Article 22 and a Lack Thereof:
A Comparative History and Future of a Right to a Human in the Loop

This blogpost has been adapted from the press release by Europeana.

Nathan Jurgenson in The New Inquiry: “Modernity has long been obsessed with, perhaps even defined by, its epistemic insecurity, its grasping toward big truths that ultimately disappoint as our world grows only less knowable. New knowledge and new ways of understanding simultaneously produce new forms of nonknowledge, new uncertainties and mysteries. The scientific method, based in deduction and falsifiability, is better at proliferating questions than it is at answering them.

Ekkehard Zimmer, Kaufmännischer Direktor und stellvertretender Vorstandsvorsitzender des UKD: „Auf Bundesebene kann auch festgelegt werden, wie solche geforderten Standards finanziert werden. Dies würde auch zu der dringend notwendigen Versachlichung der Diskussion beitragen.“ Zimmer erinnert auch daran, dass das UKD trotz Trendwende noch immer hart daran arbeitet, ein ausgeglichenes wirtschaftliches Ergebnis zu erreichen. Trotzdem hat das UKD in diesem Jahr bereits über 40 Vollkraftstellen in der Pflege zusätzlich aufgebaut und so die Mitarbeiter entlastet.

Book edited by J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Theresa A. Pardo and Luis F. Luna-Reyes: “This book provides a comprehensive approach to the study of policy analytics, modelling and informatics. It includes theories and concepts for understanding tools and techniques used by governments seeking to improve decision making through the use of technology, data, modelling, and other analytics, and provides relevant case studies and practical recommendations.

Here at irregular intervals we will publish short articles about the doctoral theses that were written at HIIG. This week we have a look at the doctoral thesis “Governance –Technik – Kommunikation.... MORE

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Federico Piovesan (DIST, Politecnico di Torino)
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On October 10, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave a speech at the U.S. Naval Academy about encryption. I have a lot to say about his remarks, so this will be a long post. Much of Rosenstein’s speech recycled the same old chestnuts that law enforcement’s been repeating about crypto for years. I’m happy to roast those chestnuts.
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Alternative technological systems could develop through the confluence of digital commons, peer-to-peer relations and local manufacturing capacity – but we need the integration of a political ecology perspective to face and overcome the challenges this transition implies.

This essay of mine appeared on September 21 at journal-e, published by the 21st Century Global Dynamics website, UC Santa Barbara.