Usa, Cina e Ue stanno ormai confrontandosi a tutto campo sull'intelligenza artificiale: da un lato c'è l'esigenza di innovare, dall'altra quella di regolamentare. E proprio questi due elementi potreb...
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Carola Frediani
co-founder GuerrediRete.it
Human rights infosec technologist, Cyber journo and Co-founder of Guerredirete.it: Carola Frediani has written about hacking, privacy, surveillance, and cybercrime for various Italian and international publications. Later, she began working as a Cybersecurity Awareness Manager in international organizations. She has been part of the Global Security team at the secretariat of Amnesty International. Currently, she works in the infosec team at Human Rights Watch.
Every week, she writes the free newsletter "Guerre di Rete," which analyzes news and stories related to cybersecurity, surveillance, and digital rights. The newsletter has evolved into an independent information project, the website Guerredirete.it, created in collaboration with the Cyber Saiyan association.
In her last book "Cybercrime" (Hoepli, 2019), she delves into the dynamics of cyber attacks, their impact on victims, and the social, economic, legal, and even geopolitical ramifications of individual incidents. The book covers incidents ranging from hospitals facing disruptions, targeted politicians, ruined consultants, chaotic black markets, to criminals running rampant.
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#IJF18 /
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#IJF16 /
8 april 2016
Journalism in the post-web era: what we have lost, what we have gained and what it is becoming
#ijf16talk by Hossein Derakhshan. Moderated by Carola Frediani.
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