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)...
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...
by CDO Review Staff | May 20, 2019 | CDO Insider
Just collecting data does not serve any useful purpose, says US Army CDO Tom Sasala. It is when this data is analyzed by skillful people and the insights are used to further the mission that it becomes extremely valuable. Here is an excerpt from the report published...
by CDO Review Staff | May 20, 2019 | CDO Insider
There is no standard approach to creating a data governance policy. Each data governance policy should be fashioned with a specific company and its needs in mind. Input from every stakeholder is not only preferable but necessary. Nicola Askham, a data governance...
