Illinois Senate Votes To Restrict Public Records Access

The Illinois Senate voted last Thursday on a bill to limit public records access to performance evaluations of public employees. The proposed law restricts job performance evaluations of all public employees from disclosure. Critics say the bill scales back the state’s improved Freedom of Information Act that took effect Jan. 1, 2010. State worker’s unions […]

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Sex, Lies & Online Dating

A recent online dating survey conducted by Online Schools reveals some interesting data regarding men and women who use online dating sites. The online dating study shows: 1. The US has 40 million users of online dating sites; China has 140 million users of online dating sites and India has 15 million users of online […]

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Former Yahoo Executives Launch Data Mining Company

Two former Yahoo executives have started a new data mining company called nPario. Bassel Ojjeh and Krishna Uppala, former Yahoo execs, along with former SAS executive Basel Tutunji launched nPario on March 17, 2010. nPario is a data mining and data analysis company that will help businesses mine consumer data to understand and market consumer […]

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Recognizr Facial Recognition App Raises Stalker Fears

A new mobile app that uses facial recognition technology with your mobile camera phone to recognize and identify people is raising stalking fears. The “Recognizr” app matches pictures of people taken with your camera phone with online pictures on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. The mobile app can reportedly identify personal details of complete […]

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CIA Agents Collect Business Intelligence For Companies

According to report from Politico.com, the CIA is allowing agents to do work on the side for the private sector. The new CIA policy will give large companies unprecedented access to the US government’s top intelligence experts. Some of these active CIA agents did work for a hedge-fund consulting firm in the specialized area of […]

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