Other News from Participating Centers

Citizenship and democratic production

Article by Mara Balestrini and Valeria Right in Open Democracy: “In the last decades we have seen how the concept of innovation has changed, as not only the ecosystem of innovation-producing agents, but also the ways in which innovation is produced have expanded.

Israeli, French Politicians Endorse Blockchain for Governance Transparency

Komfie Manolo at Cryptovest: “Blockchain is moving into the world’s political systems, with several influential political figures in Israel and France recently emerging as new believers in the technology.

Violaine Lemay promue au rang de professeure titulaire

Le Centre de recherche en droit public est très fier d’annoncer que le Conseil de l’Université de Montréal a décidé d’accorder le rang de professeur titulaire à la professeure Violaine Lemay.
Cette promotion souligne l’excellence du travail de recherche et d’enseignement de cette chercheure régulière du CRDP.
Toute nos félicitations à la professeure Lemay!
Cette promotion serra effective au 1er juin 2018.

Women in Africa Call for a Trusted and Inclusive Internet

Creating a safer and trusted Internet MUST involve education building and awareness raising. This is one message that came up at the women’s event during the 2018 Africa Internet Summit held in Dakar.

Art that Imitates Art: Computational Creativity and Creative Contracting

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Jessica Fjeld and Mason Kortz, Cyberlaw Clinicians at Harvard Law

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Join us for our last Tuesday Luncheon of the academic year! Cyberlaw Clinicians Jess Fjeld and Mason Kortz for a discussion about copyright in AI-generated works, the need for a shared understanding of what is and isn’t up for grabs in a license, and how forward-thinking contracts can prevent AI developers and artists from having their rights decided by our (often notoriously backwards-looking) legal system.

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O Programa de Transparência Pública, da FGV Direito Rio e FGV EBAPE, seleciona estagiário

Inscrições podem ser realizadas até o dia 15 de maioO Programa de Transparência Pública (PTP - FGV EBAPE e DIREITO RIO) está selecionando estudante de Direito para atuar nos preparativos para o Global Conference on Transparency Reserarch, além de auxiliar o PTP em variadas tarefas e pesquisas, incluindo uma análise da transparência de websites municipais e transparência de financiamento educacional. Os interessados devem enviar currículo e e-mail para gregory.michener@fgv.br até o 15 de maio. 

The First Nepal School on Internet Governance

In January 2018, the Internet Society Nepal Chapter organized the first Nepal School on Internet Governance (npSIG) in collaboration with the Forum for Digital Equality. The initiative offered an intensive two-day learning course covering a wide list of topics at the Institute of Engineering Pulchowk in Kathmandu.

Aluna da FGV Direito Rio atuou como pesquisadora visitante no Instituto Max Planck

A instituição parceira recebeu a discente durante todo o mês de abrilEste ano, Júlia Massadas, aluna do Mestrado em Direito da Regulação da FGV Direito Rio, atuou como pesquisadora visitante no Instituto Max Planck para Direito Internacional e Direito Público Comparado, em Heidelberg, Alemanha. A instituição, que é parceira da FGV Direito Rio, recebeu a discente durante todo o mês de abril.

Nest Alert: Protection From Pwned* Passwords

A colleague just received an “Urgent Security Alert – Action Requested” email from Nest. At first glance it looked like either a phishing attempt or one of the way-too-often breach notifications we all receive these days. Instead, it was a real alert notifying him that the password he uses for his Nest account had been compromised in a data breach – not at Nest but somewhere else. Nest encouraged him to update to a unique password and enable two-step verification (additional authentication beyond a password, usually referred to as multi-factor authentication).

Privacy by Design: Building a Privacy Policy People Actually Want to Read

Richard Mabey at the Artificial Lawyer: “…when it came to updating our privacy policy ahead of GDPR it was important to us from the get-go that our privacy policy was not simply a compliance exercise. Legal documents should not be written by lawyers for lawyers; they should be useful, engaging and designed for the end user. But it seemed that we weren’t the only ones to think this. When we read the regulations, it turned out the EU agreed.

Bringing The Public Back In: Can the Comment Process be Fixed?

Remarks of Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, US Federal Communications Commission: “…But what we are facing now does not reflect what has come before.  Because it is apparent the civic infrastructure we have for accepting public comment in the rulemaking process is not built for the digital age.  As the Administrative Conference of the United States acknowledges, while the basic framework for rulemaking from 1946 has stayed the same, “the technol

Jak zrobić lepszą przyszłość? Nasz warsztat z dizajnu spekulatywnego na PDF CEE

Jakie przedmioty i produkty mogą pomóc nam zrozumieć wpływ trendów technologicznych na prawa człowieka za 20 lat? To pytanie przyświecało nam podczas warsztatu „Future that is made – speculative design and advocacy”, który zorganizowaliśmy podczas tegorocznej konferencji PDF CEE. Wydarzenie, którego gospodarzem od lat jest Fundacja ePaństwo, w tym roku przebiegało pod hasłem „Przyszłość dla wszystkich”. Nasze warsztaty ze spekulatywnego dizajnu, jako sposobu myślenia wspólnie o przyszłości, były jak najbardziej na miejscu.

Creativity and mobile solutions can help combat road accidents

This blog is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2018. On Saturday 3 March, groups from around the world organised over 400 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data. 45 events received additional support through the Open Knowledge International mini-grants scheme, funded by Hivos, SPARC, Mapbox, the Hewlett Foundation and the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office.

SC Constitution Bench on Aadhaar – Final Hearing (Day XXXVII)

In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]

Bytes de Informação: CLOUD Act

Neste Bytes de Informação Davi Teofilo e Paloma Rocillo falam sobre mecanismos de cooperação jurídica internacional, mais especificamente o projeto de lei chamado CLOUD Act. Confira:

NPJ da FGV Direito Rio lança livro sobre políticas públicas para população em situação de rua

Trabalho é uma parceria com a Defensoria Pública no RioO Núcleo de Prática Jurídica (NPJ) da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV Direito Rio) e o Núcleo de Defesa dos Direitos Humanos (Nudedh) da Defensoria Pública do Rio de Janeiro realizam, no dia 23 de maio, o lançamento do Volume 9 da Série Clínicas – Cadernos FGV Direito Rio, intitulado População em situação de rua: direitos humanos, políticas públicas e programas de housing first, às 11h, no hall do 8º andar da sede da FGV, no Rio de Janeiro.

Lançamento com debate do Volume 9 dos Cadernos FGV Direito Rio - Série Clínicas - População em situação de rua: direitos humanos, políticas públicas e programas de housing first

Lançamento com debate do Volume 9 dos Cadernos FGV Direito Rio - Série Clínicas - População em situação de rua: direitos humanos, políticas públicas e programas de housing first11h00O Evento: Elaborada por 53 alunos(as) no âmbito do Programa de Clínicas do NPJ, especificamente na Clínica LADIF (Laboratório de Assessoria Jurídica em Direitos Fundamentais), a publicação, intitulada  "População em situação de rua: direitos humanos, políticas públicas e programas de housing first", traz dois pareceres jurídicos solicitados pelo Nudedh.

DNA Tests Raise Privacy Questions

The news was amazing: Police in California used DNA evidence collected decades ago to identify the suspected Golden State Killer, a serial killer and rapist active between the mid-‘70s and mid-‘80s.
Investigators from the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department entered the old DNA into online genealogical database GEDmatch and were able to zero in on suspect Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. by linking the DNA sample to relatives in the database.

Solving the Internet Monopolies Problem – Facebook, Google et al

The good news is that an increasing number of people seem to agree that:

  1. Facebook, Google etc are monopolies
  2. That is a problem

Agreeing we have a problem is always a crucial first step. But to go further we need to:

Handlich und im Notfall griffbereit: Düsseldorfer Notfallausweis unterstützt Patienten und Mediziner

Im Notfall zählt jede Sekunde – keine Zeit zum Suchen