Other News from Participating Centers

Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years

Today, on Wikipedia’s 19th birthday, the Wikimedia Foundation has received reports that access to Wikipedia in Turkey is actively being restored.* This latest development follows a 26 December 2019 ruling by the Constitutional Court of Turkey that the more than two and a half year block imposed by the Turkish government was unconstitutional.

Twisted Tracking Law Precedent Badly Needs Straightening Out

On December 16, 2019 the Supreme Court denied cert in Ackies v. United States, the ‘precise location’ warrant case from the First Circuit. For reasons I outlined here and here, that appellate court decision was a train wreck of factual misconception and statutory misconstruction.

Deep Dive: U.S. Federal Government’s Security and Privacy Practices

In
April 2019, the Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance released its 10th Annual
Online Trust Audit & Honor Roll
. The Audit looks at the security and privacy practices of over
1,000 of the top sites on the Internet, from retailers to government sites. In
this post we will take a deeper dive into the U.S. Federal Government sector of

Vorträge zu aktuellen Fragen im Informationsrecht

Am 13.01.2020 hielten Zhang Kaiye und Johannes Kevekordes Vorträge zu aktuellen Themen zum GoAL-Projekt vor den Studierenden des Schwerpunkts „Informations-, Telekommunikations-und Medienrecht“.

Kick-off meeting: Digital Transformation of Decision-Making

​Physicists prove that 2D and 3D liquids are fundamentally different 

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Colloque CRDP/AED (3ème édition)

Justice + frontières : enjeux pratiques et théoriques de l’immigration

Mardi 21 janvier, de 13 h 30 à 17 h00 

Salon François-Chevrette

Chères étudiantes, chers étudiants, 

Cher personnel enseignant, 

Le Centre de recherche en droit prospectif (CRDP) en collaboration avec l’Association des étudiantes et étudiants en droit (AED) de la Faculté de droit organise la troisième édition de leur colloque annuel. 

The Week in Internet News: Mexico, NYC Push for Internet Access for All

Everyone’s invited: Politicians in Mexico and New York City announced plans for universal Internet access in recent days. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced a plan to bring access to the large swaths of the country that don’t have it, including a government investment of more than $500,000, according to AA News. Meanwhile, New York City Major Bill de Blasio is pushing an “Internet master plan” to improve access.

Banning Salmonella song: is it really what matters?

The National Council for Women (NCW) has demanded that Google ceases the broadcast and promotion of the Salmonella song – which was released by Tameem Youness on YouTube on the first day of 2020. The NCW based its demand on the Anti-Cyber and Information Technology Crimes law, according to the sentence 175/2018 of the Egyption Panel Code.

Appel à communications – Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheurs Droit et Numérique (3e édition)

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Volume 17

 

Distinção Best Lawyers 2020

Começamos o ano de 2020 com boas notícias.
Raquel Brízida Castro, Doutora em Direito, Professora da FDUL, Advogada, Investigadora principal do CIDP e Investigadora Associada do CIJIC e do ISCSP foi distinguida pelos seus pares no ranking internacional Best Lawyers 2020, pelo trabalho desenvolvido em 3 áreas:
Privacy and Data Security Law, Telecommunications Law, e, Information and Technology Law.

‘Major Initiatives in Cybersecurity’ Shows Everyone Can Contribute to Trust

How
do we work toward a more secure Internet?

In the Cyber Security discussions that take place in the various policy fora around the world, there is often little appreciation that the security of the Internet is a distributed responsibility, where many stakeholders take action.

Book of the Day: Three Paradigm Shifts Towards a Sustainable World

Towards a sustainable world: 3 Paradigm shifts. By Bernard Lietaer. Edited by Helga Preuss, Marek Hudon, Kristof de Spiegeleer et al. Delta Institute – Dieter Legat, 2019

Description

Bernard Lietaer calls for three paradigm shifts – With specific actions by individuals and leaders

My body, my traitor: essay in 10TAL

Last year Swedish magazine 10TAL published an essay of mine about data mining, the body, and self-knowledge. Now, the English translation has been published too! Read the opening below or click through to the whole text: My body, my traitor
 

​Scientists observe ultrafast chemistry in water caused by ionising radiation for the first time

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Strong Encryption Is Central to Good Security – India’s Proposed Intermediary Rules Puts It at Risk

Security and encryption experts from around the world are calling on the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTy) to reconsider proposed amendments to intermediary liability rules that could weaken security and limit the use of strong encryption on the Internet.

Banning Salmonella song: is it really what matters?

The National Council for Women (NCW) has demanded that Google ceases the broadcast and promotion of the Salmonella song – which was released by Tameem Youness on YouTube on the first day of 2020. The NCW based its demand on the Anti-Cyber and Information Technology Crimes law, according to the[...]

Column – Take root among the stars: If Octavia Butler wrote design fiction

Authors: Gabriele Ferri, Inte Gloerich

Indian Community Making the Right Connections

In the lead up to last month’s Internet Engineering Task
Force meeting in Singapore, IETF 106, the India Internet Engineering Society
(IIESoc) held its third annual Connections conference in Kolkata, India.

This pre-IETF event aims to increase participation in IETF
discussions from the Asia-Pacific region, specifically India.