by CDO Review Staff | May 20, 2019 | CDO Insider, People
Alation, a prominent enterprise data catalog provider, has appointed company co-founder Aaron Kalb as its first CDO. The company has also tapped Stephanie McReynolds as senior VP of marketing. Nick Ismail filed this report in Information Age: As CDO, Kalb will lead a...
by CDO Review Staff | May 20, 2019 | CDO Insider, People
Alan Jacobson, former director of global analytics at Ford Motor, has been hired as the newest Chief Data and Analytics Officer of Alteryx. Jacobson will be asked to lead Alteryx’s data initiatives and to preside over the company’s planned digital transformation. Here...
by CDO Review Staff | May 20, 2019 | CDO Insider, People
Mehmet Goker, a former VP of Data for SurveyMonkey, has joined freight forwarder Flexport as its new CDO. Here is an excerpt form a post published on MRWeb: San Francisco-based Flexport moves freight globally by air, ocean, rail and truck, and its purpose built...
by CDO Review Staff | May 20, 2019 | CDO Insider, People
Questions have been raised over the selection of former Cambridge Analytica CDO, Dr. Alex Tayler, as a speaker at the upcoming AI for Good conference in Geneva Switzerland. The conference is later this May. The core of the controversy is Tayler’s association...
by CDO Review Staff | May 20, 2019 | CDO Insider
UK Home Secretary Sayid Javid has officially notified parliament of serious flaws in the way British security and intelligence agencies have been handling information lawfully intercepted under warrants. The Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office (IPCO)...
by CDO Review Staff | May 20, 2019 | CDO Insider, Data Privacy & Security
A new study suggests that many American companies haven’t absorbed the lessons taught by their botched compliance with the EU’s GDPR last year. Procrastination and the lack of a unified and clear strategy to deal with the issues of data privacy over multiple systems...
by CDO Review Staff | May 20, 2019 | CDO Insider
The introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was supposed to change the game. Yet a recent study by Varonis Systems reveals that data governance may have actually gotten worse. Paul Gillin asserts that the GDPR has not had much impact on data...
by CDO Review Staff | May 20, 2019 | CDO Insider, Data Privacy & Security
Members of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asked Congress to add teeth to the FTC enforcement powers so that they can effectively regulate the handling of personal data by big tech companies like Facebook and Google. Cecilia Kang reported on the House Energy and...
by CDO Review Staff | May 20, 2019 | CDO Insider
American Family Insurance announced a $20 million investment in the data research initiatives spearheaded by the University of Wisconsin at Madison (UW-Madison). Half of the money will be used to create a data science center on the campus while the other half will...
by CDO Review Staff | May 20, 2019 | CDO Insider
Integrated data allows for easier compliance with regulations GDPR. It also facilitates the use of business intelligence and data visualization tools. Relevant datasets can be easily located and utilized. Data discrepancies can be easier to fix. Breaking down data...
