The Wikimedia Foundation welcomes yesterday’s decision of the United States, Italy, Sweden, and Estonia to introduce, with broad cross-regional support from other member states, a resolution asking the UN’s Economic and Social Affairs Council (ECOSOC) to grant accreditation to the Wikimedia Foundation and five other NGOs: Inimõiguste Instituut (Estonia), Syrian American Medical Society (US), National Human Rights Civic Association “Belarusian Helsinki Com

Nas 42ª e 43ª Sessões Fechadas da Assembleia Global Privacy Assembly (GPA) que ocorreram em outubro de 2020 e 2021, os membros do GPA adotaram resoluções sobre Tecnologias de Reconhecimento Facial. Foi estipulado que seria montado um grupo de trabalho para trabalhar um conjunto de princípios para o uso de informações pessoais na tecnologia de reconhecimento facial.

Geneva, Switzerland — Today, seven Wikimedia chapters—independent Wikimedia movement affiliate organizations—were rejected from gaining accreditation as permanent observers to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

The 37th Nordic Conference on Law and Information Technology runs under the theme of “Humans, data and law: tectonic plates in motion“.

Over recent times, the European regulatory landscape has experienced several quakes with proposals such as the Digital Services Act, Digital Market Act, Data Governance Act, Data Act, Artificial Intelligence Act as well as other soft-law initiatives, attempting to adjust to the fast-paced developments in our digital society.

Die Erdatmosphäre wird ständig von kosmischer Strahlung bombardiert. Diese besteht aus elektrisch geladenen Teilchen mit Energien von bis zu 1020 Elektronenvolt. Das ist eine Million Mal mehr als die Energie, die im leistungsstärksten Teilchenbeschleuniger der Welt erreicht wird, dem Large Hadron Collider bei Genf.

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Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft und die Informationsplattform „Tierversuche verstehen“, die von der Allianz der Wissenschaftsorganisationen getragen wird, haben eine Informationskampagne gestartet. Darin erklären Forschungseinrichtungen mit lebenswissenschaftlicher Ausrichtung, transparent über Tierversuche zu informieren, den öffentlichen Dialog über tierexperimentelle Forschung mitzugestalten sowie untereinander Erfahrungen auszutauschen.

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Sous la direction de Yan Sénéchal (Université de Montréal), Pierre Noreau (Université de Montréal) et Jacques Commaille (École normale supérieure/Paris-Saclay)

The Media Pluralism Monitor consolidates its position as a key source of information for the EU policies on media pluralism and media freedom. 

The third annual Rule of Law Report, which was adopted today by the European Commission, defines the Media Pluralism Monitor as “an important source for the Commission’s Rule of Law Reports”. The MPM has been a source of data for the Commission’s report since its first edition in 2020. 

Clément Perarnaud, Julien Rossi, Francesca Musiani, Lucien Castex, 2022.
L’article ‘Splinternets’: Addressing the renewed debate on internet fragmentation est apparu en premier sur Centre Internet et Société.

Internet shutdowns do not prevent cheating in exams. They are ineffective and costly. This blogpost explains why this … Alternatives to Internet Shutdowns during ExamsRead More »

 
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Earlier this year, Portulans Institute welcomed the University of Johannesburg College of Business and Economics to our GII Academic Network.

Photo: Dmytro Shutaiev, (17 March 2021), with Roman Ratushny.
For several months I have been monitoring social media feeds looking for views from the war-zone. Not coincidentally, many current soldiers are intellectuals, artists, photographers, music promoters, and cultural activists—people who would never take up arms under other circumstances today are lying in a trench, and observing how this trench changes the communication and logistics of toads and worms.[1]

On 6 June 2022, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (“MeitY”), released the proposed amendments for Part 1 and Part II of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (“2021 IT Rules”). CCG submitted its comments on the proposed amendments to the 2021 IT Rules, highlighting its key feedback […]

May 30 – June 20, 2022

O relatório do LAPIN, “Vigilância automatizada: uso de reconhecimento facial pela Administração Pública no Brasil”, tem ajudado no embasamento de diversas iniciativas legislativas que buscam proibir o uso de tecnologias de reconhecimento facial (TRF) no Brasil.