John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The post Maker, Soylent, Hyperloop, USC: The Places I’ll Visit In LA Next Month appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. (cross posted from NewCo ). Picking a schedule for a NewCo festival is an art – it takes a lot more time and thought than your average event. But it’s also fun – each session and company description has been highly curated, and I learn a lot simply by reading through the diversity of experiences that are on offer.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 23, 2015

The United States District Court for the Northern District of California recently dismissed?without prejudice?a former Uber driver’s class action complaint. The driver, Sasha Antman, was one of roughly 50,000 drivers whose personal information was exposed during a May 2014 data breach. Uber contended the accessed files contained only the affected individuals’ names and drivers’ license numbers.

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Robert's Db2

OCTOBER 20, 2015

z/OS systems are famous for their reliability, and part of that story is the ability of z/OS to accommodate surges of application activity: you can pile more and more work onto a z/OS system, and it will keep on trucking, slicing the "pie" of available processing capacity into smaller and smaller slices to keep a workload moving along. That's highly preferable to failing as a result of being overloaded, but there is a point at which applications running on a z/OS system will perform in a sub-opt

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 22, 2015

On October 20, 2015, at a hearing in the Irish High Court, Irish Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon confirmed that she will investigate allegations made by privacy activist Max Schrems concerning Facebook’s transfer of personal data to the U.S. in reliance on Safe Harbor. Dixon welcomed the ruling of the High Court and noted that she would proceed to “investigate the substance of the complaint with all due diligence.” In 2013, Schrems complained to the Irish Data Protection Commissio

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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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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 22, 2015

On October 27, 2015, Hunton & Williams LLP’s Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) will conduct a joint workshop with Nymity on Bridging Disparate Privacy Regimes through Organizational Accountability. As a side event to the 37th International Privacy Conference in Amsterdam during the week of October 26, the workshop is specifically designed to support and further explore the theme of global “ Privacy Bridges ” that will be discussed at the International Privacy Conference.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 21, 2015

On October 8, 2015, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (“CalECPA”). The law requires police to obtain a warrant before accessing an individual’s private electronic information, such as text messages, emails, GPS data and online documents that are stored in the cloud and on smartphones, tablets, computers and other digital devices.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 21, 2015

On October 21, 2015, the EU-U.S. Privacy Bridge Initiative, a group of transatlantic privacy experts that was convened in April of 2014 , released its report on Privacy Bridges – EU and US Privacy Experts in Search of Transatlantic Privacy Solutions. The group of 19 data protection expert members included President of Hunton & Williams LLP’s Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) Bojana Bellamy and CIPL’s Senior Policy Advisor Fred H.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In an article published by E-Commerce Law Reports , Hunton & Williams partners Bridget Treacy and Lisa Sotto discuss the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (the “CJEU’s”) recent ruling invalidating the European Commission’s Safe Harbor Decision. The article, Maximillian Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner , describes the facts of the case and the CJEU’s confirmation that “the national data protection authorities (“DPAs”) [can] conduct their own investigation into whether transfers

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