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Claudio Agosti @vecna.bsky.social · Dec 2

It's a great development in the gig economy, but even if a top tier company is moving towards more legitimate hiring practices, don't forget that the approach is rotten to the core and the pressure needs to be systematic.

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Claudio Agosti @vecna.bsky.social · Nov 25

muchas gracias Carles! leyendo la sentencia hay que decir que la autoridad abordó principalmente 4 puntos, 2 de nuestra investigación, y 2 igualmente nuevos. un hito para GDPR+derechos de los trabajadores.

Carles Planas Bou @carlesplanasbou.bsky.social · Nov 25

Muchas gracias a ti por la investigación, Claudio. He aprovechado la multa impuesta por el Garante para publicar este artículo.

Italia impone una multa de 5 millones a Glovo por violar la privacidad de más de 35.000 'riders'

<a href='https://www.elperiodico.com/es/economia/20240628/glovo-fiscalia-barcelona-denuncia-falsos-autonomos-102524814' >La fiscalía de Barcelona presenta una denuncia penal contra Glovo por delitos c...

www.elperiodico.com

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Claudio Agosti @vecna.bsky.social · Nov 24

Well said. I think this kind of "no algorithm = fair algorithm" is a bit like "free market = fair market". no way!

But at least is the type of feed where on top can be built additional filters defined by the user? maybe? I still have to see and try the feed customisation.

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Claudio Agosti @vecna.bsky.social · Nov 24

muchas gracias, un artículo en español explicando investigación: www.elsaltodiario.com/glovo/glovo-... pero la investigación de la autoridad ha añadido elementos muy importantes que aún no han sido relatados. (+ atribuciones correctas: Gaetano Priori análisis técnico; I operativa y estrategia)

Glovo espía y comparte los datos de sus riders incluso cuando no están trabajando

Una investigación concluye que la app de la empresa envía datos personales y de geolocalización incluso cuando los trabajadores no están activos

www.elsaltodiario.com

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Claudio Agosti @vecna.bsky.social · Nov 23

Right! the only explanation I could come up with was that it was such a multidisciplinary effort that it became difficult to make it convincing. I want to believe at this point that the aim was to prove a point -to replicate it. it would be a fail if we had to spend 5 years on each and every action

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Claudio Agosti @vecna.bsky.social · Nov 22

scusa forse ho usato la parola sbagliata. non "impugnare" nel senso di contestare, ma nel senso di replicare. prender e riutilizzare. declinare nel loro stato. non sarebbe una guerra, ma un lavoro di concerto. potrebbe funzionare?

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Claudio Agosti @vecna.bsky.social · Nov 22

Forse hai risposta: la sentenza del Garante riguarda GDPR e statuto lavoratori [quindi, solo italiano], ma il diritto del lavoro in EU non è poi così diverso, quindi, sarebbe possibile per altre DPA impugnare questo procedimento e replicare l'azione verso Glovo, se presente sul loro territorio?

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Claudio Agosti @vecna.bsky.social · Nov 22

watch a video of our talk at the CCC, where we explain both the methodology and the reverse engineering techniques in detail: reversing.works/posts/2023/1... (-6/end)

Mobile reverse engineering to empower the gig economy workers and labor unions

37c3 session (recorded and streamed)

reversing.works

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Claudio Agosti @vecna.bsky.social · Nov 22

The Italian DPA investigation covers many aspects, but if you want an overview of our contribution, you can read it at algorithmwatch.org/en/glovo-tra... or (5/6)

Food delivery service Glovo: tracking riders’ private location and other infringements - AlgorithmWatch

A recent investigation by Tracking Exposed shows that Glovo’s subsidiary in Italy, Foodinho, registers couriers’ off-shift location and shares it with unauthorized parties. The delivery app provider h...

algorithmwatch.org

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Claudio Agosti @vecna.bsky.social · Nov 22

Meanwhile, we should also acknowledge the success of the Italian Data Protection Authority, which once again proved to be up to the challenge like no other in the EU, and the Digital Freedom Fund, which supported our efforts (as tracking.exposed) (4/6)

Tracking Exposed 2016 - 2023

Goodbye Tracking Exposed, Hello AI Forensics: an Evolution in Algorithm Accountability

tracking.exposed

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Claudio Agosti @vecna.bsky.social · Nov 22

We hope that trade unions, workers' councils and other NGOs fighting for digital rights will take this as an example and support a more adversarial approach when it comes to exposing abuses. (3/6)

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Claudio Agosti @vecna.bsky.social · Nov 22

Two of the main findings, tracking outside working hours and sending private data to third parties, were the result of our technical analysis, also documented here: www.etui.org/publications... (2/6)

www.etui.org

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Claudio Agosti @vecna.bsky.social · Nov 22

:lot-of-confetti-cos-we-celebrate-today!-please-share!!:

Glovo, the food delivery platform, has been fined 5 million euros in Italy; see our press release: reversing.works/posts/2024/1... (1/6)

#GDPR for workers rights and #reverse-engineering

Press Release: Reversing.Works Investigation Exposes Glovo’s Data Privacy Violations, Marking a Milestone for Worker Rights and Technology Accountability

A five million euros fine and corrective measures imposed by the Data Protection Authority today

reversing.works

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Claudio Agosti @vecna.bsky.social · Nov 22

Ciao Christian! quale reazione radicale immagini? che rivedano le loro logiche (forse cambieranno infrastruttura del tutto, visto che sono fusi a delivery hero? ec.europa.eu/commission/p...) o che abbandonino il mercato italiano? non so cosa aspettarmi.

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Raffaele Angius @faffa42.bsky.social · Nov 14

promoting secure, anonymous communication methods. If you’d like to reach out securely, you can find me at faffa-securesubmission.eu, where even I can’t know who’s contacting me—unless, of course, they choose to share.

Otherwise DMs are open!

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Claudio Agosti @vecna.bsky.social · Nov 15

This shouldn't come as a surprise. The whole "definition of political advertising" and the regulations around it was an unfortunate idea that put pressure on an externality (the advertiser). The goal is to define what is political (everything, dah) It's a GAFAM victory since 2017. deflect attention.

Who Targets Me @whotargets.me · Nov 15

Google is withdrawing from the political ad market in the EU, blaming a lack of precision in the definition of a "political ad" in new EU regulations that come into force next year. This leaves Meta as an effective monopolist in the market.
blog.google/around-the-g...

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Claudio Agosti @vecna.bsky.social · Nov 15

A truly open LLM system needs to document all this overridden information for future peer review, and to update the accuracy of the information requires the same power that censorship and "AI alignment" have used.

Is there any work I'm missing that tries to guarantee such accountability?

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Claudio Agosti @vecna.bsky.social · Nov 15

This is true for factoids in our brains, paper hard copies, search engine indexes, LLM vector spaces, and historical video transcripts.

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Claudio Agosti @vecna.bsky.social · Nov 15

This latest video from Kurzgesagt resonates with the inevitable tendency of human and digital systems to create indexes and corpora that can't be updated quickly (www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgo7...). 1/3

We Fell For The Oldest Lie On The Internet

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

www.youtube.com

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Claudio Agosti @vecna.bsky.social · Apr 17

In this piece published today, I try to argue that "#scraping" is a technical term with more than one political meaning edri.org/our-work/the... and should always be used close to nuances such as size, goal, scope of the collection before expressing a judgment.

The two sides of web scraping - European Digital Rights (EDRi)

These methods – such as web-scraping – have been used to achieve several key victories for digital rights, but can also be exploitative.

edri.org

Claudio Agosti @vecna.bsky.social · Jan 13

I made 400 days!! and then abandoned. It was just a game and not an effective way to learn a language.
I basically lost against gamification :D

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Claudio Agosti @vecna.bsky.social · Nov 18

Last week we were submitted to Hacker News and this gave us a good temporary visibility, converted in receiving many new political figures and new faces. Please consider sharing Don't Spy EU until we are not sure has been seen by the interested subjects. The time is running out, thank you!

Claudio Agosti @vecna.bsky.social · Nov 18

Of course, for a moment I was going to forget to include my current Prime Minister, who is also responsible for this dumpster fire that the AIAct could become. Btw AI misgender and misread most of what it claim to do dontspy.eu/x/74

Don't Spy EU - Giorgia Meloni

surprised 58.21%, neutral 41.74%

dontspy.eu

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Claudio Agosti @vecna.bsky.social · Nov 18

As EDRi summarizes in this slide, the situation doesn't look good for civil society needs

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Claudio Agosti @vecna.bsky.social · Nov 18

The troubling consequence is that AI companies are presenting themselves as "the only ones who can certify accurate information," while at the same time enabling the worst kind of automated garbage.

Read between the lines: blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

Microsoft announces new steps to help protect elections - Microsoft On the Issues

The next year may bring unprecedented challenges for the protection of elections. That’s why today we are announcing five new steps to protect electoral processes in the United States and other coun...

blogs.microsoft.com

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