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Discutirá aporte de neurociencias en DD.HH, pobreza, ética y educación

En el marco del Seminario, se otorgará la Medalla Doctor Honoris Causa al destacado neurobiólogo Jean-Pierre Changeux, del College de France y Co-director de la División de Ética y Sociedad del Human Brain Project.Cuáles son aquellas características de nuestro cerebro que permiten entender las conductas asociadas al respeto de los derechos humanos y cómo impacta la pobreza y la educación en el desarrollo cerebral. Esos serán algunos de los temas tratados en el Seminario Internacional “Educación, Sociedad y Derechos Humanos: El Aporte de la Neurocien

​Higher starting pay for NTU graduates in 2015

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Science: “Important series of creatively and rigorously researched insights”

Political Turbulence Book on 1 March 2016 at 15:55PM Arnout van de Rijt reviewed Political Turbulence in Science Magazine. The review, entitled “The social revolution,” states that the book … contributes an important series of creatively and rigorously researched insights into the social mechanics of Internet-based collective action, handing researchers a new toolbox of methods and [...]

BKA: “Den Hacker gibt es nicht. Wir sollten ihn erfinden.”

The german Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) published a study that attempts to create an typology of cyber criminals by equating them with &raquohackers”. This article is a comment and... MORE

HIIG has a new home

In February, we moved not far from our former offices to Französische Straße, 10117 Berlin. We would be glad if you visit us in our new home, for example for... MORE

Blog Guidelines

The SCRIPTed management team are pleased to announce that we have introduced a blog section to our website, to allow for legal researchers at any stage in their career to share their ideas on recent developments in their field. We

Meet your Matchmaker: New crowdsourced sites for rare diseases

Carina Storrs at CNN: “Angela’s son Jacob was born with a number of concerning traits. He had an extra finger, and a foot and hip that were abnormally shaped. The doctors called in geneticists to try to diagnose his unusual condition. “That started our long, 12-year journey,” said Angela, who lives in the Baltimore area.

Facebook Is Making a Map of Everyone in the World

Robinsion Meyer at The Atlantic: “Americans inhabit an intricately mapped world. Type “Burger King” into an online box, and Google will cough up a dozen nearby options, each keyed to a precise latitude and longitude.

The 4 Types of Cities and How to Prepare Them for the Future

John D. Macomber at Harvard Business Review: “The prospect of urban innovation excites the imagination. But dreaming up what a “smart city” will look like in some gleaming future is, by its nature, a utopian exercise. The messy truth is that cities are not the same, and even the most innovative approach can never achieve universal impact.

Big Data Visualization: Review of 20 Tools

Edoardo L’Astorina at BluFrame: “Big Data is amazing. It describes our everyday behavior, keeps track of the places we go, stores what we like to do and how much time we spend doing our favorite activities.

The EU-US Privacy Shield: The Safer Harbour?

On 29th February, 2016, the European Commission published details of the legal text which will be the building blocks for the EU-US Privacy Shield. The NSA’s bulk collection of the data EU users’ data has been a contentious issue since the Snowden revelations. The new agreement will replace the Safe Harbour agreement which had been […]

Het meningloze tijdperk

Verschenen in: Zonder tegenspraak, nr. 30, E. Lievens (red.), feestbundel Dirk Voorhoof, Brugge: die Keure Professional Publishing 2016, p. 74-79.

Bijdrage over de vrijheid van meningsuiting in het populistische tijdperk.

Winners Announced for Duo's Women in Security Awards 2016

Date published: March 1, 2016"Duo Security, a cloud-based trusted access provider protecting the world's largest and fastest-growing companies, today announces winners for its Women in Security Awards 2016.Duo Security

Google self-driving car hits public bus near Mountain View headquarters

Date published: March 1, 2016"However, Bryant Walker Smith, a risk, technology and mobility expert at Stanford University and assistant professor in both law and engineering at the University of South Carolina, suggested that the accident doesn't mean much in the overall debate over self-driving cars.

Net Neutrality Is in More Danger Than Ever

Date published: March 1, 2016"Unlike AT&T and Verizon, T-Mobile doesn’t charge companies to allow users access to zero-rated data. But that hasn’t exempted it from controversy. Read more » about Net Neutrality Is in More Danger Than EverWired

Centrum Cyfrowe wspiera „Internetowe rewolucje” Google

We Should Have the Right to Trust Our iPhone Passcodes

Smartphones have become an almost universal tool for the masses, mainly as a simple gateway to the Internet. Though, in recent years these devices have increasingly become personalized and full of even more intimate data.

On the Road to Marrakech: Part 6

Recommendation 11 In continuation of our series on CCWG-Accountability recommendations, this post examines one of the most controversial recommendation: Board Obligations with Regard to Governmental Advisory Committee Advice (Stress Test #18). Previous posts in this series can be read here. No other recommendation has seen this level of debate and compromise as Recommendation #11 has […]

Nico van Eijk: Deskundigenbijeenkomst Eerste Kamer wijziging Mediawet

FBI v. Apple -- Can doesn't mean should obey.

The FBI investigates a grizzly murder. You are a bank president. The murderer stored his phone book in your bank's safety deposit box, the code for which is encrypted with copyrighted proprietary software, before he committed the murder. The FBI demands that you provide it with the master code for the box, which can be used to unlock other boxes, too.