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Government Hacking: Assessing and Mitigating the Security Risk

RSVP is required for this free event.February 2, 2017Stanford Law School

Notable Privacy and Security Books from 2016

Daniel J. Solove at Technology, Academics, Policy: “Here are some notable books on privacy and security from 2016….
Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Federal Trade Commission Privacy Law and Policy

Cancer Research Orgs Release Big Data for Precision Medicine

 at HealthITAnalytics: “The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is releasing more than 19,000 de-identified genomic records to further the international research community’s explorations into precision medicine.

Vaga – Comunicação do ITS Rio

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O Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio atua como um dos principais centros globais de pesquisa nas áreas de tecnologia, direito e sociedade. A Comunicação do ITS Rio tem por objetivo criar pontes para materializar o impacto do instituto com diferentes stakeholders, além de engajar em campanhas de defesa a direitos digitais.

Blockchain technology: From privacy advocacy to supply chains

Originally developed to make cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin possible, Blockchain technology has become a huge phenomenon that attracts both hacktivists and venture capitalists. How do these different groups come together and... MORE

Lunch talk with Meropi Tzanetakis

Meropi Tzanetakis takes you on a trip to the «dark» side of the web. How were global markets for drugs able to emerge on the darkweb – irrespective of current... MORE

Technoscience and Citizenship: Ethics and Governance in the Digital Society

Book edited by Ann Delgado that “… provides insights on how emerging technosciences come together with new forms of governance and ethical questioning.

International Moot Court held at the Law School

The LLM student of BNU Law School, international students of LLM in Chinese and international visiting students participated in the international Moot Court on copyright disputes in universities at the end of 2016. The Moot court was organized by Prof. Xue during her teaching of Intellectual Property Law to both groups of the students. The case for the Moot Court was adapted from the real case between a US publisher and an Indian university.  Prof. Xue redesigned and rewrote the facts of the case and made it a case between a group of western publishers and BNU.

Beyond IRBs: Designing Ethical Review Processes for Big Data Research

Conference Proceedings by Future of Privacy Forum: “The ethical framework applying to human subject research in the biomedical and behavioral research fields dates back to the Belmont Report.Drafted in 1976 and adopted by the United States government in 1991 as the Common Rule, the Belmont principles were geared towards a paradigmatic controlled scientific experiment with a limited population of human subjects interacting directly with researchers and manifesting their informed consent.

Uber debuts Movement, a new website offering access to its traffic data

 at TechCrunch: “Uber is opening up in an area where it might make sense competitively for it to stay more closed off: The ride-hailing company’s new Movement website will offer up access to its data around traffic flow in scores where it operates, intended for use by city planners and

Technology tools in human rights

Engine Room: “Over the past few years, we have been witnessing a wave of new technology tools for human rights documentation. Along with the arrival of the new tools, human rights defenders are facing  new tools, new possibilities, new challenges, and new expectations of human rights documentation initiatives.

Ethics in the Age of Information

Lecture by Luciano Floridi for the Alan Turing Institute:

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Inside the Digital Revolution

Heather Brooks in the Journal of International Affairs: “Technology and transparency combined to create the digital revolution, which in tur

Oakland Privacy Commission Approves Surveillance Transparency and Oversight Law

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Date published: January 6, 2017East Bay Express"Catherine Crump, the co-director of UC Berkeley's Center for Law and Technology told the commission the new law "has the potential to have a nationwide impact."

Sitio Futuro Mechón ayuda a estudiantes de región a postular

La iniciativa que se realiza durante todo el año extenderá su horario de atención para asesorar a los postulantes a la Universidad de Chile.

Yasna Contreras: "Imperó la lógica de la rentabilidad "

¿Cómo son los nuevos habitantes del centro de Santiago? Esa es la pregunta que responde la académica de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo en un libro recientemente publicado, donde revisa la trayectoria residencial del corazón de la capital y el impacto que tuvo el Plan de Repoblamiento del centro, de la mano de otros fenómenos como los cambios demográficos, la explosión inmobiliaria y los flujos migratorios.La trayectoria que ha tenido el centro de Santiago como hábitat residencial ha cambiado profundamente en las últimas décadas.

Deporte Azul cerró sus actividades 2016

En la ceremonia de clausura del 2016 se entregó la Copa de los Torneos Interfacultades (TIF) a la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM), y reconocimientos a deportistas destacados de nuestra Casa de Estudios, entre ellos, Pascalle Thenoux en tenis y Sebastián Albornoz en vóleibol.Con el anhelo de que la próxima "Noche del Deporte Azul" se realice en el nuevo polideportivo del Campus Juan Gómez Millas (JGM), la Dirección Deportes y Actividad Física de la Universidad de Chile (DDAF) cerró este jueves 15 las actividades 2016, evento que se realizó en la Facultad de

HCUCH inauguró scanner, primero en su categoría en Latinoamérica

Este 22 de diciembre, el Rector de la U. de Chile y las autoridades del hospital encabezaron la puesta en marcha de este equipamiento, que permitirá mejorar los exámenes que se realizan, así como también incorporar nuevos estudios. El aparato cuenta con un sistema de detección de última generación que permite la visualización de lesiones y estructuras muy pequeñas, además de optimizar la dosis de radiación según los tipos de pacientes, entre otros avances.

Estudiantes secundarios consideran a la U. de Chile como la mejor

La visión de los estudiantes de 3ro y 4to medio fue reflejada en el estudio hecho por MORI, donde los jóvenes indican por novena vez consecutiva que la Casa de Bello es la más reconocida por su calidad y prestigio, e indicaron que, si las instituciones de educación superior fueran gratuitas, ellos optarían prioritariamente por nuestro plantel.Los rankings internacionales se construyen desde diferentes bases.

Data Collaboratives as a New Frontier of Cross-Sector Partnerships in the Age of Open Data: Taxonomy Development

Paper by Iryna Susha, Marijn Janssen and Stefaan Verhulst: “Data collaboratives present a new form of cross-sector and public-private partnership to leverage (often corporate) data for addressing a societal challenge. They can be seen as the latest attempt to make data accessible to solve public problems. Although an increasing number of initiatives can be found, there is hardly any analysis of these emerging practices. This paper seeks to develop a taxonomy of forms of data collaboratives.