by CDO Review Staff | Jan 28, 2019 | Chief Data Officer
Singapore is unrolling the welcome mat for big data firms as it plans to amend its copyright laws to allow the free use of lawfully-acquired copyrighted text for analysis. More on this from Computer Weekly: The exception to the law will allow copying of copyrighted...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 15, 2019 | Chief Data Officer
By imposing severe limits on the amount and types of user data that companies could gather, regulations like the EU’s GDPR could actually benefit businesses by forcing them to focus on high-quality data while discarding the rest. Here is an excerpt from an article in...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 15, 2019 | Chief Data Officer
If you value your online privacy, it isn’t just Facebook, Google, or Amazon you have to worry about. The real privacy “Death Stars” are companies named Oracle, Experian, and Salesforce that operate in the background largely free from oversight. Privacy activists want...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 15, 2019 | Chief Data Officer, Issues & Insights
If Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues growing at its current pace, it will be a $57 billion business by 2020 and a $100 billion business by 2021. Sid Nag, a research director at Gartner, warns that while customers may benefit from cost efficiencies, they should also...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Geopolitical intelligence platform Stratfor warns that the US and other western democracies concern themselves too much with data privacy to the detriment of their efforts to remain ahead of China in the field of artificial intelligence. China’s practice of “digital...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 15, 2019 | Chief Data Officer, Data Privacy & Security
A law passed last December and signed by outgoing Governor Rick Snyder has placed Michigan on the leading edge of insurance data security. Sean Hoar and Bindu Nair collaborated in this report published in Mondaq: With this law, Michigan will join South Carolina, the...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 15, 2019 | Deals
Alibaba’s strength is in e-commerce but it signaled a move into infrastructure tech when it acquired Data Artisans, a German big data startup that specializes in distributed systems and large-scale data streaming services. Jon Russel reported on Alibaba’s latest...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 15, 2019 | Chief Data Officer, Issues & Insights
As AI tools and techniques become more powerful, privacy advocates and research scientists are raising the alarm over the possibility that anonymized healthcare data can be reassembled to the point where specific individuals can be identified. A recent study conducted...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 15, 2019 | Chief Data Officer, Issues & Insights
Sandy Parakilas, a former Facebook employee who left the company after his data privacy concerns fell on deaf ears, has been hired by Apple as a product manager to help improve the smartphone maker’s efforts to minimize data collection and improve user privacy. Prior...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 15, 2019 | Chief Data Officer, Data Privacy & Security, Issues & Insights
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) had been hoping to improve its data security by consolidating and streamlining its technology purchases this year. But the ongoing partial federal government shutdown has forced the TSA to postpone its planned $230...
