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The Intercept: Massive Hack of 70 Million Prisoner Phone Calls Indicates Violations of Attorney-Client Privilege
by Alberto Cammozzo Nov. 12, 2015

Nov. 12, 2015

NOT SO SECURUS Massive Hack of 70 Million Prisoner Phone Calls Indicates Violations of Attorney-Client Privilege <https://theintercept.com/2015/11/11/securus-hack-prison-phone-company-expos…> Nov. 11 2015, 6:43 p.m. AN ENORMOUS CACHE of phone records obtained by The Intercept reveals a major breach of security at Securus Technologies, a leading provider of phone services inside the nation’s prisons and jails. The materials — leaked via SecureDrop by an anonymous hacker who believes that Securus is violating the constitutional rights of inmates — comprise over 70 million records of phone calls, placed by prisoners to at least 37 states, in addition to links to downloadable recordings of the calls. The calls span a nearly two-and-a-half year period, beginning in December 2011 and ending in the spring of 2014. [...]

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Re: [nexa] Microsoft opta per un data trustee tedesco
by Giuseppe Attardi Nov. 12, 2015

Nov. 12, 2015

Non mi è chiaro se possa funzionare. Mi pare sia più una foglia di fico per gabellare agli europei che i loro dati sono sicuri perché stanno in Europa. Se un giudice americano o la NSA ingiunge a Microsoft di consegnargli i dati, non credo si possano esimere per il solo fatto che si trovano in Europa. Se fornisse i dati, potrebbe succedere che il garante tedesco impianta una causa a Microsoft, ma sarebbe una magra consolazione per gli europei. E Microsoft non potrebbe certo rifiutarsi di fronte a un’ingiunzione con la scusa che rischia una causa del garante tedesco. Gli direbbero: cavoli tuoi, potevi tenere i dati in USA per evitarti le grane. — Beppe

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"Droni: come fare decollare le idee, la tecnologia ed il business?" - Festival ICT 2015 (11 novembre ore 16)
by Giuseppe Futia Nov. 11, 2015

Nov. 11, 2015

Gentilissimi, abbiamo il piacere di segnalarvi l'incontro intitolato "*Droni: come fare decollare le idee, la tecnologia ed il business?*" che si svolge nel contesto del Festival ICT 2015, presso la Fiera Milano Congressi. Sull’argomento interverranno gli avvocati *Mauro Alovisio*, presidente Centro Studi di Informatica Giuridica di Ivrea Torino, e *Giovanni Battista Gallus*, presidente del Circolo Giuristi Telematici, entrambi fellow del Centro di ricerca Nexa su Internet e Società. Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili all'indirizzo: http://www.festivalict.com/droni-come-fare-decollare-le-idee-la-tecnologia-… . Cordiali saluti, -- ------------------------------------------------- Giuseppe Futia Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino web: http://nexa.polito.it mail: giuseppe.futia(a)polito.it tel. +39 011 090 7219

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Facebook Vows to Appeal Belgian Ruling on Data Privacy
by Alberto Cammozzo Nov. 10, 2015

Nov. 10, 2015

<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/11/business/international/facebook-belgium-p…> In Monday’s ruling, a court in Brussels said that Facebook could no longer collect and store online information from people in Belgium who do not have an account with the social network. The court said that Facebook did not have individuals’ consent to gather the information. [] Facebook will face daily fines worth up to $270,000 if it fails to comply with the court’s decision, according to Belgian law. In response, the company said that it had used cookies for more than five years without facing privacy complaints, and that it would now take its case to the Belgian Court of Appeal. But Facebook also said it would take steps to stop collecting online information about people in Belgium who do not use its site by the end of the week. “We are working to minimize any disruption to people’s access to Facebook in Belgium,” Sally Aldous, a company spokeswoman, said in a statement. The case was filed this year by Belgium’s data protection authority, which had balked at changes to Facebook’s terms and conditions that would have given the company greater say over how it collected and used individuals’ online information. [...] A.

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Judge Deals a Blow to N.S.A. Data Collection Program
by Alberto Cammozzo Nov. 10, 2015

Nov. 10, 2015

<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/us/politics/judge-deals-a-blow-to-nsa-pho…> WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Monday partly blocked the National Security Agency’s program that systematically collects Americans’ domestic phone records in bulk just weeks before the agency was scheduled to shut it down and replace it. The judge said the program was most likely unconstitutional. In a separate case challenging the program, a federal appeals court in New York on Oct. 30 had declined to weigh in on the constitutional issues, saying it would be imprudent to interfere with an orderly transition to a replacement system after Nov. 29. <https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2013cv0851-158> Bella la conclusione: “With the government’s authority to operate the bulk telephony metadata program quickly coming to an end, this case is perhaps the last chapter in the judiciary’s evaluation of this particular program’s compatibility with the Constitution. It will not, however, be the last chapter in the ongoing struggle to balance privacy rights and national security interests under our Constitution in an age of evolving technological wizardry. Although this court appreciates the zealousness with which the government seeks to protect the citizens of our nation, that same government bears just as great a responsibility to protect the individual liberties of those very citizens. Pur a fine partita non ha perso l'occasione di segnare il punto. A.

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Facebook freebooting
by marco.crepaldi＠ymail.com Nov. 10, 2015

Nov. 10, 2015

Facebook is now attracting more than 4 billion video views per day, up from just one billion in September. It’s unclear how many of these views are coming from copyright-infringing content, but a recent study by ad agency Ogilvy and video analytics firm Tubular Labs found that about 72.5% of the top 1,000 Facebook videos in May were re-uploaded from other sources, an easy task with freely-available software. Continua qui http://time.com/4009015/facebook-youtube-freebooting/

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"Licenze libere ed editoria: due esperienze recenti" - Campus Luigi Einaudi, UniTO (18 novembre)
by Giuseppe Futia Nov. 10, 2015

Nov. 10, 2015

Gentilissimi, siamo lieti di segnalarvi che il 18 novembre a partire dalle ore 15, presso il Campus Luigi Einaudi dell'Università degli Studi di Torino, si svolgerà un momento di discussione a partire dalle pubblicazioni di * U. Pagallo, *Il diritto nell'età dell'informazione *(Giappichelli, 2014) ** *M. Ricolfi, *Trattato dei marchi. Diritto europeo e nazionale*, (Giappichelli, 2015) Ne discuteranno con gli autori e con l'editore F. Morando (Director of Research and Policy del Centro Nexa) e G.B. Ramello (Università del Piemonte Orientale). Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili sulla locandina: http://bit.ly/1WOjIt8. Cordiali saluti, -- ------------------------------------------------- Giuseppe Futia Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino web: http://nexa.polito.it mail: giuseppe.futia(a)polito.it tel. +39 011 090 7219

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80° Mercoledì di Nexa - 11 novembre 2015
by Giuseppe Futia Nov. 10, 2015

Nov. 10, 2015

Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-80> NEXA 80° Mercoledì di Nexa Mercoledi 11 novembre 2015, ore 18.00 - 20.00 Via Boggio 65/a, Torino (primo piano) http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-80 IoT-Health. L’Internet of Things per una nuova sanità Speaker Guido Noto La Diega (Queen Mary, University of London) Ingresso libero This event will be webcast live: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events Da molti anni, ormai, le tecnologie dell’informazione e della comunicazione vengono usate in campo sanitario, secondo modalità e in campi eterogenei, ma sussunti nella c.d. e-Health <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EHealth>. Dopo aver presentato una tassonomia che aspira a mettere ordine alle varie diramazioni dell’e-Health, *Guido Noto La Diega* (Queen Mary, University of London) introduce il nuovo concetto di “IoT-Health”, applicazione dell’Internet of Things (IoT) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things> per fini di monitoraggio della salute, nonché di prevenzione e cura. Le /Things/, definite dai ricercatori del Microsoft Cloud Computing Research Centre come “/any physical entity capable of connectivity that has a direct interface to the physical world (i.e. a sensing and/or actuating capability)/”, sono in grado di cambiare radicalmente alcune idee tradizionali in materia di salute. Con una metodologia incentrata su case studies, Guido focalizzerà l’attenzione in particolare sul fenomeno del c.d. /repurposing/. Il /repurposing/ è inteso come una caratteristica tipica dei sistemi IoT tale per cui, per motivi che saranno illustrati nel corso della relazione, oggetti pensati per determinate finalità finiscono per produrre azioni e flussi di informazioni imprevisti. BIOGRAFIA - e informazioni supplementari [Noto La Diega] GUIDO NOTO LA DIEGA è un giurista geeky. Nonostante un dottorato apparentemente tradizionale (diritto privato), Guido coltiva sin da subito interessi interdisciplinari principalmente connessi all’informatica e alle nuove tecnologie in generale. Dopo una visiting scholarship al Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition di Monaco, Guido è attualmente postdoc in cloud computing law presso Queen Mary, University of London e cultore del diritto civile e d’autore nell’Università di Palermo. Collabora con Nexa nell’ambito del progetto “The Law of Service Robots”. Presidente di “Ital-IoT”, unico centro di ricerca interdisciplinare sull’Internet of Things” e animatore di riviste giuridiche italiane e internazionali, Guido è relatore a conferenze italiane, britanniche, austriache, belghe e coreane. Alcune pubblicazioni sono disponibili qui <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1794950> e qui <https://qmul.academia.edu/GuidoNotoLaDiegaPhD>. Letture consigliate e link utili: * N. Brown-S. Brown, /Dr Download: Apps and Wearables as Medical Devices/, in /Computers & Law/, 26/03/2015 * F. Hu-D. Xie-S. Shen, /On the Application of the Internet of Things in the Field of Medical and Health Care, Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom) <http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/searchresult.jsp?reload=true&searchWithin…>/, 2013 IEEE and Internet of Things (iThings/CPSCom), IEEE International Conference on and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, Beijing, 20-23 Aug. 2013, 2053 – 2058 * A.P.S. Loomba, /Repurposing Medical Devices for LRCs - Sustainability Considerations/, 2014 International ICE Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE), Bergamo, 23-25 June 2014, 1-6. 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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Berkman Center Webcast live oggi ore 18 - Bridging the gap between computer science and legal approaches to privacy
by Giuseppe Futia Nov. 10, 2015

Nov. 10, 2015

Bridging the gap between computer science and legal approaches to privacy https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/11/Nissim_Wood <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/06/sigal> *with Kobbi Nissim and Alexandra Wood* Today, 6.00 pm Webcast live: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast http://nexa.polito.it/berkman-webcast-live Lawyers and computer scientists hold very different notions of privacy. Notably, privacy laws rely on narrower and less formal conceptions of risk than those described by the computer science literature. As a result, the law often creates uncertainty and fails to protect against the full range of data privacy risks. In contrast, emerging mathematical concepts provide robust, formal models for quantifying and mitigating privacy risks. An example of such a model is differential privacy, which provides a provable guarantee of privacy against a wide range of potential attacks, including types of attacks currently unknown or unforeseen. The subject of much theoretical investigation, these new technical methods for privacy protection have recently been making significant strides towards practical implementation. For example, researchers are now building and testing the first generation of tools for differentially private statistical analysis. However, because the law generally relies on very different methods for mitigating risk, a significant challenge to implementation will be demonstrating that the new privacy technologies satisfy legal requirements for privacy protection. In particular, most privacy laws focus on the identifiability of data, or the ability to link an individual to a record in a release of data. In doing so, they often equate privacy with heuristic “de-identification” approaches and provide little guidance for implementing more formal privacy-preserving techniques. In this talk, Kobbi Nissim and Alexandra Wood will articulate the gap between legal and technical approaches to privacy and present a methodology for formally proving that a technological method for privacy protection satisfies the requirements of a particular law. This methodology involves two steps: first, translating a legal standard into a formal mathematical requirement of privacy and, second, constructing a rigorous proof for establishing that a technique satisfies the mathematical requirement derived from the law. The presenters will walk through an example applying this new methodology to bridge the requirements of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and differential privacy. They will conclude the presentation with a discussion of how the methodology could help further the real-world adoption of new privacy technologies. This talk summarizes early results from ongoing research by Kobbi Nissim, Aaron Bembenek, Mark Bun, Marco Gaboardi, and Salil Vadhan from the Center for Research on Computation and Society, together with Urs Gasser, David O’Brien, and Alexandra Wood from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Further work building from this approach is anticipated to form the basis of a future publication. This research is also part of a broader collaboration through the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project, which aims to build legal and technical tools, such as tools for differentially private statistical analysis, to help enable the wider sharing of social science research data while protecting the privacy of individuals. About Kobbi Kobbi Nissim is a Professor of Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard. Trained in cryptography, Kobbi always maintains a healthy level of paranoia, and feels the ground is shaky whenever issues of security and privacy are not formally defined and analysed. Nissim's current work is focused on the mathematical formulation and understanding of privacy. His work from 2003 and 2004 with Dinur and Dwork initiated rigorous foundational research of privacy and presented a precursor of Differential Privacy, a strong definition of privacy in computation that he introduced in 2006 with Dwork, McSherry and Smith. With collaborators, Nissim established some of the basic constructions supporting differential privacy, and studied differential privacy in various contexts, including statistics, computational learning, mechanism design, and social networks. Since 2011, Kobbi has been involved with the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project at Harvard University, developing privacy-preserving tools for the sharing of social science data. Other contributions of Nissim include the BGN homomorphic encryption scheme with Boneh and Goh, and the research of private approximations. In 2013, Nissim received with Irit Dinur the Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time award for their PODS 2003 work on privacy. In 2016, he will receive with Dwork, McSherry and Smith the TCC test of time award for their TCC 2006 work on differential privacy. About Alexandra Alexandra Wood is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and a member of the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project at Harvard University. A lawyer by training, her research explores new and existing regulatory frameworks for data privacy and their compatibility with approaches to privacy emerging from the literature in other fields. Alexandra has also been contributing to the development of new legal instruments, analytical frameworks, and policy recommendations to better support the sharing and use of research data while preserving privacy, utility, transparency, and accountability. Before joining the Berkman Center, she served as a legal fellow with U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer and as a law clerk with the Center for Democracy & Technology and the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

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Guardian: "Robot revolution: rise of 'thinking' machines could exacerbate inequality"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 8, 2015

Nov. 8, 2015

*Robot revolution: rise of 'thinking' machines could exacerbate inequality* /Global economy will be transformed over next 20 years at risk of growing inequality, say analysts/ Heather Stewart Thursday 5 November 2015 00.01 GMT A “robot revolution” will transform the global economy over the next 20 years, cutting the costs of doing business but exacerbating social inequality, as machines take over everything from caring for the elderly to flipping burgers, according to a new study. As well as robots performing manual jobs, such as hoovering the living room or assembling machine parts, the development of artificial intelligence means computers are increasingly able to “think”, performing analytical tasks once seen as requiring human judgment. Robot doctors and lawyers? It’s a change we should embrace Daniel Susskind Read more In a 300-page report, revealed exclusively to the Guardian, analysts from investment bank Bank of America Merrill Lynch draw on the latest research to outline the impact of what they regard as a fourth industrial revolution, after steam, mass production and electronics. [---] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/05/robot-revolution-rise-mac…

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