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Google covertly lobbied against net neutrality in India - Boing Boing
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 21, 2015

Aug. 21, 2015

http://boingboing.net/2015/08/20/google-covertly-lobbied-agains.html (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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avviso pubblico in materia di innovazione sociale e tecnologica
by Mauro Alovisio Aug. 20, 2015

Aug. 20, 2015

Gent.me /mi sperando di fare cosa utile, segnalo il seguente avviso pubblico per promuovere un piano di azioni tese a sostenere i talenti e l'innovazione sociale e tecnologica delle giovani generazioni (scadenza 21 settembre) promosso dalla Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Dipartimento Gioventù e servizio civile. http://poatgioventu.it/notizie/179-avviso-pubblico-sostegno-ai-giovani-tale… Buona estate Mauro Alovisio

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Pasquale: "Digital Star Chamber: Algorithms are producing profiles of you. What do they say? You probably don’t have the right to know"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 18, 2015

Aug. 18, 2015

*DIGITAL STAR CHAMBER** **Algorithms are producing profiles of you. What do they say? You probably don’t have the right to know** * Frank Pasquale is a professor of law at the University of Maryland and a specialist on challenges posed to information law by technology. His book, The Black Box Society (2015), develops a social theory of reputation, search, and finance. In a recent podcast series called Instaserfs, a former Uber driver named Mansour gave a chilling description of the new, computer-mediated workplace. First, the company tried to persuade him to take a predatory loan to buy a new car. Apparently a number cruncher deemed him at high risk of defaulting. Second, Uber would never respond in person to him – it just sent text messages and emails. This style of supervision was a series of take-it-or-leave-it ultimatums – a digital boss coded in advance. […] Continua qui: http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/judge-jury-and-executioner-the-unaccount…

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Strickling: "An Update on the IANA Transition"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 18, 2015

Aug. 18, 2015

*An Update on the IANA Transition** * August 17, 2015 by Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator Lawrence E. Strickling http://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2015/update-iana-transition The Internet’s global multistakeholder community has made tremendous progress in its work to develop a proposal to transition the historic stewardship role NTIA has played related to Internet’s domain name system (DNS). When we announced <http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-transition…> our intent in March 2014 to complete the privatization of the DNS, we noted that the base period of our contract with ICANN to perform technical functions related to the DNS, known as the IANA functions, expired on September 30, 2015. However, it has become increasingly apparent over the last few months that the community needs time to complete its work, have the plan reviewed by the U.S. Government and then implement it if it is approved. Accordingly, in May we asked the groups developing the transition documents how long it would take to finish and implement their proposals. After factoring in time for public comment, U.S. Government evaluation and implementation of the proposals, the community estimated it could take until at least September 2016 to complete this process. In response to their feedback, we informed Congress on Friday that we plan to extend our IANA contract with ICANN for one year to September 30, 2016. Beyond 2016, we have options to extend the contract for up to three additional years if needed. This one-year extension will provide the community with the time it needs to finish its work. The groups are already far along in planning the IANA transition and are currently taking comments on their IANA transition proposals. As we indicated in a recent Federal Register notice <http://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/fr_iana_transition_comment_…>, we encourage all interested stakeholders to engage and weigh in on the proposals. In preparation for the implementation phase of the IANA stewardship transition, NTIA also asked Verisign and ICANN to submit a proposal detailing how best to remove NTIA’s administrative role associated with root zone management, which the groups working on the transition were not asked to address. We asked Verisign and ICANN to submit a proposal detailing how best to do this in a manner that maintains the security, stability and resiliency of the DNS. Under the current root zone management system, Verisign edits and distributes the root zone file after it has received authorization to do so from NTIA. Verisign and ICANN have developed a proposal <http://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/root_zone_administrator_pro…> that outlines a technical plan and testing regime for phasing out the largely clerical role NTIA currently plays in this process. The testing will occur in a parallel environment that will not disrupt the current operation of the root zone management system. These developments will help ensure that the IANA transition will be done in a manner that preserves the security and stability of the DNS.

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Current Copyright Policy Tendencies in 2015 - infojustice
by Carlo Blengino Aug. 18, 2015

Aug. 18, 2015

Further Weakening of Limits and Exceptions and the Ever Reducing Public Domain http://infojustice.org/archives/34852

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Facebook cancels Harvard student's internship after finding privacy flaws
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 17, 2015

Aug. 17, 2015

http://uk.businessinsider.com/facebook-aran-khanna-internship-rescinded-mar… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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New Report (Center for Media Justice): "The Digital Culture SHIFT: From Scale to Power"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 16, 2015

Aug. 16, 2015

*Center for Media Justice: How the Internet is Shaping Social Change, and Social Change is Shaping the Internet **Summary* As activism for police accountability, fair wages, just immigration, and more takes center stage — social justice movements of the 21st century are using technology to achieve greater scale and reach wider audiences. But are these digital strategies building power for long-term social change, or helping maintain the status quo? A new report from the Center for Media Justice says the answer depends on the strategy — and offers new approaches and recommendations, from a diverse cross-section of leaders, for building effective social movements in an age of big data and digital technology. *Key Takeaways* The strategies and approaches in the Digital CultureSHIFT report provide a path forward for addressing the way social movements integrate new approaches , or remain stuck in a cycle that limits our effectiveness. What We Learned 100% of those interviewed said that digital strategies and platforms provide a voice when mainstream media ignores issues. The vast majority of leaders interviewed widely use digital platforms to catalyze action, but say over-reliance on these tools can limit relationship-building. The Internet is helping to shift national organizations from centralized to decentralized, from geographically specific to geographically diverse, and from hierarchical leadership to multi-level leadership. Targeted surveillance is a top concern — but the vast majority of leaders of color interviewed felt that advocacy for digital privacy did not include their voices or their visions for change. Dowload Report: http://centerformediajustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/digital_culture… URL: http://centerformediajustice.org/digital-culture-shift-from-scale-to-power/

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Lemov: "On Not Being There: The Data-Driven Body at Work and at Play"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 16, 2015

Aug. 16, 2015

Una lettura più lunga e un po' meno prevedibile del solito: insomma, una lettura buona per agosto :) juan carlos /The Hedgehog Review/: Vol. 17 No. 2 (Summer 2015) On Not Being There: The Data-Driven Body at Work and at Play Rebecca Lemov The protagonist of William Gibson’s 2014 science-fiction novel /The Peripheral/, Flynne Fisher, works remotely in a way that lends a new and fuller sense to that phrase. The novel features a double future: One set of characters inhabits the near future, ten to fifteen years from the present, while another lives seventy years on, after a breakdown of the climate and multiple other systems that has apocalyptically altered human and technological conditions around the world. In that “further future,”1 <http://iasc-culture.org/THR/THR_article_2015_Summer_Lemov.php#endnotes> only 20 percent of the Earth’s human population has survived. Each of these fortunate few is well off and able to live a life transformed by healing nanobots, somaticized e-mail (which delivers messages and calls to the roof of the user’s mouth), quantum computing, and clean energy. For their amusement and profit, certain “hobbyists” in this future have the Borgesian option of cultivating an alternative path in history—it’s called “opening up a stub”—and mining it for information as well as labor. Flynne, the remote worker, lives on one of those paths. A young woman from the American Southeast, possibly Appalachia or the Ozarks, she favors cutoff jeans and resides in a trailer, eking out a living as a for-hire sub playing video games for wealthy aficionados. Recruited by a mysterious entity that is beta-testing drones that are doing “security” in a murky skyscraper in an unnamed city, she thinks at first that she has been taken on to play a kind of video game in simulated reality. As it turns out, she has been employed to work in the future as an “information flow”—low-wage work, though the pay translates to a very high level of remuneration in the place and time in which she lives. What is of particular interest is the fate of Flynne’s body. Before she goes to work she must tend to its basic needs (nutrition and elimination), because during her shift it will effectively be “vacant.” Lying on a bed with a special data-transmitting helmet attached to her head, she will be elsewhere, inhabiting an ambulatory robot carapace—a “peripheral”—built out of bio-flesh that can receive her consciousness. […] Continua qui: http://iasc-culture.org/THR/THR_article_2015_Summer_Lemov.php

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NYT: "AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 16, 2015

Aug. 16, 2015

*AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale* By Julia Angwin, Charlie Savage, Jeff Larson, Henrik Moltke, Laura Poitras and James Risen AUG. 15, 2015 The National Security Agency’s ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: the telecom giant AT&T. While it has been long known that American telecommunications companies worked closely with the spy agency, newly disclosed N.S.A. documents show that the relationship with AT&T has been considered unique and especially productive. One document described it as “highly collaborative,” while another lauded the company’s “extreme willingness to help.” AT&T’s cooperation has involved a broad range of classified activities, according to the documents, which date from 2003 to 2013. AT&T has given the N.S.A. access, through several methods covered under different legal rules, to billions of emails as they have flowed across its domestic networks. It provided technical assistance in carrying out a secret court order permitting the wiretapping of all Internet communications at the United Nations headquarters, a customer of AT&T. […] Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/us/politics/att-helped-nsa-spy-on-an-arra…

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anagrafe dell'edilizia scolastica on line
by Mauro Alovisio Aug. 15, 2015

Aug. 15, 2015

Gent.me segnalo finalmente la pubblicazione on line dei dati dell'anagrafe dell'edilizia scolastica http://www.governo.it/Notizie/Ministeri/dettaglio.asp?d=79112 p.s. 19 anni di attesa... ma un primo traguardo nel nome della trasparenza Buon ferragosto e saluti da Torino

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