Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
In the context of the Snowden and Prism scandal, Google released a transparency report, which discloses the number of judicial requests for disclosing information about Google service users by country over a period of three years. Data has been released in the…
Filicudi e Lipari (Photo credit: CyboRoZ) Lipari School on Computational Complex Systems announces its 2012 annual session. Novel data mining research and modeling of complex techno-socio-economic systems will be presented. According to the call: Two kinds of participants are welcome. Students: Participants…
The girl walks down the street defiantly, clutching her shawl. Young, and not so young, men stare, catcall, and grab their crotch. The place is Florence, the year is 1951, the photographer Ruth Orkin, and the mood is of budding feminism fighting…
Italy’s deeper troubles magisterially analyzed by the Economist…. Italy is indulgent towards its children in some ways—it is not unusual for them to live at home until they are in their 30s—but hard on them in others. “A typical Italian family these…
A new logo for the Italian Justice System? Image via Wikipedia An Italian court decided that anyone who does anything, anywhere in the world that an Italian court can interpret as an infringement of Italian law can be prosecuted, tried, and convicted.…