If taxpayers pay for something, they should have access to the results of the work they paid for. This seems a very logical basic premise that no-one would disagree with, but there are many cases of where this is not common practice. For example, in various countries Freedom of Information laws do not fully apply to cases where governments outsource services. This would prevent you from finding out how your tax money has been spent.
Shocking, and disappointing news. Reposted from Boing Boing.
Cory Doctorow: In July, the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium overruled dozens of members’ objections to publishing a DRM standard without a compromise to protect accessibility, security research, archiving, and competition.
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Date published: September 20, 2017Foreign Policy"“Congress has subpoena power, of course,” says Al Gidari, the director of privacy at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, who previously represented several big tech companies in national security cases.
Guerrilla Translation’s transcript of the 2013 C-Realm Podcast Bauwens/Kleiner/Trialogue prefigures many of the directions the P2P Foundation has taken in later years. To honor its relevance we’re curating special excerpts from each of the three authors.
I am working with a group of civic developers committed to supporting Hurricane victims for relief & recovery who have helped with the software development and data analysis of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma primarily in Texas and Florida. In the wake of Hurricane Maria, we want to help Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the same way. Devastation has already occurred in Puerto Rico and the USVI, and we’re here to help in the response and recovery pending from Maria.
Digit: “The Data Lab is teaming up with UNICEF in a bid to encourage data sharing in public and private organisations to help solve pressing public problems. The first collaborative project aims to tackle the issue of childhood obesity in Scotland, with between 29% and 33% of children aged 2-15 at risk of serious obesity-related health complications.
Law enforcement sometimes argue that they need backdoors to encryption in order to carry out their mission, while cryptographers like Bruce Schneier describe the public cybersecurity risk from backdoors and say that the "technology just doesn't work that way."
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featuring Monika Bickert, Facebook’s Head of Global Policy Management in conversation with Professor Jonathan Zittrain
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As society figures out what is acceptable and what is harmful, can technology play a role in improving online debate?
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II Seminário de Integração FGV Direito Rio e Faculdade de Direito da UERJ09h00 até 18h00O Evento: Como no ano passado, professores dos programas de pós-graduação da FGV Direito Rio e da UERJ se reunirão no “II Seminário de integração FGV Direito Rio e Faculdade de Direito da UERJ”. Neste ano, o tema central será “Transformações do Direito Administrativo: Novas Tecnologias e Alternativas Regulatórias”.
HIIG organises Game Jam – Unveil the privacy threat, an innovative workshop to sensitise citizens and companies for privacy and security risks through serious games. HIIG-project lead Max von Grafenstein:... MORE
Dr. Nils Hansson, Schwede und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (HHU), erforscht seit vielen Jahren die Geschichte des Nobelpreises für Physiologie oder Medizin. Am 2. Oktober lädt das Institut zusammen mit der HHU und der Charité zu einem Symposium mit dem Titel „It’s Dynamite! Der Nobelpreis im Wandel der Zeit“ im Medizinhistorischen Museum der Charité in Berlin ein.
Zum Schutz der Patienten hat der Vorstand des UKD verdi bereits vor einer Woche den Entwurf einer gemeinsamen Notdienstvereinbarung vorgelegt. Diese wurde aber von verdi abgelehnt. „Dringende Operationen konnten trotzdem durchgeführt werden. Eingriffe, die aus medizinischer Sicht verlegt werden konnten (sog. Elektive Operationen), wurden hingegen verschoben“, erklärt Prof. Dr. Klaus Höffken, Ärztlicher Direktor des Universitätsklinikums Düsseldorf.Die Streikleitung hatte sich geweigert, streikendes Personal für die medizinisch dringliche Patientenversorgung zurückzuschicken.
Is it possible to peer produce spiritual experience and insight, just as knowledge, software and code for computers are peer produced by communities of self-organizing individuals? If so, does this matter?
Jason Hickel and Martin Kirk: These are fast-changing times. Old certainties are collapsing around us and people are scrambling for new ways of being in the world. As we pointed out in a recent article, 51% of young people in the United States no longer support the system of capitalism. And a solid 55% of Americans of all ages believe that capitalism is fundamentally unfair.
Neste mês de setembro, uma pesquisa publicada pelo professor de psicologia de Stanford Michal Kosinski, e pelo pesquisador Yilun Wang, alegou ter identificado a orientação sexual de pessoas por meio da análise de fotos de rostos, realizada por um algoritmo de inteligência artifical (deep neural networks). A pesquisa tem gerado calorosos debates nos meios de comunicação estadunidenses e europeus, e tem sido também noticiada em alguns jornais brasileiros.
Springwise: “ZSL (Zoological Society of London), one of the most famous zoos in Europe, has teamed up with non-profit technology company Digital Catapult to support the development of anti-poaching technology.
In diesem Jahr entschied sich die Jury unter den insgesamt 98 eingereichten Arbeiten für sechs Schülerinnen und acht Schüler, die mit ihren wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten überzeugten.