Privacy management on social media sites, by Mary Madden, Feb 24, 2012 “Social network users are becoming more active in pruning and managing their accounts. Women and younger users tend to unfriend more than others. About two-thirds of internet users use social networking sites (SNS) and all the major metrics for profile management are up,… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: February 2012
BLS: Mass layoffs in January 2012
Mass Layoffs January 2012 [Each mass layoff involved at least 50 workers from a single employer.] “Employers took 1,434 mass layoff actions in January involving 129,920 workers, seasonally adjusted, as measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits during the month. Mass layoff events in January 2012 increased by 50 from December 2011, while… Continue Reading
Volunteering in the United States – 2011
Volunteering in the United States – 2011: “The volunteer rate rose by 0.5 percentage point to 26.8 percent for the year ending in September 2011, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. About 64.3 million people volunteered through or for an organization at least once between September 2010 and September 2011. The increase in the… Continue Reading
Paper – Disentangling Property and Contract in the Law of Copyright Licenses
A License is Not a ‘Contract Not to Sue’: Disentangling Property and Contract in the Law of Copyright Licenses – Christopher M. Newman, George Mason University School of Law, February 24, 2012, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 12-23 “The assertion that a license is simply a contract not to sue has become… Continue Reading
SF Federal Reserve: Do People Understand Monetary Policy?
Do People Understand Monetary Policy? Carlos Carvalho, PUC-Rio and Fernanda Nechio, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, January 2012 “We combine questions from the Michigan Survey about the future path of prices, interest rates, and unemployment to investigate whether U.S. households are aware of the so-called Taylor (1993) rule. For comparison, we perform the same… Continue Reading
McKinsey – Will 'big data' transform your industry?
“The volume of data that businesses collect is exploding: in 15 of the US economys 17 sectors, for example, companies with upward of 1,000 employees store, on average, more information than the Library of Congress does. New academic research suggests that companies using this kind of big data and business analytics to guide their decisions… Continue Reading
USPS – Area Mail Processing study decision
“In a move to help ensure the future of the nations mail system, while adapting to Americas changing mailing trends, the U.S. Postal Service today announced that the Area Mail Processing consolidation studies that began more than five months ago have been completed. These changes are a necessary part of a larger comprehensive plan developed… Continue Reading
EPIC – Petition Requests FAA to Conduct a Rulemaking on Drones and Privacy
“Petition Requests FAA to Conduct a Rulemaking on Drones and Privacy EPIC, joined by more than 100 organizations, experts, and members of the public, has sent a petition to the Federal Aviation Administration, urging the agency to address the privacy threats associated with the increased use of drones in the United States. Congress recently passed… Continue Reading
WaPo – Chief Justice Roberts rejects request for code of conduct
By Robert Barnes, February 21: “Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. told a group of Democratic senators that the Supreme Court is not going to formally adopt a judicial code of conduct that governs the actions of other federal judges. Roberts told Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (Vt.) in a one-paragraph letter that… Continue Reading
Illustrated Guide on Web Tracking and Options to Search More Safely
DuckDuckGo: An introduction to the anonymous search engine In an effort to educate Internet users about privacy, DuckDuckGos founder, Gabriel Weinberg, has been known to create educational and informative sites, including DontTrack.us, which informs users about the potential dangers of searching with Google. Continue Reading
Measuring Progress in Obesity Prevention – Workshop Report
“Nearly 69 percent of U.S. adults and 32 percent of children are either overweight or obese, creating an annual medical cost burden that may reach $147 billion. The physical environments and the kinds of foods available where people live and work, the marketing and media messages they receive, and the public policies that govern their… Continue Reading
Measuring Broadband America – A Report on Consumer Wireline BroadbandPerformance in the U.S.
FCC Measuring Broadband America – A Report on Consumer Wireline Broadband Performance in the U.S.: “presents the results of the first nationwide performance study of residential wireline broadband service in the United States. The study examined service offerings from 13 of the largest wireline broadband providers using automated, direct measurements of broadband performance delivered to… Continue Reading
