John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

'The post To Be Clear: Do Not Build Your Brand House On Land You Don’t Own appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image ) I took a rigorous walk early this morning, a new habit I’m trying to adopt – today was Day Two. Long walks force a certain meditative awareness. You’re not moving so fast that you miss the world’s details passing by - in fact, you can stop to inspect something that might catch your eye.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

On February 27, 2014, Chairwoman of the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin was elected Chairwoman of the Article 29 Working Party effective immediately. Ms. Falque-Pierrotin succeeds Jacob Kohnstamm, Chairman of the Dutch Data Protection Authority, who chaired the Article 29 Working Party for four years. The Working Party also elected two new Vice-Chairs: Wojciech Rafal Wiewiórowski of the Polish Data Protection Authority, and Gérard Lommel of the Luxembourg

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JKevinParker

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

I first got deep into web design and development using Microsoft FrontPage back in the '90s. I used every version of FrontPage from 97 to 2003. Despite the groans of the purists out there who preferred creating all sites in Notepad, I preferred using FrontPage as an IDE. However, I quickly learned not to let FrontPage write code for me, opting to write the code myself and use FP for web file management, publishing, and a few dynamic things like very basic classic ASP scripting.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

One of the most interesting and important developments in retail privacy cases is a recent unpublished decision, Capp v. Nordstrom. […].

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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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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

'The post What Would You Ask Sundar Pichai, SVP Android & Chrome at Google? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. A week from this coming Sunday at SXSW , I’ll be interviewing Sundar Pichai , Google’s Senior Vice President, Android, Chrome & Apps. Pichai has a huge job at Google, overseeing the company’s mobile ecosystem, from hardware (the Nexus platform) to the burgeoning Play store (oh, and that little browser/OS called Chrome, to boot).

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

'The post else 2.24: “This is how revolutions begin” appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. This week we thought about paid peering, fiber, and privacy in a lot of different contexts. As always if you want to keep up with what we’re reading/thinking about on a weekly basis, the best way is to subscribe to the “else” feed, either as an email newsletter or through RSS.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Triple-S Management Corporation reported in the 8-K it recently filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that its health insurance subsidiary, Triple-S Salud, Inc. (“Triple S”), which is Puerto Rico’s largest health insurer, will be fined $6.8 million for a data breach that occurred in September 2013. The civil monetary penalty, which is being levied by the Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration, will be the largest fine ever imposed following a breach of protected health info

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

On January 31, 2014, the Greek Presidency of the Council of the European Union issued four notes regarding the proposed EU Data Protection Regulation. These notes, discussed below, address the following topics: (1) one-stop-shop mechanism; (2) data portability; (3) data protection impact assessments and prior checks; and (4) rules applicable to data processors.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

On February 21, 2014, Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor (“EDPS”), highlighted the need to enforce existing EU data protection law and swiftly adopt EU data protection law reforms as an essential part of rebuilding trust in EU-U.S. data flows. Commission Safe Harbor Recommendations. In November 2013, following revelations of widespread government surveillance and access to EU personal data, the European Commission published an analysis of the U.S.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

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