Some members of the housekeeping staff at IIT Ropar were put under round the clock surveillance during working hours for many days in February this year without their consent. IIT Ropar Director Prof S K Das has ordered a probe into the incident.
The article by Rachna Khaira was published in Huffington Post on December 31, 2019. Aayush Rathi was quoted.
Bengaluru experts analyse the Pegasus snooping scandal, and provide advice on what you can do about the gaping holes in your mobile phone security.
The article by Theres Sudeep was published in Deccan Herald on November 6, 2019. Aayush Rathi was quoted.
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We are pleased to announce joint stewardship of Frictionless Data between the Open Knowledge Foundation and Datopian. While this collaboration already exists informally, we are solidifying how we are leading together on future Frictionless Data projects and goals.
What does this mean for users of Frictionless Data software and specifications?
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Am 11. Dezember fand am Institut für Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht (ITM) in Münster das Kickoff-Meeting des vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung geförderten interdisziplinären Projekts „GOAL – Governance von und durch Algorithmen“ statt. Dabei gingen die Vertreter der verschiedenen Partneruniversitäten auf ihre Rolle im Projekt ein und präsentierten die verschiedenen Blickwinkel und Ansätze ihrer Fachrichtung zu dem Thema.
Le site du CRDP a profité d’un changement important de son organisation (Centre de recherche en droit prospectif) et de sa programmation (Justice et changements) pour mettre en place un nouvel agrégateur de nouvelles qui liste automatiquement les nouveautés apparaissant sur une série de sites partenaires. Le présent agrégateur, disponible ici, permet de lister sur la page d’accueil du site du CRDP les nouvelles les plus récentes.
BROOKLYN, New York, December 10, 2019 — The Governance Lab (The GovLab) at New York University Tandon School of Engineering announced the re-launch of the Multi-City Challenge program, an effort to help cities and their residents collaboratively design solutions to urgent public problems.
To impeach or not to impeach a President stirs people’s passions but it is also a highly complex legal issue. What the Founding Fathers would have made of Donald Trump’s soliciting of help from a foreign government is a question challenging enough to have driven the House Judiciary Committee to seek testimony from four specialists in constitutional law last week. Very few of us have read the Constitution, let alone are able to interpret it. Sometimes, we have to hear from the experts.
The post Call for Abstracts: ERC Symposium: Robots, recommenders and responsibility: where should the media go with AI? appeared first on IVIR.
“AI is a basic technology that enables a wide range of new capabilities for machines that challenge entire market hypotheses,” says Alexander Waldmann in the interview with Miriam Wolf. This blogpost is the start of the series “AI meets Mittelstand”. In the new interview series we will explore the white spots of the German AI…
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At a time of growing polarization, misinformation, and limits placed on freedom of speech, assembly, and privacy, as well as ongoing conflict—understanding our human rights is a critical part of our daily lives. It dictates everything from how we gather in our communities and speak about the issues and causes we care about, to how to pursue freedom and prosperity.
But much of the knowledge about these rights is hidden within institutional systems or specialized publications that make it hard to access and understand them.
This blog is part of a series showcasing projects developed during the 2019 Frictionless Data Tool Fund.
Im Jahr 2020 erwartet mich ein spannendes Jahr. Noch läuft die Fotoausstellung im Frankfurter Museum der Weltkulturen zum Thema Hände. Ab September bin ich auf der schönen Insel Hrisey (Island) auf den Spuren polnischer Immigranten. Ich werde darüber weiter berichten. … Weiterlesen →
An Interview With Eduardo Alarcon Gallo By Prof Avril Accolla, Tongji University
In these almost ten years 创客 chuangke (Chinese for makerspace) have boosted, shrunk, evolved. In 2019 the panorama is capillary diversified throughout the country: the strong policies of incentives actuated by the government starting from 2015 and the great diversity of the cultural and business landscapes in cities of 1st, 2nd, 3rd tier make the “mass entrepreneurship innovation” policy interpreted and implemented differently.
It is important to have good cyber security practices, experts recommend.
The article by Theres Sudeep was published in the Deccan Herald on December 1, 2019. Arindrajit Basu was quoted.
Can technology substitute addressing social, psychological, economic and other individual factors that largely lead to criminality? And what are the perils of over-reliance on technology to fight crime?
The article by Manasa Rao was published the News Minute on September 3, 2019. Pranav M. Bidare was quoted.
By Beth Simone Noveck
This article was originally published in Communications of the ACM.
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Science and technology have progressed exponentially, making it possible for humans to live longer, healthier, more creative lives. The explosion of Internet and mobile phone technologies have increased trade, literacy, and mobility.11 At the same time, life expectancy for the poor has not increased and is declining.9
