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How to be “Team Human” in the digital future

Hi,

My new book Team Human,
launches today.  I’ve never written to everyone in my address book
before, but this is by far the most important publication of my career: a
manifesto arguing for human dignity and prosperity in a digital age.

J!Cast: Angemessenheitsbeschluss für Japan gemäß Art. 45 DS-GVO

In einer neuen Ausgabe des J!Cast stellt Toshihiro Wada, aktuell wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft am ITM, die Neuerungen der EU-Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DS-GVO) vor. Thematischer Schwerpunkt des Podcasts ist der Angemessenheitsbeschluss für Japan gemäß Art. 45 DS-GVO.
Der Podcast ist auf Japanisch.
 

A Looming Deadline for the Right to Ramble

For centuries, ordinary Brits have enjoyed a legal “right to ramble” throughout the countryside even when they might cross someone’s private property. In England and Wales alone, there are an estimated 140,000 miles of footpaths and bridlepaths that are considered public rights of way. Now, as reported by the website Boing Boing, the full scope of this right — and access to a vast network of paths — is in question.

Prof. Xue Lectured at Cambridge CIPIL

Prof. Xue was invited by the Center of Intellectual Property and Information Law of Cambridge Law Faculty to lecture to the faculties and graduate students on January 16-21, 2019. Prof. Xue Lectured on “Copyright on E-commerce Platforms: An Insight Preview of the Chinese New Law”. Chinese E-Commerce Law, effective from 1 January 2019, impacts all the stakeholders in the business.

薛虹教授接受《法制日报》采访 展望《电子商务法》的实施 (之二)

电子商务法“升级”对消费者保护力度
2018-09-18 本报记者 蒲晓磊
禁止网购刷单;不得默认搭售;应当及时退还押金……针对近两年出现的一些侵害消费者权益的现象,电子商务法专门作出规定,并明确了相应的法律责任。例如,针对押金退还问题,电子商务法规定,电子商务经营者未向消费者明示押金退还的方式、程序,对押金退还设置不合理条件,或者不及时退还押金的,最高可处以五十万元的罚款。近些年,伴随着电子商务的高速发展,侵害消费者权益的花样也在不断翻新,电子商务法专门在多处针对热点问题作出回应,进一步构建了保护消费者权益的法律制度。
经营者不得滥用格式条款
北京师范大学法学院教授薛虹指出,在电子商务活动中,交易都是采用电子商务合同,除非特殊情况(例如当事人特别约定签署传统纸面方式的确认书)或者特殊领域(例如法律、行政法规有禁止性规定),都是采用自动信息系统订立的。
对此,电子商务法专门在“电子商务合同的订立与履行”一章中规定了一系列保护消费者合法权益的法律制度,主要包括:电子商务经营者信息披露义务、允许消费者更正输入错误的义务、不得滥用格式条款的义务。

Routing Security – Getting Better, But No Reason to Rest!

Editor’s note: This is an abridged version of a post that was first published on MANRS.org. Read the full version.
In January last year I looked back at 2017 trying to figure out how routing security looked like globally and on a country level. I used BGPStream.com – a great public service providing information about suspicious events in the routing system.

Nina Scheibel für die beste Dissertation 2018 ausgezeichnet

Erstmals hat die Philosophische Fakultät in diesem Jahr eine eigene Feier für die Promovierten des letzten Jahres durchgeführt: eingeladen waren die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, ihre Doktorväter und -mütter und viele Gäste. Umrahmt wurde das Programm von drei Science-Slams, bei denen Doktoranden ihr Dissertationsthema vorstellten.

Has the time come for a World Political Party?

Thanks a lot to Heikki Patomäki for the stimulating proposal for “A World Political Party”.

I am sceptical for a number of reasons but primarily because I do not see a organic connection with anything that is unfolding on the ground. What I see unfolding is quite different, and I believe our solutions must be in harmony with these more grassroots trends.

Sharing Society International Conference: Call for Papers and Poster Presentations

See Sharing Society Project for complete details
 

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

“Sharing Society. The Impact of Collaborative Collective Actions in the Transformation of Contemporary Societies”

Bizkaia Aretoa, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao (Spain)

May 23-24, 2019

Call for Papers and Poster Presentations

1. Context and Rationale

Adapting the Understanding of Media Market Plurality to the New Digital Realities

Das ITM gratuliert: Katharina de la Durantaye habilitiert

Am Donnerstag, den 31. Januar 2019 wurde Frau Prof. Dr. Katharina de la Durantaye an der juristischen Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität Berlin die Lehrbefugnis für Zivilrecht verliehen. In ihrem Habilitationsvortrag sprach sie über  „Die Ehe für alle und das IPR“.

Digital innovation: Integration of an online ad platform

In the fifth part of the blog article series, we present a traditional media company headquartered in Oldenburg, Germany, which was able to expand its existing product portfolio with a digital advertising platform. The digitisation project was triggered by a participation in a start-up. The online ad platform later evolved into a successful white label…

19 Februari: Rondetafelgesprek: ‘De Muur’ & Paul Virilio


Speciaal evenement: 19.02.2019 > Tijd: 19:30 — 23:00 uur
Locatie: West, vml. Amerikaanse ambassade, Alphabetum / Lange Voorhout 102, Den Haag
Tickets: 5,- euro / bestellen via: https://tinyurl.com/demuur-virilio
Meer info: www.westdenhaag.nl

The Week in Internet News: Japan to Probe Residents’ IoT Devices

Government hacking: Japanese government workers will be able to hack into residents’ Internet of Things devices in an attempted survey of IoT insecurity, ZDNet reports. The Japanese government recently approved an amendment that allows the survey by employees of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology.

Gasthörer sein an der HHU

Am Dienstag, dem 12. Februar 2019, erfahren Interessierte ab 15:00 Uhr im Haus der Universität alles Wichtige und Wissenswerte über die Gasthörerschaft an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität zum kommenden Sommersemester. Vor Ort informiert der Studierendenservice über Einschreibung, Ablauf und Möglichkeiten sowie Kosten. Es ist keine Anmeldung erforderlich:
Dienstag, 12. Februar 2019
von 15:00 Uhr bis 16:00 Uhr
im Haus der Universität, Schadowplatz 14, 40212 Düsseldorf

Two new supporters join the Open Data Day mini-grant fund!

Open Data Day 2019 is closer each day! We’re excited to see the events map slowly coming together in different parts of the world.
For those of you who are not familiar with the event, Open Data Day is the yearly event where we reach out to new people and build new solutions to issues in our communities using open data. To make sure some of those events have everything they need, we provide mini-grants to cover for some of the expenses of organising this kind of event.

Moderne Humangenetik im 21. Jahrhundert

Die Humangenetik hat in den letzten 140 Jahren eine rasante Entwicklung genommen: 1953 beschrieben Watson und Crick, um nur wenige Beispiele zu nennen, die DNA-Struktur als Doppelhelix und 2001 wurde das Humangenom durch Craig und Venter aufgeschlüsselt.
Heute sind mit den neuen Hochdurchsatz-Sequenziertechnologien („next generation sequencing“, NGS) bioinformatische Verfahren und Datenbanken sehr wichtig geworden.

Jerry Michalski ponders ‘abundance’ in the face of artificial scarcity

In this video, American technology consultant Jerry Michalski shares his thoughts on ‘abundance’ in the face of artificial scarcity. The ExO Foundation’s MTP (Massive Transformational Purpose) is Migrating Society to Abundance. Michalski explores exactly what abundance means in that context. Jerry Michalski is the former managing editor of Release 1.0, a technology newsletter. He is the... Continue reading →

Janelle Orsi on transforming the way we think about leadership

The following podcast and text are reposted from The Wakeman Agency.

About This Episode

Is the viral #10YearChallenge just another sneaky way for tech firms to gather users’ personal data?

Is it merely an exercise in nostalgia? Or is it providing fodder for facial recognition algorithms on ageing?
The blog post by Devarsi Ghosh was published in Scroll.in on January 18, 2019. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.