Sat.Feb 25, 2012 - Fri.Mar 02, 2012

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A Funny Thing Happened As I Was “Tracked”

John Battelle's Searchblog

I’m still in recovery mode after the wave of Apple-defenders inundated me with privacy-related comments over this past weekend, and I promise to continue the dialog – and admit where I may be wrong – once I feel I’ve properly grokked the story. The issue of privacy as it relates to the Intenet is rather a long piece of yarn, and I’m only a small part of the way toward unraveling this particular sweater.

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Tomorrow's world vs today's problems

Collaboration 2.0

Designing quality business strategy that realizes the power of modern technologies requires alignment with traditional business values; the siren song of projected futurism can look embarrassingly naive in hindsight

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The National Archives work with DROID and PRONOM

Preservica

Interested to read the comments from Ross Spencer on The National Archives' work with DROID and PRONOM visit blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Both have come a long way since we wrote the original versions. They are both cornerstones of Digital Preservation and it is great to see such a positive future for them. They are both of course a key part of our SDB system.

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German Federal Constitutional Court Restricts Access to User Data for Law Enforcement Purposes

Hunton Privacy

On February 24, 2012, the German Federal Constitutional Court ( Bundesverfassungsgericht ) ruled that certain provisions in the Federal Telecommunications Act concerning the disclosure of telecom user data to law enforcement agencies violate the German constitution. The Court held that strict conditions apply when law enforcement authorities and intelligence agencies ask telecommunications service providers (which may include hospitals and hotels) to turn over certain user data, i.e. passwords a

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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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Apple Gets Into (App) Search

John Battelle's Searchblog

It took longer than I thought it would, but it’s finally happened. Apple’s admitted that it needs real search to bring it’s tangled app universe to heel, and purchased Chomp , a leading third-party app review and search service. Nearly two years ago I wrote this piece: Apple Won’t Build a (Web) Search Engine. From it: …but it will build the equivalent of an app search engine.

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Chrome Linux 64-bit and Pepper Flash

Scary Beasts Security

Flash on Linux hasn't always been the best experience in the stability and security departments. Users of 64-bit Linux, in particular, have to put up with NSPluginWrapper , a technology which bridges a 64-bit browser process to the 32-bit Flash library. In terms of sandboxing, your distribution might slap a clunky SELinux or AppArmor policy on Flash, but it may or may not be on by default.

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Digital Advertising Alliance Supports Browser-Based Choice Mechanism

Hunton Privacy

The Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) recently announced that its members will work “to add browser-based header signals to the set of tools by which consumers can express their preferences” not to be tracked online and will work with browser providers to develop “consistent language across browsers…that describes to consumers the effect of exercising such choice.”.

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Obama’s Framework for “Consumer Data Privacy” And My “Data Bill of Rights”

John Battelle's Searchblog

It sort of feels like “wayback week” for me here at Searchblog, as I get caught up on the week’s news after my vacation. Late last week the Obama administration announced “Consumer Data Privacy In A Networked World: A Framework for Protecting Privacy and Promoting Innovation in the Global Digital Economy.” The document runs nearly 50 pages, but turns on a “Privacy Bill of Rights” – and when I read that phrase, it reminded me of a post I did four ye

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DB2 for z/OS: of Stored Procedures and the DB2 MQListener

Robert's Db2

As a mainframe DB2 guy, I'm bullish on stored procedures -- I've presented on the topic at international conferences and regional user group meetings , written about stored procedures for the old DB2 Magazine (now known as IBM Data Magazine ), and posted many a related entry to my DB2 blogs, both this blog (an example being an entry from August of last year ) and the one I maintained while working as an independent DB2 consultant (included among these is part 1 of a 3-part entry on stored proced

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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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On The State of Google’s Advertising Business: Neal Mohan at Signal SF

John Battelle's Searchblog

If you’ve been reading Searchblog, you know I’ve been writing quite a bit about Google, privacy, and the advertising business. All of those topics are going to be coming together in my interview with Neal Mohan, VP Product at Google, on the Signal SF stage next month. Neal oversees display and mobile advertising for Google, and works directly with the company’s entire advertising stack, a formidable lineup of products that include the Doubleclick ad server and exchange business

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Facebook News (Livestream): The Brand Spaces Are Bigger, Bolder, More…Ad Like

John Battelle's Searchblog

Facebook is holding it’s first ever “fMC” today – that’s Facebook Marketing Conference, and it’s announcing widely expected new ad formats. From the release just sent to me: Today, Facebook announced a new design for Pages, giving brands and businesses more ways to tell their story. The redesigned Pages are more personalized and complementary to the look and feel of individual profiles.

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UK ICO Publishes Initial Analysis of Commission’s Revised Data Protection Framework

Hunton Privacy

On January 25, 2012, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) published an initial statement welcoming the European Commission’s proposed new General Data Protection Regulation (the “Proposed Regulation”), and commended the Commission’s efforts to strengthen the rights of individuals, recognize important privacy concepts such as privacy by design and privacy impact assessments, and include accountability requirements.