“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…
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…
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…
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…
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Data privacy rules in Asia are limiting the spread of financial technology (FinTech), an industry body said on Thursday, calling on regulators to set out broad principles rather than precise rules. Read more…
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will implement in full its directive that forces global payment companies to store data locally from this month, four sources told Reuters, a blow to Read more…
Remember when industry observers used to say that data is the new oil and we used to nod and agree and secretly wonder what they meant? Then they said that data is the new currency Read more…
Do you find data the way you stored it, or do you store data the way you find it? Not a silly question when determining scale and performance of information systems. Depending on what one decides, Read more…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s top cyber authority on Tuesday released a draft law that would require firms exporting data to undergo an annual security assessment, in the latest of several recent safeguards against threats such Read more…
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