Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

What follows below is an edited version of the debate in the House of Lords of the Second Reading of the Data Protection Bill, held on 10 October. I will highlight, rather at random, some other examples which need reflection. There are good examples of how this provision would cause a problem as it is enunciated in Clause 7.​

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 3, 2016

” Examples include sensors in jet engines (and just about everything else of industrial significance), exercise and health wearables , and home automation , to name but a few. Fear not for Comcast’s margins, however, because by 2017, Comcast will have become a major streaming competitor in its own right. Predictions 2011.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

In January 2017, seeking to provide practical advice for directors to address their oversight responsibilities, the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) released its (revised) Handbook on Cyber-Risk Oversight (NACD Handbook). Designing an Enterprise-Level Approach.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The post Predictions 2017 – How’d I Do This Year? As I wrote nearly 12 months ago , 2017 felt particularly unpredictable. Score: 10 of 10. #2: Score: 5 of 10. #3. What I do know, however, is that in 2017, the table was well and truly set for open approaches to make a comeback.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

As I wrote nearly 12 months ago , 2017 felt particularly unpredictable. The backlash is at such a fever pitch, it seems tech has been crucified forever, but I peg the beginning of the end at Susan Fowler’s astonishing takedown of Uber , which was posted in mid February of 2017. Score: 10 of 10. #2: Score: 5 of 10. #3.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

As I wrote nearly 12 months ago , 2017 felt particularly unpredictable. The backlash is at such a fever pitch, it seems tech has been crucified forever, but I peg the beginning of the end at Susan Fowler’s astonishing takedown of Uber , which was posted in mid February of 2017. Score: 10 of 10. #2: Score: 5 of 10. #3.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Although Creeper is the first known example of a worm, it is not actually malware. Designed to exploit a backdoor on Unix systems, and to stay hidden, the worm quickly spread, copying itself over and over again and infecting a full 10% of all networked computers. The attack is an early example of social engineering and phishing.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Here’s what I meant by that: “Built, again, from a mashup of OpenAI technology and Microsoft’s Azure compute platform, E2 would address some of ChatGPT’s most annoying problems – its indifference to truth , for example, or the biases inherent to its Web-scale training corpus. ” So did they launch this kind of a service?

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Advertising will no longer be a sideshow to its sexier device business; it will be a $10-15 billion juggernaut with 50-90-percent profit margins. Why can’t the data from retail media networks inform supply chains, for example? And for once, it won’t be to make a marketing campaign more efficient.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

They were particularly effective at wreaking havoc on the web around 2011 and back then, they too were represented as being another bunch of scary dudes. For example: It's also configured to route requests out over Tor and. 6/7 pic.twitter.com/0b5DLGf8fY — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) December 10, 2017. Remember LulzSec ?

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Cast yourself back to late 2017 when Bitcoin was pushing $20,000 and the entire tech sector was obsessed with blockchain everything. Score: 10/10. I don’t usually make political predictions, but by 2017, Trump was the story, bigger than politics, and bigger than tech. Score: 10/10. Score: 7/10.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 1, 2021

There will be some movement – net neutrality will probably get reaffirmed and we’ll fix Trump’s H1-B messes, for example. Predictions 2017. 2017: How I Did. Predictions 2011. 2011: How I Did. Please, MAKE IT SO. Africa rising, China…in question. Predictions 2019. 2019: How I did.

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