SFLC.in -- a donor supported legal services organisation -- has written an open letter to messaging service providers like WhatsApp, Facebook and others, urging them to modify their platforms to ensure that users are not added to group chats without their permission.
The article was published in the Times of India on June 1, 2018.
The 26th AMIC annual conference on the theme Disturbing Asian Millennials: Some Creative Responses was organized by Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) at Fortune Inn Valley View, Manipal in Karnataka from June 7 - 9, 2018. Swaraj Paul Barooah was a speaker.
State police across Karnataka, Assam, Telangana and Kerala are designing social media campaigns as an antidote to fake news on messaging apps like WhatsApp following claims that these platforms have been used to incite violence across several locations in recent weeks.
Nilotpal Basu and Abhijeet Nath, an audio engineer and digital artiste, were beaten to death in Assam's Karbi Anglong last week based on rumours that they were kidnappers.
The article was published in the Times of India on June 18, 2018. Pranesh Prakash was quoted. Inputs from Kim Arora.
Turning a common perception on its head, international affairs students of O.P. Jindal Global University here have shown that pursuing a so-called "conventional" course can also open several doors of recruitment including in multinational companies, think tanks and international NGOs.
The article was published in Economic Times on June 19, 2018.
Charlie Brown & Robert Q. Benedict at Stanford Social Innovation Review: ” For many in the social sector, hosting a prize has become practically compulsory. But prizes have also proved divisive, sparking debates about their intended use, the value they provide, and the costs they incur. With so many conflicting perspectives, are there any guidelines to help decide whether a prize is worth pursuing?
Book by Martha C. Nussbaum: “…In The Monarchy of Fear she turns her attention to the current political crisis that has polarized American since the 2016 election.
L’équipe du CRDP a le regret d’annoncer le décès de Monsieur Paul Gérin-Lajoie à l’âge de 98 ans. Parmi les réalisations de cet homme d’exception, il nous plait de rappeler qu’il fut la personne à l’initiative, en 1962, de l’Institut de recherche droit public, qui devint en 1971 le CRDP. Paul Gérin-Lajoie alors Ministre de la jeunesse avait identifié avant tout le monde l’importance de la recherche universitaire et s’était adressé dans ces termes au recteur de l’époque:
No último dia 20 de junho, apresentamos Logic Gates and Access Records of Internet Users: From Technical Possibilities to Judicial Reasoning in Brazilian Courts, um relatório de pesquisa sobre o trabalho desenvolvido no Instituto de Referência em Internet e Sociedade – IRIS, realizada no ano de 2017, na conferência Connected Life 2018, realizada na Universidade de Oxford.
Technology has made data protection a hot button issue. Now, a group of eminent citizens, mostly lawyers, have formulated a draft privacy bill, a legal framework that protects the individual’s right to privacy, but it faces legal jurisdiction issues
The blog post by Sujit Bhar was published in IndiaLegal on June 21, 2018.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
