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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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Il Centro Nexa su Internet & Società è partner di Lumen, il progetto del Berkman Center di Harvard sulla trasparenza della Rete
by Giuseppe Futia Nov. 3, 2015

Nov. 3, 2015

Gentilissimi, il *Berkman Center for Internet & Society* (Harvard University) annuncia importanti cambiamenti per il progetto "*Chilling Effects*" che, dopo 14 anni dal suo lancio ufficiale, prende il nome di "*Lumen*" (www.lumendatabase.org) Il progetto, che ha l'obiettivo di raccogliere e indicizzare le richieste di rimozione dei contenuti nei confronti delle piattaforme online, espande la propria missione ed accresce il suo respiro internazionale. Il *Centro Nexa su Internet & Società del Politecnico di Torino*, con l'*Instituto de Tecnologia & Sociedade* (Rio de Janeiro, Brasile) e il *Center for Communication Governance* (Delhi, India), sarà uno dei partner del progetto e contribuirà a mappare e facilitare la ricerca sulle richieste di rimozione dei contenuti da Internet a livello mondiale. Maggiori dettagli sono disponibili in calce nel comunicato stampa ufficiale. Un cordiale saluto, ------------------------------------------------- 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 *Harvard's Groundbreaking Project Documenting Online Content Removals Changes Name to Lumen, Reflecting Expanded Mission and International Scope* Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society <https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/> is pleased to announce exciting changes to our pioneering Chilling Effects project, including an expanded mission and a new set of international research partnerships. To better reflect this evolution in scope as well as the changes in the landscape over the fourteen years since it was launched, the project has changed its name to “Lumen,” and can be found at www.lumendatabase.org. The name borrows from the unit of measurement for visible light, highlighting the use of data for transparency reporting. “Since Chilling Effects was founded in the wake of the passage of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the project has been essential to the collection and study of notices sent to online platforms requesting the removal of content,” said Chris Bavitz, Faculty Co-Director of the Berkman Center and Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. “We are excited for Lumen to continue this important work with an expanded scope, in partnership with a collection of extraordinary institutions.” Started in 2001 by then-Berkman fellow Wendy Seltzer and current Berkman Faculty Director Jonathan Zittrain, Chilling Effects was founded to provide a database of requests for content removal, to assist scholars and others in understanding trends in content removal demands and practices, and to facilitate research into how online intermediaries make their content removal decisions. “Both the variety of online communications and the range of takedown demands have grown enormously since we started transparency reporting with Chilling Effects in 2001,” said Wendy Seltzer, now a member of the Berkman Center's Fellowship Advisory Board, “The new Lumen partnerships will enable us to shed light on takedown claims and responses around the world, further supporting academic research and news reporting on the climate for online expression. I look forward to its next decade.” Over time, the project has expanded in the types of notices it hosts, the sources they come from, and the sheer volume of requests it receives. In addition to DMCA notices, request types now include removal demands grounded in trademark, patent, locally-regulated content, and private information removal claims. Companies sharing notices they receive include Google, Twitter, Wikipedia, WordPress, and Reddit. The number of notices collected has grown from a few notices per week, to approximately 4,000 per day. As of July 2015, the Chilling Effects database contains more than three million notices and is the definitive source for online content removal requests. “While people may differ about the wisdom of censorship in one case or another, it shouldn’t take place secretly,” said Jonathan Zittrain, Faculty Director of the Berkman Center and George Bemis Professor of International Law. “Lumen stands for the proposition that demands for online redaction should be available for study, so that we can know the shape of what we are not seeing, whether the elisions are caused by a government or by a private party.” Central to the project’s expanded mission are new partnerships with three top international research centers who share the Berkman Center’s commitment to illuminating the actions, issues, and complexities within today’s online content ecosystem. These centers will serve as regional hubs for Lumen’s activities around the world: the Nexa Center for Internet & Society <http://nexa.polito.it/> in Turin, Italy; the Instituto de Tecnologia & Sociedade <http://itsrio.org/en/> in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and the Center for Communication Governance <http://ccgdelhi.org/> in Delhi, India. These partnerships will enable Lumen to map and facilitate research on requests to remove content from the Internet at a global level, an important development as takedown requests increasingly have global applications and potential reach. “The removal request landscape in the US has evolved considerably over the last decade-and-half,” said Urs Gasser, Executive Director of the Berkman Center and Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. “Globally, it has become even more complex. We are particularly excited about leveraging the power of our international research partnerships as we seek to develop the most accurate picture possible of what content is or is not available to the public and why.” "Increasing the transparency of Internet takedowns is essential to ensure the appropriate level of awareness in policy-makers and in the public at large,” said Juan Carlos de Martin of the Nexa Center. “We are therefore glad to participate in this exciting project and to contribute to the understanding of takedown trends and actions in Europe". "We're delighted to be a part of Lumen,” said Chinmayi Arun of the Center for Communication Governance. “We look forward to tracking and analysing the takedown regime in India, and to working on our findings with researchers around the world. We welcome this opportunity and thank the Berkman Center for opening Lumen to us.” The Lumen database is one of a suite of initiatives of the Berkman Center focused on preserving access to information and mapping speech and data flows online. Other projects include Internet Monitor <https://thenetmonitor.org/>, which aims to evaluate, describe, and summarize the means, mechanisms, and extent of Internet content controls and Internet activity around the world; Amberlink.org <http://amberlink.org/>, a server-side plugin to keep links working on blogs and websites; and Herdict <http://herdict.org/>, a tool that collects and disseminates real-time, crowdsourced information about Internet filtering, denial of service attacks, and other blockages. For more information about updates to the Lumen project and its international partners, please see https://www.chillingeffects.org/blog_entries/763. *Media contacts:* Adam Holland: aholland(a)cyber.law.harvard.edu Gretchen Weber: gweber(a)cyber.law.harvard.edu *About Lumen* Lumen is an independent research project studying cease and desist letters concerning online content. We collect and analyze requests for removal of online content. Our goals are to educate the public, to facilitate research about the different kinds of complaints and requests for removal--both legitimate and questionable--that are being sent to Internet publishers and service providers, and to provide as much transparency as possible about the “ecology” of such notices, who is sending them and why, and to what effect. *About the Berkman Center for Internet & Society* Founded in 1997, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is dedicated to exploring, understanding, and shaping the development of the digitally-networked environment. A diverse, interdisciplinary community of scholars, practitioners, technologists, policy experts, and advocates, we seek to tackle the most important challenges of the digital age while keeping a focus on tangible real-world impact in the public interest. Our faculty, fellows, staff and affiliates conduct research, build tools and platforms, educate others, form bridges and facilitate dialogue across and among diverse communities. More information at www.cyber.law.harvard.edu.

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What's Wrong with Copying?: Drassinower, Università Bocconi
by Aura Bertoni Nov. 2, 2015

Nov. 2, 2015

Ho il piacere segnalare alla lista Nexa il seminario organizzato dal Dipartimento di Studi Giuridici "Angelo Sraffa" e dal Centro ASK (Art, Science and Knowledge) dell'Università Bocconi What's Wrong with Copying? 6 novembre 2015 , ore 14:30 Stanza N36, Velodromo, Piazza Sraffa 13, Milano Introduce Maria Lillà Montagnani, Università Bocconi - Centro ASK Interviene Abraham Drassinower, University of Toronto Ne discutono Maurizio Borghi, Bournemouth University Paola Nicolin, Università Bocconi - Centro ASK Fiona Macmillan, Birkbeck College - University of London Per informazioni: Dipartimento di Studi Giuridici tel. +39 02 5836.5221/5231 segr.ius(a)unibocconi.it ASK - Art, Science and Knowledge tel. +39 02 5836.3710 ask(a)unibocconi.it Aura Bertoni Bocconi University ASK Research Centre Department of Legal Studies Via Roentgen 1 20136 Milan Italy +39 02 5836 5771

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cosa ne dite?
by Mariella Berra Nov. 2, 2015

Nov. 2, 2015

Un salto verso una riorganizzazione oppure una nuova astuzia dell' avarizia sociale della politica? 50% alla spesa tecnologica Una riduzione di oltre 2,5 miliardi. Gli industriali: “Incomprensibile” La stampa http://www.lastampa.it/2015/10/28/economia/innovazione-dimezzata-nel-pubbli… Mariella -- Prof.ssa Mariella Berra Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società Università di Torino tel.+390116702606

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Gates: "‘We Need an Energy Miracle’"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 2, 2015

Nov. 2, 2015

Questa intervista a Bill Gates sta facendo il giro del mondo perché osa dire - in questi tempi neo-liberisti (soprattutto in Europa, negli USA il vento sta un po' cambiando - che la ricerca pubblica di base è essenziale e che “The private sector is in general inept.” jc *‘We Need an Energy Miracle’* Bill Gates has committed his fortune to moving the world beyond fossil fuels and mitigating climate change. JAMES BENNET NOVEMBER 2015 ISSUE In his offices overlooking Lake Washington, just east of Seattle, Bill Gates grabbed a legal pad recently and began covering it in his left-handed scrawl. He scribbled arrows by each margin of the pad, both pointing inward. The arrow near the left margin, he said, represented how governments worldwide could stimulate ingenuity to combat climate change by dramatically increasing spending on research and development. “The push is the R&D,” he said, before indicating the arrow on the right. “The pull is the carbon tax.” Between the arrows he sketched boxes to represent areas, such as deployment of new technology, where, he argued, private investors should foot the bill. He has pledged to commit $2 billion himself. “Yes, the government will be somewhat inept,” he said brusquely, swatting aside one objection as a trivial statement of the obvious. “But the private sector is in general inept. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By far most of them.” […] Continua qui: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/11/we-need-an-energy-mirac…

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2 PhD positions in Human Computer Interaction - Uppsala University
by Norberto Patrignani Nov. 2, 2015

Nov. 2, 2015

Carissim* potrebbe interessare a qualche persona in lista? 2 PhD positions in Human-Computer Interaction http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=78558 Ciao! Norberto

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20 affermazioni sbagliate sui Big Data
by Diego Giorio Nov. 1, 2015

Nov. 1, 2015

Non posso dire di essere d'accordo al 100%, ma sono comunque osservazioni interessanti https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20-stupid-claims-big-data-bernard-marr?trk=h… Saluti e buona settimana a tutti D.

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R: Re: Taggalo retail analytics Video+Wifi+Beacon in negozi italiani?
by Francesco Pizzetti Nov. 1, 2015

Nov. 1, 2015

Che è il caso che intervenga con urgenza il Garante.Sono sicuro che capiranno rapidamente che cosa sono i dati personali.Credo che il Garante dovrebbe essere informato Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung -------- Messaggio originale -------- Da: Alberto Cammozzo <ac+nexa(a)zeromx.net> Data: 31/10/2015 23:06 (GMT+01:00) A: nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it Oggetto: Re: [nexa] Taggalo retail analytics Video+Wifi+Beacon in negozi italiani? Pare confermata la notizia su Altrmercato, con alcuni dettagli. <https://www.mobilestrategies360.com/2015/10/29/beacon-has-eyes> Altromercato deploys new beacon sensors that take photos Italian retailer Altromercato outfits its stores with sensors that are a beacon, camera and Wi-Fi hub to learn who shops for what. Although there are 300 Altromercato retail stores, each of the Italian retailer’s locations varies in terms of what products it carries, the store layout and even the size of the shop. Between the 300 locations there are 100 owners, and the stores range in size from 50 to 300 square meters, says Andrea Monti, general manager at Altromercato. [] Altromercato, which specializes in so-called “fair trade” products from artisans and farmers in less-developed economies, recently put the devices in two stores, one in Milan and one in Genoa. The organization, a consortium of cooperatives and nonprofit organizations, plans on deploying the sensors to a total of 10 of its stores for a six-month pilot. Altromercato plans to have between five and 10 sensors in each store. The devices will go in the store’s front window or windows, at the front entrance and in a few aisles with different types of products. The camera on the device has facial recognition software that can identify the age and gender of the person who has walked by it, and it can record 18 faces at a time, says Paolo Guida, co-founder and investor at Taggalo. The camera is about 90% accurate with its determination, Guida adds. The camera does not store any of the photos it takes. As soon as it analyzes the face, it only stores the data, such as “22-year-old female.” “We wanted to have something that would work in any country or any geographic location regardless of privacy law,” Guida says. Altromercato has a sign up in its stores alerting customers that it is recording them, Monti says. Because it just set up the sensors, Altromercato does not have any results to share. Since the device can track how many consumers are walking by the store, via a camera in the front window, and how many consumers enter the store, via a camera at the front, Altromercato can gauge the effectiveness of the front displays and how many consumers that could have entered the store actually did. If consumers connect to the Wi-Fi with their smartphone, Altromercato will know how long that consumer is in the store and if that shopper has been to the store before. These types of analytics will give Altromercato a better sense of who their customer is at each location, such as a majority of Altromercato shoppers visit the store four times a month and stay in the store longer than first-time shoppers. Altromercato does not yet have a plan to use the beacon technology in the sensors. [] Sembrerebbe dunque che il dato memorizzato che consente di rilevare se il cliente è già entrato nel negozio sia l'imponta biometrica del volto non più associata all'immagine dalla quale è stata estratta. Inoltre risulterebbe che l'impronta biometrica sia presa anche di passanti attraverso le vetrine, dunque sulla pubblica via. Per Taggalo e Altromercato l'impronta biometrica del volto non sarebbe dato personale. Che ne dite? Alberto - tagmenot.info @donttag On 31/10/2015 22:26, Alberto Cammozzo wrote: > Milan-Based Company Launches Multi-Tech Device For Tracking Real-World > Customers > <http://marketingland.com/milan-based-company-launches-multi-tech-device-for…> > > > [] Taggalo provides what it says is the only all-in-one device that > combines video analytics, WiFi tracking and beacon technology, with > the data presented via a web dashboard. It also offers a white-label > mobile app for stores to use with the beacon functionality. > [] > The stats can include the number of people who walk by the store, the > number of customers who pause to look at a product and the time spent, > which smartphones are making a repeat visit (as determined by their > anonymous device IDs) and the demographics of store customers. > This latter category includes not just gender and age approximation, > but also “ethnic group.” The company said this includes race, such as > Caucasian or African-American. When I asked if this kind of racial > tracking could be a problem, CEO Luca Nestola told me that Taggalo > just provided the data, and it was up to the store to use it > responsibly. It’s not clear yet what legitimate value racial > identification offers to stores. > About a dozen retailers have been using the devices in Europe and the > US, the company said, including Altromercato, a consortium of shops in > Italy. Taggalo said that there have been reports of sales lifts of two > to three percent by some stores because of better customer info. > [] > > > Stando all'articolo i negozi Altromercato italiani userebbero questo > device che raccoglie dati sui clienti analizzando le loro tracce wifi > associandole a dati biometrici (riconoscimento faciale) e beacon nelle > app. > Sembra un pesce d'aprile. > > La pagina "About us" mi tranquillizza: > <http://www.taggalo.co.uk/new2/?page_id=2295> > > YOUR PRIVACY MATTERS TO US > No personal information. No identifying data. > The reports we provide to retailers and media owners do not include > any personal information. We make no attempt to link any data, > behavioural or otherwise, to individuals. > Limited data collected. > Our sensors collect only basic information. This does not include any > sensitive data such as who you are, whom you call, or the websites you > visit. > Easy opt-out and deletion. > Device owners with any concerns can easily opt out of participation > and delete all of their existing data from our servers by sending an > email to privacy(a)taggalo.co.uk. > Taggalo has registered with the UK Information Commissioners’ Office. > > Taggalo sarebbe uno spin-off del CNR > > > Alberto > > - > tagmenot.info > @donttag > > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa _______________________________________________ nexa mailing list nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

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Digital labor al Berkman
by Antonio Casilli Nov. 1, 2015

Nov. 1, 2015

Da non perdere, live o via webcast, questo seminario della mia collega Mary Gray: ------ Berkman Luncheon Series Re-assembling the Assembly Line: Digital Labor Economies and Demands for an Ambient Workforce with Berkman Fellow, Mary L. Gray https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/11/Gray Tuesday, November 3, 2015, at 12:00 pm Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C Event will be webcast live on this page at 12:00 pm -- Antonio A. Casilli Associate Professor, Telecom ParisTech Research Fellow Edgar-Morin Center (EHESS)

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