Last week’s news that the passwords of every Twitter user around the world had been exposed in plain text is a stark reminder of the sometimes-fragile nature of security in the online places we trust with our personal information.

Dustin Phillips, Co-Executive Director of ICANNWiki, is traveling across the United States in his red Toyota Corolla, making connections with the people who are making their communities – and the Internet – a better place. First stop: Portland, Oregon, where attended the ICANNWiki’s Girls in ICT Day Edit-a-thon and met up with Hack Oregon.

Die Historischen Sammlungen der ULB, die aus der ehemaligen Landes- und Stadtbibliothek am Grabbeplatz hervorgegangen sind, und das Universitätsarchiv der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf bergen zahlreiche hochinteressante Dokumente aus der Zeit 1914–1918, beispielsweise Kriegstagebücher, Feldpostbriefe, Zeitungsberichte, Verdienstmedaillen, medizinische Berichte von Lazaretten und Krankenhäusern, Schulprogramme, Militärlieder, Lebensmittelmarken und Landkarten, die in Auswahl gezeigt werden sollen und unterschiedliche Facetten des Krieges beleuchten.

Zum ersten Mal in den 13 Jahren ihres Bestehens stellen über 70 Unternehmen bei der Campusmesse aus. Dies dokumentiert, wie begehrt Absolventinnen und Absolventen, aber auch schon die Studierenden der Düsseldorfer Hochschulen für Arbeitgeber sind.

In my previous post, I explained why we need to change incentive structures if we want to build companies that are a force for good in society. There are several ways to do this.

Was hält die Welt im Innersten zusammen? Welches sind die relevanten Kräfte und wie stark sind sie? Die Untersuchung solcher Fragen erfordert häufig extremen technischen Aufwand – wie kilometerlange Teilchenbeschleuniger am europäischen Forschungszentrum CERN oder riesige Teleskope für die Astronomie. Prof. Stephan Schiller, Ph.D., vom Institut für Experimentalphysik der HHU will dagegen einen anderen Weg gehen: Mit Experimenten von Tischgröße, aber größtmöglicher Feinheit, will er die Eigenschaften von Materie untersuchen. Dabei soll die Materie möglichst kalt, also ruhiggestellt sein.

In this extract, from a text originally published in Truthdig, Chris Hedges examines why the Silicon Valley elite is so keen on installing a Basic Income… while never questioning their power, privilege or toll on the Earth. For more opinions on this subject (good and bad) please check out our special category page on UBI.

The RIPE 76 meeting starts next week in Marseille, which surprisingly is only the second RIPE meeting to have ever been held in France.

In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]

Article by Mara Balestrini and Valeria Right in Open Democracy: “In the last decades we have seen how the concept of innovation has changed, as not only the ecosystem of innovation-producing agents, but also the ways in which innovation is produced have expanded.

Komfie Manolo at Cryptovest: “Blockchain is moving into the world’s political systems, with several influential political figures in Israel and France recently emerging as new believers in the technology.

Le Centre de recherche en droit public est très fier d’annoncer que le Conseil de l’Université de Montréal a décidé d’accorder le rang de professeur titulaire à la professeure Violaine Lemay.
Cette promotion souligne l’excellence du travail de recherche et d’enseignement de cette chercheure régulière du CRDP.
Toute nos félicitations à la professeure Lemay!
Cette promotion serra effective au 1er juin 2018.

Creating a safer and trusted Internet MUST involve education building and awareness raising. This is one message that came up at the women’s event during the 2018 Africa Internet Summit held in Dakar.

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Jessica Fjeld and Mason Kortz, Cyberlaw Clinicians at Harvard Law

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Join us for our last Tuesday Luncheon of the academic year! Cyberlaw Clinicians Jess Fjeld and Mason Kortz for a discussion about copyright in AI-generated works, the need for a shared understanding of what is and isn’t up for grabs in a license, and how forward-thinking contracts can prevent AI developers and artists from having their rights decided by our (often notoriously backwards-looking) legal system.

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Inscrições podem ser realizadas até o dia 15 de maioO Programa de Transparência Pública (PTP - FGV EBAPE e DIREITO RIO) está selecionando estudante de Direito para atuar nos preparativos para o Global Conference on Transparency Reserarch, além de auxiliar o PTP em variadas tarefas e pesquisas, incluindo uma análise da transparência de websites municipais e transparência de financiamento educacional. Os interessados devem enviar currículo e e-mail para gregory.michener@fgv.br até o 15 de maio. 

In January 2018, the Internet Society Nepal Chapter organized the first Nepal School on Internet Governance (npSIG) in collaboration with the Forum for Digital Equality. The initiative offered an intensive two-day learning course covering a wide list of topics at the Institute of Engineering Pulchowk in Kathmandu.

A instituição parceira recebeu a discente durante todo o mês de abrilEste ano, Júlia Massadas, aluna do Mestrado em Direito da Regulação da FGV Direito Rio, atuou como pesquisadora visitante no Instituto Max Planck para Direito Internacional e Direito Público Comparado, em Heidelberg, Alemanha. A instituição, que é parceira da FGV Direito Rio, recebeu a discente durante todo o mês de abril.

A colleague just received an “Urgent Security Alert – Action Requested” email from Nest. At first glance it looked like either a phishing attempt or one of the way-too-often breach notifications we all receive these days. Instead, it was a real alert notifying him that the password he uses for his Nest account had been compromised in a data breach – not at Nest but somewhere else. Nest encouraged him to update to a unique password and enable two-step verification (additional authentication beyond a password, usually referred to as multi-factor authentication).

Richard Mabey at the Artificial Lawyer: “…when it came to updating our privacy policy ahead of GDPR it was important to us from the get-go that our privacy policy was not simply a compliance exercise. Legal documents should not be written by lawyers for lawyers; they should be useful, engaging and designed for the end user. But it seemed that we weren’t the only ones to think this. When we read the regulations, it turned out the EU agreed.

Remarks of Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, US Federal Communications Commission: “…But what we are facing now does not reflect what has come before.  Because it is apparent the civic infrastructure we have for accepting public comment in the rulemaking process is not built for the digital age.  As the Administrative Conference of the United States acknowledges, while the basic framework for rulemaking from 1946 has stayed the same, “the technol