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April 30, 2018 / Last updated : April 30, 2018 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Reuters: Publishers rebuke Google’s interpretation of EU privacy law

Reuters: Publishers rebuke Google’s interpretation of EU privacy law. “Google is forcing media firms that generate revenue from its advertising services to accept unreasonable responsibilities under a new European privacy law, four major publisher trade groups told the Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) unit late Sunday in a letter seen by Reuters.”

April 30, 2018 / Last updated : April 30, 2018 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

ERR: Searchable database of 215,000 leaked Estonian account passwords now online

ERR: Searchable database of 215,000 leaked Estonian account passwords now online. “This data has been half-publicly making the rounds online for some time, however one activist has finally sorted the accounts by country and made them available on one website in order to draw internet users’ attention to the security of their passwords.”

April 30, 2018 / Last updated : April 30, 2018 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

New Jersey Law Journal: Increasingly, Courts Scrutinizing Lawyers’ Social Media Activity

New Jersey Law Journal: Increasingly, Courts Scrutinizing Lawyers’ Social Media Activity. “The recent New Jersey case of a lawyer whose excuse for missing a filing deadline was proved false by vacation photos she posted on Instagram is part of a growing body of cases in which lawyers and judges faced scrutiny over their social media […]

April 30, 2018 / Last updated : April 30, 2018 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Pew: Declining Majority of Online Adults Say the Internet Has Been Good for Society

Pew (pew pew pew pew pew!): Declining Majority of Online Adults Say the Internet Has Been Good for Society. “…Americans have grown somewhat more ambivalent about the impact of digital connectivity on society as a whole. A sizable majority of online adults (70%) continue to believe the internet has been a good thing for society. […]

April 30, 2018 / Last updated : April 30, 2018 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Los Angeles Times: Twitter sold public-data access to Cambridge Analytica-linked researcher

Los Angeles Times: Twitter sold public-data access to Cambridge Analytica-linked researcher. “Twitter Inc. sold data access to the Cambridge University academic who also obtained millions of Facebook Inc. users’ information that was later passed to a political consulting firm without the users’ consent. Aleksandr Kogan, who created a personality quiz on Facebook to harvest information […]

April 30, 2018 / Last updated : April 30, 2018 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

BuzzFeed: The Justice Department Deleted Language About Press Freedom And Racial Gerrymandering From Its Internal Manual

BuzzFeed: The Justice Department Deleted Language About Press Freedom And Racial Gerrymandering From Its Internal Manual. “Since the fall, the US Department of Justice has been overhauling its manual for federal prosecutors. In: Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ tough-on-crime policies. Out: A section titled ‘Need for Free Press and Public Trial.’ References to the department’s work […]

April 30, 2018 / Last updated : April 30, 2018 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Catalog: Now Once-a-Year and Online-Only (University of California, Davis)

University of California, Davis: Catalog: Now Once-a-Year and Online-Only. “Going forward, the UC Davis general catalog is out of print. Going backward, all 71 years’ worth of catalogs are available to see, thanks to Randall Larson-Maynard of the Office of the University Registrar, who, in 2006, embarked on a UC Davis Centennial project to track […]

April 30, 2018 / Last updated : April 30, 2018 ResearchBuzz New Resources

PRWeb: Publisher Offers Free Access to Gun Regulation and Legislation Research Collection (PRESS RELEASE)

PRWeb: Publisher Offers Free Access to Gun Regulation and Legislation Research Collection (PRESS RELEASE). “William S. Hein & Co., Inc. has released the newest HeinOnline collection, Gun Regulation and Legislation in America. This collection has been in development since the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which resulted in the deaths of 20 children […]

April 30, 2018 / Last updated : April 30, 2018 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Bloomberg Quint: Google Privacy Settlement Gets Scrutiny From U.S. Supreme Court

Bloomberg Quint: Google Privacy Settlement Gets Scrutiny From U.S. Supreme Court. “The U.S. Supreme Court will use a privacy case involving Google to consider making it harder for companies to settle class-action lawsuits without providing direct compensation to those affected. The justices agreed to hear arguments from two people who object to the Alphabet Inc. […]

April 30, 2018 / Last updated : April 30, 2018 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Global Times: Geological data made public by new ministry for first time

Global Times: Geological data made public by new ministry for first time. “One of China’s newly formed ministries, the Ministry of Natural Resources, has uploaded to a public database a massive amount of previously classified Chinese geological information, including estimates of mineral reserves and hydrogeology. It is the first time the one-month-old ministry has released […]

April 30, 2018 / Last updated : April 30, 2018 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

A New Facebook Psychology: How to Account for Violating Public Trust (Modern Diplomacy)

Modern Diplomacy: A New Facebook Psychology: How to Account for Violating Public Trust. “Technology has become society’s answer for everything. The internet has virtually replaced brick-and-mortar libraries, has infiltrated most aspects of research, and has become the largest means by which people communicate and share information. However, information is not always accurate. Worse, information is […]

April 30, 2018 / Last updated : April 30, 2018 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Wired: Data Protection Standards Need To Be Global

Wired: Data Protection Standards Need To Be Global . “WHETHER IT IS Cambridge Analytica gaining access to private information on up to 87 million Facebook users, or the large-scale data breaches at Equifax or Yahoo, alarmingly loose standards for the use and protection of customer data continue to fuel a backlash against large tech companies. […]

April 30, 2018 / Last updated : April 30, 2018 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

China .org .cn: Alibaba to help Chinese courts go on cloud

China.org.cn: Alibaba to help Chinese courts go on cloud. “Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has said it will supply its artificial intelligence technology to help thousands of Chinese courts share live-broadcasting and cloud services. At Alibaba’s computing conference on Thursday in Nanjing, east China’s Jiangsu Province, Alibaba Cloud, the cloud service arm of Alibaba, said it […]

April 30, 2018 / Last updated : April 30, 2018 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

USGS: USGS Tracks How Hurricane Floodwaters Spread Non-Native Freshwater Plants and Animals

USGS: USGS Tracks How Hurricane Floodwaters Spread Non-Native Freshwater Plants and Animals. “Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Nate may have spread non-native freshwater plants and animals into new water bodies, where some of them can disrupt living communities or change the landscape. To help land managers find and manage these flood-borne newcomers, scientists at the […]

April 30, 2018 / Last updated : April 30, 2018 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

TechCrunch: Facebook’s dark ads problem is systemic

TechCrunch: Facebook’s dark ads problem is systemic. “Kremlin-backed political disinformation scams are really just the tip of the iceberg here. But even in that narrow instance Facebook estimated there had been 80,000 pieces of fake content targeted at just one election. What’s clear is that without regulatory invention the burden of proactive policing of dark […]

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