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January 2019

We, intellectuals, academics, artists, activists and others in solidarity, as well as organizations, associations and collectives from across the world, express our solidarity with the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in this critical moment in its history, and condemn the ongoing campaign of disinformation, lies, and slander directed against the Zapatistas.

You are CEO of Google. When you wake up tomorrow morning, your general counsel calls you: "we've been sued in the E.U. for copyright infringement! The claim: our search results for Le Parisien and dozens of other newspapers used more than one word and/or beyond a 'short extract.'" Your response: "is this April Fools’ day?"
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Taking the Bitcoin dream of ‘freedom as self-sovereignty’ beyond anything even Bitcoin maximalists ever dared to dream of.

Written by Hank Sohota. Originally posted on Good Audience on 28th January 2019.

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Internet Exchange Points are now considered to be an integral part of the Internet infrastructure worldwide. In very simple terms they are layer 2 switches that are used to route traffic that can be kept local instead of sending that traffic to the nearest major Internet node (usually located in Europe) and back. None of the countries of the Middle East contain enough globally-connected major Internet infrastructure so basically, all Internet traffic generated and terminated in the same country has to be routed through Europe.

The post Jef Ausloos awarded for legal-empirical research appeared first on IVIR.

Curso será realizado de 6 a 21/07A FGV Direito Rio recebe inscrições para o Summer Course “International Business Law”. O curso será realizado em University of California, Irvine, e terá duração de 15 dias. O objetivo do programa é promover uma experiência educacional e cultural nos Estados Unidos, introduzindo estratégias de pensamento jurídico. O curso é aberto para alunos da graduação e pós-graduação da FGV Direito Rio, que poderão optar por tradução simultânea durante as aulas.

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We-Guild is a way for self-employed people to get sick-pay. A trust-based network of mutual support where everyone you trust chips in when you need it in exchange of you chipping in for them when they need it.

Alle 15 Minuten eine Neudiagnose: Jedes Jahr erkranken alleine in Deutschland über 12.000 Menschen an Blutkrebs/Leukämie, darunter auch viele Kinder. Eine Stammzellspende ist oft ihre letzte Hoffnung. Doch nur bei etwa einem Drittel aller Patienten kommt ein passender Spender aus der eigenen Familie in Frage. Viele Betroffene sind daher auf die Spenden von Fremden angewiesen.
Typisierungs-Lolli: Bewusstsein für die Stammzellspende schaffen

Executives from social media firm Twitter’s US headquarters will not appear before a parliamentary panel that has summoned them on Monday over perceived bias towards right-wing handles on the micro-blogging platform.
The article by Smriti Kak Ramachandran and Vidhi Choudhary was published in Hindustan Times on February 10, 2019. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

On February 11, a federal court in Fresno denied a motion to unseal that I had filed last November along with the ACLU, the ACLU of Northern California, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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Publication Date: February 11, 2019Publication Type: Litigation BriefOrder denying motions by Riana Pfefferkorn and others to unseal the docket and court's legal reasoning in a sealed case wherein the Department of Justice allegedly sought to compel Facebook to comply with a wiretap order for Facebook's end-to-end encrypted voice calling app, Messenger. 

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Author(s): Riana PfefferkornPublication Date: February 14, 2019Publication Type: Other WritingSubmission to Australia's Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) regarding its review of the Assistance and Access Act that had passed into law in early December 2018.

The Wikimedia Foundation’s Research team has published a set of white papers that outline our plans and priorities for the next 5 years.

Douglas Rushkoff, author and host of Team Human recently held a Q&A session at Quora. Here are his answers:

Twenty-six-year-old software engineer Akah Harvey N L has fun building things and sharing his knowledge with local communities in Cameroon. While an undergraduate, Akah took part in the Google Summer of Code, giving him the opportunity to develop an application for one of the largest software organizations in the world. He is now a code reviewer for the online learning platform, Udacity, and leads software development training at Seven Academy in Cameroon.

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EU negotiators have struck a deal over copyright reform that is an ‘attack on openness’, the new chief executive of Open Knowledge International has warned. Catherine Stihler, a former MEP and vice-chair of the European Parliament’s consumer protection committee, said the changes will restrict internet freedoms for millions of users.