Tag: Data

  • Keeping Up With Data Privacy Compliance: A Guide

    Despite their recent popularity, large language models and generative artificial intelligence (AI) have quickly turned into a data privacy nightmare. Samsung’s early use of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, for example, resulted in leaked internal data, and Verizon (among others) banned the chatbot over the “risk of losing control of customer information, source code, and more.” In this…

  • Podcast: Vanguard’s Ryan Swann on Big Data Strategies for Big Assets

    Investment management company Vanguard operates with some 20,000 employees, has more than 50 million investors, with more than $7 trillion dollars in assets under management. Big money, big data, and a big responsibility to say the least. Financial institutions lean increasingly on data and technology to better navigate fluctuations of the market, which can see…

  • 25 Major Car Brands Flunk Data Privacy Review

    Modern cars are connected, which means they are treasure troves of data. *Privacy Not Included, a project from the nonprofit Mozilla, reviewed 25 different car brands and concluded that cars are a privacy nightmare. Cars can gather personal information from users — drivers and passengers — via connected services, apps, and third-party sources. And they…

  • Podcast: Vanguard’s Ryan Swann on Big Data Strategies for Big Assets

    Investment management company Vanguard operates with some 20,000 employees, has more than 50 million investors, with more than $7 trillion dollars in assets under management. Big money, big data, and a big responsibility to say the least. Financial institutions lean increasingly on data and technology to better navigate fluctuations of the market, which can see…

  • Greening the Energy Sector Requires Data Transformation

    As the world works toward net-zero carbon emissions goals, energy is the sector with the most potential to make huge improvements. Although power plant carbon emissions dropped by 28% from 2011 through 2020, fossil-fueled power generation remains the biggest global source of CO2 emissions. With the incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, there’s…

  • How AI Can Make Data Centers More Efficient and Decarbonize

    Data centers and other cloud computing operations are now thought to constitute up to 1% of global power use. The carbon expended in running these massive server farms — and especially, in cooling them — is far from insignificant. Some 50% of electricity use is thought to relate to basic operational costs and up to…

  • Lessons for Healthcare from Finance About Data Governance

    In the age of data breaches, bad actors have taken aim at their latest target: the healthcare industry. In fact, more than 590 organizations reported healthcare data breaches to the US Department of Health and Human Services in 2022, impacting more than 48 million people.  The streak doesn’t seem to be slowing down in 2023.…

  • In Data Customers Trust

    A key priority of digital enterprises is managing data-related challenges, such as integrating data from disparate sources, and managing data quality, privacy, and security. But with the rapid rise in AI adoption, leaders must elevate the pitch from ensuring data compliance to building data trust. This is critical, because when all organizations use AI-based automation…

  • Tesla Insider Data Breach Exposed Over 75,000

    Tesla on Friday shed more light on its May data breach, showing that the incident involved employee records and blaming “insider-wrongdoing,” according to a notice filed with the Maine Attorney General’s Office. The notice, filed by Tesla Data Privacy Officer Steven Elentukh, says a total of 75,735 people (including current and former Tesla employees) were…

  • Hybrid Data Warehousing: Best Practices for IT Integration

    Hybrid data warehousing can provide immense value when managing cross-enterprise data compliance, privacy, and risk by ensuring sensitive data is housed appropriately. However, the complexity of managing data across hybrid clouds and warehouses can lead to data integration complexity. To build best-in-class analytics that drive a business, analysts must have quick and comprehensive access to…