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News release: “The Justice Departments Open Government Plan version 2.0 (PDF) announced a variety of new Department initiatives concerning the administration of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). A key initiative of this plan was the development of metadata standards that would facilitate the ability of interested persons to search and retrieve documents across websites …
“New research, published today in the journal PNAS, shows that surprisingly accurate estimates of Facebook users race, age, IQ, sexuality, personality, substance use and political views can be inferred from automated analysis of only their Facebook Likes – information currently publicly available by default. In the study, researchers describe Facebook Likes as a generic class …
“Attorneys general for 38 states and the District of Columbia today reached a “$7 Million Settlement” with Google over consumer protection and privacy claims. The company engaged in the unauthorized collection of data from wireless networks, including private WiFi networks of residential Internet users. A detailed Assurance of Voluntary Compliance, setting out the terms of …
News release: “After the Arab springs and other protest movements that prompted many rises and falls in last years index, the 2013 Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index marks a return to a more usual configuration. The ranking of most countries is no longer attributable to dramatic political developments. This years index is a …
Air Pollution in Asia: Frequently Asked Question “Air Quality Designation: Update to the EPA AirNow standard February 7th 2013. For historic reason, the aqicn website has been using the China MEP (Ministry of Environmental Protection) designation for the air quality levels. This is now past history, and the designation will follow, from now on, the …
Web-scale pharmacovigilance: listening to signals from the crowd. Ryen W White1, Nicholas P Tatonetti, Nigam H Shah, Russ B Altman, Eric Horvitz. J Am Med Inform Assoc amiajnl-2012-001482 Published Online First: 6 March 2013. “Adverse drug events cause substantial morbidity and mortality and are often discovered after a drug comes to market. We hypothesized that …
How Teachers Are Using Technology at Home and in Their Classrooms, by Kristen Purcell, Alan Heaps, Judy Buchanan, Linda Friedrich, Feb 28, 2013 “A survey of teachers who instruct American middle and secondary school students finds that digital technologies have become central to their teaching and professionalization. At the same time, the internet, mobile phones, …
“Cell phone searches are a common law enforcement tool, but up until now, the public has largely been in the dark regarding how much sensitive information the government can get with this invasive surveillance technique. A document submitted to court in connection with a drug investigation, which we recently discovered, provides a rare inventory of …
Via LLRX.com – Another NY court on discovery of social media evidence – Attorney Nicole Black brings context to the impact of the proliferation of social media accounts among the majority of adults in the United States. The information from these accounts has become a prime source for lawyers to mine for evidence to support …
Report: Social Networking – The Demographics of Social Media Users 2012, by Maeve Duggan, Joanna Brenner. Feb 14, 2013 “A late 2012 survey by the Pew Research Centers Internet & American Life Project shows that young adults are more likely than others to use major social media. At the same time, other groups are …
Risks of Friendships on Social Networks – Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora, Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari. DISTA, Universit`a degli Studi dellInsubria, Via Mazzini 5, Varese, Italy “In this paper, we explore the risks of friends in social networks caused by their friendship patterns, by using real life social network data and starting from a previously defined risk …
The Demographics of Social Media Users — 2012 by Maeve Duggan, Joanna Brenner Feb 14, 2013: “A late 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project shows that young adults are more likely than others to use major social media. At the same time, other groups are interested in different sites …
