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Advertisers that encourage users of social media to respond to promotional questions they pose are responsible for ensuring that the content those users submit complies with UK advertising rules, the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) has said.
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...the other is helping Scotland's biggest group of digitally excluded: the workforce. Here is what Scottish Government's systems management service replied in response to a request for access to streaming media.
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Media outlets will have a new right to make limited use of quotes published by rival news organisations under changes to copyright law proposed by the Government.
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I had an interesting conversation with Francine Hardaway yesterday about radical transparency in the context of Google Glass. What are we willing to share, when, why, and with whom?
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The Scottish Health Council (part of Healthcare Improvement Scotland) has just published a set of helpful guidelines which include lots of case studies (including one from IRISS) on the use of social media.
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This is a presentation being made tomorrow by Bill Johnston at Dundee University, looking at the place of information literacy within the "digital" university.
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Over the last few weeks, I’ve started pondering what sort of data sets might be “almost available” on local council websites, along with the extent to which we might be able to use these datasets to support transparency goals, such as generating...
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A report looking at the Entertainment Software Association's 2012 anti-piracy efforts reveals that the 3.4 million takedown notices sent out by the organization last year had a 96-percent success rate, with roughly 5.2 million offending files and...
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Businesses should be permitted to create profiles of individuals without their consent providing the activity "does not significantly affect the interests, rights or freedoms of the data subject", an EU privacy body has said.
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There are some interesting comments relating to my previous post on Google Lock-In Lock-Out in a comment thread on OSnews: Why Google gets so much credit.
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As John Naughton feels obliged to remind folk every now and again, the web is not the internet. Because we all know that for many people, Facebook apparently is. Or Google is.
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We have had lots of questions from stakeholders and partners about how to best manage rights-related information, covering both City-owned and externally-sourced assets. Copyright still matters. We plan to ...
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Salon Forget copyright! We've always stolen music Salon Businesses and rights owners often seek to squelch unauthorized use of their works, but sometimes they look to piracy for cues about new sources of value and even potential benefits from the...
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Hundreds of medical devices could be accessed by hackers because of a password vulnerability, a US government agency has warned.
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Background One of the sessions at the forthcoming IWMW 2013 event is entitled “IWMW: The Digital Story“.
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FOCUS: Businesses should evaluate their data storage and outsourcing arrangements in the wake of reports about US and UK surveillance methods, but patchy details make decision making difficult.
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Devon County Council is holding a Create/Innovate month in June, which involves a programme of activities and events associated with experimentation, discovery, play, learning and reflection.
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Various solutions have been proposed to these problems; most of them are narrow and ad-hoc in nature: lawsuits, statutory licenses, and so on. Now along comes Jaron Lanier, author of the groundbreaking 2010 book You ...
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A UK MEP has claimed that the lead rapporteur on EU data protection reforms at the European Parliament is putting forward proposals for a new framework that do not reflect the "weight of opinion" of MEPs.
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A quick snapshot of how the data journalism scene is evolving at the moment based on job ads over the last few months… Via mediauk, I’m not sure when this post for a Junior Data Journalist, Trinity Mirror Regionals (Manchester) was advertised...
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Just 2% of websites analysed by accountancy firm KPMG required internet users to provide their explicit consent to use cookies.
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Technology that recognises individuals' behavioural patterns could be used to verify individuals' identity and enable them to make transactions, Visa has said.
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Back in January 2010 in a post entitled “Save £1million and Move to the Cloud?
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Google has offered to differentiate results for its own "specialised search services" from others displayed in its search engine listings as one of a number of measures aimed at addressing EU competition concerns.
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The use of Internet Protocol (IP) address sharing technology will not prevent individuals from being identified as the perpetrators of illegal online activity, BT has claimed.
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