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FTC Announces Orders to Address Deceptive Advertising on Social Media and Video Streaming Platforms

Hunton Privacy

The FTC sent the orders pursuant to its resolution directing the FTC to use all available compulsory process to inquire into this topic, and using the FTC’s Section 6(b) authority, which authorizes the FTC to conduct studies that do not have a specific law enforcement purpose.

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Video Conferencing Apps Sometimes Ignore the Mute Button

Schneier on Security

A Privacy Analysis of Mute Buttons in Video Conferencing Apps “: Abstract: In the post-pandemic era, video conferencing apps (VCAs) have converted previously private spaces — bedrooms, living rooms, and kitchens — into semi-public extensions of the office. New research: “ Are You Really Muted?:

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FTC Issues Orders to Nine Social Media and Video Streaming Service Companies Regarding Privacy Practices

Hunton Privacy

On December 14, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it had issued orders to nine social media and video streaming companies, requesting information on how the companies collect, use and present personal information, their advertising and user engagement practices and how their practices affect children and teens.

Privacy 105
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Learning, work and flexibility: a case study

CILIP

Learning, work and flexibility: a case study As part of our look at CILIP accredited courses we talk to Oona Ylinen, a part-time LIS student at UCL and Academic Support Librarian at University of Essex. During one such study session in 2018, I saw a poster advertising a part-time role in the library.

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Tyco International case study - replacing your intranet with Yammer

ChiefTech

Unlike most of the Yammer case studies I've seen, Tyco International set out with the deliberate objective of replacing their traditional static intranet with Yammer, in order to create a social intranet.

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NIH study probes impact of heavy screen time on young brains

Information Management Resources

Brain scans of adolescents who are heavy users of smartphones, tablets and video games look different from those of less active screen users, a new study reveals.

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Detecting Deep Fakes with a Heartbeat

Schneier on Security

Researchers can detect deep fakes because they don’t convincingly mimic human blood circulation in the face: In particular, video of a person’s face contains subtle shifts in color that result from pulses in blood circulation.

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