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Great reads from around the web on October 14th

Amy Sample Ward

Plus some of the tracking stats (number of clicks, referrer, locations) have been useful to nonprofits in helping to determine which links resonated with their constituents. has been seized by the Libyan government for failure to comply with Islamic law. However, just today a.ly shortener called vb.ly And now this has all.ly

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URL Shorteners: Blind(ly) Heading Towards Disaster?

Care2

Plus some of the tracking stats (number of clicks, referrer, locations) have been useful to nonprofits in helping to determine which links resonated with their constituents. has been seized by the Libyan government for failure to comply with Islamic law. which has some basic tracking stats. However, just today a.ly

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Amazon’s palm reading starts at the grocery store, but it could be so much bigger

The Verge

“All the other biometrics that are becoming commonplace — face, fingerprints, iris — are all quite observable and visible from the outside,” Elizabeth Renieris, a law and policy researcher who focuses on data governance and human rights issues, told The Verge.

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Daily Crunch: US dangles reward up to $10M for info on 6 elite Russian military hackers

TechCrunch

government has stepped up its hunt for six Russian intelligence officers, best known as the state-backed hacking group dubbed “Sandworm.” In earnings talk, Spotify’s stats told us what we already assumed : that the controversy around having a Joe Rogan podcast did little to sway subscriber numbers, which grew 15%. Christine and Haje.

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

NTEN

One of the many challenges this presents is the ability of first responders and governments to monitor this information and act on it in a timely manner. The social media, disaster response, non-profit and government leaders had a working lunch to brainstorm ways to better aggregate and respond to information on social media sites.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

So plenty of positive stats – conveniently put together by the scorecard-loving staff at the World Economic Forum and the OECD - that would suggest we should have an elite innovation cluster. But our trust is rooted in the security of strong institutions and the rule of law. Think Philips Electronics, NXP, ASML and Tom Tom.

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Spanish scale-ups club together to shift the tech policy agenda

TechCrunch

” She also cites job creation stats for the broader base of 400 or so scale-ups in the Spanish ecosystem which, in 2020, were responsible for creating 324,000 new jobs. “The expectation for 2021 — which is not confirmed yet — is going to be around 670,000 employments.

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