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Longer and better living through personalised pills and nanorobots? What is the influence of AI on medicine? And what to do with the health related data? Discuss with us on 30 August!

Neil Levy at the Journal of Medical Ethics: “Nudges—policy proposals informed by work in behavioural economics and psychology that are designed to lead to better decision-making or better behaviour—are controversial. Critics allege that they bypass our deliberative capacities, thereby undermining autonomy and responsible agency. In this paper, I identify a kind of nudge I call a nudge to reason, which make us more responsive to genuine evidence. I argue that at least some nudges to reason do not bypass our deliberative capacities.

Book by Dietmar Offenhuber: “Waste is material information. Landfills are detailed records of everyday consumption and behavior; much of what we know about the distant past we know from discarded objects unearthed by archaeologists and interpreted by historians. And yet the systems and infrastructures that process our waste often remain opaque.

Texto originalmente publicado aqui, em 10 de Julho de 2017, no blog do Le Lab Legalstart. Tradução autorizada e aprovada pelos administradores do blog e pelo autor.

In its Equustek ruling in June, the Canadian Supreme Court held that Google must delete search results for users everywhere in the world, based on Canadian law. Google has now filed suit in the US, asking the court to confirm that the order can’t be enforced here. Here’s my take on that claim.
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La académica Viviana Soto, del Departamento de Educación de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Chile, problematiza el actual modelo de funcionamiento del SENAME y la violencia a la que son sometidos de manera cotidiana los niños, niñas y jóvenes insertos en la red de atención dependiente de ese organismo estatal.Una mañana se escuchaba en un centro de atención directa del SENAME un canto de niños y niñas, que tenía un solo y rotundo mensaje: ¡Queremos ser Libres!

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United States

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United States

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Maëlle Gavet at the WEF: “…the Australian government’s new “data-driven profiling” trial for drug testing welfare recipients, to US law enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology and the deployment of proprietary software in sentencing in many US court

Jennifer Gabrys at the Sociological Review: “Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is an emerging and growing industry that is having considerable effects on environments and health. Yet fracking often lacks environmental regulations that might be understood as governmental forms of care.

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Das Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft (HIIG) sucht ab sofort für ein interdisziplinäres Forschungsprojekt eine/n Wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter/in für das Themenfeld Partizipation auf digitalen Plattformen Der/Die wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter/in... MORE

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With data of about 10 crore bank accounts available in the public domain, it has become easy for cyber criminals to steal money. What makes detection of such crimes tough is the lack of convergence between various departments and sectors.
The article by Kiran Parashar KM was published in the New Indian Express on July 26, 2017. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.

Em março de 2016, o IRIS ofereceu junto ao Gnet o Curso de Introdução ao Direito da Internet, na Faculdade de Direito e Ciências do Estado da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Além de capacitar novos e futuros membros do grupo de estudos, o evento serviu como cartão de visitas para interessados no tema.
Fruto do curso ministrado, elaboramos nesta apostila um compilado de informações sobre Direito da Internet. Nela você vai aprender sobre:

Este viernes 21 de julio, el equipo conformado por cuatro estudiantes de pregrado de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM) y siete robots -bautizados con diferentes nombres en honor a los personajes de "Game of Thrones"-, parten rumbo a Nagoya, ciudad nipona donde se realizará la XXI versión del Mundial de Fútbol Robótico.

Danyal Farsani es inglés, profesor de matemáticas y doctor en educación y se encuentra realizando un posdoctorado en Chile, para lo cual realizó una estadía en el Centro de Modelamiento Matemático (CMM) y en el Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación (CIAE) de nuestro plantel.