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Big Data Means More Than Big Profits

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

And though they use the massive sets of data they collect to help create a better experience for their consumers (such as customized ads or tailored movie recommendations), their primary goal is to use what they learn to maximize profits. Here big data affected a global policy debate—and will hopefully make a big difference.

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Help I Just Lost My Google Ad Grant

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A statement to the international news agency Reuters read: “We revised our Ad Grants policies to help nonprofits be more effective with AdWords and improve the quality of their ads, which will lead to targeted awareness of their projects and mission.” We’ve posted the exact email at the bottom of this post. Source: Edelman.

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Corporate Citizenship and Digital Inclusion: Empowering Communities, Nonprofits, and Public Libraries

Tech Soup

"We hope that free Wi-Fi will be a resource that the city and other local groups will be able to use in their efforts to bridge the digital divide and make their community stronger," said Veronica Bell, a senior manager for public policy and government relations at Google, in a statement. Powering Communities with Tech.

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

In the early 2000s, Google gained broader traction and then took off to become what it is today as it became accessible to people beyond government and businesses. The public demands it, and because of it, governments are responding. . Thankfully, they changed the name to Google. BackRubbing doesn’t work.

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How Companies Succeed By Engaging Radically With Society

Eric Jacobsen Blog

"Organizations will pay significant consequences if they don't work openly, honestly and proactively with government and society. Computers, cars and antibiotics would not have made it out of the laboratory without companies; and there would be no movies, no mobile phones and no airplanes.

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Forum One at Privacy Camp 09

Forum One

Below are some of the sessions my workmate, Brian Verhoeven and I attended: Digital Signage If you have seen the movie Minority Report , then you may be familiar with some of the innovations in play that can use facial recognition software to match a person?s Thus government data could disappear. The crimes are the same??

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The Tech That Will Change 2016

Tech Soup

Remember Samantha, the smartphone OS in the movie Her that Joaquin Phoenix fell in love with? government initiative that aims to bring accessible broadband access to residents of low-income housing throughout the U.S. "Closing the digital divide will take more than one year and more than one policy change.

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