John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 23, 2015

'The post A Few Questions For Publishers Contemplating Facebook As A Platform appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Well, it’s happening. According to no less authoritative source than The New York Times , The New York Times is preparing to plant a taproot right inside the highly walled garden that is Facebook. As Times’ executives contemplate moving The Grey Lady squarely under the rather constrictive confines of Facebook’s terms of service , they may be comforting themselves with

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Collaboration 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

'France''s 1930''s Maginot Line failure may seem an odd analogy, but ''digital washing'' of old ideas and lack of forward thinking also have the potential to create strategic disaster in a highly competitive world where speed to market and agility are key.

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Robert's Db2

MARCH 31, 2015

Over the past year and a half, I have been talking to lots of people about DB2 11 for z/OS. In the course of these discussions and presentations, I've noticed something interesting pertaining to the DB2-managed data archiving capability delivered with this latest release of the DBMS: a) it is one of the more misunderstood features of DB2 11, and b) when people do understand what DB2-managed archiving is about, it becomes one of the DB2 11 features about which they are most enthusiastic.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 25, 2015

On March 23, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission announced the formation of the Office of Technology Research and Investigation (“OTRI”), which the FTC describes as “an office designed to expand the FTC’s capacity to protect consumers in an age of rapid technological innovation.”. The OTRI will succeed and expand the focus of the FTC’s previously-created Mobile Technology Unit, which focused on consumer protection issues relating to mobile technologies.

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CGI

MARCH 26, 2015

Huit astuces pour améliorer votre cybersécurité sans défoncer votre budget. shobana.lv@cgi.com. Thu, 03/26/2015 - 02:00. Les budgets consacrés aux TI ne sont plus ce qu’ils étaient. L’époque où ils rivalisaient avec le PIB de petits pays est révolue. Et, bien qu’une énorme part du budget en TI continue d’être allouée aux dépenses en cybersécurité, cette enveloppe est désormais résolument réduite.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 31, 2015

'The post What’s NewCo? These Videos Will Help appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. The NewCo festival model is counter-intuitive, so we made these videos to help explain what the fuss is all about. I thought I’d share them here. The first one features folks talking about their experience attending festivals, and the second one features host company presentors doing the same.

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Collaboration 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

'Like France''s 1930''s Maginot Line, ''digital washing'' of old ideas and lack of forward thinking has the potential to create strategic disaster in a highly competitive world where speed to market and agility are key.

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Robert's Db2

MARCH 20, 2015

Not long ago, I was contacted by a DB2 for z/OS DBA who wanted to run a situation by me. On one of his organizations' mainframe DB2 systems -- a system with very high transaction volumes and very stringent application availability requirements -- there was a native SQL procedure for which the ASUTIME specification had to be changed. The DBA wanted to see if I could help him to find a non-disruptive way to effect this stored procedure modification.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 20, 2015

On November 16, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission will host a workshop in Washington, D.C., to examine the benefits and privacy risks associated with “cross-device tracking.” The workshop intends to highlight the types of cross-device tracking techniques and how businesses and consumers can benefit from these practices. The workshop also will address related privacy and security risks, and discuss whether self-regulatory programs apply to these practices.

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CGI

MARCH 15, 2015

Staying connected with customers in the age of big data. Anonymous. Mon, 03/16/2015 - 01:28. The owner of a large supermarket chain approached CGI with how difficult it is to retain customers and attract new ones, especially in their large urban and suburban stores. He felt they were losing sight of their loyal customers and what makes them stay or go.

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Interactive Information Management

MARCH 4, 2015

That's where we're headed, inexorably - you'd like to know what's going on with your systems, what your customers or constituents need, or perhaps the latest metrics concerning device utilization trends during business events. And, you'd like this information (all of it, or lots of it) right now, in an easily consumable, visual, semantically-relevant way - to share with your community and to be automatically (or easily) ingested by your other systems or analysis tools.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 8, 2015

'The post With Meridian, Sovrn Levels the Playing Field For Publishers appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. A long, strange, and ultimately rewarding trip, that’s what many involved in the past ten years at Federated Media, Lijit, and now sovrn Holdings might say. One year ago, give or take, we sold FM’s assets to LIN Media , and created sovrn Holdings , a programmatic data business focused on one mission: to foster an ecosystem where independent and influential publis

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JKevinParker

MARCH 2, 2015

I wanted to compare exactly which features are available for these Office 365 plans: Office 365 Business Premium. Office 365 Enterprise E1. Office 365 Enterprise E3. The Office 365 plan comparison page did not give me enough detail. So I checked out the latest Office 365 service comparison page on TechNet (updated 1/28/2015 at the time of this post).

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MARCH 19, 2015

UK Chancellor, George Osborne, announced yesterday, a £10 million boost from government for digital currency such as Bitcoin. This was […].

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 26, 2015

As part of its ongoing Brazil outreach initiative, a delegation of the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams (“CIPL”) is in Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro the week of March 23, 2015. The delegation will meet with Brazilian government representatives, organizations and experts to discuss global privacy law and best practice developments and other issues of mutual interest, as well as a joint global privacy dialogue workshop in Brazil planned for later this year.

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CGI

MARCH 16, 2015

Managing customer data as an asset at Nissan Europe. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Mon, 03/16/2015 - 16:32. Improved campaign conversion rates using preferred channels. 1.5X more effective campaign conversions by targeting less…to spend less. 2.5X more effective campaign conversions by targeting better…to win more. Nissan Europe achieved these inspiring results by partnering with CGI to establish a customer master data management platform.

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HIPAA

MARCH 4, 2015

A party’s responsibilities under HIPAA generally come from two sources – the law itself and the business associate agreement entered into between the covered entity (the health care provider or health plan) and the business associate (its vendor). While all parts of a business associate agreement are important, there are certain terms that are most likely to affect the parties’ liability and obligations.

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Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

Hunton Privacy

MARCH 24, 2015

On March 24, 2015, the CNIL announced the implementation of a new procedure that will simplify the registration formalities for French affiliates of groups that have implemented Binding Corporate Rules (“BCRs”). Currently, the CNIL’s prior authorization is required for each type of data transfer outside of the EU when the transfer is based on BCRs. The CNIL now proposes to issue a single authorization decision to each group that has implemented BCRs.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 20, 2015

On March 13, 2015, the U.S. Department of Commerce Internet Policy Task Force (“IPTF”) issued a request for public comment regarding cybersecurity issues affecting the digital economy. The IPTF’s request invites all stakeholders interested in cybersecurity to “identify substantive cybersecurity issues that affect the digital ecosystem and digital economic growth where broad consensus, coordinated action, and the development of best practices could substantially improve security for organizations

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 13, 2015

On March 4, 2015, the House of Representatives of Washington passed a bill ( HB 1078 ), which would amend the state’s breach notification law to require notification to the state Attorney General in the event of a breach and impose a 45-day timing requirement for notification provided to affected residents and the state regulator. The bill also mandates content requirements for notices to affected residents, including (1) the name and contact information of the reporting business; (2) a list of

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 10, 2015

On March 9, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (the “Memorandum”) with the Dutch Data Protection Authority (the “Dutch DPA”). The Memorandum, which does not create legally binding obligations on the FTC or the Dutch DPA, focuses on the following five objectives: cooperating when enforcing applicable privacy laws such as the FTC Act and the Dutch Data Protection Act, including sharing relevant information about complaints; facilitat

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Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL

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CGI

MARCH 6, 2015

CGI Top 5 UK Employer Award. p.butler@cgi.com. Fri, 03/06/2015 - 02:00. Well here goes, my first blog, I hope you enjoy it. I plan to use this channel on a regular basis to share my thoughts on a variety of topics. CGI is a people business. Ensuring that we are providing the best possible environment and culture for our people to build their careers and develop their skills is critical to our success.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 6, 2015

On March 4, 2015, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (“NTIA”) announced a new multistakeholder process seeking comments on best practices concerning privacy, transparency and accountability issues related to the use of commercial and private unmanned aircraft systems (“UAS”), otherwise known as drones.

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CGI

MARCH 5, 2015

IoT – it’s all about insights. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Thu, 03/05/2015 - 04:11. The Internet of things (IoT) is set to generate vast amounts of new data, with some predictions at over 100Billion ‘things’ sending out data on the Internet by 2020. Without new analysis methods, the sheer volume, at best risks the value of data being lost, and at worst, may overwhelm a business completely.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 5, 2015

On February 26, 2015, the Department of Education’s Privacy Technical Assistance Center (“PTAC”) issued guidance to assist schools, school districts and vendors with understanding the primary laws regulating student privacy and how compliance with those laws may be affected by Terms of Service (“TOS”) offered by providers of online educational services and mobile applications.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 5, 2015

On March 3, 2015, the Third Circuit heard oral arguments in FTC v. Wyndham Worldwide Corp. (“Wyndham”) on whether the FTC has the authority to regulate private companies’ data security under Section 5 of the FTC Act. As we previously reported , on June 26, 2012, the FTC announced that it had filed suit against Wyndham and three of its subsidiaries alleging that the company posted misleading representations on Wyndham websites regarding how the company safeguarded customer information.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 4, 2015

On March 3, 2015, Steven Barnes, the host of the new Penn Law podcast series, Case in Point: Great Minds on Law and Life, interviewed Lisa Sotto , partner and chair of the Global Privacy and Cybersecurity practice at Hunton & Williams LLP, and Anita Allen, professor of law and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and vice provost for faculty on trends in privacy and cybersecurity, discussing what we mean when we talk about our right to privacy.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 3, 2015

On March 2, 2015, HuffPost Live interviewed four cybersecurity experts in response to a top financial regulator’s warning of an “Armageddon-type cyber event” that could eventually affect the U.S. economy. Lisa Sotto , partner and chair of the Global Privacy and Cybersecurity practice at Hunton & Williams LLP, was featured, describing the threat as legitimate and stressing that hackers are becoming more creative, sophisticated and motivated.

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