John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 4, 2015

'The post Integrations (and Metaservices) For The Win appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. A GeckoBoard sample dashboard, integrating half a dozen separate data services. What makes for a truly NewCo business? I’ve been giving this question a lot of thought the past six or so months, leading to posts like Maybe The Best Way To Change the World Is To Start a Company , Living Systems and The Information First Company , What Makes a NewCo , and posts on NewCos like MetroMile

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Robert's Db2

APRIL 29, 2015

Twice in the past month, I've encountered a misunderstanding pertaining to dynamic SQL statements issued by applications that access DB2 for z/OS via network connections (these could also be called DDF-using applications, or DRDA requesters). Now seems as good a time as any to clear things up. I'll use this blog entry for that purpose. The misunderstanding of which I speak: some people are under the impression that dynamic SQL statements issued by DDF-connected applications are zIIP-eligible whe

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 24, 2015

On April 8, 2015, a New York Assemblyman introduced the Data Security Act in the New York State Assembly that would require New York businesses to implement and maintain information security safeguards. The requirements would apply to “private information,” which is defined as either: personal information consisting of any information in combination with one or more of the following data elements, when either the personal information or the data element is not encrypted: Social Security number;

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Collaboration 2.0

APRIL 9, 2015

'Data costs are now central to the economics of both individuals and the companies they buy things from. Digital strategy has to understand customer mobile data costs and associated mobile back-end development goals and budgeting.

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Elie

APRIL 5, 2015

To celebrate the new Hearthstone extension, Blackrock Mountain, I’m releasing a Hearthstone 3D card viewer written in pure Javascript. I feel Blackrock Mountain’s release is the perfect opportunity to showcase HTML5’s top notch performance and inspire more people to do cool visualizations on the web. With well over 500 cards, it’s high time to create a tool with powerful filtering and attractive visualization to explore the cards in an interesting fashion that works both on desktops and tablets.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 9, 2015

'The post My Schedule For NewCo New York 2015 appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Have you ever been to a music festival, and found yourself overwhelmed by too many great choices? Look at Coachella , for example. There are six stages to chose from. On Friday, how are you supposed to pick between Alabama Shakes and Lykke Li? I love ‘em both.

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Robert's Db2

APRIL 22, 2015

When DB2 10 for z/OS introduced temporal data functionality about five years ago, one of the first use cases that jumped to mind for many people was data-change auditing: a table could be created with (or an existing table altered to add) the "system time" characteristic, and thereafter one would have, in the history table associated with the base table, a record of row changes resulting from UPDATE and DELETE statements targeting the base table.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 2, 2015

The International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (the “Conference”) has launched a new permanent website. The new website fulfills the agreement made between Commissioners “to create a permanent website in particular as a common base for information and resources management” in the Montreux Declaration adopted in 2005. The Executive Committee Secretariat called the website a “one-stop-shop for permanent Conference documentation,” and will be a resource for members and th

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Collaboration 2.0

APRIL 9, 2015

Data costs are now central to the economics of both individuals and the companies they buy things from. Digital strategy has to understand customer mobile data costs and associated mobile back-end development goals and budgeting.

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 24, 2015

On March 31, 2015, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (“EPIC”) filed a petition (the “Petition”) with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit accusing the Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”) of unlawfully failing to include privacy rules in the FAA’s proposed framework of regulations for unmanned aircraft systems (“UAS”), otherwise known as drones.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 15, 2015

On April 13, 2015, the Senate of Washington State unanimously passed legislation strengthening the state’s data breach law. The bill (HB 1078) passed the Senate by a 47-0 vote, and as we previously reported , passed the House by a 97-0 vote. The bill includes the following amendments to Washington’s existing data breach notification law: Requires notification to the state attorney general in the event of a breach; imposes a 45-day deadline for notification to affected residents and the state att

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 15, 2015

On April 15, 2015, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (“APEC”) Electronic Commerce Steering Group issued a press release announcing Canada’s participation in the APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules (“CBPR”) System. The U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration also released an official press statement. The Findings Report of the Joint Oversight Panel for the APEC CBPR system, which confirmed that Canada had met the conditions for participation, was released earlier on April

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 2, 2015

On March 27, 2015, the England and Wales Court of Appeal issued its judgment in Google Inc. v Vidal-Hall and Others. Google Inc. (“Google”) appealed an earlier decision by Tugendhat J. in the High Court in January 2014. The claimants were users of Apple’s Safari browser who argued that during certain months in 2011 and 2012, Google collected information about their browsing habits via cookies placed on their devices without their consent and in breach of Google’s privacy policy.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 30, 2015

Hunton & Williams LLP announces Lisa J. Sotto , head of the firm’s Global Privacy and Cybersecurity practice and managing partner of the New York office, has been named to The National Law Journal’s “Outstanding Women Lawyers” list. The listing, composed of 75 of the most accomplished female lawyers today, includes women who have surpassed their peers based on their excellence in professional practice, development of new areas of law, leadership roles and influence.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 30, 2015

The Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recently announced a resolution agreement and $125,000 settlement with Cornell Prescription Pharmacy (“Cornell”) in connection with the disposal of prescription records in an unsecured dumpster on Cornell’s premises. After receiving a report from a Denver television station regarding Cornell’s disposal practices, the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) investigated Cornell and found several HIPAA Privacy Rule violations, including that Cornell

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 27, 2015

On April 10, 2015, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) published a summary of the feedback received from its July 28, 2014 report on Big Data and Data Protection (the “Report”). The ICO plans to revise its Report in light of the feedback received on three key questions and re-issue the Report in the summer of 2015. Below are key highlights set forth in the summary, entitled Summary of feedback on Big Data and data protection and ICO response (“Summary of Feedback”).

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 22, 2015

On April 15, 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) announced that it has joined the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities (“APPA”), the principal forum for privacy authorities in the Asia-Pacific Region. APPA members meet twice a year to discuss recent developments, issues of common interest and cooperation. The FCC now joins the Federal Trade Commission as the U.S. representatives to APPA.

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CGI

APRIL 21, 2015

Streamlining onboard sales through a single, back-office solution. shobana.lv@cgi.com. Tue, 04/21/2015 - 06:30. In today’s highly competitive and fast changing travel industry, driving efficiencies and cost-effectiveness are critical to long-term survival. Retail is a prime area for achieving both objectives, and travel operators are seeking to invest in retail systems that streamline and improve processes while offering a shorter payback period and generating more revenue.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 20, 2015

On April 16, 2015, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) published its Annual Activity Report for 2014 (the “Report”) highlighting its main accomplishments in 2014 and outlining some of the topics it will consider further in 2015. The Report presents the results of the inspections conducted by the CNIL to assess compliance with its cookie law guidance issued in December 2013.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 15, 2015

On April 14, 2015, the American Chamber of Commerce in China (“AmCham”) published a report, entitled Protecting Data Flows in the US-China Bilateral Investment Treaty (the “Report”). The Report is part of AmCham’s Policy Spotlight Series. While in principle addressed to the U.S. and Chinese teams that are currently negotiating the Bilateral Investment Treaty, the Report has been made public.

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CGI

APRIL 14, 2015

When Consumerisation and Cloud Services = Shadow IT. p.butler@cgi.com. Tue, 04/14/2015 - 05:33. We have all heard the term 'Consumerisation of IT'- the specific impact that consumer-orientated technologies can have on enterprises as they are adopted by end users, often bypassing an enterprises' IT department. This issue is not new, and generally started with the rise of the feature phone and smart phone as people started to use their own devices rather than the voice & text only devices issued b

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Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 14, 2015

On April 13, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it has settled charges with two debt brokers who posted consumers’ unencrypted personal information on a public website. The settlements with Cornerstone and Company, LLC (“Cornerstone”), Bayview Solutions, LLC (“Bayview”), and the companies’ individual owners resulted from initial complaints about the debt brokers in 2014.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 14, 2015

On March 26, 2015 the United Nations Human Rights Council (the “Council”) announced that it will appoint a new position as special rapporteur on the right to privacy for a term of three years. The position, which is part of the Council’s resolution , is intended to reaffirm the right to privacy and the right to the protection of the law against any interference on a person’s privacy, family, home or correspondences, as set out in Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Articl

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 13, 2015

On April 7, 2015, the FTC announced proposed settlements with TES Franchising, LLC, an organization specializing in business coaching, and American International Mailing, Inc., an alternative mail transporting company, related to charges that the companies falsely claimed they were compliant with the U.S.-EU and U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Frameworks. The FTC’s complaints against TES Franchising and American International Mailing alleged that the companies’ websites indicated that their Safe Harbor c

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CGI

APRIL 10, 2015

The perfect digital storm. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Fri, 04/10/2015 - 05:36. I recently attended a Tech UK discussion forum, the subject was ‘Has technology created or destroyed jobs’, t he answer is, of course, both. Over time jobs have been created and jobs lost, where technology has replaced hands, but has created a whole new set of services, in particular for us as consumers.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 8, 2015

On April 8, 2015, the Federal Communications Commission announced a $25 million settlement with AT&T Services, Inc. (“AT&T”) stemming from allegations that AT&T failed to protect the confidentiality of consumers’ personal information, resulting in data breaches at AT&T call centers in Mexico, Colombia and the Philippines. The breaches, which took place over 168 days from November 2013 to April 2014, involved unauthorized access to customers’ names, full or partial Social Security

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CGI

APRIL 7, 2015

The Internet of Things (IoT) – Start small but start. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Tue, 04/07/2015 - 04:00. In September 2014, Gartner’s Annual Big Data survey reported, “Looking only at those organizations that have invested in big data, 32% report having deployed, up from 25% in 2013(1). ” Equally worryingly there is a general rule of thumb within the industry that 80% of a BI project cost is in getting the data prepared.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 6, 2015

From Wall Street to Main Street to Hollywood, steering clear of a data breach is challenging in a world where it is no longer a question of if but rather a matter of when your company will be hit. Hunton & Williams’ Chair of the Global Privacy and Cybersecurity practice Lisa Sotto speaks in depth with associate Brittany Bacon about three groups of attackers, how they are infiltrating IT systems, what they are looking for, and how you can prepare.

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