I guess it was
politically embarrassing to mention this. Bad news is better later?
Let's ignore the warnings from experts and cross our fingers? Which
common political strategy were they using?
White
House, HHS warned about ObamaCare website in March, documents show
The Obama
administration was warned as early as March about potential risks
with the implementation of HealthCare.gov, according to documents
released by the House Energy and Commerce Committee Monday night.
Obsolete media decides
to charge more – hoping that will drive off more customers? (I had
to Google for this article)
About time.
The
Tradeoffs in Google's New Crackdown on Child Pornography
… Today, Google and
Microsoft announced they are taking technological steps to make the
Internet less hospitable to child abusers. The news comes after more
than 300
people were arrested worldwide last week—and
400 children rescued—in one of the largest-ever crackdowns on child
pornographers. It also comes months after the U.K.’s Prime
Minister David Cameron called on the search engines to do more to
obstruct child pornographers.
Worth reading.
Haulin'
Data: How Trucking Became the Frontier of Work Surveillance
… Over the next few
years, it will become mandatory, by law, for all American truckers to
carry a tracking device, an electronic on-board recorder (EOBR), in
their vehicle.
… Truckers are on
the forefront of workplace surveillance. With the availability of
cheap sensors and hypercompetitive companies seeking to maximize
their profits, any human action done on the clock may become subject
to increased scrutiny and what will probably be called optimization.
If you want to see the future of work, take a look at IBM’s efforts
around call
center workers or the battle
over electronic armbands at Tesco in Ireland.
It’s not that data hasn’t always been used in corporate
decisionmaking, it’s that it’s possible to capture so much more
now. With more data, comes more control.
Reluctantly and with
plenty of 'spin.'
Court
order allowing NSA data collection program revealed
The Obama
administration released a trove of newly declassified documents
related to the National Security Agency's surveillance activities on
Monday, including what appears to be the original secret court ruling
authorizing the massive data collection program.
The ruling by the
secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was among hundreds
of documents released by released by James R. Clapper Jr., the
director of national intelligence, in response to Freedom of
Information Act lawsuits. The documents also reveal the NSA's
violations of court-ordered limits of the program.
The 87-page opinion,
signed by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, then the chief judge on the
secret surveillance court, authorized the NSA to collect of e-mail
metadata and other Internet communications. However, the section
describing the metadata to be collected was blacked out.
… "With
previous releases, the government has posted the documents to its
Tumblr, IContheRecord,
claiming that the disclosures were spurred only by President Obama's
directive to declassify information and 'the interest of increased
transparency.' Thus far, they've neglected to mention they were also
under a court order to do so," the EFF said.
It's a start.
Google
finishes 2,048-bit security upgrade for Web privacy
… The Net giant has
secured all its certificates with 2,048-bit
RSA encryption keys or better, Google security engineer Dan
Dulay said in a blog post Monday. Certificates are used to set
up encrypted communications between a Web server and Web browser.
… Google has been
aggressively moving to stronger encryption because of U.S. government
surveillance by the National Security Agency. [Nonsense.
Think about it. Bob]
(Related) It's about
time. Is this cheaper than securing the links, as Google did?
Yahoo
to encrypt all users' personal data
The internet provider
said it had taken this step after allegations the US government had
secretly accessed users' data without the company's knowledge.
We call it Data Mining,
but then we don't bill by the 30 hour day... Still, an article worth
reading.
Legal
Search Science
Legal
Search Science is an interdisciplinary
field of study and practice concerning the search, review, and
classification of large collections of electronic documents to
identify targeted information for use as evidence in legal
proceedings. It is a subset of the field of Information Science
concerned with information retrieval and the unique problems
faced by lawyers in the discovery of relevant evidence. It is also a
subset of the legal field of electronic discovery and engineering
field of Big Data search software. As such, it is an
interdisciplinary field combining law, technology, and science.
Most specialists in
legal search science use a variety of search methods when searching
large datasets, referred to here as a multimodal approach,
but primarily rely on supervised
or semi-supervised
machine
learning (a type of artificial intelligence (AI))
using an active learning approach. I refer to this as AI-enhanced
review or AI-enhanced
search. In information science it may
be referred to as active
machine learning, and in legal circles as Predictive
Coding.
If you were going to do
it anyway.
Sprint,
Best Buy give students a free year of talk, text, and data
Hey students, your
report card can now earn you a free cell phone plan. Best Buy and
Sprint announced Monday that they've teamed up to offer free
unlimited talk and text, plus 1GB of data, for one full year to
students.
It works like this:
Head to Best Buy between November 18 and January 4 and buy a new
feature phone or smartphone at the Student
Activated Price (the average phone price is
$530), and activate it on a Sprint Unlimited, My Way plan. You'll
need to pay for the cost of the phone, plus a $36 activation fee,
taxes, and any other applicable fees.
Next, go to Sprint's
student verification site within 14 days of
your purchase to prove that you're a current student. One you're
verified, your account will be credited for one year of unlimited
talk and text, plus 1GB per month of data if you buy a smartphone,
which Sprint says is a $70 per month value.
...and everything is
for sale? No freebies? No Open Source? Will Google pay me to look
through all the options?
– Discover, purchase,
and share educational apps, books, and videos easily with Google Play
for Education – a new online destination just for schools. Browse
content by grade, subject, or standard including Common Core.
Purchase via PO with no credit card required. Distribute apps
instantly via the cloud
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