This week, 8-9 May, we’ll be at IoT613 in Ottawa, Canada, talking about our work on “Trust by Design” – the idea that privacy and security should be built into Internet-connected products, and not just an afterthought.
Lawmakers today are increasingly focused on their options for regulating the content we see on online platforms. I described several ambitious regulatory models for doing that in my recent paper, Who Do You Sue? State and Platform Hybrid Power Over Online Speech. This blog post excerpts that discussion, and sketches out potential legal regimes to address major platforms’ function as de facto gatekeepers of online speech and information.
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Seminário: O Direito e a Revolução Digital no Sistema Financeiro13h00 até 18h30O Evento: O seminário O Direito e a Revolução Digital no Sistema Financeiro tem como objetivo discutir o impacto das inovações tecnológicas nos serviços financeiros, analisando as oportunidades e os desafios que as novas tecnologias trazem para o setor, tanto sob a ótica econômica como jurídica.
No encryption for U(SB): About 55 percent of U.K. businesses don’t encrypt information on USB drives, according to the result of a survey published at Information Age. Also, 62 percent of executives surveyed admit to seeing USB devices in unsecured locations such as desks, drawers, and exposed office spaces.
The informal settlement of Las Peñas, on the outskirts of Cochabamba, has been refused the right to become part of the city, leaving it with no public investment for basic infrastructure and services. Las Peñas neighbourhood forced the re-sale of unoccupied plots of land at original price plus a small amount (owned by speculators taking advantage of rising property prices) for financing or co-financing community infrastructure including roads, houses and local sports and cultural amenities.
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The future of computing and why you should care
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Let me set the tone by using a quote from a great person of history:
“The
ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people,
but the silence over that by the good people.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
Los investigadores del Centro de Investigación Avanzado en Educación (CIAE), Cristián Bellei y Liliana Morawietz, prepararon un capítulo dedicado al programa "Educación en Ciencia Basada en la Indagación" para el libro "Preparing Teachers to Educate Whole Students: An International Comparative Study", editado por Fernando Reimers y Connie Chung, del Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Patrick Mork participará en "The World is Mine: el futuro de la innovación y emprendimiento para la internacionalización", evento que espera reunir a más de 600 personas el próximo 8 y 9 de mayo en la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM), y que contará también con la visita del fundador de Indiegogo, la plataforma global de crowfunding más grande del mundo.
"Una mejor salud mental tiene un impacto significativo en el rendimiento y productividad de los estudiantes", señalan las psiquiatras Vania Martínez y Graciela Rojas, y el psicólogo Álvaro Jimenez, todos ellos investigadores del Núcleo Milenio para Mejorar la Salud Mental de Adolescentes y Jóvenes, Imhay, de la U. de Chile. En la siguiente columna publicada en CIPER, los especialistas reflexionan sobre la acciones que las universidades podrían realizar, para hacer frente a un problema que afecta a un número no menor de su alumnado.
Presented at Intersection Conference
Anubha Sinha participated in the WIPO “Regional Seminar for the Asia Pacific Group on Libraries, Archives, Museums and Educational & Research Institutions in the Field of Copyright”, which was held on April 29 and 30, 2019, in Singapore. The event was co-organized by Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, Singapore Cooperation Programme and WIPO.
More info on the programme here.
COMPLIANCE E COMBATE À CORRUPÇÃO – POLÍTICAS DE PREVENÇÃO A DESASTRES AMBIENTAIS09h00 até 16h00O Evento: O Ministério Público Federal, em parceria com Escola Superior Dom Helder Câmara e com apoio da Fundação Getulio Vargas, convida para o seminário Compliance e Combate à Corrupção - Políticas de Prevenção a Desastres Ambientais. O objetivo do evento é debater os diversos aspectos da atividade econômica de mineração, os seus riscos e os mecanismos capazes de evitá-los ou minimizá-los.
Ao longo do primeiro semestre de 2019, a Clínica LAJUNT (Laboratório de Assessoria Jurídica a Novas Tecnologias) do Núcleo de Prática Jurídica (NPJ) da FGV Direito Rio atendeu à Freelaw (https://freelaw.work), uma empresa de tecnologia jurídica que conecta escritórios de advocacia a advogados especializados de acordo com a demanda. Assim, a lawtech possibilita a criação de uma equipe jurídica online e redução de custos.
Folgende Themenbereiche können die Arbeiten umfassen: Geisteswissenschaften, Medizin, Naturwissenschaften, Rechtswis-senschaften, Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Kunst und Kunstgeschichte.
Die Einreichungen müssen auf eigenen Erkenntnissen beruhen, eine anerkennenswerte wissenschaftliche Leistung darstellen und einen starken Bezug zu Düsseldorf haben.
Die Arbeiten, die im Jahr 2018 oder 2019 abgeschlossen wurden, sind in drei deutschsprachigen Exemplaren – bei englischsprachigen Arbeiten ist eine deutsche Zusammenfassung beizufügen – mit dem Hinweis
Unter Strukturforschung versteht man die Untersuchung der Struktur, Dynamik und Funktion von Biomakromolekülen, die in jedem Organismus fürs Überleben essentiell sind, zum Beispiel pflanzliche Proteine, Transporterproteine in der Zellmembran und Proteine, die wichtig sind für die Herstellung von Antibiotika.
I am always amazed at how commoning reaches into the most unlikely realms of life. The latest example that I’ve discovered is jazz performance! For the moment, leave aside the idea of jazz as an artform that is fundamentally about commoning – improvised collaboration, individual artistry that flowers within an ensemble, being attuned to the present moment.
Let’s just consider concert production as a commons.
Facing oncoming climate disaster, some argue for “Deep Adaptation”—that we must prepare for inevitable collapse. However, this orientation is dangerously flawed. It threatens to become a self-fulfilling prophecy by diluting the efforts toward positive change. What we really need right now is Deep Transformation. There is still time to act: we must acknowledge this moral imperative.
Nidhi Singh and Gunjan Chawla (The piece was first published in the Leaflet) Section 126 of the Representation of People Act, 1951 (RPA) imposes a 48-hour ban preceding polling — on public meetings and processions in connection with the election, the display or propagation in a polling area of “any election matter” — which is intended or calculated […]