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Briefing paper to Peers in advance of the Committee Stage of the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords [30 October 2017]

Data Protector

Your Lordships This bill has been eagerly awaited by data protection professionals, whose careers depend on its successful passage. Please don’t worry too much that the bill is so very hard to understand. It's the Government’s way of ensuring that a select band of privacy professionals will be offered very significant salaries to decipher its contents and recommend ways of complying with the key provisions.

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4 records management best practices for maximizing storage capacity

TAB OnRecord

If you want to save on records storage space, you can do that by deploying high-density shelving, which allows you to increase storage capacity by up to 330% in a given area. Another way to save is by evaluating your records management practices. Properly managing records can help reduce the volume of records, both now… Read More. The post 4 records management best practices for maximizing storage capacity appeared first on TAB Records Management Blog | TAB OnRecord.

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Why we need a 21st-century Martin Luther to challenge the church of tech

The Guardian Data Protection

It’s 500 years since Martin Luther defied the authority of the Catholic church. It’s time for a similar revolt against the hypocrisy of the religion of technology A new power is loose in the world. It is nowhere and yet it’s everywhere. It knows everything about us – our movements, our thoughts, our desires, our fears, our secrets, who our friends are, our financial status, even how well we sleep at night.

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Guest Post - How important is digital document consistency?

AIIM

A repository containing documents that were digitized inconsistently or inaccurately presents a new set of problems for an organization, problems that can hinder the productivity gains they had hoped to achieve. Obviously digital document accuracy is particularly important for government and regulated industries. But any organization can benefit from a consistent and accurate document repository; it saves time and frustration for users when searching or retrieving documents.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Why practical Blockchain must become a reality

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In just a few short years, Bitcoin, the innovative cryptocurrency underpinned by Blockchain technology, has earned broad legitimacy and won plaudits from many top technologists, investors, and even bankers. With the concept now proven, attention has shifted to the technology behind Bitcoin in the hope that it might help to solve more problems than digital currency.

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Time to Change Your Password!

The Texas Record

Isn’t it fun to use different passwords for all of the dozens of accounts you use and just when you think you’ve got them memorized you’re forced to change them every few months? I don’t doubt that there are folks out there who appreciate the mental challenge, but for most of us it’s added to the list of minor annoyances in our daily lives.

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Rethinking the Intersection of People, Process and Technology

AIIM

Organizations have long struggled with the magic “triad” of people, processes and technology. This struggle has remained constant through multiple generations of technology – from paper to microfilm to imaging to document management to enterprise content management. In order to understand what is coming next for content management, we need a clear understanding of where we’ve been.

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Article 29 Working Party Publishes Draft Guidelines on Notification of Personal Data Breaches Notification Under the GDPR

Data Matters

On October 3, 2017, the Article 29 Working Party (“ WP29 ”) adopted draft guidelines regarding notification of personal data breaches under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“ GDPR ”) which will require breach notification within 72 hours of awareness of a breach. (“ Draft Guidelines ”) (The Draft Guidelines appear to have been released for public comment during the week of 16th October).

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In Case You Missed It: Money 20/20 Conference Highlights

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Money 20/20 is always one of my favorite conferences to attend. Every year, I am blown away by the innovation that is shaping the digital payments industry, and this year’s show did not disappoint. The conference features a variety of topics and sessions regarding all aspects of financial services, from cryptocurrency to banking. This year, I noticed a recurring theme: user experience, not payments, drives business.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.

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How Organizations Are Preparing for GDPR

Gimmal

The General Data Protection Regulation, more commonly known as GDPR, has received an incredible amount of attention in the last year. And rightfully so, as it will affect any organization that collects or analyzes any data pertaining to European Union (EU) and European Economic Agreement (EEA) member citizens - even including cookie tracking and IP addresses.

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Recapping the IBM Chief Data Officer Strategy Summit Fall 2017

IBM Big Data Hub

See what you missed at the IBM Chief Data Officer Strategy Summit Fall 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts with a collection that includes a full social recap, videos, quotes and more.

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When And How Cos. Should Address Cyber Legal Compliance

Data Matters

*This post originally appeared in Law 360 on October 24, 2017. We’ve seen it happen time and again. When a company experiences a major data breach or hacking incident, media attention turns to speculation or allegations about the company’s past history of underinvesting in cyber defenses, its supposed culture of cyber complacency, or its history of unaddressed (but, in retrospect, allegedly clear) vulnerabilities.

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Everything You Need to Know about Data Destruction

Archive Document Data Storage

Data destruction may be the final step in the retention management life cycle, but that doesn’t mean it’s the least important step. Due diligence often falls by the wayside during final disposition, leading to devastating privacy breaches for organisations with negligent disposal practices. In this blog we offer a complete overview of data destruction so you can protect your information from beginning to end.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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How does GDPR impact digital preservation solutions in the Cloud?

Preservica

Inside and outside of Europe, everyone is talking about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and what it means to their organization. Like most conferences we have recently attended, it was high on the agenda at 'ARMA Live!' in the US. Whether you are a hare or an ostrich in your readiness, GDPR needn’t be just a deadline viewed with trepidation.

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Canadian Privacy Commissioner Issues Report on Children’s Educational Apps

Hunton Privacy

Recently, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (“OPC”) issued its 2017 Global Privacy Enforcement Network Sweep results (the “Report”), which focused on certain privacy practices of online educational tools and services targeted at classrooms. The OPC examined the privacy practices of two dozen educational websites and apps used by K-12 students.

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Why Banks Are Leveraging Machine Learning to Fight Card Fraud

Rippleshot

Most financial institutions have recognized the true value of the technology effectiveness behind machine learning: The ability to discover patterns across millions of data points and hundreds of variables faster and more accurately than human beings. For predicting and stopping the use of compromised card details and the spread of card fraud, this technology is a game-changer.

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Discovery of New Internet of Things (IoT) Based Malware Could Put a New Spin on DDoS Attacks

Data Protection Report

Slightly over one year ago, several major distributed denial-of-service (“DDoS”) attacks took place, including a major event affecting the domain name service provider Dyn , which caused outages and slowness for a number of popular sites, including Amazon, Netflix, Reddit, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Twitter. Now, a new Internet of Things (IoT) botnet, called IoT Reaper, or IoTroop, has been discovered by researchers and could present a threat that could dwarf the 2016 attacks and create a major di

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Square 9 Softworks Professional Services Group Announces Agile Project Management Initiative

Info Source

NEW HAVEN, CONN., November 1, 2017 – Developers of award-winning business process automation software, Square 9® Softworks Professional Services Group (S9S PSG) announced today a new initiative for Agile Project Management designed to transform their approach to solutions delivery. With the Agile approach to professional services, a solutions delivery project is broken down into many smaller milestones by a Project Manager (PM) tasked with complete oversight of the implementation.

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Design For Behavior, Not Awareness

The Falcon's View

October was National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Since today is the last day, I figured now is as good a time as any to take a contrarian perspective on what undoubtedly many organizations just did over the past few weeks; namely, wasted a lot of time, money, and good will. Most security awareness programs and practices are horrible BS. This extends out to include many practices heavily promoted by the likes of SANS, as well as the current state of "best" (aka, failing miserably) practices.

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The Toilet Effect: Backing Up Your Legacy Applications Saves You Time, Money and Sanity

Hanzo Learning Center

It’s happened to everyone. You can see it already: It’s the moment your phone slides out of your palm, ricocheting like a free-throw off the rim of the lid, and plunks into the commode. The lightning bolt of fe ar that ripples down your spine - all at once, fear of sunk costs and a great loss of information - should have a name. For now, let’s call it the Toilet Effect: The urgent realization that years of applications have never been backed or captured properly, and it’s going to cost a small f

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Leaders need the technical detail

MIKE 2.0

I recently heard a financial services executive on the radio talking about Bitcoin. When a listener asked him to explain what it was, he couldn’t. I’m constantly amazed by the number of leaders who aren’t across the detail of important innovations that are candidates to revolutionise their businesses in the near future. There is no doubt that our economies are getting more complicated.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Square 9 Brings Encompass Conference to Nashville, TN

Info Source

NEW HAVEN, CONN., October 30, 2017 – Developers of award-winning Enterprise Content Management solutions, Square 9® Softworks welcomes its dedicated dealer channel and their customers back to Encompass 2018, a conference unlike any traditional industry event. Encompass 2018 offers innovative philosophies, providing renewed education on the entire Square 9 solutions portfolio, along with a strategic focus on new product development and the future direction for Square 9’s product initiatives.

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Incremental "Gains" Are Just Slower Losses

The Falcon's View

Anton Chuvakin and I were having a fun debate a couple weeks ago about whether incremental improvements are worthwhile in infosec, or if it's really necessary to "jump to the next curve" (phrase origin: Guy Kawasaki's " Art of Innovation ," watch his TedX ) in order to make meaningful gains in security practices. Anton even went so far as to write about it a little over a week ago (sorry for the delayed response - work travel).

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Early Access: The State of Enterprise Collaboration: 2017 Executive Survey Report

Hanzo Learning Center

Collaborative platforms are all the rage in the news, but what technologies are enterprise companies actually utilizing? Hanzo conducted an extensive survey of executives within Fortune 500 companies to determine the top collaboration trends in 2017 and to predict the future of these platforms in 2018 and beyond.

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63 Percent of IT Security Experts Are Unsure How to Fight Targeted Attacks

eSecurity Planet

Still, 78 percent of IT business decision makers say they already spend enough, or too much, on protection from such attacks.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Less-well-traveled paths at the National Archives

Archives Blogs

Today’s guest blog post comes from T.J. Stiles, author of Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America. I could not have written my last book, Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America— nor have won the Pulitzer Prize for it—without the National Archives. But the reason may not be obvious. George Armstrong Custer’s death at the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876, forever associates him with the western frontier.

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The Haunted Archives

Unwritten Record

To celebrate Halloween, we took a look in our cartographic records at the National Archives to see if we could find any spooky records. We came across the following Utility Patent Drawings which certainly help to set the mood for the Halloween season. A number of jack-o’-lantern designs came up in the patent drawings. You can see many different concepts for lanterns in the series.

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Welcoming a New Blog and a New Champ: eDiscovery Trends

eDiscovery Daily

OK, I admit that only one of these topics is completely about eDiscovery – the other is somewhat about eDiscovery, sort of…. When I attended Relativity Fest last week (here’s a recap of some of the highlights), one of the highlights of the conference was the ACEDS happy hour on Monday evening, where I got to visit with everybody from my CloudNine colleagues to Kelly Twigger to Bill Hamilton to Andy Sjeja to Tom and Gayle O’Connor to George Socha to Jim Gill.