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Thanasis Priftis

The Digital Services Act: ensuring a safe and accountable online environment | European Commission - 0 views

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    Frances Haugen: the EU has a 'once-in-a-generation opportunity' to regulate Facebook
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    The new rules are proportionate, foster innovation, growth and competitiveness, and facilitate the scaling up of smaller platforms, SMEs and start-ups. The responsibilities of users, platforms, and public authorities are rebalanced according to European values, placing citizens at the centre. The rules Better protect consumers and their fundamental rights online Establish a powerful transparency and a clear accountability framework for online platforms Foster innovation, growth and competitiveness within the single market
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EPIC - EPIC Files Complaint with FTC about Employment Screening Firm HireVue - 0 views

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    "EPIC Files Complaint with FTC about Employment Screening Firm HireVue Today, EPIC filed a complaint with the FTC alleging that recruiting company HireVue has committed unfair and deceptive practices in violation of the FTC Act. EPIC charged that HireVue falsely denies it uses facial recognition. EPIC also said the company failed to comply with baseline standards for AI decision-making, such as the OECD AI Principles and the Universal Guidelines for AI. The company purports to evaluate a job applicant's qualifications based upon their appearance by means of an opaque, proprietary algorithm. EPIC has brought many similar consumer privacy complaints to the FTC, including a complaint on Facebook's facial recognition practices that contributed to the FTC's 2019 settlement with Facebook. Last year EPIC also asked the FTC to investigate the Universal Tennis Rating system, a secret technique for scoring high school athletes"
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Facebook announces Libra cryptocurrency: All you need to know | TechCrunch - 0 views

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    "acebook has finally revealed the details of its cryptocurrency, Libra, which will let you buy things or send money to people with nearly zero fees. You'll pseudonymously buy or cash out your Libra online or at local exchange points like grocery stores, and spend it using interoperable third-party wallet apps or Facebook's own Calibra wallet that will be built into WhatsApp, Messenger and its own app. Today Facebook released its white paper explaining Libra and its testnet for working out the kinks of its blockchain system before a public launch in the first half of 2020."
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MAlt project | CERN - 0 views

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    "The Microsoft Alternatives project (MAlt) started a year ago to mitigate anticipated software license fee increases. MAlt's objective is to put us back in control using open software. It is now time to present more widely this project and to explain how it will shape our computing environment."
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'Looping' Created an Underground Insulin-Pump Market - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    "They shared this code online as OpenAPS, and "looping," as it's called, began to catch on. Instead of micromanaging their blood sugar, people with diabetes could offload that work to an algorithm. In addition to OpenAPS, another system called Loop is now available. Dozens, then hundreds, and now thousands of people are experimenting with DIY artificial-pancreas systems-none of which the Food and Drug Administration has officially approved. And they've had to track down discontinued Medtronic pumps. It can sometimes take months to find one."
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The Key Themes of Collaboration - The Open Co-op - 0 views

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    "Truly effective, synergistic, collaboration is an elusive beast at the best of times and the idea of making it work at scale, for decentralised projects and organisations, is possibly the essential challenge of our times. If we want to work out how to work together more effectively, to build an equitable and abundant world for all, it seems important to recognise, what hinders collaboration, to identify great examples of effective collaboration and to at least attempt to identify if there are any key themes which we can build on and incorporate into our work."
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(5) Internet ou la révolution du partage | ARTE - YouTube - 1 views

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    "Depuis la généralisation d'Internet dans tous les domaines de la société, la problématique des logiciels propriétaires, opposés aux logiciels libres, est devenue cruciale, quoiqu'encore ignorée par la grande majorité des utilisateurs. Par définition, le logiciel libre peut être exploité, amélioré et distribué par tous. Or, la plupart des logiciels auxquels nous recourons quotidiennement sont dit "propriétaires" : leur code source appartient à de grandes entreprises, qui en tirent des bénéfices conséquents. Les résistants de l'open source y voient ainsi un enjeu philosophique autant qu'un choix de société : les nouvelles technologies devraient être contrôlées par leurs utilisateurs, plutôt que de limiter leur liberté à leur trouver des alternatives."
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An open source alternative for "the cloud" - The Internet Health Report 2019 - The Internet Health Report 2019 - 0 views

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    "Cloud services have become the default tools many people use to get their work done. But this can mean giving up privacy and control. Some open source alternatives are now offering tools to put people back in charge."
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Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness by Frank Nagle :: SSRN - 0 views

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    "Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness Harvard Business School Strategy Unit Working Paper No. 19-103"
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