Tag: Data Privacy
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AS FACEBOOK HACK SHOWS, DATA PRIVACY IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS
More than 533 million Facebook users now have a concern more worrisome than the posting of an embarrassing photo or silly cat meme. Their personal information was stolen from the social media site and recently leaked on a popular hacker forum. The leak, which was first confirmed and reported by Insider, provides users’ full names,…
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DATA PRIVACY DAY 2021: DATA-PROTECTION TIPS FOR BUSINESS AND CONSUMERS
It might seem incongruous to publicly celebrate privacy. Nevertheless, today there is clearly an expectation that sensitive data must be kept private. Considering that many organizations don’t know how to effectively safeguard data, it’s really not that incongruous to spur them on by shouting about data privacy from the rooftops—and even making a day of…
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FOUR PREDICTIONS FOR 2021: ETHICS AND SECURITY MUST UNDERPIN AI INITIATIVES
Just about every organization wants to extract value from data to derive a true understanding of how to create products, offer services, best serve customers, and make sound decisions, among other things. Machine learning and deep learning, two of the building blocks of AI, entice companies to move their data to cloud-based applications and services…
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3 STEPS TO BUILD A SCALABLE DATA GOVERNANCE PROGRAM
HOW TO BUILD A SCALABLE DATA GOVERNANCE PROGRAM 1. ESTABLISH A BUSINESS GLOSSARY The labels we give data mean nothing if they do not translate across our enterprises. Imagine, for instance, if a Chief Marketing Officer had a different definition of what a qualified lead is than the sales leadership at a company. This could…
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PROTECTING DATA IN A WORLD WITHOUT BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES
It’s easy to overlook how connected and interconnected things are in the modern world. Today, data flows across companies, systems and international boundaries with few barriers. All of this makes it possible for companies to operate and innovate in ways that would have been unimaginable in the past. However, there’s a downside: protecting data and…