Gloria Origgi at Aeon: “There is an underappreciated paradox of knowledge that plays a pivotal role in our advanced hyper-connected liberal democracies: the greater the amount of information that circulates, the more we rely on so-called reputational devices to evaluate it. What makes this paradoxical is that the vastly increased access to information and knowledge we have today does not empower us or make us more cognitively autonomous.

It’s another packed week at IETF 101 in London, and we’re bringing you daily blog posts highlighting the topics of interest to us in the ISOC Internet Technology Team. Monday is a very full day with two important IPv6 working groups, one on IoT, a couple on routing, and another couple related to crypto.

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Report by Ramya Chari, Luke J. Matthews, Marjory S. Blumenthal, Amanda F.

The Supreme Court, however, allowed the government to seek Aadhaar numbers to transfer benefits of government schemes funded from the consolidated fund of India.
The article by Priyanka Mittal and Komal Gupta was published in Livemint on March 13, 2018. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.

Indian companies dealing with European data wait ­anxiously as the EU pushes in new security rules
The article by Arindam Mukherjee was published in the Outlook in March 26, 2018 issue. Elonnai Hickok was quoted.

Anshuman Jaswal form Kapronasia shares insights into the security and privacy concerns related to Aadhaar, which are often overlooked

Jerry Muller in PS Long Reads: “Over the past few decades, formal institutions have increasingly been subjected to performance measurements that define success or failure according to narrow and arbitrary metrics. The outcome should have been predictable: institutions have done what they can to boost their performance metrics, often at the expense of performance itself.

It seems like yesterday we were in Tunis at the 2005 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), where I was involved in the negotiations that led to the formation of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). When I look back at the evolution of Internet governance since then, it is amazing!

Cryptography Fellow Riana Pfefferkorn will be speaking at the 2018 InfoSec Southwest.
Encryption shields private information from malicious eavesdroppers. After years of slow adoption, encryption is finally becoming widespread in consumer-oriented electronic devices and communications services. Consumer-oriented encryption software is now more user-friendly, and much of it turns on encryption by default. These advances enhance privacy and security for millions of people.April 13, 2018Austin, TX

It’s going to be a crazy busy week in London next week in the world of DNS security and privacy! As part of our Rough Guide to IETF 101, here’s a quick view on what’s happening in the world of DNS.  (See the full agenda online for everything else.)
IETF 101 Hackathon

The Indonesian province of Bali has asked mobile providers to shut down customers’ access to the Internet during Nyepi, a Hindu holiday known as the Day of Silence.
Mobile Internet access will be cut off at 6 a.m. local time Saturday, March 17, and the island’s airport will also close for 24 hours during the New Year celebration. Other Internet access will be available during the holiday, the Bali government said.

It’s that time again! In this post of the Rough Guide to IETF 101, I’ll take a quick look at some of the identity, privacy, and encryption related activities at IETF this coming week. Below a few of the many relevant activities are highlighted, but there is much more going on so be sure to check out the full agenda online.
Encryption

Gastbeitrag von Nikolas Gugenberger in der Reihe „Digitalisierung an der WWU“
Wie man soziale Netzwerke nicht regulieren sollte

Acceso a los derechos básicos como la salud, un enfoque de derechos humanos, y el cumplimiento de los tratados internacionales que ha suscrito nuestro país son sólo algunos de los puntos que diferentes expertos de la Casa de Bello proponen respecto a qué elementos deberá considerar una Ley de Migraciones, tras dos fallidos intentos legislativos en la materia en los últimos cinco años.Chile es el país de la región con la ley de migraciones más obsoleta, junto a Paraguay.

Alojada en el Campus Oriente de la Facultad de Medicina vinculado al Hospital del Salvador, la iniciativa cuenta con un equipo transdisciplinario de profesionales que tratarán a los pacientes y sus cuidadores.

El Consorcio de Universidades del Estado de Chile (Cuech) presentó el material audiovisual que resume el trabajo conjunto realizado desde el 2015 a la fecha con el fin de consolidar la colaboración entre las casas de estudios estatales, de superar la lógica competitiva entre los diferentes planteles y de avanzar en este cometido con una visión estratégica y de largo plazo, a raíz de la aprobación del Proyecto de Ley de Universidades del Estado en enero pasado.

Con un concierto de guitarra a cargo del intérprete Héctor Sepúlveda se dará inicio, en el Centro Cultural de Curaco de Vélez a este evento, cuyo programa de actividades contempla talleres de música, dibujo, teatro y autobiografía a cargo de académicos y artistas de la Universidad de Chile, además de diálogos con intelectuales de Brasil y Argentina, quienes se trasladarán especialmente al archipiélago de Chiloé para trabajar con las comunidades escolares de las seis Escuelas Rurales Unidocentes de la zona.

Barely a week passes without something in the news that reminds us of the critical role encryption plays in securing our data. It is a technology that protects so much of what we rely on, as individuals protecting our privacy, as companies securing our business assets and transactions, and as governments responsible for critical national infrastructure. 

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