Offdata: a prosumer law agency to govern big data in the public interestChris Marsden
Presentation to St Petersburg International Legal Forum 19 May 2016 Track Smart Society4.5. Information Security in the Digital Environment: Limits of Big Data Use http://regulatingcode.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/offdata-prosumer-law-agency-to-govern.html
Oxford Internet Institute 19 Sept 2019: Disinformation – Platform, publisher ...Chris Marsden
With the move to a more digital, mobile, and platform-dominated media environment people increasingly find and access news and information via platforms like search engines and social media. These have empowered citizens in many ways and are important drivers of attention to established publishers but have also enabled the distribution of disinformation from a range of different actors. In a context where citizens are often increasingly sceptical of both platforms, publishers, and public authorities, what do we know about the scale and scope of disinformation problems and what can different actors do to counter the problems we face?
https://www.scl.org/articles/10662-interoperability-an-answer-to-regulating-ai-and-social-media-platforms
Intermediary Accountability in the Digital AgeRichard Austin
Examination of the accountability of Internet Intermediaries with a focus on Online Reputation, Cambridge Analytica and Facebook and Competition issues
Offdata: a prosumer law agency to govern big data in the public interestChris Marsden
Presentation to St Petersburg International Legal Forum 19 May 2016 Track Smart Society4.5. Information Security in the Digital Environment: Limits of Big Data Use http://regulatingcode.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/offdata-prosumer-law-agency-to-govern.html
Oxford Internet Institute 19 Sept 2019: Disinformation – Platform, publisher ...Chris Marsden
With the move to a more digital, mobile, and platform-dominated media environment people increasingly find and access news and information via platforms like search engines and social media. These have empowered citizens in many ways and are important drivers of attention to established publishers but have also enabled the distribution of disinformation from a range of different actors. In a context where citizens are often increasingly sceptical of both platforms, publishers, and public authorities, what do we know about the scale and scope of disinformation problems and what can different actors do to counter the problems we face?
https://www.scl.org/articles/10662-interoperability-an-answer-to-regulating-ai-and-social-media-platforms
Intermediary Accountability in the Digital AgeRichard Austin
Examination of the accountability of Internet Intermediaries with a focus on Online Reputation, Cambridge Analytica and Facebook and Competition issues
2017 Legal Update on Digital Accessibility Cases with Lainey Feingold3Play Media
This webinar will be presented by Lainey Feingold, an internationally recognized disability rights lawyer and pioneer of Structured Negotiation known for negotiating landmark accessibility agreements. In this webinar, Lainey will take us through key cases, government agency activity, settlements, and other developments in the digital accessibility legal landscape since her last 3Play Media webinar in September 2016.
Presented by Klee Aiken and Maarten Van Horenbeeck at the 30th Annual FIRST Conference, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
https://www.first.org/conference/2018/program#pan-internet-of-governments-how-policymakers-became-interested-in-cyber
Cyber Libertarianism - Real Internet Freedom (Thierer & Szoka)Adam Thierer
Adam Thierer & Berin Szoka of The Progress & Freedom Foundation are attempting to articulate the core principles of cyber-libertarianism to provide the public and policymakers with a better understanding of this alternative vision for ordering the affairs of cyberspace. We invite comments and suggestions regarding how we should refine and build-out this outline. We hope this outline serves as the foundation of a book we eventually want to pen defending what we regard as “Real Internet Freedom.”
2021 Digital Accessibility Legal Update with Lainey Feingold3Play Media
In this webinar, Lainey will take us through key cases, court decisions, government agency activity, settlements, and other recent developments in the digital accessibility legal space.
Police surveillance of social media - do you have a reasonable expectation of...Lilian Edwards
This paper (co-authored with lachlan Urquart of U of Nottingham) discusses if we have any expectations of privacy in content we make public on;line on social media - or can such content be data mined by the police at will? Should any kind of surveillance warrant be required of the police to use such material? has social jmedia become the new panopticon?
Digital technology has transformed organizational life. Developments in communications, and in information storage and retrieval, to name just two areas, have greatly enhanced the efficiency with which legitimate organizations operate. Unfortunately, the benefits of digital technology are not lost on criminal organizations, which exploit digital technology to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of their own operations. This paper will discuss the organized criminal exploitation of digital technology, by looking at a number of illustrative cases from Asia and around the world. It will discuss the various types of “conventional†organized crime that can be facilitated by digital technology, as well as terrorism, which itself can be regarded as a special kind of organized criminal activity. One fundamental question that the paper will seek to address is whether the activities of Asian organized crime have become substantively different as a result of technology, or whether traditional organized criminal activities in Asia are merely being conducted on a more efficient and effective basis. The paper will note the transnational nature of much organized criminal activity, and will discuss mechanisms for the control of organized crime in the digital age. Dr. S. Krishnan | Mr Harsh Pratap | Ms Sakshi Gupta "Organised Crime in the Digital Age" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-4 , June 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.compapers/ijtsrd41185.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.comcomputer-science/computer-security/41185/organised-crime-in-the-digital-age/dr-s-krishnan
Network neutrality has been at the center of intense political discussions about Internet regulation. Net neutrality is the principle that all content on the Internet should be equally available to users without discrimination by service providers. Establishing legal protections for net neutrality is a necessary component to providing equitable access to online educational materials and services.
Dr. Alan Borning (University of Washington Computer Science professor emeritus), presents and leads a discussion on the true costs of "free" services such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.
In this class we studied the "Internet Freedom" speeches of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and then looked at critiques and counter-arguments made by Evgeny Morozov, Sami Ben Gharbia and Cory Doctorow.
Social media, surveillance and censorshiplilianedwards
Talk delivered at European University Florence, March 2012. Did the Aran spring really prove that social media enables the flowering of democracy or are social media in fact easy venues for blanket state surveillance? Can they be arenas for free speech when platforms likeTwitter are refining their censorship policies to avoid legal risk?
2017 Legal Update on Digital Accessibility Cases with Lainey Feingold3Play Media
This webinar will be presented by Lainey Feingold, an internationally recognized disability rights lawyer and pioneer of Structured Negotiation known for negotiating landmark accessibility agreements. In this webinar, Lainey will take us through key cases, government agency activity, settlements, and other developments in the digital accessibility legal landscape since her last 3Play Media webinar in September 2016.
Presented by Klee Aiken and Maarten Van Horenbeeck at the 30th Annual FIRST Conference, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
https://www.first.org/conference/2018/program#pan-internet-of-governments-how-policymakers-became-interested-in-cyber
Cyber Libertarianism - Real Internet Freedom (Thierer & Szoka)Adam Thierer
Adam Thierer & Berin Szoka of The Progress & Freedom Foundation are attempting to articulate the core principles of cyber-libertarianism to provide the public and policymakers with a better understanding of this alternative vision for ordering the affairs of cyberspace. We invite comments and suggestions regarding how we should refine and build-out this outline. We hope this outline serves as the foundation of a book we eventually want to pen defending what we regard as “Real Internet Freedom.”
2021 Digital Accessibility Legal Update with Lainey Feingold3Play Media
In this webinar, Lainey will take us through key cases, court decisions, government agency activity, settlements, and other recent developments in the digital accessibility legal space.
Police surveillance of social media - do you have a reasonable expectation of...Lilian Edwards
This paper (co-authored with lachlan Urquart of U of Nottingham) discusses if we have any expectations of privacy in content we make public on;line on social media - or can such content be data mined by the police at will? Should any kind of surveillance warrant be required of the police to use such material? has social jmedia become the new panopticon?
Digital technology has transformed organizational life. Developments in communications, and in information storage and retrieval, to name just two areas, have greatly enhanced the efficiency with which legitimate organizations operate. Unfortunately, the benefits of digital technology are not lost on criminal organizations, which exploit digital technology to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of their own operations. This paper will discuss the organized criminal exploitation of digital technology, by looking at a number of illustrative cases from Asia and around the world. It will discuss the various types of “conventional†organized crime that can be facilitated by digital technology, as well as terrorism, which itself can be regarded as a special kind of organized criminal activity. One fundamental question that the paper will seek to address is whether the activities of Asian organized crime have become substantively different as a result of technology, or whether traditional organized criminal activities in Asia are merely being conducted on a more efficient and effective basis. The paper will note the transnational nature of much organized criminal activity, and will discuss mechanisms for the control of organized crime in the digital age. Dr. S. Krishnan | Mr Harsh Pratap | Ms Sakshi Gupta "Organised Crime in the Digital Age" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-4 , June 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.compapers/ijtsrd41185.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.comcomputer-science/computer-security/41185/organised-crime-in-the-digital-age/dr-s-krishnan
Network neutrality has been at the center of intense political discussions about Internet regulation. Net neutrality is the principle that all content on the Internet should be equally available to users without discrimination by service providers. Establishing legal protections for net neutrality is a necessary component to providing equitable access to online educational materials and services.
Dr. Alan Borning (University of Washington Computer Science professor emeritus), presents and leads a discussion on the true costs of "free" services such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.
In this class we studied the "Internet Freedom" speeches of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and then looked at critiques and counter-arguments made by Evgeny Morozov, Sami Ben Gharbia and Cory Doctorow.
Social media, surveillance and censorshiplilianedwards
Talk delivered at European University Florence, March 2012. Did the Aran spring really prove that social media enables the flowering of democracy or are social media in fact easy venues for blanket state surveillance? Can they be arenas for free speech when platforms likeTwitter are refining their censorship policies to avoid legal risk?
Glyn Moody - TAFTA/TTIP - trade, Internet and democracyglynmoody
the trade agreement currently being negotiated between the EU and US has major implications for the Internet and democracy, largely because of the likely inclusion of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), which allows companies to sue nations for alleged loss of future profits. The net effect of this will be to place companies above national laws, and to create a chilling effect on legislation in the public interest.
Discussion of the main elements of the draft Data Protection Regulation: what difference will it make to industry practice and user rights to control their data?
Will blockchain emerge as a tool to break the poverty chain in the Global South?eraser Juan José Calderón
Will blockchain emerge as a tool to break the poverty chain in the Global South?. Nir Kshetri
ABSTRACT
Just like its recent predecessors, blockchain – also known as the
distributed ledger technology – is considered to have the potential
to cause major economic, political and social transformations in the
Global South. The visible effects of this technology are already being
noted there. We present early evidence linking the use of blockchain in
overcoming some economic, social and political challenges facing the
Global South. The article highlights the key applications and uses of
blockchain in developing countries. It demonstrates how blockchain
can help promote transparency, build trust and reputation, and
enhance efficiency in transactions. The article looks at opportunities
and key triggers for blockchain diffusion in these countries. It also
delves into challenges and obstacles that developing economies are
likely to encounter in the use of blockchain.
Apresentação feita por Jeanette Hofmann, Diretora do Instituto Humboldt para Internet e Sociedade, durante abertura do IV Fórum da Internet no Brasil no dia 25 de abril de 2014.
QUT Regulating Disinformation with AI Marsden 2024Chris Marsden
“It is the ‘AI regulation moment” intoned the Secretary General of both the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the United Nations itself, before the UN General Assembly passed a unanimous resolution on AI safety, and the G7 Hiroshima Dialogue of AI codes of conduct moved industrialised nations beyond self-regulation. Academic analysts and policymakers need to challenge a reversion to broken models, to ethics washing and to what is now being termed ‘AI washing’. I set out a critical agenda for remembering lessons from the Internet past to assert an AI co-regulatory future.
Today, I will be presenting on the topic of
"Generative AI, responsible innovation, and the law."
Artificial Intelligence has been making rapid strides in recent years,
and its applications are becoming increasingly diverse.
Generative AI, in particular, has emerged as a promising area of innovation, the potential to create highly realistic and compelling outputs.
Marsden CELPU 2021 platform law co-regulationChris Marsden
12 November 2021 20th Annual International Conference, Center for Law & Public Utilities, School of Law, Seoul National University: The Wave of Digital Economy and Exploration of the Direction of Online Platform Regulation
Professor Chris Marsden, Sussex Law @SussCIGR
Discussion: Dr Eun-Jung Kwon (KISDI)
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
The Valetta Effect: GDPR enforcement for Gikii Vienna 14 Sept
1. The Valetta Effect
(formerly Portarlington Effect
but they told us on t’Twitter
they’re really serious about
enforcement now)
Gikii Vienna 14 September 2018
Chris & Michael
2.
3. Portarlington? Irish DPC since 2006
Now shared with Dublin
Max Schrems’ video
Tractors/DPC/corner shop
Unprepossessing
28 pubs & no cinema
Pebbledash
Zuckerberg’s choice of DPA
8. Not another Brexit
presentation…
Though will apply after 29 March
UK a 3rd party like China
Our golden neo-imperial future
They don’t hold a grudge?
9. Regulatory Arbitrage: “Race to the Bottom”
Academic literature on subject from 1970s to 1990s: public choice theory
In a world of 220 nation states with 220 sets of rules
50 US states too – e.g. Nevada/Delaware for tax evaders
Multinationals get states to ‘compete’ for business with lighter rules
Or less enforcement of existing rules, accompanied by ‘self-regulation’
10.
11. Though pushback by New Institutional Economics:
“It is no accident that economic models of the
polity developed in the public choice literature
make the state into something like the mafia ”
North, Douglass C. (1990) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic
Performance, Cambridge University Press at 140
12. Continued interest by regulatory scholars
John Ruggie (2017) Multinationals as global institution: Power, authority and
relative autonomy, 12 Regulation and Governance 3 Pages: 317-333
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17485991/2018/12/3 (open access!)
Charles Sabel, Gary Herrigel, Peer Hull Kristensen (2017) Regulation under uncertainty: The
coevolution of industry and regulation, 12 Regulation and Governance 3 Pages: 371-394
This is where much of net neutrality regulatory theory comes from
You know, that information law area Gikii used to feature when it was sexy….
But now that we’re all GDPR
Time to look at DPAs not telco regulators!
15. Malta: a case study
GDP 146th/ 200 in world
475,000 people
15th in income per capita in EU
Like Iceland in pop. Size/wealth but sandwiched between Italy and Tunisia
Originally benefitted from British traditional exports: Piracy and kidnapping
Heroic resistance to Luftwaffe in WW2 – George Cross
Now a major off/onshore financial centre
Cross-over of financial homes and DP homes (e.g. famous Irish and Dutch tax efficiencies).
16.
17. Is there equivalency inside the black box of
national info surveillance and sousveillance?
Or are our private lives all Schrodingers’ cats,
poking each other invisibly and intangibly?
Frankly, is anyone going to enforce GDPR?
21. Proactive investigation of infringements is a pipe-dream in
most jurisdictions.
Some higher capacity actors (e.g. NL) trying random
sectoral spot-checks.
Some countries have Art 80(2) ‘class action lite’
Most agencies will be chasing data breaches, data rights
problems or media cataclysms.
Some sectors and actors more immune to these pathways.
Many case-workers simply do not understand the law
(e.g. ICO); likely to be challenging everywhere.
All DPAs can take complaints, will often pass them to a
‘lead supervisory authority’, which may be of low capacity
Identification
23. Investigation
Exact powers of DPAs subject largely to MS law
Joint Operations
DPAs have “right” to be involved, yet have to be formally invited. Seconding staff is at
the discretion of the host DPA, and they must always work “under the guidance and in
the presence” of the host DPA.
Mutual Assistance
DPAs shall “put in place measures” to accept requests to carry out investigations… but
with what skill, particularly where data is encrypted and difficult to understand.
Investigating
together
25. Regulatory cooperation under the EDPB is more ‘binding’ than
similar instruments.
Ultimately, through the consistency mechanism, binding rather than
advisory decisions can be made by vote by the EDPB. How this
interacts with member state law (e.g. claiming that mutual
assistance may not be sufficient) may well be a future CJEU area.
Likely only the case for the very largest players as it stands: providing
the largest players don’t relocate to Valetta.
Deciding together
26. Amidst underfunded and undersized regulators for the task at hand,
EDPB needs to develop significant expertise and investigative power
for dealing with arcane and technologically complex complaints (geek law….)
Few experts will complain about occasional work stints on Mediaterranean islands.
Who are these investigators that knock down doors to find data harms?
What skills do they have,
particularly when most large-scale processing is and will be done in the cloud?
Likely need for cooperation with large cloud ‘processors’: but what provision for that?
Doom and gloom? Send for the geek lawyers!
30. Panama Papers and EU27
Pilatus Bank: short client list includes Kieth Schembri, the chief-of-staff of
Malta's prime minister, and members of the ruling Azerbaijani regime.
Political operatives, Keith Schembri and Konrad Mizzi, Iranian-owned Pilatus
Bank, accountancy firm called Nexia BT,
exposed by the Panama Papers and reports from Malta's anti-money
laundering agency (the FIAU) as involved in money laundering.
Governing party suppressed the work of investigators to prevent Maltese law
from being enforced
Assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia
31.
32. Daphne Project
Schembri and Mizzi were planning to receive €150,000 per month into their
once-secret Panamanian companies from a Dubai company called 17 Black.
Mizzi and Schembri behind Malta's new gas-fired power station
gas-supply agreement with Azerbaijan: Malta pay €40m above market rates for gas.
This archipelago is a full EU member
Exposed by David Casa MEP https://euobserver.com/opinion/142642
33. What has this to do with data protection?
Horrendous breach at Mossack Fonseca 2016
Led to final closure of law firm in Panama in 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/14/mossack-fonseca-shut-down-panama-papers