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Predictions 2015: Uber, Google, Apple, Beacons, Health, Nest, China, Adtech…

John Battelle's Searchblog

Last year, for example, I predicted that 2014 would be the year that the Internet would “adopt the planet as its cause.” A good example of this is my declaring that Twitter would become a major media platform three years ago. Predictions 2010. 2010: How I Did. One to watch, to be sure. Adtech comes back.

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

Relatively recent advances in technology — smartphones and social media, in particular — have allowed businesses to collect, store, and find ways to monetize far more personal data than ever before. 12 In other words, the 1983 amendment was seen as limiting the depth rather than the breadth of discovery.13.

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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

We want businesses to ensure that their customers and future customers have consented to having their personal data processed, but we also need to ensure that the enormous potential for new data rights and freedoms does not open us up to new threats. How then will we secure adequacy without adhering to the charter?

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