April, 2014

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What Is Google?

John Battelle's Searchblog

'The post What Is Google? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Every so often it’s fun to see what Google says about itself via its autocomplete function. For your enjoyment, a few choice images: The post What Is Google? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog.

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You Saw It Here First: Information Governance Moves Beyond "Buzzword"

Positively RIM

Next Monday and Tuesday, over 100 executives, attorneys, technologists, information governance professionals, and other luminaries will convene at Amelia Island (FL) for the first Executive Conference on Information Governance, co-sponsored by ARMA International and The Sedona Conference. This phenomenon means Information Governance is becoming operational, that is: IG is moving from trendy-buzzword to best practices offering significant benefits.

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Calculate the Number of Connections Between Objects or People

JKevinParker

I was working on some training material and wanted to show how complex ad hoc connections between systems can be. I needed to calculate the number of potential connections between a number of systems, so I had to relearn a formula. Between 2 systems there is only 1 possible connection. One way to calculate this for more than 2 objects is to add up all the whole numbers between 1 and (n-1) where n is the number of objects.

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DB2 for z/OS: the Importance of Historical Performance Data

Robert's Db2

Just within the past couple of weeks, I've received questions of a similar nature from two different DB2 for z/OS people. In each message, a DBA described a change that he had made in a production DB2 environment (in one case a size increase for several buffer pools, and in the other a change from an external stored procedure to a native SQL procedure).

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Meaning matters: why google switched to numeric captchas

Elie

In-depth research publications, industry talks and blog posts about Google security, research at Google and cybersecurity in general in open-access.

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The Next Vegas Will Be A City That Lets You Truly Disappear – If Only For A While

John Battelle's Searchblog

'The post The Next Vegas Will Be A City That Lets You Truly Disappear – If Only For A While appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image ) My daily reading took me to two places today – to Compton, California , well-known for its crime to anyone who grew up in LA (as I did), and to this NYT piece , which muses that the city, once the place we went to disappear, is likely to be the first place where anonymity is no longer guaranteed.

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Chinese Postal Bureau Issues Personal Information Protection Rules

Hunton Privacy

In March 2014, the State Postal Bureau of the People’s Republic of China (the “SPBC”) formally issued three rules (the “Rules”) establishing significant requirements regarding the protection of personal information: (1) Provisions on the Management of the Security of Personal Information of Postal and Delivery Service Users (the “Security Provisions”); (2) Provisions on the Reporting and Handling of Security Information in the Postal Sector (the “Reporting and Handling Provisions”); and (3) Prov

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Clarification of Last Post

Positively RIM

Gentle Reader: A statement in my last post, the wrapup to the Executive Conference on Information Governance, deserves clarification. When I reported that, " ARMA scraped to send five people to Amelia Island," I was referring to ARMA staff members. The greater ARMA community was well-represented, with some 80 percent of attendees registering through ARMA's efforts.

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Word Cloud: Information Chaos vs. Information Opportunity

JKevinParker

I created a Wordle word cloud of AIIM's eBook “Information Chaos V. Information Opportunity: THE information challenge for the next decade” Download this word cloud as a hi-res PDF These are the top 100 words in the paper. I replaced “IT” with “informationtechnology”, or else it would have been filtered out as a common word.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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Europe under Review : Part 2 of 8 – Data Collection

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

As the next in our series of “back to privacy basics”, we look the rules regarding collection and processing of […].

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Why Information Sharing Precedes Open Data - Coffee Talk

Interactive Information Management

The Agency Deputy CIO (DCIO), Enterprise Architect (EA), IT System/Security Manager (ITSM) and the Open Data Community Evangelist (ODCE) – Over Cafeteria Coffee The DCIO & ITSM at a table, talking about the annual IT budget status. The ODCE drifts over, recognizes the ITSM from a recent agency newsletter. ODCE – "Can I sit here? I wanted to talk to you about opening up data, freeing it, from your system to my Github group.

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Else 4.28.14: F*ck Policy, Except When I Care About The Outcome

John Battelle's Searchblog

'The post Else 4.28.14: F*ck Policy, Except When I Care About The Outcome appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image ) This past week saw a significant increase in society’s willingness to have a deeper conversation about what it means to Become Data. The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that may well supplant the Betamax case in import.

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Japan Joins the APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules System

Hunton Privacy

On April 30, 2014, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (“APEC”) released the Findings Report of the Joint Oversight Panel of the APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules (“CPBR”) system, confirming that Japan has met the conditions for participation in the CBPRs. Accordingly, Japan has now joined the U.S. and Mexico as a participant in the APEC CBPRs. Canada recently expressed its intent to join the system soon, and other APEC economies are in the process determining how and when they may join.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.

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In Retrospect: The First Executive Conference on Information Governance

Positively RIM

Last year, when leaders of ARMA International and The Sedona Conference discovered they were each planning conferences on Information Governance for this April, it was obvious they should combine their efforts, not compete. The result was the first Executive Conference on Information Governance, held April 14-15 at Amelia Island, Florida. Congratulations to ARMA and Sedona on a highly successful conference!

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A Tiger Changes His Stripes: I LIKE Java on z/OS

Robert's Db2

I well remember a phone conversation, from about six or seven years ago, during which a friend of mine and I discussed an application project at his site which involved use of DB2 for z/OS stored procedures. Me: "In what language will the stored procedure programs be written?" My friend (sounding like someone whose favorite sports team had just lost the championship game): "Java.

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Europe under Review: Part 3 of 8 – Accuracy and Proportionality

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

As the next in our series of “back to privacy basics”, we look at the rules regarding accuracy and proportionality […].

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Introducing #Climate

John Battelle's Searchblog

'The post Introducing #Climate appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. As many of you know, each year I write a set of predictions about the industry – this year, however, I had a bit of a hard time getting going. The reason? A persistent sense of “existential anxiety” around climate change. In Predictions 2014: A Difficult Year To See , I wrote: I’ve been mulling these predictions for months, yet one overwhelming storm cloud has been obscuring my otherwise consist

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Else 4.7.14: So Much Information, Precious Little Insight

John Battelle's Searchblog

'The post Else 4.7.14: So Much Information, Precious Little Insight appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Reading over my picks from the past week, I noticed a strong theme – we’re using more and more apps, creating more and more data, but we’re not setting the true value we might from connecting all the dots. Sure, the NSA is – and Facebook, Google, and other large platforms are as well.

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Else 4.21.14: It’s (Almost) All Google

John Battelle's Searchblog

'The post Else 4.21.14: It’s (Almost) All Google appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Welcome back to Else – I took a week off for Spring break, so this covers two weeks of the best stories related to the work I’m doing on the book. Reflecting an increased focus on Google, this edition of Else is flush with Google news, from its purchase of Titan Aerospace to its unusual willingness to show us a peek behind the curtain of Google X.

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U.S. Court Rules Microsoft Must Release User Data Stored Overseas

Hunton Privacy

On April 25, 2014, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that Microsoft must release user data to U.S. law enforcement when issued a search warrant, even if the data is stored outside of the U.S. The case stems from a search warrant seeking the contents of all emails, records and other information regarding one of Microsoft’s email users.

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French Data Protection Authority Discloses Its 2014 Inspection Program

Hunton Privacy

On April 29, 2014, the French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL”) disclosed its annual inspections program, providing an overview of its inspections in 2013 and a list of the inspections it plans to conduct in 2014. Under French data protection law, the CNIL is authorized to collect any useful information in connection with its investigations and access data controllers’ electronic data and data processing programs.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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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HHS Settles Potential HIPAA Violations with Concentra Health Services and QCA Health Plan Inc.

Hunton Privacy

On April 23, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced settlements with two health care companies stemming from allegations of inadequate information security practices in the wake of investigations involving stolen laptop computers. Concentra Health Services (“Concentra”) and QCA Health Plan Inc. (“QCA”) will collectively pay nearly $2 million to settle the claims.

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Tiao Discusses Utilities’ Concerns in Sharing Information with the Government

Hunton Privacy

On April 20, 2014, Hunton & Williams partner Paul M. Tiao was featured on Platts Energy Week discussing the importance of the homeland security partnership between electric utility companies and the U.S. government. In the feature, “U.S. Utilities Wary of Sharing Grid Risks,” Tiao talked about the recent leak to The Wall Street Journal of a sensitive internal memo at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that revealed potential vulnerabilities in the electricity grid.

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Article 29 Working Party Issues Statement on One-Stop-Shop Within Proposed EU General Data Protection Regulation

Hunton Privacy

On April 16, 2014, the Article 29 Working Party (the “Working Party”) sent a letter (the “Letter”) to Lilian Mitrou, Chair of the Working Group on Information Exchange and Data Protection (the “DAPIX”) of the Council of the European Union, to support a compromise position on the one-stop-shop mechanism within the proposed EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “Proposed Regulation”).

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Brazilian President Signs Internet Bill

Hunton Privacy

On April 23, 2014, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff enacted the Marco Civil da Internet (“Marco Civil”), Brazil’s first set of Internet regulations. The Marco Civil was approved by the Brazilian Senate on April 22, 2014. President Rousseff signed the law at the NETMundial Internet Governance conference in São Paulo, a global multistakeholder event on the future of Internet governance.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Article 29 Working Party Issues Guidance on the “Legitimate Interests” Ground in the EU Data Protection Directive

Hunton Privacy

On April 9, 2014, the Article 29 Working Party (the “Working Party”) issued an Opinion on using the “legitimate interests” ground listed in Article 7 of the EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC as the basis for lawful processing of personal data. Citing “legitimate interests” as a ground for data processing requires a balancing test, and it may be relied on only if (1) the data processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of the controller (or third parties), and (2) such interests are

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Kentucky Enacts Data Breach Notification Law

Hunton Privacy

On April 10, 2014, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear signed into law a data breach notification statute requiring persons and entities conducting business in Kentucky to notify individuals whose personally identifiable information was compromised in certain circumstances. The law will take effect on July 14, 2014. Kentucky’s data breach notification law covers “personally identifiable information,” which is defined as an individual’s first name or first initial and last name in combination with an

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Article 29 Working Party Issues Opinion on Surveillance of Electronic Communications for Intelligence and National Security Purposes

Hunton Privacy

On April 10, 2014, the Article 29 Working Party (the “Working Party”) adopted Opinion 04/2014. The Opinion analyzes the implications of electronic surveillance programs on the right to privacy and provides several recommendations for protecting EU personal data in the surveillance context. Since the Snowden revelations began last year, the Working Party has been expected to release its official point of view on surveillance activities of intelligence services, both in the United States and in th