Recent releases of Firefox have introduced the concept of DNS privacy under the name “Trusted Recursive Resolver”. Although Firefox ships with DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) disabled by default, there has been some discussion within the Mozilla developer community about changing the default to “enabled”.
Rohit S, an airline pilot, had enough of Facebook. With over 1,000 friends and part of at least a dozen groups on subjects ranging from planes to politics, the 34-year-old found himself constantly checking his phone for updates and plunging headlong into increasingly noisy debates, where he had little personal connect.
The Election Commission’s plans to link Aadhaar with electoral rolls may have stirred a hornet’s nest.
The article was published in Bloomberg's Quint on December 16, 2018. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.
Arindrajit Basu was a speaker at the event co-organized by Google AI and United Nations ESCAP on December 13, 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Arindrajit spoke at the panel " How can governments use AI in Public Service Delivery" along with Malavika Jayaram, Jake Lucci,Punit Shukla,Simon Schmooly and Gal Oren. He presented CIS research on AI in agriculture in Karnataka-which will be published as part of a compendium documenting case studies worldwide soon.
The Constitutional validity of the notification allowing ten agencies to intercept information is uncertain.
The blog post by Abhishek Dey was published in Scroll.in on December 22, 2018.
In a significant attack on online privacy, India’s Home Affair’s Ministry has authorised no fewer than ten different central government agencies to intercept, monitor, and decrypt “any information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer”.
The blog post by David Spencer was published by VPN Compare on December 24, 2018. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.
The Information Technology Act’s surveillance scheme furthers a colonial hangover.
The blog post by Nehaa Chaudhari and Tuhina Joshi was published by Scroll.in on December 23, 2018.
This month, we’ve asked parents to share their experiences of raising kids in the tech age. Today’s guest author is Kimberly Rae Miller, author of Beautiful Bodies and the bestselling memoir Coming Clean.
They use proxy and mirror sites to cater to India, now on a list of countries such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia that block intimate content online.
The article by Rajitha Menon was published in Deccan Herald on December 6, 2018. Akriti Bopanna was quoted.
Keep the pipes flowing: The Indian government’s Department of Telecommunications has told state governments they should avoid Internet shutdowns in situations not involving an emergency or public safety, Business Insider India reports. There were about 130 Internet shutdowns in the country in 2018, up from 79 the year before.
The Internet Society continued its engagement with Middle East networking community by participating in the e-AGE18 Conference, where we took the opportunity to promote the importance of DNS Security and Privacy. The conference was held on 2-3 December 2018 at the Marriott Hotel in Amman, Jordan and was organised by the Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN) and co-sponsored by the Internet Society.
Video by Marko Golub, originally published on YouTube
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El pasado miércoles 14 de noviembre la Comisión Nacional de Acreditación comunicó su decisión unánime de acreditar a la Casa de Bello por el máximo período contemplado en la Ley. El positivo resultado, que entrega un sello de excelencia a los distintos ámbitos de su quehacer como plantel universitario, renueva la acreditación institucional hasta el 22 de diciembre de 2025.
Gratuidad, becas de arancel y mantención, créditos, y el recientemente aprobado arancel ajustado, son algunas de las alternativas de financiamiento disponibles. Además, quienes se matriculen en la U. de Chile pueden optar a las distintas alternativas gestionadas exclusivamente por esta Casa de Estudios.El Ministerio de Educación (MINEDUC) y la Universidad de Chile ponen a disposición una serie de beneficios para apoyar el financiamiento del arancel, y ofrecer alternativas de mantención para el 2019.
La Casa de Bello nuevamente se consolidó como la primera institución de educación superior de Chile y una de las más importantes a nivel latinoamericano en las mediciones objetivas de mayor reconocimiento.
El proyecto busca que futuros profesores implementen nuevas formas de transmitir conocimientos a estudiantes de educación media de manera lúdica y entretenida.
In September 2016, my colleague Jennifer Granick (now at the ACLU) and I filed a petition in the federal district court for the Northern District of California that sought to unseal years' worth of sealed surveillance matters filed in that court. It is well-established that the public and the press have First Amendment and common-law rights to access court records.
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Publication Date: December 18, 2018Publication Type: Litigation BriefReport and recommendation by Magistrate Judge Westmore recommending the denial of Petitioners Jennifer Granick and Riana Pfefferkorn's petition to unseal court records.
2018 will probably be remembered as the bust of the blockchain hype. Yet even as crypto currencies continue to sink in value and popular interest, the potential of using blockchain technologies to achieve social ends remains important to consider but poorly understood.
In 2019, business will continue to explore blockchain for sectors as disparate as finance, agriculture, logistics and healthcare. Policymakers and social innovators should also leverage 2019 to become more sophisticated about blockchain’s real promise, limitations and current practice.
Originally published on Github
Dehui Chen: This is an idea about a new model of social network, to solve some common problems we have on the current social network platforms, such as data safety, the life span of personal data, distribution of personal data, fake news…this new model can also bring new features that we have never experienced until now.