Carlos Castillo

@ChaToX

Professor working on discrimination, social computing, and . Tweets on digital rights, social innovation, and Free Culture

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Joined May 2007
Born on January 11, 1977
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  1. Oct 1

    New NAFTA Would Harm Canadian Copyright Reform and Shrink the Public Domain // now Canada has the obligation to increase its copyright term by an additional 20 years

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  2. Oct 1

    When entering New Zealand, the government can fine you $5000 if you refuse to unlock your phone/laptop for it to be searched - plus it can be seized and forensically analyzed // no "reasonable suspicion" requirement

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  3. Sep 29

    [es] Workshop: Ética y Datos - jueves 4/octubre 17:00-19:30 Aula Magna Universitat Barcelona -

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  4. Sep 26

    Letter in which Jack Poulson, former Senior Researcher at Google AI&ML, describes why he resigned - company is designing a search engine with built-in surveillance tools and that censors human rights news and even air quality data unless approved by gov't

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  5. Sep 25

    [es] Dimite el presidente de la comisión que decide las tasas de copyright: "Cultura ha cedido a las presiones de las entidades de gestión" // evidente captura regulatoria, incluyendo al menos un alto funcionario que es empleado de la SGAE (en excedencia)

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  6. Sep 25

    Every year, at some point someone from a company, a nonprofit, or a university, knocks on my door and tells me we should build a credit scoring system based on social media actions. Now I've the perfect response (beautifully illustrated with short videos)

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  7. Sep 21

    Next week I'll start teaching a new course: Introduction to Network Science for 2nd-year students of our bachelor degree in Mathematical Engineering in Data Science. I've been preparing the course for months, so I'm pretty excited about it!

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  8. Sep 19

    Accusations of rape have 90% to 98% precision, but just 35% recall. So, the real problem are false negatives, not false positives.

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  9. Sep 17

    Belgian court refuses Spanish request to extradite rapper // prison sentence of 3.5 years was based on Spain's "gag law" passed in 2015 in response to the "indignados"/occupy movements; the law broadens the definition of terrorism and silences free speech

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  10. Sep 16

    Google China prototype links searches to phone numbers // search results exclude information about political dissidents and other sensitive topics

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  11. Sep 14

    Sony Finally Admits It Doesn’t Own Bach and It Only Took a Bunch of Public Pressure // Sony is not only issuing these take-down notices to Facebook automatically, but if you appeal, it will automatically reject the appeal and your content will stay muted

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  12. Sep 13

    European Court of Human Rights rules that UK's bulk data collection violated article 8 (right to privacy) of the European convention on human rights // governments must specify purpose, targets, duration, retention: can't collect everything about everybody

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    Sep 13

    Beques de recerca per a estudiants ! Contribueix a iniciatives obertes com Wikipedia, Zenodo o Freesound i forma part del programa de recerca del

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  14. Retweeted
    Sep 12

    Final vote for Parliament position on the copyright directive with and : adopted. Parliament has failed to listen to citizens’ and experts’ concerns.

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  15. Sep 12

    These obligations cannot be fulfilled without automatic upload filters. The fact that the EU Commission advances this "terrorist" angle now proves that this discussion is not about paying artists, it's about finding any way of controlling online speech.

    Hours before the vote on in , publishes new proposal for upload filters against terrorist content: This time, ALL hosting providers must remove content in 1 hour, no matter how small.
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  16. Sep 11

    This is what at stake with the EU’s latest copyright reform via // the EU Parliament will vote on Wednesday 12th several amendments to the Copyright Directive

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  17. Sep 11

    How the EU's Copyright Filters Will Make it Trivial For Anyone to Censor the Internet // large tech companies have no incentive to fight back, as automated censorship requirements will keep smaller companies out of their business

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  18. Sep 8

    Giant media companies are pushing a disastrous EU copyright proposal. We can stop it. // next week the EU Parliament will vote on automated censorship and ancillary rights over titles/snippets (the "link tax")

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  19. Sep 6

    The future is here today: you can’t play Bach on Youtube because Sony says they own his compositions // life of author + 300 years? These fraudulent claims are the result of automated censorship - watch out for vote in EU Parliament on September 12th!

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  20. Sep 4

    European science funders ban grantees from publishing in paywalled journals // no 12-months embargo, no 6-months embargo, no hybrid journals (paywall + paid OA): immediate Open Access will be the new requirement

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