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Privacy-oriented search app Xayn raises $12M from Japanese backers to go into devices

TechCrunch

Well, yes, because despite the convenience of modern search engines’ ability to tailor their search results to the individual, this user-tracking comes at the expense of privacy. This mass surveillance might be what improves Google’s search engine and Facebook’s ad targeting, to name just two examples, but it’s not very good for our privacy.

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Fintech companies must balance the pursuit of profit against ethical data usage

TechCrunch

The answer is potentially unsettling, especially considering the extraordinary neglect Big Tech has shown for user privacy, as seen here. Never before has this gap been more prevalent than amid the pandemic as customers migrated online en masse. It’s not enough to use customer data to refine product offerings.

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Legal NLP Releases new Multi-label model on stack exchange topics

John Snow Labs

The model depends on the INSTRUCTOR embedding, which can be used in a Spark NLP pipeline as follows: embeddings = ( nlp.InstructorEmbeddings.pretrained("instructor_large", "en").setInstruction("Represent setInstruction("Represent for multilabel classification:").setInputCols(["document"]).setOutputCol("sentence_embeddings")

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Improving Security by influencing Human Behavior

Xebia

This capability comes to light as: Quality Attribute in ISO 25010, Security and Privacy by design in the GDPR and as Business Continuity and Information Security in Risk Management (ISO 31000) [9] , [10]. You will recognize that most models use a circular relationship in the observations, interpretations and actions. & others.

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Why Cloud? Why Now? A Protera Webcast Recap

Protera

It’s true that in some cases, certain workloads must be kept on-premise for security, compliance, or data privacy reasons. But for the most part, the business world is moving to the cloud en masse. With our point-of-sale upgrade, the old way of doing things would have taken us 9 months.

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The Rise of the 4th Platform: Pervasive Community, Data, Devices, and Intelligence

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

To answer these questions, we must understand the overall narrative of our modern digital journey: Where is technology actually taking us? How can these possibilities give rise to uniquely valuable new types of assets that would allow us to sustain our businesses? What is it making possible that wasn’t before?

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Big Data’s Role in Disease Prevention

Altexsoft

Big data, the data gathered en masse through the digitization of records and devices connected to the Internet of Things, is changing every industry it has crossed. EHRs enable the recording of all these factors for analysis, per HIPAA privacy mandates. A Future of Better Prevention and Treatment.