The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Most of the people I know professionally and personally don’t spend a lot of time contemplating the true price we pay for the amazing digital services we’ve all become addicted to. I’ll use myself as a prime example. Each operates a closed platform designed to voraciously gather, store and monetize user data.

Blockchain 223

Blockchain Paper Access Cloud 223

Data Protection Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

This is the Data Protection Report’s third blog in a series of blogs that will break down the major elements of the CCPA which will culminate in a webinar on the CCPA in October. This blog focuses on the CCPA’s broad definition of Personal Information. While the definition of PI is sweeping, the Act does set out several carve outs.

GDPR 40

GDPR Privacy Data breaches Sales 40

IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Enterprises are dealing with a barrage of upcoming regulations concerning data privacy and data protection, not only at the state and federal level in the US, but also in a dizzying number of jurisdictions around the world. Adopting a privacy-centric approach built around a data fabric.

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Data Privacy Privacy Metadata Compliance 91

John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Facebook does the same, building a page each time you click, based on increasingly sophisticated data and algorithms. In a Dependent Web model, the data and processes used to deliver results is opaque and out of the consumer's control. As we roam the web, we are tracked, tagged, and profiled by third parties. Can't we do better?

Marketing 111

Marketing IT Content services Personal data 111

Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

That harm extends all the way from those in data breaches feeling a sense of personal violation (that's certainly how I feel when I see my personal information exposed), all the way through to people literally killing themselves (there are many documented examples of this in the wake of the Ashley Madison breach).

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Data breaches Passwords Government IT 72

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

billion locals' data. It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. Sooner or later, big repositories of data will be abused. India's Aadhaar implementation is the largest biometric system in the world, holding about 1.2

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Security Government Encryption Risk 111