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OIG: VA Workers Hid ‘Big Data’ Project Privacy, Security Risks

Data Breach Today

Report on Canceled VA Project Offers Governance Lessons for Others The Department of Veterans Affairs’ watchdog agency alleges that two VA employees “concealed” and “mispresented” the cybersecurity and privacy risks of an ambitious "big data" project that would have analyzed 22 million veterans’ health records dating back two decades.

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MY TAKE: What if Big Data and AI could be intensively focused on health and wellbeing?

The Last Watchdog

and other jurisdictions have abjectly failed over the past 20 years leveraging Big Data to innovate personalized healthcare services. Healthcare providers haven’t yet figured out how to digitalize medical records in a way that robustly preserves patient privacy and keeps patient information out of data thieves’ hands.

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How State Governments Can Protect and Win with Big Data, AI and Privacy

Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC

I was recently asked to conduct a 2-hour workshop for the State of California Senior Legislators on the topic of “Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Privacy.” We have historical experiences and references to revisit in discerning what the government can do to nurture our “Analytics Revolution.”

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No Surprise: China Blamed for 'Big Data' Hack of Equifax

Data Breach Today

Analysis: Equifax Failed on Security, But Only Governments Can Hold Each Other to Account Who's surprised Chinese military hackers allegedly hacked Equifax?

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Top Considerations for Building an Open Cloud Data Lake

Data fuels the modern enterprise — today more than ever, businesses compete on their ability to turn big data into essential business insights. Increasingly, enterprises are leveraging cloud data lakes as the platform used to store data for analytics, combined with various compute engines for processing that data.

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Who to Follow in 2019 for Big Data, Data Governance and GDPR Advice

erwin

With this in mind, the erwin team has compiled a list of the most valuable data governance, GDPR and Big data blogs and news sources for data management and data governance best practice advice from around the web. Top 7 Data Governance, GDPR and Big Data Blogs and News Sources from Around the Web.

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The EU’s draft Data Governance Act: an own goal?

Data Protector

The EU’s draft Data Governance Act is designed to facilitate the greater sharing of non-Personal data within the EU. Such big data ought to provide new insights and benefit the lives of EU citizens, the EU thinking goes.