Sentences with phrase «data was in the public interest»

Not exact matches

The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale first collected data from state and federal corrections officials in 2014 and again, in more detail, last year, taking what amounts to a comprehensive census on the use of solitary confinement in the U.S. Researchers found that in the fall of 2015, at least 67,442 U.S. prisoners were kept in some kind of restricted housing.

It's maybe one reason why people are so easily misled into climate change denial when there don't seem to be any definitive and reliable sources of data that are open to the public where information is presented in various different ways that most ordinary people are interested in.

«We believe there is an opportunity to act in the public interest and make a meaningful contribution to society by building sustainable technology that respects users and does not rely on the commoditization of personal data,» Acton wrote.

The company in theory has to comply unless there is some public interest in the data (say, it's a public figure, of historical use, etc.), but there is some debate about how it will be enforced.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

The British ICO is an independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals.

In addition, the data is available to non-governmental organizations and to the general public; some older data is available to individuals interested in genealogical researcIn addition, the data is available to non-governmental organizations and to the general public; some older data is available to individuals interested in genealogical researcin genealogical research.

To this list could be added many more examples of how the data have grown and grown to support the proposition that the sexual revolution has been resulting in disaster for large swaths of the country — a proposition further honed by whole decades of examination of the relation between public welfare and family dysfunction (particularly in the pages of the decidedly not - Catholic Public Interest magapublic welfare and family dysfunction (particularly in the pages of the decidedly not - Catholic Public Interest magaPublic Interest magazine).

I find it very interesting that you imply that because you have been published in medical journals that means that your scientific data is the one that is correct, if public media attention on your research is what you feel solidifies it as «right» then wouldn't you have to say that scientific data on the other end of the spectrum that has been published is «right» as well.

Now, what the paper completely fails to address is how that precondition, that essential public trust, could possibly survive a system under which the security services were empowered by law to routinely trawl through the private communications data of vast numbers of citizens suspected of no crime, simply in order, as Sir David Omand puts it, «to identify patterns of interest for further investigation».

Reinvent Albany has analyzed the Freedom of Information Law requests received by numerous New York State and City agencies in an effort to identify what agency information and data the public is interested in, and to make a case for publishing that information online.

The Fix crew interprets the data here (summary: they see an edge for Obama); I'll just add that it'll be interesting to see how shifts in public opinion in the various states will affect the campaigns» allocation of resources to 1) digital advertising, and 2) grassroots outreach.

Newspapers had argued that tough sentences would hamper free speech, and also raised concerns that there was no guarantee the courts would agree with journalists on what was in the «public interest», and therefore justified breaching data protection laws.

In the ad, the House Majority PAC is using data from the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) from the 2014 Assembly session.

While the reform alliance provided data showing trial lawyers» campaign contributions were tops among influence blocs, the New York Public Interest Research Group put teacher unions far in the lead in combined lobbying and campaign donations.

In recent years, public health officials have been increasingly interested in trying to track illness with internet data like social media or search querieIn recent years, public health officials have been increasingly interested in trying to track illness with internet data like social media or search queriein trying to track illness with internet data like social media or search queries.

In the case of the Ebola outbreak in the U.S., the team was confident that the Ebola - related social media data were due only to public concern or interest in the outbreak, and thus it was an unprecedented opportunity to study how news media may sow panic in a populatioIn the case of the Ebola outbreak in the U.S., the team was confident that the Ebola - related social media data were due only to public concern or interest in the outbreak, and thus it was an unprecedented opportunity to study how news media may sow panic in a populatioin the U.S., the team was confident that the Ebola - related social media data were due only to public concern or interest in the outbreak, and thus it was an unprecedented opportunity to study how news media may sow panic in a populatioin the outbreak, and thus it was an unprecedented opportunity to study how news media may sow panic in a populatioin a population.

«My concern is that independent trials are on the decline and that means we have less high - quality data to inform public health that are not influenced by commercial interests,» says study leader Stephan Ehrhardt, MD, MPH, an associate professor in the Bloomberg School's Department of Epidemiology.

The most important thing is to establish a public - interest defence in English and Welsh libel law, so that doctors and scientists can present their data without being sued.

«One of the major problems for those of us interested in estimating the public - health consequences of the accident has been the paucity of reliable data,» says Baverstock.

The plan, which was approved yesterday at a managing board meeting in London, «represents a real shift in favour of ensuring research data is shared routinely and re-used effectively in the public interest,» agrees Carl Heneghan, director of the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Oxford and co-founder of the AllTrials campaign, in a statement released yesterday.»

Even though in a 1962 interview with Advertising Age Vicary admitted that the amount of data he'd collected was «too small to be meaningful,» subliminal messages continued to attract public — and commercial — interest.

They also say stronger «public interest» protections are urgently needed: stricter conflict of interest rules in both academia and the government, and prohibitions against commercial ghostwriting and corporate control of statistical analysis and raw data.

Ian Chant is writer and editor whose interests and expertise include science, technology, data, and culture; his writing has appeared in Scientific American, Popular Science, Psychology Today, and a wide variety of other publications, as well as on public radio programs including Science Friday and Freakonomics Radio.

NIVAs broad scope of scientific competence, research expertise and long - term environmental data series are important to Norwegian business and industry, public administration on municipal, regional and national levels; and our initiatives help promote Norway's interests in international fora.

You have the right to restrict or object to our processing if we are processing your data based on legitimate interests or the performance of a task in the public interest as an exercise of official authority (including profiling); using your data for direct marketing (including profiling); or processing your data for purposes of scientific or historical research and statistics.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

For example, you might not ask for consent if collecting the data is necessary to protect the vital interests of a data subject, or another person, or if you need to collect the data to carry out tasks in the public interest.

Before a single child's information is turned over to any 3rd party, policymakers should give assurance to parents and educators that no harm will come to Tennessee school children by adopting the following principles: The state and districts should be required to publish any and all existing data sharing agreements in printed and electronic form, and include a thorough explanation of its purpose and provisions, and make it available to parents and local school authorities statewide; The Department of Education should hold hearings throughout the state or testify before the legislature to explain any existing data agreement, and answer questions from the public or their representatives, obtain informed comment, and gauge public reaction; All parents should have the right to be notified of the impending disclosure of their children's data, and provide them with a right to consent or have the right to withhold their children's information from being shared; The state should have to define what rights families or individuals will have to obtain relief if harmed by improper use or release of their child's private information, including how claims can be made; and finally, any legislation must ensure that the privacy interest of public school children and their families are put above the interests of any 3rd Party and its agents and subsidiaries.

Students interested in certificate programs that prepare them for a careers are much better off enrolling at public colleges than at private, for - profit schools, according to new data from the...

The department has claimed that the results are exempt because they are preliminary data and «the public interest in withhold documents outweighs the public interest in disclosure.»

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

This choice was motivated by high interest of the general public in both dogs and movies, and by the availability of good quality data.

Kenyon College has a Belize Solar Project website set up so they can monitor the schools from afar, the schools can enjoy seeing their panels in action and the public can see the data if they are interested.

The Antarctic ice core data is presently to the public very loosely, often in the interest of time or print space (I did so myself in a talk with high school students last week).

In regards the public interest test that we have to address, once again, I would think that whilst there is a good argument for protecting the ability of academics to communicate freely and openly, the underlying data that may comprise part of that communication might well fall into another category.

REDD + has stimulated almost every dimension of forest activity: real - time satellite tracking of global forest loss; local communities using handheld data devices; long - simmering disputes over forest ownership and use; methods for benefit sharing; nested accounting to meld project and national approaches; the role of women in forest stewardship; the place for certification and reduced impact logging; enticements of billions from donors; open discussion of illegal timber trade and corruption; public platforms for indigenous groups to command large audiences, and many more... the exponential interest in REDD + has been tremendous.

What you believe would be «interesting and scientific» again does not address the point of principle to which Steven Mosher alludes, ie it is better for both science AND for trust in science amongst the lay public, that data be shared regardless of the perceived motives of the requesting person / body.

I think also that Steve M was strongly indicating that (although in my layperson's view Fortran and other programs at that level are probably fine for climate modeling but not practical for getting that data to the general public) what is of more interest to him and many of us here is more easily accessing that data at another level.

This used to be the case and is still the case in some civilized countries like the United States, but other countries with a less well developed sense of public interest, such as England and France, hold environmental data as proprietary.

The debate among experts in the climate sciences — and those interested in the public policy implications of climate change — concerns the magnitude and speed of future warming, which requires understanding of the dynamics of the many factors involved — which are investigated by analysis of past and current climate data.

There may well be points where we can agree that too much information has been shared or that some data is better kept private, lest the cost or harm outweigh the public interest in dissemination, but current trends are decidedly against the gatekeepers and in favour of putting more out there.

(b) the data controller reasonably believes that, having regard in particular to the special importance of the public interest in freedom of expression, publication would be in the public interest, and

In Pulse Data the ASC declined to exercise its public interest jurisdiction to cease trade a shareholder rights plan, primarily because a large majority of the shareholders of the issuer had voted to adopt the plan at a time where the take - over bid was pending with full disclosure of the implications of the shareholder rights plan.

In a rare move, the FTC spokesman Peter Kaplan released an e-mail statement confirming the ongoing investigation, stating: «In light of the intense public interest and the potential impact of this matter, I can confirm that FTC staff is investigating the Equifax data breach».

The solution Pringle points to is a political one, where public interest restricts how data is used and sold in the marketplace,

Different private and public, individual and collective, interests have to be balanced and harmonised in a transparent and accountable manner, especially when security and data - protection principles need to be implemented to protect citizens and citizens» rights at the same time.

One of the challenges facing librarians in general is how to preserve and archive data and make it accessible for scholars, researchers and the general public — something that's also of paramount interest to e-discovery folks.

In relation to section 32 (1)(b) Warby J concluded that the data controller had to have a subjective belief that the publication of the personal data in question would be in the public interest and this belief must be objectively reasonablIn relation to section 32 (1)(b) Warby J concluded that the data controller had to have a subjective belief that the publication of the personal data in question would be in the public interest and this belief must be objectively reasonablin question would be in the public interest and this belief must be objectively reasonablin the public interest and this belief must be objectively reasonable.

It is fair to ask, therefore, whether in cases where social media platforms share huge volumes of personal data with developers, is the data - sharing framework in PIPEDA sufficient to protect the privacy interests of the public.