John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

'The post Remember the Internet When Considering The Things appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Last month I sat down with my old pal Jay Adelson (Digg, Revision 3, Equinix, SimpleGeo) who together with his partner Andy Smith is raising a new fund focused on the Internet of Things. Our goal was to get caught up – I’d tell him about my plans for NewCo , and they’d update me on Center Electric, the fund’s new name.

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Elie

JANUARY 31, 2015

19.5% of HTTPS-enabled sites in Alexa's Top 1 Million trigger or will soon trigger a Chrome security warning because they are using the now deprecated SHA-1 signature algorithm to sign their HTTPS certificate. Soon those sites will be flagged by all major browsers as insecure.

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Robert's Db2

JANUARY 31, 2015

A couple of days ago, I received from a DB2 for z/OS professional a question about stored procedures. This individual asked specifically about the STAY RESIDENT option of CREATE PROCEDURE (and ALTER PROCEDURE), and its effect on a native SQL procedure (i.e., a stored procedure that is written in SQL procedure language -- aka SQL PL -- and which runs in the DB2 database services address space).

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Brandeis Records Manager

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

George Despres. University Records Manager, Brandeis University. (The content in this blog reflects the opinions of the author, and not of Brandeis University.). Shortly after joining Brandeis to establish a records program, and being new to RIM as it applies to academia, I realized that it might be a good idea to review retention schedules from other colleges and universities (CUs) as part of my research.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

On January 28, 2015, the Brazilian government issued the Preliminary Draft Bill for the Protection of Personal Data ( Anteprojeto de Lei para a Proteção de Dados Pessoais ) on a website specifically created for public debate on the draft bill. The text of the bill (in Portuguese) is available on the website. ([link]. The draft bill applies to individuals and companies that process personal data via automated means, provided that the (1) processing occurs in Brazil or (2) personal data was collec

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

On February 3, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) released a Risk Alert , entitled Cybersecurity Examination Sweep Summary, summarizing observations from the recent round of cybersecurity examinations of registered broker-dealers and investment advisers under the Cybersecurity Examination Initiative. Conducted by the SEC Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) from 2013 through April 2014, the examinations inspected the cybersecurity practices of 57 registere

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

On February 4, 2015, the German government adopted a draft law to improve the enforcement of data protection provisions that are focused on consumer protection. As reported earlier , the new law would bring about a fundamental change in how German data protection law is enforced. The draft law enables consumer protection organizations, trade associations and certain other associations to enforce cease-and desist letters and file interim injunctions in cases where companies violate the newly defi

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

On February 12, 2015, the International Association of Privacy Professionals (“IAPP”) will host a web conference on The Role of Risk Management in Data Protection – From Theory to Practice. Panelists will include Bojana Bellamy , President of the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams (“CIPL”), Fred Cate , Senior Policy Advisor of CIPL, and Hilary Wandall, Associate Vice President, Compliance and Chief Privacy Officer of Merck & Co., Inc.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

From January 30 to February 3, 2015, the APEC Data Privacy Subgroup (“DPS”) and its parent committee, the Electronic Commerce Steering Group (“ECSG”), met in Subic Bay, Philippines, for another round of negotiations and meetings. The Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams participated as part of the U.S. delegation. The principal focus of the meetings was implementing the APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules (“CBPR”) system, developing a corollary APEC recognition mechanism

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

On January 20, 2015, a group of public officials and industry representatives met in a public discussion panel in Brussels to debate the progress of the proposed EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “ Proposed Regulation”) and the major themes that are yet to be resolved. The panelist included Paul Nemitz, Director for the Fundamental Rights and Union Citizenship of the European Commission, Jan Philipp Albrecht, MEP and Vice Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties,

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