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Right to privacy in Tunisia – policy analysis by Clément Perarnaud
Office of the Tunisian national authority for data protection
“The legal framework regulating the protection of personal data in Tunisia shares the same weaknesses of Ben Ali’s regime that eventually led to its fall” – Clément Perarnaud writes. The CIHR fellow examines the current legal framework for data protection in Tunisia and its development since the early 2000s.
Data protection in Tunisia: a legal illusion?
This policy analysis was prepared by CIHR fellow Clément Perarnaud.
After having constitutionalised the right to data protection in 2002, and having adopted a legal act detailing its scope and setting up a national commission in charge of its enforcement in 2004, Tunisia seems to have been guaranteeing a high standard of protection for its citizens for over a decade.
Date published: July 12, 2016"“I do see that there are human dignity issues in traffic in human body parts, and that there are all kinds of reasons why we wouldn’t want that to happen,” says Annemarie Bridy at the University of Idaho in Moscow. “But in a world of limited law enforcement resources, I think I would try to focus mine on crimes that can [cause] harms to living people.”"
Date published: July 12, 2016""This is a kind of a novel problem," says Ryan Calo, who teaches cyber and privacy law at the University of Washington’s school of law. Usually, a digital platform isn’t responsible for what its users do — whether it’s something as mild as posting inflammatory comments on a message board or as extreme as following an explosives recipe on a website. Neither is a game.
Author(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: July 12, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingThe new Niantic game Pokémon Go has perhaps been too successful for its own good. The Internet is filledwith articles, posts and comments from people complaining that they can’t register to play the new game, or log in even if they do succeed in registering.
Date published: July 12, 2016taz: Frau van Schewick, wem gehört das Internet?
Barbara van Schewick: Allen. Allen, die das Internet benutzen, und denen, die es bereitstellen.
Nicht den großen Konzernen, den Googles und Facebooks und Amazons?Taz.de
Con más de 15 mil encuentros locales inscritos y 38 mil consultas individuales completadas, este 28 de junio finalizó la primera fase de la etapa participativa del proceso de cambio constitucional impulsado por el Gobierno.
Este 2016 el Taller de Ingeniería Civil Industrial 3001 recibió a sus 140 estudiantes, los dividió en seis grupos y le encomendó a cada equipo la tarea de realizar en 15 semanas tres emprendimientos con impacto social.
En nuestra reunión del 29 de Junio de 2016, los Rectores de las Universidades Estatales hemos escuchado de parte de representantes del Ministerio de Educación un resumen del proyecto de Reforma en Educación Superior que se enviaría a discusión parlamentaria.
Data Driven Journalism: “A new project has developed an innovative means to approximate socioeconomic indicators by analyzing the network of international postal flows.
Zapraszamy do współpracy w ramach wakacyjnego stażu przy Programie Otwartej Kultury Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska
W najbliższych tygodniach promujemy #otwartezasoby i #domenapubliczna na Przystanku Woodstock w Kostrzynie nad Odrą i OFF Festiwalu w Katowicach, uruchamiamy nowe platformy internetowe z otwartymi zasobami kultury, produkujemy teledysk na otwartych licencjach, będziemy na zjeździe Koalicji Otwartej Edukacji…i wiele innych, ciekawych rzeczy. Chcesz nas wesprzeć, a przy okazji zdobyć fajne doświadczenie zawodowe w obszarze produkcji i promocji wydarzeń?
Zapraszamy do współpracy w ramach wakacyjnego stażu przy Programie Otwartej Kultury Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska
W najbliższych tygodniach promujemy #otwartezasoby i #domenapubliczna na Przystanku Woodstock w Kostrzynie nad Odrą i OFF Festiwalu w Katowicach, uruchamiamy nowe platformy internetowe z otwartymi zasobami kultury, produkujemy teledysk na otwartych licencjach, będziemy na zjeździe Koalicji Otwartej Edukacji…i wiele innych, ciekawych rzeczy. Chcesz nas wesprzeć, a przy okazji zdobyć fajne doświadczenie zawodowe w obszarze produkcji i promocji wydarzeń?
Author(s): Patrick LinPublication Date: July 11, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingThis is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE.
Last week, the Dallas police killed a suspected gunman with a bomb-delivering robot. It was a desperate measure for desperate times: five law enforcement officers were killed and several more wounded before the shooter was finally cornered.
La concentración de medios y la inequidad en la distribución de la publicidad oficial, además de los recientes casos de intentos de obstaculizar el ejercicio de este derecho, como la querella a la revista Qué Pasa y el intento de aprobar la denominada "Ley Mordaza", fueron parte de los temas que emergieron en la mesa "Los desafíos actuales de la libertad de expresión en Chile", organizada en el ex Congreso y que contó con la presencia de relevantes actores del periodismo nacional, como la vicerrectora de Extensión y Comunicaciones.Este jueves la vicerrectora de Ext
Dossier by Jenny de Boer, Marc Steen, Maurice van Beurden, Alexander Toet, Susanne Tak, Jan van Erp en Ward Venrooij: “Much attention in Big Data is given to the technical challenges that arise. However, Human Factor challenges and opportunities are also relevant. Big Data provides human factor specialists with a new and rich way of data collection and data analysis of human factors patterns.
Allison Arieff in the New York Times: “Every day, innovative companies promise to make the world a better place. Are they succeeding? Here is just a sampling of the products, apps and services that have come across my radar in the last few weeks:
A service that sends someone to fill your car with gas.
A service that sends a valet on a scooter to you, wherever you are, to park your car.
A service that will film anything you desire with a drone….
“These case studies were developed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), in association with the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS).
A news article on Odia Wiktionary's 11th anniversary that got published in Odia-language daily Sambad on June 18.
For more details visit http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/sambad-article-on-odia-wiktionary
The article was published in My City Links on July 4, 2016.
For more details visit http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/my-city-links-july-4-2016-digital-oxygen-for-odia-language
