John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 20, 2015

'The post Apple and Google: Middle School Mean Girls Having At It appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image ) I’m the father of three children, and two of them are girls. And while my first was a boy, and therefore “broke me in” with extraordinary acts of Running Headlong Into Fence Posts and Drinking Beer Stolen From Dad’s Fridge Yet Forgetting To Hide The Bottles, nothing, NOTHING, prepared me for Girls Behaving Badly To Each Other Whilst In Middle Sch

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

JANUARY 21, 2015

In a previous post on online behavioural advertising (OBA), we wrote about the Office of the Privacy Commissioner’s “call to action” to stakeholders in […].

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 23, 2015

On January 21, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission announced that the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois granted partial summary judgment on December 12, 2014, to the federal government in its action against Dish Network LLC (“Dish”), alleging that Dish violated certain aspects of the Telemarketing Sales Rule (“TSR”) that restrict placing calls to numbers on the National Do-Not-Call Registry and an entity’s internal Do-Not-Call list.

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CGI

JANUARY 22, 2015

What’s in a name? CGI’s guide to the language of the Internet of Things (IoT). p.butler@cgi.com. Thu, 01/22/2015 - 03:28. Many of you will be familiar with the term IoT – well it’s hard to miss if you scan the press, social media and business pages. CGI have a long track record working in this area, so in this blog, I thought I’d provide a potted history to the term, its origins and what it means to us at CGI.

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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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JKevinParker

JANUARY 21, 2015

It's hard to fathom why people don't get that 12345, 123456, and other similarly stupid passwords make their own information and their organization's info much less secure. But many people don't get it. Dark Helmet from SPACEBALLS warned you a long time ago: "12345? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!".

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 22, 2015

On January 14, 2015, the data protection authority of the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein (“Schleswig DPA”) issued an appeal challenging a September 4, 2014 decision by the Administrative Court of Appeals, which held that companies using Facebook’s fan pages cannot be held responsible for data protection law violations committed by Facebook because the companies do not have any control over the use of the data.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 20, 2015

Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller has prepared a new bill that, although styled a “security breach” bill, would impose substantial new privacy obligations on companies holding the personal data of Indiana residents. Introduced by Indiana Senator James Merritt (R-Indianapolis) on January 12, 2015, SB413 would make a number of changes to existing Indiana law.

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