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Who has more data on you than Facebook, Google or Amazon?
Who is this party that knows more about you and collects more of your data? Is it Facebook, Google, Amazon, governments, banks or your ISP? Think again! Read more…
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Friday Futures: Navy films UFOs, plastic eating bacteria
Friday Futures: life on other planets; filming UFOs; plastic eating bacteria; making mistakes helps science; MIT and Captain America. Read more…
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5G’s real value may be as an enabler, especially for smart cities
To frame 5G around smart cities, we see how open data can drive smart city initiatives and what better technology to mine large amounts of data than 5G? Read more…
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Australians face heavy profiling in upcoming election
Australian political parties are using heavy profiling methods illustrating how privacy scandals have done little to slow the march of data-driven campaigning. Read more…
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Waiting for disaster to invest in data
How many companies do you know that invest in data quality? I mean truly invest in it. Read more…
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The battle for the home just got political and very complicated
Harvesting home data will only work in a world where privacy and data ownership is not becoming the issue of our time. Read more…
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Funds are betting $100 billion on data. Are they mad?
“Whoever controls data controls the world”. A couple of years ago that quote would have had most people in the tech world nodding knowingly. Now data has become a sensitive subject. Read more…
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OSS data – more useless than useless!
A majority of OSS data is probably never used and as most of it ages, it becomes even more useless than useless. One wonders, why are we storing it then? Read more…
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It’s time for new models of data protection
Equifax, HSBC, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Marriott, Quara – and we could continue the list much further. They are some of the companies that have had a significant customer data breaches this year or last. Read more…
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Localizing data storage would be like localizing football
We can only agree with Ravi Menon, a speaker at the FinTech Festival in Singapore when he said that most data should not be localized. Localizing data will do for ecommerce and global trade what Read more…