Date published: August 15, 2016"Hackers’ favorite targets include health systems and local governments, said Scott Shackelford, a professor of business law and ethics in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
“If you look at the trend lines in the last two years, it’s becoming more common,” he said. “For a long time, this was part of a long-term trend of cyber extortion. This was run-of-the-mill behavior in Eastern Europe, Brazil and Latin America.”"

Date published: August 15, 2016"“The policies and ‘pillars’ that were offered as solutions were often vague, and it is not clear they’d actually solve the serious challenges that exist in the region,” said Brian Nussbaum, a terrorism analyst at Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

Date published: August 15, 2016"“Facebook engineers could try harder to obfuscate the differences. For example, they could use non-human-readable element IDs to make it harder to figure out what’s going on, or even randomize the IDs on every page load. We’re surprised they’re not already doing this, given the grandiose announcement of the company’s intent to bypass ad blockers,” Arvind Narayanan and Grant Storey of the CITP wrote in a post analyzing the situation."

Date published: August 15, 2016"Narayanan concludes in his post that Facebook’s anti-ad-blocking campaign is doomed, at least if it continues in the current vein of acting as if the social network can somehow neutralize ad blockers completely.
“This is a simple proof of concept, but the detection method could easily be made much more robust without incurring a performance penalty,” he writes. “All of this must be utterly obvious to the smart engineers at Facebook, so the whole ‘unblockable ads’ PR push seems likely to be a big bluff.”"

Can technology help the visually-disabled, who have no access to books and reading resources in their schools?

The article was published in the Hindu on August 14, 2016. Nirmita Narasimhan was quoted.

India has emerged as a digitally-connected nation but experts suggest the country still lacks pragmatic Internet laws.

The article by Krishna Makwana was published by Deccan Chronicle on August 14, 2016. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

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Date published: August 14, 2016"McGill University education professor Shaheen Shariff studied the "digitally empowered'' generation of kids in a 2013 project that used surveys and focus groups involving 1,088 tweens and teens in two Canadian and two U.S. cities.
Shariff estimates that over half of participants confirmed receiving or sending intimate images, adding that the figures on the prevalence of sexting will vary among studies.The Huffington Post

Date published: August 14, 2016"Peter Asaro, vice-chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control — which is campaigning for a treaty to ban “killer robots” — questions whether a machine can be programmed to make the sort of moral and ethical choices that a human does before taking someone’s life.
Soldiers must consider whether their actions are justified and risks that they take are proportionate to a threat, he said.Stars and Stripes

“Eleições na Rede: novos rumos da democracia digital nas eleições de 2016"09h00O Evento: A cada eleição, aumenta a importância da internet e da tecnologia na conquista de eleitores e seus votos. Facebook, twitter, whatsapp, instagram, crowdfunding são as novas armas no arsenal dos partidos e candidatos. Atenta aos desafios as questões jurídicas que acompanham esse novo cenário, a Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da Fundação Getulio Vargas promoverá um dia de debates sobre temas de suma importância para as Eleições Municipais de 2016.

Telugu Wikipedians created articles on Punjab in a national level contest. Telugu Wikipedians received a trophy during the closing ceremony of Wiki conference India at Chandigarh.

Wie gerade bekannt wurde, wird Dr. Daniel Hötte, ein langjähriger Mitarbeiter des ITM,  zum 1. September Professor für Zivilrecht an der Fachhochschule Bielefeld.

Wie gerade bekannt wurde, wird Dr. Daniel Hötte, ein langjähriger Mitarbeiter des ITM,  zum 1. September Professor für Zivilrecht an der Fachhochschule Bielefeld.

ECS submitted its response to the European Commission’s Public Consultation on the Review of the EU Satellite and Cable Directive. Read it here:
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As reported earlier, the Indian government has planned to make Aadhaar-enabled smartphones , with which users would be able to self-authenticate and let businesses and banks verify the identity of their clients. This would also help in the government's aim of a cashless society.
The article was published in Business Insider on August 10, 2016. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

El conjunto ofrecerá un programa que contará con dos funciones, a las 12:00 y 16:00 horas respectivamente, en las que repasarán obras de películas como Star Wars, Frozen, Toy Story y Avengers, entre muchas otras, acompañadas de imágenes de los filmes.Adelantando lo que será la celebración del día del niño, la Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile ha preparado un programa especial para disfrutar en familia de esta fecha dedicada a los más pequeños.

Autoridades, académicos y estudiantes de nuestro plantel dieron este lunes 1 de agosto, la bienvenida a los estudiantes extranjeros que, a través del Programa de Movilidad Estudiantil de la Dirección de Relaciones Internacionales, cursarán estudios de pregrado en facultades e institutos de la Casa de Bello durante este segundo semestre. En la oportunidad, la directora del Archivo Central Andrés Bello, Alejandra Araya, ofreció la charla magistral "La Casa Central de la Universidad de Chile.

Adele Peters in FastCoExist: “In 2013, a group of activists in Buenos Aires attempted an experiment in what they called hacking democracy. Representatives from their new political party would promise to always vote on issues according to the will of citizens online. Using a digital platform, people could tell the legislator what to support, in a hybrid of a direct democracy and representation.

Mariano Beguerisse-Díaz, Amy K. McLennan, Guillermo Garduño-Hernández, Mauricio Barahona, and Stanley J.

ECS submited its opinion on the ‘panorama exception’ to the Copyright Unit of the European Commission. The European Copyright Society (ECS) considers that the issue of Freedom of Panorama (FoP) should not be reviewed in isolation from the broader, necessary reform of the European copyright framework. The ECS regrets the disproportionate level of importance accorded […]