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Feels Like Apple…in 1992

John Battelle's Searchblog

'The post Feels Like Apple…in 1992 appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I went on Bloomberg today, ostensibly to talk about data marketing, NewCo, and anything newsworthy. Turns out, we talked (mostly) about Apple. Bloomberg’s got the video up here , and embedded below. While I understand the headline – Battelle: “Apple Failed to Be Apple” – that’s not exactly my point.

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GAO Testimony Highlights Risks and Inconsistent Privacy Practices of Companies That Obtain Geolocation Data

Hunton Privacy

On June 4, 2014, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law on GAO’s findings regarding (1) companies’ use and sharing of consumer location data, (2) privacy risks associated with the collection of location data, and (3) actions taken by certain companies and federal agencies to protect the privacy of location data.

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Europe under Review: Part 8 of 8 – Individual Rights

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

This week we look at the last topic in our series of “back to data privacy basics”: individual rights. Rights […].

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Execute without read

Scary Beasts Security

A couple of years ago, during an idle moment, I wondered what we could do if we had the hardware CPU primitive of pages with permissions execute-only (i.e. no read and write): [link] It turns out that aarch64 has exactly such support. Here's support heading in to the Linux kernel: [link] The original idea was to defeat ROP by having all of the instructions randomized a bit on a per-install basis.

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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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Why You Need to See ‘Her’ (Or, ‘Her’ Again)

John Battelle's Searchblog

'The post Why You Need to See ‘Her’ (Or, ‘Her’ Again) appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. A while ago I wrote a piece about Dave Egger’s latest novel The Circle. I gave the post the too-clever-by-twice title of Why You Should Read The Circle, Even If You Don’t Buy It. While the book had (to my mind) deep flaws, it was far too important to not read.