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Death By WhatsApp

The fatal messages were both in text and in audio. They were in Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Hindi, Assamese and Gujarati among others.
This was published by News18.com on June 25, 2018. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

As Data Portability Grows, How Will Entities Balance Innovation vs. Privacy?

The GovLab at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering is pleased to host Jeni Tennison, CEO of the Open Data Institute, for its next Ideas Lunch, where she will discuss how data portability has been regulated in the United Kingdom and Europe, and what governments, businesses and people need to do to strike the balance between its risks and benefits.

La Universidad concede el doctorado honoris causa a Rafael Moneo, Margaret S. Archer, Robert Picard y Ruth Fine

La Universidad concede el doctorado honoris causa a Rafael Moneo, Margaret S. Archer, Robert Picard y Ruth Fine
Se trata de personalidades del ámbito de la arquitectura, sociología, comunicación y filología

Margaret S. Archer, Rafael Moneo, Robert Picard y Ruth Fine.
FOTO: Manuel Castells y © pletz.com

25/06/18 16:57

Iván Cáceres, el Hijo de Bello que investiga en Colonia Dignidad

La Cuesta Barriga, el Patio 29 y Colonia Dignidad son algunos de los sitios vinculados a casos de Derechos Humanos, en los que Iván Cáceres, arqueólogo y egresado de la U. de Chile, ha trabajado en la búsqueda de la verdad en nuestro país.

Google y Universidad de Chile celebran a Eloísa Díaz

En el marco de los 152 años desde su nacimiento, hoy 25 de junio Google dedica el doodle de su página principal a la primera médica-cirujana de Chile y todo Latinoamérica. Eloísa Díaz Insunza se graduó de la Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad de Chile en 1887 -donde estudió en compañía de su madre y tras un biombo- luego de que se promulgara el Decreto Amunátegui, que le entregó a las mujeres de la época acceso a la educación superior.

If We Care About the Internet, We Have to Be Willing to Do Our Part

Whether it’s playing dungeons and dragons over voice chat with my college friends hundreds of miles away, reading the latest movie reviews for summer blockbusters I’ll watch once they come out on video, or simply paying electrical bills, the Internet has become an important part of my life.
Yet, while I have come to rely on the Internet, I don’t always do what is best for it.

We are looking for an intern with a strong interest in digital publishing!

For the further development of its hybrid publication strategy – combining digital and print books and other media – the Institute of Network Cultures is looking for an
Intern with a strong interest in (digital) publishing

4-6 months, 4 days a week, starting September 3rd, 2018

The Week in Internet News: Governments Shut Down Internet for School Testing

Couldn’t you just take their phones away? The government of Algeria told telecom carriers to shut down Internet service for several hours a day during high school testing season, according to several news reports. The government is trying to prevent the repeat of a situation in 2016, when exam questions were leaked online, reports Al Jazeera. The government of Iraq has taken similar action, the news agency says.

Neuer Streik angekündigt: Warteliste am UKD wird länger

Diese konnten bis jetzt noch nicht nachgeholt werden. Durch den erneuten Streik wird die Warteliste für die Patientinnen und Patienten des UKD weiter wachsen. Die Notfallversorgung ist allerdings sichergestellt. Allerdings kann es auch sein, dass Patientinnen und Patienten in andere Kliniken verlegt werden müssen, wenn nur dort zeitnah die erforderliche Versorgung sichergestellt werden kann.

4 new H2020 projects for CiTiP to participate in

MAGNETO - PDP4E - SAFECARE - SMOOTH

Google.gov

Adam J. White at New Atlantis: “Google exists to answer our small questions. But how will we answer larger questions about Google itself? Is it a monopoly? Does it exert too much power over our lives? Should the government regulate it as a public utility — or even break it up?

110° Mercoledì di Nexa - Il partito piattaforma. La trasformazione dell’organizzazione politica nell’era digitale

Page Type: Eventmercoledi11 luglio 2018
Paolo Gerbaudo (King's College London)
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Wed, 11/07/2018 - 18:00 to 20:00luogo: Via Boggio 65/a | Torino (primo piano)

India’s Artificial Intelligence Roadmap

There is now a near universal perception that Artificial Intelligence technologies are set to disrupt every sphere of life. However, this is coupled with concern regarding the social, ethical (and even existential) challenges that AI might present. As a consequence, there has been an uptake in interest by governments on how best to marshal the […]

IZEW-team attends at the 30th anniversary of the annual 100km relay

When? Saturday, 06/23 2018, Start: 02 p.m.Where? Institute science and sport, Wilhelmstraße 124, D-72074 Tübingen   Nähere Einzelheiten über den Ablauf der Veranstaltung findet ihr im Internet unter:https://www.hsp.uni-tuebingen.de/staffellauf/index.html

Solidarity with Aurea Social, the Catalan Integral Coop’s open, self-managed space

You may already be familiar with Aurea Social which, for many years, has been an integral part of the Catalan Integral Cooperative (CIC). Now Aurea is in trouble and the collective needs your help. This is taken from their GoFundMe campaign. For more on the CIC read our in-depth report: The Catalan Integral Cooperative: an organizational study of a post-capitalist cooperative.
AureaSocial’s entrance

Prof. Dr. Wachowicz zieht Bilanz zum brasilianischen Urheberrecht

Im Rahmen der Vorlesung „Urheberrecht“von Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoeren wird der Gastprofessor am ITM, Prof. Dr. Marcos Wachowicz von der Federal University of Paraná (Brasilien),  einen Vortrag zum Thema
„Analysis of the 20 years of validity of the Brazilian Copyright Law“  halten.Er wird zum Anlass des Jubiläums des brasilianischen Urheberrechts eine Bilanz ziehen und daraus Konsequenzen für zukünftige Entwicklungen ableiten.
TERMINÄNDERUNG: Der Vortrag findet am 9. Juli 2018 um 16 Uhr im Hörsaal JUR 1 statt.

Cops May Unlock iPhones Without a Warrant to Beat Apple's New Security Feature

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United States

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On the Rise of FinTechs – Credit Scoring using Digital Footprints

NBER Working Paper by Tobias Berg, Valentin Burg, Ana Gombović and Manju Puri: “We analyze the information content of the digital footprint – information that people leave online simply by accessing or registering on a website – for predicting consumer default. Using more than 250,000 observations, we show that even simple, easily accessible variables from the digital footprint equal or exceed the information content of credit bureau (FICO) scores.

Ways to think about machine learning

Benedict Evans: “We’re now four or five years into the current explosion of machine learning, and pretty much everyone has heard of it. It’s not just that startups are forming every day or that the big tech platform companies are rebuilding themselves around it – everyone outside tech has read the Economist or BusinessWeek cover story, and many big companies have some projects underway. We know this is a Next Big Thing.

Blockchain’s governance paradox

Izabella Kaminska at the Financial Times: “Distributed ledger technologies “are starting to look an awful lot like some of the more conventional technical solutions that we have,” says Prof. Vili Lehdonvirta, an associate professor and senior research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, at a rec