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Facial Recognition Technology: Commercial Uses, Privacy Issues, and Applicable Federal Law, GAO-15-621: Published: Jul 30, 2015. Publicly Released: Jul 30, 2015. “Facial recognition technology can be used in numerous consumer and business applications, but the extent of its current use in commercial settings is not fully known. The technology is commonly used in software that …
Lost in Translation: Supporting Learners to Search Comprehensively Across Databases – JCHLA / JABSC 36: 54–58 (2015) doi: 10.5596/c15-014, Robin Parker and Maggie Neilson. “Health sciences librarians play the key role of expert searcher for knowledge synthesis research projects. When students and trainees conduct systematic reviews as academic assignments, academic librarians train learners to search …
Behind the Cyberlocker Door: A Report on How Shadowy Cyberlocker Businesses Use Credit Card Companies to Make Millions A NetNames Report for Digital Citizens Alliance “As a society, we can no longer shrug off content theft as the isolated activity of high school and college students who want to watch a movie or listen to …
[August 4, 2015] “the Federal CIO Council’s Innovation Committee is releasing the Open Data Prioritization Toolkit. The toolkit assists agencies with evaluating and prioritizing datasets for release. It consists of tools, workbooks, and resources to help agencies evaluate datasets on the criteria of value, cost, and risk. Included in each criteria are questions agencies can …
Akana Report (reg reqd) – “The front lines of information security risk management evolve in parallel with the dominant technologies in common use. The emergence of the Web brought Web-based threats and resulting countermeasures. The rise of SQL databases brought SQL injection and its mitigations. Now, we have the increasing usage and business importance of …
Baltimore, MD – August 5, 2015 – “The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) voting members have approved a new project to standardize the ISO Standard Tag Set (ISOSTS) in line with JATS (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2012 JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite) for application by standards development organizations (SDOs) and use in the standards ecosystem. In the process …
Teens, Technology and Friendships – Video games, social media and mobile phones play an integral role in how teens meet and interact with friends: “For American teens, making friends isn’t just confined to the school yard, playing field or neighborhood – many are making new friends online. Fully 57% of teens ages 13 to 17 …
Google Trends is tracking statistics related to candidates and major issues in the news – including the Iran Nuclear Deal – data and interactive graphics changes daily.
“The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), privacy company Disconnect and a coalition of Internet companies have announced a stronger “Do Not Track” (DNT) setting for Web browsing—a new policy standard that, coupled with privacy software, will better protect users from sites that try to secretly follow and record their Internet activity, and incentivize advertisers and data …
American Library Association: “Protecting user privacy and confidentiality has long been an integral part of the intellectual freedom mission of libraries. The right to free inquiry as assured by the First Amendment depends upon the ability to read and access information free from scrutiny by the government or other third parties. In their provision of …
US states ranked by % of alerts reported by users for each issue. Press the buttons below to see different alerts. ‘Accident’, ‘Traffic Jams’ and ‘Hazard on road’ are ranked as % of total user alerts, all others within the ‘Hazard’ category Waze is the world’s largest community-based traffic and navigation app.
Pew – Americans’ Views About Data Collection and Security By Mary Madden and Lee Rainie: “Contrary to assertions that people “don’t care” about privacy in the digital age, this survey suggests that Americans hold a range of strong views about the importance of control over their personal information and freedom from surveillance in daily life. …
