John Battelle's Searchblog

MAY 10, 2013

'The post These Companies Are Denting the Universe In NY appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. OpenCo NY is just ten or so days away – the opening plenary (for Backstage pass holders and VIPs) is Weds evening, May 22, and the full day of open sessions inside 130+ innovative NY-based companies is the following day, May 23. Consider this post a “curtain raiser” of sorts, with all the information you might need to grok the event and, I hope, participate if you happen

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 10, 2013

A state court has dismissed the California Attorney General’s claims that Delta Air Lines Inc. (“Delta”) violated the California Online Privacy Protection Act by failing to have an appropriately posted privacy policy for its mobile application, Bloomberg reports. The California AG sued Delta in December as part of an enforcement campaign that began with the issuance of warning letters to approximately 100 operators of mobile apps, including Delta.

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Preservica

MAY 9, 2013

There is a lot of debate about using storage and cloud storage in particular to archive digital information. I believe a better question is: Are you an IT archive or a business archive? A really good way to answer this question is to ask yourself are you preserving bits or are you preserving business information. If you are doing the former then you are likely to be an IT centric archive - you are looking after files but care little about their contents or usage.

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JKevinParker

MAY 5, 2013

Here are some SharePoint 2013 learning resources for our reference. At least, until someone at Microsoft moves these pages without redirects. Planning for SharePoint 2013. Explore SharePoint 2013 (TechNet). Plan for SharePoint 2013 (TechNet). Technical diagrams for SharePoint 2013 (TechNet). IT Pro Training for SharePoint 2013. Video demos and training for SharePoint 2013 (TechNet).

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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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John Battelle's Searchblog

MAY 9, 2013

'The post On Google Glass and OpenCo NYC appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. In case you have any interest, here’s a short clip of me opining on Google Glass and the upcoming OpenCoNYC , which is going to be HOT. More on that soon. The post On Google Glass and OpenCo NYC appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog.

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Preservica

MAY 9, 2013

I was delighted to be invited to speak to the recent Scientific Archivists Group (SAG) conference in Edinburgh. The conference covered a range of topics on GxP. Looking at the different focuses when x = Clinical, Manufacturing, Laboratory, Pharma CoVigilance, or Drug Safety, how to develop risk based approach to records management, how to get senior management buy-in to improve RM/Archiving Service and, how business value is projected from archived material.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MAY 5, 2013

'The post Hold Hands or Die Apart appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I’ve been a bit slow to update this site lately, as my return to Federated Media, and preparation for the CM Summit and OpenCo NYC , have pretty much eaten up all my time lately. But I did want to repost a few things I have written elsewhere, starting with this article in Ad Age , written two weeks ago.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 8, 2013

On May 3, 2013, the German Federal Council (Bundesrat) passed a new bill regarding access to telecom user data, such as names, addresses, passwords and credit card PIN codes. This comes after the German Federal Diet (Bundestag) passed the German government’s bill on March 21, 2013, which amends, among other laws, Germany’s Federal Telecommunications Act.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 8, 2013

On April 30, 2013, the regional court of Berlin enjoined Apple Sales International, which is based in Ireland, (“Apple”) from relying on eight of its existing standard data protection clauses in contracts with customers based in Germany. The court also prohibited Apple’s future use of such clauses. Apple used these clauses, which are summarized below, in terms and conditions for its online store as well as in its privacy policy.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 8, 2013

On May 6, 2013, the Global Privacy Enforcement Network (“GPEN”) announced its first “Internet Privacy Sweep,” in which 19 data protection authorities are participating. This joint effort, which runs May 6-12, 2013, involves a review of the information notices posted online by major websites. The French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL”) is participating in this initiative and has announced that it would subject 250 top websites to further scrutiny.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 7, 2013

In April 2013, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China (the “MIIT”) issued a new rule entitled the “Notice on Strengthening the Administration of Networked Smart Mobile Devices” (the “Notice”). This Notice, which will become effective on November 1, 2013, was issued in draft form in June 2012 along with a request for public comment.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 7, 2013

On May 6, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it had voted unanimously to reject a request from industry groups to delay the July 1, 2013 deadline for implementation of the updated Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (the “Rule”). The groups had argued that the delay was necessary because they needed more time to comply with the changes to the Rule, which the FTC promulgated on December 19, 2012.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 7, 2013

On May 6, 2013, the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (“LIBE”) discussed the progress of the proposed General Data Protection Regulation (”Proposed Regulation”). LIBE’s lead rapporteur, Jan Philipp Albrecht, noted that, in light of the significant number of amendments tabled , more time is needed for the other rapporteurs to deliberate.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 7, 2013

On May 7, 2013, the hacker group Anonymous announced that it, in concert with Middle East- and North Africa-based criminal hackers and cyber actors, will conduct a coordinated online attack labeled “OpUSA” against banking and government websites today. Anonymous stated that OpUSA will be a distributed denial of service (“DDoS”) in which websites may be defaced and legitimate users may be unable to access websites.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 6, 2013

The Polish Data Protection Authority ( Generalny Inspektor Ochrony Danych Osbowych or “GIODO”) has activated the website for the 35th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners to be held in Warsaw, Poland, September 23-26, 2013. The conference theme is “A Compass in a Turbulent World.” Unlike past years, the conference will begin with the closed session for commissioners and concurrent side events.

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