Sat.Aug 18, 2012 - Fri.Aug 24, 2012

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Signal:Chicago Is Back, And It’s All About The Data…

John Battelle's Searchblog

I’ve written up an overview of the lineup at FMP’s second annual Signal:Chicago conference over on the FMP site. Highly recommended, it’s a very good event. Speakers include Andrew Mason , CEO of Groupon, Scott Howe , CEO of Acxiom, Laura Desmond , CEO of Starcom Mediavest Group, and Carolyn Everson , VP of Global Advertising for Facebook.

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Over the social hype hump and back to practicality

Collaboration 2.0

Sensible voices are starting to be heard again above the noise as the new social enterprise realities mature.

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When CICS and DB2 for z/OS Monitors Disagree (Part 2)

Robert's Db2

About a week ago, in part 1 of this two-part blog entry, I described a situation I've encountered several times at mainframe DB2 sites over the past 20 years: CICS users complain of elongated response times for DB2-accessing transactions, and these users' complaints are backed up by CICS monitor data that indicate elevated "wait for DB2" times as being the cause of the performance degradation.

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Philippines President Aquino Signs Data Protection Legislation

Hunton Privacy

On August 15, 2012, Philippines President Benigno S. Aquino III signed the Data Privacy Act of 2012 passed earlier this year by the Philippine Senate and House of Representatives. Concerns about the creation of the National Privacy Commission and the criminal penalties associated with the Act delayed final enactment. The Data Privacy Act of 2012 is a traditional data protection law that establishes privacy as a fundamental human right.

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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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Seamless integration between source systems and digital archives: can we have it? Do we need it?

Preservica

An interesting article and feedback on our talk at ICA 2012 in Brisbane, Australia from the Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation (NCDD), visit [link].

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Far-Reaching Implications of Recent FCRA Enforcement Actions

Hunton Privacy

On August 8, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission settled with HireRight Solutions, Inc. (“HireRight”) for failure to comply with certain Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) requirements. At first blush, the case may appear to be a simple FCRA matter – the FTC alleged that HireRight functioned as a consumer reporting agency when providing employment screening services to companies, but then failed to take steps to assure the accuracy of those reports and prevented consumers from dispute inaccurate

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California Court Denies Hulu’s Motion to Dismiss in Video Privacy Protection Act Case

Hunton Privacy

On August 10, 2012, a federal district court in California denied Hulu’s motion to dismiss the remaining claim in a putative class action suit alleging that the online streaming video provider transmitted users’ personal information to third parties in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”). The VPPA prohibits a “video tape service provider” from transmitting personally identifiable information of “consumers,” except in certain, limited circumstances.

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Webcast on Data Privacy in the Global Era

Hunton Privacy

On July 24, 2012, Lisa J. Sotto , partner and head of the Global Privacy and Data Security Practice at Hunton & Williams LLP, gave a presentation on “Data Privacy in the Global Era” to the Western Independent Bankers Service Corporation. Sotto discussed U.S., EU and other international privacy laws, with a focus on two specific areas of interest, cloud computing and vendor management.