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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 20, 2022

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 20, 2022 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex …

Subjects: Congress, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Health Care, Internet, Privacy, Search Engines

How Can Policymakers Encourage More Robo-Lawyers?

Webinar – A discussion about the potential for AI-enabled robo-lawyers to provide legal services: “Advances in digital automation could enable many individuals and businesses to access better and cheaper legal services. Robo-lawyers—tech-enabled legal services—could help clients review contracts, draft patent applications, write legal briefs, and more. Unfortunately, state laws and professional licensing requirements significantly limit …

Subjects: AI, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing

Disability At Home

“This website documents the ingenuity and creativity that caregivers and disabled people, including those with chronic illnesses, use every day to make home accessible. These images were shared with me during research for my upcoming book about disability and care. I spoke with 44 couples in 22 states about their daily lives. But because research …

Subjects: Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management

The Brooklyn Public Library Gives Every Teenager in the U.S. Free Access to Books Getting Censored by American Schools

Open Culture: “…In response to this concerning trend, the Brooklyn Public Library has made a bold move: For a limited time, the library will offer a free eCard to any person aged 13 to 21 across the United States, allowing them free access to 500,000 digital books, including many censored books. The Chief Librarian for …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education, Free Speech, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

COVID-19 Archive Prototype

Our COVID-19 Archive aims to aggregate digitized documents related to the the initial phases of the pandemic. To start, we have processed the emails of Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. They are now divided into individual emails, which can be searched and sorted with the original metadata …

Subjects: E-Mail, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management

EMail Innovation Timeline

Computer History Museum: “This timeline reflects the history of computer-mediated human communications (any human communication that occurs through the use of two or more electronic devices), the events that led up to the development of electronic mail (email), and its commercialization. It is intended for use by researchers and academics interested in the technical evolution …

Subjects: E-Mail, Internet, Knowledge Management

The Inflation Reduction Act Drives Significant Emissions Reductions and Positions America to Reach Our Climate Goals

U.S. Dept. of Energy Report: “The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 represents a historic, $369 billion investment in the modernization of the American energy system. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) preliminary assessment finds that this law—in combination with other enacted policies and past actions—will help drive 2030 economy-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 40% …

Subjects: Climate Change, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Legislation

You’re charging wrong: 5 ways to make gadget batteries last longer

Washington Post: “…So what can we do to make batteries live longer? I called up two scientists who study lithium batteries, the University of Michigan’s Gregory A. Keoleian and the University of Maryland’s Michael G. Pecht. “The key drivers that influence degradation are the temperature, the state of charge and the charge rate,” says Keoleian. …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

A Tool That Monitors How Long Kids Are in the Bathroom Is Now in 1,000 American Schools

Vice: “e-HallPass, a digital system that students have to use to request to leave their classroom and which takes note of how long they’ve been away, including to visit the bathroom, has spread into at least a thousand schools around the United States. The system has some resemblance to the sort of worker monitoring carried …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Education, Legal Research, Privacy

Google Can & Does Drop URLs From Its Index Over Time

Search Engine Roundtable via Twitter: “Most SEOs that have been doing the search engine optimization thing for any amount of time know that Google can and likely will drop out URLs from the Google index. John Mueller from Google confirmed that this happens with Google Search on Twitter the other day. John wrote “It doesn’t …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines