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Google Assistant is 10x faster and knows where your mom lives

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United States

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Criminalização e internet: suas condutas online são alvo do Congresso Nacional?

A regulamentação de condutas sociais por meio do Direito e aplicação de sanções à violações de regras não é prática recente. Este modelo também é aplicado no caso de condutas praticadas por meio da internet, uma vez que este espaço é atualmente considerado ambiente de práticas comum à vida social, como organização de reuniões, encontrar amigos, evoluir profissionalmente.

What Online Content Are We Regulating? Illegal Speech, Offensive Speech, and Platform Value

This discussion, excerpted from my Who Do You Sue article, very briefly reviews the implications of what I call “must-carry” arguments – claims that operators of major Internet platforms should be held to the same First Amendment standards as the government, and prevented from using their Terms of Service or Community Guidelines to prohibit lawful speech.
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United States

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What Platform Operations Are We Regulating? Platform Product Features, Content Removal, and Content Amplification

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United States

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Talking Internet of Things in Canada at IoT613 This Week

This week, 8-9 May, we’ll be at IoT613 in Ottawa, Canada, talking about our work on “Trust by Design” – the idea that privacy and security should be built into Internet-connected products, and not just an afterthought.

Platform Content Regulation – Some Models and Their Problems

Lawmakers today are increasingly focused on their options for regulating the content we see on online platforms. I described several ambitious regulatory models for doing that in my recent paper, Who Do You Sue? State and Platform Hybrid Power Over Online Speech. This blog post excerpts that discussion, and sketches out potential legal regimes to address major platforms’ function as de facto gatekeepers of online speech and information.
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United States

Seminário: O Direito e a Revolução Digital no Sistema Financeiro

Seminário: O Direito e a Revolução Digital no Sistema Financeiro13h00 até 18h30O Evento: O seminário O Direito e a Revolução Digital no Sistema Financeiro tem como objetivo discutir o impacto das inovações tecnológicas nos serviços financeiros, analisando as oportunidades e os desafios que as novas tecnologias trazem para o setor, tanto sob a ótica econômica como jurídica.

The Week in Internet News: Unencrypted USB Drives Pose Security Risk

No encryption for U(SB): About 55 percent of U.K. businesses don’t encrypt information on USB drives, according to the result of a survey published at Information Age. Also, 62 percent of executives surveyed admit to seeing USB devices in unsecured locations such as desks, drawers, and exposed office spaces.

Cochabamba, Bolivia: Confronting speculators and financing community infrastructure

The informal settlement of Las Peñas, on the outskirts of Cochabamba, has been refused the right to become part of the city, leaving it with no public investment for basic infrastructure and services. Las Peñas neighbourhood forced the re-sale of unoccupied plots of land at original price plus a small amount (owned by speculators taking advantage of rising property prices) for financing or co-financing community infrastructure including roads, houses and local sports and cultural amenities.

Informatierecht alumnus Jan van Vegchel genomineerd voor UvA-scriptieprijs 2019

The Future of Computing and Why You Should Care

The future of computing and why you should care

Todd Weaver

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Let me set the tone by using a quote from a great person of history:

“The
ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people,
but the silence over that by the good people.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Investigadores U. de Chile participan en publicación internacional

Los investigadores del Centro de Investigación Avanzado en Educación (CIAE), Cristián Bellei y Liliana Morawietz, prepararon un capítulo dedicado al programa "Educación en Ciencia Basada en la Indagación" para el libro "Preparing Teachers to Educate Whole Students: An International Comparative Study", editado por Fernando Reimers y Connie Chung, del Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Creador de marca Google Play dictará charla en la U. de Chile

Patrick Mork participará en "The World is Mine: el futuro de la innovación y emprendimiento para la internacionalización", evento que espera reunir a más de 600 personas el próximo 8 y 9 de mayo en la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM), y que contará también con la visita del fundador de Indiegogo, la plataforma global de crowfunding más grande del mundo.

Salud mental de estudiantes universitarios

"Una mejor salud mental tiene un impacto significativo en el rendimiento y productividad de los estudiantes", señalan las psiquiatras Vania Martínez y Graciela Rojas, y el psicólogo Álvaro Jimenez, todos ellos investigadores del Núcleo Milenio para Mejorar la Salud Mental de Adolescentes y Jóvenes, Imhay, de la U. de Chile. En la siguiente columna publicada en CIPER, los especialistas reflexionan sobre la acciones que las universidades podrían realizar, para hacer frente a un problema que afecta a un número no menor de su alumnado.

Patterns for Decentralised Organising / Richard D. Barlett and Natalia Lombardo / Intersection18

WIPO Regional Seminar on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions

Anubha Sinha participated in the WIPO “Regional Seminar for the Asia Pacific Group on Libraries, Archives, Museums and Educational & Research Institutions in the Field of Copyright”, which was held on April 29 and 30, 2019, in Singapore. The event was co-organized by Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, Singapore Cooperation Programme and WIPO.
More info on the programme here.

COMPLIANCE E COMBATE À CORRUPÇÃO – POLÍTICAS DE PREVENÇÃO A DESASTRES AMBIENTAIS

COMPLIANCE E COMBATE À CORRUPÇÃO – POLÍTICAS DE PREVENÇÃO A DESASTRES AMBIENTAIS09h00 até 16h00O Evento: O Ministério Público Federal, em parceria com Escola Superior Dom Helder Câmara e com apoio da Fundação Getulio Vargas, convida para o seminário Compliance e Combate à Corrupção - Políticas de Prevenção a Desastres Ambientais. O objetivo do evento é debater os diversos aspectos da atividade econômica de mineração, os seus riscos e os mecanismos capazes de evitá-los ou minimizá-los.
 

 

Clínica do NPJ atende lawtech que conecta sob demanda advogados a escritórios de advocacia

Ao longo do primeiro semestre de 2019, a Clínica LAJUNT (Laboratório de Assessoria Jurídica a Novas Tecnologias) do Núcleo de Prática Jurídica (NPJ) da FGV Direito Rio atendeu à Freelaw (https://freelaw.work), uma empresa de tecnologia jurídica que conecta escritórios de advocacia a advogados especializados de acordo com a demanda. Assim, a lawtech possibilita a criação de uma equipe jurídica online e redução de custos.

Wissenschafts-Förderpreis 2019 der Düsseldorfer Jonges ausgeschrieben

Folgende Themenbereiche können die Arbeiten umfassen: Geisteswissenschaften, Medizin, Naturwissenschaften, Rechtswis-senschaften, Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Kunst und Kunstgeschichte.
Die Einreichungen müssen auf eigenen Erkenntnissen beruhen, eine anerkennenswerte wissenschaftliche Leistung darstellen und einen starken Bezug zu Düsseldorf haben.
Die Arbeiten, die im Jahr 2018 oder 2019 abgeschlossen wurden, sind in drei deutschsprachigen Exemplaren – bei englischsprachigen Arbeiten ist eine deutsche Zusammenfassung beizufügen – mit dem Hinweis

Future Research Agenda

Future Research Agenda