Date published: February 9, 2016"Certainty and Equity: Referencing the noted scholar Barbara Van Schewick, TRAI explains that a case-by-case approach based on principles [standards] or rules would “fail to provide much needed certainty to industry participants…..service providers may refrain from deploying network technology” and perversely “lead to further uncertainty as service providers undergoing [the] investigation would logically try to differentiate their case from earlier precedents”.

Date published: February 9, 2016"T-Mobile’s "Binge On" plan, which exempts certain video services like Netflix from data caps, has been the subject of especially harsh criticism from open internet advocates, including Stanford law professor Barbara van Schewick, one of the nation’s leading authorities on net neutrality. Read more » about India Just Banned Zero-Rating.

Date published: February 9, 2016India's Telecom Regulatory Authority on Monday ruled in favor of Net neutrality, effectively banning Facebook's Free Basics Internet access app.
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The privacy debate surrounding the aadhaar proceedings has, in the recent past stirred debate on the constitutional perceptive on privacy. In addition to this, the disastrous National Draft Encryption Policy and the Human DNA Profiling Bill, 2015 have challenged the legal contours of privacy, particularly the understanding of data protection in India. Placing increasing reliance […]

"No digital trespassing! Violators will be sued. Survivors will be sued again!" Ever seen that sign? Not likely. That's because, technically, there is no law against digital trespassing per se. This occurs when your grandma's new universal remote control climbs over, figuratively speaking, the encryption security fence on copyrighted content, such as the software to her old garage opener, so as to enable communication between the new control and old garage door opener.

(Cross-posted from The World Bank)

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Hacking the Patent System: Open Source and Patents

Daniel Nazer
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January 21, 2016Read more » about Scale 14xPasadena Convention Center

Are you really "you" online?

We asked around for stories of digital alter egos — secret identities that people maintain on the web and try to keep separate from their real life identities.

And it turns out there are lots of reasons — some good, some nefarious, some maybe both — someone might have alternate personas online.

On this episode we share stories of Catfishers, sock puppets, and digital doppelgangers.

Date published: February 8, 2016"T-Mobile is warning the FCC to "tread lightly" when it comes to the regulator's inquiry into the company's Binge On program. Read more » about T-Mobile Warns FCC to 'Tread Lightly' on Binge On InquiryDSLReports

Date published: February 8, 2016"27. Intuitively, the case-by-case approach may seem reasonable. However, this approach creates substantial social costs as noted by Barbara Van Schewick in "Network Neutrality and Quality of Service: What a Non-Discrimination Rule Should Look Like," Stanford Law Review, 2015. First, a case-by-case regime will fail to provide much-needed certainty to industry participants.

El Máster en Investigación en Ciencias Sociales, acreditado por la ANECA
El máster está coordinado por el Instituto Cultura y Sociedad y cuenta con la colaboración directa de las facultades de Comunicación, Derecho, Educación y Psicología, Enfermería, y Filosofía y Letras

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Smakując w restauracji nowe dania, rzadko kiedy dowiadujemy się, skąd pochodzi pomysł na nie. Chyba, że stołujemy się w klubokawiarni Solec44, którego szef kuchni Aleksander Baron chwali się inspiracjami pochodzącymi z książek z cyfrowej Biblioteki Narodowej Polona. Dlatego też tegoroczne obchody Dnia Domeny Publicznej odbyły się właśnie tam. Ich tematem była nie tylko literatura i malarstwo, ale tym razem również gastronomia oraz internetowe memy i remiksy.

Elizabeth Dubois on 8 February 2016 at 14:30PM Well, it is done. The thesis is defended (successfully) and I have hit the academic job market and come out with surprising speed. I am pleased to say that in January 2016 I started a job as an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa. My focus will be on international communication and digital media. […] [...]

Internet governance may seem like an arcane topic, but it affects at least 3.29 billion people around the world (the total number of Internet users, according to Internet Live Stats). In fact, Internet governance is arguably relevant to a far larger number of people: the way in which issues like access, cost and digital security are determined will help decide whether and how the current pool of non-users is eventually brought online.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has come out with a set of regulations explicitly prohibiting differential pricing for data services in India. 3. Prohibition of discriminatory tariffs.— (1) No service provider shall offer or charge discriminatory tariffs for data services on the basis of content. (2) No service provider shall enter into any […]

Political Turbulence Book on 8 February 2016 at 09:09AM Helen Margetts spoke with Deutsche Welle last week about the book and a range of topics from the role of social media in mobilizations to the (lack of) sustainability of social media campaigns. An article reporting their conversation is available at http://dw.com/p/1HpSV. Political Turbulence: we’re ‘dripping with data’ and it may make [...]

Przez ostatnie kilka miesięcy pracowaliśmy w Centrum Cyfrowym nad propozycjami zmian w Ustawie o systemie oświaty. Przygotowaliśmy tę propozycję legislacyjną, bowiem zmiany ustawowe pozwoliłyby w pełni wdrożyć politykę otwartości, którą rząd zainicjował w programie e-podręczników.

¿Qué se entiende por educación pública? ¿Cuál es el estado de ésta a nivel internacional? ¿Cómo se explica su rendimiento en pruebas estandarizadas? ¿Qué propuestas existen para revitalizarla?

The World Economic Forum (WEF) held its annual meeting at Davos from 20-23 January, 2016. The theme of the meeting was ‘The Fourth Industrial Revolution’ which referred to advent of new technologies that converge “the physical, digital and biological worlds” to create seamless ‘cyber-physical systems’. Some of the main sessions and discussions were on the […]

David B. Agus in The New York Times: “How far would you go to protect your health records? Your privacy matters, of course, but consider this: Mass data can inform medicine like nothing else and save countless lives, including, perhaps, your own.