Muito tem sido dito sobre Blockchain e criptomoedas, desde as visões mais otimistas a respeito de um possível fim dos intermediários (“trusted third parties”), até aquelas mais pessimistas, que veem na tecnologia uma forma de gastar muito dinheiro (e energia elétrica) em aplicações que poderiam ser muito mais simples e menos custosas.
Blockchain é mais do que um hype, porém. É uma tecnologia que, ao que tudo indica, tem potencial para mudar a forma como entendemos confiança, descentralização e criptografia.
Mas o que é Blockchain?

Eventos foram realizados da Universidade de Princeton e na USPO pesquisador do Centro de Pesquisas em Direito e Economia (CPDE) da FGV Direito Rio, Paulo Augusto Franco, participou este mês do evento The Dignity and Debt Network – Inaugural Symposium na Universidade de Princeton, Estados Unidos. Na mesma semana, o professor da FGV Direito Rio, Leandro Molhano, participou do seminário do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência Política da Universidade de São Paulo (USP).

O acordo é de cooperação científica e acadêmicaA FGV Direito Rio e o Tribunal de Justiça da Bahia firmaram um acordo de cooperação científica e acadêmica. O objetivo da parceria é o de promover atividades de ensino e pesquisa, como o curso de Direito e Economia para magistrados, além de possibilitar a troca de conhecimentos e práticas que benéficas ao aprimoramento das instituições.

Encryption fails: A couple of stories in the news this past week demonstrated problems with encryption, or at least, problems with deployment of encryption. One researcher demonstrated an exploitable loophole he called Efail in PGP/GPG and S/Mime software used by email clients, reports Engadget. Efail abuses the active content of HTML emails to access plain text.

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Ken Auletta in the New Yorker: “Once, Mad Men ruled advertising. They’ve now been eclipsed by Math Men—the engineers and data scientists whose province is machines, algorithms, pureed data, and artificial intelligence. Yet Math Men are beleaguered, as Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated when he humbled himself before Congress, in April.

This post was jointly written by Ana Brandusescu (Web Foundation) and Danny Lämmerhirt (Open Knowledge International), co-chairs of the Measurement and Accountability Working Group of the Open Data Charter. It was originally published via the Open Data Charter’s Medium account.
 

Zack Walsh writing for The Arrow:  The Stern Review on The Economics of Climate Change claims that reducing emissions by more than 1 percent annually would generate a severe economic crisis, and yet, climate analysts tell us we need to reduce carbon emissions by 5.3 percent annually to limit global warming to 2°C.1 Moreover, there is no evidence that decoupling economic gro

Am Institut für Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht, Zivilrechtliche Abteilung, ist ab dem
3. September 2018 eine
bis zum 31.12.2020 befristete Stelle als
 
wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin / wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
(Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L)
 
zu besetzen. Eine Verlängerung der Befristung wird grundsätzlich angestrebt. Die Arbeitszeit beträgt derzeit 19 Std. 55 Min. wöchentlich (Hälfte der regelmäßigen Arbeitszeit).

With rates of trust in government at all-time lows, the legitimacy and effectiveness of traditional representative models of lawmaking, typically dominated by political party agendas and conducted by professional staff and politicians working behind largely closed doors, are called into question. But technology offers the promise of opening how lawmaking bodies work to new sources of expertise and opinion and making lawmakers accountable to the public more on more than just Election Day.

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Date published: May 21, 2018Wired"One of the letter’s organizers, Peter Asaro, an associate professor at The New School, says there are no plans for similar letter for Microsoft or Amazon, “as there has not been a similar effort by employees in other companies.”"

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Date published: May 21, 2018Politico"“This would be the case of a president overruling literally the most rudimentary advice given by the communications agencies,” said Andrew McLaughlin, who served as deputy chief technology officer under Obama and helped develop the former president’s specialized phone."

Article by Vyacheslav Polonski: “Unless you live under a rock, you probably have been inundated with recent news on machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). With all the recent breakthroughs, it almost seems like AI can already predict the future.

RightsCon is organizing the 2018 edition of the event at Beanfield Centre at Exhibition Place, Toronto in Canada. A session on Pervasive Technologies project titled "Cheap and chipper: IP in India’s affordable smartphones" is scheduled on May 17, 5.15 p.m. to 6.15 p.m. in the International Trade and the Commons track. (Room #203B, Beanfield Centre).

Amber Sinha participated remotely in the inaugural meeting of Fairness, Transparency and Accountable AI working group of the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence on May 10, 2018. The meeting was held at DeepMind's office in London.
Agenda of the meeting here

Birubala Rabha may be a household name in Assam, but her crusade against the practice of witch-hunting in her State has not got the attention it deserves from the nation or the world. Barring a handful of articles in print and online publications, little has been written about her fight that spans over two decades. There is no mention of her on Wikipedia.

As much as eight per cent of Aadhaar data collected in Andhra Pradesh has errors, mostly related to name, address and date of birth, which is more than the errors in the voter ID database. But still, 87% of rural residents approve mandatory linking of the unique ID with various schemes and services.
The article by U Sudhakar Reddy was published in the Times of India on May 18, 2018.

„Es freut uns, dass wir der Polizei Düsseldorf, mit der uns schon lange eine enge Zusammenarbeit verbindet, Räumlichkeiten für Ihre Besprechung zur Verfügung stellen konnten“, erklärt Ulrich Dreiner, Leiter der Logistik und verantwortlich für den Sicherheitsdienst am UKD, der das UKD in der Partnerschaft vertritt. „Mittlerweile haben wir viele Projekte an denen wir gemeinsam arbeiten, wie zum Beispiel auch unsere Präventions- und Beratungssprechstunde des Weißen Rings Düsseldorf an jedem zweiten Mittwoch im Monat.

Introduction by Niall Atkinson, Ann Lui, and Mimi Zeiger to a Special Exhibit and dedicated set of Essays: “We begin by defining citizenship as a cluster of rights, responsibilities, and attachments, and by positing their link to the built environment. Of course architectural examples of this affiliation—formal articulations of inclusion and exclusion—can seem limited and rote. The US-Mexico border wall (“The Wall,” to use common parlance) dominates the cultural imagination.

Paper by Jeremy de Beer and Vipal Jain in Technology Innovation Management Review: “The biohacking movement is changing who can innovate in biotechnology. Driven by principles of inclusivity and open science, the biohacking movement encourages sharing and transparency of data, ideas, and resources. As a result, innovation is now happening outside of traditional research labs, in unconventional spaces – do-it-yourself (DIY) biology labs known as “biohacker spaces”.