This blog was co-written by Franka Vaughan and Mor Rubinstein, OKI Network team.

1. You have the right to find out what personal information organisations hold about you.
It contains six ‘data protection principles’ that organizations must follow when they collect, process, or use your personal data.  One of these principles gives all Hong Kongers the right to access that personal data and to make corrections to it if there are errors.
2. You can exercise this right against individuals and businesses too, not just local government bodies.

Assista à primeira palestra do segundo dia do II Seminário Governança das Redes e o Marco Civil da Internet: Globalização, tecnologias e conectividade, que ocorreu nos dias 26 e 27 de outubro de 2016 na Faculdade IBMEC em Belo Horizonte.
Painel: Propriedade Intelectual e Novas Tecnologias
Participantes: Fabiano Lara, Leandro Novais, Lucas Anjos e Ricardo Ruiz.

Evento organizado por IRIS, GNet, Direito UFMG, IBMEC e FGV Direito SP.

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Last month saw important developments in the discourse around the right to be forgotten. Two high courts, Gujarat and Karnataka, delivered judgments on separate pleas to have particular judgments either removed from online repositories and search engine results or have personal information redacted from them. The Gujarat High Court dismissed the petition, holding that there […]

Microsoft has launched Project Sangam, a cloud service integrated with LinkedIn that will help train and generate employment for middle and low-skilled workers.
The article by John Ribeiro of IDG News Service was mirrored on CIO blog on February 21, 2017. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

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with Berkman Klein fellows Natalie Gyenes and Brittany Seymour

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Carlos Santiso & Ben Roseth at Stanford Social Innovation Review: “…The Panama Papers scandal demonstrates the power of data analytics to uncover corruption in a world flooded with terabytes needing only the computing capacity to make sense of it all. The Rousse impeachment illustrates how open data can be used to bring leaders to account.

The Global Open Data Index (GODI) is one of our core projects at Open Knowledge International. The index measures and benchmarks the openness of government data around the world. As we complete the review phase of the audit of government data, we are soliciting feedback on the submission process. Tricia Govindasamy shares her experience submitting to #GODI16.

Digital Asia Hub and the United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society (UNU-CS) co-hosted a team from the Center for Internet and Society(CIS), Bangalore, on February 23, 2017 at JMSC, HKU, to share insights from their Pervasive Technologies Project.

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In 2013, Elon Musk proposed an "open source transportation concept" of levitating vehicles zooming passengers through vacuum tubes at 760 miles an hour. It would be weatherproof, energy-efficient, relatively inexpensive, have autonomous controls. Its impact on urban and inter-city transport could reshape economies and families.
March 8, 2017Stanford Law School

Am Institut für Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht, Zivilrechtliche Abteilung, sind ab dem 1. Juli 2017 zwei zunächst bis zum Ende des Jahres befristete Stellen als
 
wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter / wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
(Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L)
 
zu besetzen. Eine Verlängerung der Befristung wird grundsätzlich angestrebt. Die Arbeitszeit beträgt derzeit 19 Std. 55 Min. wöchentlich (Hälfte der regelmäßigen Arbeitszeit).

O Fellow da FGV Direito Rio Ivar Hannikainen teve seu artigo “A deterministic worldview promotes approval of state paternalism” publicado no “Journal of Experimental Social Psychology” da editora ELSEVIER. O trabalho foi escrito em parceria com Gabriel Cabral, Edouard Machery e Noel Struchiner, que juntos representam as Escolas de direito da FGV e da PUC-Rio e o Departamento de História de Filosofia da Ciência da University of Pittsburgh (EUA).

Once upon a time, in a faraway land (Europe), some countries decided that it would be worth setting in stone (in an international treaty) the protection of persons when information on them were being used (automatically processed by computer).

While China’s new surveillance policy purports to be a “credit system,” it in fact considers nearly every aspect of public and private behaviour in determining each citizen’s social score. These data points are not random, and have historical and cultural significance to the Chinese people, including the concept of “saving face,” or maintaining a good reputation.