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12.9 else: “The most mericful thing in the world”

John Battelle's Searchblog

'The post 12.9 else: “The most mericful thing in the world” appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. This week, the tension between industry, governments, and regulation gets hashed out over the NSA, drones, bitcoins, and DNA databases; bots are running research on our behalf, and I became “postdigital.” 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 emai

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Fred Cate of the Centre Submits Comments to NIST on Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework

Hunton Privacy

On December 12, 2013, Fred H. Cate , Senior Policy Advisor in the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams LLP (the “Centre”), submitted comments in response to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (“NIST’s”) Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework (the “Preliminary Framework”). On October 22, NIST issued the Preliminary Framework , as required by the Obama Administration’s February 2013 executive order, Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (“Execu

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Turning Content Inside Out

CGI

Turning Content Inside Out. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Thu, 12/12/2013 - 10:00. Content is changing - from author-controlled to consumer and collaboration-led. We review why this is happening and what an organisation can do to gain the benefits, cost and efficiency savings that will start to follow. The problem with 'old' Content. Content is produced today by most organisations in the same way since the 1980's when personal computers were introduced and 'personal productivity' software became availabl

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EU Court of Justice Advocate-General Finds Data Retention Directive Incompatible with Charter of Fundamental Rights

Hunton Privacy

On December 12, 2013, Advocate-General Cruz Villalón of the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) issued his Opinion on the compatibility of the EU Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC (the “Data Retention Directive”) with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (the “EU Charter”). Background. The Data Retention Directive requires EU Member States to ensure that telecommunications service providers collect and retain traffic and location data (but not the substantive content of those

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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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People’s Bank of China Issues Administrative Measures for Credit Reference Agencies

Hunton Privacy

On November 15, 2013, the People’s Bank of China (the “PBOC”) issued its Administrative Measures for Credit Reference Agencies (the “Measures”) – eight months after the Administrative Regulations on the Credit Information Collection Sector (the “Regulations”) became effective on March 15, 2013. The Measures, which will take effect on December 20, 2013, were formulated to enhance the supervision and regulation of credit reference agencies and to promote positive developments in the credit informa

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China’s Supreme People’s Court Releases Provisions on the Online Issuance of Judgment Documents by People’s Courts

Hunton Privacy

On November 21, 2013, the Supreme People’s Court of China passed the Provisions on the Online Issuance of Judgment Documents by People’s Courts (the “Provisions”), which will take effect on January 1, 2014. The Provisions replace earlier rules (of the same title) enacted by the Supreme People’s Court on November 8, 2010, and generally focus on improved implementation of the principles of standardizing the online issuance of judgment documents, promoting judicial justice and enhancing the public

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FTC Announces Seminars on Mobile Device Tracking, Predictive Scoring and Consumer-Generated Health Data

Hunton Privacy

On December 2, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it will host a series of seminars to examine the privacy implications of three new areas of technology used to track, market to and analyze consumers: mobile device tracking, predictive scoring and consumer-generated health data. The seminars will address (1) businesses tracking consumers using signals from the consumers’ mobile devices, (2) the use of predictive scoring to determine consumers’ access to products and offers, and (3

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FTC Settles Charges with Flashlight Mobile App Developer

Hunton Privacy

On December 5, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission announced a proposed settlement with mobile app developer Goldenshores Technologies, LLC (“Goldenshores”) following allegations that Goldenshores’ privacy policy for its popular Brightest Flashlight Free app deceived consumers regarding how the app collects information, including geolocation information, and how that information may be shared with third parties.

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