Via EPA – On August 1, 2013, the president issued Executive Order (EO) 13650 – Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security – to improve the safety and security of chemical facilities and reduce the risks of hazardous chemicals to facility workers and operators, communities, and responders. Chemicals and the facilities that manufacture, store, distribute and use them are essential… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2014
WSJ – In a Single Tweet, as Many Pieces of Metadata as There Are Characters
Elizabeth Dwoskin – “To understand big data, look no further than a single tweet. At 140 characters a tweet seems tiny, but it can yield a wealth of information. According to Elasticsearch, a startup that builds software to help companies mine data from social media, there are 150 separate points of so-called metadata in an individual tweet. Metadata loosely refers… Continue Reading
Digitization and Digital Preservation: A Review of the Literature
Digitization and Digital Preservation: A Review of the Literature, Stephanie Routhier Perry, San Jose State University. “Digitization is rapidly becoming one of the standard forms of preservation for libraries, archives and information centers’ analog materials. This newer process is allowing preservationists to ensure information contained within fragile, organic materials will still be viewable to future generations. However, as… Continue Reading
Gallup-Purdue index releases inaugural findings of national landmark study
“Gallup, in partnership with Purdue University and Lumina Foundation, [on May 6, 2014] released results from the inaugural Gallup-Purdue Index that finds there is no difference in workplace engagement or a college graduate’s well-being if they attended a public or private not-for-profit institution, a highly selective institution, or a top 100-ranked school in U.S. News &… Continue Reading
Kaiser – Medicare Could Save Billions By Scrapping Random Drug Plan Assignment
Kaiser Health News: “A new study finds that Medicare is spending billions of dollars more than it needs to on prescription drugs for low-income seniors and disabled beneficiaries. In 2013, an estimated 10 million people who participate in the Medicare prescription drug program, known as Part D, received government subsidies to help pay for that coverage. They account for… Continue Reading
Conflict of Laws Structure and Vision: Updating a Venerable Discipline
Little, Laura E., Conflict of Laws Structure and Vision: Updating a Venerable Discipline (June 2014). Georgia State University Law Review, Forthcoming; Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2446902 “Conflict of Laws has guided nations, individual lawmakers, lawyers, and scholars for centuries. The discipline’s rigorous analytical doctrines assist in resolving power clashes among governments… Continue Reading
Systemic Corruption: Considering Culture in Second-Generation Reforms
Laver, Roberto, Systemic Corruption: Considering Culture in Second-Generation Reforms (June 5, 2014). Edmond J. Safra Working Papers, No. 45. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2446657 “This paper is about systemic corruption and its cultural drivers. Corruption remains a key obstacle to development and overcoming poverty in the vast majority of nations worldwide. Countries with relatively good governments and… Continue Reading
Senate Holds Hearing on Consumer Location Privacy Protection
EPIC – “The Senate recently held a hearing on the Location Privacy Protection Act of 2014 authored by Senator Franken. In an opening statement, Senator Franken said his “bill makes sure that if a company wants to get your location…they need to get your permission first.” FTC Director, Jessica Rich, testified that location data is “sensitive information” that “raises privacy concerns.” The… Continue Reading
Internet Giants Erect Barriers to Spy Agencies – NYT
DAVID E. SANGER and NICOLE PERLROTH – Google is encrypting more data as it moves between servers “Internet companies like Google and Facebook are working to keep governments and especially their spy agencies out of their servers after revelations from Edward J. Snowden that they had been invaded…As fast as it can, Google is sealing… Continue Reading
Gallup – Few Consumers Trust Companies to Keep Online Info Safe
One in five have “a lot of trust” that companies safeguard personal data, by John Fleming and Elizabeth Kampf “Recent incidents such as Target’s security breach, the Heartbleed bug, and eBay’s systems hack have called attention to how much consumers trust the businesses they patronize to keep their personal information safe. That trust currently appears to… Continue Reading
U.S. military veterans and nonveterans in the labor force, 2013
Bureau of Labor Statistics: “June 6 is the 70th anniversary of the Allied Invasion of Normandy during World War II. To mark the occasion, we take a brief look at the 21.4 million men and women in 2013 who were U.S. military veterans. These veterans accounted for 9 percent of the civilian noninstitutional population age… Continue Reading
Access to Digital Accounts After Death Varies State to State
Pew – Proposed law would clarify who gets access to a deceased person’s digital accounts “The Uniform Law Commission, a body of lawyers who produce uniform legislation for states to adopt, recently drafted the “Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (FADA).” It would grant fiduciaries (a catch-all term for the various types of people who can be legally… Continue Reading
