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All Carrots and No Sticks: A Case Study on Social Credit Scores in Xiamen and Fuzhou

In 2018 Xiamen and Fuzhou, two cities in Fujian province, a region on the coast in the southeast most famous for its historic trader links and global diaspora population, became one of just a handful of cities in China with their own city-level personal credit scores (个人信用评分). These are algorithmically created scores, using data gathered by the local government to assess citizens’ level of “promise keeping” (守信), that can be used at places like hospitals and tourist sites, or when paying school tuition fees and borrowing books.

Conferenza Nexa su Internet & Società 2019

Page Type: conferenzaEvent6 dicembre 2019
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image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Fri, 06/12/2019 - 09:00 to 18:00

The current colloquium program is online!

You can find more information about the program under this link

Industry, Design, Makers: Open Design and Manufacturing trainings

The following report details four training workshops which took place as part of the Open Design and Manufacturing project this year. These were:

Repensando la ciudadanía en un mundo de vigilancia permanente.

El pasado martes 17 de septiembre, el mismo día en que el libro Permanent Record/Vigilancia Permanente (2019) de Edward Snowden era publicado simultáneamente por 23 editoriales al rededor del mundo, el departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos interpuso una demanda contra su autor y su casa editorial Macmillan and Holtzbrinck.

[September 30-October 7] CCG’s Week in Review Curated News in Information Law and Policy

Huawei finds support from Indian telcos in the 5G rollout as PayPal withdrew from Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project; Foreign Portfolio Investors moved MeitY against in the Data Protection Bill; the CJEU rules against Facebook in case relating to takedown of content globally; and Karnataka joins list of states considering implementing NRC to remove illegal immigrants […]

Open Letter: Facebook’s End-to-End Encryption Plans

On October 4, SMEX and many other civil society organizations shared an open letter to Facebook and other tech companies to continue increasing end-to-end security across its messaging tools and resist law enforcement calls to create backdoors or exceptional access to the content of users’ messages. 4 October 2019 Dear[...]

NEW REPORT: Identifying Citizens’ Needs by Combining Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Collective Intelligence (CI)

Open Positions @ MC&I

Open Positions @ MC&I

Diretor e Professor da FGV Direito Rio participaram de eventos e reuniões na China

Confira a agenda completaEm setembro deste ano, o diretor da FGV Direito Rio, Prof. Sergio Guerra, e o coordenador do Núcleo de Estudos Brasil-China, Prof. Evandro Carvalho, foram à China para participar do BRICS Forum on International Rule of Law, organizado pelo Instituto de Direito Internacional da China Academy of Social Science (CASS) e visitar diversas universidades e entidades chinesas com as quais a Escola tem parceria.

Whose deaths matter? New research on Black Lives Matter and media attention

What influences do social movements like Black Lives Matter, MeToo or Occupy have on society as a whole? One hope movement leaders express is that a successful movement can change how we think and talk about key social issues. Champions of Occupy argue that one of the movement’s achievements was getting Americans to talk about economic issues in terms of inequality and the power of the 1%. But it’s difficult to quantify claims like this: […]

Postdoctoral Position “Platform Governance and Copyright” (m/f/d)

Do you have a social science background? Does your research focus on platform governance? Are copyright and cultural practices of particular interest for you? Had you heard of Article 13 before the mainstream media covered it? Then, we’re looking forward to receiving your application   The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG)…

Celebrating National Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Every October, we mark National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. From the U.S. Department of Homeland Security website, “Held every October, National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) is a collaborative effort between government and industry to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity and to ensure that all Americans have the resources they need to be safer and more secure online.”

E-Commerce, defesa do consumidor e proteção de dados são temas de debate em seminário da FGV Direito Rio

O crescimento e as possibilidades abertas pelo e-commerce estão mudando radicalmente o mercado. Ao mesmo tempo, lançam um desafio: como o sistema jurídico pode acompanhar essa transformação, de modo a proteger o consumidor e dar garantias ao investimento?
Para discutir essa questão, o Centro de Ensino e Pesquisa em Inovação (CEPI), da FGV Direito SP, e o Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade (CTS), da FGV Direito Rio, realizaraz um evento multissetorial sobre a regulação jurídica das práticas de e-commerce, no contexto da economia do compartilhamento.

Data, ICT services, AI,…: Standardisation and Certification as the new law of everything?

Prof. Valcke geïnterviewd voor speciale editie van De Standaard over Artificiële Intelligentie

Interview met Prof. Valcke: "Mogen we overal vergeten worden?"

VICTORIA project: Project video trailer

IusStart Start-Up Call

Interview met dr. Aleksandra Kuczerawy over Duitse boete aan Facebook