John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 16, 2012
The news alert from the Wall St. Journal hit my phone about an hour ago, pulling me away from tasting “ Texas Bourbon ” in San Antonio to sit down and grok this headline: Google’s iPhone Tracking. Now, the headline certainly is attention-grabbing, but the news alert email had a more sinister headline: “Google Circumvented Web-Privacy Safeguards.” Wow!
Elie
FEBRUARY 17, 2012
NuCaptcha is the first widely deployed video captcha scheme. Since Technology Review interviewed me about NuCaptcha in October 2010, I have been working on evaluating its security and usability.
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Robert's Db2
FEBRUARY 11, 2012
So, last week I posted a blog entry describing one of the two really important (in my opinion) DB2 10 for z/OS enhancements related to LOB (large object) data management -- that being the ability to "in-line" a portion (or even all) of a LOB column's data values in a base table space, alongside the associated table's non-LOB data values (this as opposed to having to store all of every LOB value in a LOB table space that -- while logically transparent -- is physically distinct from a table's base
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 17, 2012
On February 16, 2012, the European Court of Justice held in the SABAM vs. Netlog case ( C-360/10 ) that imposing an obligation on social networks to install a “general filtering system” to prevent all users from sharing copyrighted music is disproportionate to the extent that such filters may infringe on user privacy rights or block lawful communications.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
Over the weekend I finished Larry Lessig’s most recent (and ambitious) book, Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress–and a Plan to Stop It. Amongst those of us who considered Lessig our foremost voice on issues of Internet policy, his abrupt pivot to focus on government corruption was both disorienting and disheartening: here was our best Internet thinker, now tilting at government windmills.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
My research manager turned up this gem in the course of answering a question I had about the popular response to the introduction of the telegraph in the US (a moment that informs the working title of my next book ). What I find fascinating is how the invention incited an innate religious response (this editorial from a local Albany, NY newspaper is in no way unique).
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
( image ) Waaaay back in January of this year , in my annual predictions, I offered a conjecture that seemed pretty orthogonal to my usual focus: “China will be caught spying on US corporations, especially tech and commodity companies. Somewhat oddly, no one will (seem to) care.” Well, I just got this WSJ news alert , which reports: Using seven passwords stolen from top Nortel executives, including the chief executive, the hackers—who appeared to be working in China—penetrated Nortel
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 15, 2012
Over at the FM blog , I just posted the draft agenda for the first of five conferences I’ll be chairing as part of my day job at Federated Media. Signal San Francisco is a one-day event (March 21) focused on the theme of integrating digital marketing across large platforms (what I’ve called “dependent web” properties) and the Independent Web.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 16, 2012
Since October 2011, the Hong Kong Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data has published three “Guidance Notes” to help data users comply with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (the “Ordinance”). These Notes are not legally binding, nor are they intended to serve as an exhaustive guide to the application of the Ordinance, but they provide good, practical examples and tips that the Commissioner has developed as it has implemented the Ordinance.
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Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
On January 25, 2012, the Article 29 Working Party (the “Working Party”) issued a Working Document providing guidance on data protection issues relating to the European Patients Smart Open Services (“epSOS”) project. epSOS is a pilot project focused on developing an information and communications technology infrastructure that enables access to patient health information ( i.e. , Patient Summaries) among different EU Member States for the purpose of providing medical treatment.
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