John Battelle's Searchblog

JUNE 23, 2014

'The post Else 6.23.14: Questioning Valley Idols appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. A fascinating week of links, starting with a blast from the past (see above), but the real meat of the week came in the debates around some of the Valley’s most scared cows. For more, read on… Tech Time Warp of the Week: Watch IBM Warn Us About Glassholes 10 Years Ago- Wired I am particularly enamored with “Park Bench” – if I saw a guy doing what this guy is doing i

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Robert's Db2

JUNE 26, 2014

I have been a big fan of DB2 for z/OS native SQL procedures ever since the functionality was introduced with DB2 9 , back in 1997. I have posted quite a few blog entries on the topic, the first in 1998 (written while I was working as an independent consultant) and the most recent just last month. In these blog entries, and in presentations I've delivered over the past several years (and in discussions generally), I've focused largely on performance aspects of native SQL procedures versus externa

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Elie

JUNE 24, 2014

What’s the best icon to entice people to share something through their social networks? It turns out to be the one used on Android. While this may contradict guidelines proposed by some designers, this conclusion is based on the results of a survey of 7,500 users.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 27, 2014

On June 18, 2014, the German state data protection authorities responsible for the private sector (the Düsseldorfer Kreis) issued guidelines concerning the data protection requirements for app developers and app publishers (the “Guidelines”). The Guidelines were prepared by the Bavarian state data protection authority and cover requirements in Germany’s Telemedia Act as well as the Federal Data Protection Act.

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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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CGI

JUNE 26, 2014

What is a hot topic now, the international implementation of intelligent transport systems? Anonymous. Thu, 06/26/2014 - 08:00. The morning is rush hour in both Helsinki and Barcelona. Both cities are also actively discussing, among other topics, how technology can facilitate peak hour traffic, and future urban transport solutions. The tenth ITS European Congress was held in Helsinki, Finland for the first time.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

JUNE 27, 2014

Canada’s Anti-Spam Law (CASL) enters into force on Canada Day, July 1. It was passed in 2010 as a “made-in-Canada” […].

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 27, 2014

On June 25, 2014, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Obama Administration is looking to pass legislation that would provide EU citizens with a right to judicial redress in U.S. courts if their personal information that was shared for law enforcement purposes is later intentionally or wilfully disclosed. The announcement was made during the EU-U.S.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 26, 2014

On June 25, 2014, the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in Riley v. California , holding 9-0 that law enforcement personnel cannot search detained suspects’ cell phones without a warrant. Writing for the Court, Chief Justice John Roberts found that the practice of searching cell phones implicates “substantially greater” individual privacy interests than other physical objects that may be found on an arrestee and deserves heightened protections.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 25, 2014

On June 23, 2014, the Article 29 Working Party (the “Working Party”) published its Opinion 7/2014 on the protection of personal data in Québec (the “Opinion”). In this Opinion, the Working Party provides its recommendations to the European Commission on whether the relevant provisions of the Civil Code of Québec and the Québec Act on the Protection of Personal Information in the Private Sector (the “Québec Privacy Act”) ensure an adequate level of protection for international data transfers in a

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 25, 2014

On June 19, 2014, the President’s Export Council (“PEC”) held a meeting to discuss nine key issues, including the effects of foreign laws that restrict cross-border data flows. At the meeting, the private sector members of the PEC submitted a recommendation letter to President Obama expressing their concern about the threat to American business from protectionist, cross-border data transfer restrictions imposed by foreign countries.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 24, 2014

On June 23, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced a resolution agreement and $800,000 settlement with Parkview Health System, Inc. (“Parkview”) following a complaint involving patient medical records that were dumped by Parkview employees and left unattended on a physician’s driveway. In 2008, Parkview took custody of hard copy medical records containing protected health information of several thousand patients of a retiring physician.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 24, 2014

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