Seizing the Opportunities of Big Data
A good place to start with data analytics is to subscribe to reports on data trends, or to a trends-based web service. These services, such as Microsoft Insights, can provide valuable research data relevant to your business operations. Big data allows researchers to collect and analyze various industry trends and patterns, draw conclusions, and publish…
Disinformation is polluting democracy
Disinformation campaigns and the future of elections United States citizens are still recovering from the aftermath of the election. KI Design’s media monitoring data shows that 39% of online election sentiment is negative. Voters have experienced sustained disinformation campaigns that have compromised the electoral system and undermining public confidence in democratic processes. Disinformation – false…
Big Privacy for Big Data
Managing the Risks of Data Analytics Big data analytics has tremendous potential. With it, you can weave together massive amounts of disparate information and discover unforeseen patterns that enable you to optimize marketing, distribution, staffing, resource allocation, and virtually any other aspect of your operations. This is both the source of its value, and of…
Big Data’s Big Privacy Leak – Metadata and Data Lakes
Bringing Privacy Regulation into an AI World, Part 3 This seven-part series explores, from a Canadian perspective, options for effective privacy regulation in an AI context. For a long time, access control has been the principal means of protecting personal information. Fifty years ago, this meant locked file cabinets. Today, much of our personal data…
Access Control in a Big Data Context
Bringing Privacy Regulation into an AI World, Part 4 This seven-part series explores, from a Canadian perspective, options for effective privacy regulation in an AI context. Access control, the ability to control access to information, has long been the primary tool of online security. The great advantage of access control is that it tells you…
Future of Data
Infographic representing key issues concerning future of data broken by country. Link to source: Future of Data