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My data – my choice! What does the EU data protection regulation do for us?
After screening the celebrated documentary film "Democracy", we will discuss the promises and challenges of EU data protection reform and current battles in transatlantic data processing with MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht. Sign up here.
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Wir suchen ab sofort für den Forschungsbereich Internetbasierte Innovation eine/n wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter/in im Themenfeld Geschäftsmodellinnovation. Bei uns übernehmen Sie die Projektleitung und bringen gemeinsam mit anderen Partnern die Digitalisierung des deutschen Mittelstands voran.
15. @kit-Kongress – 5. Forum “Kommunikation & Recht” Internet und Recht und Freiheit
On 14 and 15 April the 15. @kit-Kongress - 5. Forum „Kommunikation und Recht“ with the title „Internet und Recht und Freiheit“ will take place in Berlin. The event looks at current challenges of law and the internet. Former Minister of Justice Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger will give the keynote. Here is the updated program.
FES publication: Die Macht der Informationsintermediäre
Search engines and social networks are increasingly more important among political opinion-forming media. In a new publication by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung our researchers Kevin Dankert and Wolfgang Schulz look at the mediapolitical consequences of 'internet intermediaries'.
The Role of Regulatory Authorities in the Governance of Data Protection
HIIG is organizing an interdisciplinary workshop on the role Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) in the governance of privacy and data protection on 20 May. We are looking forward to your contributions (deadline: 30 April 2016).
Digitaler Salon: It’s a Match
Love at first swipe: dating platforms promise you to find the big love, passionate affaire and the intellectual discussion partner. We want to discuss what is onlinedating's real value for love. Come to the next Digitaler Salon in our new home in Französische Straße 9 on Wednesday, 30 March.
HIIG has a new home
In February, we moved not far from our former offices to Französische Straße, 10117 Berlin. We would be glad if you visit us in our new home, for example for the first Digitaler Salon in our building on 30 March.
New survey: The regulatory conditions of IP interconnection
IP interconnection is often assumed to be unregulated. But locally, public regulation is starting to emerge as interconnection professionals state in a survey conducted by Uta Meier-Hahn. Disclosure regulations, mandatory peering or licensing terms lead to tension between formal and informal norms on the internet.
Big Data for President
Do governments make use of the new data and methods? Should they? And does big data follow different rules when applied for government use? Our guests Siim Sikkut, policy adviser at the Government Office of Estonia, Dirk Mahnkopf, specialist for ‘Big Data and Analytics‘ at Cisco and HIIG-director Jeanette Hofmann will discuss those questions on 14 February.
First DFG-Project at HIIG: Product Development for Everyone
The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society is a project partner of a newly initiated joint project at the Technical University Berlin. The project is financed by the German and French national research foundations DFG and ANR and focusses on Open Source product development.
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