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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200115T150000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Talk with Jan-Henrik Passoth cancelled
DESCRIPTION:Talk today with Jan-Henrik Passoth cancelled
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/talk-today-with-jan-henrik-passoth-cancelled/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200108T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200108T163000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20191028T125732Z
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SUMMARY:Kris Ruijgrok: The politics behind India's internet shutdowns
DESCRIPTION:India is the world’s largest democracy\, but also holds the dubious record of having the highest number of internet shutdowns worldwide. Concerningly moreover\, the frequency of shutdowns in India is only increasing. According to the Software Freedom and Law Center (SFLC.in)\, an Indian NGO defending digital rights\, the number of shutdowns rose from 6 in 2014 to 14 in 2015\, 31 in 2016\, 79 in 2017\, to 134 (!) internet shutdowns in 2018. When a shutdown in India takes place\, it is usually justified by government officials either as a measure to prevent social unrest and ethnic clashes or to restore law and order. Critics by contrast\, point towards the huge societal\, economic and psychological repercussions of a shutdown\, and furthermore claim that it is an authoritarian practice that limits the free flow of information and silences dissent. My project aims to understand what explains the staggering number of Indian internet shutdowns. Despite increasing efforts to measure and document network disruptions from a technical point of view\, in India and beyond\, we still have very limited knowledge about the social and political circumstances that lead to an internet shutdown.
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/kris-ruijgrok-internet-shutdowns/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20191212T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20191212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20191210T214252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T214252Z
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SUMMARY:Vienna Cognitive Science Meetup#2: CogSci & Environmental Issues
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to invite you to the Vienna Cognitive Science Meetup #2\, which will be hosted by the Cognitive Science Hub of the University of Vienna and is co-organised by the Privacy and Sustainable Computing Lab.\n\nAs we talked about it in our first meetup\, we aim to organise a series of interdisciplinary meetups to discuss how cognitive science can contribute in tackling our ongoing societal and environmental challenges. In our second meetup\, we will focus on “CogSci & Environmental Issues“.\n\nTime: Thursday December 12\, 2019 at 18:15\nLocation: Hörsaal G (Faculty of Psychology)\, University of Vienna\, Liebiggasse 5\, 1010 Vienna\, Austria\n\n\nAgenda:\n– Introduction\n– A series of short talks on CogSci and Environmental Issues\n– Fishbowl session\n– Socialising and networking\n\nLooking forward to seeing you on Thursday!
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/vienna-cognitive-science-meetup2-cogsci-environmental-issues/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20191211T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20191211T190000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20191112T143123Z
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SUMMARY:Lab Annual Meeting
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URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/lab-annual-meeting/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20191204T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20191204T163000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20191029T135302Z
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SUMMARY:Krzysztof Paruch: Economic Systems Engineering
DESCRIPTION:Economic Systems Engineering is a new discipline of study related to the emerging field of Cryptoeconomics. Facilitated by the advent of the Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) it became possible to create digital economies on top of a trustworthy digital infrastructure that is jointly operated by network participants by the use of rights managed by cryptographic tokens. In contrast to today’s web2 and its platform-economies\, in the web3 enabled token-economies of the future data is no longer stored and managed by centralized entities. Decentralization in every component of its architecture (technology\, control and governance) is a key aspect of these economies and is enabled by the combination of cryptography and tokens. Research in the field of Cryptoeconomics addresses questions about the proper design\, maintenance and governance of decentralized economies built on top of a blockchain infrastructure. It also aims to propose a definition of appropriate methodology equipping system architects with a toolkit necessary to enable the design\, analysis and valuation of decentralized economies.
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/krzysztof-paruch-economic-systems-engineering/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20191122T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20191122T173000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20191018T121844Z
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SUMMARY:Leading the World? Artificial Intelligence in China
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is jointly organised by the the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna\, the Privacy and Sustainable Computing Lab at Vienna University of Economics and Business and the Complexity Science Hub. \nAcademic Workshop from 09:30 to 17:00\nat the Hofburg\, 1010 Vienna\, Austria\nPreliminary Agenda \n  \n09:30 – 09:45: Introduction and Overview of Research Workshop\n– Dr. Ben Wagner\, WU Wien & Prof. Christian Göbel\, Uni Wien \n09:45 – 10:00: Discussion \n10:00 – 10:30 Keynote: Local and Global Perspectives on AI in China\n– Prof. Kave Salamatian\, Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Savoie\, France \n10:30 – 11:00: Discussion \n11:00 – 11:30: Coffee break \n11:30 – 12:00: Research Potential of Chinese AI Companies\n– Amelie Drexler\, UniWien \n12:00 – 12:30: Discussion \n12:30 – 13:30: Lunch \n13:30 – 14:00: Investment in AI in China\n– Shuyin Zheng\, UniWien \n14:00 – 14:30: University Teaching on AI in China\nAmelie Drexler & Xiran Dong\, UniWien \n14:30 – 15:00: Discussion \n15:00 – 15:30: Narratives around AI in China\n– Xiran Dong\, UniWien \n15:30 – 16:00: Public Services and AI in Big Data\n– Prof. Christian Göbel\, Uni Wien \n16:00 – 16:30: Discussion \n16:30 – 16:45: Closing Remarks\n– Dr. Ben Wagner\, WU Wien & Prof. Christian Göbel\, Uni Wien \n16:45 – 17:00: Discussion \nPre-registration is required. If you wish to attend this workshop\, please contact Ben Wagner  <ben.wagner@wu.ac.at> and let us know why you want to participate.
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/leading-the-world-artificial-intelligence-in-china/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20191120T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20191120T163000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20191001T114422Z
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SUMMARY:Christoph Fabianek: Semantic Container for Data Mobility
DESCRIPTION:An enormous wealth of data is being created in our increasingly digitized life and economies\, but the majority of this data is either being monopolized or shared for questionable purposes rather than facilitating innovation. One of the main issues that inhibits data reuse and the emergence of vibrant data markets is the lack of standard mechanisms for the execution of controlled transactions between data providers and consumers\, including efficient provisioning of data and associated services. Consequently\, many potential data providers find it difficult to turn data into viable business models. At the same time\, data consumers face challenges accessing heterogeneous data provided via various mechanisms and have limited means to trace data provenance and ensure data quality. Semantic Containers aim to tackle both issues by facilitating controlled transactions through an integrated set of methods and capabilities. Specifically\, they package data\, semantic descriptions\, and processing capabilities into executable and shareable containers.
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/christoph-fabianek-semantic-container-for-data-mobility/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20191119T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20191119T193000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20191120T150135Z
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SUMMARY:Elena Simperl: Qrowd and the city: Designing people-centric smart cities
DESCRIPTION:Smart cities are as much about the needs\, expectations and values of the people they serve as they are about the underlying technology. In this talk\, I am going to present several areas of system design where human and social factors play a critical role\, from fostering participation to augmented intelligence and responsible innovation. I will present ongoing challenges\, solutions and opportunities\, drawing from recent studies in Qrowd\, a Horizon 2020 programme proposing a humane AI approach for transport and mobility.\n\n\nAbout the speaker:\nElena Simperl is a professor of computer science at the University of Southampton in the UK. She works in the department of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS)\nin the Web and Internet Science (WAIS) lab. She is also one of the Directors of the Web Science Institute and a Turing Fellow.\nMore details: http://elenasimperl.eu/
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/elena-simperl-qrowd-and-the-city-designing-people-centric-smart-cities/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20191107T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20191107T163000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20190909T125214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190909T125214Z
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SUMMARY:Nataliia Bielova: Detecting third-party tracking and GDPR violations in Web applications
DESCRIPTION:Third-party Web tracking has been extensively studied over the last decade. In our work\, we focus on two problems that address third-party tracking in Web applications and GDPR impact on trackers.\n\n\n\n\n\nFirst\, we study detection of third-party tracking. Most of previous studies and user tools rely on filter lists. However\, there has always been a suspicion that lists miss many trackers. In this paper\, we propose an alternative method to detect trackers inspired by analyzing behavior of invisible pixels. By crawling 84\,658 webpages from 8\,744 domains\, we detect that third-party invisible pixels are widely deployed: they are present on more than 94.51% of domains and constitute 35.66% of all third-party images. We propose a fine-grained behavioral classification of tracking based on the analysis of invisible pixels. We use this classification to detect new categories of tracking and uncover new collaborations between domains on the dataset of 4\,2M third-party requests. We demonstrate that two popular methods to detect tracking\, based on EasyList&EasyPrivacy and on Disconnect lists respectively miss 25.22% and 30.34% of the trackers that we detect. Moreover\, we find that if we combine all three lists\, 379\,245 requests originated from 8\,744 domains still track users on 68.70% of websites.  \n\n\n\n\n\nSecond\, we analyse GDPR impact on third-party trackers. GDPR defines rights for data subjects (users) and obligations for data controllers (trackers) but it is unclear how subjects and controllers interact concretely. We investigate whether it is safe for a data subject to exercise the right of access of her own data by analysing how subject access request procedures are implemented in third-party tracking services. We observe that some trackers use unsafe or doubtful procedures to authenticate data subjects: the most common flaw is the use of authentication based on a copy of the subject’s national identity card transmitted over an insecure channel.  
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/detecting-third-party-tracking-and-gdpr-violations-in-web-applications/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191106T210000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191106T223000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20190902T101344Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190902T101344Z
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SUMMARY:BUCH WIEN – Lange Nacht der Bücher
DESCRIPTION:ARBEITSTITEL: „Wie die Digitalisierung unsere Welt verändern“ \nIm Rahmen der BUCH WIEN – Lange Nacht der Bücher \nMittwoch\, 6. November 2019\, 21 Uhr – ca. 22.30 Uhr\, Mastercard-Bühne\, Messe Wien\, Halle D \n  \nDISKUTIERENDE: \n– Ingrid Brodnig\, Publizistin \n– Konrad Paul Liessmann\, Philosoph \n– Christian Rau\, Mastercard Österreich \n– Sarah Spiekermann\, Wirtschaftsinformatikerin \nMODERATORIN:  Lou Lorenz-Dittlbacher
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/buch-wien-lange-nacht-der-bucher/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20191030T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20191030T163000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20190917T130112Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190917T130112Z
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SUMMARY:David Garcia: Online privacy as a complex phenomenon
DESCRIPTION:Preserving individual control over private information is one of the rising concerns in our digital society. Online social networks exist in application ecosystems that allow them to access data from other services\, for example gathering contact lists through mobile phone applications. Such data access might allow social networking sites to create shadow profiles with information about non-users that has been inferred from information shared by the users of the social network. I will present our work on testing this privacy risk for sexual orientation\, marital status\, and location inference in Twitter and Friendster\, a disappeared social network. Our findings illustrate that individuals are not in full control of their online privacy and that sharing personal data with a social networking site is a complex decision that is collectively mediated by the decisions of others.
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/online-privacy-as-a-complex-phenomenon/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191023T151500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191023T171500
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20191018T093201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191018T093201Z
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SUMMARY:Joint Workshop: New Challenges in Law and Technology
DESCRIPTION:This joint workshop on New Challenges in Law and Technology between the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law at the University of Vienna and the Privacy and Sustainable Computing Lab at WU Wien. \nThe workshop will take place on 23 October 2019 from 15:15 to 17:15 at Schenkenstraße 4\, 1010 Wien. The purpose of the workshop is to exchange ideas between both research groups and discuss potential future research projects. \n\nPaul Eberstaller\, RIS+\nAntoni Napieralski\, Smart Borders and Data Protection\nFelix Zopf\, GDPR as an instrument of market harmonization\nTreatment Implications of a Techno-Social Governance Phenomenon\nSoheil Human\, Human-centricity\, GDPR\, and the Future of Digital Consenting\nPaola Lopez\, Predictive Models and Automated Decision-Making: Equal\nBen Wagner\, Situating space: Automation and Bias in digital mapping interfaces\n\nAll titles are working titles and subject to change. \nPlease send a brief note to Ben Wagner <ben.wagner@wu.ac.at> if you want to attend the workshop.
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/joint-workshop-new-challenges-in-law-and-technology/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191022T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191022T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20191022T070149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191022T070149Z
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SUMMARY:MyData Austria Meetup #5
DESCRIPTION:In this meetup we will shed light on the topic of data as a property: is it possible to own data\, how can data or usage rights for that data be sold and what are the implications? \nAgenda: \n1. Christoph Fabianek: “Semantic Container for Data Mobility” \n2. Soheil Human: “Human-centricity vs. End-user Empowerment: The Future of a Value-based Data Economy” \n3. Robert Mitwicki: “Purpose based services” \n4. Michael Shea: Fishbowl discussion about Data as a Human Right
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/mydata-austria-meetup-5/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190619T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190619T163000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20190307T135213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190307T135213Z
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SUMMARY:Michael Platzer: Fake Data - An Unexpected Ally in the Fight for Privacy
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Platzer\, founder & CEO of Mostly AI\, will talk about the underestimated re-identification risk and the limitations of existing anonymization techniques in the big data era\, as well as present latest research on Generative AI\, and how it surprisingly enables GDPR-compliant big data sharing.
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/michael-platzer-fake-data-an-unexpected-ally-in-the-fight-for-privacy/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190617T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190617T203000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20190617T085608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190617T085608Z
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SUMMARY:MyData Hub Austria: Meetup #3
DESCRIPTION:In this meetup we will shed light on the topic of data as a property: is it possible to own data\, how can data or usage rights for that data be sold and what are the implications?\nThis is a co-hosted event with VDSG (Vienna Data Science Group). \nAgenda: \n1. Clara Landler: Welcome & Introduction \n2. Christoph Fabianek: Semantic Container for Data Mobility\, Closing presentation of FFG funded project \n3. Soheil Human\, Rita Gsenger\, Kemal Ozan Aybar\, Niklas Kirchner: short talks on:\n– “End-user Empowerment: An Interdisciplinary Perspective”\,\n– “Digital Inequality: Call for Socio-technical Privacy Management Approaches”\,\n– “Context-Sensitivity of [Informed] Consent: The Emergence of Genetic Data Markets”. \n4. Michael Shea: Fishbowl discussion about Data as a Human Right
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/mydata-hub-austria-meetup-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190610T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190610T170000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20190606T062304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190606T062304Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Engineering Accountable Information Systems (ECIS 2019\, Stockholm)
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Program \n* 10:00 – 10 :15 Welcome* 10:15 – 11:15 Session 1: Accountability and Inequality* 10:15 – 10:30 Digital Inequality: Call for Socio-technical Privacy Management Approaches (Kemal Ozan Aybar\, Soheil Human and Rita Gsenger)* 10:30 – 11:15 Discussion on the paper and wider issues* 11:15 – 12:15 Session 2: Accountability and Digital Geography * 11:15 – 11:30 The System Bias of Geographic Information Systems   (Ben Wagner\, Till Winkler\, Svitlana Vakulenko)* 11:15 – 12:15 Discussion on the paper and wider issues* 12:15 – 13:15 Lunch Break*13:15 – 14:15 Session 3: Engineering Accountability*13:15 – 13:30 Accountability in the IoT: Systems\, Law\, and Ways Forward (Jat Singh)*13:30 – 14:15 Discussion on the paper and wider issues around it* 14:15 – 15:15 Session 4: Accountability and Consent* 14:15 – 14:30 Context-Sensitivity of Informed Consent: The Emergence of Genetic Data Markets (Niklas Kirchner\, Soheil Human and Gustaf Neumann)* 14:30 – 15:15 Discussion on the paper and wider issues around it* 15:15 – 15:30 Coffee Break* 15:30 – 17:00 Session 5: Conclusions on Accountable Systems and Next Steps* 17:00 – 17:15 Goodbye \nFurther details about the workshop are available here:  http://ecis2019.eu/programme/workshops-and-tutorials/engineering-accountable-information-systems-1.421417 \nOrganised with the support of: \n \nProject DITAS\, H2020  grant 731945
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/ecis-workshop-engineering-accountable-information-systems-ecis-2019-stockholm/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190603T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190603T170000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20190513T083012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190513T083012Z
UID:4435-1559570400-1559581200@www.sustainablecomputing.eu
SUMMARY:The new AVMSD and platform regulation: challenges for national legislators and regulators.
DESCRIPTION:The EU’s new Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) is an important step for platform regulation in regulation. While new provisions embedded in the AVMSD attempt to increase transparency and reduce content which is seen a problematic online\, they also require online service providers to change their terms of services (ToS). This leads to considerable challenges for national legislators and regulators in interpreting the AVMSD in a way which supports fundamental human rights. \nTo discuss these issues\, we have we have invited some of the leading European experts on this topics to participate in a workshop to discuss these challenges: \n\nLubos Kuklis\, Chair of the European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services (ERGA)\nJoan Barata\, Intermediary Liability Fellow\, Center for Internet and Society\, Stanford\nKrisztina Rozgonyi\, Assistant Professor\, Media Governance and Media Industries Research Lab\, University of Vienna\nSusanne Lackner\, Vice Chair\, Austrian Communications Authority\nBen Wagner\, Assistant Professor\, Information Systems and Society\, Vienna University of Economics and Business\n\nAs space is limited\, please register for the event with Hannah Waltl <mis-sek@wu.ac.at> if you wish to attend.
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/the-new-avmsd-and-platform-regulation-challenges-for-national-legislators-and-regulators/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190515T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190515T163000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20190513T103747Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190513T103747Z
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SUMMARY:Ben Wagner: Content Moderation in Practice
DESCRIPTION:What does content moderation of online platforms actually look like in practice? How much content moderation takes places manually and how much is automated? The following talk will provide an overview of existing content moderation on different European platforms\, as well as the challenges and difficulties in measuring the effectiveness of these practices. \nAs such\, the talk will discuss both empirical and theoretical challenges\, attempting to provide a broad overview for a primarily academic audience. We look forward to seeing you there! \n 
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/ben-wagner-content-moderation-in-practice/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190508T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190508T163000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20190228T085315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190228T085315Z
UID:1361-1557327600-1557333000@www.sustainablecomputing.eu
SUMMARY:Sylvie Delacroix: Beware of 'Algorithmic Regulation'
DESCRIPTION:Among the structural elements that enable social media platforms to durably influence our moods and behaviour\, their answering a widespread desire to be liked and accepted – a desire which is seldom transparent to us – greatly increases their manipulative power. So does their ability to harvest fine-grained information about their users (and acquaintances). This data puts such platforms in a position where they can not only covertly influence our thoughts\, moods and behaviour: they can do so in a way that is maximally effective given our respective traits\, vulnerabilities etc. This paper argues that if we are to stand any chance of taming these platforms’ considerable manipulative potential\, some conceptual spring-cleaning is needed. \nFirst\, we need to stop confusing regulatory power and regulation. Whereas in mechanics or cybernetics there is no need to distinguish between the two -since there are no agents whose autonomy is infringed by regulation- when the concept of regulation is applied to human behaviour this distinction becomes crucial\, and hinges upon the concept of authority. Since social media platforms do not – yet – claim authority\, they do not regulate us: they have regulatory power over us. Our task is to regulate that power. \nTo succeed in the latter task\, we also need to acknowledge that the type of influence exercised by social media platforms is not merely non-deliberative: it is also covert. While the former is often unproblematic from an ethical/legal perspective\, the latter not only threatens our right to freedom of thought\, it also compromises our commitment to moral equality. \nRead the full paper here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3327191
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/sylvie-delacroix/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190429T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190429T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20190222T081912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190222T081912Z
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SUMMARY:Ben Wagner: Einsatz von Algorithmen in der Arbeitsvermittlung
DESCRIPTION:Die Digitalisierung führt zu tiefgreifenden Veränderungen der Arbeitswelt und der Arbeitsorganisation. Die durch den vermehrten Einsatz der Technologie verursachten Veränderungen manifestieren sich nicht nur in der Entgrenzung von Arbeitszeit und Arbeitsort sowie als Phänomen des plattformbasierten Arbeitens (gig economy\, crowdwork)\, sondern auch in der Arbeitsvermittlung. \n  \nSeit Jahren können wir den Trend beobachten\, dass Online-Jobbörsen\, Headhunter und Personalabteilungen vermehrt „Recruitment Algorithmen“ bei der Suche nach geeigneten Jobkandidaten einsetzen. Bei den verwendeten Tools handelt es sich in der Regel um „Automated Decision Making (ADM)-Systeme“\, welche autonom die Bewerber klassifizieren und allenfalls geeignete Kandidaten für eine gewisse Stelle vorschlagen. Dem Versprechen der verbesserten Vermittlungsleistung durch den Einsatz von Assistenzsystemen\, die die Mitarbeiter bei deren Entscheidungen unterstützen\, ist nunmehr in einem Pilotprojekt auch das Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich (AMS) nachgegangen und entwickelte zwei Assistenzsysteme. Der erste Algorithmus wurde zum Zweck des Matchings zwischen Arbeitsuchenden und offenen Stellen konzipiert; der andere zur Abschätzung der Arbeitsmarktchancen von Arbeitssuchenden. \n  \nDie Entwicklung gibt Anlass\, die eingesetzte Technologie\, die gesellschaftspolitischen\, wirtschaftlichen und ethischen Folgen ihres Einsatzes sowie die damit verbundenen Rechtsfragen näher zu beleuchten. \n  \n\n\n\nVeranstalter \nInstitut für Innovation und Digitalisierung im Recht der Universität Wien \n  \nOrganisationsteam \nInstitut für Innovation und Digitalisierung im Recht \nNikolaus Forgó | Žiga Škorjanc\nKontakt und Anmeldung \nID-organisation@univie.ac.at \n \n\n\n\n  \nProgramm \n  \n\n\n\nMontag 29. April\n\n\n\n18:00 – 18:30\nBegrüßung \nNikolaus Forgó \n(Institut für Innovation und Digitalisierung im Recht\, Universität Wien) \n \n\n\n18:30 – 19:30\nOpening Statements & Discussion \nUniv.-Prof. Dr. Wilfried Gansterer \n(Dekan der Fakultät für Informatik\, Universität Wien) \n  \nUniv.-Prof. DDr. Matthias Karmasin \n(Institut für vergleichende Medien- und Kommunikationsforschung (CMC) der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) \n  \nUniv.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Mazal \n(Institut für Arbeits- und Sozialrecht\, Universität Wien) \n  \nAss.-Prof. Dr. Ben Wagner\n(Institute for Management Information Systems\, WU Wien) \n  \nDr. Marius Wilk \n(Leiter des Büros des Vorstandes\, Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich)\n\n\n19:30 – 21:00\nEmpfang
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/einsatz-von-algorithmen-in-der-arbeitsvermittlung/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190410T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190410T163000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
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SUMMARY:Gizem Gültekin Várkonyi: Technical and Legal Interoperability of Social Robots and the GDPR
DESCRIPTION:More personal data means more personal services at today’s data driven market that does not seem to change much in close future. Embodied and connected AI technologies gain and drain much of personal data made available by human. A futuristic approach for robotic applications points that robots at personal use might become real within this century. General purpose robot assisting person’s daily life activities is demanded and supported with scientific developments which are supported with huge investments. Social robot\, a type of service robot\, could interact with human in a humanoid way and is indeed able to collect personal data to personalize its services which are currently delivered in healthcare and entertainment sectors at a limited level. However\, living with such artificial-social personas raise some concerns regarding protection of human’s private life. Even the most updated personal data protection law\, the GDPR\, may fall short to ensure full protection of a social robot user’s personal data both because of the technical realities and of the legal constraints. The fact is that\, these robots are able to persuade human to disclose even more personal data\, thanks to\, for example\, their physical presence\, emotional interaction abilities\, and ability to learn from actual data (e.g. via Reinforcement Learning) . In this talk\, I will present how the GDPR is challenged by the current developments in the AI field\, and how single interpretation of some of the GDPR rules could be difficult in connection with those developments.
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/gizem-gultekin-varkonyi/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190403T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190403T160000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20190222T160944Z
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SUMMARY:Alexander Sander: Open Platforms for Open Data?
DESCRIPTION:FSFE has launched the campaign “Public Money\, Public code”\, which\npromotes legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed\nfor the public sector is made publicly available under a Free and Open\nSource Software licence. The demand to support free software is also\nimportant for the open data debate. More and more administrations make\nopen data available\, which is used by different actors in different\nways. However\, these actors often resort to closed source solutions\,\nwhich contradicts the idea of openness. \nThe following talk will discuss challenges and contradictions with this model as well as providing ways forward on how to shape the open data debate in a way that systematically promotes the public interest. \nAlexander Sander is the EU Public Policy Programme Manager for the Free Software Foundation Europe and based in Berlin.
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/alexander-sander-open-platforms-for-open-data/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190402T153000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190402T173000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20190222T161625Z
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SUMMARY:Florian Cech: AMS Algorithm and Accountable Systems Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This meeting of the Lab working group on accountable systems will discuss issues related to understanding the implementation of an algorithm which categorises recipients of unemployment benefits in Austria by the Austrian unemployment agency AMS. \nFlorian Cech from TU Wien will provide a short introduction with an overview of the current state of the art on the AMS categorisation algorithm. \nPrevious workshops on accountable systems include: \n\n26 February 2019 – Accountability and Emerging Technologies with Cambridge University at Alan Turing Institute in London:  https://www.privacylab.at/event/accountability-and-emerging-technologies-workshop/\n22 January 2019 – Developing Accountable Systems with Complexity Science Hub Vienna: https://privacylab.at/event/csh-workshop-developing-accountable-systems/ 
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/florian-cech-ams-algorithm-and-accountable-systems/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190401T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190401T203000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20190103T131823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190103T131823Z
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SUMMARY:Sarah Spiekermann 'Digitale Ethik'
DESCRIPTION:Apps\, die unaufgefordert Informationen zuschicken; Autos\, die von Google-Rechnern gesteuert werden\, und Sprachassistenten\, die Bestellungen für uns vornehmen; Künstliche Intelligenz und Big Data sind Teil unseres Lebens. Doch was macht die Digitalisierung mit uns? Sarah Spiekermann fordert deshalb ein radikales Umdenken: Wir brauchen eine Technik\, die uns dient\, statt uns zu beherrschen. Die Digitalisierung darf nicht nur vom Gewinnstreben getrieben sein\, sondern muss Werte fördern. In ihrem Buch entwickelt sie eine Ethik für die Technologien der Zukunft. Sie erklärt\, was das Digitale wirklich kann und was wir alle tun können\, um eine positive und selbstbestimmte Digitalisierung zu leben. \n\n\nPräsentation von und mit\nSarah Spiekermann ist seit 2009 Universitätsprofessorin an der WU-Wien\, wo sie dem Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik & Gesellschaft vorsteht und 2016 das ‘Privacy and Sustainable Computing Lab’ gegründet hat. Ihre Karriere begann bei Silicon-Valley-Unternehmen\, von wo aus sie zur Strategieberatung A.T. Kearney wechselte. Später leitete sie das Forschungszentrum Internetökonomie an der Humboldt-Universität Berlin. Spiekermann hat sich aufgrund ihrer langjährigen Forschungen zu einer profilierten Kritikerin der IT-Branche und ihres Menschenbildes entwickelt\, die aber auch Lösungen anbietet. Spiekermann ist eine vielgefragte Keynote-Speakerin und Gesprächspartnerin der Politik und der Medien.
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/sarah-spiekermann-digitale-ethik/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190331T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190331T140000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20190315T080606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190315T080606Z
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SUMMARY:Volkstheatergespräche mit Corinna Milborn
DESCRIPTION:Digitalität und Demokratie\n\n\nDie Digitalisierung verändert unser gesellschaftliches Leben auf vielen Ebenen. Digitale Plattformen agieren als Medienportale\, organisieren den Zugang zu Wissen und sammeln bei jedem Klick eine Unmenge an Daten. Big Data heißt dieser wertvolle neue Rohstoff\, den die User/innen bereitwillig generieren. Fake News und Bots nehmen Einfluss auf unsere Wahrnehmung von Wirklichkeit. Das Internet der Dinge eröffnet neue Möglichkeiten der Überwachung. \nWelche Rolle kann die Zivilgesellschaft spielen\, damit die Digitalisierung den Interessen der Allgemeinheit dient? Welche Forderungen soll sie stellen\, um die technische Entwicklung im Sinne der Wahrung der Grund- und Menschenrechte zu gestalten? Was kann jede/r einzelne User/in tun\, um das Internet nicht privaten oder polizeilichen Interessen zu überlassen\, sondern eine offene Sphäre des Austauschs und der verantwortungsvollen Communities zu gestalten? \nCorinna Milborn\, Co-Autorin von Change the Game. Wie wir uns das Netz von Facebook und Google zurückerobern\, skizziert mit ihren Gästen Wege zur digitalen Mündigkeit: \nDr. Sarah Spiekermann-Hoff lehrt und forscht an der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien\, wo sie dem Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Gesellschaft vorsteht. Sie publiziert regelmäßig wissenschaftliche Artikel zu den Themen werteorientierte IT-Entwicklung\, Privacy und Kontrolle im digitalen Raum und veröffentlichte u.a. die Sachbücher Ethical IT Innovation und Networks of Control. 2016 ist sie vom Ingenieursverband IEEE damit betraut worden\, den ersten Standardisierungsprozess zu leiten\, der sich mit ethischer Technikgestaltung beschäftigt. Auf der Website der Tageszeitung Der Standard betreibt sie den Blog Die ethische Maschine. Am 1. April erscheint ihr neues Buch Digitale Ethik. Ein Wertesystem für das 21. Jahrhundert. \nAngelika Adensamer\, Juristin und Kriminologin\, arbeitet als Policy Advisor bei epicenter.works\, einer NGO\, die für die Verteidigung der Grundrechte im digitalen Zeitalter eintritt. Außerdem ist sie Mitglied des Datenschutzrats und des Netzwerks Kritische Rechtswissenschaften. Sie publiziert zu den Themen Überwachungsbefugnisse\, Bürger/innenrechte\, Freiheit und Sicherheit. \nStefanie Wuschitz arbeitet als Künstlerin\, Forscherin und Hacktivistin zu den Themen Open Source Technologie\, Peer Production und Feminismus. Sie studierte Transmediale Kunst an der Universität für Angewandte Kunst\, gefolgt von einem Master an der TISCH School of the Arts an der New York University\, und promovierte zu „Feminist Hackerspaces. A Research on Feminist Space Collectives in Open Culture“ an der TU. Seither ist sie an verschiedenen österreichischen und internationalen wissenschaftlichen Projekten und Kunstausstellungen beteiligt. 2009 gründete sie den feministischen Hackerspace Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory. \nAchtung\, an diesem Sonntag ist Umstellung auf Sommerzeit! \nhttp://www.volkstheater.at/stueck/digitalitaet-und-demokratie/
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/volkstheatergesprache-mit-corinna-milborn/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190322T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190322T223000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20190313T140228Z
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SUMMARY:Ursula Pachl: Privacy and data security
DESCRIPTION:What is the role for privacy and data security in the European Union? As part of the course on the Marketing and Society Interface by Bernadette Kamleitner and Renato Regis\, Ursula Pachl will be giving a talk which is open to a wider audience. \n  \nUrsula Pachl\, Deputy Director General\, BEUC – The European Consumers’ Organisation\, Brussels. Ms. Pachl leads BEUC’s work on the Digital Single Market and on consumer rights and enforcement. She is also responsible for horizontal and strategic policy issues\, represents BEUC in the European Commission’s REFIT platform and co-ordinates BEUC’s law enforcement project ‘COJEF’. Prior to working for BEUC\, Ms. Pachl worked at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Health and Consumer Protection in Vienna and at the Austrian Consumer Information Association as a member of the Consumer Advisory Board. BEUC represents 42 independent national consumer associations from 31 European countries. The primary task of BEUC is to act as a strong consumer voice in Brussels and to try to ensure that consumer interests are given their proper weight in the development of all Community policies.
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/ursula-pachl-privacy-and-data-security/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190320T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190320T163000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20190228T144129Z
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SUMMARY:Niels ten Oever: a Net of Rights? - the Inscription and Subversion of Values in Transnational Internet Infrastructure Governance
DESCRIPTION:In this talk I will show how fundamental characteristics of the Internet architecture\, such as equality and innovation\, have been subverted since the 1990s. While Internet platforms and applications are critically assessed in the public debate\, the Internet architecture is widely perceived as engine for innovation and as enabler of rights and freedoms. This view reflects an imaginary that guides the co-production of policy and technology that can be traced back to the early phases of the development of the Internet\, and which is still prominent in one the main governance bodies of the Internet: the Internet Engineering Taskforce (IETF). In the IETF\, the co-production of the Internet architecture is guided by the architectural principles of permissionless innovation\, openness\, and the end-to-end principle. After the privatization of the Internet architecture\, the interplay between permissionless innovation\, openness\, and the end-to-end principle reconfigured and subverted the Internet architecture’s affordance structure. To show this I draw on media studies\, science and technology studies and international political economy\, and by using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods based on document analysis\, interviews\, and participant observation. Through this data I show how the Internet architecture fundamentally changed from the early 1990s up to now\, how the Internet protocol community has refused to take impacts on rights and freedoms structurally into account\, and how this negatively affected the equality of users and undermined their ability to redesign the Internet in their favor.
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/niels-ten-oever/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190226T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190226T130000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20190222T213855Z
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SUMMARY:Accountability and Emerging Technologies Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Workshop on Accountability and Emerging Technologies\, organised by the Compliant and Accountable Systems group at the Computer Lab at Cambridge University and the  the Privacy & Sustainable Computing Lab at WU Vienna.\n\nWe’re envisaging 2 minute lightning talks from each participant as part of a 2 hour workshop on the aspects of your existing work that could contribute to improving accountability in emerging technologies. The reason we’re doing this is to bring together a range of people from different backgrounds to explore collaborative ways forward on this topic.\n\n\nThe workshop will be taking place at the Alan Turing Institute\, British Library\, 96 Euston Road\, London NW1 2DB. Prior registration is required in order to participate.
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/accountability-and-emerging-technologies-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190123T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190123T150000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20190114T164253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190114T164253Z
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SUMMARY:David Reichel: The impact of AI and big data on fundamental rights
DESCRIPTION:The presentation will provide an overview of the work of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data. The Agency is working on a project that looks into the positive and negative impact that new technologies\, including AI and big data\, have on the enjoyment of fundamental rights in the EU. Apart from a general overview on the topic\, the presentation will focus on the area of non-discrimination and further on issues related to data quality in machine learning.
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/david-reichel-the-impact-of-ai-and-big-data-on-fundamental-rights/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190122T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190122T203000
DTSTAMP:20260423T191354
CREATED:20190120T081333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190120T081333Z
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SUMMARY:First MyData Austria Meetup
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URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/first-mydata-austria-meetup/
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