Ars aequi

In this episode, we revisit the topic of Porn Law and explore the developments that have occurred since our initial podcast series on internet pornography. We discuss the developments of the #ShutdownPornHub petition and the changes that the internet porn giant has made to rectify the issues on its platform. We analyse the controversy surrounding the rebranding of Only Fans, “the Instagram for Porn”. Finally, we discuss the issue of revenge porn and the possible developments in the upcoming Digital Services Act.Sources:

Only Fans

Revenge Porn and the Digital Services Act

In the final episode of the Digital Justice Series, we explore technology as a tool to improve government administrative and democratic processes through the topic of e-Governance. We discuss the elements of e-Governance from a social and legal perspective. Finally, we explore Estonia’s eGovernance framework as an example of best practice and innovation in the public sector.

In the second episode of the Digital Justice Series, we discuss the right of Access to Information in the context of access to legal information. We explore the challenges faced with ensuring access and the adequate understanding of legal information. Finally, we explore technological solutions, created by Paul to give effect to the right of access to information. These solutions include a Twitter bot, which provides updates on new laws as well as ris+, a search engine for laws. Sources: 

Tima and Paul return for a brand new series, the Digital Justice Series. This series explores the influence of digital technology on access to justice and the judicial process. In this episode the topic of “Zoom Court” or virtual hearings is explored with a specific focus on the right of a fair trial. 

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In this episode Seliem El-Sayed (Department of Political Science) and Filip Paspalj (Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law) talk about the interdisciplinary and interuniversity project "Digitize! Computational Social Sciences in the digital and social Transformation”. In addition to an overview of the project, Seliem and Filip give an exciting insight into ethical and legal aspects of CSS.

Find out more: https://digitize-transformation.at

Mixing & Editing: Maximilian Treitler

In this episode of the pass-the-mic-series, Katarzyna and Marie-Catherine talk about their researchproject KATY (Knowledge At the Tip of Your fingers: Clinical Knowledge for Humanity)

Find out more about the project here: https://katy-project.eu/ and https://twitter.com/project_katy

In this Episode: Katarzyna Barud, Marie-Catherine Wagner; Sound: Maximilian Treitler

In this episode of the PassTheMic-Series, Marie-Catherine and Mariana introduce their project Privacy4Kids. 

The research project aims to teach children between the ages of 6 and 14 the importance of data protection and privacy online. As part of the project, we will be organising a university course, in which an interdisciplinary team of students will create instructional videos for children. 

Find out more here: 

https://ufind.univie.ac.at/de/course.html?lv=030608&semester=2021W

In the third episode of the Pass-the-Mic-Series, Mariana and Michael introduce the Virtual Brain Cloud (VBC) project. The aim of the EU-funded research project is to develop a cloud based decision support platform for diagnosing and treating so-called neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's. 

In the Episode, Mariana and Michael talk about why this project is important and how they as the legal partners tackled data protection issues arising from the project. 

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In the second episode of the Pass the Mic series, Tima and Lukas discuss the EU funded Horizon 2020 project, The Food Safety Market (TheFSM). TheFSM project consists of a consortium of eleven partners from nine different European countries, working together to develop a transparent data-powered certification ecosystem which ensures secure and efficient data exchange between the various players in the food supply chain. Tima and Lukas discuss the pilot and validation phase of the project, exploring all the relevant legal and ethical aspects.

For more information on the project visit: https://foodsafetymarket.eu/

In this episode of Ars aequi, Emily and Max discuss several of the legal and ethical considerations of the ProCAncer-I project. ProCAncer-I is an EU Horizon 2020 funded research project aimed at developing advanced AI models to provide an effective tool in the diagnosis, metastases detection and prediction of prostate cancer. The ProCAncer-I aims to create the first European legally and ethically compliant, prostate-related medical imaging platform. Within this platform, both large-scale data and AI algorithms will coexist in the platform. Emily and Max discuss the legal challenges of anonymising medical images, the requirements in data protection for the processing of retrospective data and the collection of prospective data as well as the ethical considerations for processing medical images for research.