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Tuesday, December 04, 2018
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Six Months of the GDPR's Pioneering Data Protection and Privacy
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by Kelly LeBlanc
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As Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gains momentum--impacting data privacy on a global level--we are just beginning to see reports, cases, and instances in which the GDPR is enforced. Whether through warnings, sanctions, or fines, the GDPR is taking the initiative in data privacy enforcement.
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ALA and Google Continue Their Partnership
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ALA's Libraries Ready to Code initiative, which is sponsored by Google, gave 250 school and public libraries $500 in micro-funding so they can plan and implement coding activities during Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 3-9, 2018).
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The Wearables Market Will Heat Up in 2019
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According to an article on Gadgets 360, Gartner predicts that global shipments of wearable devices will increase 25.8% from 2018 to 2019, meaning there will be 225 million devices, and spending will be $42 billion.
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W3C Helps Web Workers Create Accessibility Statements
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The Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG), part of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), released a new resource, Developing an Accessibility Statement.
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eLife Backs the SwipesForScience Game-Making Service
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eLife announced that it will contribute to developing SwipesForScience, a templating service for researchers that allows them to create mobile-friendly games centered on analyzing large amounts of research data.
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OCLC Readies Another Round of Its Small Libraries Create Smart Spaces Project
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OCLC will use an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) award of nearly $250,000 to expand its Small Libraries Create Smart Spaces project into more U.S. small and rural public libraries.
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What's New With Social Media
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by Brandi Scardilli
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Six of the most popular social media sites (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter, and YouTube) have been posting company-related content all year that hasn't necessarily made the news. Let's take a look at what they've been up to in 2018.
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