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Should Apple Help Customers Hide Personal Info From Government?

Date published: February 25, 2016""Can you force Apple to design their product in a particular way and that also could have a speech component?" wondered Ryan Calo, an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law. "If what's being compelled here is a change to the way we speak, then it's not the company and its bits and bytes at issue — it's yours and mine."" Read more » about Should Apple Help Customers Hide Personal Info From Government?

Radio Berkman 234: How Fair Use Works, in Six Minutes or Less

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Even with copyright there are times when a creator can use a copyrighted work without getting the copyright holder’s permission. This safe zone is called "Fair Use." On this podcast we try to explain Fair Use — in 6 minutes or less.

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Protecting the Open Internet

Date published: February 25, 2016Q: What does net neutrality mean?

Multi-Stakeholder Forum

Studying Data-Driven and Collaborative Innovation in Governance

By Andrew Young and Stefaan Verhulst

Universidade de Salzburg oferece bolsa para curso de verão para alunos da FGV DIREITO RIO

Curso será realizado entre 4 e 16 de julho, em SalzburgA FGV DIREITO RIO seleciona alunos da graduação para o curso de verão “Summer School European Private Law”, que ocorrerá de 04 a 16 de julho de 2016, em Salzburg na Áustria. A Escola poderá indicar um aluno, que terá isenção na taxa de inscrição. Os demais alunos interessados farão parte do processo seletivo e, sendo aprovados, também poderão participar das aulas, desde que arquem com a taxa de inscrição. Os interessados devem se inscrever até 21 de março.

Computador más poderoso de Chile analizará efectos de cambio climático

El Ministerio de Obras Públicas (MOP) usará computación de alto rendimiento y el conocimiento de los investigadores del Centro de Modelamiento Matemático (CMM) y del Centro del Clima y Resiliencia (CR2) de la Universidad de Chile para considerar este factor a la hora de planificar futuras inversiones en infraestructura.La repartición pública firmó un convenio marco con la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de la Universidad para usar Leftraru, el supercomputador más poderoso de Chile y el segundo más potente de Latinoamérica según el ranking Lartop

Building the Online Labour Index

The Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality Group on 25 February 2016 at 14:48PM “While it may seem trivial if, for example, a housewife spends ten minutes filling out an online survey for a dollar, if there are millions such housewives, spending hundreds of thousands of hours filling out surveys for millions of dollars,… Continue Reading → [...]

New #ODimpact Release: How is Open Data Creating Economic Opportunities and Solving Public Problems?

Andrew Young at The GovLab: “Last month, the GovLab and Omidyar Network launched Open Data’s Impact (odimpact.org), a custom-built repository offering a range of in-depth case studies on global open data projects.

Annotatie bij Hof van Justitie 22 januari 2015 (Allposters / Pictoright)

Overbrenging van de afbeelding van een beschermd werk van een papieren poster op canvas valt onder het distributierecht van art. 4 Auteursrechtrichtlijn 2001/29/EG. Poortvliet-doctrine. Geen sprake van uitputting als drager is vervangen. Beloning voor distributie moet in een redelijke verhouding staan tot de economische waarde van de exploitatie van het beschermde voorwerp. Auteursrechtrichtlijn harmoniseert niet het recht van bewerking.

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Brisbane, 02.03.2016. Presenting a new methodology to assess patterns of information management, lecture by Lisa Merten at the Digital Media Research Center, Queens University of Technology, Australia.

A special regard: The Court of Justice and the fundamental rights to privacy and data protection

In: Festschrift für Wolfhard Kohte, Faber et al (eds.), Baden-Baden: Nomos, forthcoming 2016.

EHRM geeft voorrang aan bescherming van persoonsgegevens

Annotatie bij EHRM 21 juli 2015 (Satamedia / Finland).

Annotatie bij EHRM 20 oktober 2015 (Pentikäinen / Finland)

Towards Author's Paradise: The new Dutch Act on Authors' Contracts

In: Liber Amicorum Jan Rosén, G. Karnell, A. Kur, P-J. Nordell, J. Axhamn, S. Carlsson (ed.), eddy.se ab, Visby 2016, p. 397- 407.
ISBN: 9789185333660.

Big Data for President

Do governments make use of the new data and methods? Should they? And does big data follow different rules when applied for government use? Our guests Siim Sikkut, policy adviser... MORE

A Tale of Four Algorithms

 at Slate: “Algorithms don’t just power search results and news feeds, shaping our experience of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Spotify, and Tinder.Algorithms are widely—and largely invisibly—integrated into American political life, policymaking, and program administration.

Privacy as a Public Good

Joshua A.T. Fairfield & Christoph Engel in Duke Law Journal: “Privacy is commonly studied as a private good: my personal data is mine to protect and control, and yours is yours. This conception of privacy misses an important component of the policy problem. An individual who is careless with data exposes not only extensive information about herself, but about others as well.

Government for the People: The Road to Customer-Centered Services

The Partnership for Public Service: “Government can change lives through great customer service. For example, millions of individuals attend college each year thanks to federal financial aid services, and many more rebuild their lives after natural disasters with government assistance. In order to change lives, agencies must put citizen needs at the center of everything they do. But how well are they accomplishing that goal?

Data Collaboratives: Matching Demand with Supply of (Corporate) Data to solve Public Problems

Blog by Stefaan G.