Sat.Sep 09, 2017 - Fri.Sep 15, 2017

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The case for delaying the date the GDPR applies for a couple more years

Data Protector

A huge percentage of the organisations I’ve recently come into contact with have little chance of becoming “GDPR compliant” by May 2018. To be fair, a good proportion of these organisations have spent the past decade or so ignoring the professional advice that's available on how to better comply with the requirements of the existing data protection legislation.

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The Time is ‘Before’ to Cope with Hurricane-Related Storms of Forms

Weissman's World

Even though the physical storms are now largely scary, soggy memories, hurricanes Harvey and Irma will swamp many information professionals for months to come as a torrent of claim forms pours across their desks. Those who deal in paper will find themselves especially hard-pressed to keep up, not only because of the high volume of […]. The post The Time is ‘Before’ to Cope with Hurricane-Related Storms of Forms appeared first on Holly Group.

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Reader favorites September 2017: Our most popular RIM resources

TAB OnRecord

The most popular RIM resources this month will help your efforts to go digital. Our buyer's guide helps you choose the best RIM software to capture and store your digital images. To help you plan the project, we have two helpful resources. The first is a comprehensive document imaging planning guide; the second is a… Read More. The post Reader favorites September 2017: Our most popular RIM resources appeared first on TAB Records Management Blog | TAB OnRecord.

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Data protection is not just a matter of law | Open door

The Guardian Data Protection

The archives of newspapers are part of the public record, a society’s collective memory, and it is in the public interest that their integrity be maintained Release of new draft UK data protection legislation is imminent and it may have a significant impact on professional journalists and their readers, depending on the balances it strikes. The astonishing growth in the sophistication with which artificial intelligence can search, sift, generate, distribute and remember information means that th

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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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UK Government Introduces Draft Data Protection Bill to Parliament

Hunton Privacy

On September 14, 2017, the UK Government introduced a new Data Protection Bill (the “Bill”) to Parliament. The Bill is intended to replace the UK’s existing Data Protection Act 1998 and enshrine the EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) into UK law once the UK has left the European Union. The GDPR allows EU Member States to enact, via national law, exemptions from the various provisions of the GDPR, which the Bill also seeks to implement.

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Building smarter communities through public-private collaboration

CGI

Building smarter communities through public-private collaboration. harini.kottees…. Wed, 09/13/2017 - 07:00. Lafayette, Louisiana, is a community with an economy that historically has been driven by the energy sector. In recent years, the City-Parish government (Lafayette Consolidated Government, LCG) has been working to position information technology as one of the new pillars of its economy, creating over 1,000 new technology jobs.

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Equifax Data Breach: The Long-Term Impact on Fighting Fraud

Rippleshot

The massive Equifax data breach that’s making national headlines is estimated to impact nearly half of the U.S. population — or roughly 143 million people. While most of the news centers on the consumer identity theft impact, the real story in the financial services ecosystem is what this hack will cost banks, credit unions and issuers. Let’s start with the basics.

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Progress on Draft ePrivacy Regulation – EU Council Publishes Proposed Amendments

Hunton Privacy

On September 8, 2017, the Council of the European Union published its proposed revisions to the draft E-Privacy Regulation (“EPR”), which was first published by the European Commission in January 2016. The revisions have been made based on written comments and discussions involving the Working Party for Telecommunications and Information Society (“WP TELE”) and serve as a discussion for further meetings of the group in late September 2017.

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Records Management Training Opportunities in September

National Archives Records Express

September is a great time to earn NARA’s Certificate of Records Management by enrolling in our Knowledge Area (KA) courses. We offer a Certificate of Federal Records Management Training to individuals who successfully complete Knowledge Area courses 2-6 and pass exams associated with each course. Upon completion of the courses and exams, participants will receive a Certificate signed by the Archivist of the United States.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.

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Data analytics – how should insurers look to the future?

CGI

Data analytics – how should insurers look to the future? shobana.lv@cgi.com. Tue, 09/12/2017 - 03:00. With a plethora of new data sources across the property and casualty (P&C) general insurance lifecycle now becoming available, how do insurers create an all-encompassing data analytics policy for the future? There is now more connected information available about risk activity than at any point in the past.

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Updates to Juvenile Records Laws

The Texas Record

Last year, we were invited to participate in the Juvenile Records Advisory Committee (JRAC), a group composed of prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, court staff, probation officials, and others who are experts in the field of law, especially focused on juveniles in the court system. Our goal was to rewrite Chapter 58 of Texas Family Code, the chapter that deals with creating, sealing, and destroying juvenile records related to law enforcement and the courts.

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FTC Posts Ninth Blog in Its “Stick with Security” Series

Hunton Privacy

On September 15, 2017, the Federal Trade Commission published the ninth blog post in its “Stick with Security” series. As previously reported , the FTC will publish an entry every Friday for the next few months focusing on each of the 10 principles outlined in its Start with Security Guide for Businesses. This week’s post, entitled Stick with Security: Make sure your service providers implement reasonable security measures , highlights the importance for companies to ensure that the service prov

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“But the emails” – companies’ SEC filings reflect ransomware risks

Data Protection Report

The Equifax breach will likely devour the entire breach news cycle in the near term, given the size of the incident and that it gets to the essence of the company’s business of maintaining some of the most sensitive consumer information. Still, in what for the moment might seem like a more pedestrian risk, companies continue to be affected by ransomware.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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The True Costs of In-House Shredding

Archive Document Data Storage

Although in-house file shredding may seem cheap, simple and risk-free, nothing is further from the truth. Once you consider the time, expense and risk of in-house shredding, the picture becomes clearer. In this blog, we help you understand the hard and soft costs of shredding your documents in-house. In-House File Shredding Is Expensive. As soon as you buy an office shredder, its value depreciates.

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Hanzo and Alvarez & Marsal collaborate on GDPR Information Governance

Hanzo Learning Center

Hanzo’s Web and Social Messaging Collection Platform to support Alvarez & Marsal’s Information Governance team to identify enterprise collaborative PII.

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FTC Posts Eighth Blog in Its “Stick with Security” Series

Hunton Privacy

On September 8, 2017, the Federal Trade Commission published the eighth blog post in its “Stick with Security” series. As previously reported , the FTC will publish an entry every Friday for the next few months focusing on each of the 10 principles outlined in its Start with Security Guide for Businesses. This week’s post, entitled Stick with Security: Apply sound security practices when developing new products , outlines the importance of building security into product development from the star

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Discovering the Path: The National Institutes of Health in the Claude Pepper Papers

Archives Blogs

U.S. Senator and House of Representative Claude Pepper was an exemplary public servant who was solely committed to unifying healthcare opportunities for all Americans regardless of socioeconomic status or ethnicity. Throughout his career, he became a fierce advocator of health care reform in strengthening social security funding and Medicare/Medicaid benefits.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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IGI Charter Supporter DBR Launches New Blog on Privacy and Security

IGI

IGI Founding Supporter Drinker Biddle recently launched DBR on Data , a blog that offers insights and outlooks from privacy, security and information governance professionals across the firm. With GDPR looming, and cybersecurity breaches only seeming to grow in magnitude and impact each day, the need for IG professionals to understand these issues and address them as part of a comprehensive IG program has never been greater.

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Webinar: Simple Ways to Turn Your Records Liaisons Into Records Ambassadors

The Texas Record

In July, some staff were fortunate enough to attend the annual NAGARA Conference in Boise, ID. One of the sessions we attended was a presentation by Holly Dolan, Assistant Manager of Records Management for Denton County. We were very impressed by the presentation and the work Denton County has done for improving outreach and promoting awareness of records management.

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EU Publishes Measures to Strengthen EU Cybersecurity Structures and Capabilities

Hunton Privacy

On September 13, 2017, the European Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy published a Joint Communication to the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on “Resilience, Deterrence and Defence: Building strong cybersecurity for the EU” (“Joint Communication”). This Joint Communication is part of a package of EU documents adopted on the same date aimed at delivering a stronger EU response to cyber attacks.

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Bess Myerson Starts Her Career in Government

Archives Blogs

“This is the greatest city in the United States,” Bess Myerson Grant (as she is then called) declares at her swearing-in as New York’s first Commissioner of the Department of Consumer Affairs, “but it can also be the most difficult. Right, Mr. Lindsay?” …a sentiment to which Mayor John Lindsay can be heard echoing an emphatic agreement. . “This is the greatest city in the United States,” Bess Myerson Grant (as she is then called) declares at her swearin

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost. appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. (Cross posted from NewCo Shift ). Facebook and Google’s advertising infrastructure is one of humanity’s most marvelous creations. It’s also one of its most terrifying, because, in truth, pretty much no one really understands how it works. Not Mark Zuckerberg, not Larry Page, and certainly not Russian investigator Robert Mueller, although of the bunch, it seems Mueller is the most interested i

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The Evolution of the Florida State Administration Building

Archives Blogs

Florida State administration building has changed often since the founding of the University in 1851. Originally, the administration building was known as “College Hall” and was built in the same spot where the current administration building is today. College Hall at Florida State College – Tallahassee, Florida. 1901. Black & white photoprint.

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CIPL Issues Comments on the Proposal for an ePrivacy Regulation in the European Union

Hunton Privacy

On September 11, 2017, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) at Hunton & Williams LLP issued a white paper on the Proposal for an ePrivacy Regulation (the “White Paper”). The White Paper comments on the European Commission’s proposal to replace and modernize the privacy framework for electronic communications contained in the current ePrivacy Directive and to align it with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

(Cross posted from NewCo Shift ). Facebook and Google’s advertising infrastructure is one of humanity’s most marvelous creations. It’s also one of its most terrifying, because, in truth, pretty much no one really understands how it works. Not Mark Zuckerberg, not Larry Page, and certainly not Russian investigator Robert Mueller, although of the bunch, it seems Mueller is the most interested in that fact.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

(Cross posted from NewCo Shift ). Facebook and Google’s advertising infrastructure is one of humanity’s most marvelous creations. It’s also one of its most terrifying, because, in truth, pretty much no one really understands how it works. Not Mark Zuckerberg, not Larry Page, and certainly not Russian investigator Robert Mueller, although of the bunch, it seems Mueller is the most interested in that fact.