The Internet & Jurisdiction Project released the fourth annual RETROSPECT edition. The 2015 in RETROSPECT is available here. Read more » about 2015 in RETROSPECT: Intermediary Liability News and More from the Internet and Jurisdiction Project
The Berklett Cybersecurity Project of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University has just released a new report on the so-called “going dark problem” that is fueling law enforcement demands for access to encrypted information. The report, “Don’t Panic: Making Progress on the ‘Going Dark’ Debate,” concludes that new consumer technologies will increasingly provide a wealth of data to governments about individual movements and activities.
Laurence Grinyer at UK’s Open Policy Making Blog: “At the end of the last parliament, the Cabinet Office Open Policy Making team launched the Open Policy Making toolkit.
Ali Lange at CDT: “Digital technology has empowered new voices, made the world more accessible, and increased the speed of almost every decision we make as businesses, communities, and individuals. Much of this convenience is powered by lines of code that rapidly execute instructions based on rules set by programmers (or, in the case of machine learning, generated from statistical correlations in massive datasets)—otherwise known as algorithms.
Springwise: “We recently saw an initiative that empowered startup talent in a Finnish refugee camp, and now Design Museum Dharavi is a mobile museum that will provide a platform for makers in the Mumbai neighborhood.
Valentin Kassarnig at arXiv: “In this report we present a system that can generate political speeches for a desired political party. Furthermore, the system allows to specify whether a speech should hold a supportive or opposing opinion. The system relies on a combination of several state-of-the-art NLP methods which are discussed in this report.
On World Food Day in October 2015, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), announced that it would “explore the future challenges and the latest thinking and techniques on openness that will assist the organization in moving beyond dialogue towards sustainable stakeholder interaction.”[1] The initiative from the advisory body mandated to perform risk assessment, provide scientific advice and communicate r
Hardly any other area is polarised as much as the health sector about the use of big data. For the second event in the series: «Big data: big power shifts?»... MORE
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Felix Delattre: “When there is no map for the 1670 kilometers of metropolitan Managua’s public 45 bus lines network, there is only one thing you and anybody can do: Ask the people in the buses how to get from one point to another.
W tym tygodniu piszemy o problemach z domeną publiczną, kolejnych kontrowersjach związanych z korzystania z materiałów z Youtube’a (co tylko udowadnia potrzebę dyskursu nad kwestią odpowiedzialności pośredników), działaniach mających na celu ograniczenie prawa do linkowania oraz akcie oskarżenia przeciwko czeskiej Partii Piratów. Ponadto prezentujemy historię fotografa, który publikuje swoje zdjęcia na wolnej licencji i cieszymy się z faktu uchwalenia przez Sejm ustawy o ponownym wykorzystywaniu informacji z sektora publicznego.
This author was one of the participants in the strategy meeting at the invitation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation The Strategy Meeting on Catalyzing Reform of Trade Negotiation Processes was held last week in Brussels. Convened by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), it brought a diverse group of actors to chart an agenda to engage […]
ALWAR, India — Connecting people to the Internet is not easy in this impoverished farming district of wheat and millet fields, where working camels can be glimpsed along roads that curve through the low-slung Aravalli Hills.
The article by Annie Gowen was published in Washington Post on January 28, 2016. Sunil Abraham gave inputs.
Date published: February 2, 2016"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina, cautions that locations that want to court driverless cars should move carefully.
“One of the public misconceptions about this field is that a state that passed a law on autonomous driving must be ahead. It must be signaling it’s friendly for this kind of development,” Smith said. “That has not been the case.”
Paper by Carlo Francesco Capra on “Governance and Citizen Participation in Amsterdam Smart City…Smart cities are associated almost exclusively with modern technology and infrastructure. However, smart cities have the possibility to enhance the involvement and contribution of citizens to urban development. This work explores the role of governance as one of the factors influencing the participation of citizens in smart cities projects.
Over the course of two days in February 2016, the Strauss Center at the University of Texas-Austin will host a unique and timely conference focused on the legal and policy dimensions of cybersecurity. Read more » about The Frontiers of Cybersecurity Policy and LawFebruary 4, 2016University of Texas School of Law
Date published: February 2, 2016"Professor Barbara van Schewick submitted a 51-page report to the Federal Communications Commission on Friday that accused the carrier’s program, named Binge On, of violating the FCC’s general conduct rule that bars Internet service providers from unreasonably interfering with customers’ Internet choices. Read more » about Mobile Makes Binge On Throttling Easier to Disable
