Yaniv Reingewertz and Carmela Lutmar at Harvard Business Review: “Are academic journals impartial? While many would suggest that academic journals work for the advancement of knowledge and science, we show this is not always the case.
Routing outages or attacks – such as hijacking, leaks, and spoofing – can lead to stolen data, lost revenue, reputational damage and more, all on a global scale. Routing security is therefore vital to the future and stability of the Internet, and the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative implements crucial fixes.
Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius et al in Utrecht Law Review: “Online political microtargeting involves monitoring people’s online behaviour, and using the collected data, sometimes enriched with other data, to show people-targeted political advertisements. Online political microtargeting is widely used in the US; Europe may not be far behind.
James Bridle in The Atlantic: “In Cyprus, Estonia, the United Arab Emirates, and elsewhere, passports can now be bought and sold….“If you believe you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere.
UIDAI directive to Aadhaar authentication agencies aims to avoid putting citizens’ biometric data at risk
The article by Komal Gupta was published in Livemint on February 8, 2018.
Researchers and journalists who have identified loopholes in India’s massive national identity card project have said they have been slapped with criminal cases or harassed by government agencies because of their work.
This was published by Reuters on February 13, 2018. Reporting by Rahul Bhatia; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan
Summer School European Private LawA FGV DIREITO RIO seleciona alunos da graduação para o curso de verão “Summer School European Private Law”, que ocorrerá de 02 a 14 de julho de 2018, em Salzburg, na Áustria. A Escola poderá indicar até um aluno, que terá isenção na taxa de inscrição. Os demais alunos interessados farão parte do processo seletivo e, sendo aprovados, não terão isenção da taxa de inscrição. Os interessados devem se inscrever até 27 de fevereiro.
In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]
Most people paying attention would expect that the cost of cybercrime has gone up in recent years. But a new report has put a number on it: Worldwide cybercrime costs an estimated $600 billion USD a year.
Stefaan Verhulst in the Journal AI and Society: “This paper seeks to explore the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Collective Intelligence (CI), within the context of innovating how we govern. It starts from the premise that advances in technology provide policy makers with two important new assets: data and connected people. The application of AI and CI allows them to leverage these assets toward solving public problems.
In 2017, the Internet Society unveiled the 2017 Global Internet Report: Paths to Our Digital Future. The interactive report identifies the drivers affecting tomorrow’s Internet and their impact on Media & Society, Digital Divides, and Personal Rights & Freedoms.
Solon Ardittis at the Migration Data Portal: “According to a recent report published by CB Insights, there are today at least 36 major industries that are likely to benefit from the use of Blockchain technology, ranging from voting procedures, critical infrastructure security, education and healthcare, to car leasing, forecasting, real estate, energy manageme
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In 2017, the Internet Society unveiled the 2017 Global Internet Report: Paths to Our Digital Future. The interactive report identifies the drivers affecting tomorrow’s Internet and their impact on Media & Society, Digital Divides, and Personal Rights & Freedoms.
The website has since been taken down, but the identity of its creators may not be very easy to find.
The blog post by Kaveesha Kohli and Talha Ashraf was published in The Print on February 13, 2018.
„Diese Entscheidung bestätigt unsere Sichtweise und den eingeschlagenen Entlastungskurs für die Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter uneingeschränkt und sorgt für Klarheit und Transparenz“, so Ekkehard Zimmer, Kaufmännischer Direktor und stellvertretender Vorstandsvorsitzender des UKD. Das Gericht schreibt in seinem Beschluss wörtlich, dass mit dem neuen Schichtsystem, Zitat: „[…] die Patientenversorgung und damit die dem Universitätsklinikum obliegende öffentliche Aufgabe besser erfüllt werden kann.“ (Aktenzeichen: 40 L 74/18-PVL).Prof. Dr.