In 2016, the Chandigarh police ordered thirty bottles of liquor on getTalli, an online liquor ordering platform.
The blog post by Aroon Deep was published in Medianama on September 7, 2018
Last week, the Internet Society together with our Kyrgyz chapter and the wider local community held discussions about Internet connectivity in remote areas in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Approximately 35% of the Kyrgyz population use the Internet (ITU data, 2017) and most users are located in cities and urban areas.
Are you worried about the power of social media platforms? They’ve increasingly centralized and have radically altered the idea of the “web” for hundreds of millions around the globe. Black-box algorithms govern what users see on platforms like Facebook and Twitter, with no mechanisms or accountability for their real world impacts. This has led to waves of backlash against these platforms, with the media and policymakers pursuing them with pitchforks. It doesn’t have to be […]
Hannah Fry at the Guardian: “…But already in our hospitals, our schools, our shops, our courtrooms and our police stations, artificial intelligence is silently working behind the scenes, feeding on our data and making decisions on our behalf.
Der gebürtige Hagener (geb. 1982) schloss 2008 an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum sein Diplomstudium in der Mathematik mit einer als herausragend prämierten Arbeit ab. Bücher promovierte ebenfalls in Bochum zum Thema „Statistical Inference for Copulas and Extremes“ mit Prädikatsexamen Summa cum Laude.
Software licenses are about USAGE constraints of software — Do you have a right to run it, copy it, distribute it, for how many people, under what conditions, etc… However, in a new era of decentralized software, I believe we must also uncover an assumption buried into past licenses that a licenses also implicitly includes ownership of data and user accounts created by the software.
This summary of our in-depth report on the Catalan Integral Cooperative was originally published in Outgrowing Capitalism.
Ambika Tandon participated in a workshop on privacy and gender which was organized by Privacy International in United Kingdom on September 13 and 14, 2018. Ambika was part of a panel on reproductive rights and privacy in India. She also recorded a podcast on the same topic, as part of a series on privacy and gender being hosted by Privacy International.
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Money and Banking: “GDP figures are ‘man-made’ and therefore unreliable,” reported remarks of Li Keqiang (then Communist Party secretary of the northeastern Chinese province of Liaoning), March 12, 2007.
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Internet platforms like Facebook and Twitter play an ever-increasing role in our lives, and mediate our personal and public communications. What laws govern their choices about our speech? Come discuss the law of platforms and online free expression with CIS Intermediary Liability Director Daphne Keller.
October 16, 2018Stanford Law School
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Smart cities, smart buildings, and sensors everywhere are creating a web of surveillance and data collection that threaten privacy on a massive scale. It's not too late to change the dynamic. We just have to be smart about it.
October 2, 2018Stanford Law School
Book by Alex Benay: “Governments all over the world are consistently outpaced by digital change, and are falling behind.
Mallory Picket at Slate: “The high seas are probably the most lawless place left on Earth. They’re a portal back in time to the way the world looked for most of our history: fierce and open competition for resources and contested territories. Pirating continues to be a way to make a living.
India sees a very high number of Internet shutdowns, often to preserve law and order, but Haryana cops are arguing against the practice.
The article by Gopal Sathe was published by Huffington Post on September 19, 2018.
Docente é o coordenador científico de evento sobre o assunto no dia 28Márcio Guimarães, professor da Graduação da FGV Direito Rio, é o coordenador científico do IV Seminário de Direito das Empresas em Dificuldades, que será realizado no próximo dia 28 de setembro. Na ocasião, o docente irá falar sobre o tema “A ultrapassada teoria da empresa e o direito das empresas em dificuldade” na mesa que irá discutir a proteção do empresário contra a crise.
Shweta Mohandas was a panelist at the Symposium on Data Privacy and Citizen's Rights on September 9, 2018. The Symposium was organised by the Tech Law Forum of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad.
Concept Note
La Société Royale du Canada vient de publier la liste des lauréats 2018 des médailles et distinctions et nous sommes heureux de vous annoncer que Madame Évelyne Jean-Bouchard, chercheure post-doctorale au CRDP (sous la supervision des professeurs Pierre Noreau de l’UdeM et Karine Gentelet de l’UQO) est récipiendaire de la Bourse Alice Wilson pour ses travaux sur le rôle et la place des femmes au sein des instances de gouvern
Last week was an exceptionally exciting week for the African Regional Bureau as we successfully held, in partnership with the Association for Progressive Community (APC), the 3rd Summit on Community Networks in Africa from 2-7 September 2018, at Wild Lubanzi Trail Lodge, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Dr. Benjamin Huppert und Laura Wackers vom Institut für Philosophie, Kommunikationswissenschaftler Prof. Dr. Gerhard Vowe, Wirtschaftswissenschaftler Prof. Dr. Jens Südekum sowie Alexander Langer, CEO des Innovationslabor schmiede.one gmbh & co. Kg, diskutierten die Frage, ob und wie eine gerechte Partizipation am technischen Fortschritt gelingen kann.
