by CDO Review Staff | Dec 27, 2018 | Chief Data Officer
An AI-driven company that offered automated risk screenings of babysitters has suspended operations after complaints about the service surfaced. The Washington Post reported that Predictim, a startup that relied on algorithms to judge the fitness of individual baby...				
					 
			
					
				
															
					
					 by CDO Review Staff | Dec 7, 2018 | Chief Data Officer
Intel’s head of U.S. government affairs thinks federal data privacy regulations could be coming to the U.S. next year, according to trade pub Corporate Counsel. A bill imposing tough data privacy regulations similar to Europe’s GDPR may be filed before Congress...				
					 
			
					
				
															
					
					 by CDO Review Staff | Dec 7, 2018 | Deals
Accenture has made a minority investment in Quantexa, an analytics firm that claims to “solve major challenges in financial crime, customer insight and data analytics.” Here is an excerpt from an Accenture press release printed in Finextra: The minority...				
					 
			
					
				
															
					
					 by CDO Review Staff | Dec 7, 2018 | Deals
HPE (formerly Hewlett-Packard) moved to strengthen its hand in AI and data analytics services as it acquired BlueData, a startup that specializes in virtualization technologies for machine learning deployments. Financial numbers governing the deal were not disclosed....				
					 
			
					
				
															
					
					 by CDO Review Staff | Dec 7, 2018 | Chief Data Officer
Data manipulation attacks are becoming more prevalent, writes Mike Ewell in GCN: What makes these attacks so dangerous is the lack of obvious indicators. Leaked or stolen data is typically very public, but simple changes to a system are hard to detect even with a...