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Today's Topics:
1. "Google Is Basically Daring the Government to Block Its
Fitbit Deal" (J.C. DE MARTIN)
2. Google Is Basically Daring the US to Block Its Fitbit Deal |
WIRED (Alberto Cammozzo)
3. Let’s forget the term AI (Stefano Quintarelli)
4. Exposed: China’s Operating Manuals For Mass Internment And
Arrest By Algorithm (Luigi Scorca)
5. Re: Let’s forget the term AI (Angelo Raffaele Meo)
6. 74° Nexa Lunch Seminar | 27 Novembre 2019 (Nexa Media)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:55:46 +0100
From: "J.C. DE MARTIN" <demartin@polito.it>
To: Nexa <nexa@server-nexa.polito.it>
Subject: [nexa] "Google Is Basically Daring the Government to Block
Its Fitbit Deal"
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*Google Is Basically Daring the Government to Block Its Fitbit Deal*
/The company’s moves into health data will test how serious antitrust
enforcers are about privacy issues.//
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Google’s plan to buy Fitbit took chutzpah from the start. The company
was already being investigated by Congress, state attorneys general, and
federal antitrust regulators, a reflection of growing alarm over a
conglomerate whose dominant market share is built on unrivaled access to
personal data. Now it was announcing a $2.2 billion acquisition of a
firm with troves of the most intimate details of its users’ physical
health, from their heart rate to their exercise routines to how many
hours they sleep at night. Fitbit was apparently worried enough about
the threat of the deal being blocked that it negotiated a $250 million
breakup fee in case of “a failure to obtain Antitrust Approvals.”
[…]
Continua qui:
https://www.wired.com/story/google-fitbit-project-nightingale-antitrust/
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 19:06:40 +0100
From: Alberto Cammozzo <ac+nexa@zeromx.net>
To: "nexa >> Center Nexa" <nexa@server-nexa.polito.it>
Subject: [nexa] Google Is Basically Daring the US to Block Its Fitbit
Deal | WIRED
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<https://www.wired.com/story/google-fitbit-project-nightingale-antitrust/>
Google’s plan to buy Fitbit took chutzpah from the start. The company
was already being investigated by Congress, state attorneys general, and
federal antitrust regulators, a reflection of growing alarm over a
conglomerate whose dominant market share is built on unrivaled access to
personal data. Now it was announcing a $2.2 billion acquisition of a
firm with troves of the most intimate details of its users’ physical
health, from their heart rate to their exercise routines to how many
hours they sleep at night. Fitbit was apparently worried enough about
the threat of the deal being blocked that it negotiated a $250 million
breakup fee in case of “a failure to obtain Antitrust Approvals.”
A week later, almost on cue, Makan Delrahim, the top antitrust official
at the Department of Justice, suggested at a conference at Harvard that
federal enforcers might start treating data privacy as a relevant issue
in evaluating mergers. “It would be a grave mistake to believe that
privacy concerns can never play a role in antitrust analysis,” he said.
So there was some reason to wonder whether the Google-Fitbit deal would
be the first casualty of the growing antitrust techlash.
And that was all before the Wall Street Journal reported this week on
Google’s Project Nightingale, a mostly secret deal with one of the
country’s largest nonprofit hospital networks granting Google free
access to tens of millions of complete, nonanonymized patient records,
which it is using to train an AI platform that will be able to customize
patient care. (This is apparently legal, somehow, under the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA.) In return for
the data, according to the Journal, the hospital network, Ascension,
will get free use of the new software, which Google intends to sell to
other health care providers. In a blog post after the story came out,
Google Cloud executive Tariq Shaukat wrote, “All of Google’s work with
Ascension adheres to industry-wide regulations (including HIPAA)
regarding patient data, and come [sic] with strict guidance on data
privacy, security and usage.” That didn’t stop the Office for Civil
Rights in the Department of Health and Human Services from announcing an
investigation into the project on Wednesday.
Together, the Fitbit merger and Project Nightingale present an immediate
challenge to Delrahim’s claim that antitrust regulators are ready to
treat data collection as a competition issue. Since the late 1970s, the
federal government’s approach to merger review has essentially narrowed
to the question of whether the reduction in competition caused by two
companies combining will be bad for consumers. That analysis has in turn
tended to focus even more narrowly on whether the post-merger firm will
raise prices. Bringing user data concerns into antitrust, as Delrahim
suggested, would require asking a similar question: Will the reduction
in competition lead to consumers having to accept inferior privacy
protections?
“What I’m telling my students is, this is a great test case,” said
Maurice Stucke, an antitrust expert at the University of Tennessee
College of Law. “The agencies say they’re concerned about these
data-opolies. They’re going to scrutinize their data-driven acquisition
of these smaller firms. Here you have this established firm that’s
already established a significant treasure trove of personal data. So,
is anything going to change?”
[...]
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 20:14:40 +0100
From: Stefano Quintarelli <Stefano@Quintarelli.it>
To: <nexa@server-nexa.polito.it>
Subject: [nexa] Let’s forget the term AI
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https://blog.quintarelli.it/2019/11/lets-forget-the-term-ai-lets-call-them-systematic-approaches-to-learning-algorithms-and-machine-inferences-salami.html
Let’s forget the term AI. Let’s call them Systematic Approaches to Learning
Algorithms and Machine Inferences (SALAMI).
Happy reading...
Ciao, s.
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 22:49:30 +0100
From: Luigi Scorca <luigi.scorca@gmail.com>
To: Nexa <nexa@server-nexa.polito.it>
Subject: [nexa] Exposed: China’s Operating Manuals For Mass
Internment And Arrest By Algorithm
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https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-cables/exposed-chinas-operating-manuals-for-mass-internment-and-arrest-by-algorithm/
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 23:03:22 +0100
From: Angelo Raffaele Meo <meo@polito.it>
To: nexa@server-nexa.polito.it
Subject: Re: [nexa] Let’s forget the term AI
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condivido
Raf
Il 24/11/19 20:14, Stefano Quintarelli ha scritto:
> https://blog.quintarelli.it/2019/11/lets-forget-the-term-ai-lets-call-them-systematic-approaches-to-learning-algorithms-and-machine-inferences-salami.html
>
>
> Let’s forget the term AI. Let’s call them Systematic Approaches to
> Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences (SALAMI).
>
> Happy reading...
>
> Ciao, s.
>
>
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 10:31:54 +0100
From: Nexa Media <media@nexa.polito.it>
To: nexa@server-nexa.polito.it
Subject: [nexa] 74° Nexa Lunch Seminar | 27 Novembre 2019
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REMINDER:
vi ricordiamo che mercoledì 27 novembre, dalle ore 13.00 alle ore 14.00,
si svolgerà il 74° Nexa Lunch Seminar, con un incontro dal titolo:
*Il soggetto dei big data: da individuo a utente*
Ospite: Irene Domenicale (/Dott.ssa in Filosofia/).
Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili all’indirizzo:
https://nexa.polito.it/lunch-74
Cordiali saluti,
--
Anita Botta
Communication Manager
Nexa Center for Internet & Society
Politecnico di Torino – DAUIN
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino
_web:_ https://nexa.polito.it/
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