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Google’s Online Library

Posted on March 13, 2009 by jap24

Google has been scanning whole books and archiving them since at least 2004.  More recently, it settled a lawsuit that will allow it to legally copy copyrighted books and making them available online.  Google allows users to search their book … Continue reading →

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Current Events: UK Company Illegally Sold Worker Data

Posted on March 6, 2009 by jap24

According to an article at the Guardian, dozens of companies in the UK had been buying personal information about potential employees from a company called the Consulting Association in violation of British data protection laws.  The Data Protection Act made … Continue reading →

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More on Electronic Medical Records

Posted on February 6, 2009 by jap24

As mentioned earlier in the blog in “Security Review: Electronic Medical Records,” Google has started an electronic medical record database called Google Health.  Today, IBM and Google announced that they have made software to allow PDAs to upload information to … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia Editing Could Be Made More Restrictive Due to Vandalism

Posted on January 30, 2009 by jap24

According to this article, the English version of Wikipedia may be implementing a system called “flagged revisions” to the editing software, which would require that edits would have to be approved (“flagged”) by a “trusted” user (see the Wikipedia page … Continue reading →

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