“For the very first time, The Human Development Report is available in a unique web version. The web version of the Human Development Report 2015: Work for Human Development contains interactive features that provide enhanced functionality and enable information sharing in our interconnected world…The report features 16 statistical tables in the annex as well as… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: December 2015
Test Your Online Privacy Protection with EFF’s Panopticlick
“The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched new online tracker-testing in its Panopticlick tool today, helping you analyze the privacy protections in your Web browser. When you visit a website, online trackers and the site itself may be able to identify you, and the records of your online activity can then be distributed among a vast… Continue Reading
UK Libraries shaping the future: good practice toolkit
“This toolkit, produced by the Libraries Taskforce is the first step in addressing a need identified by the Independent Library Report for England; “that more information needs to be available about the remarkable and vital value that a good library service can offer modern communities of every size and character”. It sets out how library… Continue Reading
GAO Reports – Air Travel and Communicable Diseases
Air Travel and Communicable Diseases: Comprehensive Federal Plan Needed for U.S. Aviation System’s Preparedness, GAO-16-127: Published: Dec 16, 2015. Publicly Released: Dec 16, 2015. Federal Judiciary: Improvements Needed for Collecting Judges’ Non-Case-Related Travel Information, GAO-16-70: Published: Dec 16, 2015. Publicly Released: Dec 16, 2015. Internet Protocol Transition: FCC Should Strengthen Its Data Collection Efforts to… Continue Reading
Verizon – 90% of industries have experienced a protected health info breach
“90% of industries have experienced a PHI breach…Welcome to the first Verizon Protected Health Information Data Breach Report (PHIDBR)…The purpose of this study is to shed light on the problem of medical data loss—how it is disclosed, who is causing it and what can be done to combat it. This is a far-reaching problem that… Continue Reading
Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities
Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities José Lages, Antoine Patt, Dima L. Shepelyansky (Submitted on 29 Nov 2015) “We use the directed networks between articles of 24 Wikipedia language editions for producing the Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities (WRWU) using PageRank, 2DRank and CheiRank algorithms. This approach allows to incorporate various cultural views on world universities… Continue Reading
Article – Political Entrenchment and Public Law
Political Entrenchment and Public Law. Daryl Levinson & Benjamin I. Sachs, 125 Yale Law Journal, No2, November 2015, 326-559. “Courts and legal scholars have long been concerned with the problem of “entrenchment”—the ways that incumbents insulate themselves and their favored policies from the normal processes of democratic change. But this wide swath of case law… Continue Reading
EU General Data Protection Regulation
REGULATION (EU) No XXX/2016 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation) – December 2015. 204 pages – PDF – [snipped] “In order to ensure a consistent and high level… Continue Reading
Pew – Views of Government’s Handling of Terrorism Fall to Post-9/11 Low
“Following the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., the public’s concerns about terrorism have surged and positive ratings of the government’s handling of terrorism have plummeted. But other attitudes relating to terrorism and security, as well as perceptions of whether Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence, have shown far… Continue Reading
Pew Study – Gaming and Gamers
Pew Research Center Study: “About half of American adults (49%) “ever play video games on a computer, TV, game console, or portable device like a cellphone,” and 10% consider themselves to be “gamers.” A majority of American adults (60%) believe that most people who play video games are men – a view that is shared… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement
Decisions Regarding Monetary Policy Implementation – “The Federal Reserve has made the following decisions to implement the monetary policy stance announced by the Federal Open Market Committee in its statement on December 16, 2015: The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System voted unanimously to raise the interest rate paid on required and excess… Continue Reading
NOAA Releases Arctic Report Card 2015
“On Tuesday, December 15, 2015 NOAA [released] the latest scientific observations of the Arctic environment at a press conference hosted by the American Geophysical Union at its Annual Fall Meeting in San Francisco. The Arctic is on the front lines of global climate change, warming more than twice as fast as lower latitudes. Now in its… Continue Reading
