Last year, I was invited to contribute a paper to a special edition of the Health and Technology Journal published by Springer/Nature. The special issue addressed privacy and security, with a particular focus on healthcare and medical data. I’m happy to announce that now, for four weeks only, the publishers have made the whole issue available free.
From our accompanying blog post last July:
Stefaan G. Verhulst and Andrew Young at Harvard Business Review: “…In particular, the vast streams of data generated through social media platforms, when analyzed responsibly, can offer insights into societal patterns and behaviors. These types of behaviors are hard to generate with existing social science methods.
Report by the Future of Privacy Forum: “The transparency goals of the open data movement serve important social, economic, and democratic functions in cities like Seattle. At the same time, some municipal datasets about the city and its citizens’ activities carry inherent risks to individual privacy when shared publicly.
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A panel featuring Christopher S. Yoo (UPenn) and Matthew Wood (Free Press)
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The January 4 release of the Federal Communications Commission’s Restoring Internet Freedom Order marked the most recent turn of events in the longstanding and ever-changing debate over net neutrality. Come hear a panel of leading experts explore the consequences of this action, including the implications of the Order, the outcome of the judicial challenge, and the possibility of legislative reform.
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Max Fisher and Amanda Taub at The New York Times: “After 200 years of expansion, democracy’s growth in the world has stalled.
Wraz z początkiem roku 2018 do domeny publicznej trafiły prace Lilly Reich – modernistycznej projektantki, współpracowniczki Miesa van der Rohe – jednego z czołowych architektów modernizmu, drugiej kobiety, która znalazła się w gronie nauczycieli Bauhausu – nowatorskiej uczelni artystyczno-rzemieślniczej, która zmieniła oblicze architektury i projektowania.
In advance of Data Privacy & Protection Day, the Online Trust Alliance, an Internet Society initiative, just released the Cyber Incident & Breach Trends Report (press release here), a look back at the cyber incident trends in 2017 and what can be done to address them.
The topic of how well the tool of black letter law works in the Internet law setting is of course huge, and associated with obvious definitional challenges. To point to but one; how ought we define “black letter law” in our present legal culture where legal rules necessarily must take account of the technical reality in which they operate?
This blog has been reposted from the Open Education Working Group blog and has been written as a joint effort by Javiera Atenas and Paul Bacsich, co-coordinators of the Open Education Working Group.
Hasta la Escuela Superior Campesina llegaron académicos y artistas de la Casa de Bello para ser parte de tres conversatorios y de una muestra, actividades enmarcadas además en la Jornadas Culturales 2018 de dicha institución.
El octavo número de la publicación abre el debate hacia las implicancias de un Estado laico, convocando a destacadas plumas que lo abordan desde diversas perspectivas. En tiempos en que el Papa Francisco visita nuestro país y la llamada “agenda valórica” divide los resultados de las recientes elecciones presidenciales, Palabra Pública presenta un dossier especial dedicado al concepto “Estado Laico”.
Following up on my prior posts about responsible cryptocurrencies and moving towards a more Ethical ICO, I want to dig into some of the nitty-gritty about what kinds of things can make an ICO more ethical than the norm.
Das FocusLab greenRelease ist im Themenfeld „Smartes Management der Pflanzenproduktion“ angesiedelt und wird von Dr. Felix Jakob von der RWTH Aachen geleitet. Die Wissenschaftler entwickeln biologisch abbaubare Minibehälter aus Mikrogelen, die mittels Ankerpeptiden an der Oberfläche von Blättern oder Früchten haften und regenfest sind. Aus diesen kleinen Behältnissen können nach Bedarf Herbizide oder Fungizide freigesetzt werden.
What are we really trying to do at the P2P Foundation, along with many other similar movements ?
One of the best ways to express our underlying philosophy is here very well expressed by John Ringland, who, using complexity theory insights, distinguishes ‘generative cooperative networks’ from ‘generative adversarial networks’.
We recommend reading the following text carefully, for an understanding of these dynamics.
From GAN’s, via GHN’s, to GCN’s?
A few days ago, we pointed to a remarkable presentation by Frank Pasquale, who showed how the new ‘netarchical’ corporations like Google, Facebook, Uber or AirBnB are taking over more and more former ‘state’ and ‘governmental’ functions, replacing democratically accountable public power (however feeble that accountability can sometimes be), by what he calls ‘Functional Governance’.
Das neue Parteiengefüge Deutschlands seit der Bundestagswahl und die daraus erwachsenden Probleme bei der Regierungsbildung stellen die Politiker der etablierten Parteien vor erhebliche Herausforderungen. Gleichzeitig haben beide Volksparteien historische Tiefstände beim Wahlergebnis erreicht. Auch hier gibt es keinen deutschen Sonderweg, sondern eher eine Normalisierung: In vielen europäischen Demokratien sind die etablierten Parteien erheblichen Erosionsprozessen ausgesetzt. Der Vortrag widmet sich im Wesentlichen drei Fragen: Was bedeutet dies für die Zukunft der Parteiendemokratie?
Im mit über 600 Gästen vollbesetzten Konrad-Henkel-Hörsaal stellte Rektorin Prof. Dr. Anja Steinbeck die fortgesetzte erfolgreiche Entwicklung der Universität dar.
In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]
Offerings will be an incentive to companies already using Paytm e-wallet services to shift employees’ salary accounts to the bank, says Paytm Payments Bank CEO Renu Satti.
The article was published by Komal Gupta and Remya Nair was published in Livemint on January 24, 2018
Andrew Zolli at the Stanford Social Innovation Review: “Consider, for a moment, some of the most pernicious challenges facing humanity today: the increasing prevalence of natural disasters; the systemic overfishing of the world’s oceans; the clear-cutting of primeval forests; the maddening persistence of poverty; and above all, the accelerating effects of global climate change.