Data

UK-US data deal could hinge on fate of legal challenges to EU arrangement

So much for sovereignty then

Databases22 Sep 2023 | 50

If you're cautious about using ML and bots at work, that's not a bad idea

DataGrail Summit Alex Stamos: 'We don't really know what's gonna go wrong with AI yet'

AI + ML22 Sep 2023 | 33

CERN swaps out databases to feed its petabyte-a-day habit

Run 3 reboot provoked challenges for Europe's particle-smashing project

Databases18 Sep 2023 | 4

Snowflake explains that Instacart's bills aren't melting – it's called 'optimization'

Everybody chill, we're still in the cart

Storage31 Aug 2023 | 3

IBM shows off its sense of humor in not-so-funny letter leak

Internal memos detail discontinued Dad-joke products

Bootnotes23 Aug 2023 | 55

Vietnam admits it has just ten percent of the infosec pros it needs

Which is a problem, because local orgs are leaking data and shadowy traders are cashing in

Security17 Aug 2023 | 4

Watchdog vows crackdown on 'harmful' world of surveillance-by-data-broker

Analysis Promise of action excites some, others wish America had Cali-style Delete Act for personal info

Personal Tech15 Aug 2023 | 2

Cumbrian Police accidentally publish all officers' details online

Names, job titles and salaries included in unwitting leak

Security14 Aug 2023 | 87

Meet the guy trying to drag HM Treasury's data strategy into the 21st century

Interview John Kelly is building approach around Microsoft, but there's room for flexibility

Databases19 Jul 2023 | 13

Fedora Project mulls 'privacy preserving' usage telemetry

Presumably Red Hat feels it hasn't alienated enough people recently

Software10 Jul 2023 | 70

Australia's 'great example of government using technology' found to be 'crude and cruel'. And literally lethal to citizens

Report on 'Robodebt' scheme calls for major reforms, plus review of Feds' automation, data-sharing

Software07 Jul 2023 | 46

Mega-data platform worth half a billion will suck in info from family doctors

UK officials argue NHS patient details will only be available locally

PaaS + IaaS23 Jun 2023 | 30

38 percent of tech job interviews offered exclusively to men: report

Data shows there's still some way to go toward pay and hiring equity

On-Prem23 Jun 2023 | 80

Microsoft Azure OpenAI lets enterprises feed corporate secrets to ChatGPT

Updated Apparently you're all dying to do this?

SaaS22 Jun 2023 | 22

Florida man insists he didn't violate the law by keeping Top Secret docs

Populist politician pleads not guilty at Miami arraignment

Security14 Jun 2023 | 449

Search the web at least once every two years or risk losing your Google account

Updated inactivity policy may nix accounts, and data. Even Workspaces data and your precious pics

Off-Prem18 May 2023 | 53

Another security calamity for Capita: An unsecured AWS bucket

Colchester City Council says it and others caught up in new incident, reckons benefits data of local citizens exposed

Security17 May 2023 | 31

Court gives FTC 30 days to swing again in privacy bout with location data slinger

Second time's a charm?

Personal Tech06 May 2023 | 11

4chan and other web sewers scraped up into Google's mega-library for training ML

Are you still so keen to have generative AI write your emails, sales proposals, blog posts ... ?

AI + ML20 Apr 2023 | 101

Google: If your Android app can create accounts, it better be easy to delete them, too

Awoogah, awooooogah, new policy coming for developers

Personal Tech07 Apr 2023 | 14

Samsung reportedly leaked its own secrets through ChatGPT

Well that didn't take long, now did it?

AI + ML06 Apr 2023 | 45

Canada sticks a privacy probe into OpenAI's ChatGPT

Chatbot's overseers accused of collecting, using, disclosing personal info without consent

AI + ML06 Apr 2023 | 6

Singapore admits it should have explained COVID app data could be used by cops

Island nation reworks digital infrastructure found to have slowed down pandemic response

Software09 Mar 2023 | 11

Leave your data where it is, we'll look at it there, says SAP

German software giant opens analytics up to external sources

Spotlight on Databases08 Mar 2023 |

UK consortium set to bid for £480 million NHS data platform

Syndicate wants to see health service 'stay in control' in face of fierce competition from Palantir

Databases28 Feb 2023 | 26

Seeing as GPT-3 is great at faking info, you should lean into that, says Microsoft

When AI gives you lemons, you make orangeade

AI + ML27 Feb 2023 | 26

What Mary, Queen of Scots, can teach today’s cybersec royalty

Opinion Tech has changed in 400 years. The rules haven’t

Security20 Feb 2023 | 33

While wider tech industry is hurting, analytics companies fatten up

Sumo Logic attracts private equity investor while InfluxData and Onehouse raise VC cash

Databases10 Feb 2023 | 3

Microsoft teases how it'll make Sentinel a bit easier to monitor and audit

For those relying on this cloud-based security thing

Software10 Feb 2023 | 1

Poor Meta. Technical debt and user training made its exabyte-scale data migration tricky

Welcome to the real world, kids. And for the rest of us, a future at which Meta is gulp! – better at large-scale analytics

Databases27 Jan 2023 | 11

Period-tracking apps, search engines on notice by draft law

And no more geofencing around health clinics either

Security18 Jan 2023 | 9

AI may finally cure us of our data fetish

Column There's still a place in the world for good old-fashioned human intelligence

AI + ML18 Jan 2023 | 27

Doctors call for greater scrutiny of bidders for platform that pools UK's health info

Supplier 'ethics' in the spotlight after Palantir makes multimillion competition a 'must-win'

PaaS + IaaS25 Nov 2022 | 57

FTC urged to clamp down on businesses' voracious appetite for data

ACLU agrees that the only way to protect consumers is to control what can be collected

Personal Tech22 Nov 2022 | 4

After years without data privacy rules, India floats two sets in a week

And ponders subsidies to attract big datacenter and content delivery network builds

Legal22 Nov 2022 |

Tired: Data scientists. Wired: Data artists

Asking really good questions about what data can describe matters more than collecting more info

AI + ML08 Nov 2022 | 28

BlueBleed: Microsoft customer data leak claimed to be 'one of the largest' in years

SOCRadar says sensitive info from 150,000 orgs was exposed, Redmond disputes findings

Security20 Oct 2022 | 4

Teradata CTO Stephen Brobst drowns data lakehouse concept

Interview Colorful data techie seeks to fend off rivals

Databases03 Oct 2022 | 6

Grab – Asia's Uber – knows customers and drivers so well it can vet them for loans

Understands income streams, seasonality of sales, how hard drivers work, and safety records

Applications27 Sep 2022 | 4

Fitbit users will have to sign into Google from 2023

Even those with older devices will have to sign in if they want to activate new features

Personal Tech23 Sep 2022 | 26

Food security group, Linux Foundation working on crop data standard

'Sharing of agricultural data can help develop solutions to some of the food system's most pressing challenges'

Software15 Sep 2022 | 9

SWIFT to trial blockchain – but not for its core payment service

Hopes to streamline market data movements, but as 11,000 institutions use SWIFT this is a bit of a moment

Software15 Sep 2022 | 24

Google and Meta fined over $70m for privacy violations in Korea

Both search giant and Facebook parent claim they play by the rules, will challenge decision

Security14 Sep 2022 | 4

Why bother with warrants when cops can buy location data for under $10k?

How Fog Data Science sells records of your whereabouts, according to the EFF

Personal Tech01 Sep 2022 | 36

Vietnam demands Big Tech localize data storage and offices

Mandate goes into effect October 1, but industry players will have a year to comply

Legal19 Aug 2022 | 5

Toyota's truck brand Hino admits faking and fudging emissions data for 20 years

Oh what a failing!

Legal03 Aug 2022 | 26

South Korean regulator fears Meta's collecting too much data with revised T&Cs

Probes to see if Facebook and Insta could operate with less info than required by revised legalese

Legal25 Jul 2022 |

UK government refuses public review before launch of NHS data platform

Patients must have the right to decide what information is taken from health records, say privacy campaigners

Databases20 Jul 2022 | 130

Need baby formula? Buy a pregnancy test at Walgreens

Updated Data privacy, data schmivacy

Personal Tech18 Jul 2022 | 10

Russia fines Apple and Zoom for failure to prove domestic data storage

Also: Ministry of Digitalization proposes new fine structure for data leaks

Legal13 Jul 2022 | 25

UK Info Commissioner slams use of WhatsApp by health officials during pandemic

Sure, stuff got done fast – but personal information was put at risk

Security12 Jul 2022 | 41

China's cyberspace regulator details data export requirements

The countdown to compliance began in January – last year

Legal08 Jul 2022 | 1

IBM buys Databand to keep bad data from tainting your AI

Upstart promises to tackle that old adage: Garbage in, garbage out

AI + ML07 Jul 2022 |

UK, South Korea strike data-sharing pact

Time to bone up on Hancom Office, the productivity suite that's big in Korea – and nowhere else

Software06 Jul 2022 | 22

Alibaba spins out a biz to productize home-grown data tools

Business intelligence and analytics as a service, for marketers and techies

Software30 Jun 2022 | 1

Moscow court fines Pinterest, Airbnb, Twitch, UPS for not storing data locally

Data sovereignty is more important than Ukrainian sovereignty

Legal30 Jun 2022 | 32