Category «Internet»

EPIC – Foreign Intelligence Court Releases Controversial Opinion on Domestic Telephone Records Program

“The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) has released an Opinion, justifying the NSA’s telephone record collection program. In the Opinion, Judge Claire Eagan states that “there is no Fourth Amendment impediment to the collection” of all domestic call detail records. Judge Eagan also concluded that all domestic call detail records are “relevant” under Section 215 because “individuals associated …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Patriot Act, Privacy

EFF – Thirteen Principles Against Unchecked Surveillance Launched at United Nations

Privacy Advocates Call Upon UN Member States to End Mass Internet Spying Worldwide: “Geneva – At the 24th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday, six major privacy NGOs, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), warned nations of the urgent need comply with international human rights law to protect their citizens from …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Pew: Mobile Cell Phone Activities 2013

Report: Mobile Cell Phone Activities 2013 by Maeve Duggan. September 19, 2013 “Fully 91% of American adults own a cell phone and many use the devices for much more than phone calls. In our most recent nationally representative survey, we checked in on some of the most popular activities people perform on their cell phones …

Subjects: Internet

New on LLRX – Text to speech is also AWOL from THIS year’s Paperwhite from Amazon

Via LLRX.com – Ouch! Text to speech is also AWOL from THIS year’s Paperwhite from Amazon David Rothman’s review of the newest Kindle Paperwhite E Ink reader from Amazon highlights that the device is still missing text to speech – among the very features Jeff Bezos touted when he unveiled the second Kindle in 2009. …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Declassified FISA Court Opinion Released – Addresses Legality of Phone Metadata Collection

Ellen Nakashima – Washington Post: “A federal surveillance court on Tuesday released a declassified opinion upholding the constitutionality of the National Security Agency’s sweeping collection of billions of Americans’ phone records for counterterrorism purposes. The gathering of “all call detail records” from phone companies is justified as long as the government can show that it …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Patriot Act, Privacy

Presentation – “Why Google?”

“Dr. Lynn Silipigni Connaway presented Why Google?: “…[Google] saved time, it saved gas, I got what I needed, and it wasn’t a big deal.” at the OCLC Research Briefing at UNC Chapel Hill on 7 June 2013. During this presentation, she discussed results of multiple user behavior studies and recommendations for promoting user engagement with library services, …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Search Engines

Pew – Cell Internet Use 2013

Cell Internet Use 2013 by Maeve Duggan, Aaron Smith – Sep 16, 2013 “63% of adult cell owners now use their phones to go online, a figure that has doubled since we first started tracking internet usage on cell phones in 2009. In addition, 34% of these cell internet users say that they mostly go …

Subjects: Internet

New on LLRX – The DPLA and the risks of gentrifying America’s public libraries

Via LLRX – The DPLA and the risks of gentrifying America’s public libraries David Rothman’s commentary proposes that the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) should turn itself into the Digital Academic Library of America or something similar while encouraging public libraries to establish their own system, ideally through COSLA, a group of state library …

Subjects: Internet, Libraries

New on LLRX – Mandatory Facebook login for users trying to gain access to a third-party service

Mandatory Facebook login for users trying to gain access to a third-party service Professor Annemarie Bridy challenges the increasingly common use of mandatory Facebook login for Internet users trying to gain access to a third-party service – including posting comments to news stories, as well as viewing white papers, studies, reports and other documents.

Subjects: Internet, Legal Research

International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2013

PDFs for papers, posters, special sessions, tutorials and workshops Metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices Metadata quality (methods, tools, and practices) Conceptual models and frameworks (e.g., RDF, DCAM, OAIS) Application profiles Metadata generation (methods, tools, and practices) Metadata interoperability across domains, languages, time, structures, and scales Cross-domain metadata uses (e.g., recordkeeping, preservation, curation, institutional repositories, …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Report – Nearly Half of U.S. Jobs Are Vulnerable to Computerization

MIT Technology Review: “Rapid advances in technology have long represented a serious potential threat to many jobs ordinarily performed by people. A recent report (which is not online, but summarized here) from the Oxford Martin School’s Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology attempts to quantify the extent of that threat. It concludes that 45 …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management

Can the Internet of Everything bring back the High-Growth Economy?

This article by Michael Mandel – who is the chief economic strategist at the Progressive Policy Institute and a senior fellow at Wharton’s Mack Institute for Innovation Management: “The United States and the other major advanced economies are currently stuck in a seemingly endless twilight of slow growth. The numbers are ugly: The April 2013 …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet

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