Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 26, 2013
On August 1, 2013, I testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet on the subject “ Innovation in America: The Role of Technology.”
Tech Soup
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
2013 was the year of an ever-widening NSA spying scandal with its revelations of how little digital privacy we really have – even heads of state. The much-heralded wearable computing era arrived with a crop of smartwatches during 2013. A 2013 survey from The Millennial Impact. Smartwatches. Green Technology.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 15, 2014
One year ago, on June 28, 2013, at a diplomatic conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) agreed on a historic international copyright exception for people with print disabilities. HathiTrust.
Bloomerang
MAY 6, 2021
The most significant data breach , so far, affected 3 billion users around the world and happened in 2013 and 2014. In May of 2018, the European Union law called that Genera l Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect. So, always, always protect the information you have in your database in response to far-reaching laws.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 5, 2015
The idea is that a member could go to a school, library, or other nonprofit agency with an internet connection, and walk out with the books they wanted to read on any MP3 player or MP3-enabled mobile phone (this is true of most of the inexpensive phones being sold). In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)
Tech Soup
AUGUST 25, 2014
” California’s New Smartphone Kill Switch Law. California is finalizing a law that will mandate a ‘kill switch’ be included on all new smartphones. The problem this new law addresses is that last year an estimated 3.1 The effect of the law will be pretty fast. million phones were stolen in the U.S.,
Tech Soup
FEBRUARY 24, 2014
The online protest was to raise awareness on NSA mass surveillance practices and also to promote ‘Aaron’s law’, a response to the 2013 suicide death of activist Aaron Swartz who was convicted of hacking data on an academic website and getting a sentence of 35 years in prison. Safer Internet Day.
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