Estudios del Inteco sobre privacidad, Redes Sociales y menores

El Observatorio de la Seguridad de la Información del Instituto Nacional de Tecnologías de la Comunicación (INTECO), es una referencia obligada sobre la seguridad informática a nivel español. Este observatorio publica numerosos informes con datos razonablemente contrastados, en muy distintas áreas.

Una de las áreas que está tocando con más frecuencia en los últimos tiempos es el tema de la privacidad en las Redes Sociales, y en particular, en lo que se refiere a menores. Se han publicado cuatro informes al respecto desde mediados del año pasado:

• Guía Legal sobre Privacidad en Internet (15/05/2008) - Esta guía permite conocer a los usuarios de Internet en qué medida pueden ser afectados sus derechos fundamentales, principalmente el derecho a la intimidad, privacidad y protección de datos de carácter personal. Así mismo, presenta un análisis de la legislación nacional, comunitaria y estadounidense acompañado de un breve estudio comparativo entre dichas legislaciones.
• Guía Legal sobre las redes sociales, menores de edad y privacidad en la Red (21/10/2008) - Esta guía pretende ofrecer a los usuarios información útil para conocer qué son las redes sociales, cómo funcionan, cuáles son sus elementos, sus beneficios y los riesgos que puede conllevar su utilización. De igual manera, y dada la especial trascendencia que supone el hecho de que los menores de edad sean los principales usuarios de este tipo de plataformas,la guía informa de cómo las instituciones públicas y la legislación vigente les ha otorgado un mayor grado de protección, en aras de evitar, o al menos reducir, los efectos negativos derivados del uso de estas plataformas.
• Guía Legal sobre la protección del derecho al honor, a la intimidad y a la propia imagen en Internet (25/09/2008) - Esta guía recoge un análisis exhaustivo sobre cómo actuar ante la publicación de una información o documento en Internet cuyo contenido atente contra el derecho a la intimidad y a la protección de datos de carácter personal de un usuario conforme a lo dispuesto en la legislación vigente. De igual manera se analizará la responsabilidad de los proveedores de contenido y de acceso en el caso de una violación de dichos derechos, así como la identificación de los riesgos con los que se puede encontrar un usuario en lo relativo a su privacidad, honor y propia imagen en el empleo de las nuevas tecnologías.
• Estudio sobre la privacidad de los datos personales y la seguridad de la información en las redes sociales online (12/02/2009) - Este trabajo, centrado en el análisis de la seguridad de la información y los posibles riesgos para la privacidad en el entorno de las redes sociales, recoge la opinión consensuada de 35 expertos de distintos sectores de actividad intervinientes en la cadena de valor de estas plataformas online -responsables jurídicos y tecnológicos de las redes sociales, profesionales del derecho tecnológico y de la seguridad de la información, instituciones públicas y entidades sin ánimo de lucro implicadas- integrando sus propuestas y recomendaciones. La investigación, se ha completado metodológicamente con la realización de 2.860 encuestas a usuarios de Internet de todo el territorio nacional mayores de 15 años sobre el uso de las redes sociales.

Es posible suscribirse a la lista de noticias (RSS), donde se han publicado los presentes informes y muchos otros sobre spam, seguridad en redes WIFI, LOPD, etc.

Add one: my first spam at LinkedIn

I have received my first spam at LinkedIn. I supposed it would be some kind of social application (probably the most extended spam vector in Social Networks), but it has been very traditional: a message to a group. However, very targeted. Here it is:

LinkedIn

Ceo At ******* has indicated you are a fellow group member of Data & Text Analytics Professionals (1000+ members):

Exclusive Invitation to *******.com>>

Hello Jose

We are writing to invite you to join the fast growing business technology community at *******.com ( http://www.*******.com ). ******* is a unique site that serves as a technology showcase, a multimedia content hub and an interactive community platform built just for the business technology community.

As a member of *******, you can now showcase yourself, join any channel of choice and publish all your content to a focused target audience in a structured and contextual manner like never before! Please click on this invitation link ( http://www.*******.com/?xgi=5rHm7wp ) to join and access the site.

Sincerely, The ******Team View invitation from Ceo At *******

Of course, I will not give my (1) PageRank nor kewords to them :-)

Emotional and Affective Computing

Emotional and Affective Computing
October, 12-15, 2009, Aveiro, Portugal

The Emotional and Affective Computing will be held as a Thematic Track of the 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, October, 12-15, 2009, in Aveiro, Portugal. The track on Emotional and Affective Computing (EAC) will focus on the role of affect, emotion and social behaviour in the development of computer systems. Organizers would like to bring together researchers to discuss theories, architectures and applications which are based on the combination of rational and affective aspects. Papers are welcome in the following areas:

• Computational models of emotions
• Emotion recognition
• Social Web
• Personality in Agents Architectures
• Emotion and learning
• Artificial characters
• Emotion and memory
• Emotion content classification and affect content classification
• Using reputation and trust models in social interactions
• Using negotiation and persuasion in social interactions
• Infrastructure and policy for affective computing
• Understanding and Modelling groups and other social systems
• Affective Computing
• Ambient Intelligence
• Social aspects of globally distributed computing
• New forms of education, entertainment and social relations

Important Dates

• Deadline for paper submission: April 15, 2009
• Notification of paper acceptance: May 31, 2009
• Deadline for final versions: July 15, 2009
• Conference dates: October 12-15, 2009

Enjuto sobre el spam

No creo que han podido elegir los muchachos de Muchachada un mejor tema para el primer Enjuto de la tercera temporada. Mi pasión!!!

Atención al primo del spam, el phishing :-) Realmente este personaje es épico...

The Digital Life is changing us

Dr. Michael Wesch is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University, and leads a team that has posted excellent stuff about the how the Digital Age is changin us, in their Mediated Cultures site. The following video about the Web 2.0 is just a sample:

I think their blog is a must!

Data Privacy Day 2009 stuff

I missed this important day (Jan 28th) for all Internet users. I would like to share some resources about this importanhte concern with the readers of this blog:

• A list of resources hosted by Intel about this day.
• A funny quiz by Microsoft that allows you to know what is your data privacy profile.
• The DPD 2009 group at Facebook.

Specially from Intel and Facebook, you can jum to a number of resource regarding the protection of users in general, an specially teens, in the Internet and Social Networks. IMHO, it is well done to consider teens as critical, and education is a good point to start with.

Safer Internet Day 2009

Today is the Safer Internet Day 2009, and this post is my modest contribution in support of protecting children online. I strongly believe that public awareness, hotlines, education are much more needed, than technical measures (e.g. filters, otherwise helpful), and in consequence, I support any initiative aiming this goal.

The company I work for, Optenet, is offering a one-year free license of its PC WebFilter. I think is a very good initiative.

Stop cyber-bulling! Stop grooming! Protect children by educating them, and use all the technical meassures you can afford!

Fourth International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions

Fourth International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions
November 9-12, 2009, London, UK

The 4th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2009) is co-sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Section. The ICITST is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practical implementation of secured Internet transactions and to fostering discussions on information technology evolution. The ICITST aims to provide a highly professional and comparative academic research forum that promotes collaborative excellence between academia and industry.

The objectives of the ICITST are to bridge the knowledge gap between academia and industry, promote research esteem in secured Internet transactions and the importance of information technology evolution to secured transactions. The ICITST-2009 invites and welcomes research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. All the ICITST papers are indexed by DBLP. The topics in ICITST-2009 include but are not confined to the following areas:

• Application of agents
• Application security
• Blended Internet security methods
• Biometrics
• Boundary issues of Internet security
• Broadband access technologies
• Challenges of content authoring
• Data mining security
• E-society
• Globalisation of information society
• Government, and corporate Internet security policy
• Internet architecture
• Infonomics
• IPSec quality of services
• Patentability
• Regulation, self-regulation, and co-regulation Web services
• Secured database systems
• Synchronising e-security
• Technology-enabled information
• Trust, privacy, and data security
• Wireless transactions
• Context-Awareness and its Data mining for Ubi-com service
• Human-Computer Interface and Interaction for Ubi-com
• Smart Homes and its business model for Ubi-com service
• Intelligent Multimedia Service and its Data management for Ubi-com
• USN / RF-ID for Ubi-com service
• Network security issues, protocols, data security in Ubi-com
• Database protection for Ubi-com
• Privacy Protection and Forensic in Ubi-com
• Multimedia Security in Ubi-com
• Quality of Service Issues
• Authentication and Access control for data protection in Ubi-com
• Information visualization
• Web services
• Service, Security and its Data management for U-commerce
• New novel mechanism and Applications for Ubi-com
• Information Management
• Multimedia Information Systems
• Information Retrieval
• Natural Language Processing
• Digital Libraries
• Data and Information Quality Management
• Data Grids, Data and Information Quality
• Database Management
• Web Databases
• Temporal and Spatial Databases
• Data Mining
• Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0
• E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business and e-Government
• Web Metrics and its applications
• XML and other extensible languages
• Semantic Web and Ontology
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
• Knowledge Management
• Ubiquitous Systems
• Peer to Peer Data Management
• Interoperability
• Mobile Data Management
• Data Models for Production Systems and Services
• Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain
• Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes
• Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis
• Security and Access Control
• Information Content Security
• Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security
• Distributed information systems

Important dates

• Extended Abstract Submission Date April 30, 2009
• Paper Submission Date May 31, 2009
• Notification of Extended Abstract Acceptance/Rejection May 15, 2009
• Notification of Paper Acceptance/Rejection June 30, 2009
• Camera Ready Paper Due September 1, 2009
• Conference Dates November 9-12, 2009

Defriending in Social Networks

Larry Dignan, at ZDNet, has posted a very interesting comment about a side benefit of Social Networks. Oh, yes, SNs are very good at putting people all together and keeping them in touch, but hell, just take a look at your contact list and their updates. Do you really want to know so much about them?

Larry quicky discusses Google Latitude ("Why don't we just implant chips in our heads and get it over with?") and the 25 things meme at Facebook, just to get into the real stuff, a funny story about a mortgage broker and his wife whining about junket at Las Vegas. Funny conclusion: "The one upside to social networking: Defriending. Hey, perhaps it isn't so bad after all.".

Read the full story at ZDNet Blogs.

Third International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction

Third International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction
September 10-12, 2009
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The conference series on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction is the premier international forum for state of the art in research on affective and multimodal human-machine interaction and systems. Every other year the ACII conference plays an important role in shaping related scientific, academic, and higher-education programs.

This year, they are especially soliciting papers discussing Enabling Behavioral and Socially-Aware Human-Machine Interfaces in areas including psychology and cognition of affective and social behaviour in HCI, affective and social behaviour analysis and synthesis, affective and social robotics. General conference topics will include:

• Recognition & Synthesis of Human Affect (face/ body/ speech/ physiology/ text analysis & synthesis)
• Affective & Behavioural Interfaces (adaptive/ human-centred/ collaborative/ proactive interfaces)
• Affective & Social Robotics (robot's cognition & action, embodied emotion, bio-inspired architectures)
• Affective Agents (emotion, personality, memory, reasoning, and architectures of ECA)
• Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Affective Computing Systems (including cultural and ethical issues)
• Affective Databases, Evaluation & Annotation Tools
• Applications (virtual reality, entertainment, education, smart environments and biometric applications)

Dates

• March 23, 2009: Deadline for submission of regular papers.
• April 27, 2009: Deadline for submission of extended abstracts for demos.
• June 1, 2009: Acceptance notification
• July 1, 2009: Final camera-ready papers due in electronic form.

Nuevo artículo en Linux+: Filtrado de pornografía

Ha salido a la venta el número de febrero de la revista Linux+, con la siguiente portada:

En este número hemos publicado Enrique y yo un artículo sobre filtrado de pornografía usando herramientas (libres) de análisis de imagen, concretamente ImgSeek, que sería la siguiente referencia:

Gómez Hidalgo, J.M., Puertas Sánz, E. Filtrado de pornografía usando análisis de imagen. Linux+ Magazine, pp. 62-67, febrero 2009, ISSN: 1732-7121.

Partes de este artículo están publicadas en en posts previos sobre filtrado de pornografía usando ImgSeek.

Third Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web

Third Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW 2009)
In conjunction with 18th World Wide Web Conference 2009
April 20 or 21, 2009, Madrid, Spain

As computers and computer networks become more common, a huge amount of information, such as that found in Web documents, has been accumulated and circulated. Such information gives many people a framework for organizing their private and professional lives.

However, in general, the quality control of Web content is insufficient due to low publishing barriers. In result there is a lot of mistaken or unreliable information on the Web that can have detrimental effects on users. This situation calls for technology that would facilitate judging the trustworthiness of content and the quality and accuracy of the information that users encounter on the Web. Such technology should be able to handle a wide range of tasks: extracting credible information related to a given topic, organizing this information, detecting its provenance, clarifying background, facts, and other related opinions and the distribution of them, and so on.

The problem of Web information reliability and Web data quality has become also apparent in the view of the recent emergence of many popular Web 2.0 applications, the growth of the so-called Deep Web and the ubiquity of Internet advertising.

Topics

The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion on issues related to information credibility criteria and the process of its evaluation. Submissions on any aspect of information credibility on the Web are welcomed. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Information credibility evaluation and its applications
• Web content analysis for credibility evaluation
• Author's intent detection
• Credibility of Web search results
• Search models and applications for trustworthy content on the Web
• Conflicting opinion detection
• Online media and news credibility
• Multimedia content credibility
• Credibility evaluation of user-generated content (e.g., Wikipedia, question answering sites)
• Information credibility evaluation in social networks and Web 2.0 applications
• Analysis of information dissemination on the Web (e.g., in blogosphere)
• Spatial and temporal aspects in information credibility on the Web
• Information credibility theory and fundamentals
• Estimation of information age, provenance and validity
• Estimation of author's and publisher's reputation
• Sociological and psychological aspects of information credibility estimation
• Users study for information credibility evaluation
• Persuasive technologies
• Information credibility in online advertising and Internet monetization
• Web spam detection
• Data consistency and provenance
• Processing uncertain data and information

Important Dates

• February 3, 2009 - Paper submission deadline
• February 26, 2009 - Notification of acceptance
• March 6, 2009 - Camera ready deadline
• April 20 or 21, 2009 - Workshop