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Predictions 2021: Disinformation, SPACs, Africa, Facebook, and a Return to Tech Optimism

John Battelle's Searchblog

But by year’s end folks will realize that antitrust suits are essentially kabuki, an exercise designed to go nowhere and maintain the status quo. Predictions 2013. 2013: How I Did. Predictions 2012. 2012: How I Did. Everyone loses their s**t, in a good way. Predictions 2018. 2018: How I Did. Predictions 2017.

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Predictions 2016: Apple, Tesla, Google, Medium, Adtech, Microsoft, IoT, and Business on a Mission

John Battelle's Searchblog

” 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. Predictions 2013. 2013: How I Did. Predictions 2012. 2012: How I Did. China goes shopping. Have a great 2016, everyone!

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Council of the European Union Releases Draft Compromise Text on the Proposed EU Data Protection Regulation

Hunton Privacy

On May 31, 2013, the Council of the European Union’s Justice and Home Affairs released a draft compromise text in response to the European Commission’s proposed General Data Protection Regulation (the “Proposed Regulation”). Currently, the Presidency is held by Ireland, with Lithuania taking over on July 1 for the second half of 2013.

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

11 As the Advisory Committee’s Note to the 1983 Amendment explained, the amended Rule sought to “prevent use of discovery to wage a war of attrition or as a device to coerce a party, whether financially weak or affluent.”12 Thus, while many preservation steps can seem like passive exercises, the impact on privacy can be significant.

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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

The biggest changes since our debates on the Data Protection Act 1998, or even the early stages of the GDPR, which I was involved in as a Minister at the MoJ from 2010 to 2013, is that the threat to civil liberties and personal freedoms now comes not only from agencies of the state but from corporate power as well.

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