1. Privacy: EPIC and Center for Digital Democracy File Complaint With FTC Regarding Recent WhatsApp Policy Change
“EPIC and the Center for Digital Democracy have filed a complaint with the FTC concerning WhatsApp’s plan to transfer user data, including personal phone numbers, to Facebook.”
2. Data on the Web Best Practices Now a W3C Candidate Recommendation (August 30, 2016)
- W3C Blog Post
- Data on the Web Best Practices Document
- Data on the Web Best Practices: Dataset Usage Vocabulary
- Data on the Web Best Practices: Data Quality Vocabulary
3. Web Consortium Weighs Work on Block Chain Standards (via Fedscoop) and Full Text: Blockchains and the Web Report
4. Film Preservation: The Race to Save the Films We Love (via NY Times)
5. Penn Libraries’ New Penn Website Archive
7. Review of Recent ProQuest Ebooks Publishing Partnerships and Technology Enhancements