With
these Apps, everyone can “broadcast” video in real time. Beyond
the concerns of the MPAA (video from theaters) RIAA (videos of rock
concerts) there are implications for Privacy and the infrastructure
of the Internet.
CIO
Journal: MLB to Monitor Use of Video-Streaming Apps
Major
League Baseball will be monitoring the way fans use new
live-streaming apps, such as Meerkat and Periscope, during games.
Games
are licensed content and MLB policy prohibits fans from taking live
video. Credentialed media are limited to 120 seconds or less of
video, the policy says. “Fans don’t have the right to emulate
the game. Live streaming doesn’t change that,” said Bob Bowman,
president of business and media for the league.
…
The Meerkat and Periscope apps allow smartphone users to broadcast
live video from their mobile devices. The apps are competing to
become the dominant self-broadcasting software on social media.
Perspective.
Teens,
Social Media & Technology Overview 2015
Aided by the convenience and constant access provided by mobile
devices, especially smartphones, 92%
of teens report going online daily — including 24% who say they go
online “almost constantly,” according to a new study from Pew
Research Center. More than half (56%) of teens — defined in this
report as those ages 13 to 17 — go online several times a day, and
12% report once-a-day use. Just 6% of teens report going online
weekly, and 2% go online less often.
You
have personal data, therefore you must be working with the NSA!
Facebook
hit by class action lawsuit focused on data privacy
A
privacy lawsuit brought against Facebook by 25,000 people begins
today, with the social network being accused of illegally tracking
user data.
The
class action case also alleges that the tech giant took part in
the NSA’s PRISM programme, which raked personal data from the
servers of major US companies with their apparent agreement.
While
Facebook denies any involvement, the claimants hope the case will
improve tech companies' attitudes to data protection.
Campaigner
Max Schrems said in
an AFP interview: “We are asking Facebook to stop mass
surveillance, to [have] a proper privacy policy that people can
understand, but also to stop collecting data of people that are not
even Facebook users.
(Related)
What I want my lawyer to learn.
Linn
Freedman writes:
We have been closely watching the class action suits against PF
Chang’s (and other retailers) relating to the bistro’s
data breach last year. In December, a federal district court in
Illinois dismissed a proposed class action against PF Chang’s
because the plaintiffs were unable to show that they had suffered
actual harm as a result of the data breach and therefore, did not
have standing to pursue the claims. The plaintiffs appealed the
dismissal to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and on March 20,
2015, PF Chang’s requested that the Seventh Circuit affirm the
lower court’s dismissal.
Last week, a Washington federal judge followed suit and dismissed
another proposed class action against PF Chang’s in Washington
federal court because the plaintiff was unable to show that he has
suffered any appreciable harm as a result of the data breach.
Read
more on JDSupra.
For
my Excel and Data Analytics students.
Host
Analytics Intros Modeling Cloud
Finance
departments are increasingly seeking
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access to financial and operational data.
Yet
Excel spreadsheets remain the analytic tool of choice for most
finance professionals. "Our recent research
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budgeting and operational planning, and their plans end up less
accurate as a result," said Robert Kugel, senior vice president
and research director at Ventana
Research.
The
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use," he said.
Host
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Analytical
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…
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Discussing
Host Analytics' use of NoSQL, Walter said it provides a "schemaless"
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in optimized structures rather than force-fitting them into the
traditional table structures of relational databases.
(Related)
Your
Excel formulas cheat sheet: 15 tips for calculations and common tasks
For
my students who take notes. (Take note, students!)
OneNote
Is Now Truly Free with More Features Than Before
…
For a while, the cross-platform
note-taking app Evernote was the de facto standard. That’s not
true anymore. While Evernote is still a remarkable app, Microsoft
recently upped their game when they announced that OneNote would be
more free than ever before.
…
When OneNote
first went free in 2014, it was only cause for semi-celebration.
Sure, it meant that anyone could download it and start taking notes
right away, plus it was also made available for Mac at that same
time.
But
there were still a few killer features that were held behind a
premium version only available to Office 365 and Office 2013
customers. With their most recent announcement, Microsoft has
removed all
restrictions from the free version of OneNote.
…
Not sure where to start? Check out these OneNote
tips for beginners. And if you’re still yearning for more,
keep going with these advanced
OneNote tips.
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