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Berkman Klein Center and MIT Media Lab to Collaborate on the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

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Supported by the Knight Foundation, Omidyar Network, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Hewlett Foundation, and more

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Intermediaries v. Copyright Holders: The Delhi High Court Wants to Protect Both

In July 2011, a single judge bench of the Delhi High Court issued an interim order in the case of Super Cassettes Industries Ltd. v. Myspace Inc. & Anr. The bench effectively held Myspace (a social media website) liable for infringement of copyright by third party content posted on its platform. This decision was considered […]

From Servants to Stewards: Design-led Innovation in the Public Sector

Adam Hasler: “For years, and very acutely the last few months, citizens of the United States and in many other parts of the world have been pitched into an often uncomfortable morass of debate and discussion about the direction of their country. Problems exist, and persist, which government at all levels has tried to address or currently addresses, and government’s efficacy at addressing problems affects all of us in some way.

The disgusting stuff female athletes hear on social media and how they’re fighting back

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Equipo de la U. de Chile ganó en la competencia Hackathon Solar

Del Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación (DCC) de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM) son los estudiantes y académicos que presentaron una solución de visualización de datos que ayuda en la tarea de promover la industria de energía solar, lo que los posicionó en el primer lugar en la categoría Start-Up de la competencia.El primer lugar en la Hackathon Solar obtuvo un equipo del DCC integrado por el académico Jorge Pérez y los alumnos de postgrado Mauricio Quezada y Nicolás Lehmann,

Museo de la Vivienda Tradicional releva construcciones como cultura

Cuatro son las facultades implicadas en esta iniciativa que pone en valor a la vivienda, una de las expresiones de cómo los habitantes de nuestro país se han relacionado con el territorio a partir de sus condiciones climáticas y materialidades.

Government Hacking: Assessing and Mitigating the Security Risk

RSVP is required for this free event.February 2, 2017Stanford Law School

Notable Privacy and Security Books from 2016

Daniel J. Solove at Technology, Academics, Policy: “Here are some notable books on privacy and security from 2016….
Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Federal Trade Commission Privacy Law and Policy

Cancer Research Orgs Release Big Data for Precision Medicine

 at HealthITAnalytics: “The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is releasing more than 19,000 de-identified genomic records to further the international research community’s explorations into precision medicine.

Vaga – Comunicação do ITS Rio

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O Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio atua como um dos principais centros globais de pesquisa nas áreas de tecnologia, direito e sociedade. A Comunicação do ITS Rio tem por objetivo criar pontes para materializar o impacto do instituto com diferentes stakeholders, além de engajar em campanhas de defesa a direitos digitais.

Blockchain technology: From privacy advocacy to supply chains

Originally developed to make cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin possible, Blockchain technology has become a huge phenomenon that attracts both hacktivists and venture capitalists. How do these different groups come together and... MORE

Lunch talk with Meropi Tzanetakis

Meropi Tzanetakis takes you on a trip to the «dark» side of the web. How were global markets for drugs able to emerge on the darkweb – irrespective of current... MORE

Technoscience and Citizenship: Ethics and Governance in the Digital Society

Book edited by Ann Delgado that “… provides insights on how emerging technosciences come together with new forms of governance and ethical questioning.

International Moot Court held at the Law School

The LLM student of BNU Law School, international students of LLM in Chinese and international visiting students participated in the international Moot Court on copyright disputes in universities at the end of 2016. The Moot court was organized by Prof. Xue during her teaching of Intellectual Property Law to both groups of the students. The case for the Moot Court was adapted from the real case between a US publisher and an Indian university.  Prof. Xue redesigned and rewrote the facts of the case and made it a case between a group of western publishers and BNU.

Beyond IRBs: Designing Ethical Review Processes for Big Data Research

Conference Proceedings by Future of Privacy Forum: “The ethical framework applying to human subject research in the biomedical and behavioral research fields dates back to the Belmont Report.Drafted in 1976 and adopted by the United States government in 1991 as the Common Rule, the Belmont principles were geared towards a paradigmatic controlled scientific experiment with a limited population of human subjects interacting directly with researchers and manifesting their informed consent.

Uber debuts Movement, a new website offering access to its traffic data

 at TechCrunch: “Uber is opening up in an area where it might make sense competitively for it to stay more closed off: The ride-hailing company’s new Movement website will offer up access to its data around traffic flow in scores where it operates, intended for use by city planners and

Technology tools in human rights

Engine Room: “Over the past few years, we have been witnessing a wave of new technology tools for human rights documentation. Along with the arrival of the new tools, human rights defenders are facing  new tools, new possibilities, new challenges, and new expectations of human rights documentation initiatives.

Ethics in the Age of Information

Lecture by Luciano Floridi for the Alan Turing Institute:

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Inside the Digital Revolution

Heather Brooks in the Journal of International Affairs: “Technology and transparency combined to create the digital revolution, which in tur

Oakland Privacy Commission Approves Surveillance Transparency and Oversight Law

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United States

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Date published: January 6, 2017East Bay Express"Catherine Crump, the co-director of UC Berkeley's Center for Law and Technology told the commission the new law "has the potential to have a nationwide impact."