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 | Data Privacy & Security
Canada’s fourth-largest telco Freedom Mobile has suffered a major data breach but the full extent of the attack is not yet known. Freedom Mobile claims that only about 15,000 users were affected but researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar from vpnMentor said they were...
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)...
