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Monthly Archives: May 2016
CDC – Multistate Outbreak of Listeriosis Linked to Frozen Vegetables
“Read the Recall & Advice to Consumers, Restaurants, and Retailers Since March 2016, CDC has been collaborating with public health officials in several states and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate a multistate outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections (listeriosis). Listeria can cause a serious, life-threatening illness. Eight people infected with the outbreak… Continue Reading
Technology Addiction: Concern, Controversy, and Finding Balance
“Over the past decade, society has witnessed massive changes in the way media and technology intersect with how we work and live. Devices are more mobile, functional, and seemingly indispensable. What are the human costs of an “always connected” lifestyle, especially for our children? This brief examines the latest scientific research about problematic media use,… Continue Reading
Penal Welfare and the New Human Trafficking Intervention Courts
Gruber, Aya and Cohen, Amy J. and Mogulescu, Kate, Penal Welfare and the New Human Trafficking Intervention Courts (May 6, 2016). Florida Law Review, Forthcoming. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2776870 “In the fall of 2013, New York State’s chief judge, Jonathan Lippman, announced a “revolutionary” statewide initiative to create and implement Human Trafficking Intervention… Continue Reading
The Post-Riley Search Warrant: Search Protocols and Particularity in Cell Phone Searches
The Post-Riley Search Warrant: Search Protocols and Particularity in Cell Phone Searches, Adam M. Gershowitz · Apr-19-2016 · 69 Vand. L. Rev. 585 (2016) “Last year, in Riley v. California, the Supreme Court required police to procure a warrant before searching a cell phone. Unfortunately, the Court’s assumption that requiring search warrants would be “simple”… Continue Reading
The Fourth Amendment in the Information Age
Robert S. Litt, The Fourth Amendment in the Information Age, 126 YALE L.J. F. 8 (2016), http://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/fourth-amendment-information-age. “To badly mangle Marx, a specter is haunting Fourth Amendment law—the specter of technological change. In a number of recent cases, in a number of different contexts, courts have questioned whether existing Fourth Amendment doctrine, developed in an… Continue Reading
Voices in Danger and Journalists in the line of fire
Via UK Independent – Voices in Danger, A platform for stories of journalists killed, kidnapped, jailed or threatened just for doing their jobs See also Journalists in the line of fire and Reporters Without Borders – Help defend freedom of information every day Continue Reading
UK Gov – Password Guidance Simplifying Your Approach
UK Center for the Protection of National Infrastructure – Password Guidance Simplifying Your Approach – By simplifying your organisation’s approach to passwords, you can reduce the workload on users, lessen the support burden on IT departments, and combat the false sense of security that unnecessarily complex passwords can encourage. “Passwords are an essential part of… Continue Reading
Pew – Evaluating Online Nonprobability Surveys
“As the costs and nonresponse rates of traditional, probability-based surveys seem to grow each year, the advantages of online surveys are obvious – they are fast and cheap, and the technology is pervasive. There is, however, one fundamental problem: There is no comprehensive sampling frame for the internet, no way to draw a national sample… Continue Reading
Metro announces year long repair program that will disrupt commuting
Washington Post – Metro to close sections of lines in year-long repair project – “Metro next month will begin a massive subway rebuilding effort that will inconvenience virtually everyone who uses the system, with portions of most rail lines shut down for up to a month at a time and reductions in train service throughout… Continue Reading
New Video and App Help to Identify Online Learning Preferences
Via OCLC: “How do you engage with and use technology? With which services and applications are you a visitor, someone who uses an application to accomplish a task, and which are you a resident, someone who leaves purposeful traces with an expectation of being involved with others there in the future? Watch this video and… Continue Reading
GAO Reports – Force Structure, Medicaid Program Integrity, Troubled Asset Relief Program
Force Structure: Performance Measures Needed to Better Implement the Recommendations of the National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force, GAO-16-405: Published: May 6, 2016. Publicly Released: May 6, 2016. Medicaid Program Integrity: Improved Guidance Needed to Better Support Efforts to Screen Managed Care Providers, GAO-16-402: Published: Apr 22, 2016. Publicly Released: May 6,… Continue Reading
