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You’re swimming in data. You’re creating new data every day. If your health app counts your steps? That’s new data. The Oura ring that’s tracking your bio-metrics? Valuable data. Your social media ...

Without a clear view of where sensitive data lives, who can access it and how it moves, blind spots can quickly turn into ...

Every minute of every day, billions of users are dutifully generating terabytes of data on the internet, from tweets to Facebook posts and Google searches, emails and chat messages, content, music, ...

In banking, brokerage, and insurance, it has long been assumed that the data generated about how much a consumer has, wants or could obtain are not the consumer’s, but rather the property of the ...

Many organizations are beginning to convey their IoT data to third parties. Often this is motivated by a desire to monetize the data, sometimes for regulatory reporting reasons. These initiatives are ...

Being data-driven is a top priority for most marketers. In fact, 99% of marketers agree that an effective data-driven marketing strategy is crucial to achieving success. Although we know the ...

The idea that data can be owned in the traditional legal sense is a myth that businesses must abandon. This is according to Ahmore Burger-Smidt, director and head of regulatory practice (data privacy ...

“Science at its core is systematically racist and sexist,” said computational biologist Laura Boykin at the WIRED 25 conference in San Francisco on Friday. Malkia Devich-Cyril, her fellow panelist, ...

In modern workplaces, unified communications platforms offer an expanding array of generative AI features. Many are automatically enabled: AI note-takers turned on by default, meeting summaries ...

Nebraska has become the first state in the nation to enact a law declaring farmers own their farm data and barring its sale without written consent. Lawmakers in Iowa, Missouri and Colorado have ...