On September 26, attorneys general from multiple U.S. states settled with the ride sharing company Uber over a data breach that revealed personal information about both Uber’s riders and drivers. The drivers suffered the brunt of the exposure: the release of their names and driver’s license numbers. Uber did not disclose the breach when it occurred in 2016 (in violation of California’s security breach notification law), and it became public after the company’s then new CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, announced it shortly after his arrival at the company in 2017.

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Introduction to the Special Issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society by Sandra Wachter, Brent Mittelstadt, Luciano Floridi and Corinne Cath: “Artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly permeates every aspect of our society, from the critical, like urban infrastructure, law enforcement, banking, healthcare and humanitarian aid, to the mundane like dating.

Joshua New at the Center for Data Innovation: “…the Trump administration announced the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the trade deal it intends to replace NAFTA with.

30 anos da Constituição Cidadã: Avanços e Retrocessos08h00O Evento: No marco dos 30 anos da Constituição Federal de 1988, faz-se necessário um debate sincero e aprofundado a respeito de quais avanços e retrocessos a Carta Magna proporcionou à sociedade brasileira.

I must apologize to readers of our French and Spanish versions of our website. We are currently experiencing a problem with our usage of the WordPress Multilingual (WPML) plugin that is preventing us from sending our new content out for translation.  It is proving to be quite difficult to identify and fix the issue. We are working with our development team, our hosting provider, and the WPML support team to find the solution. I hope that in the next couple of days we can solve this and return to our regular publishing in three languages.

We are pleased to announce a $2 million gift to the Wikimedia Endowment from George Soros, one of the world’s leading philanthropists.

Unter dem Titel „Schöne neue Welt – Von Superbodies und Mensch-Maschinen“ setzen sich Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rosar (Institut für Sozialwissenschaften) sowie Madita Michaelis und Jan Gabler (Institut für Modernes Japan) mit folgenden Fragen auseinander: Welche Bedeutung hat körperliche Attraktivität für unsere gesellschaftliche Position? An welchen Stellen bröckelt die Grenze zwischen Mensch und Maschine? Wie beeinflussen Vorstellungen von Schönheit das Verhältnis der Geschlechter?

TL;DR: As part of reinvigorating our OpenGLAM (Open Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) community, we’re evaluating the OpenGLAM principles: fill out this survey and get involved.

Good-bye clickbait? Facebook has tossed out more than 800 publishers and accounts it accused of trafficking in clickbait and political spam, the Washington Post reports. Facebook also accused some of the accounts of “inauthentic behavior,” otherwise known as fake news. The bans met with some resistance, with some critics saying Facebook’s terms of service represent a moving target.

In the lead-up to the FCC's historic vote in December 2017 to repeal all net neutrality protections, 22 million comments were filed to the agency.
But unfortunately, millions of those comments were fake. Some of the fake comment were part of sophisticated campaigns that filed fake comments using the names of real people - including journalists, Senators and dead people. 
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Peer Work in Australia – A New Future for Mental Health. Ed. by Janet Meagher et al. , 2018
This book is a work of intense dedication, with an imperative and belief that we must document the current situation and focus on developments into the future for peer work in this country. It’s development and production has been a triumph of collaboration; co-produced and written by 29 leading ‘lived experience’ peer workers, lived experience advocates and allies from across Australia.

Der Spielerberater Dr. Erkut Sögüt ist an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität zu Gast - in der Reihe „My Law – Wirtschaftsrechtliche Perspektiven“, die Prof. Dr. Rupprecht Podszun (Lehrstuhl für Bürgerliches Recht, deutsches und europäisches Wettbewerbsrecht) an der Juristischen Fakultät organisiert. Sögüt, promovierter Jurist sowie Berater und Manager von Mesut Özil, wird am kommenden Mittwoch um 18:15 Uhr über 'Fußball und Recht` sprechen. Sögüt wird erzählen, was juristisch neben dem Spielfeld passiert – wie auch über seinen außergewöhnlichen Lebenslauf.

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Date published: October 15, 2018US News & World Report"Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington School of Law, allows that the document "concedes a lot to industry," but he adds that "it also reflects some mature thinking on the part of the DOT."

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Le phénomène des fausses nouvelles n’est pas nouveau, mais il se présente aujourd’hui sous un nouveau jour. Comment concevoir des processus et des critères afin de déterminer la valeur de l’information dans les sociétés démocratiques ?

October is 'National Cybersecurity Awareness Month' in the United States.  As many of you know, this already rather interdisciplinary field of 'cyber' has grown again over the past year or so --- now often encompassing issues like so-called 'fake news', disinformation, data analytics, and other current issues that further demonstrate some of the consequences resulting from the convergence of technology, adversaries, and society.
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Paul Raeburn at Scientific American: “Researchers are becoming so adept at mining information from genealogical, medical and police genetic databases that it is becoming difficult to protect anyone’s privacy—even those who have never submitted their DNA for analysis.