News

Call for Extended Abstracts: Workshop on the Ethics and Politics of Online Monitoring of Violent Extremism (January 19-20, 2015, Brussels)

November 3, 2014

On 19-20 January 2015, the VOX-Pol network is organising a workshop in Brussels on the ethics and politics of the day-to-day monitoring of the Net for material promoting violent extremism — by police, intelligence agencies, the Internet industry, and private groups and individuals. It will be a fully participative event, with short keynotes from leading experts followed by intensive debate and discussion, and including stakeholders from civil society, technology companies, and law enforcement agencies.

CMDS Welcomes Doctoral Students Visiting from the University of Vienna

October 22, 2014

The Center for Media, Data and Society received the visit of a group of doctoral students from the University of Vienna, led by Katharine Sarikakis, professor at the university’s Department of Communication.

Part-Time Program Assistant Position at CMDS

October 20, 2014

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED FOR THIS POSITION

Starting date: November 03, 2014
Application deadline: Review of applications will begin October 22, 2014 and will continue until the position is filled
Full Or Part Time: Part time (20 hrs/week)

Public Data from European Privacy Report Now Available

October 20, 2014

Our report on compromised personal records in Europe was based on six months of work, collecting and veryifying stories.  Hundreds of stories were collected and coded, and incidents that had paltry details or less credible sourcing were discarded.  Now the full dataset of breach incidents is available for public distribution and analysis.  

Like the report itself, this data is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution ‐ Non Commercial ‐ Share Alike 4.0 International License.

CMDS in Wired

October 15, 2014

Wired UK covered the findings of the recent data breach report from CMDS, "Data Breaches in Eruope" with an article called "Your Colleagues Pose Bigger Threat to Your Privacy Than Hackers".