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Navigating the complex legal landscape of the information professions.

CILIP

There is currently a gap in the market for a text for students of information studies that not only provides an accessible introduction to copyright, freedom of information and data protection, but also demonstrates practical approaches to compliance in the workplace.? Our book provides such understanding.". Noting the book?s

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Your New Neighborhood Library

Information Governance Perspectives

Library science is an interdisciplinary field incorporating the humanities, law, and applied science that studies topics related to libraries, the collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information resources, and the political economy of information. What’s it like to work in this field? Where’s the line in the sand?

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What is smart transportation?

IBM Big Data Hub

There are now universities that study smart transportation use cases (e.g., Citizens and commuters can access this information on their smartphones, tablets and computers through applications, social media or browsers, but that should just be table stakes. Carnegie Mellon , New York University , NJIT and many more).

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Mike Q Says the Weakest Link in TAR is Humans: eDiscovery Best Practices

eDiscovery Daily

We train the software by categorizing the training documents, we operate the software, we analyze the outcome. Perhaps, when it comes down to it, the success of TAR being dependent on humans points us back to the long-used phrase regarding humans and computers: Garbage In, Garbage Out. Seems logical to me. So, it’s our fault.

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HHS Announces Settlements with Health Care System and Medical Research Institute over Potential HIPAA Violations

Hunton Privacy

The OCR’s investigation of Feinstein Institute, a biomedical research institute based in New York, began after the institute filed a breach report indicating that in September 2012, an unencrypted, password-protected laptop computer containing the ePHI of approximately 13,000 patients and research participants was stolen from an employee’s car.

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AI, Records, and Accountability

ARMA International

AI refers to computer systems that are able to perform tasks that are considered to require human intelligence – that is, cognitive tasks. ML algorithms require sufficient data inputs and some form of training. six-in-ten Americans (58%) feel that computer programs will always reflect the biases of the people who designed them.”

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China’s PIPL has finally arrived, and brings helpful clarification (rather than substantial change) to China’s data privacy framework

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Definition of Personal information and Sensitive Personal information “Personal information” means any kind of information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, either electronically or otherwise recorded, but excluding information that has been de-identified or anonymised.