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Firearm Legislation and Firearm-Related Fatalities in the United States. Eric W. Fleegler, MD, MPH; Lois K. Lee, MD, MPH; Michael C. Monuteaux, ScD; David Hemenway, PhD; Rebekah Mannix, MD, MPH “Results: Over the 4-year study period, there were 121 084 firearm fatalities. The average state-based firearm fatality rates varied from a high of 17.9 (Louisiana) …
EFF: “Last year, Maryland became the first state to explicitly prohibit employers from forcing applicants or workers to disclose their personal names or passwords as a condition of employment. California followed soon after with its own measure, which further bars private employers from even requesting access to their workers social-media accounts. According to the National …
EFF: “In an unprecedented win for transparency, yesterday Google began publishing generalized information about the number of National Security Letters that the company received in the past year as well as the total number of user accounts affected by those requests. Of all the dangerous government surveillance powers that were expanded by the USA PATRIOT …
White Paper #53 – Electronics Disposal Efficiency (EDE): An It Recycling Metric for Enterprises and Data Centers, March 6, 2013 “This white paper outlines the new Electronics Disposal Efficiency (EDE) metric. EDE is the first universal metric launched by The Green Grid to help end-users of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) measure their success in …
Web-scale pharmacovigilance: listening to signals from the crowd. Ryen W White1, Nicholas P Tatonetti, Nigam H Shah, Russ B Altman, Eric Horvitz. J Am Med Inform Assoc amiajnl-2012-001482 Published Online First: 6 March 2013. “Adverse drug events cause substantial morbidity and mortality and are often discovered after a drug comes to market. We hypothesized that …
Silent Listeners: The Evolution of Privacy and Disclosure on Facebook by Fred Stutzman, Ralph Grossy, Alessandro Acquistiz. Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality. Issue 4/2/2012 [via Study: Facebook Users More Protective Even as They Reveal More About Themselves] “Over the past decade, social network sites have experienced dramatic growth in popularity, reaching most demographics and providing …
Open and Unimplemented – IG Recommendations Could Save Taxpayers $67 Billion, Staff Report Prepared for Chairman Darrell Issa, House of Representatives, 113th Congress, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. March 5, 2013 “The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has jurisdiction over the IG community. This staff report is a compilation of four years …
“The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) announced [March 5, 2013] the appointment of Dan Cohen as the DPLAs founding Executive Director. Cohen, currently a tenured professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University and the Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, brings to the …
R. David Edelman: “Thank you for sharing your views on cell phone unlocking with us through your petition on our We the People platform. Last week the White House brought together experts from across government who work on telecommunications, technology, and copyright policy, and we’re pleased to offer our response. The White House agrees with …
“Social media is transforming how government engages with citizens, allowing agencies to share information and deliver services more quickly and effectively than ever before. As social content, data, and platforms become more diverse, agencies have a responsibility to ensure these digital services are accessible to all citizens, including people with disabilities. To address this need, …
