Jarrod Hodgson, Aleks Terauds and Lian Pin Koh in the Conversation:”Ecologists are incre

Alex Steffen addresses a crucial issue in the context of the changes and transitioning we need to make our societes and economies environmentally acceptable and compatible with climate change requirements. Sure, we can all see change, but we can also see that the change is not nearly fast enough to avoid clear catastrophes. One of the reasons is that stakeholder that could change more radically, are manoeuvering for delays, in order to protect their profits and legacy systems. They are doing this at the cost of the whole ecosystem.

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„Beten für den eigenen Sieg?“ Nein, so möchte Hünten das nicht verstanden wissen. „Eher beten dafür, dass Gott bei den Sportlern ist, dass alles gut geht, alle unverletzt bleiben.“ Schnell ein Kreuzzeichen vor dem Start schlagen, das ist nicht seins, auch wenn er niemanden wegen seiner Rituale verdammen möchte. Er will vielmehr da sein, wenn jemand Gesprächsbedarf hat, sei es nach einem Sieg oder nach der Niederlage.

Governments want special access to encrypted data while IT specialists and privacy advocates oppose these demands. What is the role of the “backdoor” metaphor within these conflicts, often coined as... MORE
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Andy Greenberg at Wired: “…Today, researchers at Switzerland’s Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), the University of Wisconsin and the University of Michigan announced the release of Polisis—short for “privacy policy analysis”—a new website and browser extension that uses their machine-learning-trained app to automatically read and make sense of any 

Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer que le vendredi 23 mars aura lieu la soutenance de thèse de doctorat en droit de Mme Elizabeth Steyn, qui fut dirigée par le professeur Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens.
Sa thèse s’intitule : « At the Intersection of Tangible and Intangible: Constructing a Framework for the Protection of Indigenous Sacred Sites in the Pursuit of Naturel Resource Development Projects. ».

Les membres du jury sont :

Binary analysis refers to the process where human analysts and/or automated systems scrutinize the underlying code in software to discover, exploit, and defend against malice and vulnerabilities, oftentimes without access to source code. Through protecting legacy software deployed in all types of devices and platforms in the modern world, binary analysis techniques are becoming more and more critical in making our everyday life and our society more secure.

Bonnie Kristian at The Week: “You were not supposed to have to think about politics.
Not this much, anyway. Good citizenship was not supposed to entail paying obsessive attention to a 24-hour news cycle. It was not supposed to demand conversational knowledge, at any given moment, of at least 15 issues of national importance. It was not supposed to be the task of each American to have An Informed Opinion on What the Government Should Do about every matter of state.

This two-part, semi-gothic literary essay seeks a provisional definition of “benevolent capital” and a working description of types of artistic and scholarly work that have no value for Capital as such. The paradox observed is that such works may actually appeal to a certain aspect of Capital, insofar as present-day capitalism has within it forms of pre-modern political economy that may actually save Capital from its mad rush toward self-immolation.
PART I
I. No Works For/Before Capital

EU Joint Research Centers: “The JRC has launched a new tool with data on all 10,000 urban centres scattered across the globe. It is the largest and most comprehensive database on cities ever published.
With data derived from the JRC’s Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL), researchers have discovered that the world has become even more urbanised than previously thought.

Introduction to Special Issue of The Hedgehog Review: “Although Francis Fukuyama never said the triumph of liberal democracy was inevitable, his qualified declaration of the “the end of history” captured the optimistic, sometimes naive tenor of the early post-Cold War era. But how quickly that confidence faded! Unmistakable signs of history’s resumption began to appear less than two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Das Institut für Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht (ITM) hat dank einer großzügigen Schenkung aus Peking seinen Bestand an aktueller Literatur zum chinesischen Informations- und Kunstrecht erweitern können.

Laura Wesley at Canada Beyond 150: “Open Government is a concept. It’s a view into government. It’s an invitation to stakeholders, citizens and civil society to help shape government decisions and actions. It is not a program or policy, yet both can be part of achieving the vision of a government that encourages civic participation, invites accountability and demonstrates transparency.

Paper by J. Benjamin Hurlbut: “… examines political norms and relationships associated with governance of pandemic risk. Through a pair of linked controversies over scientific access to H5N1 flu virus and genomic data, it examining the duties, obligations, and allocations of authority articulated around the imperative for globally free-flowing information and around the corollary imperative for a science that is set free to produce such information.

Book edited by Graça Maria do Carmo Azevedo, Jonas da Silva Oliveira, Rui Pedro Figueiredo Marques, and Augusta da Conceição Santos Ferreira: “The effects of recent economic and financial crises have reached an international scale. A number of different nations have experienced the fallout of these events, calling into question issues of accountability and reform in public management.

Shaida Badiee at UN World Data Forum: …What do we want for a 2030 data ecosystem?

The Patiala House court at Delhi has rejected R. K. Pachauri’s plea for an interim gag order against NDTV, Bennett Coleman and Co., and the India Today Group. The media houses had been made defendants in a defamation suit filed by him in 2016. In 2015, an FIR had been filed against Pachauri by a […]

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 […]

Laura Forlano at Public Books: “Over the past several decades, politicians and business leaders, technology pundits and the mainstream media, engineers and computer scientists—as well as science fiction and Hollywood films—have repeated a troubling refrain, championing the shift away from the material and toward the virtual, the networked, the digital, the online. It is as if all of life could be reduced to 1s and 0s, rendering it computable….