

Have we lost control of our personal data?
Can strong consumer data protection be a disruptive innovation strategy? Why is pi so interesting? Want to teach yourself computer science? -- An academic paper has heavily criticised the data sharing deal between Google's DeepMind and the Royal Free NHS Trust for it's lack of transparency and patient involvement. The controversial deal was signed in 2015 to develop the acute kidney injury alert app Streams. -- In subsequent sharing agreements between DeepMind and other Londo

Will new NSA data sharing rules result in more people being caught in "surveillance crossfire&q
Are you aware your medical data is being sold on (US patients)? How can re-identification be avoided? Can data science beat cancer? Should gadget fixers be being paid to identify criminal activity on customers computers? Is your personal data vulnerable from using auto-fill? Can VR be used to incite empathy? Was 2016 especially dangerous for celebrities? In need of large realistic dummy data sets for product dev, testing or demos? How good are you at guessing the correlation
Can Google's DeepMind streamline healthcare?
What are they actually doing with the patient data? Is leveraging big data the future of medical advances? How is technology disrupting healthcare? Will GDPR legislative changes increase consumer trust over how their personal data is used and stored? What does your social data say about your personality and future? 🤔 Data sharing Google's DeepMind signed a new five year data-sharing partnership with the NHS, which includes sharing the patient data of over 1.6 million Londone
Are data breaches inevitable?
Why are CFOs not prioritising data protection? What will the UK's Snooper's Charter 2 mean for data privacy? Why has Twitter given the FBI access to the data they took away from the CIA? How is personal data from some Android phones being sent to China? Why are some NHS trusts not spending ANY money to protect patient data? Would you exchange your dashboard data for free access to a crash prevention app? 🤔 A carefully curated summary of the top data-related news from the wee
What does the USA election mean for data privacy?
Should tech giants be scrubbing servers so they can't be forced to hand over users' personal data? How much more will data breaches cost in two years time? Why are consumers accepting data breaches as the norm? How can GDPR revamp attitudes towards the use of personal data? A carefully curated summary of the top data-related news from the week: Privacy What will a Trump presidency mean for the future of tech companies that collect and store personal data? Worthwhile read by D
Is de-identification a broken system?
How can partial bank account details be classified as non-personal data? Have you heard of the digital age Medusa? Is Ireland ready to police the data world? Should more companies be considering data a "byproduct" - which can be maximised through a data sharing economy? How can big data reduce police misconduct? Or save the planet? Would we understand climate change data more if we ate it? What role can AI have in healthcare and the judicial system? A carefully curated summar
Is a new era of data privacy long overdue?
From further information revealing Yahoo's actions, to personal data being valued at $3.20, is a new era of data privacy long overdue? Have our phones invaded our privacy of thought? Do companies need to offer 'social contracts' with their customers to build trust and transparency? How can companies unify datasets to maximise sales without compromising customer privacy? A carefully curated summary of the top data-related news from the week: Headlines Google launched Pixel 📞
Is customer data really safer by companies regulating themselves?
Is this why so few customers trust organisations with their data? Why is data privacy still not always considered paramount? Should data privacy be worth more than a diamond? A carefully curated summary of the top data-related news from the week: Headlines Dropbox and Microsoft follow Google and sign up to the new US-EU data transfer agreement Privacy Shield. But is customer data really safer by companies judging for themselves whether they meet the criteria? 🕵 Insiders say