Data Smog is a pervasive volume of non-useful information that increasingly hangs over our social networks, communication technology and connected devices.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission has authorized the use of social media channels for the disclosure of material, non-public information.

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The data from the Health and Social Care Information Centre revealed that private providers treated 345, 200 non-emergency NHS patients in 2011-12, a 32, 900 rise on the previous year.

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" That's an overstatement, but Mr. Grundfest is right that social media "is a highly efficient means for broadly disseminating many different forms of information in non-exclusionary manner" and that Facebook and Twitter are "uniquely ill-suited to the selective disclosure of information.

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Over the past year, the National Labor Relations Board has issued a series of decisions that have significantly expanded the rights of non-supervisory employees, including non-unionized employees, to discuss information that many employers would consider confidential, and even post this confidential information on social media sites.

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