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Data Quality Is A Mess, But GenAI Can Help

A recurring theme in big data over the past two decades is the poor quality of data. No matter how much ink is spilled on the topic, organizations continually seem surprised that the data they want to use for analytics o Read more…

AI Regs a Moving Target in the US, But Keep an Eye on Europe

If you’re trying to pin down the rules and regulations for artificial intelligence in the United States, good luck. They’re evolving quickly at the moment, which makes them a moving target for American businesses tha Read more…

It’s Back to the Database Future for Exasol CEO Tewes

When Joerg Tewes last worked in the database business, the world was just becoming aware of the possibilities of non-relational data models. Fast forward 20 years, and NoSQL databases are commonplace across all industrie Read more…

AI Ethics Issues Will Not Go Away

Executives are right to be concerned about the accuracy of the AI models they put into production and tamping down on hallucinating ML models. But they should be spending as much time, if not more, addressing questions o Read more…

GDPR Celebrates Fifth Birthday, Meta Fined $1.3 Billion

It’s hard to believe it’s already been five years since the European Union implemented the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the most far-reaching data privacy protection law at the time. Data suggests that, Read more…

How to Comply with Data Minimization Best Practices

The topic of data privacy is heating up at the moment, with consumers and government bodies more worried about data anonymization, invasive tracking, and illegal data harvesting than before. In this environment, the p Read more…

Immuta Completes Pivots to Data Security with New Product

You may know Immuta as a longtime provider of data governance tools. But with the launch of Immuta Detect, the company has completed its pivot to becoming a data security provider for cloud-based data warehouse users. Read more…

How to Help Your Data Teams Put Privacy First

Capturing and storing customer data is a nearly universal challenge for businesses today. The knowledge gained from customer interactions can catapult a business forward, but if a company isn’t careful with user data, Read more…

Data Classification: A Critical Piece to Your Data Security Puzzle

With constant regulatory scrutiny and data breaches on the rise, companies of all industries and sizes are under pressure to get their data management and security strategies in tip-top shape. Yet, an important element Read more…

Five Things to Know About Web Data Extraction Now

Data is key to competitive advantage. If you’re a regular reader of this publication, you won’t dispute that. The question then becomes: Where do you get your data? While the option to simply buy external data from d Read more…

Data Literacy: Good for Business and Good for Citizens, Too

Knowing your way around a probability distribution is a necessity for folks who want to become data scientists and develop cutting-edge applications using the latest AI technologies and techniques. But even the non-unico Read more…

The Death of Third-Party Cookies and the Rise of Zero-Party Data

During the Wild West phase of the big data experiment, third-party cookies lodged into people’s Web browsers were a major conduit of actionable data for companies far and wide. But with the rise in awareness of big dat Read more…

Europe’s AI Act Would Regulate Tech Globally

The Artificial Intelligence Act was introduced to the European Union in April 2021, and is rapidly progressing through comment periods and rewrites. When it goes into effect, which experts say could occur at the beginnin Read more…

A Culture Shift on Data Privacy

It’s been four years since GDPR went into effect in Europe, and the United States is still without a national data privacy and security law. Nevertheless, American companies are moving to adopt better data governance p Read more…

Regs Making Legit Data More Valuable, Neutronian Says

The market for third-party data has exploded in recent years, giving companies an abundance of sources to choose from. That’s even more critical today in light of the demise of third-party cookies and Apple’s new pri Read more…

Ssshhh! It’s Data Privacy Day

The worst kept secret of the week may be that today is Data Privacy Day. While you don’t get the day off work, you do get insightful discussion on the importance of securing privacy in an uber-connected digital society Read more…

Do You Need a CDP? And Other Data Mysteries

In the mad rush to leverage big data, a multitude of data-oriented systems have been created, from data lakes and warehouses to data hubs, and even fabrics and meshes. For certain types of data opportunities, however, a Read more…

In Homomorphic Encryption We (Must) Trust

Just as we were on the cusp of achieving god-like powers with advanced analytics and machine learning on large pools of data, along come privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA to kill the buzz. But thanks to the emergence of ho Read more…

China Passes Strict New Data Privacy Law

The Chinese government today announced that it will institute a strict new data privacy law on November 1. Dubbed the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), it is said to be among the most stringent data privacy law Read more…

Reflections on GDPR Turning Three

It’s been three years since the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect, becoming the most visible data regulation in the world. What has been the overall impact of the law? Genera Read more…

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