Day archives: March 19th, 2016

OECD – Trends Shaping Education 2016

“Did you ever wonder if education has a role to play in stemming the obesity epidemic sweeping across all OECD countries? Or what the impact of increasing urbanisation might be on our schools, families, and communities? Or whether new technologies really are fundamentally changing the way our children think and learn? Trends Shaping Education examines …

Subjects: Education, Government Documents

Assessing the Federal Trade Commission’s Privacy Assessments

Hoofnagle, Chris Jay, Assessing the Federal Trade Commission’s Privacy Assessments (2016). Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Assessing the Federal Trade Commission’s Privacy Assessments, 14(2) IEEE Security & Privacy 58–64 (Mar/Apr. 2016). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2707163 “Consumer protection regulators worldwide share basic problems: the companies that regulators police are so powerful and rich that fines do …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy

Pew – 5 facts about Twitter at age 10

Pew Research Center – ” The very first Twitter message was sent on March 21, 2006. The microblogging platform was then known as twttr – the vowels came later, after the founders bought the twitter.com domain name. It spent its first few months as an internal messaging system for Odeo, the company that developed it, …

Subjects: Blogs, Social Media

FBI and NHTSA issue warning – Motor Vehicles Increasingly Vulnerable to Remote Exploits

PSA – “Modern motor vehicles often include new connected vehicle technologies that aim to provide benefits such as added safety features, improved fuel economy, and greater overall convenience. Aftermarket devices are also providing consumers with new features to monitor the status of their vehicles. However, with this increased connectivity, it is important that consumers and …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Government Documents, Privacy, Transportation

ProPublica Campaign Finance API

Derek Willis – ProPublica – “An API, or Application Programming Interface, is a language that two programs can use to communicate and trade data. Programmers can use it to access data from a website or Internet service more easily. We’re assuming responsibility of an API that was previously published by The New York Times. If …

Subjects: Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Shakespeare wrote eloquently about the humane treatment of migrants

Via theguardian.com – The last surviving play script handwritten by William Shakespeare, in which he imagines Sir Thomas More making an impassioned plea for the humane treatment of refugees, is to be made available online by the British Library. The manuscript is one of 300 newly digitised treasures shining a light on the wider society …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Knowledge Management, Libraries