Top Internet, mobile, and telecom companies across the globe still have many steps they could take to better protect their users’ freedom of expression and privacy, a new report says.
The 2018 Corporate Accountability Index, released recently by Ranking Digital Rights, gave Google a top score of 63 among 22 companies rated for protecting freedom of expression and privacy. But with a perfect score being 100, all the companies rated fell far short, with most receiving failing grades, the group said.

Prof. Dr. Nicola Preuß, Dekanin der Juristischen Fakultät, bedankte sich bei ihrer Begrüßung für die großzügige und kontinuierliche Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses der Juristischen Fakultät. Anschließend überreichte Stifter Thomas Dohme, Geschäftsführer der Goethe und Schweitzer GmbH / Schweitzer Fachinformationen die Auszeichnung für die herausragenden wissenschaftlichen Leistungen im Heinrich-Heine-Saal der Universität.

Encryption is a critical building block for online trust, but it’s never perfect. Any encryption you use is the product of many steps. Encryption methods have to be defined; protocols for implementation have to be specified; and then the protocols have to be implemented. Each step is handled by different people and potentially introduces vulnerabilities along the way. Even with the best lock design in the world, if someone builds the lock with variations in the design (either intentionally or accidentally), it might be easily picked.

David W.Bates et al at Health Policy and Technology: “The term “big data” has gotten increasing popular attention, and there is growing focus on how such data can be used to measure and improve health and healthcare. Analytic techniques for extracting information from these data have grown vastly more powerful, and they are now broadly available. But for these approaches to be most useful, large amounts of data must be available, and barriers to use should be low.

Book by Thomas W. Malone: “If you’re like most people, you probably believe that humans are the most intelligent animals on our planet. But there’s another kind of entity that can be far smarter: groups of people. In this groundbreaking book, Thomas Malone, the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, shows how groups of people working together in superminds — like hierarchies, markets, democracies, and communities — have been responsible for almost all human achievements in business, government, science, and beyond.

Prof. Dr. Marcos Wachowicz is currently visiting the ITM. He will stay in Münster for one year to corporate with the ITM researchers especially in the area of copyright and blockchain regulation. He is accompanied by his wife Prof. Dr. Danielle Annonia specialist in the area of refugee law who will use the time to cooperate with Prof. Dr. Sabine Schlacke in the area of environmental law. We are all glad to have them both here in Münster and we wish them a successful and happy year of research in Münster.

Foad Hamidi, Morgan Scheuerman and Stacy Branham in the Conversation: “Efforts at automatic gender recognition – using algorithms to guess a person’s gender based on images, video or audio – raise significant socia

Susan Hennessey at Brookings: “…delighted to announce the launch of Sourcelist, a database of experts in technology policy from diverse backgrounds.

Manga sind seit ihrer Entstehungszeit ein transkulturelles Produkt: Verschiedenste Einflüsse haben dazu beigetragen, dass die besonderen Ausdrucksformen entstanden sind, die heute graphisches Erzählen in Japan auszeichnen. Viele bekannte Manga-Werke setzen sich auf der narrativen und visuellen Ebene mit der Begegnung von Kulturen auseinander oder schaffen hybride Räume, die freie Gedankenspiele erlauben. Zugleich verbreiten sich Manga heute überall auf der Welt.

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Special issue of Internet Policy Review edited by William Dutton: “…is the first to bring together the best policy-oriented papers presented at the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). This issue is anchored in the 2017 conference in Tartu, Estonia, which was organised around the theme of networked publics.

Der Verein zur Förderung der Forschungsstelle für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz Münster e.V. und die Forschungsstelle für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz am ITM laden alle Interessenten herzlich zu einer Vortragsveranstaltung aus dem Bereich des Gewerblichen Rechtsschutzes ein.

 
„Die Grenzbeschlagnahme und die Rechtsstellung des Betroffenen“

The first run-through of the REMODEL programme in which 10 Danish manufacturing companies go through an 8-week design-sprint to explore new business strategies based on open source principles has begun – and we are now three weeks in. What have we learned from their journey so far?
This is part of a serious of blogposts about the REMODEL programme at The Danish Design Centre

It’s striking, when curating an event about future possibilities, just how persistent old forms of life are. Take the idea of the “new nationalism”. Just before the financial crash of 2008, the consensus was that globalisation was mutating, if not dissolving, the nation.
The best that nation-states could do was adapt to planet-scale forces of capital, technology and migration. And part of that adaptation meant national identities would become more worldly and cosmopolitan. It would be a functional necessity to tolerate, even embrace, difference.

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United States

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Author(s): Jennifer GranickRiana PfefferkornPublication Date: May 15, 2018Publication Type: Litigation BriefIncluded in this PDF are: 

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper by Aaditya Mattoo and Joshua P Meltzer: “The free flow of data across borders underpins today’s globalized economy. But the flow of personal dataoutside the jurisdiction of national regulators also raises concerns about the protection of privacy. Addressing these legitimate concerns without undermining international integration is a challenge.

Co-authored with Evan Selinger.
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United States

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Meg Wilcox at Civil Eats: “New England’s groundfish season is in full swing, as hundreds of dayboat fishermen from Rhode Island to Maine take to the water in search of the region’s iconic cod and haddock. But this year, several dozen of them are hauling in their catch under the watchful eye of video cameras as part of a new effort to use technology to better sustain the area’s fisheries and the communities that depend on them.

In the Republic of Georgia, high in the mountains of the Tusheti region, a community network has been built to bring faster Internet connectivity to those that did not have it. The story is compelling, not only for the determination of people to make sure that the Internet is available in one of the remotest places in the world, but also for their strong belief of what connecting to the Internet could bring to the people of Tusheti.

Luíza Bruxellas é aluna do 9º período da graduação da FGV Direito RioLuíza Bruxellas, aluna do 9º período da graduação da FGV Direito Rio, foi selecionada para realizar intercâmbio na Harvard Law School, nos Estados Unidos. A estudante terá a oportunidade de cursar o período de 2018.2 na instituição, que é parceira da FGV Direito Rio.