John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 7, 2023

To be honest, I was expecting the polite “no comment” I ultimately did receive, but I also got this clarification: [We] wouldn’t have anything additional to share from the Search POV, as Bard is a standalone AI interface and doesn’t sit within Search.

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Archives Blogs

JANUARY 17, 2019

During this politically. education thrown at them by the Conservative Government. The exhibition illustrates the ways in which. the Musicians’ Union sought to improve the lives and employment rights of. performers. charged decade, members tackled anti-union legislation and spending cuts to music.

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 22, 2022

Soft opt-in” marketing consent will be extended to non-commercial entities, such as charities and political parties. Provisions will also be included so an opt out regime can be applied across all uses once browser-based and similar solutions are mature enough, although this is stated to be “in the future”.

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Archives Blogs

MARCH 27, 2019

” According to Bolderson, America was also seen as a political trendsetter; for instance, Newt Gingrich’s rise was leading European conservatives to “look to the American right” for examples of successful strategies. It would prove that diversity works.” Latin America’s view of the U.S.,

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 4, 2024

Exclusive: senior party officials worked on commercial venture that would allow brands to sell products to supporters Senior Conservative party officials worked on plans to hand over its entire membership database for a commercial venture that promised to make tens of millions of pounds, the Guardian can reveal. Continue reading.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Take the money out of politics? ” Despite Lessig’s avowed liberal views (combined with his conservative, Regan-era past), I could imagine that Republic Lost could as easily be embraced by Tea Party fanatics as by Occupy Wall Street organizers. I mean, fix government ? Well, maybe.

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Archives Blogs

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

This assault on materialism is vaguely political, as he mocks the current tendency to measure progress in terms of creature comforts or economic productivity. As the Humane Society website reports: In his 1954 essay, “Conservation is Not Enough,” …Krutch offered a memorable statement of his basic philosophy.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

APRIL 11, 2018

Italy is among the late comers in the adoption of their local law which is still in a draft version and the current political instability of the country does not set reliable expectations on a potential quick approval. The GDPR will directly apply, but it leaves scope for some flexibilities to EU Member States.

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Archives Blogs

APRIL 12, 2019

For conservation reasons, the original Emancipation Proclamation document of January 1, 1863, is displayed only a few days at a time under extremely low light to protect it from damage. A panel will discuss the history and political implications of both documents. This year, visitors can view the documents between 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.

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The Guardian Data Protection

DECEMBER 31, 2023

We need a fellowship of socially conscious heroes to fight the Conservatives and NHS data-grabbing firms and save our democracy Happy new year! But is it too late to save British democracy as we once knew it? What a time to be alive!

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 18, 2024

No, these politicians were imploring us, in the main, to conserve shared resources. It’s now political suicide to ask the public to make sacrifices of any kind. I lived in California, and every five or ten years there’d be a pretty bad draught.

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Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Notably, data protection authorities will also need to factor in the EO when considering the lawfulness of transfers, risk ratings, and enforcement, which may mean an end to them taking such conservative views of transfers of personal data from the EU to the US.

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Unwritten Record

JUNE 25, 2018

1932 was an election year and political consequences ensued. The new Civilian Conservation Corps, intended to provide employment to young men across the nation, set aside 25,000 positions for war veterans. As one might expect, the attack on World War I veterans did not play well with the public.

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Archives Blogs

JANUARY 15, 2019

He reported how and where they could help, when to collect tin cans, what changes were being made in rationing, how to conserve vital energies needed for the war effort. By that point too, La Guardia well understood the power of the medium and what it could do for his political and social agenda. WNYC Archive Collections).

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The Guardian Data Protection

AUGUST 3, 2022

MPs including Tom Tugendhat and Iain Duncan Smith express fears Beijing may be able to access users’ personal data The UK parliament has closed its TikTok account following objections from senior Conservative politicians about the social video app’s connections to China.

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The Guardian Data Protection

AUGUST 10, 2020

Faculty, which was hired by Dominic Cummings to work for the Vote Leave campaign and counts two current and former Conservative ministers among its shareholders, was paid £400,000 by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government for the work, according to a copy of the contract published online.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 12, 2020

Boris Johnson’s chief adviser declines to explain reason for payments to Faculty A private company owned and controlled by Dominic Cummings paid more than a quarter of a million pounds to the artificial intelligence firm that worked on the Vote Leave campaign.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JUNE 23, 2020

Local health chiefs say real-time information is crucial to monitor spread of disease Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Local outbreaks of Covid-19 could grow undetected because the government is failing to share crucial testing data, council leaders and scientists have warned.

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The Guardian Data Protection

AUGUST 29, 2023

A memorandum of understanding published in 2016 required the NHS to hand over non-clinical records Migrants to get Home Office reference number on NHS England records As much as the Home Office has always insisted that safeguards are in place, its interest in the records of migrants using the NHS has long been highly controversial.

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

PM under pressure to follow EU and US in taking step over fears Chinese-owned app poses cybersecurity risk Rishi Sunak has been urged to ban government officials from using TikTok in line with moves by the EU and US, amid growing cybersecurity fears over China.

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The Guardian Data Protection

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Exclusive: Campaigners raise privacy concerns over government deal with iProov The NHS app is collecting and storing facial verification data from UK citizens in a process which has fuelled concerns about transparency and accountability.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 13, 2022

ICO finds insufficient evidence against those suspected of capturing footage of minister with colleague No one will be prosecuted over the leak of CCTV footage showing Matt Hancock engaged in a clinch with a colleague in his office, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has announced.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 24, 2021

Questions about fundamental rights and freedoms have come into sharp focus as we fight Covid, and cannot be dodged For the second time in my adult life, I feel we must have a national conversation about domestic compulsory ID.

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The Guardian Data Protection

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Images posted to social media show people accessing data of senior Tories such as Boris Johnson and Michael Gove A major flaw in the Conservative ’s official conference mobile phone application has made the private data of senior party members – including cabinet members – accessible to anyone that logged in as a conference attendee.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 3, 2019

Johnson’s campaign team faces fresh scrutiny over possible breach of data protection laws Boris Johnson, whose campaign to become the Conservative leader is facing the threat of an inquiry into its use of data , has sent an unsolicited email to his rival Jeremy Hunt seeking his support.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 31, 2018

Documents released last week shed more light on the puzzle of the company’s links to Cambridge Analytica ‘Find Christopher Wylie.” That instruction – 13 months ago – came from the very first ex-Cambridge Analytica employee I met. He was unequivocal. Wylie would have answers to the two questions that were troubling me most.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 2, 2019

Minister and former MP ask watchdog to investigate and party chair to launch inquiry A minister and a former Conservative MP have asked the information watchdog to investigate whether Boris Johnson’s campaign to become party leader is breaching data protection laws.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 26, 2015

If you (conservatively) estimate each ride at $10, that’d be gross revenue of $10mm a day, or $3.65 And my figures are conservative. And that conversation is deeply political and cultural in nature. billion a year. And their costs are….well, I’m pretty sure they’re not spending another $750mm on marketing and platform costs.

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Archives Blogs

MARCH 20, 2019

Bitter rival billionaire media moguls with titanic egos…A politically ambitious mayor…Deals and double deals…The birth of Fox News played out like an epic Tom Wolfe satire come to life, and was the topic of discussion for an October 13, 1996 segment of On the Media.

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

collections should be curated, conserved, promoted - and exploited to increase library usage. Countries with different political and structural regimes and working cultures can seem frustrating but the differences enrich the experience and form the context in which you learn, adapt and grow. reference library?

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CILIP

DECEMBER 2, 2019

s Library and Information Association has responded to comments made by Conservative leader Boris Johnson during his interview with Andrew Marr on Sunday 1st December. We are delighted that following determined lobbying by CILIP and others libraries are finally part of our national political debate. s comments on the Andrew Marr Show.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 17, 2021

Thanks to the events of January 6th, Section 230 has broken into the mainstream of political dialog. No matter if you’re liberal or conservative, it’s pretty easy to logic your way into blaming 230 for whatever bothers you about the events of the past ten days. Unfortunately, our President-elect has endorsed this view.

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The Guardian Data Protection

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Fines announced as information commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, is giving evidence to parliament’s DCMS committee • Follow all the political reaction here 11.54am GMT Pow asks what the investigation has highlighted to Denham. 11.34am GMT Giles Watling, Conservative, asks whether the ICO is “playing catchup” with large tech companies.

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Our campaign to encourage all candidates to #VoteLibraries has resulted in messages of solidarity and support from across the political spectrum. The Conservatives point to the funding increase to Councils in the previous Budget (which the LGA pointed out still leaves a ?3bn The Conservatives highlight the ?250m 250 million.

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Adam Levin

JUNE 5, 2019

political divide with propaganda relating to wedge issues. Main accounts generally were ‘fake news’ outlets masquerading as regional news outlets, or pretending to be political parties or hashtag games,” stated the report. The top 20 most retweeted English-language accounts were split evenly between conservative and liberal messages.”.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 5, 2020

Facebook bans microtargeting on specific kinds of political advertising. And CDA 230 is an easy target, given conservatives in Congress already believe Facebook, Google, and others have it out for their president. As long time readers know, I don’t prepare in advance of writing this post. So…here we go. While Zuck & Co.

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Information Management Resources

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Donald Trump's claim that Google's search engine is biased against conservatives would be more interesting if it didn't rest on the crazy view that most mainstream outlets such as the Associated Press, Reuters, sports channel ESPN or Business Insider are hotbeds of radicalized left-wing politics.

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