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Global fact-checking up 50% in past year

Mark Stencel at Duke Reporters’ Lab: “The high volume of political truth-twisting is driving demand for political fact-checkers around the world, with the number of fact-checking sites up 50 percent since last year.

Another Tale of Two Cities: Understanding Human Activity Space Using Actively Tracked Cellphone Location Data

Paper by Yang Xu et al: “Activity space is an important concept in geography. Recent advancements of location-aware technologies have generated many useful spatiotemporal data sets for studying human activity space for large populations. In this article, we use two actively tracked cellphone location data sets that cover a weekday to characterize people’s use of space in Shanghai and Shenzhen, China.

Innovadores de la Red México Abierto

Guest post by Red México Abierto

The Blockchain Gang

Read more » about The Blockchain GangAuthor(s): Arvind NarayananPublication Date: February 16, 2016Publication Type: Other Writing

(English) Apply Now: ITS Global Policy Fellowship Program – 2016

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General Data Protection Regulation Seminar

 
RSVP is required for this free event. 
4:00pm: Seminar begins
6:00pm: Close followed by drinks & appetizers
Location:
Room 290

MEDIA LAW ROUNDUP: FEBRUARY 16, 2016

India’s new open internet law is stronger the United States’, MOTHERBOARD In response to protests and petitions against Facebook’s Free Basics app, India introduced a new open internet policy on February 8. At the end of December, India’s telecom regulator...

Donating Your Selfies to Science

Linda Poon at CityLab: “It’s not only your friends and family who follow your online selfies and group photos. Scientists are starting to look at them, too, though they’re more interested in what’s around you.

Security and Privacy in the World-Sized Web

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with Berkman Fellow, Bruce Schneier

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Het prinsesje onder de grondrechten

Redactioneel.

Direitos Autorais: Pesquisador do CTS analisa proposta de regulamentação

Debate público visa definir regras para cobrança de direitos autoraisA forma como se consome música no mundo mudou. Seja qual for a plataforma, o fato é que são pouquíssimas as pessoas que ainda compram CDs e DVDs para ouvir seus artistas favoritos. O ambiente digital e a possibilidade de consumir música via internet traz, porém, um vazio regulatório que o Ministério da Cultura (MinC) pretende preencher com a abertura de consulta pública, em 15 de fevereiro, para uma instrução normativa que pretende regular como se dará a cobrança de direitos autorais e conexos no ambiente digital.

IE vincit omnia? Opsporing in de particuliere sector.

Annotatie bij Vzr. Rb. Den Haag 5 oktober 2015 en 6 november 2015 (Stichting Brein / Google).

Bevel aan Google tot afgifte ex. art. 28 lid 9 Aw van persoons- en adresgegevens van de houder van een Google Play account vanwege onrechtmatige verkoop van e-books. Voorwaarde dat de houder op grond van art. 40 Wbp verzet kan aantekenen tegen die afgifte bij de verantwoordelijke (Google). Grondrechtenconflict bescherming van eigendom, vrijheid van meningsuiting en privacy.

Three Questions on Digital Trade

The inclusion of an e-commerce chapter in the recently concluded TPP Agreement has sparked off a debate around the world on internet issues being a part of trade agreements. In my last post I had looked at the efforts of civil society groups trying to engage with various trade negotiation processes through the EFF Meeting […]

Direito ao Esquecimento Digital nas Redes Sociais

Universidade Europeia (Lisboa) 19.02.2016 21:00
 
Realizado no âmbito do Executive Master Digital Marketing 2015/2016 da Universidade Europeia (Lisboa), este Executive Seminar lecionado  novamente por João Ferreira Pinto  aborda, numa perspectiva jurídica o tema do Direito ao Esquecimento Digital nos motores de busca da internet e nas redes sociais.

(English) ITS Fellows 2015 and what they said about their experience

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What does Sri Lanka’s ratification of the Disability Convention mean?

The International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was adopted by the United Nations in 2006 according to the universal declaration of Human Rights and international conventions on human rights. Sri Lanka has signed the convention in 2007 and the proposal made by S.B. Dissanayake, Minister of Social Empowerment and Welfare, to ratify the convention for the benefit of Sri Lankan disabled persons, was approved by the Cabinet of Ministers.

Play Time in de tijd

Een recensie van Robert van Boeschoten

Introducing Viderum

Ten years ago, Rufus started CKAN as an “apt-get for data” in order to enable governments and corporations to provide their data as truly open data. Today, CKAN is used by countless open data publishers around the globe and has become the de facto standard.

Nikos Papastergiadis: Democracy–A strangely beautiful, simple and familiar idea

A response to the Democracy in Europe Movement launch in Berlin, February 9, 2016.

8 Ways To Secure Data During US-EU Privacy Fight

Date published: February 15, 2016""We haven't seen the solution.