Category «Internet»

Commentary – Why Protecting Data Privacy Matters, and When

Data Science Central – (A Wake-Up Call to Data Geeks Who Doubt) by Anne Russell “It’s official. Public concerns over the privacy of data used in digital approaches have reached an apex. Worried about the safety of digital networks, consumers want to gain control over what they increasingly sense as a loss of power over …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, Intellectual Property, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Site tracks and maps data breaches around the globe

“ThreatWatch is a snapshot of the data breaches hitting organizations and individuals, globally, on a daily basis. It is not an authoritative list, since many compromises are never reported or even discovered. The information is based on accounts published by outside news organizations and researchers. We have tried to provide you with a sample of …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Privacy

New on LLRX – Human Resources Management Meets Big Data in Devising Systems to Identify Star Employees

Via LLRX – Human Resources Management Meets Big Data in Devising Systems to Identify Star Employees:  Alan Rothman provides much needed insight and perspective regarding the role of employee performance and productivity metrics, big data, and identifying future leaders within an organization. Although HR professionals and software applications have been engaged to deliver results that yield …

Subjects: Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Marketing

Amplifying the Impact of Open Access: Wikipedia and the Diffusion of Science

“With the rise of Wikipedia as a first-stop source for scientific knowledge, it is important to compare its representation of that knowledge to that of the academic literature. This article approaches such a comparison through academic references made within the worlds 50 largest Wikipedias. Previous studies have raised concerns that Wikipedia editors may simply use …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

Climate change through the lens of Google Search

Via the Google News Lab project – this Google’s data visualization aggregates popular global search trends specific to climate change –  “We wanted to show how this big issue looks when viewed through the lens of Google search data. Google data is so big — there are over 3 billion searches a day — that …

Subjects: Climate Change, Energy, Environmental Law, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Has Big Data Era Delivered Better Results?

Lauren Browning – Business Insider: “The amount of digital data in the universe is growing at an exponential rate, doubling every two years, and changing how we live in the world. “The rate at which we’re generating data is rapidly outpacing our ability to analyze it,” Professor Patrick Wolfe, Executive Director of the University College …

Subjects: Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Marketing

Report – Who Has Your Digital Back?

Who Has Your Back? 2015: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests. July 2, 2015 | By Parker Higgins: “We live digital lives—from the videos shared on social networks, to location-aware apps on mobile phones, to log-in data for connecting to our email, to our stored documents, to our search history. The personal, the profound, and …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Digital Rights, E-Commerce, E-Mail, Freedom of Information, Internet, Legal Research, Legislation, Privacy

Promoting an open research culture

Science 26 June 2015:  Vol. 348 no. 6242 pp. 1422-1425 DOI: 10.1126/science.aab2374 “Transparency, openness, and reproducibility are readily recognized as vital features of science. When asked, most scientists embrace these features as disciplinary norms and values. Therefore, one might expect that these valued features would be routine in daily practice. Yet, a growing body of evidence …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

GAO – Bank and Other Depository Regulators Need Better Data Analytics

Cybersecurity: Bank and Other Depository Regulators Need Better Data Analytics and Depository Institutions Want More Usable Threat Information, GAO-15-509: Published: Jul 2, 2015. Publicly Released: Jul 2, 2015. “Regulators use a risk-based examination approach to oversee the adequacy of information security at depository institutions—banks, thrifts, and credit unions—but could better target future examinations by analyzing …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management

Paper – Internet searching not a substitute for knowledge

“Searching the Internet for information may make people feel smarter than they actually are, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. “The Internet is such a powerful environment, where you can enter any question, and you basically have access to the world’s knowledge at your fingertips,” said lead researcher Matthew Fisher, a …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

Secret court authorizes continued telephone metadata collection

The Guardian UK: “After a decade in the shadows, a secretive surveillance court that authorises the bulk collection of American telephone records seized on its last chance to show off a little personality on Tuesday [June 30, 2015]. “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, well, at least for 180 days,” wrote judge Michael …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Courts, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Patriot Act, Privacy