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Gli smartphone e le vendite impulsive al supermercato

interessante.
pare che gli smartphone, che si usano in coda al supermercato, facciano comprare meno gomme da masticare, gift cards, batterie ecc. alle casse..

Are Smartphones Making Us Less Impulsive?.

Rapporto della DG Internal Policies su attività di spionaggio USA e loro impatto sui diritti fondamentali dei cittadini europei

The US National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programmes (PRISM) and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) activities and their impact on EU citizens' fundamental rights - briefingnote_en.pdf.

Questo è un rapporto straordinariamente interessante con delle raccomandazioni per l'Europa, realizzato dalla DG Internal Policies (DG IPOL), dal dipartimento per i diritti dei cittadini e gli affari costituzionali. il titolo è

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) activities and their impact on EU citizens' fundamental rights

alcuni highlights:

Raccomandazioni:

• Prominent notices should be displayed by every US web site offering services in the EU to inform consent to collect data from EU citizens. The users should be made aware that the data may be subject to surveillance (under FISA 702) by the US government for any purpose which furthers US foreign policy. A consent requirement will raise EU citizen awaren ess and favour growth of services solely within EU jurisdiction. This will thus have economic impact on US business and increase pressure on the US government to reach a settlement.
• Since the other main mechanisms for data export (model contracts, Safe Harbour) are not protective against FISA or PATRIOT, they should be revoked and renegotiated. In any case, the requirement above for informed consent after a prominent warning notice should apply to any data collected, in the past or in the future, by a public or private sector EU controller, before it can be exported to theUS for Cloud processing.
• A full industrial policy for development of an autonomous European Cloud computing capacity based on free/open-source software should be supported. Such a policy would reduce US control over the high end of the Cloud e-commerce value chain and EU online advertising markets. Currently European data is exposed to commercial manipulation, foreign intelligence surveillance and industrial espionage.
• Investments in a European Cloud will bring economic benefits as well as providing the foundation for durable data sovereignty.
• ...
• The published new Regulation omitted 'Art.42' (according to the numbering of a draft leaked two months before the final version), reportedly after very heavy lobbying by US interests. Article 42 prohibits Third Countries (such as the United States and other non-EU Member States) from accessing personal data in the EU where required by a non-EU court or administrative authority without prior authorization by an EU Data Protection Authority. The article has been described as the “anti-FISA clause”
• Even after BULLRUN, cryptography is probably intact in theory, however it is not known which encryption implementations and products may have been rendered insecure.
• Therefore consideration should be given to extending the scope of 'Art.42' also to cover vendors of systems/products (as well as Controllers/Processors) in EU markets.
• Existing encryption security product accreditations, especially if influenced by NSA or GCHQ, must be regarded as suspect
• Systematic protection and incentives for whistle-blowers should be introduced in the new Regulation. Whistle-blowers should be given strong guarantees of immunity and asylum, and awarded 25% of any fine consequently exacted. The whistle-blower may have to live in fear of retribution from their country for the rest of the lives, and take precautions to avoid “rendition” (kidnapping). Ironically, US law already provides rewards of the order of $100m for whistle-blowers exposing corruption (in the sphere of public procurement and price-fixing)

Conclusioni

As noted earlier, one of the most extraordinary aspects of the PRISM affair is that not only have the rights of non- Americans not been discussed in the US, they were not even discussed by the European media until well after the story first broke. The rights of non-Americans were rarely raised, and a casual reader would not understand that the intended target of surveillance was non-Americans, and that they had no rights at all.

It seems that the only solution which can be trusted to resolve the PRISM affair mustinvolve changes to the law of the US, and this should be the strategic objective of the EU.
Furthermore, the EU must examine with great care the precise type of treaty instrument proposed in any future settlement with the US. Practical but effective mechanisms are also needed to verify that disclosures of data to the US for justifiable law enforcement investigations are not abused.
...
The thoughts prompted in the mind of the public by the revelations of Edward Snowden cannot be unthought. We are already living in a different society in consequence.
Everybody now knows, that the US intelligence community might know any personal secret in electronic data sent in range of the NSA. These developments could be profoundly destabilising for democratic societies, precluding exercise of basic political and human rights, and creating a new form of instantaneous and coercive Panoptic power.

NSA surveillance goes beyond Orwell's imagination – Alan Rusbridger | World news | theguardian.com

NSA surveillance goes beyond Orwell's imagination – Alan Rusbridger | World news | theguardian.com.

The potential of the surveillance state goes way beyond anything in George Orwell's 1984, Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian's editor-in-chief, told an audience in New York on Monday.

L'Erba del vicino: in California, vietato sfruttare commercialmente i minori online

il titolo non è precisissimo, i divieti sono vari e descritti sotto

Bill Text - SB-568 Privacy: Internet: minors..

This bill would, on and after January 1, 2015, prohibit an operator of an Internet Web site, online service, online application, or mobile application, as specified, from marketing or advertising specified types of products or services to a minor. The bill would prohibit an operator from knowingly using, disclosing, compiling, or allowing a 3rd party to use, disclose, or compile, the personal information of a minor for the purpose of marketing or advertising specified types of products or services. The bill would also make this prohibition applicable to an advertising service that is notified by an operator of an Internet Web site, online service, online application, or mobile application that the site, service, or application is directed to a minor.

The bill would, on and after January 1, 2015, require the operator of an Internet Web site, online service, online application, or mobile application to permit a minor, who is a registered user of the operator’s Internet Web site, online service, online application, or mobile application, to remove, or to request and obtain removal of, content or information posted on the operator’s Internet Web site, service, or application by the minor, unless the content or information was posted by a 3rd party, any other provision of state or federal law requires the operator or 3rd party to maintain the content or information, or the operator anonymizes the content or information. The bill would require the operator to provide notice to a minor that the minor may remove the content or information, as specified.

Circa la acquisizione del controllo di Telecom da parte di Telefonica

ovviamente Telecom è una società privata così come i suoi azionisti: possono fare ciò che vogliono, nel rispetto delle leggi.

il tema è importante. Per capirci, “pesa” come una Alitalia al giorno per due mesi.

anche questo post sta a metà tra gli argomenti del blog e quelli politici, per cui, coerentemente con le regole della casa (non ho mai ospitato post "partitici"), continua qui: http://stefanoquintarelli.tumblr.com/post/62142303618/circa-la-acquisizione-del-controllo-di-telecom-da-parte

Posizione su Telecom, rete e scorporo

oggi sono stato al convegno organizzato da I-Com dal titolo “In principio è la rete. Scorporo del network, rilancio degli investimenti e competitività dell’Italia in Europa”

il parterre era davvero notevole, regolatori, AD, governo, investitori..
ho detto che …

per la prima volta ho preso parte al panel dei “politici”, assieme agli ex ministri delle comunicazioni Gasparri e Gentiloni ...

per questo, trattandosi di cosa che qualcuno potrebbe giudicare partittica (e quindi contro le regole di casa di questo blog), lo ho scritto sul tumblr e quindi continua qui, per gli interessati.

Deutsche Telekom rilascia il "Merkelphone" approvato per i funzionari pubblici

la notizia è qui: Deutsche Telekom: Hochsicherheitshandy der Telekom erhält BSI-Zulassung.

Grazie M.

(p.s. per il resto di noi, c'è il PrivateGSM in ogni application store vicino a voi)

Blogfestival

Cose che ho fatto alla Blogfest di Rimini nella giornata di sabato

Partecipato ad alcune discussioni interessanti

Salutato vecchi e nuovi amici

Non salutato (per ragioni di tempo e di incrocio) vecchi e nuovi amici.

Provato per 10 secondi i Google Glass di Max Ciociola

Pranzato con il  Dott. Mantellini che è a dieta ferrea ma non ne avrebbe bisogno

Pernottato in un incredibile hotel arredato negli anni del boom di Casadei

Scambiato due parole con Marco Patuano e sfruttato i potenti mezzi Telecom

Bevuto a colazione il the verde più cattivo nella storia dei the verdi da me assaggiati

Ringraziato Gianluca Neri per il premio alla carriera, fortunatamente non postumo

Letto del premio su twitter a letto, rivestito e corso a ritirarlo con le mie stampelle blu

CCC | Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID

CCC | Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID.

The biometrics hacking team of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) has successfully bypassed the biometric security of Apple's TouchID using easy everyday means. A fingerprint of the phone user, photographed from a glass surface, was enough to create a fake finger that could unlock an iPhone 5s secured with TouchID. This demonstrates – again – that fingerprint biometrics is unsuitable as access control method and should be avoided.

Linus Torvalds circa le backdoor in Linux per i servizi segreti

UPDATE: successivamente Torvalds ha detto di no.

Linus Torvalds Talks Linux Development at LinuxCon.

Torvalds was also asked if he had ever been approached by the U.S. government to insert a backdoor into Linux. Torvalds responded "no" while nodding his head "yes," as the audience broke into spontaneous laughter. - See more at: http://www.eweek.com/developer/linus-torvalds-talks-linux-development-at-linuxcon.html#sthash.nI0JfNVZ.dpuf

Torvalds was also asked if he had ever been approached by the U.S. government to insert a backdoor into Linux.

Torvalds responded "no" while nodding his head "yes," as the audience broke into spontaneous laughter.

Torvalds was also asked if he had ever been approached by the U.S. government to insert a backdoor into Linux. Torvalds responded "no" while nodding his head "yes," as the audience broke into spontaneous laughter. - See more at: http://www.eweek.com/developer/linus-torvalds-talks-linux-development-at-linuxcon.html#sthash.nI0JfNVZ.dpuf