La fame nel Tigray e lo scandalo della deviazione degli aiuti alimentari tra WFP ed Etiopia
Rimaniamo perplessi sul perché le misure drastiche vengano prese solo per il Tigray, in vista del furto organizzato di aiuti alimentari in tutto il paese… L’aiuto alimentare destinato ai tigrini affamati che è stato sostanzialmente rubato e portato in località come Gambela e persino in Kenya è il discorso della città di Mekelle.
Fonte: Professor Jan Nyssen
Negli ultimi tre mesi più di 270 persone sono morte di fame solo nella zona nord-occidentale del Tigray. I decessi sono stati segnalati dai centri per sfollati interni (IDP) e dai villaggi della zona. In precedenza, avevamo riferito della terribile situazione della fame nei campi per sfollati a Mekelle. Le cose vanno peggio di prima: le persone muoiono ogni giorno di fame. Inoltre, anche migliaia di sfollati appena arrivati dal Tigray occidentale hanno bisogno di un sostegno alimentare immediato.
Secondo il Tigray Regional Health Bureau, tra marzo e aprile, c’è stato un aumento del 28% nel numero di bambini sotto i cinque anni che muoiono per malnutrizione acuta. La colpa è principalmente della cessazione degli aiuti al Tigray. In un lungo thread su Twitter, la giornalista spagnola Ximena Borrazas riporta ulteriormente la fame in corso nel Tigray.
Stanno ora emergendo maggiori dettagli sui motivi della sospensione degli aiuti alimentari da parte del WFP e di USAID (di gran lunga il più grande donatore di aiuti alimentari all’Etiopia), e ha a che fare con furti su larga scala che si verificano da diversi anni, ma che ora si stanno intensificando.
Dopo che è stata avviata un’inchiesta interna sulla diversione degli aiuti alimentari, The New Humanitarian ha annunciato che il 2 giugno il direttore e vice del WFP in Etiopia si è dimesso, un’informazione che il WFP ha negato. I risultati dell’indagine devono ancora essere pubblicati.
L’indagine ha esaminato la possibile diversione degli aiuti alimentari, in cui il cibo presumibilmente destinato al Tigray è stato invece venduto sul mercato aperto: i volumi di cereali per aiuti sono stati rintracciati in varie parti dell’Etiopia. Per questo motivo, l’assistenza al Tigray è stata interrotta fino al termine delle indagini.
Ho assistito a una distribuzione di aiuti alimentari (PSNP) nel Tigray intorno al 2016. Villaggio per villaggio, le persone sono venute con i loro asini. Mi hanno detto che avrebbero preferito noleggiare un camioncino Isuzu per caricare tutti i bagagli per il loro villaggio; ma era condizione che venissero con i loro asini. Non dovrebbero esserci camion vicino al centro di distribuzione, per evitare la rivendita all’ingrosso da parte di chi si occupava della distribuzione degli aiuti.
Certo, qualche grosso camion potrebbe essere andato direttamente ai mulini, ma secondo i contadini, a livello di distribuzione nei villaggi, non ci sono stati furti.
L’anno scorso, il commissario della National Disaster Risk Management Commission (NDRMC) Mitiku Kassa era già stato messo da parte per corruzione riguardante la distribuzione di aiuti, il che non ha fermato i furti in corso.
Ad aprile, gli sfollati nella zona di Aba’ala, nella regione di Afar, hanno già lanciato proteste per il ruolo svolto dai funzionari governativi nell’appropriazione indebita dei fondi di soccorso. In quell’occasione, Melese Awoke, responsabile della comunicazione presso il WFP Etiopia, ha affermato che la corruzione degli aiuti è comune.
Nelle prossime settimane sono previste altre dimissioni del WFP poiché si ritiene che anche le scorte di cibo siano state dirottate nella regione somala che già soffre di siccità.
Ora, fonti interne affermano che lo scandalo di corruzione degli aiuti alimentari coinvolge anche l’esercito etiope (ENDF) e otto governi regionali, oltre a figure di alto rango del WFP e dell’USAID. Funziona da anni (prima della guerra) ma si è intensificato durante la guerra. Il grano viene deviato verso i commercianti e le grandi fabbriche di farina. La corruzione sarebbe addirittura collegata a sospetti di inflazione delle statistiche demografiche dell’Etiopia da 100 milioni a 120 milioni, che hanno consentito di gonfiare i volumi degli aiuti alimentari, quindi possibilità di dirottarli.
L’aiuto alimentare destinato agli affamati tigrini che è stato sostanzialmente rubato e portato in località come Gambela e persino in Kenya è oggetto di discussione nella città di Mekelle. Il primo ministro etiope ha recentemente dichiarato con grande orgoglio che il suo paese ora esporta grano.
Fortunatamente per le persone affamate in altre regioni dell’Etiopia, fuori dal Tigray, lì gli aiuti alimentari non sono stati interrotti. Ma rimaniamo perplessi sul perché le misure drastiche vengano prese solo per il Tigray, in vista del furto organizzato di aiuti alimentari a livello nazionale. Pertanto, è fondamentale allentare i vincoli sugli aiuti alimentari al Tigray pur essendo completamente trasparenti sulle strategie di furto che sono state scoperte e sui principali colpevoli.
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Il 9 giugno USAID ha deciso di sospendere gli aiuti alimentari all’intero Paese Etiopia.
Un diplomatico europeo ad Addis Abeba (che è sempre stato affidabile negli ultimi anni) ha confermato che il grano che il premier Abiy si vantava di esportare era in realtà grano prelevato dalle spedizioni di aiuti del WFP/USAID. Quindi, la dichiarazione del primo ministro è stata probabilmente una trovata di pubbliche relazioni per nascondere ciò che stava realmente accadendo.
Il diplomatico ha detto che c’è un crescente consenso sul fatto che i comuni cittadini del Tigray e dell’Etiopia, vittime di questa colossale frode, non debbano essere ancora una volta il bersaglio dell’interruzione degli aiuti. L’assistenza in denaro è un metodo per aiutare i più poveri tra i poveri poiché ci sono meno possibilità di furto e non interferisce con la produzione agricola da parte degli agricoltori locali. In ogni caso, è incoraggiante sentire che c’è almeno il desiderio di riprendere gli aiuti al Tigray. Possiamo solo sperare che possano trovare una soluzione per compensare l’enorme carenza e l’inerzia.
Le misure dovrebbero prendere di mira i colpevoli, non le vittime!
FONTI:
- Addis Standard, 29 May 20.23: Hunger related death rises in Tigray amidst ongoing investigation into food aid diversion, persistent aid suspension
- The New Humanitarian, 5 June 2023: WFP leadership in Ethiopia resigns amid aid diversion probe
- Addis Standard, 13 July 2022: Fed. police detain Ethiopia disaster risk management chief on suspicion of corruption
- The Reporter, 22 April 2023: “Aid corruption” angers beneficiaries in Afar
- Addis Standard, 5 June 2023: Under five children dying of acute malnutrition in Tigray sharply increasing amid dire humanitarian crisis
- Duke Burbridge, 8 May 2023: The suspension of food aid to Tigray expected to kill innocent civilians(Tghat)
- The Washington Post, 8 June 2023: USAID cuts food aid supporting millions of Ethiopians amid charges of massive government theft
- Addis Standard, 8 June 2023: Donor-funded food diversion in Ethiopia ‘coordinated, criminal scheme’; covers seven regions, involves fed gov’t, regional entities
- Twitter: Mukesh Kapila, Lauren Blanchard
- Martin Plaut: Ethiopia: Behind the World Food Programme apparent resignations
- Teklehaymanot Weldemichel, 12 May 2023: USAID, WFP aid suspension in Tigray will hinder peace process (Devex)
- Further Africa, 15 February 2023: Ethiopia fulfils its vision of becoming a wheat export nation – Abiy Ahmed
- Private information from Tigray and from Addis Ababa
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Historic vote: EU Parliament to ban biometric mass surveillance
Strasbourg, 14/06/2023 – Today, the European Parliament voted to ban real-time facial surveillance in public spaces in the EU’s new Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). Automated behavioural surveillance, on the other hand, is not to be banned (277:306:38 votes). With this position, the European Parliament enters trilogue negotiations with EU governments on the final legislation.
EU lawmaker and digital freedom fighter Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party) comments:
“Even if we were not able to secure a majority for a ban on automated behavioural surveillance: The fact that the European Parliament is pushing for a ban on real-time face surveillance in public spaces is a historic success for the civil rights movement and a clear vote against a dystopian future of Chinese-style biometric mass surveillance in Europe. After all, biometric real-time surveillance has never been able to prevent a terrorist attack, as advocates would have us believe. With false alarm rates as high as 99%, these technologies are not nearly reliable enough to be of any use. These technologies systematically discriminate against underrepresented groups and have a chilling effect on a free and diverse society.
„The ‘exceptions’ demanded by EU governments and the Commission would effectively remove the ban, as there are always many people who are wanted by judicial warrant. To look even for a single person, facial surveillance would still have to be applied on everyone – which is exactly what mass surveillance is. Worse, such exceptions are used by governments as ‘instruction manuals’ to legitimise new mass surveillance laws.
„People who feel constantly watched and monitored cannot freely and courageously stand up for their rights and for a just society. In the upcoming negotiations with EU governments, we must fight for a Europe free of dystopian mass surveillance.”
In the run-up, a petition of 250,000 citizens had called for a ban on error-prone and discriminatory facial surveillance.
Plenary speech by Patrick Breyer yesterday: patrick-breyer.de/en/artificia…
Failed motion to ban automated behavioural surveillance:
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“Intelligenza artificiale (AI) nella comunità accademica e della ricerca – Quali opportunità e quali rischi?”
Domani 15 giugno dalle ore 11.30 parteciperò a Firenze alla Conferenza GARR 2023 nel panel “Intelligenza artificiale (AI) nella comunità accademica e della ricerca – Quali opportunità e quali rischi?”. Per informazioni eventi.garr.it/it/conf23/progr… Qui il link al live streaming eventi.garr.it/it/conf23
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Artificial intelligence: We are no longer free under constant surveillance!
On the day before the crucial vote on the European Parliament‘s negotiating mandate on artificial intelligence, Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer levelled serious accusations against EU governments, the EU Commission and conservative MEPs who want to allow automated facial recognition in public spaces. At the same time, Breyer justified the cross-party motion to add automated behavioural surveillance to the list of prohibited technologies.
His speech in full:
“Governments in France and elsewhere dream that machines could rid the world of all evil if only they could whisper to us who is going where with whom and when, or who is behaving ‘abnormally’.
In reality, not a single terrorist has been found with biometric mass surveillance, not a single attack has been prevented, instead countless arrests of innocent citizens have been made, up to 99% of citizens have been falsely reported as suspects.
Your supposed exceptions are window dressing – thousands are wanted by judge’s order at any time.
You open a Pandora’s box and lead us into a dystopian future of a distrustful high-tech surveillance state based on the Chinese model. You are willing to hand authoritarian governments of the present and the future an unprecedented weapon of oppression.
Under constant surveillance we are no longer free!
Automatic behavioural surveillance destroys freedom, diversity, protest. We don’t want to live in a dead, conformist consumer society of yes-sayers.
Let’s secure a future free of biometric mass surveillance for Europe, and a future of freedom and diversity for our children!”
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Leak: Data retention and encryption: EU Government’s “Going Dark” program to attack citizen’s rights with PR
A German diplomatic correspondence that was leaked by netzpolitik.org on Friday and other documents reveal the insistence by EU member state governments in blanket mass surveillance in the form of data retention and ideas to make secure encryption illegal. The fundamental rights jurisdiction of the highest EU Court is seen as a problem, while Governments are wishing for a new narrative that would change the way we look at privacy and surveillance.
The documents talk about the Swedish Presidency’s “Going Dark” program that aims to extend law enforcement capabilities with a focus on over-the-top (OTT) media services, End-to-end encryption (E2EE), the Electronic Evidence Regulation, the ePrivacy Regulation, the Media Freedom Act, the retention of citizen’s communications meta data and access to Whois data. According to the German diplomatic correspondence member state governments share a “a largely homogeneous opinion” about that program.
Data retention: Insisting in illegal mass surveillance
The Swedish Presidency complains that “the impact of limitations to data retention requires to be aware of the loss of data” (PDF). This interpretation is in line with the overall debate in the Council but ignores the actual situation: The ECJ has constantly expanded the exceptions to the general rejection of blanket retention of citizen’s communication data over the years. Nevertheless, governments repeatedly violated the Court’s rulings causing a crisis of the Rule of Law in the EU. As a consequence, too much rather than too little of citizens’ communications data is being stored for no reason. Addressing a “loss of data” in this situation ultimately refers to the Government’s actual desire: a nation- and EU-wide, round-the-clock retention of everybody’s communications meta data, which has consistently been ruled illegal. The Belgian government that has again passed a law that provides for illegal mass surveillance only recently, declares in a Council document: “we need to strike the right balances (…) but also with regard to commercial interests and business models that guide the industry”. Likewise, the Czech Republic proposes a new argument as an attempt to justify the retention of citizen’s communication meta data to “distinguish legitimate calls from fakes using combination of contact number spoofing with AI voice manipulation.” Member state governments appear to have no other idea of how to design police work on the Internet but by means of mass surveillance.
The German correspondence notes: “Currently, an “outcry” from law enforcement agencies is clearly perceptible.” In March this “Outcry” became publicly visible when the European Police Chiefs released a Joint Declaration that likewise blames jurisprudence: “The case law of the CJEU (…) presents a significant hurdle to Law Enforcement Agencies” (PDF). Seen from a fundamental rights perspective the opposite is true.
Case law allows for extensive retention of citizen’s communication data and provides law enforcement agencies a legal frame for their work. Neither the CJEU’s jurisdiction nor citizen’s rights present a hurdle but Governments that repetitively passed illegal laws on data retention that foreseeable failed in courts created that hurdle over a course of 15 years. The representative of the Estonian government for example completely rejects the Court’s jurisdiction: “it is not possible to implement the solutions proposed by the ECJ.” The ignorant will to mass surveillance has prevented reliable solutions as digital rights experts have explained.
Unsubstantiated claims in the loop
The Joint Declaration of the European Police Chiefs keeps following a downward spiral by repeating unsubstantiated claims: “Unclear and insufficient retention periods in the case of storage of data for commercial purposes. This is particularly problematic in countries that do not (in accordance with the rulings of the CJEU) have any legal obligation for service providers to retain non-content data (…).” Fact is, that data retention laws have no measurable effect on the crime rate or the crime clearance rate in any EU country as a study by the European Parliament’s Research Service (EPRS) finds.
Public relations against fundamental rights
Because there is a great deal of resistance from civil society and from constitutional courts when it comes to data retention, the Presidency wants to develop “a better and more complete narrative” (PDF) to achieve its goals.
Responding to that, the Austrian Government suggest to add rules of criminal procedure to Single Market Dossiers and emphasises that it is of importance to not only take legislative action but also to do “Public Relations” work, for example to raise awareness accordingly in the European Parliament. The representative of the Lithuanian government welcomes that PR approach as “it offers the opportunity to change the narrative (…) turn around the wrong impression that law enforcement is the main source of risk to the fundamental rights.” (PDF)
Is the door weaker if someone has the key?
Referring to the Member States debate of the “Going Dark” program, the German diplomatic correspondence reads: “The question arises whether legal adjustments might be necessary in view of the fact that encryption technologies such as Encrochat could be legally distributed up to now. (…) With end-to-end encryption, it is impossible to intercept information, which is why, for example, there are discussions about the Media Freedom Act. (…) There is therefore a need for good instruments that are in line with EU values and do not prevent encryption altogether.” Adding to the ongoing debate, the representative of Estonia is asking: “is the door weaker if someone has the key?”
A Crisis of the Rule of Law
The documents show a considerable distrust of fundamental rights and the Rule of Law on the part of the member state governments. The German diplomatic correspondence refers to the view of the Swedish government: “It was astonishing how much the ECJ prioritized privacy over other legal rights and principles. The IRL und LVA also commented accordingly on the ECJ decision.” The representative of Estonia is of the opinion that the CJEU is “forced to always refer to the Charter of Fundamental Rights (…) until the EU comes up with a solution that would allow them to reassess the principles and approach to this”.
“Going Dark” is a myth
The notion of “Going Dark” refers to the phenomena that “criminals can commit crimes in ways that law enforcement cannot detect and intercept.” This is a myth created by US intelligence agencies. In truth authorities have never had access to information on our private lives as comprehensive and all-encompassing as in today’s digital era.
Instead of concentrating on repeatedly successful means of targeted investigations that focus on suspects and perpetrators, the EU member state governments try to interfere with the foundation of the Internet and the Rule of Law in a way that affects everybody’s privacy and fundamental rights. Alternatives, amongst others, a democratic improvement of policing through better trained and equipped personnel and better child protection through more competent and better equipped authorities are not considered. This gap is all the more problematic as there is no evidence that there is a legal lack of law enforcement capabilities in the European Union. Laws were much more tightened and expanded and with the new Electronic evidence regulation yet another tool for law enforcement will help to improve investigations which are in general already highly successful, if governments provide sufficient personal and technical resources.
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Anti-encryption EU expert group to make access to data a political and technical standard
The EU released a paper on the Commission’s plan for an expert group to replace end-to-end encryption and anonymity by law enforcement access (also known as the “Going Dark” program). The “Security by Design” concept is intended to ensure full law enforcement surveillance capabilities in legislation and technical standards.
EU lawmaker Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party) comments:
“I call on the EU Commission to stop this anti-encryption and anti-anonymity working group at once! This is an attack on everything that keeps us safe online. The right to encryption protects whistleblowers, human rights defenders, pro-democracy activists and in fact all citizens from prosecution and harm. The right to anonymity ensures free speech and access to information; it protects us from data breaches, identity theft and stalking.‘Going dark’ is an anxiety disorder the security complex is suffering from. In truth law enforcement has never had as pervasive an access to our private lives and personalities as in the digital era. We have never lived as long and secure as we do today.
On the subject of indiscriminate communications data retention, we urgently need decisive political action to implement the court decisions that protect the confidential communications of millions of citizens. In particular, our identity on the Internet (IP addresses) must be private in principle, which is why I have drawn a clear red line here.”
“Security by Design”: Surveillance as a political and technical standard
According to the paper, the expert group is to contribute to integrating a law enforcement perspective in all relevant EU policies and actions”. This concept of “Security by Design” is to be fully explored, and the expert group is also to explore how security by design could be a standard requirement in the development of new technologies. Therefore a more intensive presence of representatives of law enforcement authorities in relevant international standardisation bodies is being considered. The following are mentioned: European Committee for Standardisation (CEN/CENELEC), the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) – a worldwide cooperation of standardisation bodies in the field of mobile communications. As relevant technologies mentioned in the paper are artificial intelligence, quantum computers, 5G, the Internet of Things and cryptocurrencies.
Focus on: Encryption, data retention, VPN, roaming, etc.
The document lists the most urgent areas of work for the expert group as: encryption, more precisely access to stored data and to digital communication, data retention, access to localisation data and roaming data as well as anonymisation including VPN and darknet. The group will be chaired by the Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs (HOME) in the European Commission and by representatives of the Member State holding the Council Presidency – which will be Spain from July to December 2023. The group will be composed of high-level representatives from EU countries, the Commission and relevant EU institutions and agencies. Representatives from academia, civil society and business will only be involved on a selective ad-hoc basis.
Study: Policing does not need complete access to everything from everyone
While the work of the expert group is guided by the so-called “going dark” assumption that crime will go undetected in the digital world, a study on the role of encryption in investigations comes to a different conclusion. This study shows that encryption plays an important role in criminal investigations. On the one hand, encryption hinders criminal investigations, but on the other hand, it also plays a practical role in improving investigations. The study concludes:
“[P]olice have always been dealing with crucial crime information stored in a memory t which they do not have direct access. We call that memory the human brain. Since the police cannot read that (they do not have a key) and the criminal may choose to remain silent, police have to think of all kinds of ways to bypass that security and/or get the key and/or trick someone into revealing the information. Now we have a computer that, like the criminal, says: you will not get in and I will not say anything. Then, as police, you must think of alternatives to deal with that. The police have always done that. So, what is really different now? ”
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“Chat GPT, software di intelligenza artificiale ed impatti sulla data protection”
Domani a partire dalle 16.00 avrò il piacere di partecipare alla tavola rotonda organizzata da DPO Innovation per parlare di Chat GPT, software di intelligenza artificiale ed impatti sulla data protection con Francesca Rotolo, Valentina Grazia Sapuppo ed Elsa Catalano Per accedere all’evento potete collegarvi al seguente link:lnkd.in/ddbvsAgz
“Si può fare”
Grazie a Laura Bettini e Radio24 per l’invito a parlare di quanto valgono i nostri dati genetici. Qui la registrazione della puntata per chi volesse riascoltarla radio24.ilsole24ore.com/progra… Buona domenica
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Se la Sanità italiana non rispetta la privacy: i problemi da risolvere
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Cosa ci insegnano gli ultimi provvedimenti del Garante privacy. Bisogna adottare misure tecniche idonee a evitare gli incidenti con violazioni dei dati. Ma occorre anche sensibilizzare il personale e prevedere adeguate misure organizzative al fine di garantire la sicurezza del trattamento
Il post di Paola Liguori e Livia Petrucci è su Agenda Digitale
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GPT-4, per alleggerire il lavoro dei medici: meno burocrazia, più cura
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L’applicazione Dragon Ambient eXperience, o DAX, incorporerà presto GPT-4 grazie alla partnership tra Microsoft e OpenAI. I medici “cederanno il controllo” a “macchine imperfette” per utilizzare parte del loro tempo diversamente? Vediamo i vantaggi e le criticità
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Mobilità del futuro: ecco le sfide per le smart road
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Oggi è possibile realizzare smart road grazie ad infrastrutture che comunicano con gli utenti per offrire in tempo reale informazioni su traffico, incidenti lungo il percorso o condizioni meteorologiche. Vantaggi, piattaforme e casi d’attuazione
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eArchiving: l’Eidas 2 di cui nessuno parla - Le bozze eIDAS2 contengono novità importanti: una di queste riguarda l’evoluzione dell’e-archiving
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Italia all’avanguardia: un’opportunità da cogliere
L’attenzione su eIDAS2, il nuovo Regolamento europeo su electronic IDentification Authentication and Signature (che aggiornerà il precedente Regolamento UE n° 910/2014) è molto catalizzata sul tema del digital identity wallet e sulle evoluzioni in genere legate ai servizi fiduciari.
Tuttavia, le bozze di eIDAS 2, che al momento sono nella fase di negoziato interistituzionale tra Commissione, Parlamento e Consiglio Europeo (il Trilogue), contengono molte altre novità importanti, tra cui una che avrà grande impatto sul mercato italiano ed europeo: l’evoluzione dell’e-archiving.
Il post di Danilo Cattaneo, Marta Gaia Castellan e Igor Marcolongo
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I NUOVI SCENARI DELL'IDENTITÀ DIGITALE: FUNZIONALITÀ E CRITICITÀ
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Quali sono i nuovi scenari dell’identità digitale?
SPID (Sistema Pubblico di Identità Digitale), eIDAS (regolamento europeo per l'identificazione elettronica) e il mercato dei wallet: come cambieranno le modalità di relazione tra cittadino, imprese e pubblica amministrazione nel prossimo futuro
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“I principi nel diritto della concorrenza dell’unione Europe nazionale”
Ho avuto il piacere di partecipare al VII Convegno Biennale “I principi nel diritto della concorrenza dell’unione Europe nazionale” organizzato a Firenze dall’Associazione Antitrust Italiana per discutere di Antitrust, PCS e tutela della privacy
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“Si può fare” – Radio 24
Domenica 11 a partire dalle 9.00 sarò ospite di Laura Bettini nella trasmissione radiofonica “Si può fare” di Radio24 Sole 24 Ore per parlare di oncologia, diritto alla privacy e all’oblioQui potete ascoltare la puntata in direttahttps://www.radio24.ilsole24ore.com/programmi
“Privacy aziendale: problema o opportunità”
Oggi ho avuto il piacere di intervenire al Convegno organizzato dalla Camera di Commercio di Bolzano e Confesercenti per discutere di come la privacy può passare da costo a risorsa.
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@Giorgio Donadini :unverified: in realtà è proprio il contrario: il mondo anglosassone è MOLTO più sensibile alla privacy di quando non lo siamo noi europei. Il diritto alla privacy è quello su cui si è basata la famosa sentenza Roe v. Wade che stabiliva il diritto all'aborto come diretta conseguenza del diritto alla privacy (= autodeterminazione della sfera privata). E il ribaltamento di quella sentenza da parte della Corte Suprema del 2022 è stato motivato proprio sulla base del fatto che, a differenza di quanto sostenuto nel 1973, la Costituzione degli Stati Uniti non contemplava il diritto alla privacy come diritto costituzionale.
In Europa i diritti civili e umani non sono mai stati capiti fino in fondo perché abbiamo sempre goduto di diritti sociali che includevano anche i diritti civili e umani. E oggi che in EUropa i diritti sociali sono sotto attacco, ecco che ci manca la cultura diffusa del valore dei diritti civili e sociali
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#Qatargate: New Ethics Body is toothless
Today, the European Commission presented its plans for an inter-institutional Ethics Body in response to the “Qatargate” corruption scandal in the European Parliament to increase transparency in nine major EU institutions. But the proposed measures, such as a creating an ethics supervisory body without investigative and enforcement powers, are toothless, criticise MEPs from the Pirate Party, who recently presented their own proposals to increase transparency and integrity.
Patrick Breyer, German Pirate Party Member of the European Parliament, comments:
“The EU is in an existential an existential crisis of confidence – not only because of the Qatargate corruption scandal. Our European Union is far too much controlled by industry and governments instead of acting in the interests of the citizens, whose will hardly counts.
“The ethics reform that the von der Leyen Commission wants to fob us off with today is toothless and ultimately means ‘business as usual’. The answer to corruption and lobbying is supposed to be a committee of blabbermouths, with no investigation or enforcement powers, leaving MEPs and key politicians in charge of controlling their peers. In this way, the powerful industry lobbies will continue to hold the EU in a headlock.
“The proposal even offers the European Parliament a pretext to postpone overdue reforms, for example concerning MEP side jobs, cooling-off periods for ex-MEPs, lobby meetings and the prevention of corruption. We Pirate Party MEPs have since presented a comprehensive transparency and integrity plan: We not only demand full disclosure of all MEPs’ expenses, we Pirates have been doing this voluntarily since the beginning of our mandate.
“One year before the European elections, we must not allow the Europeans’ trust in politics to be further damaged by inactivity and turning a blind eye. The end of von der von der Leyen’s political term is overdue.”
“Principali sviluppi del diritto della concorrenza dell’unione europea e nazionale”
Domani avrò il piacere di partecipare al convegno “Principali sviluppi del diritto della concorrenza dell’unione europea e nazionale” organizzato a Firenze dall’ Associazione Antistrust Italiana. A partire dalle 12.00 interverrò per parlare di antitrust, PCS e tutela della privacy Qui il link alle informazioni complete aaiantitrustconference.it/
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AI Act: For a Europe free of dystopian mass surveillance!
Brussels, 07/06/2023 – One week before the plenary vote on the new EU regulation on artificial intelligence (the AI Act), biometric mass surveillance turns out to be the main point of contention. Amendments could be submitted until today. While the Conservatives are asking for the ban on facial surveillance in public to be made irrelevant through exceptions, MEPs from four political groups (liberals, socialists, greens and left) are requesting an additional ban on automated behavioural surveillance in public spaces.
Pirate Party lawmaker and digital freedom fighter Patrick Breyer comments:
“With the AI law, we have the unique chance to give Europe a future free of China-style ubiquitous techno-mass surveillance.
Contrary to a conservative myth, there is not a single example of biometric real-time surveillance ever having prevented a terrorist attack or other events of this kind. With false alarm rates as high as 99%, these technologies are not nearly reliable enough to be of any use. Requiring a court order as proposed by conservative hardliners is a mere formality, a smokescreen for mass surveillance. Their proposed ‘exceptions’ to the ban would in fact justify the pervasive deployment of facial surveillance technology to search for thousands of “victims”, “threats” and suspects of “serious crimes” who are wanted at any given moment. We must not normalise a culture of mistrust and side with authoritarian regimes that use AI to suppress civil society!
France and Hamburg are threatening to introduce technology that will automatically report us for ‚anormal‘ behaviour to the police. Such suspicion machines wrongly report countless citizens, are discriminatory, educate to conformist behaviour and are absolutely no good for arresting criminals, as studies and experience prove.
We will fight against the gradual suppression of diversity and creation of a conformist consumer society as in China!”
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La lezione di Cambridge Analytica: leggere prima di accettare, per sopravvivere nell’universo digitale
Secondo il giudice, Facebook ha fornito le necessarie informazioni ai propri utenti e non è responsabile del fatto che non abbiano fatto quanto potevano per evitare di ritrovarsi monitorati, profilati e tracciati per finalità politiche da uno squalo digitale. Potete leggere l’articolo completo qui huffingtonpost.it/rubriche/gov…
Privacy aziendale, problema o opportunità’
Nella “società digitale” si moltiplicano i canali di promozione commerciale e di marketing. In questo quadro la tutela della privacy diventa un elemento centrale. Avrò il piacere di discuterne all’incontro organizzato dalla Camera di Commercio di Bolzano il prossimo 9 di giugno a partire dalle 10.20 Qui il link alle informazione completehttps://www.camcom.bz.it/it/novità/eventi/privacy-aziendale
10 years after the revelations of Edward Snowden: Let‘s defend anonymity and secure communication online!
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the day Edward Snowden revealed the mass surveillance programmes of intelligence agencies worldwide. EU lawmaker and privacy activist Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party) acknowledges this milestone as a key moment for the right to privacy and the defence of fundamental rights. At the same time, he calls for protecting the anonymity and encryption that whistleblowers need to expose such abuses of power.
Breyer comments, “For the Pirate Party, Edward Snowden is a hero: By revealing the mass surveillance practices of the U.S. intelligence agency NSA and its partners, he selflessly defended the privacy of all and sacrificed his freedom. Even today he relentlessly fights for our fundamental right to privacy.
The future of privacy is the central question of power in the age of mass surveillance and surveillance capitalism. Knowledge is power, and absolute knowledge is absolute power. I am ashamed that Snowden has so far only found protection from persecution in authoritarian Russia because Western governments are too cowardly to stand up to the U.S. and offer him the safe refuge he deserves.”
Most recently Snowden sounded the alarm about the EU‘s chat control plan („child sexual abuse regulation“) as a “planetary, machine-enforced restriction of basic human liberty” and questioned the EU’s transformation into an „authoritarian cabal“. Breyer comments: “Revelations by whistleblowers are to this day often only possible under the protection of anonymity and using secure communication channels. Chat control threatens to destroy our digital secrecy of correspondence, making secure leaks impossible. The Pirate movement is therefore fighting against this globally unprecedented attack on the security of our smartphones and communications.”
Breyer concludes by pointing out the importance of the EU‘s ePrivacy reform, by which the the European Parliament wants to make private communications encrypted by default to prevent interception and eavesdropping by foreign intelligence intelligence services.
1600 multe e 4 miliardi di sanzioni: cos’è cambiato per la privacy in 5 anni di Gdpr
In 5 anni la sensibilità dei consumatori nei confronti della privacy è cambiata radicalmente e le aziende non sempre si sono sapute adeguare. Ne ho parlato con Giuditta Mosca su Repubblica.it. Qui il link alla mia intervista completa repubblica.it/tecnologia/2023/…
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