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GUEST ESSAY: Why there’s no such thing as anonymity it this digital age

The Last Watchdog

Here are a few unexpected examples of supposedly anonymous data reversal: •In 2016, the Australian government released what they called the “anonymous” (i. Metadata spying. Metadata is worthy of a separate examination. Metadata can be used to reverse-engineer and pinpoint identity quite easily.

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Melbourne professor quits after health department pressures her over data breach

The Guardian Data Protection

million Australians being re-identifiable online due to a government bungle. In 2016, Vanessa Teague, a cryptographer from the University of Melbourne, and two of her colleagues reported on a dataset , published on an open government data website by the federal government, of 2.5m

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Even with Bad Communication and Unfulfilled Discovery Obligations, Sanctions Still Not Granted: eDiscovery Case Law

eDiscovery Daily

The relators filed this qui tam action alleging the defendants defrauded government healthcare programs by fraudulently reporting inflated Usual and Customary (U&C) pharmacy prices for prescriptions filled for government healthcare program beneficiaries. Case Background.

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

ARMA defines information as “Data that has been given value through analysis, interpretation, or compilation in a meaningful form” (ARMA 2016, p 28). ARMA defines data as “Any symbols or characters that represent raw facts or figures and form the basis of information” (ARMA 2016, p 12). Content Marketing Platforms (CMP).

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A new digital archive for Canada’s continuing memory

Preservica

It will see the government agency start processing more than 7 petabytes of digital records into the new digital archive. Preservica is an AWS Government Competency Partner meeting the highest levels of availability, reliability and security for government workloads and data. About Preservica.

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Indictment, Lawsuits Revive Trump-Alfa Bank Story

Krebs on Security

In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the world’s most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used by the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank , one of Russia’s largest financial institutions. trump-email.com). trump-email.com).