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Iraqi lawyer sues the Minister of Telecommunications for Shutting Down the Internet During Protests

On Wednesday, October 9, Iraqi lawyer Mohammed Joumaa filed a lawsuit against the Iraqi minister of telecommunications for disrupting and shutting down the Internet during protests in early October. The lawsuit demands that the minister of telecommunications “repeal the decision to shutdown the internet in the country and establish that network disruptions[...]

Iraqi lawyer sues the Minister of Telecommunications for Shutting Down the Internet During Protests

On Wednesday, October 9, Iraqi lawyer Mohammed Joumaa filed a lawsuit against the Iraqi minister of telecommunications for disrupting and shutting down the Internet during protests in early October. The lawsuit demands that the minister of telecommunications “repeal the decision to shutdown the internet in the country and establish that network disruptions[...]

Iraqi lawyer sues the Minister of Telecommunications for Shutting Down the Internet During Protests

On Wednesday, October 9, Iraqi lawyer Mohammed Joumaa filed a lawsuit against the Iraqi minister of telecommunications for disrupting and shutting down the Internet during protests in early October.

Working Paper: Monitoring online media pluralism in Flanders

The CMPF is pleased to publish a new working paper from Ingrid Lambrecht and Professor Peggy Valcke, members of the Belgian Media Pluralism Monitor country team and researchers at the Centre for IT & IP Law at Catholic University of Leuven.

Radio Universidad de Navarra acoge el XVII Encuentro de Radios Universitarias

Radio Universidad de Navarra acoge el XVII Encuentro de Radios Universitarias
La cita ha reunido a responsables y estudiantes de 15 emisoras universitarias de toda España y a profesionales de medios radiofónicos

FOTO: Manuel Castells

14/10/19 17:49
Eva Lus

126° Mercoledì di Nexa - Metafisica del Web

Page Type: Eventmercoledi8 Gennaio 2020
Prof. Maurizio Ferraris (Università degli Studi di Torino)
Sede dell'incontro: Sala Principi d'Acaja - Rettorato, Università degli Studi di Torino
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125° Mercoledì di Nexa - Il progetto dell’oggetto tecnico e il progetto dello spazio terrestre

Page Type: Eventmercoledi11 Dicembre 2019
Prof. Alessandro Armando (Politecnico di Torino) e Prof. Giovanni Durbiano (Politecnico di Torino)
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Wed, 11/12/2019 - 18:00 to 20:00luogo: Via Boggio 65/a | Torino (primo piano)

74° Nexa Lunch Seminar - Il soggetto dei big data: da individuo a utente

Page Type: Eventlunch27 novembre 2019
Irene Domenicale (Dott.ssa in Filosofia)
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Wed, 27/11/2019 - 13:00 to 14:00luogo: Via Boggio 65/a | Torino (primo piano)

124° Mercoledì di Nexa - Meccanismi di cooperazione e coerenza nel GDPR: lo stato dell'arte dopo 18 mesi di applicazione

Page Type: Eventmercoledi13 novembre 2019
Monica A. Senor (Funzionario presso l’Autorità garante per la protezione dei dati personali e Fellow Centro Nexa) e Massimo Durante (Professore e Fellow Centro Nexa)
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Wed, 13/11/2019 - 18:00 to 20:00luogo: Via Boggio 65/a | Torino (primo piano)

All Carrots and No Sticks: A Case Study on Social Credit Scores in Xiamen and Fuzhou

In 2018 Xiamen and Fuzhou, two cities in Fujian province, a region on the coast in the southeast most famous for its historic trader links and global diaspora population, became one of just a handful of cities in China with their own city-level personal credit scores (个人信用评分). These are algorithmically created scores, using data gathered by the local government to assess citizens’ level of “promise keeping” (守信), that can be used at places like hospitals and tourist sites, or when paying school tuition fees and borrowing books.

Conferenza Nexa su Internet & Società 2019

Page Type: conferenzaEvent6 dicembre 2019
Partecipazione gratuita fino a esaurimento posti previa registrazione (obbligatoria) all'indirizzo:http://nexa2019.eventbrite.com
Twitter hashtag della conferenza: #nexa2019
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The current colloquium program is online!

You can find more information about the program under this link

Industry, Design, Makers: Open Design and Manufacturing trainings

The following report details four training workshops which took place as part of the Open Design and Manufacturing project this year. These were:

Repensando la ciudadanía en un mundo de vigilancia permanente.

El pasado martes 17 de septiembre, el mismo día en que el libro Permanent Record/Vigilancia Permanente (2019) de Edward Snowden era publicado simultáneamente por 23 editoriales al rededor del mundo, el departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos interpuso una demanda contra su autor y su casa editorial Macmillan and Holtzbrinck.

[September 30-October 7] CCG’s Week in Review Curated News in Information Law and Policy

Huawei finds support from Indian telcos in the 5G rollout as PayPal withdrew from Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project; Foreign Portfolio Investors moved MeitY against in the Data Protection Bill; the CJEU rules against Facebook in case relating to takedown of content globally; and Karnataka joins list of states considering implementing NRC to remove illegal immigrants […]

Open Letter: Facebook’s End-to-End Encryption Plans

On October 4, SMEX and many other civil society organizations shared an open letter to Facebook and other tech companies to continue increasing end-to-end security across its messaging tools and resist law enforcement calls to create backdoors or exceptional access to the content of users’ messages. 4 October 2019 Dear[...]

NEW REPORT: Identifying Citizens’ Needs by Combining Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Collective Intelligence (CI)

Open Positions @ MC&I

Open Positions @ MC&I

Diretor e Professor da FGV Direito Rio participaram de eventos e reuniões na China

Confira a agenda completaEm setembro deste ano, o diretor da FGV Direito Rio, Prof. Sergio Guerra, e o coordenador do Núcleo de Estudos Brasil-China, Prof. Evandro Carvalho, foram à China para participar do BRICS Forum on International Rule of Law, organizado pelo Instituto de Direito Internacional da China Academy of Social Science (CASS) e visitar diversas universidades e entidades chinesas com as quais a Escola tem parceria.

Whose deaths matter? New research on Black Lives Matter and media attention

What influences do social movements like Black Lives Matter, MeToo or Occupy have on society as a whole? One hope movement leaders express is that a successful movement can change how we think and talk about key social issues. Champions of Occupy argue that one of the movement’s achievements was getting Americans to talk about economic issues in terms of inequality and the power of the 1%. But it’s difficult to quantify claims like this: […]