Day archives: June 23rd, 2019

Elder Resources on the Internet 2019

New via LLRX – Elder Resources on the Internet 2019 – The current estimated U.S. population 65 and older has reached a new milestone: 53,710,125 and growing daily. To provide come context to this number, “50 million seniors is more than the population of 25 states combined…” By 2030, the estimated population of those over 65 …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management

This is how Google’s Chrome lets the cookies track you, imagined in real life

A Washington Post video story – This is how Google’s Chrome lets the cookies track you, imagined in real life  – “Chrome has become like spyware for the company, allowing more tracker cookies than any other browser. The Post’s Geoffrey A. Fowler imagines how that might feel in real life, and gives advice for more …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, ID Theft, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Google is the biggest snoop of all on your computer or cell phone

The Philadelphia Inquirer – “You open your browser to look at the Web. Do you know who is looking back at you? Over a recent week of Web surfing, I peered under the hood of Google Chrome and found it brought along a few thousand friends. Shopping, news and even government sites quietly tagged my browser …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy, Search Engines

New tool by Harvard Law lets people explore language usage in caselaw abajournal.com

ABAJournal: “Parsing 6.7 million federal and state cases and 12 billion words, a new tool allows the public to explore the use of language over 360 years of caselaw. Released [June 19, 2019], “Historical Trends” was built by the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab and is free to use. “I think it’s a good …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Search Engines