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The Race Is On After Feds Pave Way for Driverless Trucks

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United States

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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."

#NetNeutrality: Turns Out 99.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Wanted to Keep the Internet Open

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United States

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'Do Not Track,' the Privacy Tool Used by Millions of People, Doesn't Do Anything

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United States

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Les fausses nouvelles, nouveaux visages, nouveaux défis. Comment déterminer la valeur de l’information dans les sociétés démocratiques ?

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 ?

Talking about Tech, Disinformation, & Trust in DC

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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United States

​NTU Singapore ranks 18th globally in Financial Times’ EMBA ranking, climbing 12 places

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Shitty Media Men list: lawyer wants to expose women who contributed

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United States

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How to Identify Almost Anyone in a Consumer Gene Database

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.

​NTU honours outstanding alumni at annual homecoming 

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Open 2018: Mapping the Coop Economy

Following on from the introductory session on the Main stage Louis Cousin from Cooperatives Europe leads a working session on mapping the cooperative / solidarity ecosystem.

Expertos levantan la voz por la reinserción de infractores de ley

Este 2 y 3 de octubre la Casa Central de la U. de Chile acogió el Seminario Internacional "Bases y experiencias para el trabajo social en reinserción social", enmarcado en el programa estatal "Volver a empezar". La sensibilización de la ciudadanía respecto a la importancia de este proceso de retorno a la comunidad, así como la creación de redes y alianzas público-privadas para apoyar la reinserción de los infractores de ley, fueron parte de los puntos claves tratados en la actividad organizada por la Casa de Bello y el Ministerio de Justicia.

Entre propriété et liberté : 30 ans de protection des données personnelles

En 1989, une conférence impliquant plusieurs chercheurs belges, français et québécois fut organisée par le CRDP (Nouvelles technologies et propriété) et s’interrogeait déjà sur la capacité d’appropriation des données personnelles par des entités tierces. 30 ans plus tard, et en dépit de lois qui densifient les obligations des parties prenantes (RGPD, loi californienne), une différence de perspective prévaut entre Europe et Amérique.

New EU Proposal on the Prevention of Terrorist Content Online: An Important Mutation of the E-Commerce Intermediaries' Regime

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United States

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Stanford Internet and Society Lab - Secret Dockets, Secret Searches

RSVP is required this free event. 
What is the most secret docket in America? (Hint: it's not the FISA Court.) Have your cell phone records and email accounts been searched by law enforcement, and how would you know if they did? Come discuss the troubling answers to these questions with retired federal judge Stephen Wm. Smith, now CIS Director, Fourth Amendment & Open Courts.
November 27, 2018Stanford Law School

Wikimedia Foundation collaborates with two initiatives: Mozilla’s OSSN and TeachingOpenSource’s POSSE

We’re always looking for ways to strengthen the open source ecosystem. Over the past two months, the Developer Advocacy team at the Wikimedia Foundation collaborated with two open source initiatives: Mozilla’s Open Source Student Network (OSSN) and TeachingOpenSource.org’s Professors’ Open Source Software Experience  (TOS and POSSE, respectively).

We Need to Talk… about the State of Internet Governance

In about a month, some of the key stakeholders in Internet Governance will come together in Paris and talk about the public policy challenges facing the Internet in 2018 and beyond. They will do so at the Internet Governance Forum, a UN-supported platform that will meet for the thirteenth time this year.

Indigenous Connectivity Summit 2018: Training Day

True to its location in Festival City – also known as Edmonton, Alberta – the 2018 Indigenous Connectivity Summit’s training day crackled with the energy of community networking advocates from around the world.

SelmaMeyerMentoring für Doktorandinnen: Call for applications

Das SelmaMeyerMentoring unterstützt qualifizierte und engagierte Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen dabei, ihre Fähigkeiten und Kompetenzen zu identifizieren, zu entwickeln und diese systematisch in ihre Berufsplanung einzubinden. Das Programm besteht aus drei Modulen (Mentoring-Beziehung, Workshops und Networking Events) und dauert 18 Monate (z.B. vom November 2018 - bis April 2020, und vom Jan. 2019 - bis Juni 2020).

Wissenschaftlerinnen auf besondere Weise unterstützt

Ab 2018 werden dabei jährlich wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterinnen, Professorinnen und Doktorinnen der HHU eingeladen, um sich über die Einwerbung von Drittmitteln zu informieren. Die Moderation übernahm Dr. Anja Vervoorts, zentrale Gleichstellungsbeauftragte der HHU und Kooperationspartnerin des Projektes.

Infektionsprävention: UKD erhält MRE-Qualitäts- und Transparenzsiegel

Im Einzelnen müssen die Krankenhäuser nachweisbar einen hohen Hygienestandard aufweisen, geeignete Aktivitäten zur Vermeidung von Infektionen mit multiresistenten Keimen betreiben, durch Aus- und Fortbildung ihr Personal schulen und durch Information von Patienten und Angehörigen die Patientensicherheit erhöhen.