by CDO Review Staff | Feb 4, 2019 | AI, Chief Data Officer
The billionaire philanthropist George Soros issued a clear warning against China’s use of AI technologies to keep tabs on their own people and control dissent. Speaking at the World Economic Forum at Davos in January, Soros said that China’s use of AI would “create a...
by CDO Review Staff | Feb 4, 2019 | AI, Chief Data Officer
A member of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors has proposed a ban on the use of facial recognition technologies by city agencies. The proposal has received support from the president of the Board of Supervisors, Norman Yee. Gregory Barber writes about the proposed...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 31, 2019 | Chief Data Officer, Data Privacy & Security
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg did not impress in a speech delivered at the DLD Conference in Munich, Germany last January 20. In the face of several Facebook privacy disasters, Sandberg talked about all the right things but did not explain how her vision of data...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 31, 2019 | Chief Data Officer, Civic Data & Tech, Data Privacy & Security
A security hole exposed the private tweets of some Android users between November 3, 2014 and January 14, 2019. Twitter has since corrected the security flaw but it may still face an investigation from the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). The EU’s GDPR allows...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 31, 2019 | Chief Data Officer, Civic Data & Tech, Data Privacy & Security
Unwilling to wait any longer for the federal government to act, legislators in Washington State are pushing for tougher rules and greater protections over the personal data that tech companies gather on their consumers. Companies that fail to comply with the proposed...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 28, 2019 | Chief Data Officer, People
ALC, a specialist provider of first-party data solutions, has brought onboard Andy Johnson as Chief Data Officer (CDO). Johnson, a 22-year veteran in data-driven marketing, will be responsible for ALC’s data strategy, acquisition, and operations. More on Andy Johnson...
