Alex Stamos discusses his experience at Facebook handling 2016 election interference, as well as his work on cybersecurity, disinformation, and end-to-end encryption with evelyn douek and Kate Klonick.

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Jessica Fjeld, lead author of the recent BKC publication Principled Artificial Intelligence, answered questions about the report and its main takeaways. 

“That there was such a convergence around general themes. When we started, there were principles documents coming out hot and heavy from the private sector, governments, and advocacy groups”

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On 23 February, the 27th consecutive Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) kicks off in San Diego, CA. NDSS is a premier academic research conference addressing a wide range of topics on network and system security. It’s an incubator for new, innovative ideas and research on the security and privacy of the Internet.

As Canada considers how to renew its broadcasting and
telecommunications regulatory regime, it should steer clear of recent
recommendations that would impact key Internet properties that foster Canadian innovation
online.

On Jan. 29 the Broadcasting and
Telecommunications Legislative Review (BTLR) panel handed the Canadian
government 97 recommendations to consider as it prepares new legislation to
update the decades-old Telecommunications Act, Radiocommunication Act and
Broadcasting Act.

This blog is the first in a series done by the Frictionless Data Fellows, discussing how they created Frictionless Data Packages with their research data. Learn more about the Fellows Programme here http://fellows.frictionlessdata.io/.
By Monica Granados

by Jan Christopher Kalbhenn, LL.M. (Amsterdam)

Background: The rise of Social Media

Von 10:00 bis 15:00 Uhr werden im Gebäude 4 an der Münsterstraße 156 auf dem Campus der Hochschule Düsseldorf viele Besucherinnen und Besucher erwartet. Es lohnt sich also, beim Frühjahrsputz gut erhaltene Sachen auszusortieren und sich jetzt schon anzumelden. Ausschließlich Gegenstände, die mit Kindern zu tun haben, können auf Decken der Größe zwei mal zwei Meter präsentiert werden. „So haben auch kleinere Kinder einen guten Überblick und können mittrödeln“, erklärt Oliver Hartmann vom FamilienBeratungsBüro, warum es bei dieser beliebten Veranstaltung keine Tische gibt.

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Julie Owono was recently quoted in leading French Magazine L'Express about a social media tax, proposed by a French MP, to fight against hate speech online.

Like in Uganda, the measure wouldn't be efficient, and would reinforce censorship : “in the face of such a restrictive measure, the use of VPNs would increase considerably.”

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As Amazon expands its reign over e-commerce and gets more aggressive about rooting out counterfeiting, it’s taking a more active role in judging intellectual property disputes.

“Amazon, with its size, now substitutes for government in a lot of what it does,” said BKC director Rebecca Tushnet. “It is being asked to run a judicial system, without the commitments to transparency and precedent of a real judicial system.”

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Dariusz Jemielniak on a Chinese app that tracks the spread of the coronavirus.

“There’s a very high possibility that people will panic,” Jemielniak said. “I don’t think this is a good thing. This is a bad thing. They are fearmongering through the app.”

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evelyn douek urges transparency and accountability in industry-wide content removal decisions:

“Content cartel creep is at least in part an implicit acknowledgment that the relationship between economic competition in the platform market and a healthy public sphere is complicated.”

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Investimento: Gratuito
Análise Econômica da Reforma Tributária14h00O Evento: A FGV Direito Rio, em Parceria com o Tribunal Regional Federal da 3ª Região, realiza o Seminário “Análise Econômica da Reforma Tributária”. O evento, que tem como objetivo discutir as implicações econômicas da Reforma Tributária, contará com a participação de desembargadores, outras autoridades governamentais e acadêmicos.
 
Abertura14:00 às 14:30    
Antônio Maristrello Porto | Vice-Diretor, FGV Direito Rio

Investimento: Gratuito

The Open Knowledge Foundation is happy to announce that dozens of organisations from all over the world have been awarded mini-grants to support the running of events that celebrate Open Data Day on Saturday 7th March 2020.

Le CRDP a le plaisir de vous inviter à la prochaine matinée de la justice. 

La conférence, intitulée « Chagall, Caillebotte, Carr et les tribulations de la Loi sur l’exportation et l’importation des biens culturels », se tiendra le mercredi 18 mars 2020 de 10h à 11h30 au salon François-Chevrette. Les conférenciers invités sont :

Me François Le Moine, Conférencier, Avocat, Sarrazin-Plourde Doctorant à l’Université McGill.

J. Nathan Matias blogs about Ethan Zuckerman’s talk at Cornell.

“Right now, Ethan says, we have a massive failure of imagination. We wrongly assume that the internet will be Facebook and Google forever,” Matias writes. “Instead, Ethan tells us that we’re in the early stages of a long drama. If we want the internet to be good for society, we still have the chance to imagine something better.”

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Ifeoma Ajunwa testified in front of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor on February 5, emphasizing the need to regulate automated hiring systems.

Technology has created “the quantified worker,” Ajunwa said. “Yet there are no federal laws to protect workers from excessive surveillance.”

Read more from the Cornell Chronicle