Workplace Surveillance: is our privacy protected at work?
By Yuan Stevens and Joanna Bronowicka, December 2016
Can your boss spy on you at work? Can your employer monitor private chats with your family? If you work in Europe, the answer to these questions might depend on the upcoming ruling of the the European Court of Human Rights. Yuan Stevens and Joanna Bronowicka analyse the implications of the pending case for privacy of workers in Europe.

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The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and New America’s Open Technology Institute are proud to announce the publication of the Transparency Reporting Toolkit: Reporting Guide & Template, which aims to provide companies the tools they need to publish transparency reports that are more consistent, easier to understand, and more effective.

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Book edited by Linnet Taylor, Luciano Floridi,, and Bart van der Sloot: “The goal of the book is to present the latest research on the new challenges of data technologies. It will offer an overview of the social, ethical and legal problems posed by group profiling, big data and predictive analysis and of the different approaches and methods that can be used to address them. In doing so, it will help the reader to gain a better grasp of the ethical and legal conundrums posed by group profiling.

This blog post is part of our on-going Community series featuring updates from chapters across the Open Knowledge Network and was written by the team of Open Knowledge Ireland and edited by Flora Fleischer and Siobhan Denham.
Our warm season greetings to all friends of Open Knowledge

This blog post is part of our on-going Community series featuring updates from chapters across the Open Knowledge Network and was written by the team of Open Knowledge Ireland and edited by Flora Fleischer and Siobhan Denham.
Our warm season greetings to all friends of Open Knowledge

The Criminal Law & Government Investigations Section of the Barristers Club presents
 
The Present and Future of Digital Privacy: The Current State of Affairs and a Look Toward the Future

 
SPEAKERS:
 
Andrew Crocker
Electronic Frontier Foundation
 
Matthew Cagle
American Civil Liberties Union
 
Riana Pfefferkorn
Stanford Center for Internet and Society
 January 10, 2017San Francisco

Curated by Robert Montano, Prianka Srinivasan, Stefaan Verhulst and Andrew Young
It’s the season of predictions. As we usher in the new year, what will 2017 or 2070 be like? In our on-going attempt to identify the signal in the noise, we reviewed many annual forecasts and selected some of the most relevant to governance innovation.

I submitted comments this week to the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission as the Director of Privacy at the Center for Internet and Society (CIS). The emergence of new transportation networks and platforms certainly presents privacy challenges and the private companies in these emerging markets certainly have had their share of privacy mis-steps.
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Can we take a «seamless» flow of data between people and technology for granted? Chris Baumann from University of Stockholm investigates this everyday phenomenon. As our next guest, he will... MORE

Springwise: “Rather than rely on once-yearly spot checks of traffic throughout the city, Montreal, Canada, decided to build a more comprehensive picture of what was working well, and what wasn’t working very well, around the city. Working with traffic management company Orange Traffic, the city installed more than 100 sensors along the busiest vehicular routes.

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September was largely a transition period between the old and new board to facilitate the takeover of responsibilities. We also involved our team and the community in the strategic processes we started in August, through multiple feedback rounds and a team call.

Efficiency vs. Accountability? – Algorithms, Big Data and Public Administration
By Ben Wagner, December 2016

Leah Hunter at Forbes: “This is the story of Firuzeh Mahmoudi, founder of United4Iran and Irancubator, the first civic tech-focused startup incubator in Iran. She is also a creator of civil justice apps and a businessperson. Her business?

Sue Brideshead at Motherboard: “The tech industry has talked long and hard about democratizing industries. Democratizing content, democratizing taxi-cabs, and democratizing bed and breakfasts. But what about democratizing democracy?

The internet is a space where social relationships are cultivated, business is conducted, new knowledge is created, and all kinds of networks are built. But do fundamental rights exist in... MORE

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The Open Government Partnership: “The search for these stories ended with finding seven very different reform initiatives in different regions and covering a broad range of open government topics.

Teresa Scassa and Alexandra Diebel in Journal of e-Democracy: “This paper explores how real-time data are made available as “open data” using municipal transit data as a case study. Many transit authorities in North America and elsewhere have installed technology to gather GPS data in real-time from transit vehicles. These data are in high demand in app developer communities because of their use in communicating predicted, rather than scheduled, transit vehicle arrival times.