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/11/Gray <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/06/sigal> *with Berkman Fellow, Mary L. Gray* Today, 6.00 pm Webcast live: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast http://nexa.polito.it/berkman-webcast-live The presentation draws on findings from a two-year collaborative study of crowdwork--“the process of taking tasks that would normally be delegated to an employee and distributing them to a large pool of online workers, the ‘crowd,’ in the form of an open call" (Felstiner, 2010). We combine ethnographic and qualitative methods with computational analysis of backend metadata, comparing the cases of India and the United States, to understand the cultural meaning, political implications, and ethical demands of crowdwork. This talk examines how might we use the present day examples of people doing crowdwork as part-time, contingent employment to theorize the “last mile” of technological innovation-via-automation. What are the workforce demands such a restructuring of production suggests? People’s labor often goes unnoticed or unseen because it is embedded in computation and obscured by an API. This produces an ambient workforce: a distributed, always-on, at-the-ready, expansive labor market, dependent on a mix of intense bursts of activity AND a “long tail” of idling. Examined more closely, this bursty/idling pattern belays the different experiences of crowdsourcing: From the employer’s perspective, it is all burst and idle. Workers, on the other hand, turn crowdsourcing into a routine. We argue that before we can establish the legal, economic, and social regulatory regimes to manage crowdwork, we must have a clearer sense of the people doing this work, what it means to them, and how it fits into their daily lives. About Mary Mary is a Senior Researcher at MSR. She studied anthropology before receiving her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California at San Diego in 2004. She draws on this interdisciplinary background to study how people use digital and social media in everyday ways to shape their social identities and create spaces for themselves. Her most recent book, Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America (NYU Press), which won awards from scholarly societies in Anthropology, Media Studies, and Sociology, examined how lesbian, gay, bi, and transgender young people negotiate and express their identities in rural parts of the United States and the role that digital media play in their lives and political work. Mary served on the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association from 2008 until 2010 and, now, holds a seat on that Association's Committee on Public Policy. She maintains an appointment as an Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, with adjunct appointments in American Studies, Anthropology, and Gender Studies.

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