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GDPR personal data explained

Collibra

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), in force since May 25, 2018, requires businesses to protect the personal data and privacy of European Union (EU) citizens, for transactions that occur within EU Member States. The GDPR also regulates the exportation of personal data outside the EU.

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Data privacy examples

IBM Big Data Hub

A navigation app anonymizes activity data before analyzing it for travel trends. A school asks parents to verify their identities before giving out student information. One cannot overstate the importance of data privacy for businesses today. The user can accept or reject each use of their data individually.

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How Machine Learning Can Accelerate and Improve the Accuracy of Sensitive Data Classification

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In a recent study , IDC predicted the global datasphere will more than double in size from 2022 to 2026, and that 80% of that data will be unstructured. Traditional approaches to data classification use manual tagging which is labor-intensive, error-prone, and not easily scalable.