Category «Knowledge Management»

Google to overhaul ad tracking on Android phones used by billions; French watchdog says Google Analytics poses data privacy risks

Washington Post: “Google announced it will begin the process of getting rid of long-standing ad trackers on its Android operating system, upending how advertising and data-collection work on phones and tablets used by more than 2.5 billion people around the world. Right now, Google assigns special IDs to each Android device, allowing advertisers to build …

Subjects: Congress, E-Commerce, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

Report – The Purpose Gap

Cognizant: “Ever since the first millennial employees stepped foot in the office of their very first job, the idea was hatched that there’s a relationship between “purpose” and “work.” Today, it’s one of the key business themes of our age. At the same time, purpose is also one of the most overused and more loosely …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Knowledge Management

Building Strategic Partnerships Through Collaboration Between Law Libraries

Carpino, Lindsey and Mentkowski, Annie and Nejdl, Clanitra Stewart, Building Strategic Partnerships Through Collaboration Between Law Libraries (2020). AALL Spectrum (Mar.-Apr. 2020), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3955959 “The authors discuss the benefits of collaboration between government, academic, and law firm libraries, as well as practical methods for collaboration.”

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Social Media Law

Bogdan, Varvara, Social Media Law (December 10, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3982602 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3982602 “Social media law is a new direction for scientific research. Users of various social networking websites around the world are concerned about the protection and preservation of their personal data, the protection of copyright for content, including after the death of …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media

Reuters Legal News is Free to Access and Now Customizable to Your Interests

LawSites: “Over the past two years, Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, has been beefing up its coverage of legal news, bringing on the former editor-in-chief of Law.com to lead legal news, hiring several well-known legal-industry commentators as columnists, and increasing its hiring of legal news editors and reporters. One result of …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Alumni Litigators Help Give Students a Leg Up in Depositions Training

Berkeley Law: “Years ago, while consulting with law firms to help train their associates, Henry Hecht was asked to create a training program on depositions: how to take them, defend them, and prepare a witness for them. Not wanting to be a “talking head,” Hecht — Berkeley Law’s Herma Hill Kay Lecturer in Residence — …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

There Is Nothing Normal about One Million People Dead from COVID

Scientific American: “Sometime in the next few weeks, the official death toll for the two-year COVID pandemic in the U.S. will reach one million. Despite being the wealthiest nation on the planet, the U.S. has continued to have the most COVID infections and deaths per country, by far, and it has the highest per capita …

Subjects: Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media

The Changing Room Illusion

“The Changing Room Illusion is an example of “graduate change blindness,” a phenomenon in which observers are unable to notice changes to the world around them when those changes occur gradually. In virtually all prior cases, gradual change blindness is studied by changing individual objects (e.g., a chimney disappearing or a facial expression shifting). While …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management

Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 12, 2022

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 12, 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 …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Government, E-Records, Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

State of US Public Libraries – More popular and digital than ever

WordsRated: “This is a comprehensive analysis on the current state of public libraries in the US and the mapping of trends from 1992-2019. This report analyzes more than 12.5 million data points, from all 50 states, and the nearly 17,500 libraries across the country… Libraries are more popular than ever thanks to the strong shift …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Knowledge Management, Libraries