Perfect for my Security
Compliance class.
The
Essential Guide to Legislation
PoliticoPro
– “During a single Congress, hundreds of bills are enacted into
federal law – but the initial legislation proposed by lawmakers in
the House and Senate can number well over 10,000 bills per session of
Congress. With so much proposed legislation flowing through the
standard processes, tracking can quickly become difficult. This
guide breaks down each step of the legislation proposal process in
the House and Senate, the steps that can result in changes to
legislation before it becomes law, as well as how the two houses
resolve legislative differences. A key difference in the legislative
process between the two chambers is that majority leadership wields
more legislative power in the House than in the Senate, where
individual senators have more control throughout the process,
especially on the floor.”
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Table
of Contents:
Give
us a few years and we’ll figure this out.
GDPR
Compliance Since May 2018: A Continuing Challenge
Companies
must automate and streamline, or the challenge of GDPR compliance
will overwhelm them.
… McKinsey
research shows that few companies feel fully compliant: as many as
half, feeling at least somewhat unprepared for GDPR, are using
temporary controls and manual processes to ensure compliance until
they can implement more permanent solutions. Broader organizational
challenges persist as well – particularly honoring and protecting
the rights of data subjects and ensuring that impact assessments,
reporting of breaches, and audit organizations are functioning
properly. With numerous stopgaps still in place, companies struggle
to implement sustainable, long-term solutions.
Can
we trust the antitrusters?
EU opens
Amazon antitrust investigation
The
EU’s Competition Commission has opened
a formal antitrust investigation into
Amazon to investigate whether the company is using sales data to gain
an unfair advantage over smaller sellers on the Marketplace platform.
The Commission says it will look into Amazon’s agreements with
marketplace sellers, as well as how Amazon uses data to choose which
retailer to link to using the “Buy Box” on its site. The
announcement comes on the same day that Amazon
announced changes to
its third-party seller service agreement in response to a separate
antitrust investigation by German regulators.
(Related)
No doubt they will get to the bottom of that nagging question: How
can you make money if Facebook is free?
Facebook
Denies App Changes to Avoid Breakup: Antitrust Update
U.S.
technology giants are headed for their biggest antitrust showdown
with Congress in 20 years as lawmakers and regulators demand to know
whether companies like Alphabet
Inc.’s
Google and Facebook
Inc. use
their dominance to squelch innovation. The House Judiciary antitrust
subcommittee is holding a hearing Tuesday on the market power of the
largest tech companies. Executives from Apple
Inc.,
Amazon.com
Inc.,
Google and Facebook are testifying. Here’s the latest from the
committee room:
Perspective.
It’s what companies are doing outside of Africa that caught my
eye.
What
do automation and artificial intelligence mean for Africa?
… the
latest round of technologies seems to be dealing Africa’s economic
prospects a serious blow. Adidas, the German sporting goods company,
has established “Speedfactories” in Ansbach in Germany and
Atlanta in the U.S., that use computerized knitting, robotic cutting,
and 3D printing to produce athletic footwear. Foxconn—the
Taiwanese firm known for producing Apple and Samsung products in
China’s Jiangsu province—recently replaced 60,000 factory workers
with industrial robots. By reducing the importance of wage
competitiveness, robots in “smart factories” can completely
change what it takes for a place to be competitive in the global
market for manufactures. If high-income economies are reshoring
production, this could slow down and even reverse the migration of
newcomers from Africa in global value chains.
Perspective. Since everyone now caries a portable
device…
Education
publisher Pearson to phase out print textbooks
The world's largest education publisher has taken
the first step towards phasing out print books by making all its
learning resources "digital first".
Pearson said students would only be able to rent
physical textbooks from now on, and they would be updated much less
frequently.
The British firm hopes the move will make more
students buy its e-textbooks which are updated continually.
"We are now over the digital tipping point,"
boss John Fallon told the BBC.
A simple tool for creating “fake news.” Also
a simple introduction to webpage coding?
See What's
Behind Any Webpage With Mozilla's X-Ray Goggles
One
of the topics that we talked about during the Practical
Ed Tech Summer Camp was
digital literacy and critical thinking. To that end, I presented
Mozilla's X-Ray Goggles as a tool that can be used to create a
modified version of real news story from legitimate sources.
Mozilla's
X-Ray Goggles lets
you see the code behind any web page and change that code to display
anything that you want in place of the original text and images.
After you have made the changes you can publish a local copy of the
web page.
Mozilla's X-Ray Goggles provides a good way for
students to see how the code of a webpage works.
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